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New plastic recycling technology works without water

by Liyuan Luo - Sunday, July 19, 2015, 11:23 PM

Nowadays, the recycle is complicated process in reducing environment impact. Through the
article I realize that materials will waste lots of water and energy when recycling. Since the
new technology developed by Ak Inovex in Mexico recycles plastics with zero water is a
significantly effective way to protect the environment without any waste on water and
energy. Thus, people need to spread this new technology all over the world to keep the
business and environment sustainable developed.
http://www.treehugger.com/clean-technology/new-plastic-recycling-technology-uses-nowater.html

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Re: New plastic recycling technology works without water

by Kiran Kumar Mareedu - Tuesday, July 21, 2015, 8:49 AM

This is great I think that the more new and better ways of recycling we can come up with the
better we can make our environment. If we can continue to come up with more energy
efficient ways of doing stuff like this we will definitely see a cleaner world.

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Re: New plastic recycling technology works without water

by Waqar Ahmad - Friday, July 24, 2015, 3:13 PM

Hi Liyuan, Thanks for sharing this article. I think its pretty amazing how they're able to
create machines that can further take a complicated and energy intensive process like
recycling and make it simpler. It seems that the future is indeed moving towards an even
more digital and technologically advanced era and through this hopefully mankind will
discover new and innovative ways of reducing cost, as well as the damage to our planet by
reducing the PPM in our atmosphere, a number that's spiked hundreds of percent in just the
past 100 years that has been since the first measurable occurence of pollution in our
atmosphere. This is a step in the right direction and one that can rapidly change the world
we live in today.

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Solar Paper Looks to Change the Solar Charger Market

by Liyuan Luo - Sunday, July 19, 2015, 11:27 PM

Base on the comment about solar paper, it is much easier and faster than other traditional
charger. The most important is it saves energy and protect environment. But the solar paper
is charged by solar, which means the customers can only charge on the daytime with
sunshine. This is the weakness of this special charger, it needs to charger at anytime to
satisfy peoples requirement. In my opinion, I think the research group should design a
storage to save the solar at daytime and release when we cannot charge the device.
http://www.newsledge.com/solar-paper-17382

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Re: Solar Paper Looks to Change the Solar Charger Market

by Nagarajan Gopalakrishnan - Tuesday, July 21, 2015, 10:25 AM

Solar paper makes way to the next level of smartphones. Device compatibility can be
limitless with such a technology. This new charger is measured, beginning as a 2.5W singleunit charger, however by including units can be had as a 5W, 7.5W or 10W charger. The

boards snap together attractively, so it's anything but difficult to scale up or down contingent
upon your needs. The attractive sides likewise give the charger the capacity to stick to metal
surfaces for situating outside. The board highlights a USB port for joining your devices
furthermore has a LCD screen that demonstrates the accurate burden current (the measure
of electrical current went from a force source to the gadget that is accepting the force) that
the charger is producing. That way, you know how it's performing in diverse climate
conditions.

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Re: Solar Paper Looks to Change the Solar Charger Market

by Waqar Ahmad - Friday, July 24, 2015, 3:23 PM

Solar paper it seems is the very piece of the puzzle missing from completing the experience
for our "mobile" devices. It wasn't too long ago when phone users (notoriously the iphone
crowd to be specific) would carry a charger with them everywhere they went, and would be
frantically finding an outlet or car charger just half way into their busy lives. People of the
future will flourish in automation. Its what makes us a technologically advanced civilization.
From Automatically updating computers, to self driving cars, planes with auto pilot features,
its only common sense to see that people love a simpler, easier life style. I feel that this new
Solar Paper from the folks over at Yolk will prove to be the next big thing in mobile device
technology. Gone will be the days where we will have to carry around our charger, as the
dawn of a phone that never dies is quickly approaching due to the installment of solar paper
into our lives. Thanks for sharing this with us

