Press Coverage
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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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Brewery wastewater finds new use as fuel cell material
In Colorado, researchers have developed a process for using brewery wastewater to create carbon-based fuel cell materials. The breakthrough could help brewers reduce the need for costly wastewater treatment. The University of Colorado Boulder researchers cultivated the fast-growing fungus Neurospora crassa in sugar-rich brewery wastewater and were able to dictate the fungus’s chemical and physical properties to create naturally-derived lithium-ion battery electrodes. Read More
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A Battery Made from Beer
Well not quite, although some home brewers might find the idea of a battery made from beer appealing. ACS Publications reports researchers at University of Colorado Boulder have found a way to convert wastewater from the brewing process into green electrodes. Read More
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From Beer to Battery –Turning Brewery Wastewater Into Energy
What do beer breweries and batteries have in common? If you’re an engineer at the University of Colorado Boulder, both represent an opportunity for an innovative bio-manufacturing process to create more efficient and sustainable energy storage cells — i.e. batteries. Read More
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Brewery wastewater transformed into energy storage
Colorado-based engineers, who competed at the Chain Reaction Innovations finals, have developed an innovative bio-manufacturing process that uses a biological organism cultivated in brewery wastewater to create the carbon-based materials needed to make energy storage cells. This unique pairing of breweries and batteries could set… Read More
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Beery wastewater gets an electrifying new life
According to the University of Colorado Boulder, breweries go through about seven barrels of water for every barrel of beer produced. All that leftover wastewater can't just be dumped in the sewer – it has to be filtered first, which can be expensive. Now, however, the university says that there may be a new use for the water. It could be used to grow a fungus that's in turn made into "green" battery electrodes. Read More
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Turning brewery wastewater into battery power
CU Boulder engineers have developed an innovative bio-manufacturing process that uses a biological organism cultivated in brewery wastewater to create the carbon-based materials needed to make energy storage cells. Read More
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Innovation Crossroads: ORNL Energy-startup accelerator aborning
Oak Ridge National Laboratory launches a new accelerator for clean-energy entrepreneurs. This follows on the heels of the launch of Argonne National Laboratory’s program Chain Reaction Innovations. … Read More
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John Carpenter on why real estate developers should choose dupage
Choose DuPage outlines plan to boost economic growth and development in the region. No. 1 on the list is working with Chain Reaction Innovations at Argonne National Laboratory to commercialize innovative technologies. Read more. Read More
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