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Energy & environment

Plastic alternatives worse for greenhouse gas emissions in majority of cases

Rolls-Royce, ASCO and Landmark Power Holdings plan to develop scalable solutions for clean power generation with CO2 recovery from mtu gas combustion engines. The captured CO2 is to be made available for use in various industries such as food production, efuels, sustainable aviation fuel (SAF), cement and plastics production (recycling).

Rolls-Royce, Landmark and ASCO to collaborate on power generation carbon capture technology

Self-dyeing vegan leather wallet

Vegan leather grown from bacteria marks boost for sustainable fashion

A smart sensory t-shirt is helping post-surgery patients get discharged up to 36 hours earlier by monitoring vital signs remotely

Comment: Engineering’s role in delivering a Net Zero health service

Increasing reliance on renewables is driving up the demand for energy storage

Why UK firm Superdielectrics is hailing an energy storage breakthrough

Xe-100 reactor

X-energy and Cavendish Nuclear funded to progress AMRs in UK

Bore hole drilling underway at Warwick University

SSE Energy Solutions exploring feasibility of geothermal heat for university

The fleet of 12 repowered buses has now entered service in York

Equipmake electrifies York bus fleet

Massive new Coventry campus targets 60GWh battery output

Nottingham University secures £70m for low carbon transport

March 1960: Berkeley nuclear power station

New solar-powered system converts saltwater into drinking water