electric vehicles
Students at Kingston University are putting the finishing touches to their electric motorbike as they get ready to race it against some of the world’s other most advanced green vehicles. A team of six final-year engineering students are entering their bike — the Firstest — in the first-ever zero-emissions Grand Prix,
smart technology
Amsterdam aims to become the European Union’s first “intelligent city” with a coordinated programme aimed at reducing its energy consumption and carbon footprint. City officials have enlisted the help of global management consultant Accenture to help them implement their “Amsterdam Smart City” programme. The programme seeks to use a
anaerobic digestion
Five UK projects will receive government grants to create energy from food waste and other organic waste, Environment Secretary Hilary Benn announced today. The grants are being awarded under the £10 million Defra Anaerobic Digestion Demonstration Programme, and form part of wider plans to tackle food waste and packaging this
Siemens today debuted a new model of airport people mover vehicle at the UITP World Congress for mobility and public transport in Vienna. Siemens has been working with Lohr Industrie since 2004 to develop the new Neoval generation of rubber-tired, fully automated metro. The new pre-series Airval vehicle provides increased
Jurdy discovers the meaning of “irony” …
marine energy
The Crown Estate says today that it’s received multiple bids for wave and tidal energy projects in the Pentland Firth strategic area. The deadline for the world’s first large-scale commercial wave and tidal energy leasing round was 15 May. According to The Crown Estate, the number and range
cleantech
Cleantech news as it happaens — check back for regular updates: * A group of scientists at IPMS is working on an interactive data eyeglass device which incorporates eye tracking — users can influence the content presented by moving their eyes or fixing on certain points in the image. Without having to use
greenhouse gases
The UK remains on track to almost double its greenhouse gas reduction obligations under the Kyoto Protocol on climate change, a new report to the United Nations released by the Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) reveals today. As communities across the globe mark United Nations World Environment Day,
greenhouse gases
A public consultation on guidance aimed at helping organisations to manage and reduce their greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions was launched today by the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) and the Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC). The guidance, published under the requirements of the Climate Change
London Mayor Boris Johnson today unveiled proposed routes for the first two of London’s twelve “Cycle Superhighways” — the corridors for cyclists that are a key part of his policy to stimulate a cycling revolution in the capital. The two pilot routes, which will be up and running in May
geoengineering
Geoengineering strategies to curb global warming may offer advantages in combating temperature rise, but could also significantly damage the Earth’s eco-systems, according to climate scientists at the Met Office Hadley Centre. Their research was published recently in the Journal of Geophysical Research. One geoengineering proposal suggests we deliberately brighten
anaerobic digestion
An EU programme aims to reduce the problem of agricultural waste by developing a way to convert it into energy via anaerobic digestion. The AGROBIOGAS (“An integrated approach for biogas production with agricultural waste”) project, backed by €2.1 million in EU funding, set its sights on developing anaerobic digestion
