October 10th, 2006
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Chemical giant Dupont has announced some major environmental commitments today.
Here is a run down, as reported in a Houston Chronicle article:
- Double funding (to $800 million) for research and development in “environmentally smart” technologies and products.
- Increase annual revenue from technologies that improve energy efficiency and reduce greenhouse gas emissions by $2 billion by 2015
- Double annual revenue from non-depletable resources to at least $8 billion by 2015
- Reduce greenhouse gas emissions by at least 15 percent (already 70 percent reduced since 1990) .
Sounds great (IF they do honour these commitments). Hopefully some of the other industry giants won’t be too far behind!
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Interesting article in ‘The Daily Californian’ about fuel cell research sponsored by the US department of Energy.
Scientists were able to create a fuel cell catalyst that uses a cobalt compound rather than the typical platinum catalyst. Although further research is needed, this is could be a potentially huge boost to the fuel cell industry, allowing fuel cells to be produced for considerably less money.
Should be interesting to see how this one pans out.
To learn more, see the full story
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Work has finally started on what will be “Europe’s biggest onshore wind farm”. The 140 turbines will be built near East Killbride (south of Glasgow) and will generate enough electricity (322 megawatts) to power 200,000 homes.
According to the source, Scotland is already quite ‘green’ when it comes to renewable energy use, with 16% of its total energy coming from renewable sources (compare this to the 4% for the entire UK), and in fact is planning an even larger wind farm (200 turbines) near Stornoway.
What’s interesting – and something I’ve been hearing more about in the last couple years – is the opposition to such projects by various conservation groups, who are understandably concerned about the potential environmental impact.
While I certainly don’t know enough about it to argue one way or the other, I definitely feel its important to carefully assess the situation fully before (potentially blindly) running full force ahead with green initiatives.
If you’d like to learn more, here is the original article from the Independent: Work begins near Glasgow on biggest windfarm in Europe
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Sorry for the few days of quiet here at EcoSherpa!
This past weekend was Canadian Thanksgiving, so it was an important time for getting together with family and enjoying some good food!
Sadly I didn’t get to eat any turkey or pumpkin pie, but I did get two solid dinners nevertheless.
Yummm…
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