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"The research team is now working on scaling production and designing real-world device systems for commercialization, including portable water harvesters, self-sustaining irrigation systems, and emergency drinking water devices" cockrell.utexas.edu/news/archive...

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" 'We have a patent pending based on this technology and it is very exciting to push this renewable innovation forward within the field of power generation and heat recovery' " www.colorado.edu/mechanical/n... For commercial TPV see Antora Energy www.antora.com or Fourth Degree gofourth.com

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"Magrathea is a technology company based in California developing a new generation of electrolytic process for making carbon neutral metal from seawater and brines for the era of deglobalization and decarbonization" www.magratheametals.com/updates/auto...

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Germany hits 100 GW milestone www.pv-magazine.com/2025/02/18/g... - and hundreds of GW more will follow

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"This opens up exciting new prospects for applications in electronics, electromagnetic shielding and sensor technology. The metallic polymer could serve as a functional electrode in electrochemistry and photoelectrochemistry, for example for the production of hydrogen" tu-dresden.de/tu-dresden/n...

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"The endowed professorship aims to clarify system-critical issues with regard to the use of straw and clay as load-bearing components" www.carl-zeiss-stiftung.de/en/topics-pr... 🇩🇪 www.hochschule-biberach.de/bauen-mit-le... @michaelburchert.bsky.social

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Prometheus (E-)Fuels claims progress "A new commodity - fuel made from air and renewable electricity - that can compete cent for cent with the dominant fuels in the energy market" prometheusfuels.com/news/we-made...

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I was just told that I have to remove “climate” from the title of an ongoing grant if I want to keep it. And publications from that grant cannot include “climate” and other forbidden words. I can’t believe I’m writing this from the United States of America. #AcademicSky

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"For consumers, the bee die-off - for which there is no known cause yet - may become apparent in shortages on the grocery shelves or higher prices of these beloved foods" www.forbes.com/sites/amyfel...

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"Um in Zukunft mehrgeschossige Gebäude aus Hanfkalk ohne zusätzliche Tragstruktur errichten zu können, sollen Zonen innerhalb der Steine so stark verdichtet werden, dass darüber die Last abgetragen werden kann" www.th-koeln.de/hochschule/e... @michaelburchert.bsky.social

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"In many parts of India, a single noxious pollutant from coal-fired power stations drags down annual wheat and rice yields by 10% or more, according to a new study by Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability researchers" sustainability.stanford.edu/news/coal-em...

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"Over an extremely wide temperature range of over 400 Kelvins, its length only changes by around one ten-thousandth of one per cent per Kelvin" www.tuwien.at/en/tu-wien/n...

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Some recent concrete updates here on the timeline of Eavor's first of a kind closed loop geothermal energy project in Bavaria, Germany, which should start producing power & heat in the first half of this year www.thinkgeoenergy.com/eavor-target... 🔌💡

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"The patented Ionic Wind Amplifier has nothing to hide in comparison to conventional devices - on the contrary: Airflows can be moved up to 60 percent more efficiently" 📽️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=EA4X... 🗞️ www.empa.ch/web/s604/ion...

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" 'People have built with earth for as long as we’ve had buildings, but given contemporary demands for urban concrete buildings, this approach basically decouples cost from complexity,' Curth says" news.mit.edu/2025/how-goo...

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MIT professor Desirée Plata designs novel materials to tackle challenging environmental problems and has cofounded two climate- and energy-related start-ups: Moxair and Nth Cycle. cen.acs.org/people/profi... #chemsky🧪

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"Next, WSU researchers will collaborate with scientists at the University of New Haven to design an AI-driven catalyst that enhances and completes the reactions, making them more efficient and cost-effective" news.wsu.edu/news/2025/01...

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"After the first few months of the project, the DITF have managed to successfully spin the first fibres from lignin mixed with a suitable cellulose that increases suppleness and strength" steinbeis-europa.de/en/post/firs...

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Will Prometheus Fuels tech work? "Ending 2024 on the sweetest engine note — the sound of our zero net carbon fuel, made from air and solar power, coursing through the 124cc air-cooled single-cylinder four-stroke of our brand new Grom" shorturl.at/DnzRm 📽️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=oZZD...

