December 30, 2023 by Narasimhan Santhanam Director - EAI
Will hot sparks fly when thermal catalysts meets electrical? How valuable would it be if two different teams working on different types of catalytic reactions - one relying on heat based catalysis and another on electricity based catalysis - started interacting with each other? Can one catalyse the other when...
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December 30, 2023 by Narasimhan Santhanam Director - EAI
Here's some CO2, can you make it into diesel please? If you had never heard of the term Fischer Tropsch, you belong to the vast majority. But if you are a scientist or an engineer, it is likely that you will hear of it more often in future. Because the...
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December 30, 2023 by Narasimhan Santhanam Director - EAI
Why would someone pour oil down the ground? One would have thought this was batty if it were not for a San Francisco company actually doing business and making money with this idea. The SFO company Charm is converting biomass into oil and pouring it into the earth. Why would...
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December 30, 2023 by Narasimhan Santhanam Director - EAI
CLIMAX looking for interns for analysing climate innovations A week back, we launched CLIMAX, the climate innovation accelerator platform. The platform is in beta, and we plan to build it out to the next stage by end of 2021. CLIMAX revolves around Decarbonization Avenues (DA), powerful solution pathways for reducing...
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December 30, 2023 by Narasimhan Santhanam Director - EAI
CLIMAX - maximizing value from climate innovations Happy to launch CLIMAX, an online platform that aims to accelerate innovations for climate change mitigation. Innovations will drive climate efforts for the next few decades, and we wish to play a small but valuable role in the global climate innovation ecosystem. CLIMAX...
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December 30, 2023 by Narasimhan Santhanam Director - EAI
Indian solar module maker seeking investments/partnership A medium sized Indian solar module maker is exploring partnerships - investments, marketing partnerships, acquisition... The company was founded in 2010 and has a capacity of 45 MW of solar module production. It has its manufacturing facility at Tada (in Andhra Pradesh, close to...
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December 30, 2023 by Narasimhan Santhanam Director - EAI
Potential for Aluminium as a sustainable packaging material Aluminium scores better against glass, paper and plastic on many sustainability parameters. Read these: Al can be infinitely recycled, with over 70% of all Al produced in the last 100 years still in use! Recycling Al saves 90% energy compared to producing...
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December 30, 2023 by Narasimhan Santhanam Director - EAI
Rise and rise of solar in Australia Solar power adoption in Australia has shown impressive growth recently - in both rooftop and ground mounted segments. While the growth of solar power plants is impressive worldwide, it is even more so in Australia. End of 2020, Australia had a total electricity...
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December 30, 2023 by Narasimhan Santhanam Director - EAI
The world's leading chocolate maker achieved its 2025 target of 25 million pounds reduction in packaging five years earlier Recently, Hershey's announced its sustainability plans and targets for 2030 that included targets for packaging and waste reduction in addition to scope 1, 2 and 3 emissions reductions targets. A number...
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December 30, 2023 by Narasimhan Santhanam Director - EAI
L'Oréal on a green sciences transition Global cosmetics and beauty major L’Oréal announced that by 2030, 95% of ingredients used will be derived from sustainable sources. L’Oréal announced that they will rely more on plant-based sources, abundant minerals and circular processes for their ingredients. We are talking about the world's...
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