Environmental and Life Cycle No-one will deny that the environment is an important factor to consider when doing anything these days. Engineers are the ones largely coming up with the solutions.
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Biomimicry is everywhere these days. It seems increasingly clear that design inspired by nature will play a great big role in our energy future. Case in point: Green Wavelength, an up-and-coming California engineering biz, has prototyped a small wind turbine, the xBEE, the elegant flapping motion of which is inspired by the buzz of insect wings (see the video below).
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Tuesday 3 November, 2009 06:13 PM |
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New Zealand Renewable Energy Specialist Extends Global Leadership in Biogas Upgrading Systems
Renewable energy technology specialist, Flotech Group, is poised to extend its global leadership in delivering world-leading technologies to upgrade raw biomass to produce clean biomethane gas to fuel vehicle fleets, communities and power grids.
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Tuesday 3 November, 2009 03:17 PM |
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Abbott
announced today that it is saving 1 billion gallons of water annually since
launching a comprehensive, global effort in 2004 to preserve natural resources
through reducing use of water in the production of its nutrition and other
health care products
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Tuesday 3 November, 2009 12:35 PM |
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Lagisza power plant in Poland offers cost effective energy while reducing emissions.
When the Lagisza power plant began commercial operations in late June 2009, it marked a new era in the evolution of circulating fluidised bed (CFB) technology. |
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Tuesday 3 November, 2009 10:11 AM |
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Ocean Power Technologies, Inc. announces the successful completion of trials of its
Underwater Substation Pod ("USP") product in Spain. The USP, based on the
Company`s proprietary design, has been developed to facilitate the collection,
networking and transforming of power and data generated by up to ten of its
PowerBuoys for transmission to a shore-based electricity grid by one subsea
power cable. It has been built as an open platform, and can therefore provide
"plug and play" connectivity for any offshore energy device linked to it.
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Monday 2 November, 2009 04:05 PM |
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The Energy Technologies Institute has approved an £8 million project that will produce tools capable of accurately estimating the energy yield of major wave and tidal stream energy it was announced on Friday (30th October). Performance Assessment of Wave and Tidal Array Systems (PerAWaT), a project led by Garrad Hassan, and including EDF Energy, EON, the University of Edinburgh, the University of Oxford, Queen's University Belfast and the University of Manchester will, says the ETI, develop a series of models to predict the performance of wave and tidal stream generator arrays.
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Monday 2 November, 2009 03:12 PM |
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China Recycling Energy Corp., a fast-growing
industrial waste-to-energy solutions provider in China, today announced that
it has delivered to Shenmu County Jiujiang Trading Co., Ltd. ("Shenmu") a set
of 18-megawatt capacity power generating systems pursuant to a Cooperative
Contract on Coke-oven Gas Power Generation Project and a Gas Supply Contract
for Coke-oven Gas Power Generation Project. The 10-year Contracts provide that
the Company will recycle waste gas from Shenmu's 600,000 tons per year coke
production line to generate power, which will then be sold back to Shenmu for
use in production. Shenmu agrees to supply the coke-oven gas free of charge.
Power generation and delivery of power begin in October 2009. |
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Monday 2 November, 2009 01:10 PM |
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The rights to build wind farms off the coast of Britain up to 50 times the size of the biggest present plants are expected to be handed to consortiums of major utilities, with the prize Norfolk field likely to go to Scottish Power and Vattenfall.
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Sunday 1 November, 2009 09:10 AM |
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Efforts to plug an oil leak in the Timor Sea are hampered as a fire breaks out on the West Atlas rig and the Montara well head platform, PTTEP Australasia reports.
All personnel on the West Triton and on nearby work vessels are reported to be safe, with some workers being evacuated from the rig, media spokesperson for PTTEP Carla Shearman said. |
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Sunday 1 November, 2009 07:09 AM |
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TALLAHASSEE - Aug. 21 was a mess for the oil industry.
That was the day an oil platform off the northern coast of Australia began leaking 300 to 400 barrels of oil a day into the Timor Sea. Reports are that the leak continues, fouling thousands of miles of ocean and threatening marine life.
The spill also poses problems for oil producers trying to persuade Florida's leaders to permit offshore drilling in state waters. Not only did the Australia spill make headlines, it was - and still is - occurring in a part of the world that industry groups had hailed as a hub of safe, high-tech production.
