Whisky’s secret power: Turning waste to green hydrogen

Heriot-Watt University scientists have converted wastewater from the whisky distilling industry into green hydrogen

Offshore wind farms ‘leave lobsters unable to swim’

A marine biologist spoke to ELN about how the expansion of the UK offshore could harm lobsters unless protection measures are taken

Cables can get crustaceans crabby!

Underwater cables for offshore wind produce electromagnetism that can alter the behaviour of crabs

Scottish uni granted £20m to set up new hub to drive UK industrial decarbonisation

The Industrial Decarbonisation Research and Innovation Centre will be tasked with identifying and researching opportunities to reduce costs, risks, timescales and emissions

Heriot-Watt University hunts out UK’s best carbon storage sites

A new study will map the geological features of the southern North Sea and assess their carbon storage potential, as well as calculating where leakages may take place

Scottish uni scores £1.25m for energy economics research

BP has awarded £1.25 million to a Scottish university to continue its research on energy economics. Heriot-Watt University will also continue as the partner for the company’s annual energy benchmark reports, with the funding securing a further three years of expert statistical and analytical support. Energy economists at the university’s Centre for Energy Economics Research […]

BP funds energy research centre in Scotland

Oil giant BP will spend £1.25 million on a new energy research centre in Scotland. The Centre for Energy Economics Research and Policy will be set up at Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh. It will provide research support for BP’s Statistical Review of World Energy and its yearly Energy Outlook report. Heriot-Watt academics will work with […]

Scientists to turn ‘climate-changing gas to climate-saving fuel’

A team of global scientists is to develop clean fuel from carbon emissions which could be a “game-changing” transformation in the energy industry. The researchers have been granted £1.2 million to develop a new reactor that can produce fuel using sunlight and carbon dioxide. Led by experts at Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh, Scotland, they aim […]