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Mescoli Emiliana TM22 Wood Burning Stoves with Flue Selectors

The Mescoli Emiliana TM22 wood burning stove consists of an oven with two grates. The grates can be removed or attached manually, whenever needed. The biomass stove has an ash collection tray that is placed beneath the oven.

25 Nov 2009

Baxi Multi-Heat 2.5 Biomass Boilers with Hopper Doors

The biomass fuel boiler from Baxi has a total weight of 530 kilograms and measures 1,578 millimeters, 600 millimeters and 1,475 millimeters in depth, width and height, respectively.

25 Nov 2009

Portable Geothermal Heat Pumps from American Geothermal

The geothermal heat pump incorporates a minimum of two compressor units and two individual refrigeration cycles. If one module does not work, the other module runs the machine.

25 Nov 2009

Siemens Helps Crane Drivers Save Energy

With the new generation of ECO RTG from Siemens Drive Technologies, improved control functions for the operation of rubber-tired gantry cranes are now available. The basis of the new control is the simulation of the load curve and the resulting optimized control of the diesel-electric hybrid drive. By storing braking energy in ultra-capacitors when containers are lowered and by optimizing the utilization of energy due to the new control function, fuel consumption can be reduced by approximately 70 percent.

25 Nov 2009

BASF is The First Company to Regularly Compile Carbon Footprint Details

BASF is the first company in the world to voluntarily compile details of its carbon footprint on a regular basis. The results now published for 2008 show that when used by customers, BASF products save three times more greenhouse gas emissions than are released in the manufacture and disposal of all products made by BASF. The company published its first carbon footprint in February 2008.

25 Nov 2009

Liquid Battery to Store Renewable Energy

There’s one major drawback to most proposed renewable-energy sources: their variability. The sun doesn’t shine at night, the wind doesn’t always blow, and tides, waves and currents fluctuate. That’s why many researchers have been pursuing ways of storing the power generated by these sources so that it can be used when it’s needed.

25 Nov 2009

DuPont Sponsor Climate Change Exhibition

DuPont is sponsoring the Climate Change exhibition on its worldwide tour, currently at the Papalote Children’s Museum in Mexico City, Mexico. The exhibit progresses through nine rooms using interactive displays to show visitors what is happening to the climate globally and what actions society should take to decrease negative effects.

25 Nov 2009

New West Coast Hub for Dow Corning Solar Solutions Application and Business Center

Dow Corning Corporation today opened a Solar Solutions Application & Business Center in Newark, California that will serve as its West Coast hub for customer sales, product evaluation and the development of commercialization strategy.

25 Nov 2009

Aluminum Wheels to Help Hybrid Truck Gain Green Credentials

Renault Trucks and Coca-Cola Enterprises Belgium (CCEB) are joining forces to reduce their environmental impact, and Alcoa wheels are playing a part.

25 Nov 2009

Bayer Promote Energy Efficiency and Thermal Insulation at Big 5 Trade Show in Dubai

From November 23 to 26, 2009, Bayer MaterialScience will be represented at the BIG 5 trade fair in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, by its regional polyurethane systems house joint venture BaySystems Pearl. The company’s exhibits on stand Q 101 of the German pavilion, located in Zabeel Hall, will focus primarily on thermal insulation systems.

24 Nov 2009

Carbon Nanotube-Based Coating Reduces Fuel Consumption for Ships

The Norwegian company Advanced Marine Coatings based in Gamle Fredrikstad specializes in the development of environmentally compatible, heavy-duty anti-corrosion coatings for sea-going vessels. The "Green Ocean Coating Heavy Duty" coatings are formulated with Baytubes® carbon nanotubes (CNT) from Bayer MaterialScience, which gives them very high abrasion resistance. The coatings also reduce the flow resistance between the ship's hull and the water, thereby enabling a significant reduction in fuel consumption.

24 Nov 2009

Next Generation Biofuel Production Technology Wins Award

The Fischer-Tropsch (FT) microchannel reactor combined with a new highly active FT catalyst developed by the Oxford Catalysts Group and designed to enable the distributed production of next generation biofuels was named as the winner in the Innovation category of the 2009 Energy Institute (EI) Awards competition.

24 Nov 2009

Using the Motion of Cars and Planes to Generate Electricity

A group of researchers at the City College of New York is developing a new way to generate power for planes and automobiles based on materials known as piezoelectrics, which convert the kinetic energy of motion into electricity. They will present their concept later this month at the 62nd Annual Meeting of the American Physical Society's (APS) Division of Fluid Dynamics.

24 Nov 2009

Fusion Energy Film Wins Prize

The latest film made by the European fusion community, entitled "Energy of the future - Fusion 2100", won the 2009 EuroPAWS MIDAS Prize for New Media. The prize recognises the best European new media production (web, promotional video etc.) involving science and engineering/technology. The award was presented at the "Environment in TV and New Media Awards Evening"

24 Nov 2009

Idle Cropland Could be Used to Grow Biofuel Precursor

A USDOE and USDA study concluded that 50 million U.S. acres of cropland, idle cropland, and cropland pasture could be converted from current uses to the production of perennial grasses, such as switchgrass, from which biomass could be harvested for use as a biofuel feedstock. Economically viable production of a perennial grass monoculture from which substantial quantities of biomass are removed annually is expected to require nitrogen fertilizer.

24 Nov 2009