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Shanghai Municipal Incineration. Converting Trash to Energy

Fresh off several conferences and meetings where discussions centered around smart grid, wind power, and other renewable energies, yesterdays tour of the Shanghai Municipal Waste Facility proved to be a very interesting site visit.  Operational for 3 years now, this … Continue reading

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Jiangxi to Build its First Garbage Incineration Power Plant

The news that Jiangxi is set to build its first garbage incineration power plant, comes as welcoming news as I spent last week driving by farmland on fire. The Urban Appearance and Environmental Administration Bureau of Nanchang City recently signed … Continue reading

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Improving Lives Through Simple Investments

When working with the issues of poverty alleviation, and those at the bottom of the pyramid, I am constantly amazed by how simple it is to make improvements through the use of existing technologies and a little money. World Bank … Continue reading

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Biogas in China

Wang Mengjie, Director of China Centre for Rural Energy Research and Training, in 2002 submitted the 4 page article Biogas Technology and Ecological Environment Development IN Rural Areas Of China (PDF Download Here) at the First International Conference on Ecological … Continue reading

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Turning China’s Algae into Energy

For China, algae blooms are an issue they have been dealing with for a long time.  In the last 2 years, there has been international coverage of blooms in Wuxi (China’s 3rd largest lake) and Qingdao (right before the Olympics), … Continue reading

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Tibet’s Yak Herders are Short of Dung Energy

For most Westerners, not having 7000 pieces of dried yak dung around the house is not necessarily a bad thing, but in Tibet where a household may need to burn 7000 pieces to keep the house warm.. 7000 pieces is … Continue reading

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Chinese Scientists Develop Step to Cellulose Biomass

Developing biomass from cellulose has been a key step for many, and two Chinese scientists (one based in China and one in the US) have developed a way using tungsten carbide to split the cellulose into its sugar components so … Continue reading

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