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University of Colorado Boulder designs natural battery electrodes from beer wastewater
Creating energy from waste is a noble goal that a few forward-thinking craft breweries have already embraced. At New Belgium Brewing Co.'s on-site Process Water Treatment Plant in Fort Collins, Colo., the brewery uses microbes to clean all of its production wastewater through a series of aerobic (with air) and anaerobic (without air) basins. Read More
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Turning Beer Wastewater into Energy Storage Benefits Breweries, Battery Manufacturers
Beer wastewater can be converted to materials needed to make energy storage cells — a development that researchers say could be a “win-win” for breweries and battery manufacturers. Read More
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Engineers Find a Way to Make Batteries with Beer
Soon beer companies will be able to provide both the frosty beverage and the batteries to power the remote during football games. Read More
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From Beer to Energy: Researchers Turn Brewery Waste to Fuel Cell Technology
Researchers from Boulder, Colorado just came up with a unique way for turning brewery wastes into low-cost lithium-ion battery electrodes. Beer manufacturers are not allowed to dump these waste products into sewers as they require extra filtration. Now, however, this waste product just got a lot more useful. Read More
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Researchers Use Beer Byproduct to Create New Battery
Researchers at the University of Colorado Boulder have turned brewery wastewater into battery power. The process uses biological organisms cultivated in the water to make the carbon-based materials required to create cells that store energy. Read More
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Colorado researchers turn beer waste into battery electrodes
In the beer-friendly state of Colorado, researchers at the University of Colorado-Boulder have turned brewery runoff into something with a different sort of buzz: low-cost lithium-ion battery electrodes. Read More
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Colorado engineers use beer waste to fuel eco-friendly battery
We’ve seen breweries turn wastewater into drinkable beer but now scientists have turned one brewery’s dirty wastewater into energy. Read More
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Beer batteries: Colorado researchers use brewery wastewater to produce electrodes
Researchers in Colorado have found a way to use wastewater from brewing beer to produce lithium ion battery electrodes. Read More
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From beer to batteries: using wastewater to make energy
It takes about seven barrels of water for every barrel of beer produced. Left over is thousands of gallons of wastewater, which ends up in a water treatment facility. But what if there is a better option? A group of doctorate-engineering students at the University of Colorado-Boulder believe they have found one: using it to grow a fungus that could help make lithium-ion batteries. Read More
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CU Boulder researchers develop an eco-friendly solution to all that brewery wastewater
Researchers at the University of Colorado-Boulder published a study in journal of Applied Materials & Interfaces last month that details a new potential use for brewery wastewater: naturally-derived lithium ion battery electrodes, or the material in batteries that conducts electricity. Read More
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Semi-finalists Chosen for CRI's Cohort 8
Twenty-eight individuals with a wide range of startup technologies were chosen to advance to the semi-finals and compete to join Chain Reaction Innovations’ (CRI) Cohort 8. A broad range of innovations are represented in this year’s applicants, including energy generation and distribution, bioremediation, anti-fouling, mineralization,… Read More
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Chain Reaction Innovations wins a 2023 Chicago Innovation Award
Chain Reaction Innovations has been recognized for solving unmet needs, creating jobs and generating new funding in the Chicago metro area. Chain Reaction Innovations, the entrepreneurship program at Argonne National Laboratory, has been recognized with a Chicago Innovation Award. (Image by Chicago Innovation.) Chain… Read More
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Entrepreneurship program at Argonne opens applications for startups
Chain Reaction Innovations seeks innovators to join Cohort 8 OCTOBER 26, 2023 Develop your clean energy or climate technology with the support of Argonne National Laboratory’s Chain Reaction Innovations program. Application deadline is 5 p.m. CST, Nov. 30. Through Chain Reaction Innovations, early-stage… Read More
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New startups Join Argonne’s Entrepreneurship Program
Chain Reaction Innovations announces new cohort Clean energy startups embed at Argonne to develop innovative technologies that hold promise for helping mitigate climate change. Four startups joined Chain Reaction Innovations, the entrepreneurship program at Argonne, to develop clean-energy technologies over two years. Four new… Read More
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Demo Day Showcased Innovators at Four National Labs
Argonne hosted Demo Day in downtown Chicago, an event celebrating innovation at four laboratory-embedded entrepreneurship programs. Resilience of innovators recognized at gathering of national lab-based technology incubators. Getting an invention or new breakthrough from the laboratory into the broader world requires more than just a… Read More