Fuel from Seawater

by Liyuan Luo - Sunday, June 7, 2015, 3:40 PM

Scientists at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory have demonstrated the ability to recover
carbon dioxide and hydrogen from seawater and turn it into a liquid hydrocarbon fuelthe
kind of stuff that can power a jet engine. Aside from being convenient utilizing resources

around you for an immediate need is a benefit that speaks for itself this will reduce the
logistics tail on fuel delivery with no environmental burden.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/04/09/seawater-to-fuel-navy-vessels-_n_5113822.html

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by Siddharth Nattanmai Balakumar - Sunday, June 7, 2015, 9:28 PM

This proposal by the Navy used cost equipment and electricity at 7 cts/kwhr equals
$5.74/gallon. This proposal also reduces the fuel cost also and will not make any harm to
the environment.

"The Feasibility and Current Estimated Capital Costs of Producing

Jet Fuel at Sea Using Carbon Dioxide and Hydrogen"
http://www.dtic.mil/get-tr-doc/pdf?Location=U2&doc=GetTRDoc.pdf&AD=ADA539765

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by Surya Sahithyan Suresh Kumar - Wednesday, July 8, 2015, 3:14 PM

Seawater can produce fuel for jet engine which ae really expensive and it will take lot of
natural resources to produce this fuel by affecting the environment. To avoid this we can
take sea water andprodcue this fuel efficiently without much effect to the ecosystem. But
doing this for a large period of time can be a probelm to marine life in the ocean and even

the waste products will be dumped in here which will not be a cause for the extinction of
many aquatic life that lives in the ocean.

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Re: Fuel from Seawater

by Venkatesh Prabu Loganathan - Thursday, July 9, 2015, 4:37 PM

Dr Heather Willauer explains that the fuel does not appear to be any different from any of
the hydrocarbons, and it is indeed a breakthrough to be able to produce hydrogen and
carbon dioxide from seawater, in the same process. The next step is to find ways to scale
the process up for producing quantities for industry, and the experts are trying to find ways
to increase the amount of hydrogen and Carbon dioxide gases that are captured in the
process.
It may be an insurmountable task to retrofit every ship or aircraft, so having a replacement
fuel, with the same properties that can be made inexpensively gives the military a
tremendous advantage. At this point there appears to be a serious drawback. The process
needs to be refined, and it may take at least ten years before it can be made into a
commercial process. The potential is warranted and if sea-water is converted to fuel, it may
perhaps provide some benefits for consumers.

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by DEEPAK ABHISHEK - Friday, July 10, 2015, 11:00 PM

Utilizing a restrictive electrochemical gadget, analysts had the capacity pull carbon dioxide
from the water, get hydrogen as a side effect, and afterward bob the two gasses off one
another to fabricate the fluid fuel. The researchers say they can pull in regards to 97 percent

of the broke down carbon dioxide from the water and change over around 60 percent of the
extricated gasses into hydrocarbons that can be made into fuel at the expense of give or
take $3 to $6 per gallon. The low end is equal to today's plane fuel expenses, while the top
of the line would be twofold the cost. The fuel could be economically suitable in 10 years.
Initially, carbon dioxide fixation in seawater is around 100 milligrams for each liter. That is
140 times more prominent than that of air, yet at the same time not all that much in genuine
terms. One report computes that you'd need to process near to nine million cubic meters of
water to make 100,000 gallons of fuel, and that is expecting 100 percent effectiveness.

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Re: Fuel from Seawater

by Ehssan Eizadkhah - Sunday, July 12, 2015, 1:41 AM

There has been a lot of research spent on green and efficient fuel energy for past few years.
So a lot of different companies are trying different technology to benefit from it. Of course,
Military is one of them. this is an interesting idea that US navy is working on. As this article
describes, US navy developed technology to extract carbon dioxide from seawater while
simultaneously producing hydrogen, and then converted the gasses into hydrocarbon liquid
fuel. The system could potentially shave hours off the at-sea refueling process and eliminate
time spent away from missions. This is cost effective save a lot of time for Navy. This idea
could get expand to commercial field as well. Can you imagine of using water for fuel in you
car!

