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Unfriend Coal Campaign: Greenpeace and Facebook collaborate to promote renewable energy

(16/12/2011)

Greenpeace and Facebook will collaborate on the promotion of renewable energy, encourage major utilities to develop renewable energy generation, and develop programmes that will enable Facebook users to save energy and engage their communities in clean energy decisions (1). The news comes two years after Greenpeace launched its global Unfriend Coal Campaign (2, 3), enlisting 700,000 online activists (4) to call on Facebook to power its datacentres with clean energy instead of coal (5). As a ... [more]

Upper Toba Valley Hydroelectric Project: Plutonic Power and GE submit bids for $4 billion hydroelectric power projects in Canada

(07/01/2009)

Plutonic Power Corporation has joined with GE Energy Financial Services, in submitting two bids for hydroelectric power projects costing more than $4 billion, which would be Canada’s largest single private sector hydroelectric generation investment. The submissions into BC Hydro’s 2008 Clean Power Call outline the development of approximately 1,200 megawatts of clean, run-of-river hydroelectric capacity (enough to power 330,000 homes) in the Toba and Bute Inlets along British Columbia’s sout... [more]

UV disinfection system: Trojan Technologies uses SolidWorks Software to Develop Disinfection Systems Based on UV Light

(26/11/2008)

Trojan Technologies, a Canadian company, disinfects drinking water with ultraviolet light.UV rays penetrate bacteria and viruses, destroying their ability to function and reproduce. The process is simple but effective, destroying harmful microorganisms without adding chemicals or changing the water's taste or odor. More than 60 designers and engineers at Trojan use SolidWorks® 3D CAD software and SolidWorks Flow Simulation software from Dassault Systèmes SolidWorks Corp. (DS SolidWorks) to c... [more]