Today's Tech News: Notable or Not?

https://www.nextbigfuture.com/2022/09/molten-carbonate-high-temperature-fuel-cells-getting-to-scale.html "capture CO2 from a power plant’s flue gas while generating additional electricity from natural gas, coal, or other fuels... MCFC and afterburner ranked highest in terms of exergy destruction (93.12 MW and 22.4 MW, respectively). The tri-objective optimization findings also reveal that the most optimal solution point has an exergy efficiency of 59.5%, a total cost rate of 11.7 ($/gigajoule), and CO2 emission of 0.58 ton/MWh" Related: Researchers construct uneven phosphoric acid interfaces for advanced high-temperature polymer electrolyte fuel cells https://phys.org/news/2023-02-uneven-phosphoric-acid-interfaces-advanced.html How a record-breaking copper catalyst converts carbon dioxide into liquid fuels https://phys.org/news/2023-02-record-breaking-copper-catalyst-carbon-dioxide.html Researchers lift curtain on key feature of interfacial electrochemistry https://phys.org/n...

https://businessnewswales.com/major-breakthrough-in-search-to-develop-and-produce-clean-gas-energy-source/ "reconstructs and converts water into molecular clusters... electrically charged to create a constant oxidisation and friction. This makes the molecules more efficient, causing them to vibrate, which in turn creates a very reactive gas, providing a clean gas and flame.Unlike hydrogen gas KINETIC 7... ambient heating, cooking and hot water heating... industrial production. Large-scale manufacturing, engineering and industry... Food production, restaurants and hotels... significantly cheaper than natural gas" Related: Highly efficient, near-infrared-featured CO2 reduction by surface plasmon https://phys.org/news/2023-03-highly-efficient-near-infrared-featured-co2-reduction.html High-loading single cobalt atoms on ultrathin MOF nanosheets for efficient photocatalytic carbon dioxide reduction https://phys.org/news/2023-03-high-loading-cobalt-atoms-ultrathin-mof.html Engineer...

https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/net-power-delivers-electricity-to-grid-in-major-technological-breakthrough-301425894.html "combusts natural gas with oxygen, instead of air, and uses supercritical carbon dioxide as a working fluid to drive a turbine instead of steam. NET Power does not produce any nitrogen oxides (NOX), sulfur oxides (SOX) or particulate pollution, and the remaining CO2 is pipeline-quality to either be safely stored in underground geologic formations or utilized for industrial processes... projects have been publicly announced in the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom" Company website:   https://netpower.com/technology/ See also: Satellites discover huge amounts of undeclared methane emissions https://www.space.com/satellites-discover-huge-undeclared-methane-emissions Related: New Gas Mill Powered By Grass Will Power Thousands Of Homes In Reading https://the-energy-consultant.com/news/energy/new-gas-mill-powered-by-grass-will-power-thousan...

https://www.rechargenews.com/energy-transition/-we-will-make-zero-co2-hydrogen-from-natural-gas-so-cheaply-we-could-give-it-away-for-free-/2-1-1075224 "H Quest says its emissions-free microwave plasma pyrolysis technology will turn methane into H2 and high-value solid carbon or petrochemicals — with these “co-products” alone making projects profitable... take air out of the equation, and methane will split into hydrogen and solid carbon... microwaves require four times less electricity than required for the green-hydrogen electrolysis process" Related: Omnis Fuel Technologies Introduces a New Energy Era https://www.kget.com/business/press-releases/ein-presswire/663745663/omnis-fuel-technologies-introduces-a-new-energy-era/ C-Zero: low power solution for clean hydrogen and solid carbon from natural gas https://gaspathways.com/c-zero-the-low-power-solution-for-producing-hydrogen-from-natural-gas-2341