Technology

French utility Suez is to invest more than £100 million in a new waste-to-energy power station in the north-east of England. The firm says it aims to capitalise on the growing demand for alternative ways in which to process waste and help resolve a dramatic reduction in the country’s available landfill space. The 25MW site […]

Islamabad-The idea of the Federal Capital having waste-to-energy plants after its complete success in the province of Punjab is likely to remain in limbo due to indecisiveness of the authorities concerned over selection of the site for its execution. Repeated delays may not help the civic authority to properly handle the trash generated in the […]

In a study published in Nature Nanotechnology, scientists in Japan have developed a ‘golden sandwich’ photoelectrode that can harvest 85 percent of visible light. In pursuit of a sustainable society, there is an ever-increasing demand to develop solar cells or artificial photosynthesis systems that use visible light energy from the sun. To meet this demand, […]

In the quest for carbon neutrality, the City of Helsinki in Finland announced its action plans to minimize greenhouse gas emissions substantially by 2035. The city’s fully owned energy company, Helen Ltd, a producer of district heating, power, and district cooling, aims to augment this policy by converting its largely coal and natural gas energy […]

Of the roughly 169,000 tons of municipal solid waste that goes to a landfill in Ava annually, Bill Rabbia said about 13.7 percent of that is food scraps. Food scraps are discarded leftovers or food no longer suitable for eating, said Rabbia, executive director of the Oneida-Herkimer Solid Waste Authority. This is food well past […]

Hyundai bets on hydrogen fuel cell trucks. It seems that Hyundai has envied the Toyota Portal project and would like to have its own hydrogen fuel cell truck – here is the render the of vehicle that will be unveiled at the upcoming IAA Commercial Vehicles show. The market launch of Hyundai FCV truck is […]

On a recent summer afternoon, Zoe Jane Morrison, a social scientist from the University of Aberdeen in Scotland, was driving around Gillette looking for office supplies. She’s part of a team of researchers utilizing the carbon dioxide from the flue stream at the Basin Electric Dry Fork power plant near Gillette for other products. There […]

UK-based Revolve Technologies has revealed the successful completion of a project to develop novel fuel cell technology using printed circuit board (PCB) construction (PCBFC). This is the first time that a PCB-based fuel cell has been developed for use in an automotive environment. Compared with conventional systems, the PCB fuel cell stack will reduce system […]

The primary operational cost of running a data center is energy consumption. So how can data centers maximize energy efficiency to avoid being crippled by power costs? A guide by Jeff Bittner, founder and president of Exit Technologies, may help you improve your efficiency through technique, strategy, and technology, to help you move closer to […]

Renewable energy is hot. It has incredible momentum, not only in terms of deployment and costs but in terms of public opinion and cultural cachet. To put it simply: Everyone loves renewable energy. It’s cleaner, it’s high-tech, it’s new jobs, it’s the future. And so more and more big energy customers are demanding the full […]