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Saturday 31 October, 2009 05:45 PM |
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Visitors to the Chesapeake Bay area will soon be able to enjoy cleaner water in the bay thanks to upgrades at the Blue Plains Advanced Wastewater Treatment Plant (AWTP). The Chesapeake Bay is the largest estuary in the United States and is located along the coasts of Virginia and Maryland.
The Blue Plains AWTP, the largest facility of its kind in the world, serves more than 1.7 million people living in the District of Columbia and surrounding communities in Maryland and Virginia. |
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Thursday 29 October, 2009 07:29 PM |
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It is designed for product designers, mechanical engineers, product managers, marketers and sustainability leads in manufacturing companies and consultancies, as well as educational institutions teaching product design, engineering and/or sustainable business
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Thursday 29 October, 2009 02:33 PM |
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Xandex Solar today announced its new
SunMizer(TM) DC Power Optimizer has completed in-house and Ops A La Carte LLC
reliability modeling and testing. The reliability modeling concludes that
SunMizer(TM) has an expected Mean Time Between Failures (MTBF) of more than
500 years. Xandex Inc, leveraging more than 28 years of experience designing high
quality, high technology products, conducted electrical performance,
environmental qualification and field tests to ensure SunMizer(TM) performance
over the range of operating conditions exceeds the expected life of the
product.
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Thursday 29 October, 2009 12:31 PM |
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The National Science Foundation granted SJSU with $150,000 to build a zero emission house, said a mechanical engineering professor.
Jinny Rhee, an associate mechanical engineering professor, said the house will be built from 2010 - 11.
Rhee said there is no concept idea or plan made yet for the zero emission house. |
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Wednesday 28 October, 2009 07:20 PM |
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Engineering design activity for the Blue Grass Army Depot's chemical weapons destruction complex is nearly finished, while construction is progressing at the Kentucky installation, the Richmond Registerr reported yesterday |
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Wednesday 28 October, 2009 09:13 AM |
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At first glance , Russia’s Kola bay — with its crystal-clear waters and soaring mountainous backdrop — is a location straight out of Vladimir Putin’s holiday snaps. But scratch beneath the surface, turn your gaze to the rusting hulks that line its shores, and the beauty quickly turns to horror. For this is the home of Atomflot, a nuclear icebreaker base now considered to be one of the environmental hotspots of the former Soviet Union.
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Tuesday 27 October, 2009 04:32 PM |
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Here's an idea to cool Earth: make marine clouds into better reflectors of sunlight. After all, clouds already reflect more of the sun's radiation back into space than the amount trapped by human emissions of carbon dioxide. So why not make them even more effective?
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Tuesday 27 October, 2009 12:29 PM |
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A Charlottesville company and researchers at the University of Virginia are designing a new turbine that they anticipate will be capable of harnessing wind power across Virginia.
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Tuesday 27 October, 2009 10:28 AM |
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Sweden , one of the world's leading countries in clean technology, is aggressively looking for opportunities to partner with China, one of the world's larger "green" markets.China has vowed to cut its energy consumption per unit of GDP by some 20 percent from 2005 to 2010. It has also agreed to reduce emissions of its main pollutants by 10 percent.The government's directive has created enormous opportunities for investors at home and abroad in the search for advanced technologies to help clean up the environment and improve energy efficiencies.
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Monday 26 October, 2009 10:46 AM |
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Two grassroots pro-nuclear power groups from Wisconsin and Minnesota plan to hold a conference Monday that will feature a discussion on the future of nuclear power in both states.
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Monday 26 October, 2009 09:27 AM |
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At the end of 2008, the total wind energy capacity in Japan was 1,880 MW (1,508 turbines) with 342 MW of annual net increase. The national target is to reach 3,000 MW by 2010.
However, the increase in wind power capacity each year has turned from an exponential curve to a linear curve. Therefore, the attainability of the national target is still under question. Some reasons for the deceleration in growth include legal reform of the Japanese Building Code in April 2007, the establishment of an extreme wind map as a guideline limiting development in some areas, and severe climactic events like typhoon and lightning strikes. Additionally, more than a few projects have been delayed or cancelled due to high-level requirements in getting legal permission and finding possible sites. |
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Monday 26 October, 2009 07:25 AM |
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