indonesia Archives – The Green Optimistic green tech news, since 2008 Sat, 22 Jun 2013 02:56:29 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 2667534 Record-Breaking Air Pollution in Singapore Tied to Deforestation in Indonesia https://www.greenoptimistic.com/record-breaking-air-pollution-in-singapore-tied-to-deforestation-in-indonesia-20130621/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/record-breaking-air-pollution-in-singapore-tied-to-deforestation-in-indonesia-20130621/#respond Sat, 22 Jun 2013 02:56:23 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=38596 It is now widely believed that Indonesian palm oil companies are intentionally starting forest fires to clear land for palm oil plantations. As if this were not bad enough, these widespread forest fires are causing record-breaking hazardous levels of air pollution in neighboring Singapore. If the air pollution index in Singapore is any sign, the […]

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]]> https://www.greenoptimistic.com/record-breaking-air-pollution-in-singapore-tied-to-deforestation-in-indonesia-20130621/feed/ 0 38596 Indonesia Planning to Get Another 4,000 MW from Volcanic Geothermal Plants by 2014 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/indonesia-volcanic-geothermal-20100427/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/indonesia-volcanic-geothermal-20100427/#respond Tue, 27 Apr 2010 14:10:44 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=7464 Indonesia, the world's third greenhouse gas contributor, wants to diversify its clean energy production potential by using the active volcanoes in the archipelago of 17,000 islands. If finished, this would be the world's biggest geothermal energy project, adding another 4,000 MegaWatts of geothermal capacity to the existing 1,189 MW... all of this by 2014.

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