Rio Tinto Enters Into Demand Response Agreement With Renewable Energy Suppliers In New Zealand
Demand response is starting to be a significant factor in industrial activities like aluminum smelters in countries around the world.
Demand response is starting to be a significant factor in industrial activities like aluminum smelters in countries around the world.
In a recently published, 63-page report, Human Rights Watch describes the automotive supply chains that connect car manufacturers to aluminum mines, refineries, and smelters around the world. The report also documents a number of human rights impacts related to aluminum production and processing, from the destruction of ancestral farmland and … [continued]
It’s game over for coal power when a leading steel maker in the US favors renewable energy, on-site solar style.
Indiana as the canary in the coal mine: Trump or no Trump, utilities and rural electric cooperatives are ramping up their renewable energy buys.
The American Business Act on Climate Pledge rallies Coca-Cola, Google, Walmart, and 10 other US business powerhouses for President Obama’s climate policy.
DOE taps Ford for a massive new $6 million carbon fiber technology project, part of a $55 million round of funding for advanced vehicle efficiency.
A team of students has calculated that for the low cost of $5.00, your home could be transformed into a smog-eating house that could eliminate pollution-causing nitrogen oxides from the air just by sitting there. The secret sauce is a coating of titanium dioxide (TiO2), and $5.00 reflects the cost … [continued]
Hey, maybe we can drink our way out of this mess after all. ARPA-E, the Energy Department’s cutting-edge technology funding branch, has just released grants totaling $66 million for transformative automotive and energy projects, and among the goodies is a cutting-edge process to extract magnesium from seawater. The overall concept … [continued]
Titanium dioxide, better known as a key ingredient in white paint, is beginning to carve out an all-purpose spot for itself in the field of air pollution control. While not yet up to the ShamWow standard for range of applicability, this common substance could be on the verge of playing … [continued]
With a name like Bombyx mori, the silkmoth would seem to be tailor made for bomb detection, and a team of researchers in Europe has set out to prove just that. Taking a cue from the moth’s highly evolved antennae, the team created a sensor made up of almost … [continued]