The artist, educator, museum professional and designer of one of Champaign’s most venerable murals will be honored Friday at the I Hotel, one of four recipients of distinguished alumni awards
My local environmental friends and I do not object to innovations in nuclear technology. However, any new nuclear technology should be thoroughly tested and have a lengthy track record of
Aman Mehta, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign junior in mechanical engineering and science, pushes green energy forward through his research and work at the Cache Energy startup. A dark-haired young man with eyes full of passion, Mehta is an international student born in Mumbai, India. A deforestation case in his home city inspired him to pursue.
An energy storage project based on Compressed Natural Gas Energy Storage (CNGES) technology is being studied at the Abbott Power Plant in Illinois. This article presents an overview of CNGES technology
Climate change is an existential threat to humanity. We must use every tool at our disposal to halt and reverse the already damaging impacts of this crisis. The University of Illinois recognizes this, and also recognizes its role in reducing carbon emissions. In 2015, the Illinois Institute for Sustainability, Energy, and Environment (iSEE) published its second version of the Illinois Climate Action Plan (iCAP). This plan set a goal to make the U of I carbon neutral by 2050, which includes every scope of emissions; from energy production to the transportation faculty and staff use to get to work. Carbon neutrality is both an ambitious and admirable goal, but it is not easy (otherwise, there would be no climate crisis). U of I is uniquely challenging because most of the campus buildings are heated through district heating, by using steam directly from the campus power plant, Abbott. Generating steam is quite easy for a thermal plant, such as coal, natural gas, or even nuclear. But it