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Solar thermal process produces cement with no carbon dioxide emissions

(Phys.org) -- While the largest contributor to anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions is the power industry, the second largest is the more often overlooked cement industry, which accounts for 5-6% of all ...

Chemistry / Materials Science

created Apr 10, 2012 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (25) | comments 22 | with audio podcast report

High-purity hydrogen generated from a single device

(PhysOrg.com) -- There are many ways to generate hydrogen, such as water electrolysis and steam reforming of gas, but the hydrogen produced by these methods tends to be combined with other byproduct and residual ...

Physics / Condensed Matter

created Oct 07, 2011 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (15) | comments 17 | with audio podcast feature

Microbiologist discovers new super-preservative

(PhysOrg.com) -- In one of those freak accidents that sometimes occur in science, where someone is looking at something for one purpose and finds another for it, Dan O'Sullivan has found a use for a byproduct of harmless ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Aug 17, 2011 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (26) | comments 45 | with audio podcast report

Saltwater boosts microbial electrolysis cells to cleanly produce hydrogen

A grain of salt or two may be all that microbial electrolysis cells need to produce hydrogen from wastewater or organic byproducts, without adding carbon dioxide to the atmosphere or using grid electricity, ...

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created Sep 19, 2011 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (5) | comments 9 | with audio podcast

Stanford researchers find electrical current stemming from plants

In an electrifying first, Stanford scientists have plugged in to algae cells and harnessed a tiny electric current. They found it at the very source of energy production - photosynthesis, a plant's method of converting sunlight ...

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Apr 13, 2010 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (15) | comments 9 | with audio podcast

Nanotechnology promises better catalytic converter

(PhysOrg.com) -- Control over material properties would reduce the amount of platinum needed.

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Sep 27, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Chemists devise better way to prepare workhorse molecules

In chemistry, so-called aromatic molecules compose a large and versatile family of chemical compounds that are the stuff of pharmaceuticals, electronic materials and consumer products ranging from sunscreen to plastic soda ...

Chemistry / Materials Science

created Jun 09, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Researchers Discover How to Move Protons, Improve Hydrogen Fuel Cell Technology

(PhysOrg.com) -- In a breakthrough that should help to solve one of the biggest problems holding back development of affordable fuel cells, a team of University of Massachusetts Amherst scientists has discovered ...

Chemistry / Materials Science

created Apr 26, 2010 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (16) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

New mosquito repellant could be frightening ... for the mosquitoes!

In a small, narrow, temperature-controlled lab room at Vanderbilt University live some of the most deadly and dangerous animals in the world.

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Feb 28, 2012 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (4) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

New pint sized particle accelerator leads the way to clean nuclear energy

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at Daresbury science park in Britain have offered a glimpse into what might be the future of nuclear energy production by showcasing a scaled down particle accelerator; one, that ...

Physics / General Physics

created Jun 20, 2011 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (30) | comments 47 | with audio podcast weblog

Technology breakthrough fuels laptops and phones, recharges scientist's 60-year career

How does a scientist fuel his enthusiasm for chemistry after 60 years? By discovering a new energy source, of course.

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created Feb 17, 2011 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (21) | comments 13 | with audio podcast

What's in your water?: Disinfectants create toxic by-products

Although perhaps the greatest public health achievement of the 20th century was the disinfection of water, a recent study now shows that the chemicals used to purify the water we drink and use in swimming pools react with ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created Mar 31, 2009 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (17) | comments 7

Green and lean: Secreting bacteria eliminate cost barriers for renewable biofuel production

A Biodesign Institute at Arizona State University research team has developed a process that removes a key obstacle to producing low-cost, renewable biofuels from bacteria. The team has reprogrammed photosynthetic ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created May 26, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Study: Ozone from rock fracture could serve as earthquake early warning

Researchers the world over are seeking reliable ways to predict earthquakes, focusing on identifying seismic precursors that, if detected early enough, could serve as early warnings.

Physics / General Physics

created Nov 17, 2011 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (4) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Chemistry with sunlight: Combining electrochemistry and photovoltaics to clean up oxidation reactions

The idea is simple, says Kevin Moeller, PhD, and yet it has huge implications. All we are recommending is using photovoltaic cells (clean energy) to power electrochemical reactions (clean chemistry). Moeller ...

Chemistry / Materials Science

created Jun 09, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

By-product

A by-product is a secondary product derived from a manufacturing process or chemical reaction. It is not the primary product or service being produced.A by-product can be useful and marketable or it can be considered waste.

IEA offers the following definition for the purpose of life cycle assessment:

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