energy
Orbital Marine Power, the Scottish developer of the world's leading floating tidal turbine technology, has successfully launched Orbital O2, a 2 MW turbine that harnesses river and tidal currents. O2 was launched yesterday in Dundee Harbour, transferring it from the…
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The aim of engineers at the University of Glasgow in Scotland was to create more sustainable and efficient power storage systems. This is the idea behind a new 3D-printed recyclable battery whose raw materials derive from vegetable starch. In order…
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Today is Global Recycling Day, established in 2018 by the Global Recycling Foundation to highlight the fact that sorting waste correctly gives it a new lease of life, helps to avoid wasting resources and is one of the most important…
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The new energy label will come into force as from 1 March 2021: it will include some changes required to solve some previous critical issues. The energy efficiency of products has continued to improve over the years, so more and…
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The eleventh assembly of the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) begins today. Up until 21 January, the assembly will bring together virtually (for obvious reasons it will be conducted in strictly digital mode) over 2000 participants, including heads of state,…
energy
2020 was the year of pop-up bike lanes, that is the bike lanes that rapidly popped up due to the change in urban mobility following the Covid-19 emergency. The post lockdown period in Italy was in fact characterised by an…
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A unique experimental project is being launched in Scotland: H100 Fife, the first green hydrogen-fuelled home heating project, will be constructed by the SNG energy company in Fife, an administrative area overlooking the North Sea. From the end of 2022,…
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Floating wind turbines will be installed in the Strait of Sicily thanks to a maxi project called MeDWos (acronym for Mediterranean wind off shore), involving the construction of Italy's first offshore wind farm by Renexia, a Toto Group company. On…
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Researchers at the Ames Laboratory of the U.S. Department of Energy have discovered how to bring lignin from the Kraft process, an industrial method of chemical extraction of cellulose from wood, back into the production cycle. This is an industrial…