Archived material from historical editions of The Generator
The European Union has announced regulation banning bio-fuels grown on high conservation lands. The law has been established to protect tropical rainforest that is underthreat from soya bean and palm oil plantations. Both crops have become considerably more lucrative with the increased demand for bio-diesel as a result of rising oil prices. Some European bio-diesel Continue Reading →
One of the world’s most primitive plants has yielded the secret of how plants open and close the pores in their leaves, known as stomata. Finnish scientists have discovered the gene that controls the mechanism and are now working on ways of stimulating it. Drought resistant plants, such as many endemic Australian species, can close Continue Reading →
A Crimes Against Humanity hearing in the Hague heard in February that 75,000 people have died and up to one million had their hands amputated in Sierra Leone and Liberia, in a quest to control the diamond trade. Millions of land mines have been spread across the region to prevent ordinary people getting the diamonds, Continue Reading →
The use of wood pellets as fuel for domestic stoves and boilers and for co-firing in thermal power plants has been an amazing success story over the past 10 years. Recently, the exorbitant speed of growth caused supply problems and a slowdown of markets, but the next boom is waiting, says Christian Rakos. Fuel pellets Continue Reading →
by Anupam Tyagi, Renewable Energy World At the moment India has an installed capacity of only about 3 megawatts (MW) of grid-tied solar electricity, but Moser Baer PV (MBPV) has plans to change that. "In fact, there is so much interest today from potential investors in solar farms that we are tying them in MOUs Continue Reading →
The head of Eurostar, the high-speed rail service linking London to Paris and Brussels, said Friday that climate change worries helped make 2007 a banner year and urged the EU to rein in the "unsustainable" growth of airline carbon emissions. "We see a 30 percent growth in the number of business travelers on the Eurostar Continue Reading →