Renewable AI

Carbon Neutral Regulation in AI Training

  • In 2019, a vision struck me—a future where artificial intelligence (AI), accelerating at an unimaginable pace, would weave itself into every facet of our lives. After reading Ray Kurzweil’s The Singularity is Near, I was captivated by the inescapable trajectory of exponential growth. The future wasn’t just on the horizon; it was hurtling toward us. […]

  • The team behind the “Birmingham Blade”: (left to right) Dr Kit Windows Yule, University of Birmingham, and Chief Scientific Officer, EvoPhase; Leonard Nicusan, Chief Technology Officer, EvoPhase; Dominik Werner, CEO, EvoPhase; David Coleman, CEO, University of Birmingham Enterprise; Jack Sykes, Chief Operating Officer, EvoPhase; John Cook, Entrepreneur-in-Residence, University of Birmingham Enterprise; Laura Bond, Entrepreneur-in-Residence, University […]

  • Aberdeen. Scotland needs to urgently change the way it heats its cities and towns if it is to meet the Scottish Government’s target of decarbonising heat by 2045, says a report published today (28 November) by Scottish Renewables, the industry body for renewable energy in Scotland. More than half of Scotland’s energy consumption is used […]

  • There has been a transformation in leakage technology over the past five years, with new systems now available that improve performance, keeping more water in supply, writes Roland Leslie, Ovarro’s UK & Ireland sales lead, ahead of the Annual Leakage Conference taking place in Birmingham, UK, 2-3 December 2024. The impact of emerging technologies, particularly […]

  • The new guidance. RECOUP has updated its Recyclability by Design (RBD) publication, bringing things up to date with emerging requirements, and at a critical time for packaging recyclability with the impending increase of compliance costs associated with Extended Producer Responsibility. Originally released in 2006, the RBD document from the group – a leading UK independent […]

  • Design-and-build firm Space Solutions has completed a project employing 100 refurbished desks (image credit: Recycle Scotland). Over 3 million tonnes of office furniture is sent to landfill annually across the world, explains Recycle Scotland as it announces a fresh new look to reflect its ambitions of widening its ‘reuse first’ service. Established in 2010, the […]

  • The Academy of Macroeconomic Research (AMR) is a research institution under the direct supervision of China’s National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC), the ministry in charge of economic development and planning.  As a “national high-end thinktank”, the AMR’s Energy Research Institute is a well-respected body conducting energy transition research and providing vital suggestions on the […]

  • Ever struggled to keep up with fast meetings, long interviews, or complex lectures? We’ve all been there, jotting down notes while trying to catch every important word. But what if you could eliminate the stress of manual note-taking and never miss a key detail again? I recently discovered Notta AI, an  AI transcription tool that’s […]

  • Inside this reaction vial, spotlit by concentrated sunlight, a piece of black polystyrene from a foam tray breaks down into a recyclable material (image credit: Hanning Jiang). Black foam and black coffee lids, which are often made of polystyrene, usually end up in landfills because colour additives lead to ineffective sorting. Now, a US group […]

  • The second-generation LOOP chamber. British climate technology firm Levidian has launched its second-generation LOOP technology, which the group says will unlock industrial levels of production of high-quality graphene for the first time. As the firm explains, the LOOP system provides heavy emitters and hard-to-abate industries such as landfill and aluminium producers with a route to […]

  • As AI advances, AI-generated images and text are becoming increasingly indistinguishable from human-created content. Whether in the form of realistic deepfake videos, art or sophisticated chatbots, these creations often leave people wondering if they can tell the difference between what is real and what is AI-made.  Explore how accurately people can detect AI-generated content and […]

  • Imagine a retail company anticipating a surge in demand for specific products weeks before a seasonal shopping event. Or consider a healthcare provider accurately predicting patient influx during peak flu season, enabling them to allocate resources efficiently and improve care. These scenarios are not hypothetical—they are becoming the norm in organizations leveraging artificial intelligence (AI) […]

  • Some of the soils going though a flooding event in the lab (image credit: Océane Nicolitch, The University of Manchester). New research appears to reveal how tiny soil microbes are impacted by extreme weather events, offering new insights into the risks posed by climate change. As extreme weather events, such as heatwaves, droughts, floods, and […]

  • A new energy centre that will provide heat to thousands of homes across Midlothian has opened today (26 November). The project is part of a partnership between Midlothian Council and Vattenfall, called Midlothian Energy Limited (MEL), and will supply low carbon heat to new homes in Midlothian. The heat will be supplied via the MEL […]

  • Almost 200 countries assembled in Baku, Azerbaijan for COP29, which produced an agreement widely decried as falling far short of what was hoped for. Sir David King, Chair of the Climate Crisis Advisory Group said it offered “neither the funding nor the guidance needed for a safe and manageable future, especially for the most vulnerable”. […]

  • On 29 November, Ireland will hold its first general election since before the Covid-19 pandemic.  Voters will elect new Teachtaí Dála – members of Ireland’s lower house of parliament, the Dáil. Climate change has not featured prominently in the election campaign so far. Indeed, the top three political parties “failed” a climate manifesto assessment commissioned […]

  • An oil-spill-eating product from A&S International has been used at a facility of SUEZ recycling and recovery UK to reduce Total Petroleum Hydrocarbon (TPH) levels to non-hazardous status. The high levels of TPH were present in the by-products of a street-sweepings washing process. Specifically, TPH levels were high in the filter cake outputs of the […]

  • Despite taking place just days after a major UN biodiversity summit, the COP29 climate talks in Baku, Azerbaijan produced few new commitments on food, forests, land and nature. Countries did finalise the text on the remaining sections setting out the rules for international carbon markets under Article 6 of the Paris Agreement.  They also considered […]