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The race to recreate nuclear fusion has hotted up significantly, following a revolutionary breakthrough by US-based scientists. Physicists at the National Ignition Facility at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), in California, have just announced that they’ve successfully overcome a major barrier in the artificial production of ‘nuclear fusion’ – the process that powers the ...

Transition to net zero is crucial to the long-term future of the planet we all share. Achieving it is in less than three decades however, represents the biggest and most ambitious engineering project every undertaken by mankind… and it’s vital that we all, as businesses, play a full and responsible role. This has been underlined ...

From 1st October 2024 onwards, Great Britain and Northern Ireland will no longer be using coal to generate electricity; a year earlier than originally planned. This ambitious pledge, made by the former Minister for Energy and Climate Change, Anne-Marie Trevelyan (now the Minister of State for the Indo-Pacific), is a key part of the UK Government’s ...

One of the world’s major specialised paper machine manufacturers has just blazed a trail in the field of eco-friendly tissue production, following the launch of its new Hydrogen Burner. Headquartered in Lucca, North Western Italy – an area widely known within the industry as ‘Tissue Valley’ – and with offices and service centres in China and North ...

One of the worldwide aerospace industry’s leading lights has made a major step forward in realising its mission of achieving net-zero. Rolls-Royce, which makes aerospace engines, has recently conducted initial tests of its newly-developed 100% Sustainable Aviation Fuel using a business jet engine, as part of its overarching target of playing a driving role in enabling ...