Worldwide Energy articles from April 2008

Worldwide Energy archives from April 2008

SOLVING LIGHTNING PROBLEM FOR POWER PLANTS.
April 1, 2008... Lightning solution keeps the Browns Ferry Nuclear plant's off-gas stack strike free reducing lightning strikes by 80% within a 500-meter radius. Like all power generation plants, the Browns Ferry Nuclear (BFN) Plant, in northern Alabama,...

WELWIND ENERGY GETS 2ND COMMITMENT FOR $75 MILLON WINDFARM.
April 1, 2008... Welwind Energy International Corp. (OTCBB:WWEI), San Diego, Calif., has received a second commitment letter from Acterra Group to fund Phase I of the company's Yangxi Windfarm project. Like the Zhanjiang Project, Phase I of Yangxi will also...

SENSORTRAN JOINS GRIDWIDE ALLIANCE.
April 1, 2008... SensorTran, Inc., Austin, Texas, a provider of advanced distributed temperature sensing (DTS) systems, has joined the GridWise Alliance, a leading consortium of public and private stakeholders focused on transforming the nation's electric grid....

SILVERADO GREEN FUEL AT FOREFRONT FOR COAL-TO-LIQUID FUEL.
April 1, 2008... Silverado Green Fuel Inc. (Subsidiary of Silverado Gold Mines Ltd.. (OTC BB -SLGLF, FRANKFURT -SLGL) is at the forefront of one of the U.S.'s highest priorities in domestic energy supply and security, namely coal-to-liquid fuel. "Silverado...

UM SCIENTISTS FIND KEY TO LOW-COST ETHANOL IN CHESAPEAKE BAY.
April 1, 2008... The secret to making an inexpensive substitute to gasoline may come from a bacterium found eating marsh grass in the Chesapeake Bay. A chance discovery not detected in the Bay since, the bacterium, called Saccharophagus degradans, can...