The Washington State Algae Alliance, comprising bioscience firm Targeted Growth, Inc. (TGI), Inventure Chemical (Inventure) and Washington State University (WSU), will benefit from $2 million in funding through WSU as part of the 2010 Senate Energy and Water Development appropriations bill.
US Senator Patty Murray (D-WA) was instrumental in securing [...]
PSA Peugeot Citroën is presenting a demonstrator equipped with the FiSyPAC (Fiabilisation système pile à combustible) hydrogen fuel cell range extender system at the “Toute la lumière sur l’hydrogène énergie” show in Lyon, France, [...]
Nissan and the City of San Francisco, on behalf of the Bay Area EV Corridor program, are working to advance zero-emission mobility by promoting the development of an electric vehicle (EV) charging network in the nine-county region. The cities of Oakland and San Jose, county governments in the Bay [...]
Volvo Technology Transfer’s subsidiary Terracastus Technologies has signed a Letter of Intent with Nordvästra Skånes Renhållningsbolag (NSR) to establish a joint company for upgrading biogas to a liquefied biogas (LBG). This upgrading venture will enable NSR’s plant in Helsingborg to reduce its annual carbon emissions by 40,000 tons, [...]
Valence Technology, Inc., an international developer of lithium iron magnesium phosphate energy storage solutions, has joined custom yacht builder Foundation Bénéteau Yachts, marine diesel engine company Volkswagen AG and Tier 1 driveline integrator ZF Marine to produce hybrid yachts.
Bénéteau, in association with ZF Marine, recently launched the new hybrid-electric [...]
Greentech Media reports that lithium-ion startup Imara has ceased operations, due to a lack of funding.
The battery company, which grew out of a project at SRI started almost a decade ago, has ceased operations. The company had experienced a delay in ramping up operations and could not line up [...]
A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that only 15% of adults favor raising the gas tax to help meet new transportation needs. Seventy-four percent (74%) oppose a gas tax hike.
Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood recently floated the idea of increasing the federal tax on gasoline as a way [...]
Researchers at the Technische Universität München (Technical University of Munich, TUM) are [...]
The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) issued its final endangerment finding on greenhouse gases (GHGs), concluding that greenhouse gases (GHGs) threaten the public health and welfare of the American people. EPA also finds that GHG emissions from on-road vehicles contribute to that threat.
EPA’s final findings respond to [...]
General Motors will invest $336 million in the Detroit-Hamtramck assembly plant to begin production of the Chevrolet Volt extended range electric vehicle in 2010. This brings GM’s combined Volt-related investments in Michigan to $700 million, covering eight facilities.
Detroit-Hamtramck will be the final assembly location for the Volt, using [...]
The US Department of Energy (DOE) will provide up to $100 million in funding for the second round of transformational energy research projects to be supported by the Department’s Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E).
ARPA-E’s first solicitation, announced earlier this year, was highly competitive and resulted in awarding $151 million [...]
by Jack Rosebro
Four greenhouse gas emissions trajectories: (1) business as usual, in gray; (2) current GHG reduction strategy, in red; (3) 450 ppm CO2/2 ºC warming, in black; and (4) 350 ppm CO2/1.5 ºC warming, (dotted line). Click to enlarge.The combined effect of the latest [...]
Allison Transmission has entered into a long-term business agreement with Delphi Automotive Systems, LLC. Under the terms of the agreement, Delphi will supply Allison Transmission with key hybrid drive system components and energy storage systems.
Delphi’s expertise in the manufacture and integration of electronic and hybrid system components for the [...]
Business Standard. India Hero Group subsidiary Hero Electric and Canada-based Electrovaya have signed a memorandum of understanding to form a joint venture for manufacturing lithium-ion batteries for electric vehicles. Details reportedly will be finalized within the next six weeks.
“We have today signed a MoU with Electrovaya for forming the [...]
On a weekend conference call, newly appointed GM Europe CEO Nick Reilly said that developing a mini offering for Opel “will be our top priority.” Reilly said that Opel will also need to continue with light commercial vehicles, as that is a “reasonable share” of its business.
Among his statements, [...]
Large-format lithium-ion battery maker Ener1, Inc. has received $20 million in fresh investment capital from ITOCHU Corporation, a long-term strategic partner of and current investor in Ener1. ITOCHU, which began its strategic relationship with Ener1 in 2003, purchased 3.2 million shares of common stock from Ener1 at a price [...]
