Our environment is changing - global warming, population growth and lifestyle changes will all impact the future of the environment. In a bid to better understand and anticipate plausible futures and associated environmental impacts, Defra and ten partners from across UK government have invested £1.8million in a new Centre for Environmental Risks and Futures (CERF) at Cranfield University.
The energy of amorphous silicon - an essential material for the new generation of photovoltaic panels and for flat panel displays - is 50% lower than the value so far assigned to it.
Bayer MaterialScience LLC’s EcoCommercial Building (ECB) Conference Center is a sparkling example for promoting Pennsylvania’s clean-energy economy.
A new report titled, Renewable Fuel Standard: Potential Economic and Environmental Effects of US Biofuel Policy,” on biofuels prepared and published by the National Research Council, questions several issues that need urgent attention.
By Dr. Cameron Chai
27 Oct 2011
Viral Genetics’s subsidiary, VG Energy has announced that its Chief Scientist Dr. M. Karen Newell Rogers has delivered a keynote presentation at the NanoEnergy Summit conducted by the Colorado School of Mines, the National Renewable Energy Lab of the U.S. Department of Energy and the biofuels industry.
By Dr. Cameron Chai
27 Oct 2011
LANXESS, a Germany-based specialty chemicals business, has declared the formation of a strategic partnership with BioAmber, a Minneapolis, USA-based company, for the manufacture of phthalate-free plasticizers from biomaterials based on succinic acid from the year 2012.
By Dr. Cameron Chai
27 Oct 2011
KONE, a globally known escalator and elevator company, has been nominated as one among the 26 companies that figured in the Nordic Carbon Disclosure Leadership Index of Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP).
By Dr. Cameron Chai
27 Oct 2011
Bayer MaterialScience is meeting the challenges of increasing urbanization with cross-industry concepts for sustainable urban development.
Australian renewable energy innovation continues to lead the way with the launch of the worlds’ quietest wind turbine, released to market this week.
Texas Instruments Incorporated (TI) (NYSE:TXN) today introduced its next generation of power management integrated circuits (ICs) for energy harvesting.
Camco, a global developer of clean energy solutions and projects to reduce greenhouse gas emissions has been crowned “Sustainable Consultancy of the Year” for its work in the sustainable housing sector.
Taking a cue from Mother Nature, researchers at the Department of Energy’s BioEnergy Science Center have undertaken a first-of-its-kind study of a naturally occurring phenomenon in trees to spur the development of more efficient bioenergy crops.
Sandia National Laboratories has reduced its water use by 30 percent since 2008 and its energy intensity by more than 8 percent since 2005 in nationally recognized efforts to integrate sustainable planning and design into its operations and facilities.
Organic solar cells have the potential to convert sunlight into electrical energy in an economical and environmentally friendly fashion. The challenge is that they still work less efficiently than inorganic semiconductors. Ultrafast measurements on hybrid cells now reveal a route to double their efficiency.
The president of the Murcia Community, Ramón Luis Valcárcel, and Klaus Gehrlicher, founder and CEO of the German photovoltaic company Gehrlicher Solar AG, met on October 20th to announce major solar power investments within the next five years.