Dengue season is coming back

dengue mosquito Dengue season is coming backDengue fever is caused by one of four different but related viruses. It is spread by the bite of mosquitoes, most commonly the mosquito Aedes aegypti, which is found in tropic and subtropic and the Caribbean regions , usually during the rainy seasons in areas with high numbers of infected mosquitoes.Asia-Pacific countries have more than 70% of the disease burden.Dengue fever can be caused by any one of four types of dengue virus: DEN-1, DEN-2,...

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Fraunhofer turns brown bananas and squashed tomatoes into useful biogas

Fraunhofer turns brown bananas and squashed tomatoes into useful biogasMushy tomatoes, brown bananas and overripe cherries – to date, waste from wholesale markets has ended up on the compost heap at best. However, researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute for Interfacial Engineering and Biotechnology IGB have developed a new facility that ferments this waste to make methane, which can be used to power vehicles. Drivers...

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Biogasrat to promote biogas in Russia

Biogasrat to promote biogas in Russia       RBC, 24.02.2012, Moscow 17:21:45.Russia's National Union for Bioenergy, Renewable Energy Sources and Environmental Protection (NSBE) and German union of biogas companies Biogasrat have agreed to cooperate in order to establish a biogas industry in Russia, Russia's Corporation GazEnergoStroy, a member of NSBE, said in a press release.      NSBE and Biogasrat will focus on securing investment, supplies of equipment and materials, R&D,...

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Biogas plants in hostels, hotels in Chandigarh to save fuel

Biogas plants in hostels, hotels in Chandigarh to save fuel Most of the hotels, Punjab Engineering College (PEC), Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education & Research (PGIMER), Government Medical College and Hospital-32 (GMCH) and all hostels on the Panjab University (PU) campus will have to generate their own energy through biogas plants, according to the master plan of the city.The master plan committee that is preparing a comprehensive plan for the futuristic development of city has received feedback from the department...

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Building Industry News

Building Industry News Anaerobic digestion scheme unveiled A new network of anaerobic digestion (AD) plants will be built to create energy using organic waste, it has been revealed. The £65 million Tamar Energy scheme is backed by investors including Lord Rothschild and the Prince of Wales's private Duchy of Cornwall estate. Supermarket chain Sainsbury's has also pledged £2 million to the project. The 40 sites will use waste such as food scraps to make green energy, as well as fertiliser for the agricultural industry....

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Green electricity to beat high tariffs

Karachi —The concept of bio waste energy generation is a cost effective way to generate electricity being used by Karachi Electric Supply Company at a commercial scale which is supposed to reduce generation cost enabling the utility to pass on the benefits to hard hit power consumers besides setting an example for rest of the country to follow suit. The initiative is appreciable on the part of KESC yet to NGOs and pressure groups never tired to raise a hue and cry over energy shortage should also comeforward to conceive such projects of renewable...

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