Under the leadership of Yiannis Levendis, distinguished professor of mechanical and industrial engineering, a team of undergraduate and graduate engineering students developed a waste combustor, which breaks down non-biodegradable plastics to create an alternative source of fuel.

Construction Industry in Viet Nam has been growing quickly in recent years, with growth rate of 12 – 16% per year. This quick growth, however, means an uncontrollably increasing use of energy and natural resources in construction. Statistics show that there are about 1,000 buildings consuming more than 1 million kWh per year. Such enormous energy waste could be greatly reduced (20% to 30%) under an energy efficiency plan in construction design.

EU’s ‘Clean Sky’ – the 1-6 billion euro research project – with 86 participating partners from 16 nations – has goals like developing unique application-specific technologies and evaluation and advancement of the entire aeronautic system.

Chủ tịch Ủy ban năng lượng hạt nhân của Bangladesh Mosharraf Hossain cho biết Bangladesh và Nga đã ký thỏa thuận sơ bộ hợp tác về việc xây dựng hai nhà máy điện hạt nhân tại nước này. Theo kế hoạch, nhà máy điện hạt nhân đầu tiên ở Bangladesh, với chi phí xây dựng ít nhất là 1,5 tỷ USD, sẽ đi vào hoạt động năm 2017.

During the construction of Vung Tau Post Hotel, the installation of solar-powered water boilers and lighting system was not taken into account. And now after realizing the importance of such devices, it’s already a “fait accompli”. All rooms were designed in architecturally older ideas, hence very difficult to make changes. For the terrace, it is also impossible to install both solar-powered water boilers system and solar-powered lighting system. Without any additional source of power, the company is now paying as much as VND200 million every month for electric bills.

Earlier last year, there were news about scientists dreaming of space-based solar panels, which were to capture the Sun’s energy and bring it to the Earth through microwaves, or lasers, and to provide the ultimate energy source for us.

Là một đảo quốc phải thường xuyên hứng chịu sự tàn phá, khắc nghiệt của giông bão, chính phủ Cuba luôn tìm các giải pháp để khắc phục và hạn chế tối đa thiệt hại mà thiên tai gây ra. Trong những năm gần đây, đảo quốc Tự do trên vùng biển Caribbe đã và đang thực hiện chương trình xây dựng lại nhà cửa cho nhân dân theo hướng bền vững và thân thiện với môi trường. Đây là sáng kiến của tổ chức CIDEM thuộc Viện nghiên cứu và phát triển chính phủ Cuba và mô hình này đã được giới thiệu sang nhiều nước trên thế giới, đặc biệt là khu vực Mỹ La-tinh.

Quang invested about 30 million dong to build a 20m3 biogas pit and a 5kW generator running on biogas. After 3 years, the system has well satisfied electricity demand of his family such as: three 1-Hp motors, a refrigerator, a washing-machine, a 1-Hp air-conditioner. Hence, his family saves about 1 million VND on electricity each month.

They have been toting a 131-foot-long wind-turbine blade serving as a mobile petition to be signed by all supporters. This is to create awareness that promoting wind power industry will generate new jobs and make US self-sufficient in energy production. Their goal is the Wind-Power 2010 Convention at Dallas where the blade will be on display.

But in the last decade, as the number of people employed in Cambodia’s garment sector has increased from about 25,000 in 2000 to around 300,000 today, he has noticed a steady increase in one particular type of vehicle entering Phnom Penh: heavy-load trucks carrying huge stacks of firewood.

Various bodies in construction have set up energy saving systems in buildings under the Research and Cooperation Program in accordance with protocols with other countries, for instance, cooperation with Bulgaria and Russia in saving energy in buildings; cooperation with Germany in saving energy in construction and reducing consequences of climate change.

Theo tiết lộ của công ty Yonghe, kỹ thuật mới này là đổ khoảng 60kg bùn đã được lắng đọng vào một bình chứa có đường kính khoảng 1m và chiều cao khoảng 2m, sau đó dùng dung môi tẩy rửa máy móc kim loại như diclorometan để tăng nhiệt độ của lượng bùn này lên tới 80 độ C, tiếp đó lợi dụng thể khí đã được sản sinh trong phản ứng hóa học trên để hun nóng bùn trong vòng 3 giờ nữa.

Thủ tướng Bangladesh Sheikh Hasina vừa yêu cầu các nhân viên nam làm việc cho chính phủ không mặc comlê, vest và thắt cà vạt để tiết kiệm điện. Thủ tướng cũng yêu cầu 11 bộ trưởng ở không xuất hiện trong bộ comlê và thắt cà vạt. Ngoài ra, các bộ trưởng và quan chức cũng được yêu cầu không mở máy điều hòa dưới 24 độ C.

India has expanded its grid-interactive renewable energy by about 2.3 gigawatts (GW) in the year ending 31 March 2010, with the biggest contribution coming from wind power. The total installed capacity for the financial year 2009/10 reached 16.8GW, according to a statement from the Ministry of New and Renewable Energy.

To realize energy saving plan in order to reduce cost of production, the company’s leaders have planned to run concrete crushing machine during off-peak hours, hence consuming less electricity on producing concrete and clinker in comparison with previous targets. The company has also reduced time spent on drying furnace, and burned coal right after solving furnace problem instead of using MFO oil; hence dramatically reducing oil consumption.

This month, Bruichladdich - one of eight distilleries to be found on the Scottish isle of Islay -- will take delivery of an anaerobic digester which will start turning their whisky waste into electricity.Mark Reynier, owner of Bruichladdich Distillery, hopes the digester will meet around 80 percent of its electricity needs and save the company up to £120,000 ($175,000) every year.

Point Source Power, a startup spun out of research conducted at Lawrence Berkeley National Labs, has devised an economical fuel cell for emerging markets. The one in the picture is built around a container that once held breath mints and will generate two to three watts of power.

A meeting was held in Hanoi Monday for Vietnamese enterprises and firms from Maryland State, US, to seek trade partnership. The meeting, hosted by the Vietnam Chamber of Commerce and Industry, offered an opportunity for local firms to learn about the US technologies and latest applications in the environmental area.

Huynh Kim Tuoc, the director of the Ho Chi Minh City Energy Conservation Center, said, "Industries in Vietnam still consume exorbitant amounts of energy due to inefficiency." Statistics show that the energy efficiency at thermoelectric plants in Vietnam is about 28-32 percent while in developed countries this number is about 40 percent.

Through energy audit and the application of some solutions and models of the project “Investigate, assess, propose solutions and develop energy-saving models for a number of schools, hospitals, factories and flower farms of Lam Dong” implemented by Energy Conservation Center of Ho Chi Minh city, more than VND500 million has been saved and a large amount of CO2 emission which causes greenhouse effect has been reduced.