Cleantech Update

By Sybille de La Hamaide PARIS (Reuters) - Production of biodiesel in the European Union rose by more than 35 percent in 2008 and capacity will grow again this year although half the plants are idle due to poor demand, the EU producers group said on Wednesday. The Brussels-based European Biodiesel Board (EBB) said the European production of biodiesel, by far the main biofuel made in the bloc, had reached 7.76 million tonnes last year putting the EU's global market share close to 65 percent. However, the EBB qualified the 2008 rise as "moderate" compared to the jump of 65 percent in 2005 and 54 percent in 2006 but the rise was only at 17 percent in 2007. "In line with the trend initiated in 2007, the year 2008 saw a relatively small increase in EU biodiesel production, and even a reduction in two major producing Member States, Germany and Austria," the EBB said in a statement. For detailed statistics of biodiesel output per country and estimates for the 2009 cap...

I pulled this from a Alfagy's website: They are developing wood mass gassification in a high heat low oxegen invironment, the burining the clean gas. Very interesting... -CTE Editor The range of fully automated Wood Gasified Heat and Power Plants are as follows: The ENERCARB wood gas technology offers customers a turn-key automated solution for heat and power generation from wood. We can provide a complete solution covering the full value chain from wood preparation to power generation in the 250 kW to 1,000 kW range. This is a gap in the market where the company believes there is a potential £725m market worldwide.A full scale 500 kW wood gasification plant was built for a client and has been operating since April 2009. Over the next 3 years sales of wood gasification plants are expected growing rapidly with the introduction of new support structures. Biomass accounts for around 5 per cent of total energy consumption in Europe. In countries such as Finland, Sweden and Austria it...

Nano wires are essential for the increase in efficiency of Photo Voltaic Technology. Since the PV effect can occur on wires one 1000 th of the diameter of a human hair. The ability to build a mesh of nano wires within a PV cell or PV material is important toward increasing PV Materials. Now a Company has created a mapping machine that can find a sugar cube in 25 square kilometer of three dimensional space.... Read this article to fin out more. -Editor Nano Measurement In The 3rd Dimension ScienceDaily (July 6, 2009) — From the motion sensor to the computer chip - in many products of daily life components are used whose functioning is based on smallest structures of the size of thousandths - or even millionths - of millimetres. These micro and nano structures must be manufactured and assembled with the highest precision so that in the end, the overall system will function smoothly. See also: Because of this, details are important. Scientists at the Physikalisch - Technische...

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