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Electrified Thermal Solutions is developing Firebrick Resistance-heated Energy Storage (FIRES): a new energy storage technology that turns surplus renewable energy into heat. Once stored, you can use the renewable heat to (1) replace fossil fuels in an industrial process such as steel and cement production, or (2) run a turbine to reproduce the renewable electricity, carbon-free and on-demand, at ...

Cement is responsible for 8% of global CO2 emissions. Currently, the only economical way to make Portland cement’s key ingredient, lime, is by thermally decomposing limestone. This reaction contributes ~75% of cement’s emissions. Sublime Systems (Sublime) will build an electrochemical system to produce lime using off-peak renewable electricity and calcium sources that do not release CO2. The l ...

Cement is responsible for 8% of global CO2 emissions. Currently, the only economical way to make Portland cement’s key ingredient, lime, is by thermally decomposing limestone. This reaction contributes ~75% of cement’s emissions. Sublime Systems (Sublime) will build an electrochemical system to produce lime using off-peak renewable electricity and calcium sources that do not release CO2. The l ...

Proposed is method and system to produce magnesium metal, a strategic infrastructure material commonly associated with the growing demand in vehicle and aircraft light-weighting segments. BBT has already demonstrated the effectiveness of carbothermal reduction as the world’s most material and energy efficient production pathway. Scale-up represents a unique challenge to industrial technologies i ...

Proposed is method and system to produce magnesium metal, a strategic infrastructure material commonly associated with the growing demand in vehicle and aircraft light-weighting segments. BBT has already demonstrated the effectiveness of carbothermal reduction as the world’s most material and energy efficient production pathway. Scale-up represents a unique challenge to industrial technologies i ...

Volatile organic compounds (VOCs) are emitted from a wide variety of biogenic and anthropogenic sources. VOCs transform in the atmosphere, forming ozone and oxygenated VOCs (OVOCs), which in turn can form fine particulates or condense onto preexisting particulate matter (PM). Both ozone and fine PM are deleterious to human health and alter the Earth’s climate. Measurements of VOCs and OVOCs are ...

Natural disasters and other severe weather events have the potential to create loss of life and damage property on large scales. Preparing for and responding to these incidents is a complex, multi-phase process. NOAA’s 2019-2022 Strategic Plan to achieve the vision of a Weather Ready Nation will reduce the impacts of weather, water, and climate events, and harness cutting-edge science, technolog ...

In the United States and other countries where seafood is often sold in the filet form there is an incredible amount of illegal mislabeling of market species for economic gain. This is made possible because the average consumer cannot identify fish species in the marketplace, especially in filet form. One seafood fraud study by Oceana reported the mislabeling of seafood at 33% in the United States ...

China has strategically invested to control the entire supply chain of rare earth metals that are crucial for energy production technology like wind turbines, and for clean technology applications like electric vehicles. The US has no rare earth metallization capacity and has very limited separation capabilities, with no production scale facilities. High energy requirements, hazardous waste genera ...

China has strategically invested to control the entire supply chain of rare earth metals that are crucial for energy production technology like wind turbines, and for clean technology applications like electric vehicles. The US has no rare earth metallization capacity and has very limited separation capabilities, with no production scale facilities. High energy requirements, hazardous waste genera ...