Shale gas increases 15 times the radiation exposure from radon

  PHE report, the most comprehensive assessment ever made of the risks to health posed hydraulic fracturing, believes that further research is needed to monitor the level of shale gas radon in homes and exploitation of groundwater near the method hydraulic fracturing.   According to Sky News, research conducted in the U.S. where hydraulic fracturing … Read more

Australians hold mareomotrica first 1 MW plant in the world

  If all goes well, investors plans to develop a 10-megawatt version of the device.     Technology " Greenwave " those from Oceanlinx waves uses energy to produce pressurized air which is then injected into a turbine that generates electricity. The converter is embedded in a precast concrete formwork which is anchored at depths … Read more

Redundants from Electrica SA received £ 6.5 million

For central office of the company is working 202 people, but staffing is projected for the end, of 172, 30 fewer employees. Not exclude layoffs occur at the company's subsidiaries. Also Electrica SA estimates for this year a net profit of 24.6 million and total revenues of 749.2 million lei. Compared Electrica SA reported 2012 … Read more

The largest photovoltaic plant in Japan has a offshore papacity of 70 MW

  Japanese company Kyocera, which led consortium with six other companies in solar project development, he hopes to set a precedent for clean energy development in Japan, especially in light of the 2011 nuclear desastre of Fukushima.   Solar plant was designed to inspire and encourage Japan to focus on renewable energy production, " said … Read more

Clever LED bulb turns into flashlight when needed

  But that's not all the technology is good for. LEDs use so little power that it's possible to put a battery in the bulb and turn it into a flashlight when power is out. That's what designer Lin Guohui did, and his bulb (which you can see above) is sold by the Museum of … Read more

Moscow threatens: you sit in the cold! (Reviews)

  You know who ‘s Gazprom ? One of the major companies that Moscow get more than money. Exert pressure and control still keeps former satellites.   The threat is obvious. After the emotional stage – the Cross led protests at Pungesti – I entered the stage over blackmail – if you drop the ” … Read more

Green Energy in Romania reached 13.7 TWh

  Romania produced in the first eight months of the year, a total of 13.7 TWh of renewable energy, accounting for 41.6% of national electricity consumption in period.   Wind turbines produced 2.9 TWh and 10.8 TWh of total comes from hydropower.   The total national consumption reached 32.9 TWh, which means that renewable energy … Read more

EnergyPlus Boosts Building Efficiency with Help from Autodesk

  EnergyPlus was originally written in FORTRAN, a programming language for scientific supercomputing applications. Autodesk, a leader in building design software, has translated EnergyPlus’ 600,000 lines of computer code into C++, one of the world’s most popular programming languages.   The change allows EnergyPlus to run on modern hardware like multi-core processors and better connect … Read more

Baking soda, vinegar and lemon, organic solution for daily cleaning

Baking soda is nontoxic and does wonders in daily cleaning. It is good in treating health problems: teeth whitening, relieves heartburn and cure cough and mouth sores. Uses of sodium bicarbonate in the cleaning of your home: – Remove bad odors from jars – Do away with the unpleasant smell of fridge – Get rid … Read more

The most beautyful place in the Bucharest

  Ever since it was little, on the Internet you can see Bucharest satellite map and a place that caught my attention was the area behind the current Sun Plaza. All I could see on the map was a huge green stain, and I think it's a disused reservoir filled with dirty water or a … Read more

Romsilva will reforest 1711 acres this fall, another 1,807 hectares will regenerate naturally

" This fall we use over 14 million saplings for afforestation and have allocated a sum of 28 million lei. Romsilva has secured funding source for all works carried out afforestation in state forests. We also reserve this year because of good results from the sale of timber and 25 % of its capitalization went … Read more

Rovana Lead: We can’t afford to leave Warsaw without a work plan with concrete objectives

Minister for Environment and Climate Change, Rovana Plumb, pleaded for a swift and concerted action so that climate change does not result in serious consequences for the future of humanity. " Romania supports, along with the European Union as a new global climate agreement needs strong political support to be finished in 2015. Through this … Read more

Dear Ms. Lucia Varga, Minister for Water, Forests and Fisheries.

For science: Lady Rovana Plumb, Minister of Environment and Climate Change   Mr. Constantin Nit , Minister for Energy, Ministry of Economy   As a citizen of Romania am ame  pleased to have the opportunity to address you with a request for urgent action to stop the destruction of mountain rivers in Romania.   Romania’s … Read more

How many forests has lost the planet in early 2000

Progress in reducing deforestation the actions in Brazil were better than in Indonesia, Malaysia, Paraguay and Angola.   The map was created by a team from the University of Maryland and could be achieved by a single computer in 15 years, but using Google Earth was made in a few days, says Matthew Hansen, coordinator … Read more

Scotland’s wind energy efficient storage solution

  The project will involve the construction of giant batteries containing 75,000 liters of sulfuric acid mixed with vanadium pentoxide, is for the power generated by wind turbines on the island, to be stored for later use, writes The Guardian.   Currently, while the Gigha turbines are operating, their power is used to supply households … Read more

Each one with his energy

Hendrik Kafsack While some are outraged and others congratulated the European Commission responded with one sentence from the British project to build new nuclear power plants: energy is an exclusive competence of the Member States. A phrase entered in the European Treaties.   States are free to draw electricity from nuclear fission or coal gas … Read more

Solar irrigation, the Renovatio Solar bet for Agriculture

Thus, lack of irrigation systems directly affects more than 3.8 million existing small farms whose production is dependent on weather conditions. Renovatio Solar wants to address this issue through a new irrigation concept that uses energy produced by the solar panels to pump underground water and irrigate crops.   Renovatio Solar built the first photovoltaic … Read more

Top fruit and vegetables with pesticide from tne romanian market. And it contains also organic baby food

  Romanian Turkish citrus and apples contain the most pesticides, according to the annual monitoring of pesticides in Romania conducted by the National Sanitary Veterinary and Food Safety Authority ( ANSVSA ) for 2012.   Of 3,367 samples analyzed , which included fruits, vegetables, grains, cereal baby food and animal products, 839 (25%) contained residues … Read more