|
Clipped to the Drawing Board by Dave Ellery
|
Purdue University’s Clean Manufacturing Technology Institute at the Center for the Environment will offer free workshops to teach Indiana businesses ways to increase efficiency and reduce environmental impact.
|
|
Wednesday 25 June, 2008 12:04 AM |
|
|
Clipped to the Drawing Board by Dave Ellery
|
Purdue University’s Clean Manufacturing Technology Institute at the Center for the Environment will offer free workshops to teach Indiana businesses ways to increase efficiency and reduce environmental impact.
|
|
Wednesday 25 June, 2008 12:02 AM |
|
|
Clipped to the Drawing Board by Pat Sheen
|
France’s nuclear safety watchdog intends to “make an example” of the country's first reactor project in 20 years, amid concerns that many of the skills for building nuclear power stations may have been lost.
|
|
Tuesday 24 June, 2008 02:50 PM |
|
|
Clipped to the Drawing Board by Administrator
Your mission, should you decide to accept it : Direct the design of a carbon capture and storage system at a coal-burning power plant. Make sure it can bury 1 million tons of CO2 in the ground annually.
Here’s a big budget -– use it wisely. Here’s the regulatory manual –- don’t violate it. There’s the aquifer –- steer clear of it.
|
|
Tuesday 24 June, 2008 02:55 AM |
|
|
Clipped to the Drawing Board by Barot Casha
Fuels from agricultural waste and other futuristic feedstocks are often touted as the solution to the current food-vs.-energy dilemma.
But for these "second-generation" biofuels to become a reality, the U.S. cannot abandon controversial "first-generation" biofuels from corn and soybeans, according to several biofuel developers.
|
|
Monday 23 June, 2008 02:12 AM |
|
|
Clipped to the Drawing Board by Pat Sheen
|
LIVINGSTON | Drayton Pruitt, a Livingston attorney, is convinced that one possible answer to the nation's energy crisis lies with a material many people have never given a second thought.
|
|
Saturday 21 June, 2008 12:39 PM |
|
|
Clipped to the Drawing Board by Bob Smith
|
Evolution Solar Corp . has entered into negotiations to acquire a Hong Kong-based R&D and Procurement Company. Evolution Solar most recently announced its plans to develop alternative energy technologies using thin film solar panels.
|
|
Saturday 21 June, 2008 06:34 AM |
|
|
Clipped to the Drawing Board by Sean
Getting rid of garbage is a problem anywhere, but particularly at forward operating bases in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Pair that with the constant need for fuel and the push for alternative energy sources, and you have the stuff of science fiction - the Tactical Garbage to Energy Refinery, or TGER, which is already turning trash into energy at Camp Victory, Iraq.
|
|
Friday 20 June, 2008 09:40 PM |
|
|
Clipped to the Drawing Board by Bob Smith
A US University is to study if people and their communities would be be healthier if they still got food from local farms?
The research team, from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill have received a grant to study the public health impact of moving toward a local, sustainable food system.
The team will establish a Gillings Innovation Laboratory (GIL) through the UNC School of Public Health. The project will be the eighth laboratory established through a generous gift to the School by Dennis and Joan Gillings.
|
|
Friday 20 June, 2008 05:42 PM |
|
|
Clipped to the Drawing Board by Rose Shah
They call it "wind turbine in a box," a simple off-the-shelf but high-performance wind turbine.
The innovative wind turbine is the first major launch of a commercial product from the Grand Valley State University energy center in Muskegon. Plans are to sell the turbine at home improvement stores for less than $2,000 to homeowners who can use it to provide up to 20 percent of their electricity.
|
|
Friday 20 June, 2008 12:22 PM |
|
|
Clipped to the Drawing Board by Yan Chu
|
Ottobrunn--The HotModule carbonate fuel cells made by CFC Solutions GmbH, a Tognum Group company, are a natural choice for operation with biogenic gases. Due to their operating principle, these fuel cells (unlike many other types of fuel cells) are not only insensitive to CO2 in the fuel gas, but in fact have higher electrical efficiency when running on gases rich in CO2, such as biogas or sewage gas.
|
|
Thursday 19 June, 2008 02:08 PM |
|
|
Clipped to the Drawing Board by George Tan
TOKYO -- Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda's announcement that Japan will cut carbon emissions by 60-80 per cent by 2050 sets a serious tone for the upcoming G-8 Summit at Lake Toya, Japan.
