Technology
Canada’s Oil Major Imperial Oil to Produce Plant-Based Biofuel
Imperial Oil, one of Canada’s biggest oil producers and refiners, yesterday (25 August) announced it has committed to producing renewable diesel from vegetable oil at its Strathcona refinery near Edmonton. It is estimated that the site could produce around 20,000…
Solar-Powered Skylight Can Turn Seawater Into Drinking Water
According to a UNICEF report in 2019, a third of the world's population does not have access to safe drinking water. But Henry Glogau believes he has found a cheap and easy to use solution. The architecture student has developed…
Commentary: Scientists Around the World Are Working to Turn Agricultural Waste Into Food, Packaging and More
For every kilogram of cacao beans, farmers produce about 24 times the amount of biomass. In order to tackle this issue, researchers in Colombia created new products from this “waste” material. The new products range from beer to pudding and…
Commentary: Getting BECCS right
Bioenergy with carbon capture and sequestration (BECCS) is a process that captures and stores atmospheric CO2 while simultaneously producing energy, fuel, or carbontech products from biomass. In the mid 2010’s, interest and confidence in the process started falling behind. In…
Hook Line and Sinker: The Technologies Making Sustainable Fishing Possible
The 2021 Netflix documentary Seaspiracy has pushed sustainable fishing practices to the forefront of people’s minds, and global supply chains are being scrutinised with a new fervour. According to the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO), more than a third…
Special: Bioresearch of the Week
A lot of things are happening in regards to tech and development of new materials, techniques and approaches. How do we stay on top of it all? Fret not, today we bring you bite-size capsules of the research and reports…