Taiwan has recently finished construction of a Solar- Powered Stadium that will generate 100% of it’s electricity from Photovoltaic Technology Designed by Toyo Ito, the 50,000 seat arena.See the pictures below:-
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Sarasota County schools in Florida saved over $8 million in energy costs and received over $4 million in utility incentives in 18 years through Calmac Corporation’s thermal energy storage technology.
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To date, around 12 megawatts of energy has been used to produce ice equivalent to 11,000 tons of cooling used to cool schools during daytime.
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The United States Environmental Protection Agency recognized one of the largest landfill gas-to-liquefied natural gas facilities in the world, along with seven other landfill methane capture projects for renewable energy generation and emissions reduction innovations.
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The winning projects will avoid the emission of 546,000 tons of carbon dioxide equivalent annually..
The agency gave out the awards under [...]
The U.S. government is encouraging farmers to spread a chalky waste from coal-fired power plants on their fields to loosen and fertilize soil.
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The material is produced by power plant “scrubbers” that remove acid-rain-causing sulfur dioxide from plant emissions.
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RiskyChemicalsThe U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has released its latest assessment of the chemicals people are carrying around in their bodies.
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The biomonitoring study is the most comprehensive in the world, measuring 212 chemicals in the blood and urine of 8,000 Americans.
The CDC highlighted a few chemicals because they are both widespread — found [...]
From a carbon emissions point-of-view, is it better to buy products online or in a store? You probably guessed the former — and if so, you’re right, according to a new study.
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The National Retail Federation conducted a survey late last month in which it asked consumers about their anticipated spending over the Thanksgiving weekend.
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A burst oil pipeline in north China has spewed thousands of gallons (litres) of diesel into a major tributary of the Yellow River, state media said.
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The spill occurred on Wednesday last week on the Chishui river in Shaanxi province when a pipeline operated by the China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC) ruptured, a statement on the [...]
The World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) is to study the impact of meat output on climate change in the light of debate about meat’s contribution to greenhouse emissions, the Paris-based body said .
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The initiative, which will be the OIE’s first on an environmental issue, follows requests from its member countries to look at a [...]
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Vestas Wind Systems, the world’s largest wind turbine company, is set to ship out 48 wind turbines to German wind farm developer Prokon which is building projects in Poland.
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The Danish wind giant will deliver 2-megawatt turbines from 2010 to 2012 to Schleswig-Holstein, Germany-based Prokon.
Prokon has been developing wind energy projects over 15 [...]
West Bengal is planning to generate 115 megawatts of renewable energy capacity by 2013 from solar power, a thrust that would cost the Indian state 15 billion rupees ($320 million), reported Newkerala.com.
Around 110 MW of the power capacity will be sourced from land-based solar power plants while 5 MW will be produced through rooftop [...]