South Korean firm wins $1.46bn Saudi water plant contract
Saudi state-owned Saline Water Conversion Corp (SWCC) has awarded South Korea's Doosan Heavy Industries and Construction a $1.46bn contract to build a new desalination plant in the kingdom, Reuters has reported. The plant will produce 1.025 million cubic metres of desalinated water per day and will be integrated with a 2,400 megawatts (MW) power plant, in Ras Azzour, on the Gulf coast. The plant, expected to be the world's largest would be completed in January 2014, Doosan said. [AMEInfo.com]
Is Thorium the answer?
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Desertec looks for new shareholders in MENA region
The chief executive of Desertec Industrial Initiative (DII) has said the project is seeking new shareholders in the Middle East and North Africa in an attempt to broaden its geographical reach, Reuters has reported. "There are a number of interested parties. We are in intensive talks with companies in the Mena region, which we are trying to win as new shareholders," he added, but declined to name any potential candidates, Paul van Son told the news service. With an expected cost of €400bn ($509bn), the DII project's aim is to analyse how to develop clean energy in the deserts of North Africa that could supply up to 15% of Europe's power demand by 2050. [AMEInfo.com]
Mother Pelican ~ Vol 6 No 9 September 2010
The PelicanWeb's Journal of Sustainable Development has been renamed *Mother Pelican* in honor of the Human Being she represents. The September 2010 issue has
Thanks from WattBusters
From all of us at WattBusters, we would like to thank everyone who purchased
energy-saving products in 2004.
We've learned a lot about the reasons that
people change old products for new. The motivations were not as cut and dry as we had originally thought.
The main reasons that people bought energy efficient products was to save
money/energy.
EPA Announces 1200 Yard Golf Ball
If the EPA tested golf balls, would they whack it off the side of a mountain or along an ice-covered lake, measure the distance, set the average at 1200 yards and then state, "Your yardage may vary"? The testing methodology would clearly be suspect. It happens every day with cars. Have you ever noticed how the EPA's fuel economy 'estimates' differ from your real-world driving mileage? In many cases, they are not even close. Most of the time we don't give a hoot, but when gasoline prices start kicking up over $2/gallon we actually sit up and take notice.