Halving Emissions by 2030 can Keep 1.5°C Within Reach. Researchers from the University of Leeds have worked with hundreds of experts from across the world to deliver the latest Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report , which assesses the methods for reducing emissions and...
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Treated Plastic Waste Good at Grabbing Carbon Dioxide. What seems like a win-win for a pair of pressing environmental problems describes a Rice University lab’s newly discovered chemical technique to turn waste plastic into an effective carbon dioxide (CO2) sorbent for industry. Rice chemist...
New Polymer Membrane Tech Improves Efficiency of Carbon Dioxide Capture. Researchers at North Carolina State University have developed a new membrane technology that allows for more efficient removal of carbon dioxide (CO2) from mixed gases, such as emissions from power plants. Membranes are...
New Adaptable Smart Window Coating Could Help Heat or Cool a Home and Save Energy. Researchers at the University of Oxford have collaborated with industry experts to develop an adaptable smart window technology that could reduce the energy usage of an average home by up to a third. The new...
Green Aerospace Tech to Receive Record UK Government Funding. The UK’s aerospace technology research programme, the Aerospace Technology Institute (ATI), is to receive record levels of government funding, Industry Minister Lee Rowley confirmed on Tuesday 29 March 2022, driving forward the...
Biomason Raises $65 Million Series C Round to Scale Biocement® Technology. U.S. based start-up Biomason recently announced a $65M funding round led by 2150 with participation from Celesta Capital, Hartree Partners, and others, including current shareholders Novo Holdings and Martin Marietta...
New, Nature-inspired Concepts for Turning Carbon Dioxide into Clean Fuels. Researchers from the University of Cambridge have previously shown that biological catalysts, or enzymes, can produce fuels cleanly using renewable energy sources, but at low efficiency. Their latest research has...
Upcycling Plastic Waste into More Valuable Materials Could Make Recycling Pay for Itself. A new and simple method for upcycling polycarbonate plastic waste at room temperature has been developed by a team of researchers at the Centre for Sustainable and Circular Technologies (CSCT) at the...
CEMEX and Synhelion Achieve Breakthrough in Cement Production with Solar Energy. CEMEX, S.A.B. de C.V. (“CEMEX”) and Synhelion announced the successful production of the world’s first solar clinker, the key component of cement, a significant step towards developing fully solar-driven cement...
Smashing it in Sustainable Ceramics. Ceramic industry producers now need to become carbon neutral by 2050 and still have a lot to do, but with technology like heat exchangers on the horizon, that’s looking like a more realistic goal. Closeted away in the Northern Italian town of Pavullo, Atlas...