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My wife has been out all day so I've been left to my own devices. I took the dog on the long walk after breakfast, then had lunch and...

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Chatham Islands building materials rusting 50 times faster than rest of NZ

Now, reforestation work was underway, and pests needed to be kept out. “You haven’t got anything if you…
#NewsBeep #News #Headlines #50 #building #chatham #faster #green #islands #kate #Materials #NewZealand #NZ #of #rest #rusting #than #times
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Rust Reclaims Mining Equipment

Description: The mining equipment in Death Valley National Park often sits where it last was used with time doing its part to erode man's efforts.

Location: Death Valley National Park, California, USA, North America

Photograph copyright P

https://thecareyadventures.com/blog/rust-reclaims-mining-equipment/

#California #NorthAmerica #PhotoOfTheDay #USA #California #erosion #mining #NationalPark #PhotoOfTheDay #rust #rusting #rusty #travel #USA

Rust Reclaims Mining Equipment

Description: The mining equipment in Death Valley National Park often sits where it last was used with time doing its part to erode man's efforts. Location: Death Valley National Park, California, USA, North America Photograph copyright Peter West Carey. All rights reserved.

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Abandoned Carousel Building by Eris And AI

Abandoned Carousel Building by Eris And AI

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Rusted Propeller in Sunset

An old propeller rusts in the sunset on an Alaska seashore

"A total #CarbonFree #grid is getting easier and easier to imagine. It's just a question of whether we can get there in time."

Storing #energy generated by #renewable #technologies like #solar, #wind, and #water is a problem that requires new types of #batteries to allow for a stable grid.

For example, #iron #rusting #chemistry is one potential Everything, Everywhere, All at Once #ClimateChange mitigation #EnergyStorage and discharge solution I'd never heard of before.

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The Huge, Weird Batteries of the Future

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Anaerobic #microbial iron corrosion due to conductive pili https://phys.org/news/2023-08-anaerobic-microbial-iron-corrosion-due.html

Accelerated Microbial Corrosion by #Magnetite and Electrically Conductive Pili through Direct Fe0-to-Microbe Electron Transfer https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/anie.202309005

"#Iron is well-known for #rusting... Some #bacteria are able to decompose Fe anaerobically in a process referred to as #electrobiocorrosion. The sediment-dwelling #bacterium #Geobacter sulfurreducens uses electrically conductive #protein threads for this purpose"

Anaerobic microbial iron corrosion due to conductive pili

Iron is well-known for rusting, but this doesn't just happen on contact with oxygen and water. Some bacteria are also able to able to decompose iron anaerobically in a process referred to as electrobiocorrosion.

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