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 …
Duke/Fluor Daniel said yesterday it was selected to design and build a 525-megawatt, gas-fired cogeneration facility at BP Amoco Plc's Whiting Refinery in Indiana. The Whiting Refinery has the capacity to process 415,000 barrels of crude oil daily and is the fourth largest refinery in the United States.
A team of Italian scientists Wednesday reported discovery of a gene that exerts major control over the life span of mice. The effects of the corresponding gene in humans is unknown, but experts in aging called the findings a milestone that could someday lead to drugs that postpone the effects …
Militant Colombian Indians have seized an area they claim as ancestral homelands to prevent a U.S. multinational from drilling for oil and pledged yesterday to "defend Mother Earth to the death". Some 200 U'wa Indians occupied late Tuesday the Gibraltar-1 test site in the Samore block in northeast Colombia. The …
Traces indicating that liquid had leaked from five metal drums of radioactive waste sent to be buried underground at a low-level waste disposal center run by Japan Nuclear Fuel Ltd. In Rokkashomura, Aomori Prefecture, were found recently, leading the Science and Technology Agency to instruct the company to investigate the …
U.S. energy company Conoco Inc. said yesterday it made its fifth natural gas discovery of the year in Block B of the South Natuna Sea, offshore Indonesia. The Keong No. 1 exploration well was drilled to 6,300 feet, and encountered 295 feet of natural gas zones in multiple reservoirs, the …
Japan's worst nuclear accident at a nuclear fuel processing plant was the result of human error and poor design but it caused no significant contamination, the International Atomic Energy Agency has said.
Report : Japan's worst nuclear accident, which occurred in September at a nuclear fuel processing plant resulted from human error and poor design, but caused no significant contamination, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has said.
Thailand's successful energy conservation campaign may lose its momentum given the changing role of the Electricity Generating Authority of Thailand in the energy market, said an energy expert. Sood Na Phuket, director of the International Institute of Energy Conservation-Asia (IIEC), said Egat's energy conservation campaign-the Demand Side Management project-has won …
The United Nations (un) has asked for immediate steps for cleaning the River Danube of wastes generated by the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (nato) bombing. Water from the Danube is used for drinking purposes in the downstream nations Romania and Bulgaria. According to Pekka Haavisto, head of the United Nation …
Power for spaceships from astronaut waste? Unbelievable but true. It won't be long before astronauts make a significant contribution towards replenishing depleted power sources on board a spacecraft: faeces and other solid wastes. Scientists from National Aeronautics and Space Administration (nasa) in the US have enlisted the support of Advanced …
Panel : The expert committee constituted by the Supreme Court to suggest methods to improve municipal solid waste disposal has cautioned local bodies against using high cost technologies for generating power from waste. The committee was formed following a Supreme Court order on a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) filed in …
A Project submitted to the Department of Science and Technology six months ago by a Delhi based physicist, Prof S P Kapoor, to reduce the damage caused by a cyclone and to harness the latent energy present in the cyclone to the advantage of mankind, is lying frozen. Prof Kapoor's …
The ecological character of the Ropar wetland, about 45 km from Chandigarh is being adversely affected by Guru Gobind Singh Super Thermal Plant. If a report submitted by the Ministry of Environment and Forests by the Punjab Council for Science and Technology is any indication, the thermal power plant and …
Shell Renewables India Pvt Ltd (SRIL) proposes to spend a major portion of capital on establishing a network of solar centres, hiring people and on market related activities in the country. The aim of the programme called 'Synergy 2000' was to increase the flow of finance for solar photovoltaic and …
The Punjab government has embarked upon a massive programme at a cost of Rs 16 crore to strengthen 67 existing rural water supply schemes covering 93 waterlogged villages of Muktsar district during 1999-2000.
The Delhi High Court has issued notice to the Delhi Vidyut Board (DVB) on a petition challenging a scheme to provide power connections to unauthorised colonies.
The Supreme Court's direction to file and affidavit on the Delhi Vidyut Boardc's (DVB) 'privatisation' process has put the Delhi Government in the dock. The Government and the DVB have been thrown into a tizzy as they have no clue how to respond to the apex court's directive.
A retired Indian civil engineer, who has found a cheap and environmentally sound solution to provide water round the year to farmers in the remotest regions of the country, has been selected for this year's 'Asian innovation award'. Sixty two year old Mr. Chewang Norphel, hailing from Ladakh in Jammu …
And will it be CNG or LPG? is a question customers lining up at, believe it or not, car showrooms may soon be asked. The use of liquified petroleum gas (LPG) as auto fuel is to be authorised soon and competition with the other green fuel Compressed Natural Gas (CNG) …
