There is an interesting piece in The Economist this week that will warm the cockles of industrial ecologists’ hearts. The are moves afoot to use waste cooking oil to power trucks and buses. Having imbibed a fair bit of Hong Kong soot myself on a recent business trip, I shall be monitoring this development with interest. (The full article is reproduced below.)
Interesting piece in the Economist this week entitled, All change, on what the Brazilians are doing with ethanol.
The Guardian reports today in an article entitled, Bush’s pollution charter, that the US Government ‘plans to open a huge loophole in America’s air pollution laws, allowing an estimated 17,000 outdated power stations and factories to increase their carbon emissions with impunity’.
A piece in the Financial Times today sheds a little more light (pun intended) on the reasons for the big power failure in North America last week. These include low investment in an ageing grid, too much deregulation, coordination problems between states, and last, but by no means least, rising demand.
