For the first time the Swiss transatlantic21 association awarded innovative energy concepts and products in several categories. Read on in the Environmental Leader who has snapped up the awards.
Archive for Clean Tech
Using Hydrothermal Carbonization to Clean Emissions (29.05.2007)
Maybe there is a better solution for “clean coal”. And look, charcoal may be the next “green coal” solution – not for barbequing but for sequestration.
Treehugger: Good news for people who like “clean coal”: a team of scientists from the Department of Colloid Chemistry at the Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces has discovered a novel “low-tech” way of using biomass to clean up carbon dioxide emissions.They suggest using a cost-efficient process known as hydrothermal carbonization (HTC) to turn fast-growing energy crops into a form of “bio-coal” that would be stored into “carbon landfills” that could act as effective carbon sinks.
Siemens: Environmental technologies 2020 (17.05.2007)
Siemens has been publishing their future technology magazine “Pictures of the Future” for 6 years. The recent issues reports also on “Technology for the environment”. Interesting articles in their publication are “Scenario 2020″ and their sections “Trends” and “Facts and Forecasts”. Detailed information, good read.
Siemens: Which technologies will shape our lives in ten to twenty years? Pictures of the Future answers this by painting detailed scenarios of tomorrow’s world – scenarios supported by reports on cutting edge research at Siemens.