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Re: Fuel from Seawater

by Abdel Hezzini - Sunday, July 12, 2015, 2:50 PM

The point you bring up about environmental impact is huge. I couldn't agree more. As of
now companies are all focucesed on making vehicles that are fuel efficient. But what abut a
fuel that had minimal environmental impact and can could be used often? I think this is
definitely a step in the right direction.

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Re: Fuel from Seawater

by Simon Ho - Monday, July 13, 2015, 10:00 AM

I also see a hidden potential in additional of obtaining jet fuel in this whole process. Ocean
acidification is a side effect of the increase level of CO2 in atmosphere, forcing the ocean to
uptake and dissolve more CO2 into it's body if water. Now if we remove CO2 from the ocean to
produce fuel, would it help combat ocean acidification?
Of course issues remains:
- This has to be done in large scale for de-acidifying the ocean
- We still haven't get away from obtaining energy from hydrocarbons. CO 2 still being release
and the cycle's still there.
- Does energy required to produce the fuel larger than the energy available by the fuel itself,
just like what Tim Worstall said?

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Re: Fuel from Seawater

by Abhiram Sridhara - Sunday, July 19, 2015, 10:07 PM

For several years now, the U.S. Navy has been looking for a way to fuel fighter jets aboard
aircraft carriers out in the open ocean without having to rely on refueling ships. Now,
scientists at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory have demonstrated the ability to recover
carbon dioxide and hydrogen from seawater and turn it into a liquid hydrocarbon fuelthe
kind of stuff that can power a jet engine. In fact, researchers recently flew a model plane as
proof of concept.
Like every other alternative energy source, seawater fuel will only succeed if everyone
agrees that what comes out of the process is worth significantly more than what goes into it.
In this case, with national defense as a significant part of the motivation, chances are the
research will continue.

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Re: Fuel from Seawater

by Nagarajan Gopalakrishnan - Tuesday, July 21, 2015, 10:26 AM

Carbon dioxide focus in seawater speaks the truth 100 milligrams for each liter. That is 140
times more noteworthy than that of air, yet at the same time not all that much in genuine
terms. One report figures that you'd need to process near to nine million cubic meters of
water to make 100,000 gallons of fuel, and that is accepting 100 percent productivity.
Expect far less proficiency, and you need to accept significantly more water. What's more,
the more water you handle, the more microscopic fish and other little critters you expel from
the natural pecking orderwith conceivably cataclysmic results for marine life.
Also, you'd need to pump all that water into the transformation machine utilizing some type
of vitality, and if the boat uses fuel to make the power to do the change work, then the entire
procedure would be pointless. So the change would need to happen on an atomic controlled
plane carrying warship, where vitality is moderately perfect and modest.At that point, if 60
percent of the gas is changed over, what happens to the next 40 percent, including the 25
percent that turns out to be naturally disagreeable methane?
What's more, doesn't flying streams basically set the carbon back into the environment?
Yes, says the Navy, taking note of that from a certain perspective, the framework would be

in steady balance as carbon went from the ocean to the air and afterward once more into
the ocean to be separated once more.

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Re: Fuel from Seawater

by Waqar Ahmad - Friday, July 24, 2015, 3:37 PM

I think Hydrocarbon fuel is a newer form of fuel that is something used in military vehicles
the most. By extracting this fuel form sea water is truly a phenomenal feat of engineering
and science and one that can prove to provide an abundance of a new energy source
sourced from sea water, something that covers over 75% of our earth's surface. Although
this is a great new technology, Id' like to see the mass scaled version of the machine used
to make this conversion as well as the effects this fuel in large masses has on sea life, as
well as the atmosphere that we breath in on a daily basis. I am a bit worried of this fuel
being used in large quantities as well as a primary source because of it's toxicity to humans
as well as animal sea life amongst plants not to mention it's potency. Great article. Thanks!