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Energy & environment

ESA's SOLARIS project will prepare the ground for a full Space Based Solar development programme

Next generation: could space-based solar farms solve our energy woes?

The pre-heat ladle at the MPI's Normanton Plant

Steel sludge could be tapped for low carbon hydrogen

A flexible textile supercapacitor patch, created by Drexel University researchers, can power a microcontroller and wirelessly transmit temperature data for nearly two hours without a recharge

Flexible supercapacitor patch adds power to textile wearables

TE Talks EP35: Sustainability across the supply chain

Images of uncoated (top left, right) and coated (bottom left, right) nylon-6,6 fabrics after nine washing cycles taken by a scanning electron microscope

Coating cuts amount of microplastic fibres entering waterways

The material contains a layer that can take on two conformations: solid copper that retains most infrared heat, which helps keep the building warm; or a watery solution that emits infrared, which can help cool the building

Building material offers low-energy solution to maintaining temperature

Fresh cash injection for UK battery research projects

Twistrons, made from spun CNTs, convert mechanical movement into electricity. Scanning electron microscope images show how UT Dallas researchers made a new kind of twistron by intertwining three individual strands of spun carbon nanotube fibres to make a single yarn, similar to the way conventional yarns used in textiles are constructed. A previous version of a harvester (right) was made by coiling the CNT fibres. The scale bars indicate 100 micrometres

Carbon nanotube ‘twistrons’ harvest mechanical energy to generate electricity

Comment: How to stop cyber threats disrupting energy supplies

Companies falling short on climate pledges, survey finds

Artist's impression of EMEC test site (not to scale)

EMEC eyes 100MW floating wind demonstrator

Closed loop steelmaking could cut emissions by 90 per cent