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" 'This is CRISPR for editing polymers,' said ORNL’s Jeffrey Foster ... . 'However, instead of editing strands of genes, we are editing polymer chains. This isn’t the typical plastic recycling >melt and hope for the best< scenario' " www.ornl.gov/news/polymer...

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"As climate change continues to intensify, scientists call for increased attention to groundwater management ... . The decline in the soil’s natural water purification processes amplifies the stress our society already faces due to diminishing groundwater levels" www.bgc-jena.mpg.de/en/pm-ground...

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" 'Even if sufficient renewable energy is available, the central question remains as to how these huge quantities of carbon can be stored in the long term. Concrete seems predestined for this, as it can absorb enormous quantities,' explains Lura" www.empa.ch/web/s604/min...

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🚨New Nature Communications study on AMOC with good news! Author says about it: "Based on the results, the AMOC is more stable than we thought," Vogt said. "This might mean that the AMOC isn't as close to a tipping point as previously suggested." Let’s freakin’ hope!

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" 'Our solution is suitable for high-traffic spaces for which the ventilation systems already in place are insufficient,' says Guillaume Habert, Professor for Sustainable Construction, who supervised the ETH research project" ethz.ch/en/news-and-...

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Hunger is political—it's not a technological problem. Technology can’t fix who decides who eats. Technology can't uproot the deep inequalities that keep people hungry. You can’t invent your way out of inequality. www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

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🚨New Paper and Policy Brief🚨 How has green hydrogen developed recently? How much hydrogen is needed for 1.5°C? And what are plausible future pathways? In a new Nature Energy study, we look at these questions. 🔗Article: https://buff.ly/3WeOh3G 🔗Policy Brief: https://buff.ly/3C2F6wm #EnergySky

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"This ... technology could support applications such as ... industrial plants. 'Our goal is to use the brain as a model to create a technology that can make complex, logical decisions with minimal energy consumption,' says Heidemarie Krüger. " www.leibniz-ipht.de/en/from-rese...

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"These results support the idea of using small magnetic fields to significantly increase thermoelectric performance. ... . This opens up new prospects for low-cost and efficient thermoelectric cooling devices" www.cpfs.mpg.de/3698623/2025...

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"A notable benefit of this technology is the utilization of cerium oxide, a substance abundant in the earth, recognized for its economic viability and ecological sustainability" www.global.hokudai.ac.jp/blog/revolut...

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"These recyclable skeleton modules consist of cross-laminated timber floors and glulam columns and beams. The prefabricated skeleton modules can be joined quickly and securely using the connection node developed as part of the project" www.tugraz.at/en/tu-graz/s... @michaelburchert.bsky.social

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A sulfur-based solid electrolyte (SSE) can be prepared for about one-sixth the price of previous materials, paving the way toward safer lithium-ion batteries. cen.acs.org/materials/en... #chemsky🧪 #scinews

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A german reader can find below the link to fairy tale "Das Geschenk des Königs" I finished today. Happy 2025! futureasapresent.org/Das_Geschenk... @ktsilimekis.bsky.social

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Always difficult to make utilities deploy more power quality monitoring at distribution level (low voltage and further down the line to customers). But maybe this correlation between data centers and household-level power quality issues will move the needle a bit? (gift link below valid for 7 days)

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My Top science news in 2024, it just made it into this year (from 4th of January): "To me, this is like a Wright brothers moment," de Heer said. research.gatech.edu/feature/rese... Video www.youtube.com/watch?v=gWUX...

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etymology "holiday" www.etymonline.com/word/holiday ➜ "1500s, earlier haliday (c. 1200), from Old English haligdæg 'holy day, consecrated day, religious anniversary; Sabbath,' ... As a Christmastime greeting, by 1937, American English, in Camel cigarette ads" lib.digitalnc.org/record/35977...

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If you feel the need for some great stories over the holidays, you might take a look at german-syrian author Rafik Schami. He was once trained as a chemist and perhaps is now one of the best listeners in the world www.goodreads.com/author/show/...

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