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New platform provides access to daily updated data on gas and electricity consumption in Austria, storage levels and energy prices.
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BOKU received the BEST INNOVATION award for the topic "Recyclable wood-based materials of the future - from chipboard to 3D printing".
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Yeast instead of crude oil - on the way to renewable plastics
Researchers at the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences Vienna and the Austrian Centre of Industrial Biotechnology (acib) have found a way to use an optimized yeast to use the harmful greenhouse gas CO2 as a raw material for the production of industrial products such as bioplastics, absorbents or important chemicals, thus binding it into durable materials.