Vox, the popular United States media site, had an insightful column this past September about what the world needs to do if it has any hope of keeping planetary warming in check. Step one: kick fossil fuels off the power grid. Step two: Electrify everything. The idea is to take anything that currently relies on...
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Read More >>Anton Korenevski was doing laboratory work one night as part of a study into how bacteria stick to surfaces when he spotted something unusual. A post-doctoral researcher at the University of Guelph, Korenevski had just performed a complex chemical procedure and noticed what project leader John Dutcher describes as “a waste product that looked kind...
Read More >>When one thinks of the word “nanotube,” the other word that’s likely to come to mind is “carbon.” Even a Google search reveals this bias. It’s easy to understand why. Since 1991, when carbon nanotubes emerged most prominently on the scientific scene, they have captured our collective imagination. These nano-sized cylinders of strictly organized carbon...
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Read More >>If it’s unfair to judge a book by its cover, it’s equally unfair to judge a promising new technology by the ho-hum building housing it. When first arriving at Xogen Technologies’ wastewater...
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