Denmark’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs has organized a “Driving the Future” showcase during the COP 15 climate conference that begins today. Attendees needing a ride to the center of Copenhagen or journalist wanting to visit Danish cleantech solutions are free to use the COP15 showcase vehicles. One of those [...]
The Tazzari Group gave the ZERO electric vehicle its debut at the Bologna Motor Show (4-8 December). The city EV will go onsale in January 2010, via an international distribution network already present in all major European countries and the [...]
RWE Innogy has awarded Korean shipyard Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering Co., Ltd, (DSME) a contract to build a specialist ship for the construction of offshore wind farms. The contract also includes the option for two further identical construction ships. The value of the contract for each ship is [...]
China’s National Development and Reform Commission has approved the takeover of Australian coal company Felix Resources Ltd. by the state-owned Yanzhou Coal Mining Co Ltd, China’s fourth-largest coal producer. The multi-billion-dollar deal is the largest approved for a Chinese firm to buy an Australia raw material provider, according [...]
Writing in Qiushi, the official magazine of China’s Central Committee of the Communist Party, China Meteorological Administration (CMA) chief Zheng Guoguang has asserted that “it is more realistic and urgent” for China to adapt to the effects of climate change, rather than focus on mitigation, in its efforts to [...]
A team of researchers from the US and Germany has identified the protein LHCSR—an ancient light-harvesting protein—as the molecular photo-protective mechanism that acts to prevent green algae from absorbing too much sunlight during photosynthesis and suffering oxidation damage as a consequence.
While algae share with plants a reliance on photosynthesis, [...]
Writing in last Thursday’s West Virginia Metro News that “the time has come to have an open and honest dialogue about coal’s future in West Virginia”, US Senator Robert Byrd (D-West Virginia) issued a stinging rebuke of the coal industry’s recent political tactics, challenging the industry to transition away [...]
Nissan will reveal its new V-Platform technology and an all-new global compact car employing that technology at the Geneva Motor Show in March 2010. (Earlier post.) The V-Platform will be incorporated into at least two [...]
Toyota’s Prius maintained its top spot in Japan new passenger car sales in November for the seventh month in a row, posting 26,815 units, according to data from the Japan Automobile Dealers Association. Total passenger car sales for the month were 268,450 units.
Monthly sales [...]A side event organized by the International Nitrogen Initiative (INI) at the COP-15 United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen will highlight nitrogen’s role in climate change. The event organizers are calling for an immediate new assessment of nitrogen and climate which will identify innovative nitrogen management strategies for [...]
A study by researchers at Tsinghua University characterizing the unregulated emissions and combustion characteristics of low-content methanol-gasoline blends has concluded that while engine-out methanol and formaldehyde, as unregulated emissions, increased almost linearly with the methanol content in the fuel, the conventional three-way catalyst (TWC) has a high conversion efficiency for those [...]
Following discussions with Australia’s Prime Minister Kevin Rudd, France’s President Nicolas Sarkozy, Germany’s Chancellor Angela Merkel, and British Prime Minister Gordon Brown, US President Obama has altered his schedule and will attend the United Nations Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) Conference of Parties at Copenhagen on 18 December, the [...]
Cooler North American temperatures in 2008 resulted from a strong natural effect, and the overall warming trend that has been observed since 1970 is likely to resume, according to scientists at National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and CIRES (Cooperative Institute for Research Environmental Sciences), a cooperative institute of [...]
The US Department of Energy has selected three new projects with a total value of $3.18 billion to accelerate the development of advanced coal technologies with carbon capture and storage at commercial-scale. DOE’s investment of up to $979 million, including funds from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, will [...]
Smith Electric Vehicles received an order from J Sainsbury Plc for 51 Edison Electric vans. In June, Sainsbury announced it would buy another 50 electric vans, but did not specify the vendor at the time. (Earlier post.) Smith also won the fleet management contract, renewable annually, to maintain and [...]
Seambiotic, a developer and grower of marine microalgae for the nutraceuticals and biofuel industries using flue gas from electric power plants, has signed a license agreement and a joint venture agreement with Yantai Hairong Electricity Technology Ltd. and Penglai Weiyuan Science & Trading Ltd., companies associated with [...]
