Lighting up EURO 2016 with cooking oil
Cooking oil is set to illuminate the Euro 2016 via the Irish startup Greentech Biofuels, which has partnered with Ondaine Agri and the city of Saint-Étienne to illuminate the Stade Geoffroy Guichard, the football stadium in St Etienne. The principle is very simple: a biofuel is produced from cooking oil which is collected from restaurants and area businesses by Ondaine Agro. This biofuel is then used to produce electricity and light...
Dyson launch new connected purifier
Dyson have announced the launch of a new connected air purifier, which will be capable of cleansing the air of particles as small as 0.1 microns. The new device, called the Dyson Pure Cool Link, which combines an air filtration system and a software system, can detect the internal and external pollution, and is controllable from a smartphone. Dyson, the famous manufacturer of bagless vacuum cleaners, claim that the new device is...
Truck trapped under ice in Canada
This unusual story, where a truck ended up partially trapped under the ice, occurred near the town of Deline, in the Northwest Territories of Canada. On the 2nd of March, the Government of the Northwest Territories increased the load limit on the road to Great Bear Ice Road, from 10 metric tons to 40 metric tons. However, a few days later, disaster struck on the 5th of March, when a truck broke the surface of the ice, with its two...
China to close over a thousand coal mines
The National Energy Administration of China has revealed in a press release that it intends to close over a thousand coal mines this year. The mines currently produce a combined total of 60 million tons of coal but are now set to be closed to meet the Chinese authorities’ stated aim of getting rid of nearly 500 million tons of coal in the next three to five years. China regularly experiences major pollution peaks which are extremely...
Crowley Carbon announce creation of new jobs
Crowley Carbon, the Irish expert in energy efficiency, have announced the creation of 20 jobs at its Crowley Carbon Centre in County Wicklow. This new building, at the cutting edge of technology, enables Crowley Carbon to remotely control the energy consumption of their customers’ equipment, and to alert them in the case of abnormal peak consumption. This technology applies to all types of equipment, from refrigerators to...
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