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Book Review: The Chemical Cocktail
Fiona Erskine; ISBN: 9780861540334; Point Blank, an imprint of Oneworld; 2022; £8.99
Type: Feature
US announces ‘major’ fusion breakthrough
RESEARCHERS at the US Department of Energy’s Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) have achieved a “major scientific breakthrough” that takes a step towards realising the clean and nearly unlimited fuel supply offered by fusion power.
Type: News
COP27: Three Things I Would Revisit for COP28
David Simmonds suggests three ways that could help next year's COP28 deliver real results
Type: Feature
UK coal mine approval: ‘I don’t understand why we’re doing this,’ says CCC Chair
THE UK Government has approved the first coal mine in 30 years, despite widespread climate concerns and an apparent lack of need.
Type: News
Early innovations from the food and drinks industry have done much to influence other industries and sectors. Martin Pitt thinks about it over a breakfast of cereal with cold milk and sugar
Type: Feature
UK backs Sizewell C with £700m as it targets energy sovereignty
THE UK Government has announced the “historic” £700m (US$836.9m) backing of EDF’s Sizewell C nuclear power project, as part of a landmark package intended to help secure Britain’s energy independence and prevent reliance on volatile global markets.
Type: News
Solar farms in space demo could be ready by 2030
A PLAN to use satellites in Earth’s orbit to harvest the Sun’s energy from space and beam it down to Earth using microwaves could be up and running as early as 2030, with the first-of-a-kind operational system delivering power into the grid by 2040.
Type: News
Net zero transition 'world's most ambitious engineering project'
SWITCHING from fossil fuel to low-carbon energy in less than 30 years in order to achieve net zero is arguably the biggest engineering project ever undertaken by mankind, says the Institution of Mechanical Engineers (IMechE) in a new report.
Type: News
Jon Walton reflects on the changes in approach to mental health and wellbeing across the engineering sector over the last 20 years, and how slowly, but surely, men are learning to speak out.
Type: Feature
Study investigates energy efficiencies to reduce emissions at Ineos Grangemouth
INEOS, co-funded by the Scottish Industrial Energy Transformation Fund (SIETF), will conduct a feasibility study to look at improving energy efficiencies and reducing emissions at its primary manufacturing asset at its Grangemouth site in Scotland – the KG ethylene plant.
Type: News
Plastics recycling partners plan 100,000 t/y facility
INEOS and Plastic Energy have signed a memorandum of understanding for a 100,000 t/y facility in Köln, Germany, to turn difficult-to-recycle plastic waste into virgin-quality raw materials. The plant will represent the largest use of Plastic Energy’s technology on the market.
Type: News
New online platform helps pinpoint GHG emission sources across the globe
HALF of the world’s 50 largest sources of greenhouse gas emissions across the world are oil and gas production fields and their associated facilities – the same industry which is also significantly underreporting its emissions, a new database by Climate TRACE shows.
Type: News
The RSC commits to 100% open access within five years
THE Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) has announced that it plans to make all of its fully RSC-owned journals open access within five years by seeking financial support from partners rather than making authors pay article processing charges (APCs).
Type: News
Steelmaker successfully trials e-coke that could reduce emissions by up to 30%
LIBERTY Steel UK, the nation’s third largest steel manufacturer, has successfully completed trials of e-coke, a new raw material that can replace anthracite in electrical steelmaking, reducing emissions by as much as 30%.
Type: News
Britishvolt secures short-term funding in wake of closure concerns
THE TROUBLED battery startup Britishvolt and its proposed UK gigafactory has been thrown a lifeline of funding for five weeks to save it from potential closure, following reports that the firm was heading into administration.
Type: News
Fast Followers: Speeding up the Global Energy Transition
As attention turns to the coming COP27 climate conference, David Simmonds looks at where some of the big emitters are at, and what they need to do to combat climate change
Type: Feature
Book Review: The Authority Gap
Mary Ann Sieghart; ISBN: 9781784165888; Black Swan (an imprint of Transworld Publishers); 2022; £10.99
Type: Feature
Ivan Vince takes a look back at Buncefield, and the need for a new breed of ‘remembrancers’
Type: Feature
Green electricity and electric vehicles: Martin Pitt FIChemE thinks we might have been here before
Type: Feature
Materials: Switch on/Switch off
Pablo Brito-Parada and colleagues discuss how SOSO technology could provide the paradigm shift needed to make small-scale mining viable
Type: Feature
