Cement, Energy & Environment Jan-Mar 2002

A capacitor, which can be, recharged continuously stores the energy and delivers power to a white light LED (light emitting diode) . The torch can illuminate a six foot diamet~r area at 35 feet. Go to www. Nightstar 1. Com for further details. Courtesy : SESI Newsletter 23(1 and 2), P-9. ENVIRONMENT CHINA ONE UP ON DEVELOPING COUNTRIES IN CUTTING GREENHOUSE GASES Tore f. Brevik, Spokesman/ Director UNEP's Division of Comnllmications and Public Information E-mail: tore.brevik@unep.org or Nick Nu ttal, UNEP's Head ofMedia, E-mail: nick.nuttal@unep.org According to a study published in Science magazine recently, Chinese energy sector reforms have helped reduce the country's emissions of heat-trapping greenhouse gases. Economic slowdown following the 1997-98 Asian financial crisis also may have played a role, said the study. China's overall C0 2 emission fell by 7.3 per cent between 1996 and 2000, and its methane emission declined by 2.2 per cent between 1997 and 2000, it said. The findings contradicted one of the US administration's main arguments against the Kyoto Protocol on climate change. "Researchers found emission reductions in China have resulted from the closing of small and inefficient industrial plants, improved efficiency of energy use, improved coal quality, the switching of many residential fuel users from coal to gas, technological progress in energy-intensive sectors, and the opening up of coal and electricity markets. 'Many factories curtailed production or shut down because of economic restructuring policies, 48 resulting in a decline in coal production and consumption'. China has taken unprecedented action to reduce GHG emissions despite the lack of legal commitments, said Nancy Kete, Director of the Washington-based World Resources Institutes. These reductions achieved through sweeping energy pricing and policy reforms, as well as the promotion of energy efficiency equal to the 400 million tons of carbon that the US transportation sector emitted last year. China's reversal of past forest clearing activities and recent promotion of reforestation also have increased the net absorption of C0 2 by the country's forests over the past decade, said the study. Courtesy : The Bulletin on Energy Efficiency, Dec. 2001, P 26 ·E-mail: winrock@vsnl.com Web: www.renewingindia.org INDIA CEMENTS PLANT TO HAVE JAPAN MODEL PROJECT The Hindu Business Line Chennai, 21.12.2001 TheVislmupuram plant of India Cements Ltd. has been selected for a Japan sponsored model project on energy conservation and reduction of C0 2 gas emission. The core equipment such as boiler and turbine, and the technology are being provided by Kawasaki Heavy Industries Japan, through theGovernmentofJapan. The implementation document betweenKawasaki and India Cements was signed in Chennai on December 17. According to the release, the model project envisages total power generation of 7700 KW I hr from the waste gases of kiln number ll at the Vishnupuram plant in Andhra Pradesh,