The DC-based research and consulting firm Social Technologies recently released a series of 12 briefs that shed light on the top areas for technology innovation through 2025. “Biofuels,” by futurist Mark Justman, is the sixth trend in the series.
Wind power has propelled the cities of Dallas and Houston onto the Environmental Protection Agency's national list of top green power purchasers.
Research and Markets has announced the release of Visions For a Sustainable Energy Future to their offering.
Rio Tinto Alcan has announced a £45 (US$90) million investment in the modernisation of its Lochaber plant, in Scotland. The modernisation project will see new hydroelectric turbo-generators installed to power the smelter, ensuring the increased use of clean renewable energy for aluminium production at the plant. The modernisation project is set to begin in 2009 and should be completed by 2012.
Horizon Wind Energy LLC, a leading wind project developer, has signed wind turbine supply and service agreements with GE Energy for future U.S. projects.
An increasing number of private individuals supply their excess energy, from external energy sources (windmills and solar cells), to the electricity grid and only take energy from the grid when necessary.
Honeywell today announced that Poway Unified School District in San Diego, Calif. has awarded the company a solar project that is expected to save the district more than $1 million in energy costs over the next 20 years. Under the agreement, Honeywell will install solar arrays at four of the district's schools and sell the electricity the panels produce to the district.
While the William J. Clinton Presidential Center has earned a reputation as the gold standard in environmentally friendly design, the Little Rock, Ark., structure has added a new designation -- the Platinum rating for its LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environment Design) certification, thanks in part to its agreement with Green Mountain Energy Company's BeGreen division.
World CTL 2008, the first international conference on the liquefaction of coal, will take place in Paris on 3 and 4 April 2008.
Ocean surface currents have long been the focus of research due to the role they play in weather, climate and transportation of pollutants, yet essential aspects of these currents remain unknown.
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