Engineering, Environment & Energy

Loughborough leads Zero Carbon Loss biomanufacturing project

The Engineer: A Loughborough University-led project aims to develop a sustainable biomanufacturing system with integrated carbon capture and utilisation through a novel electrochemical approach. Funded through an EPSRC Sustainable Manufacturing grant, the project is pushing to lower emissions within UK manufacturing…

Crypto cannot easily be painted green

Financial Times: Can crypto ever be green? Until recently, this was a question that mostly concerned idealists. The crypto kids who dashed into bitcoin a decade ago were so focused on fomenting an anti-establishment financial revolt that they did not usually worry too much about carbon emissions. The type of…

Health Risks of Smoke and Ozone Rise in the West as Wildfires Worsen

New York Times: Dangerous levels of two air pollutants, ozone and smoke, are occurring in tandem with increasing frequency over widespread parts of the Western United States where millions of people live, researchers said Wednesday. The two harmful pollutants are a result…

The Physics of the James Webb Space Telescope

Wired: The James Webb Space Telescope, also known as the JWST, finally launched on December 25 for its journey 930,000 miles from Earth. This is the next generation that will replace the famous Hubble Space Telescope. Hubble has been capturing…