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 …
After the Indian Point 2 nuclear power plant unexpectedly shut down two weeks ago, managers focused on maintenance work that they wanted to do and did not pay sufficient attention to a electrical malfunction that eventually led to a low-level emergency, the Consolidated Edison Company said. The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory …
A British geologist has proposed a novel way of disposing of high-level radioactive waste which he says is safer and cheaper than standard methods. Dr Fergus Gibb, of the Univesity of Sheffield in nothern England, told Britain's annual science festival that he has a solution to the problem about what …
Indian Oil Corporation Ltd(IOC) has embarked on a fresh move to scout for a joint venture partner for its proposed grassroots refinery at Paradip in the east coast of the country.
A noiseless and eco-friendly portable generator that can be used as a power source for areas where commercial power is not available, or as a back-up against power failure, has been developed by Japanese scientists.
Bowing to pressures from Petronet LNG, Gas Authority of India Ltd(GAIL) has assured the governemnt that it would not pick equity in British Gas's LNG import project in Gujarat.
A new way of harnessing the sun's rays could cut the cost of producing electricity in hot countries. Solargen, A Cambridge company, claims its design for a solar-pwer plant will bring electricity to communities that cannot afford it at the moment. It will halve the cost of electricity for villagers …
Space station starts orbiting earth: After being released from the shuttle Endeavour, the international space station was orbiting the earth on its own on Monday "a bright new star" not to be visited again until May. "It's just the beginning", said Frank Culbertson, Nasa's deputy program manager for space station …
Gerhard Schroder, the German chancellor, intervened personally in a potentially damaging dispute over his government's plan for withdrawing from nuclear power. After talks at the chancellory with the heads of four of the country's big energy companies, Mr Schroder said both sides agreed that an exit from nuclear power needed …
In a major breakthrough for Gujarat, the Centre has cleared a 2,000 MW power sector project to be set up in Pipavav in Amrreli district at the cost of Rs 8,000 crore.
On the International day of protest against the K2/R4 reactors organised by European antinuclear groups, Greenpeace released a report showing that the environmental impact assessments on the completion of the reactors Khmelnitesky 2 and Rovno 4 in Ukraine do not comply with European Union (EU) standards.
Power is conspicuous by its absence at Leh and various areas of the town get less than four hours of electricity every alternate day, usually from 8 p.m. to 12 midnight. Go to Prey village, 18 km from Leh, on the Leh-Kargil road, and it virtually has round-the-check electricity, thanks …
Leading marine fuel tester, DNV Petroleum Services, is campaigning for bunker samples to be taken at a single agreed point, that of custody trasfer, so that the sample can act as an 'umpire' in bunker disputes. A badly contaminated supply of bunker fuel containing highly abrasive material can quite literally …
Opposition to the $1,034-million Trans-Thailand-Malaysia gas pipeline, approved by the Thai cabinet yesterday, is building in the South. Local groups are rallying support nationwide against the project, which they say will disadvantage Thais. Damai Anantiyo, leader of the Songkhla People's Group, said opponents felt betrayed that the cabinet had cleared …
Thai-based environmentalists yesterday accused the American organisers of a conference of going behind the backs of vulnerable ethnic groups in discussing massive Burmese dam projects in private. Oregon University, in co-operation with Bangkok's Asian Institute of Technology, asked representatives of the military regime and various business groups to discuss ways …
ONGC in taks with 16 companies, mostly foreign ones having operations in India, to firm up a string of strategic alliance on investment and production-sharing basis for deep water exploration.The prominent ones include Shell, Mobil and Exxon.
New York State is opening a new legal front in its fight against pollution drifting from coal-burning power plants in upwind states with an announcement on Tuesday that it intends to sue 17 power plants to force them to clean up.
SCIENTISTS studying bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) or mad cow disease agree that there is a risk that BSE may have passed into flocks of sheep and goats in the United Kingdom. These sheep were fed with BSE-contaminated meat and bone meal till July 1998 which could have infected the sheep …
A GOVERNMENT taskforce investigating ways of reducing business emissions of greenhouse gases has endorsed an energy tax on businesses in the UK. Lord Marshall, chairperson of British Airways, who headed the taskforce said: "My conclusion is that there probably is a role for a tax if businesses of all sizes …
THEY may be bad, but they are worth saving too. That is the message from a team of British biologists who say the millions of viruses, bacteria and fungi that kill or blight plant life across the planet should be conserved with the same urgency as other species. Though harmful …
