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Long-term U.S transportation electricity use considering the effect of autonomous-vehicles: Estimates & policy observations [PDF]

, 2018
In this paper, we model three layers of transportation disruption – first electrification, then autonomy, and finally sharing and pooling – in order to project transportation electricity demand and greenhouse gas emissions in the United States to 2050 ...
Fox-Penner, Peter, Gorman, Will, Hatch, Jennifer   +2 more
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A Bench-Scale Demonstration of Direct Air Capture Using an Enhanced Electrochemical System

Clean Technologies
The bench-scale demonstration of the UKy-IDEA process for direct air capture (DAC) technology combines solvent-aided CO2 capture with electrochemical regeneration (ER) through a pH swing process, enabling efficient CO2 capture and simultaneous solvent ...
Jinwen Wang, Xin Gao, Adam Berger, Ayokunle Omosebi, Tingfei Chen, Aron Patrick, Kunlei Liu   +6 more
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Comparative Assessment of Protocols for Microplastic Quantification in Wastewater

Microplastics
Microplastics are an increasing concern due to their widespread occurrence in aquatic environments worldwide. The lack of a harmonised protocol for their reliable quantification remains a major challenge in current scientific efforts. This study presents
Rubén Rodríguez-Alegre, Sergi Durán-Videra, David Carmona-Fernández, Laura Pérez Megías, Carlos Andecochea Saiz, Xialei You   +5 more
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Effect of Microfiltration Membrane Configuration in Microplastics Recovery from Wastewater Treatment Effluent

Membranes
Water scarcity has driven the use of wastewater treatment plant (WWTP) effluents as reclaimed water, highlighting the need to overcome challenges such as the presence of emerging contaminants, particularly microplastics (MPs), which WWTPs are unable to ...
Rubén Rodríguez-Alegre, Sergi Durán-Videra, Laura Pérez Megías, Montserrat Pérez-Moya, Julia García-Montaño, Carlos Andecochea Saiz, Xialei You   +6 more
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Decarbonization technology responsibility to gender equality in the shipping industry: a systematic literature review and new avenues ahead

Journal of Shipping and Trade, 2023
This study investigates existing literature on decarbonization technology responsibility for sustainable business models in the shipping industry. Specifically, it considers the relationship between responsible innovation from green technology adoption ...
Assunta Di Vaio, Anum Zaffar, Daniel Balsalobre-Lorente, Antonio Garofalo   +3 more
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Adapting Innovation Development Management Processes to Improve Energy Efficiency and Achieve Decarbonization Goals

Foresight and STI Governance, 2023
The study focuses on problems of decarbonization as a systemic priority for innovative changes in the national economy in times of new global challenges.
Alexander Melnik, Irina Naoumova, Kirill Ermolaev   +2 more
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Do classes of gas stations contribute differently to fuel prices? Evidence to foster effective competition in Spain [PDF]

, 2020
Despite the relatively large number of gas stations reached in Spain after decades of sectorial reforms, pre-tax fuel prices in the country remain systematically among the highest in the EU.
Balaguer, Jacint, Ripollés, Jordi
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Nanofiltration & reverse osmosis technical assessment for pesticides removal

Discover Environment
The increasing food demand for a growing population has resulted in the intensification and modernization of agriculture leading to an increasing use of pesticides to protect crops against insects, weeds, fungi, and other pests.
Rubén Rodríguez-Alegre, Laura Pérez Megías, Sonia Sanchis, Carlos Andecochea Saiz, Xialei You   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Free-Standing Carbon Nanofiber Films with Supported Cobalt Phosphide Nanoparticles as Cathodes for Hydrogen Evolution Reaction in a Microbial Electrolysis Cell

Nanomaterials
High-performance and cost-efficient electrocatalysts and electrodes are needed to improve the hydrogen evolution reaction (HER) for the hydrogen (H2) generation in electrolysers, including microbial electrolysis cells (MECs). In this study, free-standing
Gerard Pérez-Pi, Jorge Luque-Rueda, Pau Bosch-Jimenez, Eduard Borràs Camps, Sandra Martínez-Crespiera   +4 more
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Greening Capitalism? A Marxist Critique of Carbon Markets [PDF]

, 2012
Climate change is increasingly being recognized as a serious threat to dominant modes of social organization, inspiring suggestions that capitalism itself needs to be transformed if we are to ‘decarbonize’ the global economy. Since the Kyoto Protocol in
Abate R. S., Arrighi G., Bernstein S., Bond P., Bruno K., Bueno F. M., Chatterjee P., De Angelis M., Foster J. B., Foster J. B., Foster J. B., Ghosh S., Giddens A., Gilbertson T., Grubb M., Guha R., Haque U., Harvey D., Harvey D., Heartfield J., Korten D., Lohmann L., Marini R. M., Marx K., Marx K., Marx K., Marx K., Moyo S., O’Connor J., Porter M. E., Pouchepadass J., Schlup M., Tietenberg T. H., UNCED (United Nations Conference on Environment and Development), UNCED (United Nations Conference on Environment and Development), World Commission on Environment and Development, Yamin F.   +36 more
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