Pilotless Cargo Aircraft Takes Flight A cargo aircraft has completed a week of flights without anyone on board from a working Louisiana airport, demonstrating how autonomous deliveries could become part of everyday aviation while highlighting the regulatory and commercial work still ahead. What Happened? California-based Elroy Air announced on 2 September that its Chaparral aircraft
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Sustainability-in-Tech : Solar Sets New UK Record Britain generated more electricity from solar power than ever before in July, underlining how rapidly renewable energy is becoming a mainstream part of the UK’s electricity system while strengthening energy security and helping reduce dependence on fossil fuels. A Record Month For Solar Solar energy supplied a record
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Drilling Deeper For Clean Energy A US clean energy company has raised $134 million to build what it says will be the world’s first commercial superhot geothermal power plant, using microwave technology to reach temperatures far beyond those accessible with conventional drilling in a development that could dramatically expand the role of geothermal energy in
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Sustainability-in-Tech : Fusion Breakthrough Turns Plasma Energy Into Electricity A US fusion company has demonstrated a new way of converting energy from a fusion plasma directly into electricity, while separate work on advanced electrical conductors could dramatically reduce the amount of power lost as heat, highlighting how the clean energy challenge is increasingly about efficiency
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With container ships being bigger greenhouse gas producers that aeroplanes, London-based company ‘Seabound’ has developed technology that reduces up to 95 per cent of CO2 emissions per ship. The Problem The shipping industry is responsible for producing around 940 million tonnes of CO2 annually, which equates to at least 2.5 per cent of the world’s total
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A fast-growing Amsterdam-based start-up, The Great Bubble Barrier, as the name suggests has created a barrier that used bubbles to stop plastic waste from entering and to remove plastic from waterways. Most Plastic Travels Via Rivers And Canals Each year, up to 80 per cent of the 8 million tons of plastic reaching the ocean
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With our devices using lithium-ion batteries and with Electronic Vehicles (EVs) currently dependent on lithium for their rechargeable batteries we look at the environmental impact of lithium mining, and what the possible alternatives could be. Lithium Lithium is a naturally occurring element found ionic minerals like petalite, lepidolite, and spodumene, and is a soft, silvery-white alkali
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New research by British Gas (Centrica) has revealed that UK households could save an average of £147 per year on their electricity bills by switching off their ‘vampire electronics’. What Are Vampire Devices? So-called ‘vampire devices’ are those household electronic devices, plugged into the mains, that continue to drain power when left on standby. These
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Environmental, social and governance (ESG) criteria and particularly sustainability are now key to many business spending decisions. Here we look at some of the current key trends. Ten Trends 1. Putting sustainability at the heart of the business. This is now much more than just an attractive concept. The need to tackle global warming, meet
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Nature-based carbon capture and storage company Brilliant Planet uses ‘microalgae’, grown in open-air natural seawater pond-based, high-tech systems on coastal desert land to remove carbon from the air. Permanently Capturing And Storing Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide The company says that its method of using technology and science-led, pond-based algae-growing systems can deliver an affordable method of permanently
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