A roundup of this week's top stories:
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Cousteau's Proteus: "The promise of the ocean is the answer for our future"
Celebrated aquanaut, ocean explorer and environmentalist Fabien Cousteau, grandson of Jacques Cousteau, has unveiled his plans for Proteus, described as the most advanced underwater scientific research station and habitat in the world...
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The future of carbon utilisation: Econic’s deep-tech carbon to value technology
Econic CEO Keith Wiggins explores the state of the carbon utilisation market, following the UK government’s 2021 pledge to capture 10Mt a year of CO2 by 2030. Is the UK still a market leader in CCSU, and should funding be public or private sector?
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Skyrocketing solar costs could scupper Brussels' REPowerEU plans
Brussels' REPowerEU initiative could potentially add 420 GW of solar energy by 2030, but the soaring costs of solar raw materials could become an obstacle to the programme's goals, said global research consultancy Wood Mackenzie...
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Bradford Manufacturing Weeks pledge to "change futures" in 2022 campaign
Local schools and manufacturers are being mobilised as the Bradford Manufacturing Weeks 2022 careers initiative announced its ambitions at a launch event on May 24...
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Airbus to build cryogenic fuel innovation centre in UK
Aerospace company Airbus has revealed it will be building an innovation centre in the UK to research the feasibility of hydrogen-based technologies such as cryogenic fuels...
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World's first bike made from recycled plastic to hit streets this year
At the 2022 Engineering Expo, from June 8-9 in Wisconsin, plastics firm Igus is set to launch a bicycle entirely made from recycled plastic - a world first...
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'Origami' steel-folding tech could help shape your community
The developer of e-motorcycles created using an "origami" folding method that allows robots to fold sheets of steel to make the chassis has revealed they will make their tech commercially available starting in 2023...
