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Landfill gas is generated during the natural decomposition of solid waste and the byproduct gas is largely comprised of methane, a primary greenhouse gas. Landfill gas was given the highest preference, along with other energy sources such as wind, solar, biomass and low-impact hydro, as an alternative energy by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania when the Alternative Energy Portfolio Standard was enacted into law almost 4 years ago. The legislation requires that within 15 years, 18 percent of the s... [more]
AeroVironment Inc. has announced that its Architectural Wind system has been installed at Boston’s Logan International Airport Office Center as part of a project commissioned by the Massachusetts Port Authority (Massport). The installation comprises 20 five-bladed wind turbines and ties in with a comprehensive energy management plan that Massport has established for all its facilities.
AV’s Architectural Wind is a small, modular building-integrated wind turbine system. It is designed for quic... [more]
Renewable energy from the wind, which previously could only be generated in restricted geographic locations – typically off-shore or in remote rural areas – can now be made available almost anywhere, including urban environments, with the introduction of the AeroCam wind turbine.
The AeroCam, developed by BroadStar Wind Systems, was designed and patented for commercial applications. With its parallel rotor blades, not only does it look radically different from conventional propeller designs, ... [more]
Global Energy has announced that it has entered into a Memorandum of Understand (MOU) with ShenMu SanJiang Coal Chemical Company Ltd. (“Shaanxi”) located in the People’s Republic of China.
Shaanxi is active in the field of converting charcoal to oil and blue coal by pyrolysis reaction (heating coal in an oxygen free atmosphere) in the People’s Republic of China. The Company produces approximately 200,000 tons of residual oil sludge per year.
Global has certain rights to market and use tec... [more]
In many parts of the world, wind energy has already grown to be a mainstream energy source. This growth has long been driven by concerns about global climate change, mainly in the developed world and especially in Europe.
Wind energy has emerged as the most attractive solution to the world’s energy challenges. It is clean and fuel-free. Moreover, wind is indigenous and enough wind blows across the globe to cope with the ever increasing electricity demand. Moreover, wind power generation is in... [more]
The air quality indicator is one of the 68 indicators of the UK Government’s Sustainable Development Strategy. It measures annual levels of pollution from particulates (PM10) and ozone (O3), the two pollutants thought to have the greatest health impacts, as well as the number of days on which levels of any one of a basket of five pollutants were ‘moderate or higher’.
The main results are:
* Urban background particulate levels averaged 21 microgrammes per cubic metre (µg m-3) in 2007 comp... [more]
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