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Building Cities with Wood Would Reduce the Environmental Impact of Construction

Buildings around us create a whopping one-third of global greenhouse gas emissions -- that is about ten times more than air traffic worldwide. In Europe alone about 190 million square metres of housing space are built each year, mainly in the cities, and the amount is growing quickly at the rate of nearly one percent a year.

3 Nov 2020

New Porous Organic Material Could Improve Energy Storage and Delivery by Supercapacitors

A porous organic material created at KAUST could significantly improve energy storage and delivery by supercapacitors, which are devices that are able to deliver quick and powerful bursts of energy.

3 Nov 2020

Scientists Develop a Versatile Photodetector Integrating Photovoltaic and Bolometric Effects

Photodetectors have always paly the important role in the national economy and national defense field. The advanced photodetectors demand for the higher performance in response rate, broad spectrum, detectivity and other special functions like polarization detection and two-color detection.

3 Nov 2020

Novel Transparent Solar Cells can Lead to a New Age of Personalized Energy

Today, the imminent climate change crisis demands a shift from conventionally used fossil fuels to efficient sources of green energy. This has led to researchers looking into the concept of "personalized energy," which would make on-site energy generation possible.

3 Nov 2020

New Technique can Reduce Carbon Dioxide Emission into the Atmosphere

Scientists from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and their collaborators have shown a new room-temperature technique that could considerably decrease the concentrations of carbon dioxide (CO2) in fossil-fuel power plant exhaust.

3 Nov 2020

Pura on a Mission to Reduce Nappy Landfill with Launch of New Nappy Range and Nappy Recycling Partnership

Pura, the eco-friendly baby products company, is launching a two-pronged attack on the environmental impact of disposable nappies, by launching its own range of environmentally friendly nappies and by working with the UK’s only nappy recycling company – NappiCycle - to keep disposable nappies out of landfill and instead turn them into notice boards, road surfaces and materials for affordable houses.

From MyPura 3 Nov 2020

South America’s Offshore Production to Surpass North America’s by 2024

Despite the effects of COVID-19 on global demand and supply, the outlook for South America’s offshore production is on track to surpass volumes coming from North America by 2024.

3 Nov 2020

The new VARODRY HD/O2 Version from Leybold – for Heavy Duty or O2 Industrial Vacuum Processes

In 2018, vacuum specialist Leybold designed the 100 % dry screw pump VARODRY for demanding industrial applications. This compact all-rounder is easy to install and, thanks to its compact design, easy to integrate into systems. Now Leybold has extended its VARODRY platform by the robust "Heavy Duty" and Oxygen VD HD/O2 version.

From Leybold GmbH 3 Nov 2020

Concordia University Leverages SwiftComp, VABS Software for Thermoplastic Composite Helicopter Landing Gear

AnalySwift, LLC, a provider of efficient high-fidelity modeling software for composites, announced today that Concordia University is participating in its recently launched Academic Partner Program (APP), and it is using its two products, the VABS and SwiftComp simulation software, for researching composite tubes, particularly those used in helicopter landing gear.

From AnalySwift, LLC 3 Nov 2020