Archive for August, 2008
Consumers Energy Dedicates Renewable Energy Training Center
Consumers Energy dedicated its new Marshall Training Center, a US $5 million investment that the company says will help prepare utility workers to meet the challenges of the 21st century, including service to the growing renewable energy market. The new Marshall Training Center will use renewable energy and state-of-the-art training techniques for approximately 2,000 utility service workers each year.
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Congress “Localisation on Environmental Business and Supply Base in India”. Dr Rajendra Pachauri is the Patron
A joint special event during the Delhi Sustainable Development Summit 2009 (DSDS 2009)
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Joint Venture To Deploy Compressed Air Energy Storage Plants
PSEG Global LLC and energy storage pioneer Dr. Michael Nakhamkin announced that they have formed Energy Storage and Power LLC (ES&P), a joint venture to exclusively market, license, support the development and supervise project execution of the second generation of Compressed Air Energy Storage (CAES) technology.
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Hydrogen Projects Finding Mixed Funding Sources
Hydrogen projects that cut across a wide spectrum of applications are managing to find enough ramp-up funding from government, industrial, private and academic sources such that several technologies are already breaking in to the commercial space, and others should become mainstream within one or two decades, sector executives say.
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Congress “Localisation Program on Environmental Business and Supply Base in India”
Dr Rajendra Pachauri is the Patron of the Congress
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Poll Says 74% of Americans Think T. Boone Pickens’ Energy Plan Can Work
In a new national Sacred Heart University Poll, 74.0% of Americans said it was very or somewhat possible that the 10-year energy independence plan proposed by Texas oilman, T. Boone Pickens, could be accomplished.
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Poll Says 74% of Americans Think T. Boone Pickens’ Energy Plan Can Work
In a new national Sacred Heart University Poll, 74.0% of Americans said it was very or somewhat possible that the 10-year energy independence plan proposed by Texas oilman, T. Boone Pickens, could be accomplished.
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More US States Cooking Up Renewable Energy Incentives
Wisconsin Governor Jim Doyle's Task Force on Global Warming has called for implementation of Advanced Renewable Tariffs to encourage the development of the state's renewable energy resources.
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Dysfunction - August 12
Mad cows (and livid lambs)
China and India: heartlands of global protest
Outside U.S., credit cards tighten grip
Local scientist splits water, saves world, gets on TV
Thirty Reasons Why Organizations Must Get Off Petroleum Now
Don't get me wrong -- I am very concerned about global warming and climate change. In the long run, that's one of the most serious challenges that humans face as a species. But in the short run, the world is no longer able to produce petroleum in sufficient volume to satisfy its demand. Soon it will not be able to produce petroleum in sufficient volume to satisfy its needs.
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