DOE Releases Roadmap for Decarbonizing America’s Industrial

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) released an “Industrial Decarbonization Roadmap,” announcing $104 million to advance emission reduction technology that can decarbonize the nation’s industrial sector. 

The report highlights the urgent need to reduce carbon emissions and pollution in American manufacturing. In 2021, the industrial sector produced one-third of domestic greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, which is more than the annual

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Jacobs to design major coastal erosion scheme for Irish Rail

Jacobs to design major coastal erosion scheme for Irish Rail
Irish Rail infrastructure programme manager Aidan Bermingham (standing, left) and Jacobs’ vice president Dom Lynch (seated, second right) pose for a photo with colleagues

ECRIPP is required to defend long sections of the Dublin to Rosslare coastal railway line from erosion and flooding for the next 100 years. It is believed to be the largest coastal protection scheme in north-western

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Nickel-titanium shape memory records highest efficiency —

Funded by the National Science Foundation’s Designing Materials to Revolutionize Our Engineering Future (DMREF) Program, researchers from the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at Texas A&M University used an Artificial Intelligence Materials Selection framework (AIMS) to discover a new shape memory alloy. The shape memory alloy showed the highest efficiency during operation achieved thus far for nickel-titanium-based materials. In … Read More

Sustainable and AI Concrete Startup AICrete Announces $4

Through use of AI, AICrete is poised to reduce concrete emissions by up to 35% and drastically increase industry profit margins

AICrete, the only recipe-as-a-service platform optimizing local materials for cleaner and more cost-efficient concrete, announced today that it has raised $4 million in a seed funding led by CLEAR Ventures and VoLo Earth Ventures with participation from Cortical Ventures

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