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No Kyoto down-under
Australia stops the ratification of the Kyoto agreement, even though they have signed it, claiming it will costs jobs and damage their industry, despite that […]
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Hydrogen economy in Scotland
The Scottish newspaper The Herald has an article on an effort to make the island of Islay into a “mini-hydrogen economy”. The hydrogen will be […]
Extracting hydrogen from waste biomass
Researchers at the Process Technology Group at Warwick University, UK, have come up with a new process to extracting hydrogen from wet waste, i.e. wast […]
A good or a bad solution to water shortage?
Wire magazine has an article on a new manual irrigation pump made by Nairobi-based nonprofit company Appropriate Technologies for Enterprise Creation (Approtec). Wired says “As […]
OTEC Overview
The paper Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion (OTEC), December 1999, by Dr. Luis Vega is now available on the OTECnews site, by kind permission of the […]
What a drag
Attaching what looks like fungus on a tree trunk to offshore platform legs or ocean pipes can help reduce forces due to drag and vortex […]
Serious pipe work
The Honolulu Star Bulletin has an article on the 55 inch pipleline [cached] that NEHLA has worked for the last twelve years to put in […]
Depleted Atlantic fish stocks
The Economist reports on research performed by academics at the University of British Columbia which shows in detail how the fish stocks of the Northern […]
The Tokyo Electric / Toshiba 100 kW OTEC pilot plant
A 100 kW OTEC pilot plant was constructed in the Republic of Nauru by Tokyo Electric Power Company and Toshiba Corporation. Operation of the OTEC […]
Tuvalu pays the price for global warming
Countries disappearing due to raising sea levels seemed only to be part of future scenarios of the Global Business Network as featured in Wired Magazine. […]