News News stories 20 February 2024 University of Sheffield’s Energy Innovation Centre partners with Drax to advance carbon capture research Renewable energy company Drax has become the latest founder member of the University of Sheffield’s newly-launched Energy Innovation Centre, to drive forward research into next generation carbon capture technology. 1 May 2024 Longer-life smart MOPO batteries bringing renewable energy to Africa Longer-life MOPO Batteries, which can help communities off-grid or with unstable power networks in Africa access clean and affordable energy, are being developed with the help of engineers from the University of Sheffield. 30 April 2024 Only four G20 countries set for positive ecological footprint by 2050, study finds The UK, along with 15 of the G20 nations, are forecast to have a negative ecological footprint by 2050, according to new research from the University of Sheffield. 25 April 2024 UK Clearing House for sustainable aviation fuels officially launches The UK sustainable aviation fuels Clearing House has officially launched, marking a major step in enabling the UK to bring new fuels to market and help reduce carbon emissions from the aviation industry. Search Chernobyl clean-up could be helped by new x-ray analysis approach On the 35th anniversary of one of the world’s worst nuclear disasters, new research has been published that could help to contain and clean up the most dangerous radioactive materials that still remain at the site in Chernobyl. 26 April 2021 Prof Neil Hyatt discusses releasing contaminated water from Fukushima Professor Hyatt spoke to the BBC World Service about the plans for Japan to release contaminated water from Fukushima into the sea and whether there are any risks. Segment starts at 46:05. 15 April 2021 | Published by the BBC World Service Simulating and reducing household waste from plastic food packaging Funded by UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) Natural Environment Research Council (NERC), a new project that is set to help reduce the amount of food and plastic waste that is thrown away by households every year has been launched by researchers. 30 March 2021 H2H Saltend, one of the world’s first full-scale low-carbon hydrogen production plants, which will be the initial focus of the Zero Carbon Humber Partnership University of Sheffield manufacturing research centres to help decarbonise the Humber The University of Sheffield AMRC and Nuclear AMRC are supporting a major new project to decarbonise the industrial cluster around the Humber and help UK manufacturers win work in emerging low-carbon sectors including hydrogen fuels and carbon capture 25 March 2021 Dr Claire Corkhill speaks to Channel 5 about the events of the Chernobyl disaster - watch here! Nuclear expert and Energy Institute member Dr Claire Corkhill was interviewed for Channel 5's Russia vs The World about the science of, and events that led up to, the Chernobyl disaster. Watch the documentary at the link (section starts 1:03:10). 23 March 2021 | Published by Channel 5 Pagination First page « First Previous page ‹ Previous … Page 19 Page 20 Page 21 Page 22 Current page 23 Page 24 Page 25 Page 26 Page 27 … Next page Next › Last page Last »