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New Zealand Moves to Make Electricity Grid More Reliable and Adds More Renewable Energy

With goals of improving power reliability for consumers and adding more renewable energy, such as wind and solar to the grid, WEL Networks of Hamilton, New Zealand, is implementing GE smart grid technology

25 Nov 2008

Sea Slugs Live Like Solar Powered Plants

The lowly sea slug, "Elysia chlorotica," may not seem like the most exciting of creatures, but don't be fooled - it behaves like a plant and is solar-powered

25 Nov 2008

Greenwashing Hype and False Environmental Claims Tarnishing British Businesses

The green credentials of British businesses are falling far short of their environmental claims

25 Nov 2008

Molecule Found Thousands of Light Years from Earth That May Point to Life in Outer Space

Scientists have detected an organic sugar molecule that is directly linked to the origin of life, in a region of our galaxy where habitable planets could exist

25 Nov 2008

Finnish Project to Produce Biofuels from Fish Waste

VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland and its partners have launched ENERFISH, a three-year project concerned with producing biodiesel from the waste generated at a fish processing plant

25 Nov 2008

Award to Help Researchers Develop Novel Method of Storing Thermal Energy in Concrete

Engineering researchers at the University of Arkansas will receive a grant from the U.S. Department of Energy to develop a novel method of storing thermal energy in concrete

25 Nov 2008

Road Ecology Looking at the Impact of Roads on the Environment

Comedians have made good use of "road kill" in their routines, but a Clarkson University professor began focusing attention on the problem after finding roads in northern New York covered in green sheen from frogs who had been flattened by traffic

25 Nov 2008

Waste Material from Power Plants Being Could be Environmentally Friendly Replacement for Concrete

Each year, coal-burning power plants, steel factories and similar facilities in the United States produce more than 125 million tons of waste, much of it fly ash and bottom ash left over from combustion. Mulalo Doyoyo has plans for that material

25 Nov 2008

Greenpeace Releases Guide to Greener Electronics

The latest edition of the Greenpeace Guide to Greener Electronics has revealed that very few firms are showing true climate leadership. Despite many green claims, major companies like Dell, Microsoft, Lenovo, LG, Samsung and Apple are failing to support the necessary levels of global cuts in emissions

25 Nov 2008

Largest Solar Power Plan in America is Coming to Los Angeles

Solar LA, the country’s largest solar power plan, has been unveiled which will jumpstart the green economy in Los Angeles with the installation of 1.3 gigawatts of solar power

25 Nov 2008

Glasgow Schools Minimise Energy Waste With New Hot Water Temperature Controls

In a major schools investment programme, City Building (Glasgow) LLP is currently building 16 new primary schools in Glasgow and each is to have its hot water services supplied through a heat-traced single pipe system using Raychem HWAT self-regulating heating cables

25 Nov 2008