The Punjab Energy Development Agency has released a draft green hydrogen policy aiming to achieve a green hydrogen and ammonia production capacity of 100 kilo tonnes per annum by 2030. The policy proposes extending incentives under the existing “Punjab Industrial and Business Development Policy 2022” to new green hydrogen and …
A worker exposed to excessive radiation in Japan's worst nuclear accident died today morning, a hospital spokesman said. Masato Shinohara, 40 died at 7:25 a.m. at the University of Tokyo Hospital, said spokesman Tamotasu Watanabe.
British Nuclear Fuels ran into new trouble when Bill Richardson, US energy secretary, said he would review the company's largest contract in America following "unacceptable" price increases. BNFL submitted a $15bn proposal to clean up nuclear waste at the Hanford nuclear reservation in Washington State after saying 18 months ago …
Cloning can slow the ageing process in cells, scientists reported. Six cows, cloned from adults, have cells that seem genetically younger than those in normal animals of the same age. The research-by Advanced Cell Technology, a US biotechnology company, and published in the journal Science - removes the main practical …
Spanish farmers are growing three-metre high artichokes for burning in special power stations to produce electricity, the Independent newspaper has reported. The genetically-modified monster vegetables, which boast seven metre roots, will be generating power for 60,000 people when operations in the northern towns of Villabilla de Burgos and Alcala de …
A plant worker exposed to radiation in the worst nuclear accident in Japan died Thursday, the second victim of an incident that has undermined public confidence in the nuclear power industry. Tokyo University Hospital officials said Masato Shinahara, 40-one of three workers exposed to heavy doses of radiation in the …
Under a project code-named 'Project Green,' Thermex Ltd has appointed Boston Consulting Group (BCG) to help it address the evolving markets for clean energy solutions. The assignment will begin at the end of this month and is scheduled to be completed in 12 weeks.
natural gas could soon be generating electricity in millions of homes, thanks to a revolutionary new fel cell. The breakthrough allows the cells to run on methane from the gas mains.
Greenpeace today called on the French Government to immediately halt radioactive discharges from the giant La Hague nuclear reprocessing complex after a scientific sampling operation revealed that dangerous radioactive particles larger than the regulatory limit were being released.
Wambo Power Ventures had delayed start-up of its 450 megawatt gas-fired power station in Queensland due to uncertainty about government greenhouse policy, the developers said on Thursday. Wambo business development manager Trevor St Baker said the A$180 million project, which would take a year to develop, was now targeted to …
A bill would be introduced in the current session of Lok Sabha to amend the Motor Vehicles Act to regularise the use of LPG in car, Union minister of state for petroleum and natural gas E Ponnuswamy said.
Delhi and its adjoining towns - Gurgaon, Faridabad and Noida - have very wide carriage-ways to accomodate additional tram tracks leaving the existing lanes unaffected for automobiles.They led themselves ideally for introducing trams which have many advantages over buses.
Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Limited (HPCL) will set up a Rs 2900 crore power project in Visakhapatnam as part of the company's diversification strategy.
West Bengal has cleared the formation of an inter-ministerial group to coordinate with the site selection committee under the Department of Atomic Energy for setting up a nuclear power plant in the state. Bengal, Bihar and Orissa are in the race to bag the project. Writers' Buildings sources confirmed that …
President Clinton this evening vetoed a bill that would have required the Energy Department to move nuclear waste to Nevada before a repository it plans to build there had been completed. Under commercial contracts between the electric utilities and the government, the department was supposed to begin accepting nuclear waste …
Thailand's Science, Technology and Environment Ministry will today ask the National Environment Board to nominate 61 sites around the country as "wetlands of international significance" to ensure their survival. Many urgently need to be protected, restored and studied. Out of 61 sites, nine were considered in "very bad" condition, an …
The Chashma Nuclear Power Plant has completed a series of experimental functioning and Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission (Paec) is confident that the second Nuclear Power Plant of the country will go critical from July after which it would start electricity supply to Wapda on commercial basis.
The United Nations Tuesday released a new assessment of the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear meltdown, saying the worst health consequences for 7,1 million people may be yet to come. "At least 100 times as much radiation was released by this accident as by the two atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and …
Implementation of the much awaited 300 million dollar Dhaka Power System Upgrade Project couldn't yet start, delaying improvement in the problematic electricity supply in the capital. Moreover the donor-aided scheme is targeted to extend the capital's distribution and transmission systems covering the rural areas in greater Dhaka.
The Department of Energy will announce the development of a "hybrid" fuel cell that could be the forerunner of a new generation of electric power plants that run at record levels of efficiency with much lower-levels of pollution than conventional natural gas-fired power plants. The new device combines a fuel …
By purifying biogas produced from distillery wastes, scientists in Calcutta claimed to have generated huge quantities of compressed methane, a gas with immense potential as an alternative source of vehicle fuel.Experimenting with bulk distillery wastes from alcohol manufacturing breweries, researchers from the chemical engineering department of Jadavpur University produced the …
