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Nuclear District Heating: A Solution or a Problem?
by Simon Schneebeli In the Swiss village of Beznau, heat losses from a nearby nuclear power plant are being used in a district heating system. Although this is still nuclear energy, even the “green†politicians should love such a system. It is known that common nuclear power plants have an efficiency coefficient of only about [...]
Continue reading...E-Governance: An Aid to the Development of Isolated Rural Communities in Developing Countries
26. July 2005
by R.K. Khitoliya and Nitin Tanwar, Department of Civil Engineering, Punjab Engineering College, Chandigarh, India E-governance has been considered as an ideal tool to speed up the development process by developing countries all over the world, especially in the case of isolated rural communities. However, e-governance has not yet been effectively implemented in these communities [...]
Continue reading...Fab Tree Hab
25. April 2005
Local Biota and Fauna Graft Living Structure Monday 25 April 2005, by Mitchell Joachim The Fab Tree Hab is a home concept that is intended to replace the outdated design solutions at Habitat for Humanity International. Our goal was to propose a method to grow homes from native seeds, hopefully to enable these new local [...]
Continue reading...Solid Waste Management in a Developing Country: Towards a Sustainable Solution
22. April 2005
by Faisal Ibney Hai, Department of Urban Engineering, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan Until recently, the environment was not an issue in a developing country like Bangladesh, and solid waste management was definitely not the prime concern of environmentalists and the government when the awakening to the issue finally did occur. It has only been [...]
Continue reading...GreenFuel: Using Algae to Capture Emissions
22. April 2005
by Philip Sheehy, Research Assistant, Department of Chemistry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA Having sown many a seed for technological innovation, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology now finds itself in a different role: testing ground. Atop its cogeneration power plant, a slipstream with 1 percent of the flue gases emitted is being biologically [...]
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25. September 2005
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