Archive for October, 2008
Operation Energy Transition
The number of plans for developing sustainable energy resources as we face the reality of a global energy crunch are expanding. Many of these plans include crucial elements, which, if combined, would provide us an elemental blueprint for scaling the oil peak, knowing that a solid base camp would be waiting on the other side. However, strong ropes make scaling mountains possible, and no plan to date includes this basic support system.
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Samsung Everland To Install 4.8-MW Fuel Cell System
UTC Power announced that Samsung Everland has purchased 12 of its PureCell 400-kilowatt (kW) fuel cell systems for installation at a GS Power plant in the Town of Anyang, just outside Seoul.
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Clean Technologies in India
"For the post-2012 period, we need new and enhanced mechanisms for the development and transfer of climate friendly technologies. The private sector will be the main vehicle to implement technologies transfer. Their experience and expertise should be fully used in the future climate regime", notes Jukka Uosukainen, Chairman of the United Nations Expert Group on Technology Transfer (EGTT) and a key speaker of the congress
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The Second Congress “Localisation on Environmental Business and Supply Base in India” will host the International Green Business Fair
"The effects of climate change, as well as the necessary means to prevent it, are important themes, which are of great concern to Denmark and the Danish Government. Thus, from a Danish point of view, "The Second International Scientific and Business Congress on Protesting the Climate - A World Joint Strategy", constitutes a very exciting and interesting initiative in the same year as Copenhagen will be hosting the 2009 UN Summit on Climate Change", says Mr Ole Lønsmann Poulsen, Ambassador, Royal Danish Embassy in India
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Air Products Commissions Hydrogen Fueling Station
Air Products has officially opened a new hydrogen fueling station at its Pennsylvania offices and rolled out two hydrogen-powered buses as part of a new Hydrogen Education Initiative.
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Students to Design University Building Powered by Hydrogen
If you were given $28 million to design an energy efficient student center, what would you do? That is exactly what students from around the world have been challenged with for the 2008-2009 Hydrogen Student Design Contest.
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The Second International Scientific and Business Congress on Protecting the Climate - A World Joint Strategy under the theme “Localisation on Environmental Business and Supply Base in India”
"We are happy to support the cooperation with the EuroAkadem-Academy for European Management in holding the 2nd Congress. We strongly support the contribution that the Congress will generate toward making renewable energy an even more essential component in the fight against climate change", says Mr Bjoern Klusmann, CEO, BEE - German Renewable Energy Federation, Germany
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Critical Connection: Leaders Focus on Hydrogen and Renewables at NHA Fall Forum
A distinguished group of energy leaders convened in Golden, CO last week at the NHA Fall Forum to address a critical connection between two clean energy industries: hydrogen and renewables. The link is mutual: the hydrogen industry needs more renewables to produce hydrogen; and the renewables industry needs hydrogen for storage of excess or off-peak energy to address irregular supplies.
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Energy and Climate Change Department Created in UK
The UK government has announced the creation of a Department of Energy and Climate Change. The move, which has for the first time forged an arm of government explicitly uniting climate and energy, has been welcomed by the renewables industry and the environmental movement.
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Five Cleantech Senate Candidates to Watch
Will 2008 be known as the "energy/cleantech election?" Will the American public side with a "Drill Now" approach, or will the public embrace commitments to new alternative and renewable energy technologies? The better question is, "Will the election bring the kinds of changes to Congress that will lead to a breakthrough in climate change and energy policy?"
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