Jake Richardson

1 day ago | cleantechnica.com | Jake Richardson

Internal combustion engine and diesel engine vehicles use motor oil, and unfortunately, many such vehicles leak their oil onto driveways, garage floors, roads, highways, interstates, and parking lots. They can also leak oil into dirt roads, gravel roads, and off-road. One city in Washington, Kirkland, estimates that every year about 7 million quarts of leaked motor oil and other petroleum products wind up in Puget Sound.

2 days ago | biorxiv.org | Marcelo Batista |Jake Richardson |Michael Webster |Dmitry Ghilarov

AbstractUnderstanding the molecular basis of regulated nitrogen (N2) fixation is essential for engineering N2-fixing bacteria that fulfill the demand of crop plants for fixed nitrogen, reducing our reliance on synthetic nitrogen fertilizers. In Azotobacter vinelandii and many other members of Proteobacteria, the two-component system NifL-NifA controls the expression of nif genes that encode the nitrogen fixation machinery.

2 days ago | cleantechnica.com | Jake Richardson

Last Updated on: 4th June 2025, 11:06 am When looking on the ClimateBase website, I noticed a company named Heart Aerospace listed there. The aviation company is located in California and Sweden and does a good job of explaining what it does immediately on its website’s homepage: electrifying regional air travel. Aviation is one of the primary contributors to climate change, so reducing its carbon footprint is imperative. Air pollution generated at airports can also harm human health.

3 days ago | cleantechnica.com | Jake Richardson

Be.EV recently announced it will invest £20 million to install over 200 ultra-rapid EV charging bays in the United Kingdom. The new chargers will be installed at 22 Schroders Capital-managed properties. Schroders Capital manages private market investments for its clients and owns real estate properties, including commercial real estate. The new chargers will be located at retail sites with stores such as IKEA, Starbucks, Marks & Spencer, etc., and some leisure parks.

4 days ago | marinij.com | Jake Richardson

June 62025 Emmanuel Golf Classic Scholarship Fundraiser: A fundraiser to support students and enjoy a day on the course. 7:30 a.m. to noon, Los Lagos Golf Course, 2995 Tuers Road, San Jose. bit.ly/43p3QbQMaya Gurantz — the Plague Archives: A site-specific installation comprising multiple video projections; a dense collection of archival material on the social, cultural and political histories of epidemics and outbreaks; and an interactive tracing board.