The results of the national elections on Tuesday and subsequent advance of Republican politicians will make it even more difficult for the U.S. clean energy industry over the coming years. However with the Governor of Massachusetts Deval Patrick being re-elected the state should not have a problem with its growing cleantech cluster.
California voted for clean energy in the largest public referendum in history on climate and clean energy policy. Until a day ago the airwaves were full of political slogans and ads designed to sway voters for this crucial contest.
Bayer MaterialScience is working on the development of polyurethane nanofoams that could lead to a quantum leap in thermal insulation performance several years down the road. The company is focusing its efforts on microemulsions, which react under supercritical conditions (Principle of Supercritical Microemulsion Expansion, POSME) to form polyurethane rigid foams.
Starting in October 2010, Dr. Jennifer Strunk will lead a new junior research group in the Laboratory of Industrial Chemistry at Ruhr University Bochum lead by Prof. Dr. Martin Muhler with a 5-year, 1.18 million Euro research grant from the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF).
An unusual substance known as “dry water,” which resembles powdered sugar, could provide a new way to absorb and store carbon dioxide, the major greenhouse gas that contributes to global warming, scientists reported at the 240th National Meeting of the American Chemical Society.
Bayer Technology Services (BTS), Bayer MaterialScience, RWE and Siemens, in association with ten partners from universities and the scientific world, are joining forces to research new methods of utilizing carbon dioxide using renewable energies.
‘From research to reality’ is the theme of the 10th Greenhouse Gas Technologies Control Conference (GHGT-10), which will be held in Amsterdam from September 19 - 23. More than 1500 scientists will discuss barriers to and opportunities for implementing carbon capture and storage (CCS).
The ThyssenKrupp Group's InCar project won second prize at this year's ÖkoGlobe (EcoGlobe) awards.
The Greenland and West Antarctic ice caps are melting at half the speed previously predicted. This finding has emerged from research by a joint US/Dutch team from the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Delft University of Technology (TU Delft, The Netherlands) and SRON Netherlands Institute for Space Research.
Global CO2 emissions decreased in 2009, the first decrease recorded this decade. However, in China and India the emissions increased by 9 and 6 percent.
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