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How risky are energy efficiency investments?
Last week’s announcement of $8.3 billion – and possibly as much as $54.5 billion – in US federal loan guarantees for nuclear power plants sparked debate about risk of default on loans. What are the chances the plants will be built? Critics unearthed a Congressional Budget Office report citing a 50% risk the projects will fail. The Department of Energy countered that the report is seven years old and not germane. The truth is that all power projects entail significant risk. In some regions of the ... |
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Energy efficiency and emission reduction of TPM, PM2.5, and SO2 from natural gas and fuel oil fired boiler exhausts
Fully 8% of all of Canada’s energy consumption occurs in gas and fuel oil fired boilers in commercial and institutional facilities1, with proportional amounts of greenhouse gases, particulate matter, and other pollutants. Recently particulate matter, and in particular that smaller than 2.5 microns (PM2.5) has garnered specific attention due to attributed health effects as demonstrated by associated increased hospital admissions and emergency room visits—and even to death from heart or lung diseases2. ... |
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The Ecomembrane S.r.l. company was born thanks to the Agrisolos S.r.l. desire of giving more space and autonomy to its company's branch that has been working for 15 years to the development and the use of new technologies for the environmental field and energy saving. These systems use mainly membranes to build anti-odour covers, for tanks and stocks lagoons, floating covers for digesters or anaerobic lagoons, gasometric and static pressure domes for the stockage of the biogas directly over the anaerobic digesters and for the production of gasometers for the biogas accumulation. |
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