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Latest EcoFriend product news
General Physics Corporation (GP), a subsidiary of GP Strategies Corporation has announced the addition of Clipper™ Windpower Technology courses to the current Wind Farm training program on GPiLearn™.
GPiLearn is an online, “blended” learning resource dedicated to the power industry. There are over 3,200 lessons and exams available on GPiLearn.
Adding the Clipper Windpower Technology content allows GP to help more power companies train Wind Farm technicians and comply with government regula... [more]
Fluor Corporation has announced today that it signed a contract with Scottish and Southern Energy (SSE) to design and construct the 500 megawatt (MW) Greater Gabbard Offshore Wind Farm. The venture is the world's largest offshore wind farm project to move into the construction phase and will be built approximately 25 kilometers off the Suffolk coast of the United Kingdom (UK). The new award will be booked in the company’s second quarter of 2008 and is worth approximately $1.8 billion (£900 milli... [more]
UOP LLC, a Honeywell company, and Honeywell Aerospace will partner with Airbus, JetBlue Airways, and International Aero Engines to study sustainable biofuel use for commercial aircraft.
The effort will focus on developing and testing renewable energy technology to convert biofeedstocks to commercial aviation fuels, with specific focus on “second-generation” feedstocks such as algae which do not compete with food or water resources.
“Biofuels hold tremendous potential to meet growing fuel d... [more]
In the face of rising prices for oil and gas, the use of sunlight to generate electricity (photovoltaics) and for heating (solar thermal) is becoming increasingly important, both to secure energy supplies and for climate protection. The global solar market is booming and currently recording double-digit growth rates. According to a market study in 2007 by the Swiss Bank Sarasin, the next few years will see further worldwide growth, with newly commissioned PV power installations growing at an ann... [more]
In a recently published ARC Brief, “’Green’ Asbestos,” Adrian Gonzalez, ARC Advisory Group’s Director of the Logistics Executive Council, highlights an inconvenient truth of many 'green' products and initiatives: there are tradeoffs that companies and consumers must acknowledge and address. In other words, many “green” initiatives have negative side effects, even if the net results are positive.
“Tradeoffs exist because most products, manufacturing processes, and supply chains were not design... [more]
Developing countries will be better protected against receiving unwanted waste from wealthier nations under revised international rules.
The ‘Green List’ regulation - which covers the export of non-hazardous recyclable materials from the EU - has been updated to formally record the wishes of countries outside the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) that have expressed an opinion about the recyclable materials they would like to receive. Where a country has not express... [more]
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