Apple has been in the spotlight for a few years now after it was found to be reducing performance on older devices for “preserving the battery”. What is batterygate, how does it work in Apple's favour, and how has the world reacted to their throttling practice...
By Sam Brown | 19-11-2020
Recently, researchers from Imperial College London have created a drone that can shoot sensor-containing darts at trees for environmental monitoring purposes. What technologies are drones reliant on, why is a dart-shooting drone useful for environmental monito...
By Robin Mitchell | 15-11-2020
With growing pressure on environmental regulations and legislation, many are looking at e-waste and how it can be reduced. What problems does e-waste cause, what are product passports, and how could they help both the environment and consumers? What is e-waste...
By Sam Brown | 14-11-2020
A recent study on digital pregnancy tests shows how they are nothing more than overcomplicated paper readers that use the same technology as manual pregnancy tests used by GPs. What are disposable electronics, where are they commonly found, and should they be...
By Robin Mitchell | 11-09-2020
According to cellular carrier O2, 5G will help save CO2 and the environment in general. In this article, we will examine their vague 5G environmental impact claims, and try to understand how this may be the case. O2 Claims 5G will help the Environment - How 5G...
By Robin Mitchell | 19-08-2020
Recently, Vodafone has announced that they will be teaming up with DEFRA to monitor tree growth, and other environmental data, to help combat climate change. What does IoT mean, how are sensors crucial to IoT technologies, and what role could AI play in helpin...
By Sam Brown | 15-08-2020
Clean transportation, renewable energy, sustainable water and circular economy adapted products could benefit from the net proceeds of a $400 million green bond issued by Analog Device Inc (ADI). The company’s green bond issuance consisted of a $400 million ag...
By Rob Coppinger | 22-04-2020
The uniformed always talk about using hydrogen as a source of energy - after all, hydrogen is the most abundant element in the universe, isn’t it? True enough, and even here on our planet, hydrogen makes up almost one percent of the Earth’s crust by weight. Bu...
By Gary Elinoff | 20-03-2020
The World Health Organisation (WHO) has declared diesel carcinogenic, fuel-cell cars may damage the environment and government hinders sales of electric vehicles. Not the essential and rapid greening of the planet we need - and much of the ponderous and ponti...
By Paul Whytock | 02-10-2019
There’s an overall trend towards environmentalism across all sectors. Whether this means restaurants banning plastic straws, transitioning to clean energy sources, or purchasing carbon offsets, society has witnessed an uptick in sustainability. Recently, green...
By Moe Long | 27-09-2019
A Bank Account For Renewable Energy How to store excess renewable energy for when the sun doesn’t shine and the wind doesn’t blow While the future is bright (pun fully intended!) for utility-scale solar power there is a fly in the ointment, and that’s the prob...
By Gary Elinoff | 27-08-2019
Nanoparticles of materials are increasingly used in electronics, from flexible circuits to solar cells. The properties of materials at the extremely small scale are not obvious to designers and knowing their potential effects on the environment, if released, a...
By Rob Coppinger | 06-06-2018
In Part I of this environmentally related look at how lithium battery powered electric vehicles (EVs) could have a substantially negative impact on our planet it became clear the problem with such batteries relates to how the materials they use are mined and t...
By Paul Whytock | 27-09-2017
A friend of mine recently bought himself a Tesla X and I have to say it’s a great looking vehicle and I had to agree with him that the performance figures are impressive and would certainly wipe the grin off any Porsche Carrera driver’s face. But when it came...
By Paul Whytock | 12-09-2017