wind energy production News
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PmCTrace to support EU´s greenhouse gas targets
Global warming has become an important threath for the next generation. One of the causes is the emission of fossil CO2. CO2 from the incineration of wood or biomass is neutral to the climate, because if biomass is burned, new biomass is growing, removing the same portion of CO2 from the air. Increasing demand in the production of electricity Due to fluctuations in wind energy production or ...
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Cost-efficient and environmentally friendly wind energy
Gearbox failure is the primary reason for downtime in a wind turbine and is extremely costly to replace. One of the main and most damaging causes of gearbox failure is ferrous metal contamination under 10 microns in size which leads to bearing failure. Metal contamination, the primary contaminant produced by gear wear, suspends in the lubrication oil causing premature bearing failure as it ...
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EPA powers up contaminated sites into renewable energy
In a novel approach to return land to productive use, EPA has identified thousands of properties that could potentially host solar, wind or biomass energy production facilities. EPA pinpointed these energy assets using Google Earth and has listed each property’s attributes for energy redevelopment. “EPA is putting renewable energy production on the virtual map,” said EPA Administrator Stephen L. ...
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Trade Talks On $1 Trillion In Environmental Goods
Diplomats from the United States, China and the European Union began talks Tuesday with 11 other countries toward a deal that would cut tariffs on almost $1 trillion of environmental goods. The proposed agreement at the World Trade Organization would cover 86 percent of trade in goods such as solar panels and wind turbines for producing energy, filters for wastewater treatment and catalytic ...
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DSM continues to drive sustainable (engineering) plastics production in India
Royal DSM, the global Life Sciences and Materials Sciences company, continues to deliver on its commitment to reduce the carbon footprint of its operations. Following a dramatic reduction in water consumption at its engineering plastics site in Pune, India, announced earlier this year, the site will now meet 25% of its energy needs with renewable energy. In order to achieve this significant ...
By DSM
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Democratic Congress Expected to Right Environmental Wrongs
Untitled Document WASHINGTON, DC , November 9, 2006 (ENS) - Democrats will control both the House and Senate when a new Congress convenes in January, after one of the closest races of the 2006 midterm election was settled in Virginia. Republican Senator George Allen has conceded defeat in the U.S. Senate race, handing a victory to former Navy Secretary James Webb, and ...
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Workshop: Wind Power and Biodiversity
The documentation of the workshop “Wind Power and Biodiversity: Tools to Measure, Avoid and Compensate Impacts” held on June 29, 2012 in Lisbon is now available. About 40 participants discussed how impacts on biodiversity by wind energy projects could be decreased. The speakers showed the participants practical solutions to real world problems. The workshop was organised together with ...
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Wind Power: Integral Ecologists Present New Approach to Assessing Wildlife Risk from Wind Turbines
Harnessing wind power involves many factors that can affect the siting of wind energy facilities, including potential adverse effects on wildlife. These potential wildlife impacts are primarily associated with habitat disruption and mortality of birds and bats due to turbine strikes. Impacts on wildlife are most readily assessed by simple enumeration of the incidents of wildlife encounters over ...
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EPA and U.S. department of energy to develop renewable energy on previously contaminated sites
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the U.S. Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory are evaluating the feasibility of developing wind or solar power production on three previously contaminated sites in New York State. EPA Regional Administrator Judith A. Enck today visited the community near the former Bethlehem Steel plant in Lackawanna, one of two Buffalo ...
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