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Schneider Electric to invest Rs 750 crore in India

By : sustainabilityo..., Oct 13, 2016

Schneider Electric, a specialist in energy management and automation, today said that it plans to pump in Rs 750 crore in India over the next three to five years in research and development (R...

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Sweden to spend up to $3.5 million on renewable energy R&D in India

By : sustainabilityo..., Oct 5, 2016

Sweden has earmarked a sum of $2.5-3.5 million towards research and development on renewable energy in India. 

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Food additive key to environmentally friendly, efficient, plastic solar cells

By : sustainabilityo..., Oct 3, 2016

Researchers from North Carolina State University and the Chinese Academy of Sciences have created an efficient, semi-printed plastic solar cell without the use of environmentally hazardous...

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Reservoirs play substantial role in global warming

By : sustainabilityo..., Sep 30, 2016

Washington State University researchers say the world’s reservoirs are an underappreciated source of greenhouse gases, producing the equivalent of roughly 1 gigaton of carbon dioxide a year, or...

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Haryana to set up centre for research on Saraswati river

By : sustainabilityo..., Sep 30, 2016

The Haryana government approved Rs 20 lakh to set up a centre for research on Saraswati river in Kurukshetra University.

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Subject Tags: pollution , Research , STP

Lowering the heat makes new materials possible while saving energy

By : sustainabilityo..., Sep 28, 2016

A new technology developed by Penn State researchers, called Cold Sintering Process (CSP), has opened a window on the ability to combine incompatible materials, such as ceramics and plastics,...

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Milk, Not Plastic, Will Protect Food in the Future

By : sustainabilityo..., Sep 23, 2016

Much of the plastic packaging we see in the grocery store can be recycled, from egg containers, to milk jugs, to butter tubs. But what about that thin plastic film stretched around wedges of...

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Australia’s iconic gum trees could be used to create jet fuel

By : sustainabilityo..., Sep 19, 2016

Australian scientists believe they may soon be able to use the country’s iconic gum trees to develop enough renewable jet fuel for up to 5 per cent of the world’ s aviation industry....

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Govt launches initiative to mitigate impact of gases on ozone

By : sustainabilityo..., Sep 16, 2016

On the eve of Ozone Day, the Environment Ministry today launched a major research and development initiative to develop long-term technology to mitigate the impact of refrigerant gases on the...

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'Food waste may store solar, wind energy'

By : sustainabilityo..., Sep 16, 2016

Sugar alcohols - an abundant waste product of the food industry - mixed with carbon nanotubes could be used to store excess solar and wind energy for times when the Sun is down or the air is...

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