Although Venus is sometimes referred to as Earth’s twin, its current surface conditions are drastically different, making it inhospitable to life. Not only is liquid water unable to exist due to the extreme temperatures and pressures beneath the thick cloud layer, but more importantly, it is nearly absent from the Venusian atmosphere. Using data from
No, Bitcoin mining does not use 8% of global electricity although Bill Maher thinks so Liam 'Akiba' Wright · 22 hours ago Insights Bitcoin Mining Fact-checking Bill Maher's claim: Bitcoin uses less than 1% of global electricity. On a recent episode of “Real Time with Bill Maher,” Maher claimed that crypto consumes 8% of global
Quebec Innovative Materials Corp. (CSE: QIMC, FSE: 7FJ) (“QI Materials”, “QIMC” or the “Company”), is proud to announce a landmark discovery made in collaboration with our Quebec partner, the Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique (INRS). The findings from the recently completed 9.7km north-south line 7 have uncovered hydrogen soil samples with concentrations exceeding 1000
Early Facebook employee and longtime travel aficionado Julia Lam began studying consumer travel habits over a year ago to see how people planned their vacations and business trips. What she found was that people were often using a mess of Chrome tabs and text files. So she started Bucket with former Facebook engineer John Sichi
Mitsubishi Corporation and ExxonMobil sign Project Framework Agreement to advance world's largest low-carbon hydrogen project TOKYO, Sept 13, 2024 - (JCN Newswire) - Mitsubishi Corporation and Exxon Mobil Corporation (NYSE: XOM) have signed a Project Framework Agreement for Mitsubishi Corporation’s participation in ExxonMobil’s facility in Baytown, Texas which is expected to produce virtually carbon-free hydrogen
Astronomers using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have captured a magnificent new image of the unbarred spiral galaxy NGC 4414. This Hubble image shows NGC 4414, an unbarred spiral galaxy located 51 million light-years away in the constellation of Coma Berenices. Image credit: NASA / ESA / Hubble / O. Graur / S.W. Jha /
Ballard Power Systems says it has started restructuring its global operations to cut costs due to slower hydrogen infrastructure development and delayed fuel cell adoption. September 17, 2024 Sergio Matalucci The Renault Master H2-Tech vehicle Image: Forvia Ballard Power Systems has announced a global restructuring to cut corporate spending due to “a slowdown in hydrogen
A team of biologists in Israel has grown an extinct — or at least extirpated — tree species of the myrrh genus Commiphora from an ancient seed found in the northern Judean Desert in the 1980s. Morphological features of Sheba at different ages: (a) ancient seed prior to planting; (b) developing seed at 5 weeks
Sea robins are unusual ocean fish that possess specialized leg-like appendages used to ‘walk’ along the sea floor. New research shows that these appendages aren’t just used for walking; in fact, they are bona fide sensory organs used to find buried prey while digging. Lepidotrigla papilio. Image credit: Mike Jones. “Sea robins are an example
Paleontologists have described a new genus and species of long-snouted notosuchian from the fragmentary remains found in Brazil’s Adamantina Formation. Epoidesuchus tavaresae is a new species of Peirosauridae from the Cretaceous Adamantina Formation, Brazil. Image credit: Ruiz et al., doi: 10.1002/ar.25559. Epoidesuchus tavaresae inhabited the ancient supercontinent Gondwana during the Late Cretaceous epoch, around 72
Environment Making hydrogen from seawater can be tricky because the salt is corrosive and the process can create toxic chlorine gas – new electrodes can split ocean water to make the clean fuel more easily By James Dinneen Facebook / Meta Twitter / X icon Linkedin Reddit Email Seawater could be a source of clean
Quebec Innovative Materials Corp. (CSE: QIMC) (FSE: 7FJ) (“QI Materials”, “QIMC” or the “Company”)– QIMC is pleased to announce a significant 11 km expansion of our natural renewable hydrogen discovery to the northwest. Recent soil gas measurements from Line 13, recorded at 594, 543, and 463 ppm, are the highest levels detected outside of those reported
Home Business News Adani Green Energy's subsidiaries set to raise $1 billion through dollar bonds Four subsidiaries of India’s Adani Green Energy will issue bonds with a maturity of 20 years in one or more tranches starting this month, the bankers said, speaking on condition of anonymity as they are not authorised to speak to
Carbonate minerals are of particular interest in paleoenvironmental research as they are an integral part of the carbon and water cycles, both of which are relevant to habitability. In new research, planetary scientists focused on carbon and oxygen isotope measurements of carbonate minerals detected by NASA’s Curiosity rover within the Gale crater on Mars. An
China’s Longi Green Energy has set a new world record for crystalline silicon solar module efficiency with its independently developed hybrid passivated back contact (HPBC) 2.0 module, achieving a conversion efficiency of 25.4%, according to a certification report from Germany’s Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems (Fraunhofer ISE). October 24, 2024 Vincent Shaw Image: NREL
A team of researchers at CSIRO has decoded the genome of the spotted handfish (Brachionichthys hirsutus), a critically endangered species of marine fish endemic to Tasmania. The spotted handfish (Brachionichthys hirsutus). Image credit: CSIRO. Brachionichthys hirsutus is a rare species of benthic fish in the handfish family Brachionichthyidae. This unusual fish lives only in the
Home Green Marine Shipping industry urges EU to support green transition by investing in Africa August 26, 2024, by Naida Hakirevic Prevljak Trade and employer association Danish Shipping has urged Denmark and the EU to intensify investments in Africa, reflecting on the continent’s ‘enormous potential’ for both green energy and economic growth. Port of Mombasa, Kenya.
