Engineering
Buildings are responsible for around 40% of CO2 emissions in the European Union. This means the building sector has a central role to play in achieving the EU's climate targets by 2050. An EU research project involving Graz ...
Jul 9, 2026
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Energy & Green Tech
Fayas Malik Kanchiralla, a postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Environmental and Energy Sciences, together with colleagues has analyzed how the International Maritime Organization's (IMO) proposed climate framework ...
Jun 18, 2026
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Energy & Green Tech
Rare earth elements, a group of chemical elements, and other critical minerals are generally costly and difficult to procure and depend on complex supply chains. Yet some of these elements, such as lithium, are essential ...
Jul 1, 2026
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Engineering
For years, builders and developers have treated "sustainable" homes as someone else's problem. Solar panels, batteries, double-glazed windows, correct insulation, good ventilation and better materials have been thought to ...
Jun 23, 2026
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Energy & Green Tech
Data center development has become a hot topic this summer. According to Hannah Wiseman, professor of law at Penn State Dickinson Law, homeowners may be in for a shock when they pay their power bills at the end of this month, ...
Jul 7, 2026
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Energy & Green Tech
Policies aimed at expanding energy infrastructure are more effective, and can remain cost-neutral, when they take community and environmental impacts into account, a new analysis suggests.
Jul 8, 2026
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Energy & Green Tech
Airline passengers are being warned not to pack power banks in their checked luggage ahead of the summer vacation travel period.
Jul 13, 2026
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Energy & Green Tech
The metals from batteries can be recovered in a more sustainable way, with improved safety and without compromising efficiency, claim researchers at Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden, who recently published a study ...
Jun 25, 2026
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Energy & Green Tech
It is the second day of a massive heat wave. Across the region, thermostats are cranked, air conditioners are laboring, and wind turbines have gone still. Without warning, a summer storm moves in, and the solar generation ...
Jun 23, 2026
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Energy & Green Tech
Eileen Castle's swimming pool, one of the only ones for blocks around, was once a refuge for neighborhood children on hot summer days.
Jul 2, 2026
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