Critical materials assessment tags potential supply chain bottlenecks
Global sales of electric vehicles (EVs) increased from 716,000 vehicles in 2015 to 10.6 million vehicles in 2022. Meanwhile, demand rose for the materials used in EV batteries such as graphite, cobalt and lithium.
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Paving new paths for sustainable construction
The construction sector today faces several challenges. Natural sand is fast becoming a scarce resource—we might run out of it by 2050. Carbon dioxide emissions, especially from manufacturing cement or fired clay bricks, ...
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High-resolution solar data enables renewable energy expansion across two continents
More than 20 years of research in solar radiation at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) is now poised to advance power system planning and solar energy deployment across Africa, Eastern Europe, and the Middle ...
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Sweden aims to boost plastic recycling with giant plant
Discarded crisp bags, ketchup bottles and Tupperware containers speed along conveyer belts at a massive high-tech sorting plant dubbed "Site Zero", which Sweden hopes will revolutionize its plastic recycling.
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Vast Vienna wastewater heat pumps showcase EU climate drive
In a large hall on the outskirts of Vienna, shiny pipes carry treated wastewater through three giant heat pumps, part of Austria's drive to reduce carbon emissions and its dependence on Russian gas, with more and more European ...
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Novel multifunctional additive boosts efficiency, stability of inverted perovskite solar cells
Prof. Ge Ziyi's team at the Ningbo Institute of Materials Technology and Engineering (NIMTE) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has developed a novel multifunctional additive to passivate defects and promote charge carrier ...
Mar 26, 2024
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Electrochemistry helps clean up electronic waste recycling, precious metal mining
A new method safely extracts valuable metals locked up in discarded electronics and low-grade ore using dramatically less energy and fewer chemical materials than current methods, report University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign ...
Mar 26, 2024
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New concrete possibilities from waste materials
The use of recycled concrete and glass aggregates in concrete production has emerged as a highly promising means of increasing the recycling rate of waste materials—but durability issues have plagued some combinations of ...
Mar 26, 2024
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If you've got a dark roof, you're spending almost $700 extra a year to keep your house cool
If you visit southern Greece or Tunisia, you might notice lots of white rooftops and white buildings to reflect the intense heat and keep residents cooler.
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Building energy management platform uses AI and statistical methods to optimize operations
The research team led by Dr. Jeong Hak-geun at the Energy ICT Research Department of the Korea Institute of Energy Research (KIER) has developed a building energy management platform technology that transforms buildings from ...
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