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Vegetation and Land Use are Critical in Water Retention and Runoff

The type of vegetation and land use has a vital role to play in water retention and runoff. Along with scientists from the U.S. and the UK, researchers from the Leibniz-Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries (IGB) have created a mathematical model that can reflect the complicated interplays between soil, vegetation, and water regimes.

12 Sep 2019

Sulzer Schmid and NNAISENSE Join Forces to Develop Wind Industry’s Most Advanced AI Engine for Automated Blade Damage Detection

Sulzer Schmid, a Swiss company pioneering UAV technology for rotor blade inspections, and NNAISENSE, a world leading artificial intelligence specialist, have partnered to develop an artificial intelligence engine to automatically detect rotor blade damages on wind turbine.

From NNAISENSE 5 Sep 2019

Researchers Aim to Make More Plastics Recyclable

So far, it has been nothing but the wishful thinking of numerous plastics recyclers that recyclability is taken into consideration directly from the very start of a product’s life cycle, at the design stage of a product. A new project is aiming to make this dream a reality.

4 Sep 2019

Sustainable Synthesis of Organic UV Filters from Cashew Nut Shell Liquid

Scientists at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU) in Germany, in association with colleagues from the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg in South Africa and the University of Dar-es-Salaam in Tanzania, were successful in using cashew nut shell liquid (CNSL) as a replacement for petroleum in organic synthesis.

2 Sep 2019