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Fortescue Welcomes the Arrival of Australia’s First Prototype Battery System Designed for a Zero Emission Battery Electric Mining Haul Truck

Fortescue’s decarbonisation journey has taken a major step forward today, with WAE Technologies (WAE) completing and delivering to Australia the largest battery of its kind, ready to be installed in a prototype zero-emission battery electric mining haul truck that Fortescue it is developing with Liebherr.

16 Jan 2023

Solar-Driven Technology Converts Plastic Into Fuel

Plastics pose one of the largest environmental problems of the present day, and developing new methods to recycle or reuse this ubiquitous material is considered imperative to preserve both the natural world and the heal...

13 Jan 2023

New Squeezable Glass Bottles Offer Solution to Plastic Pollution

Clowd Foundry LLC, an innovative design firm, has announced its patent-pending technology for squeezable glass and hybrid bottles.

13 Jan 2023

Groundbreaking Catalyst Technology Reduces the Cost of Manufacturing Renewable Chemicals

A team led by University of Minnesota Twin Cities researchers has invented a groundbreaking new catalyst technology that converts renewable materials like trees and corn to the key chemicals, acrylic acid, and acrylates used in paints, coatings, and superabsorbent polymers.

12 Jan 2023

A Versatile Photoelectrochemical Platform for CO2 Conversion

Scientists, utilizing the energy from the Sun, devised a system that transforms plastic waste and greenhouse gases into sustainable fuels and other valuable products.

10 Jan 2023

New Method Converts Plastic Waste into Useful Char

University of California, Riverside, scientists have moved a step closer to finding a use for the hundreds of millions of tons of plastic waste produced every year that often winds up clogging streams and rivers and polluting our oceans.

10 Jan 2023

Testing the Potential of Space-Based Solar Power

Researchers at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) have been working on testing and unlocking the potential of space-based solar power (SBSP) on the recently launched Caltech Space Solar Power Project (SSPP).

9 Jan 2023

Australian Government's Chubb ACCU Review Announced Today Gives Those in Restoration Economy Confidence to Grow, says Nativ Carbon

Western Australian company Nativ Carbon – which has just undertaken one of the biggest ever environmental reforestation projects to date for ACCUs in Western Australia – has welcomed the findings of an Australian Government’s review on Australian Carbon Credit Units (ACCUs) announced today.

9 Jan 2023

Valmet to Convert Two Coal-Fired Boilers to Enable Biomass Combustion for Veolia Group’s Subsidiary in Hungary

Valmet will deliver boiler conversions and emission reduction solutions for Veolia Group’s Hungarian subsidiary CHP-Invest Kft at its power plant in Oroszlány, Hungary.

From Valmet 9 Jan 2023

Product Attachment can Unintentionally Encourage Less Sustainable Behavior

Custom sneakers, vintage dishware, a limited-edition car – each is an example of a product owners may regard as special and irreplaceable, fostering strong feelings of attachment.

6 Jan 2023