Archive for June, 2008
Brown goes Green with £100 billion plan
Gordon Brown has shown his committment to a renewable energy future with an ambitious £100 billion plan.
The money is planned to come from private investment over the next 12 years, with government incentives paving the way to develop and deploy technologies including tidal, solar and wind power.
In the proposal, the country would extend and raise […]
Greenpeace Guide slams Nintendo and Microsoft
The quarterly Greenpeace Guide, which ranks personal electronics manufacturers according to their green credentials, has listed Nintendo and Microsoft at the bottom of their list.
The guide was first started in August 2006 and is now in its eighth edition.
It ranks the top market leaders of the mobile phone, computer, TV and games console markets according […]
Greens quash carbon sink tax deduction
A bill before the Australian senate has made unlikely bed fellows of the Australian Green Party, the National Party and the outspoken Senator Bill Heffernan.
The bill gives a full tax deduction for the cost of planting forests as carbon sinks. But Senator Heffernan, the Nationals and the Greens argued passionately in the Senate last night […]
Where there’s muck there’s bio-gas
Organic milk producer, Richard Tomlinson, turned the first sod yesterday on his Anaerobic Digester (AD) power plant in Holt, near Wrexham.The technology, costing more than £½m, will convert manure and other waste into bio-gas, which can be used to generate heat and electricity. Not that Mr Tomlinson has had any assistance from the Assembly Government.
“We […]
James Dyson sucks up to solar car market
James Dyson, the UK entrepreneur who re-invented the vacuum cleaner, is turning his attention to a feasible solar-powered car. Dyson technicians based at his Wiltshire brains-trust are working on a design which will carry a whole family for hundreds of miles.
The battery would be charged by solar panels mounted on the vehicle’s roof, or on […]
Joint venture plans Biofuel from algae
It looks like primordial soup and it could be just as productive.
Inventure Chemical has announced that it has entered into a joint venture with Seambiotic Ltd. (based in Tel Aviv, Israel) to construct a pilot commercial biofuel plant in Israel, using algae created from CO2 emissions as […]
Biomass Plant approved on Humber
Energy Minster Malcolm Wicks today approved a 65 megawatt biomass power plant at Stallingborough on the south side of the Humber estuary.The power station, which will be built by Helius Energy plc, is the first phase of an integrated bioenergy development on a 36 hectare site 4km from the port of Immingham.
The plant will produce […]
Discovery points to green cleaners
UC Riverside Chemists have cracked a cheap, clean and quick way to prepare amines. This might not sound too sexy but these nitrogen-containing organic compounds have wide industrial applications such as solvents, additives, anti-foam agents, corrosion inhibitors, detergents, dyes and bactericides.
More importantly, the present way of producing amines is a costly two-step process that results […]
Sovereign climate funds herald cash influx
Japan, Britain and the United States will urge other G-8 member countries at the Group of Eight finance ministers meeting beginning Friday in Osaka to contribute to funds supporting developing country measures against global warming, the Finance Ministry said Thursday.
The Climate Investment Funds, to be established in early July, will be administered by the World […]
Toyota expand hybrid range in Australia
Toyota Motor Corporation announced today at an Australian government-sponsored press conference in Nagoya, Japan, that it will begin producing the “Camry Hybrid” at the Altona Plant of Toyota Motor Corporation Australia Ltd. (TMCA), as part of an effort to further popularize hybrid vehicles worldwide. “We decided to build the Camry Hybrid in Australia because Australians […]
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