And some more top cleantech news from around the interwebs (last roundup of the day): Energy Efficiency TOPTEN USA Releases New Lists of Energy Efficient Televisions — Sharp, Samsung, and Magnavox Lead the Field “It’s a surprising trend: Even as manufacturers pack higher-tech features into their televisions, the new … [continued]
Vancouver-based Methanex is looking to wind power to enhance its energy security and environmental sustainability in Chile’s natural resource-rich Magallanes region. Having worked with Vestas to build its Cabo Negro Wind Power Plant, the two industry leaders aim to identify and develop a wind energy infrastructure in the southern Chilean region.
A new anaerobic digestion plant opening up in Washington, DC plans to reduce the city’s carbon footprint, and members from that project plant to participate in this year’s Climate Ride. The new hydrolysis plant, the largest in the world, is set to reduce the city’s carbon footprint by 60,000 tonnes … [continued]
Microsoft is conjuring plans to power a data center with the renewable fuel emitted by landfills: biogas. Microsoft would construct its own power plant, which would then use that gas to generate electricity to power its data centers. This would be achieved using fuel cells. This is reminiscent of the … [continued]
Remember those earthquakes in Ohio seismologists from Columbia University thought could be caused by activities related to natural gas fracking? Well it looks like the experts were on the right track. Last week the Ohio Department of Natural Resources issued the strictest set of fracking-related rules in the country, based … [continued]
Nearly 100% reliant on imported oil for electricity and water desalination, the USVI has launched an ambitious 15-year plan to cut fossil fuel use 60%. Partnering with NREL and the Interior Dept., the plan’s success may have a lasting impact on renewable energy planning and development in the continental US as well.
In a ceremony last month, Katerva announced the winner of their first annual award for Best Sustainable Idea, a process touted as the “Nobel Prize of Sustainability” by the non-profit organization.
A new Air Products hydrogen fueling plant at the Orange County Sanitation District wastewater facility in Fountain Valley, California is producing clean, renewable electricity and hydrogen fuel and heat for use on-site and in hydrogen fuel cell vehicles. The wastewater-biogas-power-and-fuel plant could open up significant opportunities to use similar designs and technology to manage water and process agricultural, food and brewery waste streams.
Times change, thankfully. Instead of thinking first about how to get rid of waste, more people are now asking how they might put parts of the waste stream to better uses. Especially true with methane.
Dallas, Texas has become the latest hotspot for renewable energy, in this case the capture and reuse of biogas from sewage. Biogas is a byproduct of the sewage treatment process and until now it has been routinely flared off at treatment plants. That’s right, until recently biogas has been treated as a mere
