Increasing fuel costs and the ongoing need to reduce carbon emissions means that businesses continue to look at reducing their reliance on the fossil fuel internal combustion engine. Electric vehicles are at present the main contender, although hydrogen-based technology could provide another alternative for commercial vehicles. Hydrogen has been used for many decades in various industries and provides a high energy density fuel when burned, producing no greenhouse gases.
Increasing fuel costs and the ongoing need to reduce carbon emissions means that businesses continue to look at reducing their reliance on the fossil fuel internal combustion engine. Electric vehicles are at present the main contender, although hydrogen-based technology could provide another alternative for commercial vehicles. Hydrogen has been used for many decades in various industries and provides a high energy density fuel when burned, producing no greenhouse gases.
At the AUVSI Xponential 2024, an event showcasing the latest innovations in unmanned systems, NASA’s recent achievement of flying multiple drones autonomously beyond visual line of sight marks a pivotal advancement in drone technology. I had the privilege to sit down with Jeffrey Homola, a NASA researcher, to discuss the details and implications of these groundbreaking tests.
Two internationally active warehouse automation specialists, TGW Logistics and OPEX Corporation, have announced a strategic partnership agreement. As part of the collaboration, TGW Logistics is channeling its experience into the further development of OPEX's Infinity automated storage and retrieval (AS/RS) technology, which will also be implemented in LivePick, TGW Logistics' new order fulfillment system.
Two teams led by MIT researchers were selected in December 2023 by the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) Convergence Accelerator, a part of the TIP Directorate, to receive awards of $5 million each over three years, to pursue research aimed at helping to bring cutting-edge new sustainable materials and processes from the lab into practical, full-scale industrial production.
Transparent solar cells will transform the look of infrastructure by enabling many more surfaces to become solar panels. Now, materials called non-fullerene acceptors that can intrinsically generate charges when exposed to sunlight could make semitransparent organic photovoltaics easier to produce, a KAUST-led international team shows.
International technology group ANDRITZ saw a satisfactory business development in the first quarter of 2024.
The revenue decreased slightly, but profitability remained stable and net income increased slightly compared to the first quarter of 2023. While total order intake declined from the high level of the previous year, orders for green technologies went up.
En los años 60 del siglo pasado apareció en el Instituto de Investigación de Stanford (Estados Unidos) el concepto de los stakeholders. La teoría de los stakeholders(grupos de interés) defiende que los propietarios o accionistas de las empresas no son los únicos interesados en su buen funcionamiento, sino que hay que incluir también a los trabajadores, los proveedores, los consumidores y al conjunto de la sociedad.