Materials science, engineering, #mining and #packaging news from the @iom3 members' magazine. RTs & tweets of external sources are not necessarily endorsements.
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"With the technical barriers reducing, commercial success increasingly relies on confidence in future blade volumes, feedstock availability, market demand and regulation."
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"Simplifying #recycling supply chains through #ExtendedProducerResponsibility and the move to secure energy sources are positive drivers for cardboard waste usage for #bioenergy beyond energy from waste."
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"Removing #solvent #recovery and drying ovens can reduce factory floor space by as much as 80%, allowing the #manufacturer to double or triple cell production in the same space."
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"#Proton exchange membrane water #electrolysis uses electricity to dissociate water into hydrogen and oxygen" Dr Michael Euan Ford MIMMM at HLK explores #patented improvements to PEM.
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"It’s about how you navigate the #tradeoffs in a way that everybody understands what’s at stake, has a say in the #process and feels that, at a minimum, the most patent #injustices are avoided."
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"The numerous advances in computer #modelling must be used to anticipate and optimise the composition of high entropy #alloys, to make #hydrogen storage commercially practicable."
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"A technology that performs well in a laboratory or pilot project must still prove that it can operate #safely, efficiently & continuously in the field. It must...be supported by an effective #supplychain & economically credible over its #lifecycle."
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Laying the groundwork
Geothermal energy’s environmental, social and governance credentials.
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“#Artificialintelligence is the fastest-ever rolled-out technology in the history of #humanity, because the internet allows it to penetrate so quickly [and]…that’s one of the explanations for why you need large #datacentres.”
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"For many countries, including China, India, Nigeria and Indonesia, the emerging reality is #energyaddition – hybrid systems that combine #renewables with #naturalgas, supported by carbon capture and storage, hydrogen and nuclear.”
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"#Internships, #placements...and access to pilot-scale facilities can help bridge [the experience] gap by giving graduates experience of how #materials, electrodes and cells move from laboratory research towards manufactured products"
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Both the UK and the EU #CBAM are reshaping materials trade. Andrew Dunster, of the IOM3 #Sustainable #Development Group Leadership Team, and Jamie Brown of @BRE_Group, guide us through the terminology and technicalities.
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“The question before us now is not whether #sustainability belongs in #education, but whether our structures, our #curriculum design...are actually aligned well enough to make that policy intent real for every child in every school.”
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Switching gears?
UK sales of #electricvehicles remain below the headline targets set by the #ZeroEmissionVehicleMandate.
Nick Warburton reports from a #WestminsterForum event on the barriers and drivers.
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Developers at Louisiana State University, claim their #quantum material is the first of its kind capable of operating at room temperature and can be tuned for different applications including quantum #information #processing.
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Amped up:
Despite the motivations of emissions reduction, productivity and safety improvements, #mine #electrification is challenging due to power availability in #remote areas and the need to renew existing large haulage.
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#Infrared-adaptive #optics are critical for defence, space and #biomedical applications, says Dr Linling Tan at Ningbo University, but “existing technologies face a fundamental limitation”
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Floating new ideas:
Marie-Laure Bertet at @BASF's #plastic additives business speaks about a joint project to improve the longevity and sustainability of #floating #photovoltaic systems.
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An estimated 383t of #plastic #ropes are lost at sea every year. A team of researchers at Queen's University Belfast, Northern Ireland, has been working on ropes produced from 100% #sheep’s wool.
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Waste not, watt not:
Can #waste #cardboard help fuel our emissions-reduction ambitions? Dr Orla Williams and Professor Ed Lester FIMMM at the Univesity of Nottingham, UK, investigates burning this material for #electricity.
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A team at @KyushuUniv_EN embedded a natural plant pigment into a #hydrogel to make a #packaging film that can indicate when food starts to spoil and could extend the #shelflife of food products.
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