Here’s a development in materials science whose creators claim will help cities manage water run-off from the storms that are worsening due to climate change. It’s essentially a porous paver, absorbing far more water than the traditional substances, and then …
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Does the Earth’s Crust Contain Enough Stuff to Enable Renewable Energy Dominance?
I’m writing this post from my annual visit to the University of California at Santa Barbara’s Energy Efficiency Summit. As I mentioned, the focus this year is on materials science, and this raises some interesting questions; for instance, if renewable energy …
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Breakthroughs in Materials Science Critical to Quest for Renewables
On the things I find so fascinating about the migration to renewables is that it represents the confluence of so many different scientific and technological disciplines – especially in the quest to drive down costs. To take an obvious example, …
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