{"id":19951,"date":"2011-06-08T09:33:32","date_gmt":"2011-06-08T13:33:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=19951"},"modified":"2011-06-11T17:26:05","modified_gmt":"2011-06-11T21:26:05","slug":"mit%e2%80%99s-new-liquid-flow-batteries-also-turning-garbage-into-fuel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2011\/06\/08\/mit%e2%80%99s-new-liquid-flow-batteries-also-turning-garbage-into-fuel\/","title":{"rendered":"Energy related items: MIT\u2019s new liquid flow batteries, turning garbage into fuel, and more"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.trendbird.biz\/5665\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>MIT\u2019s new liquid flow batteries <\/strong><\/a>&#8212; from trendbird.biz<br \/>\n<em>MIT\u2019s new liquid flow batteries could make refueling EVs as fast as pumping gas<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: x-small;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"User image\" src=\"http:\/\/www.trendbird.biz\/attach\/1\/1261951739.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\" \" width=\"537\" height=\"402\" \/><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: x-small;\"> <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Also see:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a rel=\"bookmark\" href=\"http:\/\/www.trendbird.biz\/5655\" target=\"_blank\">Enerkem raises $60M to transform garbage into fuel<\/a><\/strong> &#8212; from trendbird.biz<br \/>\nCanadian company Enerkem has devised an innovative plan to transform garbage into a source of fuel, and today it received $60 million in new financing to bring its technology to the mainstream.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.trendbird.biz\/5655\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"User image\" src=\"http:\/\/www.trendbird.biz\/thumbnail\/1\/1126717811.w655-h432.png\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"655\" height=\"432\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Also see:<\/strong><\/p>\n<div>\n<div id=\"a019530\">\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.core77.com\/blog\/object_culture\/caught_on_tape_plastic_bottle_recycling_facilities_19530.asp\" target=\"_blank\">Caught On Tape: Plastic Bottle Recycling Facilities<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.core77.com\/blog\/object_culture\/caught_on_tape_plastic_bottle_recycling_facilities_19530.asp\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/s3files.core77.com\/blog\/images\/2011\/06\/ecostar.png\" alt=\"ecostar.png\" width=\"468\" height=\"258\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px;\">Do you know how plastic bottles are actually recycled? The amount of  energy that goes into it is pretty insane, as you&#8217;ll see in this video  below of the Ecostar recycling facility in Wisconsin. The amount of  steps\u2014not to mention electricity, water and manpower\u2014that need to be  taken to go from a bale of plastic bottles into safe, useable material  is pretty staggering.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px;\">What&#8217;s even more staggering is that as energy-intensive as recycling  is, it still gives off only half the carbon that&#8217;s produced when  creating virgin materials. It makes you wonder why we don&#8217;t spend more  time looking at more efficient ways to convey fluids, or if our current  system of plastic bottles is really the best thing mankind can come up  with.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Also see:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.co.uk\/magazine\/archive\/2011\/07\/start\/energy-meets-art\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Energy meets art with photographer Luca Zanier<\/strong><\/a> [Joao Medeiros]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.co.uk\/magazine\/archive\/2011\/07\/start\/energy-meets-art\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/cdni.wired.co.uk\/620x413\/g_j\/h_00215930_620x413.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Also see:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.co.uk\/news\/archive\/2011-06\/08\/google-renewable-energy\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Google takes aim at renewable energy<\/strong><\/a> &#8212; from wired.co.uk by Duncan Geere<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/cdni.wired.co.uk\/620x413\/s_v\/turbines.png\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Addendum 6-11-11 &#8212; also see:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.technologyreview.com\/energy\/37756\/?nlid=4583\" target=\"_blank\">Mediterranean Solar Goes Large &#8211; Technology Review<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.technologyreview.com\/energy\/37756\/?nlid=4583\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"SolarArray.png\" src=\"http:\/\/www.innovationamerica.us\/images\/stories\/2011\/SolarArray1100447865-20110610171712.png\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Solar Array\" width=\"500\" height=\"296\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MIT\u2019s new liquid flow batteries &#8212; from trendbird.biz MIT\u2019s new liquid flow batteries could make refueling EVs as fast as pumping gas &nbsp; &nbsp; Also see: Enerkem raises $60M to transform garbage into fuel &#8212; from trendbird.biz Canadian company Enerkem has devised an innovative plan to transform garbage into a source of fuel, and today [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[473,364,82,321],"tags":[790,745,495,610,438,728],"class_list":["post-19951","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-canada","category-chemistry","category-engineering","category-united-states","tag-canada","tag-chemistry","tag-energy","tag-engineering","tag-sustainability","tag-united-states"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19951","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19951"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19951\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19954,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19951\/revisions\/19954"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}