MONEYMAKERS
charging ahead: In the race to manufacture user-friendly electric cars, Canada's Vancouver-based Ballard Systems seems to have taken a lead with a silent, non-polluting fuel-celled car. The six-seater car, which can run at a speed of 105 km per hour with more than 240 km between refuelling stops, has been developed with the help of Germany's Daimler-Benz. But the car's cost is too high as platinum is used to build the fuel cell. Ballard's fuel cells will also be used in a car being developed by General Motors. Ballard is now trying to make the fuel cell commercially viable.
quite a gem: A new pollution-curbing technology called gas emission management packet (GEM) has been introduced in India by Clive Stephens, an Australian entrepreneur. GEM has been installed at the Indraprastha power station in New Delhi. The power station has both gas and ash emissions and GEM reduces the pollutants in the latter. After six months of its installation, the concentration of ash pollutants dropped from 1,400 mg per normal metric cube to 138 mg. The technology is also used in cement, glass and paper units.
planting money: Now investors have a chance to put their money in a new scheme which supports not only the growth of their money but also a number of trees. The Wimco group has floated Wimco Greens, a company that is offering