Here’s a guest post on an upcoming conference in the UK that looks quite interesting. Have a look and see if you’d like to attend: The UK doesn’t currently have sufficient capacity to process all waste that could be utilised for energy — an estimated 30 million tonnes go unexploited … [continued]
A new approach has been developed by Cranfield University for calculating the renewable energy potential of waste products prior to incineration process. The new method is expected to cut down time and money for the energy and waste industries. Under the UK Government’s Renewable Obligation Certificates (ROCs) scheme, electricity suppliers are … [continued]
Here’s some more top news of the week (other than what we’ve published and what was included in our clean transport and solar energy news roundups). Climate & Such Obama To Name Climate Hawk John Kerry Secretary Of State: “In the first serious indication Obama will focus on climate … [continued]
World Toilet Day has got to be one of the least known and least respected days of the year, and we at CleanTechnica did our part: we forgot all about it. So, to make up for missing World Toilet Day, which as a matter of fact was observed on November … [continued]
The UK consortium believes they’ve hit upon a carbon-neutral, potentially carbon-negative, combination of technologies that could result in local, distributed energy-from-waste systems being built across the country. […]
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]
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]
Waste haulers and power utilities are among those that see “green” in converting waste-to-energy. The growing presence of large, established companies in the waste-to-energy and recycling market spaces also spells opportunity for aspiring businesses all along the industry value chain.
SSE and Wheelabrator Technologies have teamed up to create Multifuel Energy Ltd (MFE), a £300-million waste-to-energy power plant located at SSE’s Ferrybridge power station in West Yorkshire. The 50:50 joint venture “expects to begin full construction of a 68MW multifuel facility in late 2012 and complete the project by early 2015,” Wheelabrator Technologies … [continued]
One man’s trash is another man’s treasure, right? While that phrase has been around for ages, it has taken society a while to make it more applicable to industry. Industrial waste has long ended up… just waste (nothing like treasure at all). It has polluted our environments, damaged our … [continued]
