Hacker News with Generative AI: Environmental Technology

New tech turns seawater into drinking water without tons of chemicals (news.umich.edu)
Water desalination plants could replace expensive chemicals with new carbon cloth electrodes that remove boron from seawater, an important step of turning seawater into safe drinking water.

Water Desalination, Environmental Technology, Chemistry, Sustainability

24 points by openmaze 32 days ago | 1 comments

Graphene and chitosan sponge 10x more efficient at removing gold from e-waste (phys.org)
A team of chemists and materials scientists at the National University of Singapore, working with colleagues from Manchester University, in the U.K., and Guangdong University of Technology, in China, has developed a type of sponge made of graphene oxide and chitosan, that can be used to extract gold from electronic waste.

Materials Science, Nanotechnology, Environmental Technology, Recycling

3 points by thebeardisred 116 days ago | 0 comments

Google strikes $100/ton deal with Holocene to capture CO2 from the air (theverge.com)
Google just landed a deal to capture planet-heating pollution at a huge bargain: $100 per ton of CO2, the price climate tech startups around the world are racing to achieve in order to make their technologies commercially viable.

Climate Change, Environmental Technology, Business, Google

7 points by ctrlGsysop 164 days ago | 3 comments

Contaminant-tolerant catalyst could capture carbon directly from smokestacks (techxplore.com)

Carbon Capture, Environmental Technology, Chemistry, Climate Change

6 points by PaulHoule 211 days ago | 0 comments

Simple process stores carbon dioxide in concrete without compromising strength (phys.org)