The US Department of Energy (DOE) has selected 19 integrated biorefinery projects to receive up to $564 million from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act to accelerate the construction and operation of pilot, demonstration, and commercial scale facilities. The projects selected are to produce advanced biofuels, biopower, and bioproducts [...]
A team scientists in France have [...]
Hyundai has updated its i30 range for 2010, and is making its Intelligent Stop & Go technology (ISG) (earlier post) available as an option on all i30 models with manual transmission, giving improvements in fuel economy of up to 10 percent on the hatchback and 14 percent on the [...]
The world’s leading heavy-duty vehicle and engine manufacturing companies are urging the close cooperation between policy makers in Europe, the United States and Japan to develop practical and effective fuel-efficiency measurement metrics, methodologies and regulations which would then be used all around the globe.
More than a dozen chief executives [...]
Total US greenhouse gas emissions in 2008 were 2.2% below the 2007 total, according to the just-released report by the US Energy Information Administration, Emissions of Greenhouse Gases in the United States 2008.
The [...]
Global accounting firm PricewaterhouseCoopers has analyzed carbon emissions from 2000 to 2008 and concluded that the world’s “carbon emissions budget”, or ability to emit carbon dioxide while still maintaining a “fair chance” of limiting average global temperatures to no more than 2 ºC (3.6 ºF), is about 10% off [...]
MIT researchers are proposing a novel electricity generation process using natural gas and solid oxide fuel cells at high electrical efficiency (74%HHV) with zero atmospheric emissions. A paper on their work is in press in the Journal of Power Sources.
The system suggested by Postdoctoral associate Thomas Adams and [...]
Omnitek Engineering Corporation has been granted a license from the government of Peru to perform diesel-to-natural-gas conversions in the country. The conversions will be performed under a Productores de Equipos Completos, PEC, (Complete Equipment Producers) license.
In March the company entered the Peruvian market with a multi-year contract to convert [...]
Mobility Choice, a new project of the Institute for Analysis of Global Security (IAGS), released its 10-point Blueprint for Mobility Choice outlining a market-oriented approach to expanding competition among transportation modes for the purpose of reducing oil’s strategic value.
Mobility Choice brings together Anne Korin and Gal Luft, co-directors of [...]
The US Environmental Protection Agency will award a $739,500 American Recovery and Reinvestment Act grant to Foss Maritime Company, Environmental Solutions Worldwide (ESW) and the Puget Sound Clean Air Agency (PSCAA), which are partnering to test a pollution-reducing device on two Foss tugs, the Garth Foss and the Lindsey [...]
The ECOresearch Network at MODUL University Vienna has released the latest edition of its interactive “Media Watch on Climate Change” to aggregate, track and visualize environmental Web coverage from news media sites, blogs, environmental organizations and the Fortune 1000 companies on climate change and related issues in the runup [...]
According to a new report from Pike Research, a rapidly growing global market for electrified vehicles—particularly plug-in hybrid and battery-electric vehicles—will create a Li-ion transportation battery industry with nearly $8 billion in sales [...]
Jakarta Globe. Sasol and the Indonesian government have signed a preliminary agreement to study the viability of developing a coal-to-liquids facility project in Indonesia, with estimated project cost of more than $10 billion. If the project goes forward, Sasol said it may produce approximately 80,000 barrels per day of [...]
Amyris Biotechnologies, Inc. intends to acquire a 40% stake in the Boa Vista mill, an ethanol-producing mill owned and operated by the São Martinho Group, one of the largest and most efficient sugar and ethanol producers in Brazil. The parties will work together to convert this mill to produce [...]
The Orcelle Fund, a grant-awarding body that provides seed capital for high-risk development projects for alternative maritime energy sources and energy-efficient technology, is soliciting projects for funding.
The Orcelle Fund was established in 2007 by Wallenius Wilhelmsen Logistics to provide seed capital for high-risk development projects. The Fund seeks [...]
Renault and Netherlands-based Athlon Car Lease International will cooperate in the joint delivery of Electric Vehicle (EV)-solutions to their mutual clients. Renault and Athlon have agreed to offer their customers innovative solutions developed jointly and involving the staff and networks of both partners. Athlon supports Renault’s EV project.
