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1, Low carbon clothing fibres. Spiber is a Japanese company that makes a clothing fibre from what is termed a ‘brewed protein’. Plant materials are…
Apr 21
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1, Willingness to take action on climate. A German academic study looked at beliefs and behaviour about climate in the US. It showed that survey…
Apr 14
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1, Consumer electronics and cars. Automobiles are becoming more like computers every day. But that doesn’t mean that all consumer electronics companies…
Apr 7
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March 2024
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1, Battery recycling. No European car company yet recycles vehicle batteries. Renault said it is now in ‘advanced’ discussions with partners aiming to…
Mar 31
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1, Synthetic fuels. Pioneer Norsk e-Fuel said it had contracted to buy 130,000 tonnes of biogenic CO2 for its aviation fuel plant in development in…
Mar 24
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1, ‘Heat batteries’. A Finnish company will supply a 100 MWh heat battery to a municipality near Helsinki. This battery contains a type of sand that is…
Mar 17
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1, Peatland restoration. Returning degraded peatland to a healthy state is a very cheap way of storing new carbon. Scottish entities gave us new details…
Mar 10
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1, Heat pumps. Contrasting news from the US and Europe. In the US, heat pump sales exceeded gas boilers for the second year running, although sales of…
Mar 3
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February 2024
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1, Magnets without rare earth metals. Analysts predict price instability and severe shortages of the metal neodymium because of the dominance of China…
Feb 25
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1, EV pricing. The threat posed by highly competitive Chinese EV imports seems to be prompting action by other manufacturers at last. "Our mission is to…
Feb 18
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1, Direct Air Capture of CO2. In its quarterly results presentation, Exxon Mobil said it had ‘Completed construction of a direct air capture (DAC…
Feb 4
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January 2024
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1, E-fuels for aviation. NGO Transport and Environment says that there are now 25 industrial scale projects in Europe seeking to manufacture synthetic…
Jan 28
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