fossil fuels
Czech Republic Caught Between the Devil & the Deep Sea?
The Czech Republic is being dogged by several issues as it attempts to reduce its carbon footprint. As part of the European Union’s pledge to reduce greenhouse emissions by 20% by the year 2020 from the levels that existed in 1990, the Czech nation has been taking several steps to ensure that the people are switching to more renewable power ...
Algenol Algae-to-Ethanol Study Proves Significant Cut in Carbon Footprint
A team from Algenol and Georgia tech has calculated the life cycle energy and green house gas emission with regard to ethanol production from algae. Algenol, which has been working on the direct to ethanol technology, performed a life cycle analysis (LCA) on the whole process of making Algenol's ethanol. The results were published as an open access paper in the ...
China To Pump Hundreds Of Billions Into Clean Energy Development
China is reportedly budgeting almost $738 billion into clean energy development projects and into deployment. Set to be carried out over the span of the next ten years, China seems to have taken note of the fact that relying on fossil fuels is not the way to go riding into the future as a leader nation. With per capita emissions ...
Lockheed Martin to supply US Air Force with solar power generators
It seems that the US Armed Forces are making an all out effort to reduce their dependence on fossil fuels by opting for more sustainable forms of energy that are eco-friendly. Just a few days back the US Air Force set a green precedent by using bio-fuel to fly supersonic hornet. Giving yet another push to its green initiative the ...
Japanese Town, Kuzumaki, Kicks Dependence on Fossil Fuels
The small Japanese town of Kuzumaki (coo-zoo-mah-key), not to be confused with uzumaki (whirlpool) has just 8,000 residents that are showing the rest of the world how things might be done ... that is, kicking the fossil fuel habit. How green are they? Electricity is generated from cow dung. Dozens of wind turbines decorate nearby Mt. Kamisodegawa (kah-mee-so-de 'like in dead'-gah-wah) 25% of schools ...
World Food Crisis Looms Says UN
The UN food agency - the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), is warning of a looming food crisis in Africa. The reason - global increase in food and fuel prices. The reason - increase production in bio-fuel at the expense of food production. The reason - climate change. Kenyan agriculture assistant minister said, "that in as much as bio-fuel continues to ...
3 Tests for Tata ‘Nano’ Car
India's Tata Motors wants to release the 'Nano' car this year. The price tag - 100,000 rupees or around $2,000. There are, however, three obstacles that must be overcome. 1. construction costs are nearly double what they were in 2006 when the car was first announced. 2. prices for materials for the car have risen comparably 3. the Indian government's higher interest rates. Tata Motors ...
