Sustainability
NASA highlights sustainable aviation goals for the U.S.
Agency details a plan to reduce aviation carbon emissions by 2030 via a Sustainable Aviation Fuel Grand Challenge (SAFGC), investment in cost-sharing partnerships and demonstration of new technologies, including composite materials.
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Carbon Mobile relocates smartphone production to Germany
Carbon Mobile’s Carbon 1 MK II, a carbon fiber, plastic-neutral smartphone, aims to close the gap on e-waste.
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Porsche races to the future with electric motors, natural fiber composites
The Mission R concept is Porsche’s vision for sustainable, all-electric customer motorsports, including a CFRP exoskeleton and natural fiber-reinforced components.
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Siemens Gamesa launches recyclable wind turbine blade
Called RecyclableBlade, the composite blades follows the IntegralBlade manufacturing process but with a new resin specially designed for recycling at the blade’s end of life.
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Hyundai Motor Group plans to popularize hydrogen by 2040
Hyundai plans to convert all new commercial vehicle models — featuring fuel cell electric or battery electric powertrains, as well as the application of fuel cell systems — by 2028.
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Caracol, NextChem debut one-piece, 3D-printed composite sailboat
The hull of the Beluga prototype boat was printed from short glass fibers and recycled polypropylene using Caracol’s robotic additive manufacturing system.
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MAE Museum dedicated to and built largely from new and recycled carbon fiber
Museum showcases the advancements in carbon fiber development where visitors can observe transformation process of acrylic fiber into carbon fiber.
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Carbon Fibre Grand Challenge completes Phase II, anticipates competition winners
The Carbon Fibre Grand Challenge is a three-phase competition that aims to accelerate the development and large-scale production of carbon fiber derived from Alberta Innovate’s bitumen supply.
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SPE announces ACCE and Rehkopf scholarship winners for 2021 conference
The three scholarship winners will be honored at the SPE ACCE event taking place Nov. 2-4, 2021.
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Industrial-scale wave energy system enabled by mobile filament winding
Sweden-based CorPower Ocean designed its 9-meter-long, filament-wound GFRP buoy prototype for high-efficiency, durable wave energy generation and fast, on-site manufacture.
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