The group already owns a 17.4 MW plant on a field where it has operating rights since September last year, so this new geothermal field can bring them a total of 77.4MW of power.

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The Mobion methanol fuel cell engine has surpassed its previous performance, with the fourth version reaching a power density of 84mW/cm², while maintaining its fuel efficiency of 1800Wh/kg, or 1.4Wh/cc.

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UK-based company AFC Energy has developed an alkaline-based hydrogen fuel cell technology and tested it at a chlor-alkai plant in Germany, where they demonstrated it can generate electricity and feed it to the grid as efficiently as older, more expensive platinum-based fuel cells.

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No. Not so much. Local recycling centers will not accept products with food grease on them. There’s also some concern about germs and such. PLUS many paper towel products are made with some sort of recycled fiber which shorten the same said fibers and makes them harder to recycle.

Better choices than paper towels…

Cloth napkins for meals.
Rags, old tee-shirts, old socks, microfiber towels, and so on for cleaning.
A plate for microwaving foods – you know how many times I see folks put food on a flipping paper towel then microwave it? It’s such a waste.

IF you must purchase paper towels, only [...]

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Can you recycle paper towels?

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New York City plans to train one thousand superintendents on green buildings this year. City managers of commercial and high-rise residential buildings now have the chance reduce greenhouse gas emissions in the city on a sky high level.

Mayor Michael Bloomberg took part in the program, “One Year, One Thousand Green Supers” which was also approved by the U.S. Green Building Council and the Building Performance Institute. It’s also made possible by the Thomas Shortman Training Fund. This is part of NYC’s huge goal to reduce their building-generated carbon footprint.

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