Mercedes-Benz Seeks Sustainable EV Battery Made From Rice Hulls
The humble rice hull could provide EV battery makers with a more sustainable, bio-based graphite supply chain that outperforms conventional graphite, too.
waste management
Wait, Don’t Recycle Those Old Wind Turbines… Re-Use Them!
A US firm is refurbishing, upgrading, and relocating older wind turbines for re-use in the distributed energy resources market.
New Ceramic Reactor Tackles Hydrogen Recycling & Industrial Decarbonization
Ceramic cells are the key to a new, non-electric reactor-based system for producing hydrogen from biogas, RNG, and industrial waste gases.
Phase-Change Energy Storage On A Barge, On The Thames, In London
Sunamp’s mobile energy storage solution combines a new phase-change material in a space-saving containerized, transportable form.
Lidar, Lost Cities, & The Circular Economy Of The Future
Lidar has also become a powerful tool for reclaiming lost histories and building the sustainable, circular economy of the future, too.
Recycling To Close Synthetic Fabric Window On Fossil Energy Stakeholders
In another bad sign for fossil energy stakeholders, the apparel industry supply chain is focusing more attention on recycling pre-consumer and post-consumer petrochemicals.
Ocean Plastic Pollution Or Not, The Show Must Go On
Underwater explorers encounter ghost gear and other ocean plastic pollution, but solutions are coming.
Machine Learning Rapidly Improves Waste Sorting To Environmental & Economic Benefit
It’s no longer possible for the developed world to use the developing world as its landfill site and recycling facility. AMP Robotics is at the forefront of systems which are allowing us to sort our own waste more effectively.
Report: Waste Incineration: A Dirty Secret In How States Define Renewable Energy
Burning garbage to generate power is neither clean nor renewable. Yet, aging, costly, and polluting solid waste incinerators have been bolstered by a dirty secret — 23 states legally classify incineration as “renewable” in their energy goals and commitments.
Welcome To Robotics’ Waste & Recycling Management
As the world population produces more and more trash, it is high time to examine the evolution of the waste management and recycling business and the use of robotics in managing this recoverable waste stream. The effective use of such smart technology is regarded as a major step forward in managing … [continued]
