By shifting some of the nation’s existing freight to electric rail, Parallel’s next-generation connected fleet can help address a number of pressing issues in the country ranging from the current supply-labor crunch of professional truck drivers to rampant congestion in busy American highways and ports.
New solar boxes could expand clean energy to include the world’s poorest regions
"In one recently electrified Mozambique village, people have used the invention to start selling items from cold drinks to fridges and offer customers mobile charging stations."
Tracking plastic pollution hot spots
"The tool, whose interface resembles maps tracking other environmental problems, from wildfires to carbon dioxide emissions, provides for the possibility of partnerships with governments that are contributing a significant amount of land-based plastic waste."
Could Outer Space be the Key to Expanding our Supply of Rare Metals?
Just as the original space race was a muscular assertion of the supremacy of American enterprise and industry, this new space resource scramble is motivated by the need to reduce reliance on our totalitarian adversaries. We were first to the moon to show the world that socialism is not the way. Now, we could be first to mine the stars, to put cleaner cars on our roads.
Battelle’s PFAS Annihilator Victorious Over ‘Forever Chemicals’
"'The end product is inert salts and PFAS-free water,' Dindal says, summing up the results of a recent pilot demonstration project at a wastewater treatment facility in Michigan. There, a mobile Annihilator was used to 'safely and completely destroy' PFAS in contaminated water at a plant operated by Heritage-Crystal Clean."
Cut the BS: This startup is converting cow manure into clean-burning hydrogen fuel
"Modern Electron is building a pilot plant at the biodigester facility that will use a technology called methane pyrolysis to cleave the hydrogen from the carbon. It should be up and running by early 2023, said CEO Tony Pan."
How PepsiCo used a Lays potato chip plant to help heat neighboring homes
"The venture will help PepsiCo meet its targets to cut carbon emissions by more than 40% by 2030 (against a 2015 baseline) and achieve net-zero emissions by 2040, 'but also helps us give back to the local communities where we operate,' says Wim Destoop, vice president and general manager of PepsiCo Northwest Europe."
Extremely lightweight hydrogen tanks could quadruple the range of passenger airliners
"HyPoint's technology is extremely lightweight compared with traditional fuel cells and it could allow airliners to fly up to four times farther than traditional passenger aircraft."
Modern Electron’s Pursuit to Decarbonize Home Heating
For most people, the word sustainability brings to mind images of tree planting and reusable water bottles. Occasionally the concerned homeowner will read articles about conserving energy at home, but they may not realize just how large an impact one common suggestion can have on the environment—how one adjusts their thermostat. But even that can...
Can AI help create less carbon-intensive concrete?
"Once the AI model came up with lower-carbon recipes for concrete, the researchers tasked a concrete supplier with whipping up the new batches. And since the new formulas had performed well in testing, Meta used them in construction on its data center in DeKalb, Illinois—specifically a guard tower and an office building for the construction crew."