August 12, 2010
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Energy & Renewables Newsletter August 12, 2010 |
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Building Utility Scale Concentrated Solar Thermal Power the “Indian way”
London 12/08/2010 With the New Solar Mission ambitious goals that the Indian Ministry of New and Renewable Energy brought out on the 25th of July stipulating hard budgeting restrictions per MW as well as a firm schedule for starting construction of plants. With capital costs coming just over $3 million per MW, the New Solar Mission might sound ambitious in the ears of international developers but, according to top experts of the CSP industry in India, the budget is generous when it comes to building it “the Indian way” In an interview ... |
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Lack of science means jatropha biofuel `could fail poor`
Mass planting of jatropha as a biofuel crop could benefit poor areas as well as combating global warming, but only if a number of scientific and production issues are properly addressed, a review has warned. Growing jatropha for biofuel on degraded land unsuitable for food and cash crops could help improve the earnings of small farmers and counter poverty, reports the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) in the review published last month. The plant is an alternative crop for small farmers `particularly in semi-arid, remote areas that have little opportunity for alternative farming ... |
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