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Global Ecology Corporation has filed an application to patent its Mobile PureWater System via an 8K submitted to the Securities and Exchange commission. This transportable system filters and purifies up to 90,000 liters of water per day by pumping it from a contaminated water source and treating it within the system itself. The unit is powered by solar, wind, diesel generator or vehicle alternator dispatch and requires no external power source.
The patent application was submitted to the U.S.... [more]
ScanWind manufactures and markets wind turbines with a capacity of 3.5 MW and over, specially developed for extreme wind situations and demanding climates, e.g. sites near to the coast and offshore sites. Marked growth is expected in this market segment – Wind Classes IEC1 and 2. For example, BTM Consulting forecasts that offshore installations in Europe will increase by 5,800 MW during the years 2008-2011.
Morphic Technologies has entered into an agreement on acquisition of 80 per cent of t... [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]
Researchers at the Biodesign Institute are using bacteria as a viable option to make electricity. In a new study, Andrew Kato Marcus and colleagues César Torres and Bruce Rittmann have gained critical insights that may lead to commercialization of a promising microbial fuel cell (MFC) technology.
“We can use any kind of waste, such as sewage or pig manure, and the microbial fuel cell will generate electrical energy,” said Marcus, a Civil and Environmental Engineering graduate student and a me... [more]
Xcel Energy is a major U.S. electricity and natural gas company with regulated operations in eight Western and Midwestern states. Xcel Energy has filed with the Minnesota Public Utilities Commission and the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency plans to significantly reduce mercury emissions from Sherburne County (Sherco) Generating Plant Unit 3 and the Allen S. King Plant.
“These plans outline a major effort to reduce mercury emissions at our King plant in Oak Park Heights and our Sherco plant ... [more]
Viridor Waste Management Limited has acquired independent UK resource management company Grosvenor Waste Management Ltd for a cash consideration (including debt) of £81m. The acquisition is in line with Pennon Group’s (Viridor’s parent company) stated strategy of expanding its waste management activities, particularly in the areas of resource management, waste treatment and disposal.
Grosvenor is headquartered in Crayford, Kent and comprises the largest and most efficient Materials Recycling... [more]
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