Using electricity generated by offshore wind turbines as one pathway to split water to produce clean hydrogen may make economic sense, particularly along the U.S. Atlantic Coast and in the Gulf of Mexico, according to researchers at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL). The economics work best in regions where the
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The Chairman of Dangote Refinery, Aliko Dangote, said that his company will source crude oil from other African oil-producing nations following recent imports from the United States and Brazil. Dangote made this disclosure in a statement to newsmen during a tour in his Lagos-based refinery on Saturday. According to the business mogul,
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In a major push to accelerate the adoption of Compressed Natural Gas (CNG) in the transportation sector, the federal government has announced free conversion kits and free installation for members of the transport unions in the country. This is as e-hailing ride operators such as Uber, Bolt, LagRide, Move and others
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New findings challenge current thinking on the ocean’s role in storing carbon. As climate change advances, the ocean’s overturning circulation is predicted to weaken substantially. With such a slowdown, scientists estimate the ocean will pull down less carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. However, a slower circulation should also dredge up less
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Researchers from Germany, Italy, and the UK have achieved a major advance in the development of materials suitable for on-chip energy harvesting. By composing an alloy made of silicon, germanium and tin, they were able to create a thermoelectric material, promising to transform the waste heat of computer processors back
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A national bottle deposit fee could make a dramatic difference in reducing plastic waste, MIT researchers report. While recycling systems and bottle deposits have become increasingly widespread in the U.S., actual rates of recycling are “abysmal,” according to a team of MIT researchers who studied the rates for recycling of PET,
Read MoreIn a move towards increasing Nigeria’s crude oil production and growing its reserves, NNPC Ltd has declared a state of emergency on production in Nigeria’s oil and gas industry. Group Chief Executive Officer of NNPC Ltd, Mr. Mele Kyari, disclosed this in a keynote address at the opening ceremony of the
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The Deputy General Manager- Nigeria Content of TotalEnergies EP Nigeria Limited, Cyprian Ojum has warned Nigerian indigenous oil and gas companies to adapt to current technologies or loss their business. Speaking during a panel discussion at the Nigeria Oil and Gas Energy Week Monday in Abuja on the “R&D and Technology
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A technique called bridge editing could surpass CRISPR, enabling complete genome reshaping. A unique bacterial molecule might allow scientists to redesign genomes, enabling them to insert, delete, or flip large DNA segments. This technique, detailed in three recent papers in Nature and Nature Communications, uses jumping genes, which naturally insert themselves
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Researchers at Princeton and UCLA have developed a passive mechanism to cool buildings in the summer and warm them in the winter. In an article published June 27 in the journal Cell Reports Physical Science, they report that by restricting radiant heat flows between buildings and their environment to specific wavelengths, coatings engineered from
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