Zero Waste Scotland’s circular economy roadmap for the built environment lists 12 interventions for a sector that makes up about half of Scotland’s waste, but a promotional podcast feature about it gives no figures for the savings it claims.
A Journal of Energy Storage study finds that in 2024 battery dispatch followed day-ahead prices at r² 0.88 in California and 0.73 in Texas, a measure of price following that does not by itself show a carbon benefit.
A review in the International Journal of Hydrogen Energy says replacing oxygen evolution with ethylene glycol oxidation from PET waste can lower the anode potential by up to 1 V while co-producing chemicals and hydrogen.
A 1:20 scale experiment using helium puts the high concentration region of a vertical hydrogen leak at about 4 to 6 m in a refuelling area, a figure inferred by scaling rather than measured.
Sellafield said on 8 October it has completed the bulk removal of about 110 cubic metres of 1950s liquor from its oldest HALES tanks, on the same day it published a 2026 to 2031 strategy built on a budget of about £2.7 billion a year.
