Iberdrola wins Seville solar power plant contract for 15 mln euros
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- Iberdrola wins Seville solar power plant contract for 15 mln euros
- Cost of nuclear plant fuels battle
- ‘Organic farming best for environment’
- Colleges tied by strings donors attached to gifts
- Local animosity
- War Eagle Completes Successful First Phase Investigation Into the…
Iberdrola wins Seville solar power plant contract for 15 mln euros
Forbes – Apr 24, 2008
’s engineering arm Iberdrola Ingenieria said it has won a contract to build a solar power plant in Seville Spain for 15 million euros. In a statement Iberdrola (other-otc:.
Cost of nuclear plant fuels battle
News & Observer – Apr 24, 2008
Nuclear critics are homing in on the staggering costs to lobby their case. It helps the opponents to have a dollar figure to object to but electric utilities are reluctant to cooperate. Nuclear opponents are trying to force Duke Energy of Charlotte to disclose the projected cost of a proposed nuclear plant in Cherokee County S. that would serve the Carolinas. The groups have asked officials in both states to require that Duke disclose the estimate. South Carolina regulators are expected to rule on the request today… Duke is being challenged to disclose nuclear costs under new laws in North Carolina and South Carolina that allow utilities to start paying debt on power plants before the plants are built — even if the projects are abandoned. Duke isn’t applying to raise customer rates now but the company is asking regulators in both states for the green light to spend about $230 million in development costs as the company keeps its nuclear option open. Those costs include preparing an application for a federal nuclear license federal regulatory fees site evaluation land and rights of way purchases demolition and site preparation and detailed engineering. The nuclear reactors that Progress is planning in Florida — the Westinghouse AP 1000 model — are the same technology that Progress has proposed for the Shearon Harris site and Duke has proposed for Cherokee County southwest of Charlotte. 8 million customers in North Carolina would use most of the electricity generated by the proposed plant and would pay for about 70 percent of the cost of the project. Just double talk?In February Duke Energy CEO Jim Rogers told South Carolina regulators that the Cherokee County plant would cost $6 billion to $8 billion but the company now says that estimate is dated and inaccurate.
‘Organic farming best for environment’
Independent Online – Apr 24, 2008
In her book “Tomorrow’s Table” recently written with her husband organic farmer Raoul Adamchak she describes how the combination of GMO and organic farming could help farmers to achieve higher yields through better seeds crop rotation and better after-harvest management without resorting to expensive and environmentally hazardous chemicals. Ronald played down consumer worries over the safety of GMOs derided by critics as “Frankenstein food” saying it was time to abandon such caricatures of genetic engineering and see it as a tool that could promote an ecological farming revolution. “Genetic engineering is different from conventional breeding but it has the same results in the end: It changes the genetic makeup of the plant and you have a plant that has some enhanced characteristic” she said. Were it not for conventional breeding in the last 40 to 50 years the world would have used twice as much land to grow the same amount of food she said. In future it would take twice again as much land unless the world raises yields. “Resistance to disease insects or stress – like flood droughts cold heat salt – are critical traits that we need to bring into the plants. It’s very difficult to do it via conventional breeding” she said.
Colleges tied by strings donors attached to gifts
Seattle Times – Apr 24, 2008
Consider the Dudley professorship of railroad engineering at Yale. The chair was created in 1923 with a $152679 gift from Plimmon Dudley an engineer who worked for the New York Central Rail. His desire was that his research into railway safety be continued “in particular the work in connection with the development and improvement of designs of rails roadbeds and crossties. But over the years railway engineering lost its luster as an academic topic and the professorship sat vacant for more than 70 years. “I was kind of stumped as to what to do with this chair” Yale President Richard Levin said… Sophia Yuan a sophomore who hands out the tea as part of work-study said the practice is charming but draws few takers. College officials said they try to be receptive to donor wishes even when they seem strange. That happened at Wellesley College when Leonie Faroll a 1949 graduate asked the college to use her gifts for the college’s power plant. When she died in 2003 those gifts totaled $860000. “It was about giving for something that makes the place run” said Lynn Miles acting vice president for resources at Wellesley. “Once a year she would come to campus and we would sit and have lemonade and Pepperidge Farm cookies at the power plant. Faroll later left the college more than $27 million in her will the largest bequest the college ever received.
Local animosity
Al-Ahram Weekly – Apr 24, 2008
Emissions from the plant will be half the maximum stipulated in [Environment] Law No. " Engineer Khaled Salama executive director of the plant believes that locals "are being misled". "We are trying to reach out to people to provide them with correct information. We have conducted a study on the environmental impacts of the project and the four nearby plants on the surrounding environment and we are ready to build an environment monitoring station in cooperation with other projects in the area to control any negative effects. " The minister of environment denies the existence of plans to turn the area into a nature reserve. "Everything that has been said about the negative effects of the project is unfounded" he insists pointing out that the project received a bill of clean health from the panel of experts that studied its potential impact on the environment.
War Eagle Completes Successful First Phase Investigation Into the…
Earthtimes – Apr 24, 2008
Phase 1 has shown conclusively that germanium and gallium can be recovered from the flyash and that a feasibility study is fully warranted. Phase 2 will be a feasibility study covering the whole process of metal leaching and recovery and on a larger scale than previously. It will include a programme of pilot plant test work to be carried out at the Chemical and Environmental Engineering Department of the University of Seville designed to optimise the metal recovery methods provide a flow sheet for a full-scale processing plant and firm up the economic estimates. It will also establish whether the leached fly ash will be suitable for use in the construction industry. Phase 2 is scheduled to take 3 months. The ELCOGAS operation at Puertollano is a coal gasification thermal power plant that was supported by the European Union to facilitate clean energy production from coal and is the largest single train IGCC plant in the world. It currently produces some 12000 tonnes of fly ash per year and the output could increase to 15000 tonnes.
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