Sustainability, Ecology & Social Innovation

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  James Sutcliffe

  

  Engineers Create Zero Carbon Cement That Could Rewrite Course of Concrete and Steel

  treehugger.com - Lloyd Alter

  This could totally rewrite the story of concrete and steel. Engineers at Cambridge University claim to have invented the "world's first-ever …

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  James Sutcliffe

  

  Bizarre night-time solar cell generates power in a backwards process

  newatlas.com - By Loz Blain

  In a world first, a team at the University of New South Wales (UNSW) has demonstrated measurable power generation from "the inverse of a conventional …

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  James Sutcliffe

  

  These materials were meant to revolutionize the solar industry. Why hasn’t it happened?

  MIT Technology Review - Casey Crownhart

  But stability remains a tough challenge. In one recent study, published in Science in April, researchers discovered a new way to build perovskite …

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  James Sutcliffe

  

  Bad news for the 2022 hurricane season: The Loop Current, a fueler of monster storms, is looking a lot like it did in 2005, the year of Katrina

  theconversation.com - Nick Shay

  The Atlantic hurricane season starts on June 1, and the Gulf of Mexico is already warmer than average. Even more worrying is a current of warm …

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  James Sutcliffe

  

  Japan's first carbon capture and storage facility to be live by 2030

  inhabitat - Written by Bonface Landi

  Japanese oil refiner Eneos Holdings has partnered with utility J-Power to set up Japan’s first Carbon capture, utilization, and storage (CCUS) …

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  James Sutcliffe

  

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  The Hunt For Lithium

  

  Curated byThe Tech Desk

  There's increased demand for batteries as pressure for clean energy sources grows. However, the material used to make them, lithium, is in short supply. Not having it will impact electric vehicles, the technology we use and more. Read about how we're mining for lithium and the environmental cost. Plus, could sodium be another alternative source?