Bloomberg proposes windmills for New York City
New York (AFP) Aug 20, 2008
Mayor Michael Bloomberg has proposed a renewable energy program for New York city that would include placing windmills on city bridges, solar panels on skyscrapers, and the use of tidal, geothermal and nuclear energy. Bloomberg unveiled the outlines of his plan late Tuesday at a major clean energy summit in Las Vegas organized by the University of Nevada. "Just five years ago last week ... read more
Ventyx Releases Electric Power Horizons Study
Atlanta GA (SPX) Aug 21, 2008
Ventyx has released Electric Power Horizons, a scenario-based analysis of plausible energy futures to the year 2032. The detailed study investigates renewable generation, third-generation nuclear energy, natural gas supply and greenhouse gas (GHG) regulations and analyzes their predicted effects on America's future energy security. The scenarios outlined in the study address many of the ... more
Clear Skies Solar To Install PV System On Historic Californian Hotel
New York NY (SPX) Aug 21, 2008
Clear Skies Solar has announced a Letter of Intent with Hotel Mt. Lassen to install a solar energy system on its Susanville, CA hotel and restaurant. "An increasing number of hotels are looking at ways to decrease their carbon footprints and conserve natural resources," said Ezra Green, Chairman and CEO of Clear Skies Solar. "Clear Skies Solar is proud to work with forward-thinking ... more
Nexterra Biomass Gasification Ready For Lime Kilns And Boilers
Vancouver, Canada (SPX) Aug 21, 2008
After two years of biomass gasification testing at the company's Product Development Centre in Kamloops, BC, Nexterra Energy has confirmed that renewable synthesis gas, or "syngas", produced by its gasifier has the ability to displace at least 60 per cent of fossil fuels used in lime kilns. Depending on the biomass feedstock and existing equipment configurations, 95 per cent substitution ... more
Bangladesh bans 'toxic' oil tanker
Dhaka, Bangladesh (AFP) Aug 20, 2008
Bangladesh banned a "toxic" oil tanker just days before it was to be beached and broken up, an official said Wednesday. The New Atlantia, which Greenpeace described as hazardous, was sold to a Bangladeshi shipbreaker after its name was changed to MT Enterprise, Musharraf Ashraf, a shipping department official, told AFP. Its new owner took the ship to Sitakundu, home to the world's largest ... more
Consortium Formed To Expand Recycling Options For Bioplastics
Winston Salem NC (SPX) Aug 21, 2008
Primo Water Corporation, along with 19 other organizations, has launched a new group to address recycling opportunities with bioplastics -- the Bioplastics Recycling Consortium. The Consortium's mission is to develop an effective, efficient and economical recovery system and end markets for post-consumer bioplastic materials. In doing so, the multi-industry Consortium will help ensure that ... more
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ENERGY TECH
Google.org Invests In Breakthrough Geothermal Energy Technology
SOLAR DAILY
Two-Day Solar Fiesta Shows Its Easy Being Green
SOLAR DAILY
First Solar To Expand Manufacturing Facilities In Ohio
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EnergyPeak's Building-Integrated PV System Makes Solar Energy Affordable
Pittsburgh PA (SPX) Aug 21, 2008
Solar energy has long been viewed as the perfect form of alternative energy. Free and renewable, solar energy's potential has only been constrained by the technology used to harness it. Efforts to use the sun's rays to power a building had previously involved expensive engineering and design, as well as unpredictable installation costs. However, with building-integrated photovoltaic (BIPV) ... more
California's Largest Residential Solar Community Initiative
San Francisco CA (SPX) Aug 21, 2008
Real Goods Solar has announced that it was selected by 1 Block Off the Grid, an independent consumer advocacy group, to provide turnkey residential solar system installations to its members with existing homes in San Francisco. San Francisco based 1 Block Off the Grid is a nationwide consumer-based initiative, the largest in the country, that focuses on driving the adoption of residential ... more
Analysis: Venezuela offers oil to Paraguay
Miami (UPI) Aug 20, 2008
Venezuela will supply Paraguay "with all the oil it needs," said President Hugo Chavez, who welcomed the election of another leftist leader in Latin America. While officials with the Venezuelan state-run oil company PDVSA refused to give explicit details of the agreement, Chavez assured new Paraguayan President Fernando Lugo, a former bishop whose political leanings are in line with the ... more
Analysis: Cameroon controls oil peninsula
Yaounde, Cameroon (UPI) Aug 21, 2008
Now that Nigeria has handed the oil-rich Bakassi Peninsula to neighboring Cameroon following a protracted war of words that threatened to escalate, military officials in Cameroon are demanding compensation for their role in the deal. Defense Ministry officials in Cameroon told a leading newspaper there that some members of the military argue that they helped orchestrate the delivery of ... more
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AEROSPACE
The M2-F1 - An Aircraft Without Wings
FROTH AND BUBBLE
Many US Public Schools In Air Pollution Danger Zone
DISASTER MANAGEMENT
Japan warns of iPod nano fire risk
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30 still missing after truck swept into river in Haiti
Port-Au-Prince (AFP) Aug 19, 2008
At least 30 people remain missing in Haiti two days after a truck carrying more than twice that number was swept into a river swollen by Tropical Storm Fay, authorities said Tuesday. Only two bodies have been recovered from the scene of Sunday's accident on the river Glace in southwestern Haiti, said Silvera Guillaume, coordinator of civil protection services in the region. "We were at ... more
Aerosols Impact On Australia's Climate
Canberra, Australia (SPX) Aug 20, 2008
CSIRO Marine and Atmospheric Research scientist, Dr Leon Rotstayn, says the influence aerosols have on climate is still one of the 'great unknowns' in climate science. "We recently identified that the extensive pollution haze emanating from Asia may be re-shaping rainfall patterns and monsoonal winds in northern Australia. Establishing the impacts of aerosols across the rest of the country ... more
Japan to label goods' carbon footprints: official
Tokyo (AFP) Aug 19, 2008
Japan is planning to label consumer goods to show their carbon footprints in a bid to raise public awareness about global warming, an official said Tuesday. Under the plan, a select range of products from beverages to detergent will carry markings on the carbon footprint -- or how much gas responsible for global warming has been emitted through production and delivery. Similar labels have ... more
China sees brisk growth in auto imports, exports slow: state media
Shanghai (AFP) Aug 19, 2008
China's auto imports grew rapidly in the first half of 2008, underlining its increasing importance as a market for carmakers, but export growth slowed, state media said Tuesday. China imported 212,000 vehicles in the first half of this year, up 53.2 percent from a year earlier, the Xinhua news agency reported, citing data from the China's customs administration. The growth rate was 18.3 ... more
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FROTH AND BUBBLE
Helsinki trash cans to thank bin users for not littering
CIVIL NUCLEAR
Iran picks firms to hunt for new nuclear plant sites
CAR TECH
Energy Storage For Hybrid Vehicles
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