electricity

Making WASH work in Burkina Faso’s cities

19 May, 2013 - 04:45
Source: 
IRIN - water and Sanitation
URL: 
http://www.irinnews.org/Report/98054/Making-WASH-work-in-Burkina-Faso-s-cities
OUAGADOUGOU 17 May 2013 (IRIN) - Earlier this year Denis Ouedraogo, a tailor living in the Tampouy neighbourhood just north of Burkina Faso’s capital Ouagadougou, connected his mud-walled home to the water network for the first time. “Even without electricity, having enough water can make you happy,” he said.

Dam Proposal Presents Twin Conundrums in Alaska

8 March, 2013 - 06:01
Source: 
Earthzine
URL: 
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/07/science/earth/proposed-dam-presents-twin-conun...

Originally Published by The NY Times

– A plan to build a 735-foot, $5.2 billion dam, would generate up to 600 megawatts of electricity and create a new power supply for more than two-thirds of the state’s population.

Nanosilicon produces hydrogen on demand

5 February, 2013 - 06:02
Source: 
Earthzine
URL: 
http://environmentalresearchweb.org/cws/article/news/52235

ERWOriginally Published by Environmental Research Web - The reaction does not require any heat, light or electricity and the hydrogen generated could be used to power small fuel cells.

Squishy Power Generators

4 January, 2013 - 06:02
Source: 
Earthzine
URL: 
http://spectrum.ieee.org/green-tech/fuel-cells/squishy-power-generators

Tom McKay Originally Published by IEEE Spectrum - Deformable acrylics could turn human motion into electricity.

PAKISTAN: Water pipeline rupture makes waves

15 October, 2012 - 09:15
Source: 
IRIN - water and Sanitation
URL: 
http://www.irinnews.org/Report/96186/PAKISTAN-Water-pipeline-rupture-makes-waves
KARACHI 27 August 2012 (IRIN) - In early August, as people struggled to survive the humid summer heat, a huge power cut deprived almost half of Pakistan’s largest city, Karachi, of electricity for more than 16 hours and led to the rupture of a water pipeline carrying more than 20 percent of the city’s drinking water.

Scientists use microbes to make ‘clean’ methane

30 July, 2012 - 06:01
Source: 
Earthzine
URL: 
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/07/120727144534.htm

Originally Published by ScienceDaily

– Microbes that convert electricity into methane gas could become an important source of renewable energy, according to scientists.

Taking Refuge in Hell Camp

21 April, 2012 - 04:29
Source: 
IPS news - MDG's
URL: 
http://ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=107519

"We have been spending sleepless nights without electricity and clean water.
This place is not worth living in but we have no option and will remain here as
long as the military operation continues in our area," said Gul Rahim, a former
resident of Bara tehsil in Khyber Agency, currently languishing in the Jallozai
refugee camp in the Nowshera district of Pakistan's Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.

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