According to Renault research, [...]
BMW announced pricing for the 2011 ActiveHybrid 7 models (earlier post) during their North American debut at the Los Angeles International Auto Show. BMW’s first hybrid performance/luxury sedans will arrive in showrooms in Spring 2011 with a base MSRP of $103,125 including destination and handling for the ActiveHybrid [...]
Hyundai introduced its all-new 2011 Sonata at the Los Angeles Auto Show, marking the North American debut of the latest version of [...]
Ford unveiled the North American 2011 Ford Fiesta at the Los Angeles Auto Show. Fiesta—available in four- and five-door bodystyles—will offer North American buyers a new choice of 15 class-exclusive technologies and projected highway fuel economy of 40 mpg, besting [...]
American Honda unveiled its new design study concept for urban transport, the Personal-Neo Urban Transport (P-NUT), at the LA Auto Show. The ultra-compact car is conceived around a small footprint for maximum convenience in tight urban settings. The packaging concept integrates a center driving position configuration and a rear powertrain [...]
Quantum Fuel Systems Technologies Worldwide, Inc., has supplied hydrogen refueling technology and key hydrogen infrastructure equipment for the Shell Hydrogen public re-fueling station in New York City, located at the entrance to John F. Kennedy International Airport.
This station is part of a cluster of hydrogen refueling stations opened [...]
Under its newly-unveiled Genesis 2015 plan, the University of South Carolina will reduce CO2 emissions from its fleet of vehicles by 90% within five years.
The plan puts Carolina among the nation’s first campuses committed to reducing its dependence on petroleum by introducing alternative fuels to power the buses, cars, [...]
The 2010 Toyota Prius Plug-in Hybrid vehicle (PHV) made its North American debut at the Los Angeles Auto Show. Built specifically to support a global demonstration program that begins this month, the Prius PHV [...]
Volkswagen staged the world premiere of the Up! Lite concept at the LA Auto Show. The new concept, based on Volkswagen’s New Small Family (the Up! models), incorporates a variation on the two-cylinder TDI hybrid powertrain from the L1 [...]
Loas Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa announced the Southern California Regional Plug-In Electric Vehicle (PEV) Plan, a collaboration between cities, utilities, automakers and others in the Southern California region who will work actively to support the region and build the necessary infrastructure for the commercial launch of electric vehicles, which [...]
According to a report in EETimes, UK start-up Nexeon Limited, a spin-off from Imperial College London based on work [...]
According to the latest US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) fuel economy report, Hyundai passed all major manufacturers in MY 2009 Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) as measured in EPA testing.
The EPA 2009 Light-Duty Automotive Technology and Fuel Economy Trends Report indicates that Hyundai has the highest MY 2009 laboratory [...]
At the Los Angeles Auto Show, GM announced that the Chevrolet Volt extended range electric vehicle will first be available late next year in California, with other lead markets to be named later. Chevrolet is also partnering with three California utilities and the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) as [...]
At its monthly meeting in Detroit today, the General Motors Board of Directors accepted the resignation of Fritz Henderson as Director, President and CEO of the company, according to GM Chairman Ed Whitacre.
Fritz has done a remarkable job in leading the company through an unprecedented period of challenge and [...]
Volkswagen’s Jetta, Jetta SportWagen, Golf and Touareg TDI diesels sold 3,667 total units in the US November, accounting for 23% of the brand’s total sales of 16,250 units.
November 2009 sales were up 13.7% increase over November 2008. November marks Volkswagen’s fifth consecutive sales month above last year.
The Jetta, Volkswagen’s [...]
The Province of Alberta (Canada) has executed a letter of intent with Swan Hills Synfuels to provide a C$285 million (US$273 million) grant in support of a underground coal gasification (UCG) project that will reduce emissions by capturing and sequestering more than 1.3 million tonnes per year of CO2. [...]
Azure Dynamics Corporation has selected Johnson Controls-Saft (JCS) as the battery supplier for Azure’s Force Drive integration on the Ford Transit Connect Battery Electric Vehicle (BEV). North American distribution for the battery electric Transit Connect van is targeted to begin in late 2010.
Both Azure and Ford have existing [...]
In March 2009, Growth Energy, a new advocacy group promoting ethanol and biofuels, submitted a request for a “green jobs” waiver allowing an increase in the ethanol blend limit from 10% (E10) up to 15% (E15) to the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). The waiver did not seek to mandate [...]
