by Komoneed | Apr 14, 2025
IN A NUTSHELL 🌍 Scientists have significantly reduced the CO2-to-CO conversion time from 24 hours to just 15 minutes. 🔬 The innovative method uses phthalocyanines applied through a graffiti-like spray technique for efficiency. ⚡ This new approach surpasses industrial standards for reaction rate and stability in CO production. 💡 The technology holds potential for broader […]
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by Komoneed | Apr 14, 2025
IN A NUTSHELL 🔋 Bruce Power’s Unit 5 refurbishment aims to extend the reactor’s lifespan by 35 years, enhancing Ontario’s clean energy supply. 🏗️ The project involves replacing key components like steam generators and pressure tubes, ensuring high standards of safety and quality. 💼 The refurbishment supports 22,000 jobs annually and generates $10 billion, boosting […]
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by Komoneed | Apr 14, 2025
IN A NUTSHELL 🔋 Aalo Atomics unveils the Aalo Pod, a revolutionary modular nuclear reactor designed to meet the growing energy demands of data centers. 🏭 The Aalo Pod is a 50 MWe extra modular reactor that offers scalability from tens to thousands of megawatts, ensuring flexible energy solutions. 🌿 By utilizing low-enriched uranium fuel […]
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by Komoneed | Apr 10, 2025
For water conservationists concerned about keeping pests out of their rain collection barrels, researchers from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign have some helpful advice. A new study, published in Journal of Medical Entomology, looked into the presence of mosquitoes in rain barrels in the central Illinois region and determined the most effective ways to prevent […]
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by Komoneed | Apr 10, 2025
Researchers have devised a sustainable way of turning waste carbon dioxide into amino acids for humans, in a breakthrough that seeks to reduce carbon emissions and pave the way for green chemistry technologies across various industries.
The research by Professor San Ping Jiang, from Curtin’s WA School of Mines: Minerals, Energy and Chemical Engineering, working with Professor Jingyun Zheng from China’s Hunan University and Professor Xin Wang from City University of Hong Kong — published in Science Advances —developed a sustainable method to convert waste carbon dioxide (CO2) and nitrophenyl ethane, commonly found in industrial wastewater, into a high-value amino acid (L-phenylalanine).
“This innovative process uses sunlight as the energy source and employs a specially designed silicon-based photocathode to achieve efficient chemical conversion,” Jiang said.
“The significance of this discovery lies in its potential to simultaneously address two critical global challenges: reducing carbon emissions and developing sustainable methods for producing essential biochemicals. By utilising CO2, a major greenhouse gas, and nitrophenyl ethane, which is commonly found in industrial wastewater, this process transforms environmental hazards into amino acids, a valuable feedstock used in food, pharmaceuticals and other industries. This finding opens up new possibilities for sustainable chemical production and represents a significant step forward in the development of green chemistry technologies that can benefit society while protecting our planet.”
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