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New wind turbine design aims to produce electricity within urban spaces

A new modular wind turbine design called Airiva Wind Energy System is set to enter the distributed wind power market in 2025 and produce electricity near where it is consumed. Furthermore, the first...

Arup appointed to support development of multi-rotor floating offshore wind project

Mar, 22, 2024
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It was announced on March 22, 2024, that Arup was appointed to support Wind Catching Systems (WCS) in the development of an alternative offshore wind project called the Windcatcher. Furthermore, the...

Taipei 101’s impressive tuned mass damper

Taiwan was struck on Wednesday, April 3, 2024, by the most powerful earthquake it has experienced in the last 25 years, but Taipei 101, once the world’s tallest building, can be seen in video footage...

First potentially carbon-neutral asphalt replacement successfully trialed in Lancashire

Aggregate Industries recently partnered with the Lancashire County Council and trialed a new carbon-neutral asphalt replacement solution on Lancashire’s M65 slip road. Furthermore, the milestone eve...

Sodium-ion batteries and what seems to be their rise in 2024

Discussion about sodium-ion batteries, and whether they can over throne lithium-ion ones, has been going on for quite some time now, but some major breakthroughs at the beginning of 2024 make their c...

Data centers built in wind turbines could help solve renewable curtailment

A new German company came up with the idea of placing data centers within wind turbines, and tackling several energy problems at once. Data centers are currently responsible for 1.5% of the world’s...

Processed spent coffee grounds can enhance concrete strength

Researchers at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT) have recently published a paper which shows that the addition of processed spent coffee grounds to a concrete mix can significantly i...

Potentially world’s largest known lithium deposit discovered in the US

A new study published on August 30, suggests that the world's largest lithium reserve could be located in the McDermitt caldera, inside an extinct volcano, between Nevada and Oregon in the US. Lithi...

UN warns on the effects of sand dredging to the ocean floor and marine life

The UN Environment Programme (UNEP) warned on Tuesday about the impact that sand dredging has on the ocean floor and marine life. Furthermore, UNEP’s Centre for Analytics, GRID-Geneva, has developed...

MIT engineers create energy-storing cement mixture

A paper was published on the last day of July, by a team of MIT researchers, regarding the creation of a cement and carbon black based material which acts as a supercapacitor while being structurally...

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