By Andrew Blakers, Professor of Engineering, Australian National University In the 1980s, a global race was underway: to find a more efficient way of converting energy from the sun into electricity. Some 30 years ago, our research team at the University of New South Wales (UNSW) came up with a breakthrough, called the PERC silicon…
Grants totalling $4.7 million and shared among nine companies under the federal Accelerating Commercialisation program have been announced.
BlackRock, the mega funds manager which this week announced an exit from coal investments, has joined the share register of the producer of the iconic Australian red wine Penfolds Grange. The company has bought 7.3 million shares worth $250 million in Australia’s leading wine producer Treasury Wine Estates (ASX: TWE) over recent weeks. The global…
Metastatic cancer treatment biotech Noxopharm (ASX NOX) has successfully listed its Nyrada Inc spin off on the Australian Stock Exchange. Noxopharm, which is focusing on commercialising its Veyonda treatment for late-stage cancers, listed Nyrada to develop non-oncology drug prospects developed by the group. Nyrada is listed as a foreign company on the ASX through the…
Energy storage company 1414 Degrees (ASX: 14D) has successfully integrated its GAS-TESS energy storage system with a SA Water wastewater treatment plant. The system is the first in the world to store energy from biogas created in the waste treatment industry in molten silicon, recovering the energy later to generate electricity. As reported in @AuManufacturing,…