Scientists are urgently searching for clean fuel sources -- such as hydrogen -- to move towards carbon neutrality. A breakthrough for improving the efficiency of the photocatalytic reaction that splits water into hydrogen has been made by a team of researchers from Tohoku University, Tokyo University of Science and Mitsubishi Materials Corporation. "Water-splitting photocatalysts can
Mount Everest, also known as Chomolungma in Tibetan or Sagarmāthā in Nepali, is about 15 to 50 m taller than it would otherwise be because of uplift caused by a nearby eroding river gorge, and continues to grow because of it, according to new research. Han et al. found that erosion from a river network
The newly-discovered isotope, plutonium-227, has a half-life of 0.78 seconds, according to a team of physicists from China. The region of the nuclear chart 87≤Z≤97 and 112≤N≤136 shows the new isotope plutonium-227 (red star) and the 12 nuclides (blue star) that were discovered at the Institute of Modern Physics at the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
AngelList, the online platform that had made itself indispensable to early-stage startups for fundraising and recruiting, said it closed out last year having raised $163 million online on behalf of 441 companies. That’s about 56 percent higher than the year before in 2014. About 40 percent of the deals were private rounds and institutional funds were in about 40
Home Hydrogen ClassNK updates its guidelines for liquefied hydrogen carriers September 17, 2024, by Aida Čučuk Japanese classification society ClassNK has released the third edition of its guidelines for liquefied hydrogen carriers, which cover “essential” details to examine the safety of liquefied hydrogen carriers to spur related technological developments. Courtesy of ClassNK According to ClassNK
Paleontologists in Brazil have examined the well-preserved fossilized remains of two mammal-precursor species: Brasilodon quadrangularis and Riograndia guaibensis . The findings offer critical insights into the development of the mammalian jaw and middle ear, revealing evolutionary experiments that occurred millions of years earlier than previously thought. An artist’s impression of Brasilodon quadrangularis (left) and Riograndia
A new genus and species of early-diverging oviraptorosaurian dinosaur has been identified from two specimens found in Inner Mongolia, China. Life reconstruction of Yuanyanglong bainian. Image credit: Sci.News / Ddinodan. “Oviraptorosauria is a group of specialized pennaraptoran theropods known primarily from an abundant Asian and North American Cretaceous fossil record,” said Dr. Xing Xu, a
Administrative innovations in south-west Asia during the 4th millennium BCE, including the cylinder seals that were rolled on the earliest clay tablets, laid the foundations for proto-cuneiform script, one of the first writing systems. Seals were rich in iconography, but little research had focused on the potential influence of specific motifs on the development of
Using genome, transcriptome, and proteome analysis of the newly-discovered species of tardigrade, named Hypsibius henanensis, scientists explored the molecular basis contributing to radiotolerance in these tiny invertebrates. Schematic of mechanisms that confer radiotolerance to Hypsibius henanensis. Image credit: Li et al., doi: 10.1126/science.adl0799. Tardigrades, also known as water bears or moss piglets, are a diverse
Uniper has told pv magazine that it has delayed its 2030 hydrogen investment target. November 5, 2024 Sergio Matalucci Image: pv magazine Uniper has delayed its goal of investing €8 billion ($8.7 billion) in green energy by 2030. It told pv magazine that three factors were behind the decision. “The slight delay in investing the
The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has taken a picture of the barred spiral galaxy NGC 1672, which is visible from the southern hemisphere. This Hubble image shows NGC 1672, a barred spiral galaxy some 49 million light-years away in the constellation of Dorado. The color image was made from separate exposures taken in the ultraviolet
Named LID-568, this 7.2-million-solar-mass black hole appears to be feeding on matter at a rate 40 times its Eddington limit and is seen as it existed just 1.5 billion years after the Big Bang. An artist’s impression of the accreting black hole LID-568 in the early Universe. Image credit: NOIRLab / NSF / AURA /
Paleontologists have unearthed and examined a fossilized leg bone of a phorusrhacid bird that lived 12 million years ago in South America. A model of Paraphysornis at the Natural History Museum Vienna. Image credit: Armin Reindl / CC BY-SA 4.0. Terror birds are members of Phorusrhacidae, a family of large, carnivorous, flightless birds within the
Monday 04 November 2024 1:15 pm Chancellor Rachel Reeves gave her first Budget last week. The UK’s recent Budget included a series of measures which have prompted debate over its impact on achieving net zero. While Rachel Reeves announced significant investments in green energy, hydrogen projects and electric vehicle incentives, a number of her decisions
Atomic-scale structures that account for the acceleration of reactivity by heterogeneous catalysts often form only under reaction conditions of high temperatures and pressures, making them impossible to observe with low-temperature, ultra-high-vacuum ...
Spending commitments outlined by UK Chancellor Rachel Reeves include investment in planning departments, more funds for heat pump grants, confirmation of funding for commercial hydrogen projects, and more cash for the Department of Energy Security and Net Zero. November 1, 2024 Matthew Lynas UK chancellor Rachel Reeves said she wants to “get Britain building again”
There's only one hydrogen car we've ever truly desired after, and that's the Hyundai N Vision 74 Coupe concept car from a few years back, which offered incredible performance in a radical, retro design. We may or may not ever actually get that car, as the rumors are split but the latest don't look too
The UK government has confirmed new hydrogen plans, while RWE says it has secured construction and environmental permits to build a 100 MW electrolyzer in the Netherlands. November 1, 2024 Sergio Matalucci Image: pv magazine The UK government said it is funding 11 new green hydrogen projects across England, Scotland, and Wales, which it claims
