In the battle against the massive, growing issue of plastic pollution, scientists from IBM recently announced a new plastics recycling system they called VolCat, short for volatile catalyst. The system is based on a catalytic chemical reactor that converts waste PET into a plastics raw material.
To meet the world's growing energy demands and circumvent the worst effects of climate change, International Energy Agency (IEA) states that low-carbon electricity generation such as nuclear power must increase from 36% to 85%.
By Kerry Taylor-Smith
18 May 2020
Pay-as-you-go solar technology has become Africa’s most promising approach to handling the continent’s growing energy problems.
African Clean Energy is providing an off-grid energy solution enabling decentralized access to clean energy in rural households.
The UK-based technology company Prismatic Ltd has announced the successful first flight of a solar-powered High Altitude, Long Endurance Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (HALE UAV) called the PHASA-35.
By Sally Robertson
7 May 2020
Microbial fuel cells (MFCs) engage microbial catabolic activities to produce electricity from a wide range of organic waste. This article looks at the recent development in microbial fuel cells.
By Dr. Priyom Bose
6 May 2020
Biogas arises from a process known as anaerobic digestion, which relies on microorganisms to degrade the organic compounds present with these biodegradable materials into simple substances that make up biogas.
By Benedette Cuffari
5 May 2020
Climate change, urbanization and rapid growth in the global population have increased reliance on groundwater.
By Dr. Priyom Bose
4 May 2020
French waste management company Suez has partnered with Australian food reselling platform Yume to establish a strategy for tackling commercial food waste.
Remote sensing technologies could help monitor penguins and help protect them from extinction by offering a way to monitor the species more closely, including measuring how prediction models are performing, and when and which colonies around Antarctica are likely to survive for the longest.
By Kerry Taylor-Smith
30 Apr 2020