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Brookfield Renewable Energy Partners to Acquire Alcoa’s Tapoco Hydroelectric Project

News - 3 Jul 2012

Alcoa, a leading manufacturer of alumina, fabricated aluminum and primary aluminum has agreed to sell its 351-MW Tapoco Hydroelectric Project to Brookfield Renewable Energy Partners. Brookfield...

Catalytic Converters on Cars Now Better Understood

News - 31 May 2009

The chemical mechanism that occurs on the surface of an automotive catalytic converter has been deciphered thanks to an observation speed record established by Frédéric Thibault-Strarzyk at...

German Researchers to Develop Nanowires for Hybrid Solar Cells Using New Sputtering Tool

News - 3 Jul 2008

Ludwig-Maximilians University (LMU) has ordered an advanced sputtering tool from Surrey NanoSystems, to support fundamental research into the fabrication of hybrid solar cells. The tool will...

Rio Tinto Uses Clean Renewable Energy for Aluminium Production

News - 30 Jan 2008

Rio Tinto Alcan has announced a £45 (US$90) million investment in the modernisation of its Lochaber plant, in Scotland. The modernisation project will see new hydroelectric turbo-generators...

AMT II and Adherent Enter Agreement to Market Carbon Fiber Waste Recycling Technologies

News - 8 Nov 2013

AMTII Corporation and Adherent Technologies, Inc. (ATI) announced today their agreement in principle to partner in order to bring Adherent's Recycling of Carbon Fiber waste and Reactive Fiber...

First-of-its-Kind Engineered Wetlands Wastewater Management System in Saudi Arabia

News - 29 May 2013

Alcoa and The Saudi Arabian Mining Company (Ma’aden) today announced completion of a first-of-its-kind engineered wetlands wastewater management system in Saudi Arabia at the Ma’aden-Alcoa...

WWF Fails Performance of Australian Carbon Emitters

News - 8 Sep 2008

Some major Australian power generators are doing next to nothing to prepare for a low-carbon future, according to a new report from WWF-Australia. The 2008 WWF-Australia Power Generators Carbon...

Windship Technology Powers First True Zero Emission Ship Design with High Performance Rig Technology

News - 1 Mar 2021

Windship Technology, Britain’s leading True Zero Emission company for the shipping industry, can today confirm the findings from the world leading Wolfson Unit of the University of Southampton...

Alcoa and Bauer Enter Agreement to Commercialize Natural Engineered Wastewater Treatment Technology

News - 20 Dec 2013

Alcoa has entered into an agreement with Germany-based engineering and construction company, Bauer Resources GmbH, to commercialize Alcoa’s Natural Engineered Wastewater Treatment technology...

Sandia Researchers Move Single Atom to Provide Purer Water

News - 21 Jul 2009

By substituting a single atom in a molecule widely used to purify water, researchers at Sandia National Laboratories have created a far more effective decontaminant with a shelf life superior to...