Premium Supporters – click here to listen to the audio of this text.We must reduce carbon dioxide emissions in order to reduce global warming. The culprit is the use of fossil fuels: oil, coal and natural gas. Now there are alternatives in sun and wind, often...
Picking fruit is a very tiring job for those who are forced to do it day in and day out. This makes it difficult to find people who want to work as fruit pickers . Now Tevel Aerobotics Technologies hopes that their FAR robot will be able to help with the picking .FAR...
Wind farms located offshore is a great asset in the world’s transition to a low-carbon economy. When wind turbines are placed asea “concrete mats” are placed around the bottom of the towers to protect them from strong tides etcetera. Oftentimes engineers use concrete...
An inch-long robot will help farmers and fish farmers to have as environmentally friendly a business as possible. In each case, the technology behind the robot will contribute to new technologies that can be used in other micro-robots in the future.A research team at...
As a part of Aberdeen’s net-zero vision to tackle air pollution, the city was the first in the world to put hydrogen-powered buses in its streets. The project was led by Aberdeen City Council, which set out to always improve the environmental and economical...
Chemists from the University of Oxford have found a way to turn the endless plastic waste overflowing our planet into a clean source of fuel – hydrogen. This course of action is much faster than previous methods and also needs less energy. This new study,...