2021 – a year of uncertain hopes, fragile agreements and new sources
Last year brought no shortage of serious tests for the energy sector the world over.
29.01.2021
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Monthly Archives: January 2021
Planes flying on fuel from sawdust and mushrooms? Why, yes!
You might think it’s a joke – aircraft operating on fuel produced from firewood – but the joke is starting to take shape.
28.01.2021
U.S. civil servants to switch to electric vehicles
New U.S. President Joe Biden has pledged to switch the entire fleet of federal vehicles to U.S.-made electric cars as part of his “Buy American” programme.
28.01.2021
Pepsi looking to become green
World-wide food and beverage company Pepsico of the United States has announced plans to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions by 40 % by 2030 and to bring them down to zero by 2040 – a full decade earlier than the deadline set down in the Paris agreement on climate change.
28.01.2021
Academician Fortov – In memoriam
The Praesidium of the Russian Academy of Sciences held an online session in Moscow to honour the memory of academician Vladimir Fortov, its longstanding president and laureate of the Global Energy International Prize, on what would have been his 75th birthday.
27.01.2021
Scientists create new state of matter between crystalline and liquid
Russian scientists have created for the first time a state of matter between crystalline and liquid, confirming the hypothesis advanced by the laureates of the 2016 Nobel Prize for Physics.
26.01.2021