by Amanda Smeigh | Dec 21, 2017 | Events, Research, Industry, Policy
December 2017 saw another monumental event in Paris – the One Planet Summit. Co-organized by French President, Emmanuel Macron, the President of the World Bank Group, Jim Yong Kim, and the Secretary-General of the United Nations, António Guterres, the One Planet...
by Amanda Smeigh | Oct 13, 2017 | Industry
This July, Nordic Blue Crude AS (NBC) announced their intentions to build a commercial scale facility in Herøya, Norway that will produce the synthetic crude oil referred to as “Blue Crude”. Proven out in Dresden, Germany over the past 3 years, Blue Crude is ready for...
by Amanda Smeigh | Aug 28, 2017 | Research, Industry, Policy, Science
When we saw the World Economic Forums’ list of Top Ten Emerging Technologies of 2017 ranked “a liquid fuel from sunlight” at number 4, we were elated. The diverse list compiled by the WEF and Scientific American advisory board, included solar fuels technology amongst...
by Amanda Smeigh | Jun 22, 2017 | Industry, Science
The announcement of the world’s largest floating solar-farm coming online didn’t grab as many headlines as it should have. Located on a lake created by rain water flooding a former coal-mining town, this floating solar farm in the eastern part of China’s Anhui...
by Amanda Smeigh | Jun 8, 2017 | Events, Industry, Science
The idiom in the English language “out of thin air” is typically used to describe magic and slight-of-hand. While pulling a rabbit from thin air is logically impossible, making something from the complex mixture we call “air” is very possible. Around the world...