Mitsubishi Motors Corporation (MMC) and Japan Delivery System Corporation (JDS) have jointly developed an electric vehicle (EV) charging system for apartment complexes. The system, called i-CHARGER, is to be sold by JDS starting 1 December.
Installation and [...]
Volkswagen has joined the Model Fuels Consortium II (MFC-II) (earlier post)—the first German automaker to do so. The initial phase of the Model Fuels Consortium was launched four years ago by Reaction Design to enable the design of cleaner-burning, more-efficient engines and fuels. Volkswagen is particularly interested in [...]
US-based lithium-ion battery producer EnerDel will supply the advanced battery systems at the heart of a new project, based in Tsukuba City, Japan, combining electric vehicles (EVs), stationary grid storage, solar power and a rapid charging infrastructure a in a real-world operating environment. The project involves more than a [...]
The Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS) adopted by the California Air Resources Board (CARB) earlier this year (earlier post) requires a 10% reduction in the average greenhouse gas (GHG) emission intensity of the state’s transportation fuels by 2020.
The regulation also levies the calculation of Indirect Land Use Change [...]
Mazda Motor Corporation delivered one Mazda Premacy Hydrogen RE Hybrid vehicle (earlier post) to the Yamaguchi prefectural government in western Japan. Mazda’s Premacy Hydrogen RE Hybrid features a unique hybrid system and a hydrogen rotary engine (RE) that burns hydrogen as a fuel.
Mazda [...]ISO has published an updated, improved edition of an International Standard providing safety specifications for electrically propelled road vehicles. The two-part ISO 6469 will help manufacturers to design fail-safe electrically propelled vehicles, as well as provide a framework for the information they need to make available for safety personnel [...]
A team of researchers from Zhejiang University and the Chinese Academy of Sciences has developed a nanostructured tin oxide (SnO2) thin film material for use as an electrode in a lithium-ion battery. The material showed a reversible Li storage capacity of 524 mAh g-1 after 50 cycles.
A paper on their [...]
Canada-based environmental NGO Pollution Probe has released a comprehensive Primer on Automobile Fuel Efficiency and Emissions, produced in partnership with the Canadian Automobile Association (CAA). The 112-page document, the latest in a series of environmental primers from Pollution probe, tackles vehicle energy use and emissions; current and emerging automotive technology; [...]
A coalition of 16 national hydrogen associations from around the world recently issued a joint statement addressed to Yvo de Boer, Executive Secretary of the United Nations Framework on Climate Change, asserting that hydrogen technologies could help to curb global greenhouse gas emissions. The statement highlights benefits to [...]
A consortium led by BP-Eni 50:50 joint venture VICO has signed a production sharing contract (PSC) with the Government of Indonesia for the exploration and development of coalbed methane (CBM) resources on the Sanga-Sanga block in East Kalimantan, Indonesia. VICO has been producing conventional gas resources from the Sanga-Sanga [...]
All 2010 Chevrolet and GMC V-8 powered trucks now feature variable valve timing (VVT), a technology that enables continuous control of valve opening and closing that result in better engine breathing, fewer emissions and improved fuel economy.
The addition of VVT to the 4.8L and 5.3L truck V-8s completes the [...]
Air Products recently announced a long-term hydrogen supply contract with ExxonMobil’s (Esso) Rotterdam refinery in The Netherlands and will build a new world-scale hydrogen production plant to serve that refinery and additional customers in the region, including Shell.
The plant will feature technology advancements to maximize facility energy [...]
Automotive lithium-ion battery maker EnerDel will be using a portion of its recent federal stimulus grant to purchase eight AeroVironment (AV) advanced electric vehicle power cycling and test systems.
The addition of AV’s 170 kW ABC-170CE cyclers and its 250 kW AV-900 heavy-duty cyclers will expand the advanced battery testing [...]
BP and DuPont have formed Kingston Research Ltd, which will focus on the commercialization of advanced biofuel technology—specifically biobutanol—at a £25-million (US$41-million) purpose-built development and demonstration facility at BP’s Saltend site, near Hull.
Kingston Research will construct a facility to scale-up technology to manufacture biobutanol from renewable feedstocks. The [...]
