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University of Arkansas Launches Initiatives at 2 Campuses

November 14, 2016September 1, 2022 by Carl Weinschenk

Two campuses in the University of Arkansas system are instituting energy saving initiatives. ArkansasOnline reports that the University of Arkansas Little Rock will install LEDs across the campus, expand the chilled water distribution loop that supports the Windgate Center of Art + Design and upgrade heat and air-conditioning in the ... Read more »

UAB Getting First Solar Array

April 28, 2016April 11, 2022 by Carl Weinschenk

Vulcan Solar Power has been selected by the University of Alabama at Birmingham for construction of a commercial-scale solar facility. The solar project is the first undertaken by the university. The Birmingham Business Journal says that the solar array will be placed atop the Campus Recreation Center in a contract ... Read more »

Using Slurry for Economical, Energy-Efficient Carbon Capture

October 14, 2014October 13, 2014 by Ken Jennison

By combining carbon-capturing solids and liquids to develop a “slurry,” scientists from École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne, University of California-Berkeley and Beijing have created a carbon capture method that is relatively simple to implement on a large scale, economical and energy efficient, according to Nature Communications. Currently, carbon capture is ... Read more »

Top 25 Green Football Schools Ranked

September 2, 2014September 2, 2014 by Ken Jennison

The University of Washington is the no. 1 green football school, according to SaveOnEnergy.com’s ranking of the top 25 NCAA football schools this season. SaveOnEnergy.com compared the 25 universities with criteria including stadium sustainability efforts, number of active green organizations, waste diversion rate, percentage of budget spent on locally grown or ... Read more »

Technology Uses Liquid Salt for Emissions Scrubbing

June 2, 2014May 30, 2014 by Leon Walker

Less than a year after patenting a process that could improve stripping greenhouse gasses from industrial emissions, a University of Alabama engineering professor has been granted another patent that uses a different solvent to accomplish the same goal. Assistant professor of chemical and biological engineering Dr. Jason E. Bara’s latest ... Read more »

Ion Engineering Licenses ‘Cheaper, More Efficient’ Carbon Capture Technology

August 28, 2013 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

Clean-tech company Ion Engineering has licensed carbon capture technology that provides a potentially cheaper and more efficient method for stripping greenhouse gases such as CO2 from industrial emissions, according to University of Alabama, which has patented the method. Nearly all commercially available efforts at scrubbing GHGs from emissions use a ... Read more »

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