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From GE's Imagination Daily reports are details of GE's top 5 technologies for turning waste into energy. Everything from re-using industrial wastewater through to burning spent nuclear waste for energy!

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The Smart Grid has traditionally been used to describe the electrical grid 2.0.  The distinctions between the traditional electrical grid, or version 1.0, and the Smart Grid cover the bidirectional flow of electricity and communications.  We need to extend our thinking about the smart grid to add distributed intelligence and communications to other parts of the developed infrastructure – water and waste water, gas and oil pipelines, and even our transportation systems.  Doing so will help us engineer the most sustainable and cost-effective solutions.  

The relationship of electricity and water is particularly intertwined – it takes electricity to move and treat water, and water is quite often used to make electricity.  For instance, the state of California moves a great deal of water from the northern part of the state to the south.  Transporting one acre-foot of water – the typical amount consumed by two families of four in a year – requires 3000 kWh per year.  One acre-foot of water (the amount of water covering 1 acre to a depth of 1 foot) equals 326,000 gallons and weighs 2.7 million pounds. The California Energy Commission (CEC) figures that 20% of the state’s electricity and 30% of its natural gas consumption are dedicated to water transport or treatment.  A five minute faucet flow uses approximately the same energy as letting an incandescent 60-watt light bulb burn for 14 hours. 

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The United States has an atomic waste problem.

Nuclear power is without a doubt a viable source of cleaner energy, but the problem has always been what to do with the process’ byproducts.

A new Wall Street Journal report details the U.S. Department of Energy’s problems cleaning up temporary caches of steel-and-concrete casks filled with radioactive waste at now-defunct reactor sites.

The Energy Department is legally obligated to relieve nuclear plants of radioactive waste. But it hasn’t, because there’s nowhere permanent to put it.

Three months ago, the plan to build a nuclear waste repository in Yucca Mountain, Nevada was canceled. It was the only candidate for the task.

Meanwhile, waste is piling up at nuclear facilities.

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Which airlines are taking steps to reduce the vast amount of waste generated each year by the industry? Delta, Virgin America, Virgin Atlantic and Southwest are doing the best job, according to the new report “What Goes Up Must Go Down: The Sorry State of Recycling in the Airline Industry” from Green America's consumer watchdog Web site ResponsibleShopper.org (http://www.ResponsibleShopper.org). The report also shows that United and US Airways are doing the worst job when it comes to recycling."

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Waste from discarded electronics will rise dramatically in the developing world within a decade, with computer waste in India alone to grow by 500 percent from 2007 levels by 2020, a U.N. study released on Monday said.

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A new line of paint from Dulux, using technology and practices developed over a three-year research period, has significantly lower impacts than Dulux's previous paints.

Dulux's Ecosense line of paint comes out in March this year. The Ecosense Matt has 50 percent less embodied carbon, 50 percent less embodied water, 40 percent less waste and almost zero volatile organic compounds when compared to the Dulux Standard Matt from 2008. Its packaging will contain 20 percent recycled content.

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British authorities in Brazil said they were taking "immediate steps" after more than 1,400 tonnes of hazardous UK waste was reportedly found in three of the country's ports

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A small company called IST Energy has developed a shipping container-size contraption that turns your building's trash into electricity and heat.

The idea behind the Green Energy Machine is to offset a building's energy use while dramatically cutting trash disposal fees. The cost of trash removal can vary greatly, but a university or office park with a number of buildings could pay about $200,000 a year, according to IST Energy executives

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