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admin /24 January, 2009
Los Angeles based design company Design Shift has won the job of building an ecotower as part of an environmentally friendly urban development on the badly polluted Anning River in Sichuan. Forming a central focus in a network of artificial wetlands the building incorporates filtering equipment that will complement the role of the wetland plants in cleaning up the river. Like many Chinese rivers the Anning is so badly polluted that it is dangerous for people to come in contact with the water.
admin /24 January, 2009
Thousands of residents of New South Wales have participated in an initiative by the NSW Conservation Council to lobby the state government to implement a feed in tarrif that pays for all electricity generated by roof-top panels, rather than simply paying for the excess that is fed back to the grid. This is the approach taken in Germany which has made it the world’s leading producer of solar electricity. Currently, homeowners with solar panels on their roof are only rewarded by the reduction in their electricity bills. The proposed feed in tarrif legislation will pay them a retail price for the electricity they feed back into the grid. Some electricity providers already pay this, others simply pay the wholesale price, known as the ‘coal price’. By rewarding them for the electricity they generate and then use, the government could encourage greater take up of domestic solar panels.
admin /24 January, 2009
The National Farmers Federation has developed a blueprint to recession-proof the Australian economy based an supplying a hungry world with food. “The world food shortage is worsening as the global population grows by 100 million a year while there is less land for production,” the proposal says, arguing that the government should invest significantly to expand Australia’s agricultural capacity. Titled, Feeding a Hungrier World, the proposal prioritises ten separate areas of concern including regional infrastructure, financial support for farmers and water management.
admin /24 January, 2009
Moser Baer announced that its photovoltaic subsidiary is ready to start production of thin-film solar photovoltaic (PV) modules at its manufacturing plant in Greater Noida, India. This follows final acceptance test (FAT) certification of Moser Baer Photovoltaic’s SunFab Thin Film Line supplied by Applied Materials Inc. The certification verifies that the SunFab line has met all manufacturing, module efficiency and yield specifications.
This is a milestone for both Moser Baer and Applied Materials representing the start of production of thin film modules by Moser Baer, which was Applied’s first SunFab customer. The 40-megawatt (MW) has the largest thin-film production capacity of any line in India. This single junction SunFab line has demonstrated some of the highest production capacity to date for manufacturing the world’s largest (2.2m x 2.6m) solar modules.
admin /24 January, 2009
Governer of the north-eastern US state of Massachussets, Deval Patrik last week announced a goal of 10 precent of all the state’s electricity to be provided by wind power. He said that the state had unique wind sources from the North Atalantic and that wind would be a centrepiece of the clean energy economy. He has doubled rooftop installations in two years and mandated that 20 percent of all energy sold must be renewable by 2020
admin /24 January, 2009
The plume seen off Cairns.
Picture: CSIRO/EOS Nasa/Geoscience Australia/Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority
Queensland Liberal National MP, David Gibson, said last week that farmers were gutted by accusations that chemical pollution in run-off after recent rains was endangering the Great Barrier Reef. Satellite images show a large plume of dirty rainwater covering the reef off Cairns. World Wildlife Foundations estimates that one million megalitres of water containing a chemical cocktail of farm pesticides, nutrients and sediment.”
Gibson says that farmers are doing everything in their power to reduce the negative impact of their activities/ “These sort of accusations make them simply want to give up trying,” he told The Generator.
