TeardownOctober 6, 2026
A MOF can catch metals. Can it keep working in a treatment column?
High batch adsorption capacity is a starting point, not a specification for continuous wastewater treatment or rare-earth products.
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Explainers, teardowns, and myth-busting on waste management systems and green engineering.
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TeardownAugust 28, 2026
99.9% pure CO2 from sewage sludge — reading Rhinoflux's proof-of-concept closely
A Kyoto University spinout says its aqueous chemical looping process turns wet sewage sludge into power at 2–4× biomass efficiency with near-pure CO2 capture. The target problem is real. The disclosed evidence is a feasibility study and a set of conditional verbs.
TeardownAugust 23, 2026
SiTration and BHP want to mine copper out of mine wastewater
A one-month pilot at a historic Arizona copper site aims to plate saleable copper out of legacy mine water using filtration plus electro-extraction. The bench numbers are strong. The scale numbers do not exist yet.
TeardownAugust 1, 2026
Reading the BITS Pilani Wastewater Claim Line by Line
Six nines of disinfection, 90% organics removal, reusable water and biogas — announced without an energy balance, a cost figure, or a recovery yield. A teardown of what the numbers do and do not say.