Archive for December, 2008

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NRG Energy Plans 30 MW Biomass Project at Its Montville Generating Station in Connecticut

The company said it is also enhancing one of the station’s existing units to use biomass as a fuel source for 30 megawatts, or MW, of the unit’s 82-MW generating capacity. The facility currently is fueled by oil and natural gas.

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Renewable fuels campaign targets schools

“The campaign represents an opportunity to address global warming through the agriculture and woodlands industries,” said Sue Beitlich, Farmer’s Union president.

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New green technologies receives clean air permit for operation of waste to energy facility

The Company will operate the CAVD at the Palm Harbor, Florida location with joint venture partners to prove out the output models of energy from set amounts of feed stocks. NRGN has a corporate goal of securing large scale plant purchases along with its own plants over the next several months. Each CAVD plant is projected to be based upon a base 50 ton throughput of the waste. The wastes can be combined, but all have achieved or are expected to achieve similar production of oils, gas, and solid output for commercial sales.

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Geothermal Energy – Its Types and How It Works

The rock underground is full of cracks and small pockets, and these can fill with water. Water that gets trapped in underground caves will get very hot, even hotter than boiling temperature, but it cannot boil because there is no place for steam to escape into the air. This water sometimes finds its way to the surface in the form of hot springs. Most of the hot water stays underground in pockets called geothermal reservoirs.

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Livermore Lab and American Shale Oil team to study carbon sequestration

“Lawrence Livermore National Lab is a nationally recognized leader in scientific research on clean energy production”, said IDT Chairman and AMSO CEO Howard Jonas. “I’m delighted that the Lab will be working with AMSO to develop carbon sequestration approaches for oil shale production. Americans deserve affordable fuels developed using the best available environmental protection technologies.”

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SCE Completes First of Major Commercial Rooftop Solar Installations

“Edison’s rooftop plan is the nation’s largest solar installation program by a utility and it is just one example of how private companies are helping us reduce our emissions and meet our renewable energy goals. Projects like this one show the world you can protect the environment
and also pump up the economy, and I am proud to say it is happening right here in California.”

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Wind Energy from Ocean Surface

Ideally, offshore wind farms should be situated in locales where winds blow continuously at high speeds. The new research discovers such areas and presents clarifications for the physical mechanisms that produce the high winds.

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Lower Ninth Ward New Orleans gets $500,000 Eco-Friendly Playground

“This project plants one more seed of hope and renewal in New Orleans. On behalf of Kellogg people everywhere, this playground is dedicated to the children in the Lower Ninth Ward.” – Tim Knowlton, Kellogg VP of corporate social responsibility.

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Group says solar energy’s future bright in Texas

“Our economy is struggling and the unstable energy prices are only making things worse,” Seeley said. “But Texas has the technological prowess and vast resources of renewable energy from the sun, wind and crops that can revitalize our economy, power the nation, create thousands of high-paying manufacturing jobs, and renew Texas’ role as the energy capital of the world.”

2Dec2008 | | 0 comments | Continued
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Rajasthan to attract Rs8,000 cr investment in renewable energy

“Suzlon Gujarat Wind Park Ltd, with a proposed investment of Rs 4,910 crore leads the table followed by Enercon (India) Ltd and Wish Wind Infrastructure Ltd with an investment of Rs1,072 crore and Rs888 crore respectively,” a source said.

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