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U.K. tomato grower to try CHP project
Friday, 30 November 2012
A waste management company in the United Kingdom is hoping its £185 million waste incinerator will help local farmers grow greenhouse tomatoes and avoid the pitfalls that have hampered some of the country's other combined heat and power projects in the past.
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Municipal waste pellets and natural gas heat Southshore Greenhouses
Friday, 23 November 2012
Bert Mucci, owner of Southshore Greenhouses Inc., monitors energy markets so closely that some days he says he feels more like an energy producer than a fruit and vegetable grower.
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Flax shives feed Vanderveen Greenhouses' biomass burner
Friday, 16 November 2012
When natural gas prices spiked in 2006, many Canadian greenhouse operators looked for alternative heating sources. Kelvin Vanderveen found a local solution for his Carman, Man., greenhouses, using flax shives from Schweitzer-Maudit Canada Inc.’s flax processing operation as feedstock for a new biomass burner.
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What the IEA World Energy Report means for international energy production
Thursday, 15 November 2012
The International Energy Agency (IEA) released a report on Nov. 12, outlining some significant changes that they expect to see in global energy production over the next 10 to 20 years.
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Saltwater based greenhouse readies for opening
Thursday, 15 November 2012
A pioneering plan to turn Qatar’s desert into lush, profitable land, will mark a major milestone later this month, opening while the world watches the upcoming United Nations Climate Conference in the country’s capital.
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