Artificial photosynthesis
As energy demand grows it becomes increasingly important to be free from fossil fuels. As it is now, more energy is produced from renewable sources, but the challenge is to meet the transport sector’s specific requirements for storability. Maybe the solution is to transform solar energy directly into fuel, without detouring past oil and biofuel and by mimicking a plant’s own energy storage…
Concrete products purify city air
The air in many major cities is so bad that it does not comply with EU air quality standards. Nitrogen oxides from car exhausts – and studded tires that tear up small particles – are some of the problems. Newspaper headlines in Sweden say that thousands die every year from air pollution. The headlines are dramatic but it should be remembered that it is mainly people with heart, lung and…
Plasma processes can halve carbon emissions
ScanArc Plasma Technologies, a Swedish company, has a new method for the production of hot metal. The method – called IronArc – is based on plasma technology and produces about half as many emissions of carbon dioxide as the traditional blast furnace process. “Here in Hofors, we develop cutting-edge technologies in high-temperature plasma. Plasma occurs when a gas is sufficiently…
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