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New Technology Promises a Silver Lining for Port Pirie: Cleaning up Marine Environment and Recovering Valuable Metals Worth Millions

New Australian technology could help recover up to $40 million worth of valuable metals from Port Pirie’s contaminated sites and help restore the local marine environment.

2 May 2024

Pioneering Solutions for Round-the-Clock Renewable Energy

As remarkable as the rise of solar and wind farms has been over the last 20 years, achieving complete decarbonization is going to require a host of complementary technologies.

30 Apr 2024

Argonne Researchers Launches Local Fuel Savings Calculator

The US Department of Energy’s (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory has developed a new tool that allows drivers to estimate, at the ZIP code level, how much they would save on fuel costs by driving a plug-in hybrid (PHEV) or a battery electric vehicle (BEV).

30 Apr 2024

Transforming CO2 into Sustainable Aviation Fuel

A research group led by Professor Fei Wei and Chenxi Zhang at Tsinghua University has published a perspective study in the journal Carbon Future.

30 Apr 2024

Lhyfe and Swiss Steel Group Subsidiary Ugitech Sign a MoU to Decarbonise the Steelmaker’s Operations Using Green Hydrogen

Lhyfe one of the world’s pioneers in the production of green and renewable hydrogen, and Ugitech, a subsidiary of Swiss Steel Group, the world leader in long stainless steel products, have announced the signing of a memorandum of understanding for the creation of a green hydrogen production unit at Ugitech’s Ugine site (Savoie, France), to decarbonise part of the steelmaker’s industrial operations and help decarbonise local mobility.

30 Apr 2024

Sensing a Solar Revolution for Underperforming Panels

Australia may proudly boast it has the highest per capita deployment of rooftop solar in the world, but underperforming panels are costing consumers.

30 Apr 2024

Midsummer's Mega Factory for the Production of Thin Film Solar Cells Will Be Located in Flen

The municipality of Flen in central Sweden has been chosen by Swedish manufacturer of thin-film solar cells Midsummer as the location for its new 200 MW mega factory for the production of thin film solar cells for the European market.

From Midsummer AB 30 Apr 2024

Global Challenge Seeks Innovative Ways to Manage Emergencies On Full-Scale Floating Offshore Wind Turbines

Norwegian Offshore Wind (NOW) has launched a new crowdsourcing campaign with innovation scale-up Wazoku, aiming to capture new ways to manage emergencies on full-scale floating offshore wind turbines.

From Norwegian Offshore Wind 30 Apr 2024

Reusing Sewage Sludge Ash for Phosphorus Fertilizer

Chemical engineers from Hokkaido University's Center for Advanced Research of Energy and Materials have developed a technique to recover phosphorous from sewage sludge by heat treatment and chemical treatment, which may help with the issue of phosphorus ores' declining supply.

29 Apr 2024

Understanding Climate Sensitivity: Research Offers Insight Into Future Warming Projections

A detailed reconstruction of climate during the most recent ice age, when a large swath of North America was covered in ice, provides information on the relationship between CO2 and global temperature. Results show that while most future warming estimates remain unchanged, the absolute worst-case scenario is unlikely.

29 Apr 2024

Carus LLC Selects Picarro as Technology Partner for Ethylene Oxide Emissions Monitoring and Abatement

Peru, IL and Santa Clara, CA — October 24, 2023 — Carus, a global leader in the development and manufacturing of environmental solutions, including its benchmark CARULITE® catalyst for the dest...

From Picarro 29 Apr 2024

Telstar and Picarro Alliance Strengthens Development of EtO sterilization Plants Integrating Emissions Control Technology

Terassa, Catalonia, Spain and Santa Clara, Calif., United States – April 21, 2023 – Telstar and Picarro have entered into an alliance to strengthen the development of EtO sterilization plants i...

From Picarro 29 Apr 2024

Land Use Change Blamed for Up to 11 % Global Biodiversity Decline

A comprehensive multi-model study published in Science, led by the German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) and the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg (MLU), reveals that global biodiversity decreased by 2% to 11% solely due to land-use changes in the 20th century.

26 Apr 2024

Strengthening Frameworks for Corporate Decarbonization

Recent research published in Science by an international team led by Utrecht University, which includes Imperial College London, asserts that prioritizing emissions reduction targets creates a disadvantage for emerging green companies.

26 Apr 2024

CARBIOS Celebrates the Groundbreaking of Its Pet Biorecycling Plant, a World First, With Its Partners

CARBIOS (Euronext Growth Paris: ALCRB), a pioneer in the development and industrialization of biological technologies to reinvent the life cycle of plastic and textiles, today celebrated the groundbreaking ceremony for the world's first PET biorecycling plant in the presence of representatives of local authorities, partner brands and industrial partners who all make up CARBIOS’ ecosystem.

From CARBIOS 26 Apr 2024