Even if real action remains stymied in the lame duck days of the Bush Administration, Japan's leadership sends a signal to the world that the rich industrialized countries -- whose emissions accumulated the "stock" of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere that are causing global warming -- accept their responsibility. This is the precondition required for developing countries like China and India -- responsible for massive new "flows" of industrial exhaust-- to join any common global program beyond the Kyoto Protocol to stem climate change.
|
|
Thursday 19 June, 2008 10:05 AM |
|
|
Clipped to the Drawing Board by Susan Decker
SAN JOSE, Calif. -- Expanding its wings in new markets, R&D foundry upstart SVTC Technologies Inc. has launched a solar-cell development center in Silicon Valley.
As part of the move, SVTC has signed a collaboration agreement with solar equipment manufacturer Roth & Rau AG of Germany. Under the agreement, Roth & Rau will provide a complete silicon wafer solar cell development and manufacturing line for SVTC of San Jose.
|
|
Wednesday 18 June, 2008 08:57 AM |
|
|
Clipped to the Drawing Board by Peter Wu
|
Dubai Municipality has established a new laboratory for testing green materials . The new initiative will be used for assessing the characteristics of these materials as per the international approved standard specifications, said Eng. Hawa Abdullah Bastaki, Director of Dubai Central Laboratory Department.
|
|
Tuesday 17 June, 2008 06:40 AM |
|
|
Clipped to the Drawing Board by Rose Shah
When Oregon State University researchers first announced they had created a transparent transistor, John Wager, professor of electrical and computer engineering, said it was too early to tell what practical applications might arise from it.
Five years later, the technology has found its first industrial use: making solar panels lighter, more efficient and with the ability to blend in or accent a building’s architecture.
|
|
Tuesday 17 June, 2008 02:21 AM |
|
|
Clipped to the Drawing Board by Bob Smith
Technip has been awarded by Neste Oil Corporation a cost plus fee services contract for a new generation NExBTL renewable diesel plant to be built in Rotterdam, The Netherlands.
The contract covers the engineering and the management of procurement and of construction activities.
The plant will have a production capacity of 800,000 tons per year and will be one of the largest facilities producing diesel fuel from renewable feedstocks.
|
|
Monday 16 June, 2008 02:54 AM |
|
|
Clipped to the Drawing Board by Ryan
|
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – Soaring gas prices are putting a squeeze on the budgets of boating enthusiasts across northwest Arkansas. Wouldn’t it be nice if power boats could run without the expense of gasoline? Well, they can.
|
|
Saturday 14 June, 2008 08:57 AM |
|
|
Clipped to the Drawing Board by Administrator
County officials and local coal powerhouse Reading Anthracite are at odds over a proposal to keep coal in the county courthouse and prison.
"I take exception to many of the statements here," county commissioners Chairwoman Mantura M. Gallagher said Tuesday about the proposal, submitted June 6.
Reading Anthracite was the only coal company to respond to an invitation for a "price match" to an energy-saving plan from Honeywell International Inc., but officials said Tuesday much of Reading's proposal is inaccurate and incomplete.
|
|
Friday 13 June, 2008 02:39 PM |
|
|
Clipped to the Drawing Board by Dave Ellery
Edinburgh-based noise and vibration expert Reactec is set to protect the health and safety of millions of workers in the UK with the global launch of a pioneering electronic monitoring and protection device.
With some 1000 new cases of Hand Arm Vibration Syndrome reported each year to the Health and Safety Executive and an estimated two million workers in the UK at risk, it is widely accepted that stringent measures are required to further protect tool operators from this harmful disorder.
|
|
Friday 13 June, 2008 10:04 AM |
|
|
Clipped to the Drawing Board by Peter Wu
It's not easy (or cheap) being Green. Just ask buyers at electronics companies who had to switch parts—and, sometimes suppliers—to comply with the European Union directive.
When the European Union (EU) announced it would ban the use of lead and five other substances from electronics equipment, many industry executives said the law would cost the electronics industry billions of dollars.
It turns out they were right.
|
|
Thursday 12 June, 2008 10:56 PM |
|
Save This Page
