Algae will be used to power New York State, they will use an algae that consumes carbon-dioxcide (which is a greenhouse gas) to make electricity!
“In a partnership announced Tuesday, the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority is funding the project, which will test GreenFuel’s CO2 recycling technology at NRG’s coal-fired power plant in Dunkirk, N.Y.”
Sites like Freecycle have been around for awhile now, and that of course is good. What’s better is that now a governmental body in Ontario, Canada has started their own version: York Region’s Reuseful!
From the site:
“This area provides:
opportunities for residents to give away gently used items;
a spot for people and organizations seeking free items to make their requests;
community recycling and hazardous waste information throughout York Region communities.”
The site is still in development.
Moscow will be home to the tallest building in Europe, and it’ll be a ‘sustainable’ building. The ventilation for the behemoth will be all natural! Thanks largely to “a series of green skygardens that draw in natural ventilation and provide key circulation and social space.”
A real green giant indeed.
The World Bank is promoting a program in Nepal that endorses the use of biogas in villages. It’s all about improving the lives of the poor by providing cheaper fuel while helping the environment through lowered emissions.
“The project promotes the use of biogas as a commercially viable industry in Nepal by expanding its use for cooking and lighting in rural households. The biogas units will be sold at a non-commercial price to poor households and displace fuel sources traditionally used for cooking—fuel wood, kerosene and agricultural waste—with gas from the treatment of animal and human waste. Each household biogas unit can reduce almost five tons of carbon dioxide equivalent annually.”
Some Kiwis have found a way to turn sewage into bio-diesel. I wonder how it smells.
“Marlborough-based Aquaflow Bionomic yesterday announced it had produced its first sample of bio-diesel fuel from algae in sewage ponds.
It is believed to be the world’s first commercial production of bio-diesel from “wild” algae outside the laboratory – and the company expects to be producing at the rate of at least one million litres of the fuel each year from Blenheim by April.”