Here’s this weeks’ round up of Greentech news
Three pilots from the Paramus Flying Club in New Jersey made a 500 mile flight from Rhode Island to the Wright Brothers Memorial in a single-engine Cessna burning fuel made from used cooking oil.
Australian company Muradel won a AUD $4.4m government grant to develop an algal biofuel plant.
The London Array became the world’s largest operational offshore wind farm when the 141st turbine pushed power production up to 507MW. The previous record was 500MW held by the Greater Gabbard farm off the coast of Suffolk in England.
The World Bank announced plans to expand renewable power generation in developing countries by tapping geothermal energy.
Progress on a US$1.4bn hydropower project was halted by Chilean courts following a fishing group’s motion to stop it.
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