MIT had made a solid-state faradaic electro-swing reactive adsorption system comprising an electrochemical cell that exploits the reductive addition of CO2 to quinones for carbon capture. The reported device is compact and flexible, obviates the need for ancillary equipment, and eliminates the parasitic energy losses by using electrochemically activated redox carriers. An electrochemical cell with …
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Micro-Encapsulated CO2 Sorbents (MECS) are a possible technology to capture carbon from the atmosphere. They are tiny, reusable capsules full of a sodium carbonate solution that can absorb carbon dioxide from the air. Scientists run three fluids through a series of microfluidic components to create drops that turn into capsules when exposed to ultraviolet light …
Innovator Energy has a new mechanism to separate CO2 from power plant flue gas that uses one fourth the energy and is ten times cheaper.A The process introduced in their ACS peer-reviewed paper requires 75% less energy than existing CO2 capture processes. Our confidential CO2 capture technology, CO2 Evolution™, is the first entirely powered by …
most people, crystals mean diamond bling, semiprecious gems or perhaps the jagged amethyst or quartz crystals beloved by collectors. To Norman Yao, these inert crystals are the tip of the iceberg. If crystals have an atomic structure that repeats in space, like the carbon lattice of a diamond, why can’t crystals also have a structure …
The Carnival of Space 474 is up at Urban Astronomer Universe Today – NASA’s EM Drive Passes Peer Review, But Don’t Get Your Hopes Up Artist’s concept of an interstellar craft equipped with an EM Drive. Credit and Copyright: Mark Rademaker Universe Today – NASA’s InSight Lander Approved for 2018 Mars Launch This artist’s concept …
The Indian Navy has finalized a plan to acquire 100 cutting-edge technologies in the next 15 years to build its war-fighting capabilities, but how realistic that will be is a million-dollar question. The 15-year prospective plan unveiled last month calls for acquiring a range of futuristic technologies. These include naval missiles and guns, propulsion and …
Technologies from the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency’s (DARPA’s) LightningStrike vertical takeoff and landing (VTOL) X-Plane programme could assist the US Army as it crafts it Future Vertical Lift (FVL) concept, according to the official leading the effort. “The army and the FVL programme are aware of what we’re doing, and we share data …
China General Nuclear Power (CGN) and China National Nuclear Corp. (CNNC) plan to build four more indigenous nuclear reactors on the mainland of China. CGN plans to use the Hualong One design for the fifth and sixth reactors at the Ningde plant in Fujian province, while CNNC plans to use the reactor in the first …
A team from the Universities of Sheffield and Leeds may have found the answer to faster computing: sound. The research – published in Applied Physics Letters – has shown that certain types of sound waves can move data quickly, using minimal power. The world’s 2.7 zettabytes (2.7 followed by 21 zeros) of data are mostly …
In the first nine months of this year, state-owned companies in China received preliminary or full approval to build the 155 coal power plants that have a total capacity of 123 gigawatts, the report said. That capacity is equal to 15 percent of China’s coal-fired power capacity at the end of 2014. The construction boom …