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 …
Malaysia's International Centre for Application of Solar Energy (case) has set up centres using hybrid energy, which consists of a combination of renewable sources
An American company has put up a proposal to the West Bengal government for setting up a power plant in Calcutta with a capacity to generate upto 200 mw of electricity daily from garbage and municipal wastes. Calcutta city accumulates 3,000 tonnes of garbage daily and this could provide for …
in a move to reduce emissions from coal-fired plants, India is installing a coal gasification plant. It will be the first commercial-scale coal gasification project in the world to use lignite for producing electricity and steam. Work is underway on an innovative 60- mw coal-fired integrated gasification combined cycle (igcc) …
A fuel cell which burns gas from a landfill site has begun operating in Groten, Connecticut, US. The project utilises a 200 kW phosphoric acid fuel cell which is expected to generate power from the site for at least 18 months. A study conducted by the US Environmental Protection Agency …
Dumping sugar into the petrol tank may be just the ticket for cleaner air and cheaper fuel. Sugars and starches such as glucose, dextrose and even cellulose in mowed grass and other plant waste would be converted into hydrogen
Saltwater power, the energy that is generated when river water converges with seawater, is being advocated for commercialisation. The resulting release of energy creates heat which can be turned into electrical power. Researchers in the Foundation for Scientific and Industrial Research (sintef) at the University of Trondheim, Norway, are currently …
an international project to supply large quantities of hydrogen for use as a transport fuel and to generate electricity will go into operation by the end of the century. Experiments are taking place on hydrogen-powered engines for motor vehicles and for the Airbus, the European aircraft. The project called Euro-Quebec …
generating electricity from the sun at night? That is what the Solar ii power plant in the us is doing. It soaks up sun's heat during the day and releases it at night or over the course of several cloudy days. If Solar ii functions without any glitches during its …
Liquified Natural Gas (LNG), is being considered as an effective alternative to Compressed Natural Gas (CNG). In Trondheim, Norway, buses filled with LNG will soon undergo test trials. Compared to CNG, LNG contains more energy per unit weight. It is also believed that emissions of nitrogen oxides (NOx) from using …
while plants like sugar cane and wheat store about 10 times the energy the world consumes annually, only about 13 per cent of the world's total energy comes from their use. A large and renewable source of energy is thus left untapped or wasted. A small entrepreneur, Satish Raut, from …
Waste Gas Technology (WGT) Inc, Hampshire, UK, has developed a new technique for utilising waste to produce electricity which, it claims, is twice as effective as conventional incineration. Depending on the waste material used, the thermo-crack system developed by WGT will generate 1000-4000 kilo-watt-hour (kwh) from a tonne of waste, …
boston's Logan Airport in the us now has cleaner buses to transport passengers. These shuttle buses are designed to run on a blend consisting of 80 per cent diesel and 20 per cent
A fleet of buses powered by electricity and guided by a satellite navigation system will soon be launched in London. The progress of the 12-seater buses will be monitored using global positioning signal satellites that allow an operator to plan the most efficient route and change the route to suit …
Electricity generated by British wind farms increased by 10 per cent last year to more than 348 gigawatt hours. The year also saw the commissioning of six new wind farms. The British Wind Energy Association said that the latest annual output of the country's 29 wind farms met the electricity …
RESEARCHERS have been trying to evolve a refrigerator that would cut down on power consumption and at the same time prevent the depletion of earth's ozone layer. Now, scientists from the Russian Institute of Light Alloys (VILS) in Moscow have successfully tested a new refrigerating unit that neither uses an …
POOR power quality of lighting equipments has not yet become a great problem. But it has to be managed in the future. Compact fluorescent lamps (CFL) can provide high-quality light at a low power consumption level. In 1991, a major environmental group in Sweden attacked the programmes sponsored by electric …
The world will require 1,330 giga watts of new electric generating capacity in the next 15 years according to Hans Weinrich, head of the Sweden-based Asea Brown Boveri's (ABB) transmission and distribution unit. The new capacity would be distributed around the globe, with 15 per cent in the US, 20 …
Compressed air energy storage is one of the several energy storage technologies developed for the power industry. There are two separate portions in the storage cycle: compression and expansion. A compressor pumps high-pressure air into an underground reservoir (salt dome, porous media, or hard rock) using a motor or generator. …
