Direct air capture technology removes carbon dioxide from the air and compresses it for sequestration or utilization and promises to help us meet net-zero emissions goals. However, the process of direct air capture can be energy and land intensive and expensive. To design a direct air capture process that uses less energy and less land, a multi-disciplinary team outlines a … Read More
Progress through politics comes in awkward jumbles. On Aug. 7, 2022, the U.S. Senate passed the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 (H.R. 5376). The legislation represented about a year of back-and-forth negotiations between Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) and Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.), a moderate who had become the biggest hurdle to his own party’s ambitious political objectives.
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Brickwork Direct has picked up £10m worth of work in the past six weeks alone – which is more than its entire 2021 turnover of £7.5m.
Brickwork Direct employs 25 staff at its headquarters in South Shields and has close to 200 bricklayers on its books.
Some of Scotland’s oldest buildings could be at risk of being knocked down instead of restored due to a quirk in the UK’s Westminster-controlled VAT laws.
That’s the warning in a new report published by the Chartered Institute of Building (CIOB) today.
Currently, in the UK, renovation and retrofitting costs are subject to the standard 20% VAT, but demolition and
When is something more than just the sum of its parts? Alloys show such synergy. Steel, for instance, revolutionized industry by taking iron, adding a little carbon and making an alloy much stronger than either of its components.
Supercomputer simulations are helping scientists discover new types of alloys, called high-entropy alloys. Researchers have used the Stampede2 supercomputer of the Texas
According to a study released in PLoS One, a scientific journal published by the Public Library of Science, between 12 million and 64 million birds are killed every year by U.S. power lines.
To help address this problem, Duke Energy announced in July 2022 that it is converting two electrical transmission towers into nesting platforms for bald eagles at the
