Integrated mineral carbonation: Decarbonising Western Australia

A research team from Curtin University is pioneering decarbonisation in Western Australia through integrated mineral carbonation. Bill Johnston, MLA, Mines and Petroleum Minister, announced on...

Advancing waste heat recovery in Portugal for a greener future

The European project, EMB3Rs, is discovering new ways to achieve industrial waste heat recovery in Portugal to raise energy efficiency, cut carbon emissions and...

New approach revealed to reduce EV battery testing time by 75%

Researchers at the University of Michigan (U-M) have emphasised that testing the longevity of new electric vehicle battery designs could be four times faster...

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Going off-grid to end the climate emergency

As the climate emergency gets increasingly worse, more people are turning to an ‘off-grid’ lifestyle. Nick Rosen speaks to The Innovation Platform about life off the grid. Meet Nick Rosen: author, campaigner and award-winning documentary film-maker. Rosen is an off-grid...

Behind the Circular Plastics Alliance

The European Union’s Strategy for plastics tackles the way plastics are currently produced, used and discarded in order to make plastics circular. The Commission has conducted a pledging campaign for increasing the uptake of recycled plastic material into products as...

Australasian countries join pact for innovation in plastics

Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific Island nations have formed the ANZPAC Plastic Pact to further innovation in plastics and promote the circular economy. Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific Island nations are set to form the ANZPAC Plastic Pact....

Developing microreactors that transform water into hydrogen fuel

Scientists from the University of Southampton have used solar energy to convert optical fibres into photocatalytic microreactors that transform water into hydrogen fuel. In a new paper, published in American Chemical Society, scientists describe how their groundbreaking technology coats the...

Introducing a newly launched drought monitoring and forecast programme

NASA satellites have been used to detect the minuscule gravitational changes caused by the movement of Earth’s water. Two centres located in the University of Nebraska-Lincoln School of Natural Resources used information from the NASA’s Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment...

WFEO’s president on sustainable development in engineering

Professor Gong Ke, president of the World Federation of Engineering Organizations (WFEO), spoke to Innovation News Network about the sustainable development of the engineering sector. Professor Gong Ke has been working in the field of telecommunication and electronic engineering. He...

Developing an organic proton battery that charges in seconds

Researchers from Uppsala University have developed an organic proton battery which can be charged in a matter of seconds. The newly developed battery can be charged and discharged over 500 times without any significant loss of capacity. This new development...

Researchers develop a sustainable fungicide to protect crops

Scientists from the University of Exeter have developed a sustainable fungicide to protect crops such as rice and wheat, lessening the threat to global food security. The growing issue of microbial resistance against fungicides requires the continuous innovation of antifungal...

Global innovators to join leading circular economy consortium

12 innovators have joined the CE100 Network to inspire and enable new circular economy based partnerships and practices. The CE100 Network, or Circular Economy 100 Network, is designed to provide a pre-competitive space for innovators to share circular economy based...

Scientists to develop a sustainable biofuel using panda faeces

By converting lignocellulosic biomass into a sustainable bioethanol, scientists are to develop a sustainable biofuel that relies on the digestive system of pandas. A team of researchers from the Department of Engineering and the Department of Bioscience at Aarhus University...

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