Industry 4.0: No impact on energy consumption?

To what extent does the digitalisation of industrial and manufacturing processes (Industry 4.0) improve energy efficiency and thus reduce energy intensity?

30-Nov-2023 - China accounts for 30% of global manufacturing value added and the largest share of global manufacturing and industrial output. There are widespread expectations that Industry 4.0 – the comprehensive digitalisation of industrial production processes – will simultaneously boost economic growth and ...

Headline: Non-methane Volatile Organic Compounds: A Neglected Category of Emissions

22-May-2023 - Non-methane volatile organic compounds (NMVOCs) have numerous adverse health and environmental impacts and are important ozone precursors. Despite this, these pollutants are both under-researched and inadequately addressed in policy. A new study compares measurements of NMVOCs with their ...

Resolving the 'invisible' gold puzzle

Arsenic aids formation of giant gold deposits

03-May-2019 - The Carlin-type gold deposits in Nevada, USA, are the origin of five percent of the global production and 75 percent of the US production of gold. In these deposits, gold does not occur in the form of nuggets or veins, but is hidden - together with arsenic - in pyrite, also known as 'fool's ...

Lead hokes the Age

09-Apr-2015 - Rocks do not loose their memory during Earth history but their true ages might be distorted: even under ultra high-temperature metamorphic conditions exceeding 1200°C zircon maintains its lead content accumulated during radioactive decay of uranium and thorium. Giga year old zircon crystals still ...