The plan is to run the autonomous bus as a shuttle service between existing bus stops for ordinary bus lines and office buildings in the Forus area outside Stavanger. Read more in zdnet Scandinavia gets its first autonomous public buses…
This vision of a ‘smart’ global grid which adapts to demand and delivers electricity to where it is needed could become a reality by 2030, according to Adrian Timbus, manager of smart grids and wind power at engineering giant ABB.…
Decades of felling and natural disasters have drastically reduced Pakistan’s forests. Figures for the country’s total forest cover range between around 2% and 5% of land area. Nevertheless, Pakistan has one of the lowest levels of forest cover in the…
Hawaii is already a leader on climate. In 2015, the state passed a law to move to 100% renewable electricity by 2045 . In 2017, days after Trump announced that the U.S. would pull out of the Paris climate agreement,…
We need to scale up existing low-carbon technologies at a much faster rate – otherwise population growth will continue to outpace investment in renewables, and fossil fuels will continue to dominate.The appetite to explore hydrogen as an energy vector is…
The bioeconomy comprises those parts of the economy that use renewable biological resources from land and sea – such as crops, forests, fish, animals and micro-organisms – to produce food, materials and energy. Read more in euobserver Bioeconomy is a win-win…
Morocco plans to generate 42% of its energy from renewables by 2020, rising to 52% by 2030, with solar, wind and hydropower each providing a third of the total.The country is well on its way to achieving that goal. Renewable…
Boyan Slat, the 18-year-old presenter, had learned that cleaning up the tiny particles of plastic in the ocean could take nearly 80,000 years. Slat instead proposed using that movement as an advantage: With a barrier in the water, he argued,…
Walking past a cafe or bar in London, you might notice a bright blue sticker in the window that says “free tap water.” The message is simple: If you need to refill a reusable bottle, you can come inside. What…
Scotland’s transition to renewable energy has been made without any negative impact on the country’s finances – its accomplishments serve to demonstrate that there’s no longer a need to decide between ecological and economic considerations. Read more in Futurism European…
