Captura de carbono, reciclaje, nuevos materiales, agritech: la ingeniería que vuelve a poner la materia en circulación.
La ecotech es la ingeniería que devuelve la materia a la circulación: capturar el carbono en vez de dejarlo escapar, reutilizar lo que se daba por desechado, sustituir un material pesado por uno limpio. La sección sigue las líneas piloto de reciclaje —paneles solares, palas eólicas, plásticos—, la captura y el uso del CO₂, los cementos y aceros bajos en carbono, y la agritech que produce más con menos agua y menos insumos.
Contamos lo que se mide: un rendimiento de recuperación, un coste por tonelada, una fábrica que abre, un proceso que pasa del laboratorio a la línea de producción. Cada artículo cita sus fuentes —a menudo anuncios industriales o publicaciones científicas que la prensa generalista no recoge— y distingue lo que ya funciona de lo que sigue siendo un prototipo. Es la materia del progreso, en sentido literal.
The study compares soy, carinata, palm, used cooking oil and beef tallow in one life-cycle framework.
The Brooklyn startup incorporated 99% of CO2 from gas with 50% CO2 purity.
The CERBERUZ team received $775,000 after winning both the prototype and digital twin tracks.
The total has nearly doubled since 2016 and now covers more than 7 million students.
ESPOL and Surrey researchers tested replacing natural aggregate at 10%, 20% and 30% in concrete mixes.
Teams from Harvard University, Harvard Medical School and Stanford modified Alteromonas macleodii, a widespread marine bacterium.
The Portuguese floating wind farm has been operating since 2020, 20 kilometers from Viana do Castelo.
A 5-nanometer chromium barrier protects aluminum from corrosive halide ions.
The cotton underwear stayed underground for two months as part of a nationwide citizen science project.
Fraunhofer IGB has built and tested a pilot superheated-steam spray dryer.
Jilin No. 2 is being deployed at CIMC’s offshore solar demonstration base in Yantai.
An Italian team laminated commercial 150-μm back-contact silicon cells between PET and EVA without glass.
AIST and its partners shifted microbes from removing nitrogen to retaining it as ammonium.
At two wind farms, warning sounds deterred eagles, hawks and vultures more than 50% of the time.
Artificial webs collected DNA from nearby cows, sheep and exotic birds.
Researchers at Stanford University are developing an electric plasma method for laboratory cement production.
Fuyao says the glass can supply ventilation, connectivity systems and dashcams.
At Mount Storm, a WVU pilot cleans acid mine drainage while capturing dissolved terbium and dysprosium.