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Fault lines are no barrier to safe storage of CO2 below ground

Jan 28, 2019 (SPX)

There is minimal possibility of the gas escaping from fault lines back into the atmosphere, the study has shown. The findings are further evidence that an emerg...

'GO dough' makes graphene easy to shape and mold

Jan 28, 2019 (SPX)

The team has turned graphene oxide (GO) into a soft, moldable and kneadable play dough that can be shaped and reshaped into free-standing, three-dimensional str...

Unlocking graphene's superconducting powers with a twist and a squeeze

Jan 25, 2019 (SPX)

Now, a Columbia University-led team has developed a new method to finely tune adjacent layers of graphene - lacy, honeycomb-like sheets of carbon atoms - to ind...

Jan 23, 2019 (SPX)

Researches and companies are currently using a range of materials such as few layered graphene, graphene oxide and heterostructures. The first step to assess th...

Feds, states can help biochar live up to its soil-saving potential

Jan 15, 2019 (SPX)

Biochar is a porous, charcoal-like material produced via pyrolysis, the high-temperature decomposition of biomass. Studies show biochar improves soil water prop...

Improved membranes capture more CO2 at coal-fired power plants

Jan 09, 2019 (SPX)

The hypothetical mixed matrix membranes would provide a more economical solution than current methods, with a predicted cost of less than $50 per ton of carbon ...

'Flipped' metal oxide cage can sort CO2 from CO

Jan 08, 2019 (SPX)

At the molecular scale, small objects can fit inside larger ones, just like in the everyday world. The resulting arrangements, known as host-guest interactions,...

Jan 08, 2019 (AFP)

Analysts estimate that energy-related CO2 emissions grew 3.4 percent from 2017 to 2018, which would be the largest increase in the United States since 2010. The...

Carbon Storage Wars

Jan 03, 2019 (SPX)

"We've known for quite a long time that the carbon stored on minerals is the carbon that sticks around for a long time," said Chadwick, co-author of the paper, ...

Powder could help cut CO2 emissions

Dec 27, 2018 (SPX)

The powder, created in the lab of Zhongwei Chen, a chemical engineering professor at Waterloo, can filter and remove CO2 at facilities powered by fossil fuels b...

New T-wave detector uses waves of the electronic sea in graphene

Dec 27, 2018 (SPX)

Any system for wireless data transfer relies on electromagnetic wave sources and detectors, but they are not available for every kind of waves. The existing sou...

Graphene's magic is in the defects

Dec 19, 2018 (SPX)

Finely tuned electrochemical sensors (also referred to as electrodes) that are as small as biological cells are prized for medical diagnostics and environmental...

EU to cut new car emissions by 37.5 percent by 2030

Dec 18, 2018 (AFP)

EU member countries and the European Parliament struck the ambitious deal late Monday that Brussels said would help the bloc meet its commitments under the Pari...

Pitt professor models system using baking soda filled capsules to capture CO2 emissions

Dec 17, 2018 (SPX)

Research led by the University of Pittsburgh and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) uses microcapsule technology that may make post-combustion carbon...

Scientists identify new minerals for carbon capture

Dec 14, 2018 (SPX)

"This research confirmed that hydrotalcites are capable of sequestering atmospheric CO2 in mine waste," said Connor Turvey, who conducted this research during h...

Underground life has a carbon mass hundreds of times larger than humans'

Dec 11, 2018 (SPX)

Carbon is the most prevalent element in living beings because it is part of almost all the molecules that are key for biological processes, including proteins, ...

Pulses of sinking carbon reaching the deep sea are not captured in global climate models

Dec 06, 2018 (SPX)

Up near the sea surface, carbon dioxide from the atmosphere is incorporated in the bodies of microscopic algae and the animals that eat them. When they die, the...

Global carbon dioxide emissions rise even as coal wanes and renewables boom

Dec 06, 2018 (SPX)

The new projections come in a week when international negotiators are gathering in the coal-mining city of Katowice, Poland, to work out the rules for implement...

CO2 emissions up 2.7%, world 'off course' to curb warming: study

Dec 05, 2018 (AFP)

Last year, CO2 pollution increased by 1.6 percent after a three-year hiatus that raised hopes manmade greenhouse gas emissions had finally peaked despite an exp...

Graphene unlocks new potential for 'smart textiles'

Dec 04, 2018 (SPX)

An international team of scientists, led by Professor Monica Craciun from the University of Exeter Engineering department, has pioneered a new technique to crea...