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Waste Heat Recovery Advances on Land and at Sea
2014-02-05 06:00:00| Industrial Newsroom - All News for Today
4 × Turbo Compound Systems with Power Turbine and Generator (TCS-PTG) for marine and stationary applications secure important milestones<br /> <br /> With the recent commissioning of 2 x TCS-PTG22 units at the Miraflores Power Plant in Panama and the successful factory acceptance test of a TCS-PTG20 unit for a 4,700 TEU container vessel ordered by Reederei Horst Zeppenfeld – the second such unit to be installed on board a second such vessel – MAN Diesel & Turbo's recent market ...This story is related to the following:Green & CleanSearch for suppliers of: Waste Heat Recovery Systems
Australia: Farmers feel the heat as drought advances
2014-02-04 14:40:04| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Sydney Morning Herald: "The burning heat has just scorched everything off right back to the ground and then these hot winds have just blown it all away": Rod Barnes. Photo: Paul Mathews Sydney has recorded its lowest summer rainfall to date in more than 70 years, as the state swelters through its driest January in more than a decade. Since December, the city has had just 48.4 millimetres of rain, a little more than a quarter of the usual amount, and the lowest since 1941-42, said Acacia Pepler, a climatologist at the...
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Heat Wave Deaths May Triple by the 2050s
2014-02-04 00:58:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
LiveScience: The number of people dying because of heat waves could rise three to four times in some regions by the middle of this century, as a result of climate change and population growth, according to a new U.K. study. Researchers analyzed the relationship between weather fluctuations and death ratesin the past, and projected the results for the decades to come. They found that by the 2050s, the number of heat-related deaths in England and Wales could surge by 3.5 times its current number, to around...
Which is more likely to drive people from their homes floods or heat waves?
2014-02-03 19:44:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Grist: Floods get a lot of attention in our warming world. They can kill people and livestock, inundate crops, destroy infrastructure and homes - and they make great photo ops. Less attention - and less international aid - is directed to victims of intense heat waves that are also linked to climate change. But it is these heat waves that are most responsible when Pakistanis leave their villages, new research suggests. Pakistan is a depressing climate case study because its residents are so vulnerable...
Record Brazil heat pressures crops, energy prices, government
2014-01-31 21:28:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Even by Brazilian standards - man, it's hot. January was the hottest month on record in parts of Brazil including its biggest city, So Paulo. The heat, plus a severe drought, has kindled fears of water shortages, crop damage and higher electricity bills that could drag down the economy during an election year for President Dilma Rousseff. The scorching conditions don't constitute a crisis quite yet, officials say. Weather has been mostly normal in other regions including Brazil's soy belt, where...
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