Digital
#340 Diving Deep into Electric Machinery
Electrification of construction equipment is an ongoing and necessary part of the global effort to reduce carbon emissions and restrict global warming. Sixty years ago,
Digital
#338 Bio-Inspired Innovation & Systemic Sustainability
Nature has long served as a blueprint for engineering breakthroughs from the kingfisher-inspired design of Japan’s Bullet Train to termite mounds that inform energy-efficient buildings.
Environmental
#278 Capturing carbon with concrete: Engineering Matters Awards 2024 Innovation Gold Champion Seratech
Around the world, 8% of CO2 emissions come from the production of concrete, and 90% of those emissions come from the production of cement. This
Environmental
CO2 absorbing asphalt trialled on UK road
A new low carbon asphalt that has the ability to absorb CO2 has been used in a trial on the A30 in Devon. The asphalt
Environmental
Microbiologists create hydrogen battery from bacteria
Microbiologists at the Goethe University Frankfurt have created a biobattery using bacteria to store and release hydrogen in a controlled way. The team found an
Environmental
Report says $9.2 trillion per year needed for net zero
Massive investment in new infrastructure is needed by the world’s leading emissions producers in 69 countries if the world is to reduce greenhouse gas emissions
Make
Making starch from CO2
Chinese researchers have developed a way to produce starch through artificial synthesis from carbon dioxide (CO2) for the first time, according to Physics Org News.