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National Institute of Standards and Technology Creates Prototype to Assess Green Standards

Most of the manufacturers and businesses that try to cut down on their wastages, reduce their energy usage and improve their sustainability efforts in their manufacture and other processes undergo the problem of choosing the right concept from a range of available green options.

30 Apr 2011

Researchers from University of Stavanger Work on a Heat Pump that Lasts Forever

Researchers have zeroed on a heat pump that can last eternally in comparison to the present day heat pumps that work for ten to twenty years.

30 Apr 2011

Greenfire Energy Receives Funding for Geothermal Pilot Project

Greenfire Energy, a new geothermal/CCS company, has been chosen by the Department of Energy (DOE) to receive $2 million as finance for a geothermal trial project that utilizes injected carbon dioxide as functioning fluid in the well instead of water.

26 Apr 2011

Direct FuelCell Power Plant Operational by End of 2011

FuelCell Energy’s 300 kilowatt DFC300 has been sold and is ready for its installation in Central London’s Regent Street at a re-developmental project titled Quadrant 3.

21 Feb 2011

Elsevier Launches New Journal - Sustainable Computing: Informatics and Systems

Elsevier, a leading global publisher of scientific, technical, and medical information products and services, announced today the launch of Sustainable Computing: Informatics and Systems

20 Feb 2011

Picosun to Help Boost Clean Tech Market at Delhi Sustainable Development Summit

Picosun Oy, Finland-based global manufacturer of state-of-the-art Atomic Layer Deposition (ALD) systems, joined forces with other high profile Finnish high-tech companies to boost India's emerging clean technology markets with world-leading know-how on issues such as wind power, water management and nanotechnology solutions for green and sustainable development at the Delhi Sustainable Development Summit (DSDS) February 3rd - 5th, Delhi, India 2011.

20 Feb 2011

Southern Israel to Get Solar Photovoltaic Plant

Spain’s Soltec Renewable Energies and Israel-based Shikun & Binui Solaria, a subsidiary of Shikun & Binui Renewable Energies will build a 6.7MW solar photovoltaic plant at Timna Copper Mines in Southern Israel.

19 Feb 2011

Donauer Solartechnik Taps European Market with Local Office

Donauer Solartechnik will henceforth carry its operation within UK with a local sales office. Managing Director of the solar energy company, Rudoff Donauer stated that the decision came after the demands for photovoltaic systems increased after UK launched its feed-in tariffs in April 2010.

19 Feb 2011

Bayer to Produce Plastics from Waste CO2 from the Energy Sector

Bayer is taking a new direction in the production of high-quality plastics with the help of carbon dioxide (CO2) from the energy sector. A pilot plant has come on stream at Chempark Leverkusen to trial the new process on a technical scale.

17 Feb 2011

Inaugural GreenTech Minerals Conference to Take Place in March

Industrial Minerals Events’ inaugural GreenTech Minerals Conference will take place on 15-16 March 2011 in Rio de Janeiro. It is the only event specialised in the green minerals technology and covering a variety of topics including, but not limited to, wind and solar power, biofuels, batteries and electric vehicles.

16 Feb 2011