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TERI completes first phase of oil spill clean-up operationsBy : sustainabilityo..., Aug 22, 2010
The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI) on Saturday announced that it has managed to scoop up all the oil sludge, tar balls and oil stained sand from Awas Beach near Alibaug and start the bio-remediation process using its globally acclaimed Oilzapper technology. Two... Read more.. |
Mangroves in Mumbai will be clean in two weeks, says TERIBy : sustainabilityo..., Aug 17, 2010
The mangrove stretch along the 70 km coastline of Mumbai, which has been affected by the oil spill, will be cleaned up within two weeks with the use of the oil zapper technology. Banwari Lal, director of The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI) who discovered the... Read more.. |
IIT engineer suggests technology to clean up Mumbai beaches.By : sustainabilityo..., Aug 10, 2010
It is time to start cleaning up the beaches when the oil spill is freshly entrapped into the sand and silt using the Sand and Silt Washing Reactors (SSWR), said an environmental expert from Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IIT-B) here. It is important to... Read more.. |
Algae holds promise to make aviation carbon-neutral.By : sustainabilityo..., Jul 22, 2010
The group, which owns Airbus, is showing off an aircraft powered by algae juice at the Farnborough Airshow this week. EADS (FR:EAD 16.36, -0.03, -0.15%) is betting that the small aircraft, which completed its first successful flight last month in Germany, can help make air... Read more.. |
How to Play the Changing Shape of Energy Consumption?By : sustainabilityo..., Jul 21, 2010
China, not the U.S., is now the world's top consumer of energy, according to a report released Monday by the International Energy Agency. Last year, China consumed 2.252 billion tons of oil-equivalent (which is a sum-total measure of all forms of energy, including... Read more.. |
Can India's bioremediation process contain BP oil spill?By : sustainabilityo..., Jul 20, 2010
Indian Energy and environment think-tank The Energy and Research Institute (TERI) holds the patent for Oilzapper formulation to clean up an oil slick using bacteria using a process called bioremediation. Oilzapper is a bio-friendly homegrown cocktail of bacteria used... Read more.. |
India's Energy Reform Gaining GroundBy : sustainabilityo..., Jul 7, 2010
The Indian government announced May 25 that it was ceasing to subsidize the price of petrol and was cutting its subsidies on diesel, kerosene and liquid petroleum gas (LPG). It intends to move to a system of full market pricing for diesel over coming months. Kerosene and LPG... Read more.. Subject Tags: oil |
Govt plans to devise a new oil pricing formulaBy : Preeti Aggarwal, Jul 6, 2010
The government plans to devise and publicly share a new pricing formula for key auto fuels, looking to inject greater transparency into an arcane system of price-setting amid hopes it will draw greater private participation in the state-dominated fuel retailing sector. ... Read more.. |
India loses to China in global race to secure energy assetsBy : sustainabilityo..., Jul 3, 2010
Union minister for petroleum and natural gas Murli Deora travelled to Nigeria, Angola, Uganda, Sudan, Saudi Arabia and Venezuela this year, leading a record number of delegations to gain oil for the world’s third fastest growing major economy. The flurry of... Read more.. |
Sensex back in green; oil & gas, FMCG, PSU, banks upBy : sustainabilityo..., Jul 1, 2010
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