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Protium Green Solutions, the green hydrogen energy services company, has secured a significant grant for Project HEART from the UK Government as part of the latest Future Flight Challenge in partnership with Blue Bear Systems and ZeroAvia. Blue Bear Systems is the leading supplier of innovation and products in unmanned systems, and ZeroAvia is a US-based innovator and leader of decarbonising commercial aviation. Other consortium members include Britten-Norman, LoganAir, Inmarsat, Highlands & Islands Airport, Weston Williamson + Partners, Fleetondemand and Edinburgh Napier University.
The grant has been awarded as part of the UK Government’s Future Flight programme, funded by UK Research and Innovation as part of the Government’s modern industrial strategy, which invites businesses and innovators to take part in or source partners for revolutionising aviation as part of a £125 million challenge. The project commenced in December 2020 and will take 1
Adapted from ACS Nano 2021, DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.0c07498
A backpack fitted with shock absorbers that generate electricity is easier to carry and can power LEDs and other devices.
The bag is suspended on sliding rails that allow it to move up and down with a pair of rubber ropes on a pulley system, acting like a car’s suspension to reduce the impact of the backpack on the wearer as they walk. This reduces the amount of force generated by the contents of the pack jiggling about by around 21 per cent.
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“When we are walking, the mass centre of the body moves up and down,” says Jia Cheng of Tsinghua University, China, who developed the prototype with his colleagues. An ordinary backpack moves with this mass centre, but the pulley system cancels that motion out, then uses the relative movement between the bag and the body to power a triboelectric nanogenerator (TENG) that converts mechanical energy into electricity.
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Jane Murphy, clinical support worker and Naggayi Angella, trainee mental health nurse, pictured with her children picture: supplied
The 42-year-old died on 25 January this year having been in a coma after contracting Covid-19.
Her children Annmarie Yiga, 12, and John, eight, paid tribute to their mum on a fundraiser set up by a woman’s shelter supporting their care.
Annmarie Yiga said: “In life, we love you dearly, in death we love you still, in our hearts you hold a place no one will ever fill.”
John said: “Mummy was a nice caring person who loved me so much.”
Jane Murphy is another one of the Capital’s key workers who died after contracting coronavirus.
£84m for green aviation projects announced
1st February 2021 14:55 Europe/London
The Government has announced £84m is being invested in three projects to make aviation greener. Half of that total is coming through the govt’s ATI programme with the rest matched by industry.
The three projects are:
GKN Aerospace-led project H2GEAR will receive a £27.2m government grant to develop an innovative liquid hydrogen propulsion system for regional air travel, which could be scaled up for larger aircraft and longer journeys
ZeroAvia’s HyFlyer II will receive a £12.3m government grant to scale up its zero-emissions engines for demonstration on a 19-seater aircraft (this had already been announced)