Affordable and Sustainable Cooling Using Metal-Organic Frameworks from Chemical Engineering Progress describes how air conditioning costs can be reduced by removing moisture (and its latent heat of vaporization) from air before cooling occurs. The article is short and worth reading…
AIChE Journal Highlight: How Can Chemical Engineers Help to Lower the Cost of Cultivated Meat? (1) Most of the food used to raise an animal is wasted on metabolism. (2) Much of the animal consists of “byproducts,” a polite word…
From Chemical & Engineering News: “Forget expiration dates. Spoilage sensors could tell us when food actually goes bad” reveals that 28% of the world’s agricultural capacity is used to produce food that is wasted. This results in (1) higher food…
This is what happens when ideology meets up with engineering and physical realities. Rudyard Kipling’s “Gods of the Copybook Headings” is highly instructive. When the power goes off, California does not have a green economy; it does not have any…