Posts Tagged power plant

Oslo Imports Trash for Power Generation, But There’s Not Enough Trash to Go Around

Posted by Benji Jerew in Pollution, Recycling on May 2, 2013

The city of Oslo, Norway, burns its trash in specialize plants for power generation and heating, but there are more trash-burning plants than there is trash to feed them. The situation is similar in other Northern European countries, which exceed 700 million tons of trash-burning power generation capacity. The problem is, in an age of [...]


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Dutch & Norvegian Researchers Say Osmosis Power Plants Could Suffice World's Electricity Needs

Posted by Ovidiu Sandru in Energy news on July 20, 2010

A new approach to generate electricity comes from engineers from Europe’s northern countries of the Netherlands and Norway. They want to use the difference between salty and fresh water through osmosis in two different manners and say that their solutions could suffice the entire world’s energy needs. The New Scientist joined them both in an interesting case study.


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New Metal-Organic Frameworks In Action for Capturing Carbon Dioxide

Posted by Cristi in Climate Change on June 2, 2010

Climate change is one of the most controversial subjects of the century, because it is changing our planet in an non-imaginable way. Scientists have developed different ways (more or less efficient) to capture the CO2 excess resulted from human activity.


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How to use solar energy at night or during rainy days

Posted by Cristi in Solar Power on February 22, 2009

In Granada- Spain, German scientists of Solar Millennium AG, have developed a solar-thermal power plant called Andasol 1. The most interesting thing about this power plant is that it can produce energy even when the sun is not shining: at night, on clouding or even rainy days.


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Ontario Region Switches Coal with Biomass

Posted by Florin in Biogas on January 22, 2009

The company that produces the energy in Ontario, OPG – Ontario Power Generation started the process of finding providers for biomass fuel, by sending a “call for expression of interest” to those interested to change the coal to biogas for producing the electricity in the region.
The company is looking forward to create the list with…


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Freshwater and Electricity Through Osmosis

Posted by Cristi in Energy news, Water Purifiers on January 15, 2009

Robert McGinnis, Yale doctoral student and Menachem Elimelech, Chair of Chemical and Environmental Engineering, have developed systems that can harness the power of osmosis to transform non-potable water sources like seawater to freshwater and generate in the same time electricity.


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Would you like to host a nuclear reactor in your backyard?

Posted by Ovidiu Sandru in Nuclear Power on March 17, 2008

NOT many people want a nuclear power station in their backyard, but that’s the prospect facing communities on both sides of the Atlantic as governments weigh up where to build a new wave of reactors.


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