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Cost Efficient Electrification: The Railway Industry Continues to Meet the Cost Challenge of Electrification Through Research

Research by the University of Sheffield, Furrer+Frey and Network Rail is helping to embed cost-efficient electrification in the UK’s rail network.

19 Nov 2020

Germans Want More Biofuels in Their Vehicles

65 percent of Germans have a fundamentally positive attitude towards biofuels. That was the outcome of a representative survey conducted by the Kantar market research institute on behalf of the biofuels industry.

18 Nov 2020

Major Boost for UK Robotics Sector as GE Renewable Energy and ORE Catapult Announce Winners of Offshore Wind Innovation Competition

Tethys Energy Services and Aerones have won a major competition to demonstrate a novel remote blade maintenance technique for offshore wind farms to one of the industry’s leading turbine manufacturers.

18 Nov 2020

Dow and Royal Umbrella, Leading Thai Rice Brand, Collaborate to Reduce Carbon Dioxide Emissions with Improved Packaging

Dow recently announced its collaboration with Royal Umbrella and Prepack, Thai leading flexible packaging producer under SCG Packaging (SCGP), to reduce carbon dioxide emissions by optimizing plastic resin used in rice bags as well as reducing energy use in production. The collaboration utilizes Dow's sustainable packaging solution INNATE(TM)and down-gauging technology. The new recyclable rice bags will be launched in 2021 in response to consumers' demand for environmental-friendly packaging and to address the partners' sustainability goals.

From Dow 18 Nov 2020

£20 Million Investment to Support Research on Tackling Plastic Pollution

An investment of £20 million will support interdisciplinary research that aims to improve understanding of the impacts of plastic pollution in developing countries.

18 Nov 2020

Pacific Project Aims to Find Effective, Long-Lasting Ways to Cut Plastic Pollution

Scientists aim to tackle plastic pollution in the Galapagos Islands and wider Eastern Pacific in a major project based on cooperation with local researchers and communities.

18 Nov 2020

Burning of Wood is More Climate Friendly than Coal or Natural Gas, Report Shows

ENERGY A new report from the University of Copenhagen shows that the burning of wood is significantly more climate friendly than coal and slightly more climate friendly than natural gas over the long run.

18 Nov 2020

Study Emphasizes the Need to Reduce Greenhouse Gases and Aerosols in Tandem

A new study notes that humans should decrease carbon dioxide and aerosol pollution at the time same to prevent the weakening of the ocean’s potential to maintain the planet cool.

18 Nov 2020

Solar Geoengineering May Fail to Prevent Catastrophic Warming in the Long Run

Seeding the air with aerosols might not prevent high concentrations of atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) from destabilizing low-lying clouds, which could lead to increased warming.

18 Nov 2020

CSIRO Signs New Agreement with US Partners for a Transformational Power Generation Technology

CSIRO, Australia’s national science agency, has signed an agreement with US-based GTI, a leader in the development and deployment of technology solutions to address energy and environmental challenges, to join a Joint Industry Program on the development of a supercritical CO2 (sCO2) power plant that could assist mining companies to reach large renewable energy targets.

18 Nov 2020

DTEK Kyiv Grids Connects Ukraine’s Largest Rooftop Solar Power System to Grid

DTEK Kyiv Grids has connected Ukraine’s largest commercial rooftop solar power system to the grid. The solar project, located in the neighborhood of Troyeshchyna, is the first of its kind in Kyiv. It consists of 1,200 solar panels mounted to the roof of a residential building, and covers an area of over 4’000 square meters with an output of 330 kW.

18 Nov 2020

New Swedish Technology to Support a Greener Aviation Recovery

Flying is like competition sailing: it is all about using good winds and avoiding unfavorable air currents.

From AVTECH AB 18 Nov 2020

Inverform™ – A New, Sustainable Paperboard Alternative to Plastic Food Trays

Iggesund Paperboard’s new InverformTM for ready-made food packaging trays ticks all the boxes for sustainability and performance.

From Holmen Iggesund 18 Nov 2020

dena Presents the Energy Efficiency Award to Four Projects

For the fourteenth time in succession, the Deutsche Energie-Agentur (dena) – the German Energy Agency – presented its Energy Efficiency Award to innovative energy efficiency projects in the private and public sector. The awards in four categories were presented as part of the dena Energy Transition Congress, which was held digitally for the first time this year due to the coronavirus pandemic. Patron of the award, which is endowed with a total of EUR 30,000, is the Federal Minister for Economic Affairs and Energy Peter Altmaier.

18 Nov 2020

Not so Fast: Modeling Shows Ecosystems Can Survive Environmental Change — Up to a Point

A Skoltech researcher and her colleagues from Canada and Chile experimented with mathematical evolutionary models to explore how well ecosystems can keep up with changing environmental conditions — a question all too relevant in our current ecological situation.

18 Nov 2020