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Turning Trash into Treasure: a New Tech bringing Urban Mining Closer to Fruition
A team of researchers from Rice University in Houston, Texas have identified a novel application for a method originally created to produce graphene - extracting valuable metals from electronic waste. The electronic waste (or e-waste) industry poses a huge problem.…
India’s AgTech Landscape: Ripe for a change
India’s agricultural industry is a market ready for innovation. Over the last 50 years the country has seen its agricultural productivity grow at a phenomenal rate, outpacing even its population growth. Now, the nation is the world’s second largest producer…
Wind Energy’s Dirty Secret May Have A Solution
Wind energy has been increasing in popularity as more individuals, businesses and governments try to achieve their climate goals and become sustainable and green. However, this technology might no be as clean as we thought. The problem lays with the…
Researchers make Synthetic Starch out of Carbon Dioxide
Rice, potatoes, maize, corn. All seem relatively innocuous foods that we often need not think about twice. Yet they all make a foundational carbohydrate that not only forms a crucial part of the human diet, but is also a primary…
Storing CO₂ In Rocks, the Icelandic Way
Carbfix, a company based in Iceland, came up with an innovative solution in the early 2000’s to capture and store CO₂ with an extraordinary technology. After years of research and development, Carbfix came through. Since 2016 they’ve been capturing these…
Toilet Trained Cows – an Unexpected Solution to Agriculture’s High Emissions?
Can you toilet train a cow? It’s a question most of us probably have never thought of, and the more pertinent question may seem to be why would we want to? But a new study from University of Auckland researchers…