Reply by the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) in compliance to the National Green Tribunal (NGT) order dated January 21, 2024 in the matter of ‘News item titled “Feeling anxious? Toxic air could be to blame” appearing in Times of India dated 10.10.2023’. NGT had directed CPCB to file a …
Chances are you've heard of hybrids and biofuels, but what about oil-producing yeast and turbinelike buoys that transform ocean waves into electricity? Those are just a few of the alternative-energy sources that may power the future, according to Fred Krupp, president of the Environmental Defense Fund and coauthor, with Miriam …
A string of three red steel tubes, each the size of a railway carriage, lies low in the water off the northern coast of Portugal. As the snub-nosed apparatus rises and dips in the Atlantic waves, it becomes immediately clear why this pioneering energy technology is called Pelamis after a …
Energy companies are planning to revive a polluting technology developed by the Nazis to replace dwindling supplies of oil with synthetic fuels derived from coal. Senior industry figures told a high-level conference in Paris this week that coal-to-liquids (CTL) technology could fuel cars and aircraft for decades to come. Green …
Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit has said that energy efficiency and renewable technologies would have to go hand-in-hand to overcome present power shortage. All persons concerned would like Delhi to emerge as the greenest city not only due to greenery of trees but also due to paradigm shift to green …
With two proposed overland transnational pipelines through Pakistan caught in geopolitical knots, fresh efforts have been launched to revive a longburied plan of establishing an international energy lifeline under the Arabian Sea to feed gas to India's fuel-guzzling economy from West Asia. US-Tehran tensions and concerns over security situation in …
A nationwide survey of nearly 700 people suggests that Americans would prefer more money be invested in technology to solve the nation's energy ailments than to cure cancer or other diseases. Some 37% of respondents to the poll, conducted by the Fairfax County Economic Development Authority in Virginia, said they …
Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit on Thursday said that energy efficiency and renewable technologies would have to go hand-in-hand to overcome present power shortage. She appealed to all concerned persons in the Capital to ensure that Delhi emerged as the greenest city not only due to the greenery as a …
How big is the energy challenge of climate change? The technological advances needed to stabilize carbon dioxide emissions may be greater than we think, argue Roger Pielke Jr, Tom Wigley and Christopher Green.
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has grossly underestimated the challenges of reducing and stabilizing greenhousegas emissions, according to an influential group of climate-policy experts.
New Solar CIGS Cells Creep Up On Silicon US: April 3, 2008 NEW YORK - Silicon cells have been the mainstay of the solar photovoltaic industry, but advances in competing technologies could give those manufacturers a toehold in the rapidly growing renewable power market. Last week, researchers at the US …
The City-based National Institute of Engineering (NIE), which is known for its research facility and talent, has organised a six-day workshop for rural folk, imparting knowledge on various energy-based technologies. The workshop was inaugurated by Director N Ramanuja here on Tuesday. The annual workshop will showcase simple instruments such as …
Firms seek greener ethanol from wood chips and agricultural waste. Scientists and engineers are working on dozens of possible biofuel-processing routes, reports Charles Wyman, a chemical engineer at the University of California, Riverside, who is a founder of Mascoma Corporation in Cambridge, Mass., a leading developer of cellulosic ethanol processes.
THAT'S NOT COUNTING the energy efficiency technology market aimed at reducing power consumption. GE has identified 17 products worth $10 billion in annual sales, including jet engines, locomotive engines, consumer appliances, plastics and water treatment plants as part of the Ecomagination platform where it could embed a greater amount of …
India is fast waking up to use of energy-efficient lighting. Ever mounting power consumption with demand outstripping supply every year has further made it essential. Time is not far when conventional light bulbs will either see a production ban or their use declared illegal. So save and keep one safe …
Cold and isolated, iceland may be the last place that comes to your mind when you think of data centres. But this otherwise well-developed island nation has started an international campaign to lure big companies to set up data centres there. The bait: a cold climate, cheap and green power …
Only up to powering light bulbs so far, "salt power' is a tantalising if distant prospect as high oil prices make alternative energy sources look more economical. Two tiny projects to mix sea and river water
City-Based Agharkar Research Institute (ARI), in association with GreenLeaf Renewable Energy Pvt Ltd, has announced the launch of 3EBT, an innovative technology to produce biogas from de-oiled castor cake, which can replace conventional fuels and be used for industrial purposes. Dr Dilip Ranade, scientist, ARI, said on Wednesday that 3EBT …
Oil at $100-plus a barrel incentivises search for all kinds of substitutes and/or alternative oil extraction technologies. Hopefully, the government's clearance of the Tata-Sasol coal to liquid (CTL) project
Coal-fired power plants are taking hits from all sides. The unkindest cut to future coal-fired power generation came recently when Samuel Bodman, Secretary, the US Department of Energy (DOE), declared that the Bush administration had decided to withdraw funding to FutureGen, the US government's effort to develop a "clean coal' …
