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Sunday, February 15th, 2009
EU - Bruxelles, Feb 15 - Bioethanol powered vehicles in several major European cities - from Stockholm to Madrid - and the recent launch of electric car initiatives in London and Berlin are just some of the projects seeking to improve sustainability in urban transport.
Madrid City Council is committed to increasing the role of clean vehicles so that all its public fleets would be ecological by 2011. In 2008, the share was approximately 20%, when the municipal fleets had more than 1800 vehicles powered by electricity or alternative fuels, such as natural gas, biodiesel or bioethanol. These are mainly urban buses and waste-collection vehicles.
This effort to introduce sustainability criteria in urban mobility is intended to contribute to a better environment in terms of air quality and reduction of greenhouse emissions. Continua a leggere questo articolo…
Tuesday, September 16th, 2008
ITALIA - Torgiano (Pg), September 16 - Il primo impianto in Europa a fornire energia dalla vite è stato inaugurato il 15 settembre presso l’azienda vitivinicola Cantine Giorgio Lungarotti di Torgiano (PG).
L’inaugurazione è stata il momento culminante di un innovativo programma di ricerca applicata che in due anni ha portato alla realizzazione di un impianto pilota per il recupero energetico degli scarti di potatura dei vigneti, frutto della collaborazione tra la nota azienda vitivinicola umbra e il Centro Ricerca sulle Biomasse (CRB) dell’Università di Perugia. Continua a leggere questo articolo…
Saturday, September 6th, 2008
European Union is leading on climate change and energy policies, but needs to increase funding for energy research & development, today concentrated (almost 40% of the energy funding) on nuclear fusion, a technology that is only expected to contribute past 2050.
Belgium - Brussels, September 4 - For the first time the IEA has reviewed the energy policies of the European Union which shape the energy use of almost 500 million citizens in 27 EU member countries. “The European Union is a leader of the global action to mitigate climate change through its bold and innovative energy policies”, said Nobuo Tanaka, Executive Director of the IEA, today in Brussels at the press launch of IEA Energy Policies Review: The European Union - 2008. Continua a leggere questo articolo…
