♻️ Green Tech
🌴 Africa’s first biomass power plant is in the pipeline
Ivory Coast is getting the largest bio plant in west Africa. According to news site ESI Africa, the project is owned by Biovea Energie, which is a joint venture consisting of France’s EDF, Meridiam and Biokala. Upon completion of the project, electricity will...
🏗 Food scraps are turned into building material
About hundreds of billions of pounds of food waste are thrown away every year. Not only is it environmentally unfriendly, it’s also extremely costly. Researchers in Tokyo have developed a method that turns discarded fruit and vegetable scraps into robust...
✈️United Airlines invests in electric aircrafts
United Airlines has invested in the Swedish start-up company Heart Aerospace, based in Gothenburg, that is developing electric aircraft. In an investment round, the Swedish company raised $35 million, and among the investors was the airline giant.The aircraft that...
♻️ Old wind turbine blades are getting new purposes
Wind turbines are used worldwide to produce clean energy. But the blades from the turbines are becoming a recycling problem. In Ireland, they’re not short on ideas on how to recycle the old blades. For example, they are being reused to build bridges, reinforce...
