GLASGOW, Scotland - The Munro Mk 1 is an all-electric off-road vehicle, designed and built in Glasgow, Scotland, and built to handle a tough life as a working vehicle on farms, in quarries or anywhere where strong off-road credentials or serious pulling power are required. Launched this week at an event in Edinburgh, the Mk
HOUSTON - There was no prospect of getting any more oil out of the old well. It was just a depleted cavern hiding beneath the sun-baked Texas soil. But then some folks came along and squirted a special liquid into it. They went away for five days, and when they came back it was no
WASHINGTON DC - The US Department of Commerce has determined that four out of eight Chinese solar companies that it’s been investigating are “attempting to bypass US duties by doing minor processing in one of the Southeast Asian countries before shipping to the United States.” Here’s what it means for the US solar industry. The
GRAND RAPIDS - West Michigan Sustainable Business Forum and the Institute of Packaging Professionals West Michigan Chapter will host a luncheon forum on Monday, December 12 at Kendall College for Art & Design in Grand Rapids discussing current trends and issues in packaging design and specification for local businesses and industry. Local packaging professionals are
MANCHESTER, UK - A team of experts at The University of Manchester led by Dr Amir Keshmiri have received government funding to work with Powerhouse Energy Plc - a world-leading UK company specializing in treatment of unrecyclable wastes - to help recover hydrogen for clean energy use. This project will develop and validate a novel and inexpensive
NEW YORK - Hydrogen use by the G-7 could jump by four to seven times by the middle of this century compared to 2020 in order to “satisfy the needs of a net-zero emissions system,” according to a new report from the International Renewable Energy Agency. In a foreword to the report, IRENA Director-General Francesco
SAN FRANCISCO - Climate change is hitting us at an ever faster pace. 2022 is expected to be the sixth-hottest year on record as average temperatures reached 1.57 degrees Celsius above the 20th century average. We're on track to normalize that temperature gain every year, the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change predicted last year, and it
MANCHESTER, UK - A team of experts at The University of Manchester led by Dr Amir Keshmiri have received government funding to work with Powerhouse Energy Plc - a world-leading UK company specialising in treatment of unrecyclable wastes - to help recover hydrogen for clean energy use. This project will develop and validate a novel and inexpensive game-changing
ANN ARBOR - Serial entrepreneur Stevan Bratic, owner of Bratic Enterprises, has developed an electric vehicle charging system that uses natural gas, instead of electricity, to recharge EVs. These EV "PODS" can be permanently mounted, or mobile depending on the commercial customers' needs. They also can be used as a profit center by allowing commercial
MIDLAND - Renewable energy had a bad election day in Michigan, and it could lead to discussions of the state taking a more active role in the siting of wind turbine and other projects. Four referendums that would have established guidelines for wind turbine installation were defeated Tuesday in townships in mid-Michigan’s Montcalm County. In
