South China Morning Post 26 Oct. 2011 TRUenergy’s new stations may be funded by Sydney IPO of the country’s No 2 power utility TRUenergy, the Australia-based energy flagship of electricity utility CLP Holdings (SEHK: 0002), plans to spend up to A$3.6 billion (HK$29.3 billion) building two gas-fired power plants in Queensland as the country moves towards [...]
Posts from ‘October, 2011’
Here’s Why Coal’s True Cost Is Much Higher Than We Pay : TreeHugger
photo: Jim Brickett/CC BY ND Skeptical Science previous examined the fact that the market price of coal power is artificially low because we do not directly pay for all of its impacts, particularly on air quality and climate change. People who feel these effects do pay them indirectly (i.e. through increased health care costs), but since [...]
Poo power could clean up Accra’s acrid beaches
http://www.businessgreen.com/bg/news/2114164/poo-power-clean-accras-acrid-beaches 4 Oct.2011 A few minutes walk from Ghana’s most luxurious hotel, which has hosted Tony Blair and Queen Elizabeth in the capital city of Accra, stands a boy – probably no more than 10 years old – watching four pigs bathe in a stream of raw sewage running into the ocean. He has walked 20 [...]
Energy from waste: How the Gasplasma system works
Oct 1, 2011 As well as being able to convert refuse into power and empty out existing landfill sites, releasing the land for reuse, the Gasplasma process offers a significant benefit: its by-product is a building material, not a waste. As well as being able to convert refuse into power and empty outexisting landfill sites, [...]