Source: inhabitat.com Published: August 1, 2017 By Jasmin Malik Chua Don’t toss your bagel wrapper in the trash just yet; scientists at Queen’s University Belfast in Northern Ireland say they have discovered a way to turn used aluminum foil into a catalyst to create...
Source: km.kongsberg.com Published: April 5, 2016 The Norwegian Ministry of Trade and Fisheries has approved Norway’s first development concession enabling Ocean Farming AS, supported by Kongsberg Maritime AS, to build the world’s first automated...
Source: boston.com Published: July 29, 2016 Making food more sustainable and helping farmers turn a profit are two of Indigo’s main goals. –Reuters Indigo is using microbes to make super healthy, hardy crops. By Justine Hofherr, Staff Writer Tyler McClendon,...
Source: independent.co.uk Published: October 6, 2016 The kite is flown in a figure-of-eight pattern with the tether driving a turbine as it rises Kite Power Solutions Ltd 2015 Ian Johnston One of the world’s first commercial-scale, kite-driven powerstations is set to...
Source: technologyreview.com Published: May 10, 2016 By Ryan Bradley Startup Hyperloop Technologies has started shooting magnetically levitated capsules along a track in Las Vegas to show off a radical idea for the future of freight and mass transit. The tube is out...
Source: powermag.com Published: October 22, 2015 By Aaron Larson The ETH spin-off company Climeworks AG has announced plans to construct and operate an industrial scale CO2 capture plant to be operational by mid-2016. The Oct. 21 announcement said the plant in Hinwil...
Source: technologyreview.com Published: June 6, 2016 by Peter Fairley Carbon dioxide emissions must decrease to nearly zero by 2040 if global warming by the end of this century is to be held to 2 °C. But we may well miss that target. A pilot plant started up last fall...
Source: treehugger.com Published: June 22, 2017 CC BY 2.0 Nick Saltmarsh By Megan Treacy A new technique for turning food waste into a source of energy uses a two step process that extracts all of the energy from the waste and does so quickly. Researchers at Cornell...
Source: huffingtonpost.com Published: March 27, 2017 Wastewater is no longer waste as innovation and holistic thinking enables water reuse and resource recovery. Jens-Peter Saul, Contributor CEO This piece is co-written by Janet Egli, Global Service Line Leader,...