Situated on the scenic banks of the Oslo fjord in southern Norway, the world’s first prototype osmotic power station came online this week. The new plant generates electricity using osmosis, which occurs whenever two solutions of different concentrations meet a semi-permeable membrane. The spontaneous passage of water from dilute to concentrated solutions through the membrane [...]
Filed under: News on December 4th, 2009 @ 2:36 pm
Tagged with: biofuel, Environment, renewable energy
In an article on FastMoney.com, head of Inter-Governmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Rajendra Pachauri was quoted as saying that the current costs undertaken by companies looking to cut their carbon footprint “would be negative overall because of the monetary benefits of cutting carbon emissions.” This comes on the heels of an announcement last week that discount [...]
Filed under: Environment, News on July 22nd, 2009 @ 1:49 pm
Tagged with: biofuel, Business, carbon emissions, climate change, Exxon, IPCC, Rajendra Pachauri, the Gazette
‘Younger than Moses: Idle Worship’ is an art exhibit featuring 22 artists in New York.
As part of the European Project FP7 research called “Integrated System for Transport Infastructures Surveillance and Monitoring by Electromagnetic Sensing,” a team of researchers had been gathered from the countries of Israel, Italy, France, Sweden, Norway, Switzerland and Romania.