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Study Reveals Climate was More Variable During the Last Inter-Glacial Period

According to a new research led by the University College London, century-scale climate variability was enhanced when the Earth was warmer during the Last Interglacial period (129-116 thousand years ago) compared to the present interglacial period (the last 11,700 years).

15 Oct 2018

INALUM Joins MIT Energy Initiative to Advance Development of Low-Carbon Energy Technologies

Indonesia's state-owned holding company PT Indonesia Asahan Aluminium, also known as INALUM, is joining the MIT Energy Initiative as a member company to support research that advances development of low-carbon energy technologies and explore ways to reduce the company's carbon footprint through MITEI's Low-Carbon Energy Center for Materials in Energy and Extreme Environments.

15 Oct 2018

Geoengineering Alone Will Not Slow Climate Change

The global countries still have to reduce their carbon dioxide emissions to meet the climate targets set in the Paris Agreement, and simply depending on tree planting and other alternative technological solutions, for example, geoengineering will not make a huge difference.

12 Oct 2018

MIT Report Charts Likely Global Environmental Changes in the 21st Century

In 2015 the Paris Agreement specified the need for its nearly 200 signatory nations to implement greenhouse gas emissions reduction policies consistent with keeping the increase in the global average temperature since preindustrial times to well below 2 degrees Celsius — and pursue efforts to further limit that increase to 1.5 C.

12 Oct 2018

Waste Canola Oil Becomes a Key to Improved Fertiliser

A new type of slow-release fertiliser that results in better plant health and less wasted nutrients has been invented at Flinders University by Dr Justin Chalker and his team in the Institute for NanoScale Science and Technology.

11 Oct 2018

Funding Secured for UK’s First Hydrogen Injection System on a Ferry

Innovate UK have granted £430,332 of funding to design and integrate a hydrogen diesel dual fuel injection system onboard a commercial ferry.

11 Oct 2018

Swedish Data Center Developer Ecodatacenter to Put the World’s First Carbon-Positive Data Center into Operation

With data centers expected to consume as much as 20 percent of the world’s energy within only a few years, the deployment of energy efficient data centers is crucial.

8 Oct 2018

DuPont Clean Technologies Wins “Best Refining Technology”

Nearly 150 of the downstream processing industry’s leading players gathered recently to find out, and celebrate, the winners of the 2018 Hydrocarbon Processing (HP) Awards.

From Elessent Clean Technologies Inc. 8 Oct 2018

MIT Students Provide Insight on the Future of Nuclear Energy in a Carbon-Constrained World

Student researchers lend voices, ideas for exploring nuclear energy’s potential to address climate change, and describe insights gained from the experience.

8 Oct 2018

Amarenco Becomes France's Number One in Rooftop Solar after Latest Tender Results

Amarenco, a leading European renewable energy IPP, has announced that it has become number one in the highly competitive 100kW-8MW rooftop solar segment in France, after winning 32MW in the latest CRE4.5 Buildings tender.

From Amarenco Solar Limited 5 Oct 2018

New Solar Flow Battery Could Help Transcend the Limitations of Electrical Grid

In Saudi Arabia and the United States, researchers have harnessed the abilities of a battery and a solar in a single device called "solar flow battery". This device is capable of soaking up sunlight and efficiently storing it as chemical energy for subsequent on-demand use.

28 Sep 2018

Sunny Sky Solar is Providing Solar Panels in Toowoomba, Cairns, and Brisbane City

Sunny Sky Solar has managed to reach to heights that very few solar companies have achieved in Australia through their undying focus on the provision of top-notch solutions at affordable rates. The company has developed extensive market coverage in Brisbane City where they are headquartered with their services also offered throughout Queensland.

From Sunny Sky Solar 27 Sep 2018

DSM and Starboard Collaboration Transforms Discarded Fishing Nets from Waste into High-End Surfboard Components

Royal DSM, a global science-based company active in Nutrition, Health and Sustainable Living, and Starboard, a world leading Watersports company offering Paddle, Surf, Windsurf and Kiteboards, announced that they are collecting and upcycling discarded fishing nets to create a material for consumer goods such as surfboard components.

26 Sep 2018

Imec Combines Different Solar Cells to Reach Efficiencies Above 30 Percent

Today, imec, the world-leading research and innovation hub in nanoelectronics, energy, and digital technology, unveiled its new tandem solar cell technologies, which pave the way to higher cell efficiencies of PV panels on roofs, as well as on vehicles or building-integrated applications such as solar cells in windows or facades.

From IMEC 26 Sep 2018

Perovskite/CIGS Tandem Cell with Record Efficiency of 24.6 Percent Paves the Way for Flexible Solar Cells and High-Efficiency Building-Integrated PV

Today at the EU PVSEC conference, imec, the world-leading research and innovation hub in nanoelectronics, energy and digital technologies, presents a thin-film tandem solar cell consisting of a top perovskite cell developed by imec within the partnerships of EnergyVille and Solliance, and a bottom CIGS cell from the Centre for Solar Energy and Hydrogen Research.

From IMEC 26 Sep 2018