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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

New Catalytic Reactor Recycles Greenhouse Gas to Produce Pure Liquid Fuel

An electrolyzer, which utilizes renewable electricity to synthesize pure liquid fuels, could be used to repurpose a common greenhouse gas in an efficient and eco-friendly manner.

4 Sep 2019

Advances in Turning Greenhouse Gas into Fuel

Researchers at Rice University, Texas, US, have developed a catalytic reactor capable of re-purposing common greenhouse gas to produce pure liquid fuels.

By David J. Cross 4 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

Around 2,000 New Amazon Fires Recorded Despite Burning Ban

New fires are searing through the Amazon forest at an alarming rate which is a cause for global concern.

By David J. Cross 2 Sep 2019

One-Third of UK Bird Species Affected by Climate Change

Over the past decade, the climate crisis has affected the number of bird species seen in and around the UK.

By David J. Cross 2 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

New Insight Regarding Antarctic Control of Global Climate

A discovery made by researchers challenges earlier beliefs of the relationship between the polar Southern Ocean, next to Antarctica, and the levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.

30 Aug 2019

WVU Researcher Sees Positive Implications of Climate Change

Climate change tends to either elicit end-of-the-world anxiety or brazen cynicism. Jason Hubbart, Director of Institute of Water Security and Science at West Virginia University, offers a more pinpointed approach.

28 Aug 2019

Protein Batteries for Environmentally Friendly and Safer Energy Storage

Proteins are essential for building muscle, but their building blocks may also help in creating sustainable organic batteries that could one day be a feasible substitute for conventional lithium-ion batteries, without their environmental and safety issues.

27 Aug 2019