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Green Power Drive: Future Cars Might Run on Cobalt Free Batteries

January 21, 2024January 21, 2024 Pooja Kashyap

In the world of electric vehicles, lithium-ion batteries are always preferred and they often contain cobalt. While cobalt plays a crucial role in these batteries, its extraction and processing bring about a set of challenges. Thinking on these lines, MIT researchers have crafted a battery material with the potential to revolutionize the sustainability of electric cars. This groundbreaking lithium-ion battery boasts an organic material-based cathode. Thus, stepping away from the conventional use of cobalt or nickel, which is often present in such batteries.

Metal Eating Bacteria to Clean Up Metallic Waste: Green Mining

October 11, 2021October 11, 2021 Pooja Kashyap

A starving being can eat everything and anything and within minutes. While in the character of 19th-century trapper, Leonardo DiCaprio, a starving man in The Revenant eats raw bison liver. Survival instinct is what keeps the living beings away from extinction coz of hunger and this can be seen in microorganisms as well.

Our Consumption Habits Cause Trash In The Ocean: Marine Debris

September 15, 2020September 22, 2020 Pooja Kashyap

Marine trash or marine debris is human made solid material that is abandoned on beaches. This waste eventually goes into the ocean.

New Building Material From Waste Plastic: RePlast The Future Of Plastics

August 17, 2016August 17, 2016 Neha Shukla

Plastic waste management is one of the major problems worldwide. Plastics production utilizes valuable fossil feedstock and has a notable carbon impact. They are not only hard to decompose but are also occupying our landfills and entering the oceans.

Green Future: PlasticRoads an Alternative to Tar and Asphalt road surfaces

July 20, 2015 Neha Shukla

Experts worldwide keep finding new ways to recycle plastic waste. Qualities like lightweight, moisture resistant, flexible and relatively cheap have increased production and consumption of plastic worldwide, but with so many benefits, comes disadvantages. Plastics do not decompose easily and are posing serious threat for the environment. From land to sea, everywhere plastic debris can be seen and is a major concern for the environmentalist.

Singapore’s First 3D-printed Concept Car: Coupé of the Future

February 4, 2015 Pooja Kashyap

Researchers at Nanyang Technological University (NTU) have developed nation’s first urban solar electric car with cutting-edge 3D-printed body casing that is having nearly 150 parts. The two eco-cars, dubbed as NV8 and NV9, are racing in this year’s the Shell Eco-marathon Asia that is taking place in Manila at the end of this month.

PET Plastic Bottles morph to Paper: Ecological Paper

January 21, 2015 Neha Shukla

A Mexican startup company, Cronology situated in Ecatepec, has designed an innovative environment friendly technology that recycles waste PET bottles into peta paper or mineral paper. The technology claims to conserve around 20 trees from being chopped down and 50,000 liter of precious water on the production of per ton of paper, as they do not need chlorine or water for manufacturing.

Recycling Wood, Crop Waste into Valuable Chemicals: Renewable Biomass Material

November 4, 2014 Neha Shukla

Everyone realizes the importance of recycling potential wastes into useful products. This recycling process helps in reducing the requirement for raw materials, minimizing energy usage, curb water and air pollution, thus reducing greenhouse gas emission. Experts around the world are trying ceaselessly to look for new and innovative techniques to recycle wastes. In one such attempt, researchers have found an innovative method to recycle lignin, which is a biomass waste, into certain chemicals that can be put to use in other applications. Recycling Lignin Lignin is the complex material responsible…

The Electrolyzer Project: A Promising Technology to Hydrogen Energy Storage

September 2, 2014September 2, 2014 Pooja Kashyap

In order to solve the impending world’s problem for renewable energy, Germany is becoming more and more dependent on wind & solar power. Currently, the nation has come up with 20 more projects involving storing energy by creating water splitters, the process is known as Electrolysis.

Recycling Plastic into Oil: A New Initiative by PK Clean

June 23, 2014June 23, 2014 Neha Shukla

Plastics are highly popular because of its properties like durability, low cost, ease in manufacturing, versatileness and invulnerable to water and is widely used in all kinds of fields, ranging from household to spaceships. Plastic has replaced many conventional materials used so far such as wood, glass, metal, stone, bone, leather, horn and ceramic.

Biofuel from Waste Coffee Grounds: Car running on Coffee

June 18, 2014 Neha Shukla

Recycling industrial or household waste is very imperative for keeping the environment clean. Recently, researchers from the University of Bath have demonstrated an effective method of generating biofuel from waste coffee grounds that can power vehicles.

Rubberized Asphalt Road Material: Recycled Roadways

April 22, 2014April 22, 2014 Neha Shukla

Old or damaged tires are the major source of waste and concern for environmentalists. As per Environmental Protection Agency, America alone discards approximately 300 millions of waste tires annually. Such a huge volume of waste, which is extremely durable, is difficult to manage. The discarded tires are also not very suitable for landfills and often illegally dumped tires turn into breeding grounds for germ carrying mosquitoes and rodents. Piles of tires if caught fire can cause air and ground pollution. Therefore, it is required to recycle the discarded tires in…

Sugar Driven Smartphones And Laptops

March 3, 2014March 16, 2014 Neha Shukla

Today, almost all our works are dependent on electricity. And meeting the energy requirement of ever increasing population is a challenge. Electricity generation based on renewal source can not be alone sufficient to meet the demand and researchers are constantly looking for alternative ways of electricity production.

MFC Powered Bots With Urine Powered Pumping Heart

December 1, 2013March 16, 2014 Pooja Kashyap

Urine, an untapped resource, which was going into the drains before, will now be powering the next gen EcoBots. Researchers from the University of the West of England and the University of Bristol have come up with urine-powered artificial heart that’ll fuel these bots. The EcoBots will be generating their own energy with the help of onboard microbial fuel cells (MFCs). MFCs will break down urine in a process generating electricity. It is not only urine that the EcoBots are fed upon but also other organic feedstocks like rotten fruits,…

Hydrogen Powered Cars Will Be The Future Transportation

November 21, 2013May 16, 2014 Neha Shukla

With the ever-increasing fuel prices and harmful greenhouse gases produced by these fuels, the need of the hour is to switch to an alternative fuel as effective as the traditional fuels. One such innovation is being done in the field of automobile industry with bringing the concept cars like electric cars and now hydrogen cars is being added to the list. These pollution free hydrogen cars would emit only water vapor and so can be seen as a promising mode of transportation in the future.