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Researchers Identify Large Non-Traditional Sites for Future Solar Farms

There is a tradeoff when expansive solar farms are built on agricultural land: farmland vanishes, perhaps forever, in return for progress in the promising renewable energy sector.

20 Dec 2017

Study Reveals Unforeseen Side Effect to Cleaning Up Pollution over Urban Areas

According to a new research from Caltech, an imbalance between the trends in two common air pollutants is unpredictably activating the formation of a class of airborne organic compounds not typically found in the atmosphere over urban areas of North America.

19 Dec 2017

New Method May Help U.S. Coal Plants Lower Greenhouse Gas Emissions

Carbon capture could help the country’s coal plants minimize greenhouse gas emissions, however economic challenges are part of the reason the technology is not extensively used at present. That could transform if power plants could convert captured carbon into a usable product.

18 Dec 2017

Researchers Create Innovative Energy Generation Technology Based on Bituminous Coal

Bituminous coal contains more than 90% of organic fuels in the Earth’s lithosphere. By burning coal and other fossil fuels one can obtain electrical power (which is largely happening at HPPs).

18 Dec 2017

New Catalyst Could Help Reduce Pollutants in Exhaust from Advanced Engines

With cars becoming more fuel efficient, a smaller amount of heat is wasted in the exhaust, which makes it tougher to clean up the pollutants being discharged.

15 Dec 2017

Saltworks Recognized for Outstanding Innovation in Clean Technology

SYSPRO, a global provider of industry-built ERP software, today announced their customer, Saltworks Technologies, won best Clean Technology category at the 2017 BC Export Awards.

From Saltworks Technologies 14 Dec 2017

Scientists Develop Entirely Textile-Based, Bacteria-Powered Bio-Battery

A team of researchers led by faculty at Binghamton University, State University of New York have created a totally textile-based, bacteria-powered bio-battery that could one day be incorporated into wearable electronics.

8 Dec 2017

University of Bristol Chemists Use Beer as a Key Ingredient to Make Sustainable Petrol

It is a commonly accepted fact that there is an urgent requirement for sustainable alternatives to fossil fuels for transportation to replace petrol and diesel.

7 Dec 2017

MQDC Joins MIT Energy Initiative to Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Property Projects

To enhance the sustainability of homes and property projects in Thailand, Bangkok-based property developer Magnolia Quality Development Corporation Limited has joined the MIT Energy Initiative, with a three-year membership agreement in MITEI's Low-Carbon Energy Center for Electric Power Systems Research.

6 Dec 2017

Latest Clean Diesel Trucks Offer Clean Air and Fuel Saving Benefits

The Diesel Technology Forum has issued a statement on the occasion of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) public hearing concerning heavy duty emissions standards:

5 Dec 2017