Last updated: April 7, 2010 Source: South China Morning Post Environmental lobby group International Rivers has condemned the emergence of trade in fake carbon credits and says the biggest source is hydroelectric power projects on the mainland. Under what is known as the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) of the Kyoto Protocol, industrialised countries can support [...]
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Blackout woes for plants in Dongguan
Last updated: April 7, 2010 Source: South China Morning Post Severe drought results in power rationing The devastating drought in the southwest is forcing once-a-week blackouts at Dongguan factories due to power shortages from the nation’s hydroelectric dams. Since April 1, Hong Kong manufacturers say power supplies have been suspended one day each week in [...]
Sewage could be energy source, scientist says
Ng Kang-chung, SCMP In as little as 10 years, sewage may become a valued commodity and source of energy rather than a waste-disposal problem. “That might sound like science fiction. But the basic technology has been there for many decades,” said Professor Herbert Fang, chairman of environmental engineering at the University of Hong Kong. Bacteria [...]
New Advances in Hydrogen Fuel Catalysts
http://www.alternative-energy-news.info/new-advances-in-hydrogen-fuel-catalysts/ Hydrogen has great potential as a fuel of future because it is an environmentally clean energy fuel and save us from the undesirable side effects of greenhouse gases. Before becoming it a fuel of the masses we need necessary infrastructure to store it and move it. We will also need fuel cells on economical [...]
Clear the Air Says – Go Hydrogen
source: www.alternative-energy-news.info Hydrogen Powered Street Cleaner We are hearing about many inventions and discoveries in the alternative energy sector. But we don’t get to read about many ‘actual’ finished products doing their work in real world. What we know is many models being tested in laboratories. But here we are seeing Bucher CityCat H2, the [...]
Tokyo Gas Halves CO2 Emissions in Hydrogen Production
Chiho Matsuda, Nikkei Monozukuri, techon.nikkeibp.co.jp – Mar 16, 2009 Tokyo Gas Co announced March 12, 2009, that it succeeded in halving CO2 emissions in a verification test of CO2 separation/collection in a hydrogen production process while maintaining its production efficiency. Tokyo Gas has been developing and verifying hydrogen production equipment intended for fuel cell vehicles [...]
Triple Hybrid Fuel Cell Bus Unveiled
www.thegreencarwebsite.co.uk – 14 May 09 A presentation near Munich marked the debut of the first passenger bus to use a triple hybrid fuel cell system developed by Fuel Cell GmbH, a subsidiary of Proton Power Systems. The vehicle has been born from co-operation between Skoda Electric, UJV Nuclear Research Institute and Proton Motor. Skoda Electric [...]
Toyota Could Have Hydrogen Fuel-cell Car on the Road by 2014
Kenneth Hall, Motor Authority – May 12 2009 The new date is a year earlier than scheduled due to changes in California’s ZEV mandate Honda’s FCX Clarity fuel cell vehicle has grabbed lots of headlines, as has BMW’s combustion-powered Hydrogen7 and Mazda’s rotary RE line of vehicles, including the RX-8. But Toyota is working on [...]
Proton Motor and Skoda Electric Have Presented the Worlds First Fuel Cell Triple Hybrid Bus
www.fuelcelltoday.com – 12 May 2009 Proton Motor Fuel Cell and Skoda Electric today presented a preview of the worlds first fuel cell triple hybird linenbus, which will go into operation this summer in Prague. The project is a cooperation between Skoda Electric, the systems integrator and electrical components, the UJV Nuclear Research Institute, R&D and [...]
Mercedes-Benz Citaro FuelCELL Hybrid Bus
The FINANCIAL – 7 May 2009 The new Mercedes-Benz Citaro FuelCELL Hybrid bus will have its world premiere from 7 to 11 June at the UITP Congress in Vienna (the World Congress of the International Association of Public Transport). This fuel cell hybrid bus has been developed within the context of the global “Shaping Future [...]