Capstone Turbine Corporation is introducing a prototype range-extended electric supercar using one of its 30 kW C30 microturbines as the generator unit. The CMT-380, currently in the design and test phase, is being developed in partnership with Electronic Arts [...]
The HyBoost project (earlier post), a two-year collaborative research program led by Ricardo in partnership with Controlled Power Technologies, the European Advanced Lead Acid Battery Consortium, Ford, Imperial College London, and Valeo, aims to demonstrate a very cost-effective, ultra-efficient gasoline engine in a C-segment passenger car.
The vehicle is [...]
Ford is introducing its 2011 Mustang with a new 3.7-liter, dual-overhead-camshaft (DOHC) 24-valve V-6 using Twin Independent Variable Camshaft Timing (Ti-VCT), also featured in the 2.0L EcoBoost engine announced in July (earlier post). The new V6 can produce 305 hp [...]
Scania and Vale Soluções em Energia S.A. (VSE) have signed a memorandum of understanding to collaborate on the development of new technology for ethanol- and gas-powered industrial engines for the Brazilian market.
VSE is planning to develop and manufacture a series of single-speed engines for stationary operation using Scania’s basic [...]
Members of the European Parliament last week approved regulations that will require replacement tires for cars as well as light- and heavy-duty vehicles (C1, C2, and C3 tires) to carry energy efficiency labels as of 1 November 2012. The new label does not have to be mounted on the [...]
by Jack Rosebro
With little more than a week left before the 15th Congress of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) convenes in Copenhagen, and following months of increasing doubt that international agreement can be realized on a binding emissions reduction plan to replace the Kyoto Protocol, many [...]
A new study by an international team of researchers using Comparative Risk Assessment methods to estimate the health effects of alternative urban land transport scenarios for two settings—London, UK, and Delhi, India—concluded that although uncertainties remain, climate change mitigation in transport should benefit public health substantially.
The study, one of six [...]
The Nikkei reports that Nissan Motor Co. has nearly completed development of a lithium-ion battery using a lithium nickel manganese cobalt oxide cathode (NMC). The new system, which will reportedly offer almost double the capacity of Nissan/AESC’s current manganese spinel cell, is supposedly slated for deployment in electric vehicles [...]
Tackling climate change by reducing carbon dioxide and other greenhouse emissions will have major direct health benefits in addition to reducing the risk of climate change, especially in low-income countries, according to a series of six papers on “Health and Climate Change” published 25 November in the British [...]
The EU’s Clean Sky Joint Technology Initiative (JTI) (earlier post) has launched its second call for proposals (SP1-JTI-CS-2009-02). The €8.4-million (US$12.5-million) call covers a total of 24 topics. Depending on the nature of the participant, the funding will be between 50% and 75% of the Topic maximum [...]
An analysis of sales- and activity-weighted fuel efficiency for new jet aircraft from [...]
Canadian Pacific and Natural Resources Canada have partnered on a biodiesel fuel pilot project under the National Renewable Diesel Demonstration Initiative. The project is the first time biodiesel will be used in Canadian cold-weather rail service.
The Government of Canada has announced its intent to regulate an average five percent [...]
Quantum Fuel Systems Technologies Worldwide Inc. will acquire in a stock-for-stock exchange all of the outstanding common shares of Schneider Power, a Canada-based wind and solar power generation company. Quantum, an advanced propulsion systems, energy storage technology, and alternative fuel vehicle company, provides the Q-drive system to Fisker. The [...]
At the China International Industry Fair held earlier in November in Shanghai, SAIC Group displayed six models of new energy vehicles, which will serve the Expo 2010. Of those models, two made their premiere at the Fair. The models were the Shenchi Brand 4-seat battery-electric car; the Shenchi Brand [...]
Siemens has demonstrated in the lab a new magnetic method to harvest algae for use as feedstock in biogas plants.
The researchers put magnetite particles in the water with the algae. The algae enclose these iron oxide particles, which are only a few micrometers in size. The resulting mixture of algae [...]
Transport emissions could double their current relative net contribution to global warming by 2100, according to a new study by researchers at the Oslo-based Centre for International Climate and Environment Research (CICERO) in Norway.
The study’s results, presented in the journal Atmospheric Environment, are part of the EU-funded [...]
