New Carbon Capture Batteries Store Energy and Help Climate
The Transformative Energy Science and Technology (TEST) initiative with the US Dept of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory has developed batteries that can absorb carbon-dioxide from power plants or large factories (boilers, ovens) and use it to store energy. The CO2 is bubbled through an electrolyte solution where it combines with dissolved sodium or aluminum […]
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Making Gravity Our Friend
In a recent ASME SmartBrief an article caught my attention. The Chicago-based company Skidmore, Owings, and Merrill (SOM), who designed the Burj Khalifa tower in Dubai, UAE, the tallest tower in the world, is turning its attention to using gravity as the basis for storing energy. Energy from sources like wind and especially solar need […]
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On Professional Engineers Day – What’s Your Dream?
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Moving Plates are an Energy Jackpot
Moving plates and jackpots sound like Las Vegas, but this jackpot is an energy jackpot – one that might allow places like Las Vegas to shine well into the future with renewable energy. Scientists at the French technology company CGG are seeking a patent for a system that recovers geothermal energy not near volcanic hotspots […]
