Metal-loving microbes offer a green way to refine rare earth elements
Rare earth elements are essential components of electric cars, wind turbines and smartphones. Retrieving these metals from raw ore requires processing with acids and solvents.
Rare earth elements are essential components of electric cars, wind turbines and smartphones. Retrieving these metals from raw ore requires processing with acids and solvents.
Cell & Microbiology
Oct 2, 2023
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Wind energy is a major component of the U.S. clean-energy goals. Already one of the fastest growing and lowest-cost sources of electricity in the country, it is poised for even more rapid growth, according to the U.S. Department ...
Plants & Animals
Sep 25, 2023
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Each year, millions of birds fly into power lines, wind turbines and the other man-made structures that litter the open air space. These collisions frequently result in the death of birds and, if power systems go down, disrupt ...
Plants & Animals
Sep 25, 2023
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Researchers from the Helmholtz-Zentrum Hereon, together with the Technical University of Hamburg and Aalborg University, have developed a new selective emitter based on iridium for thermophotovoltaics. Iridium was thus used ...
Analytical Chemistry
Sep 11, 2023
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Gravity-based structures may offer a porpoise and dolphin-friendly construction alternative to traditional pile-driven wind turbine foundations, new research suggests.
Ecology
Jun 19, 2023
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They come from factory stacks, car exhaust pipes and cruise liner engines. They are tiny particles and they are all around us. When we breathe in air, these particles settle in the small vessels of our lungs, and they make ...
Environment
May 24, 2023
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Bird and bat fatalities at wind turbines increase during seasonal migrations—information which could aid their protection, according to a study published May 10, 2023, in the open-access journal PLOS ONE by John D. Lloyd ...
Ecology
May 10, 2023
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Making uniform decisions to justify the decommissioning of offshore artificial structures at the end of their lives could pose significant environmental challenges, a new study has said.
Ecology
May 9, 2023
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Offshore wind farms host more soil animals per square meter than the North Sea floor, discovered Leiden researchers. After 25 years, a hundred times more animals and twice the number of different species could live on the ...
Ecology
May 2, 2023
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Researchers have developed a new chemical process that is not limited to wind turbine blades but works on many different so-called fiber-reinforced epoxy composites, including some materials that are reinforced with especially ...
Materials Science
Apr 26, 2023
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