Retirado do site GreenTechMedia:
"Katherine Tweed: June 13, 2013
Far from high-tech Silicon Valley or hipster Austin, Texas, the largest all-electric car-sharing service is being built.
If your second guess is Portland or Brooklyn, keep guessing…and moving inland. Indianapolis, the nation's twelfth largest city, will install 1,200 charging stations at about 200 locations to support 500 electric vehicles. The project is expected to be up and running within a year.
Indianapolis is hardly a hotbed of alternative transportation. It does have a bus system, but “we have one of the worst ranked bus services in the country for a city our size,” said Paul Mitchell, president and CEO of Energy Systems Network (ESN), a nonprofit clean technology initiative that is working on the EV project in Indianapolis. It was not one of the twenty-one metro areas chosen by the Department of Energy as part of the EV Project.
Germany, that's among the "number ones" in Europe in developing alternative energies and applied technologies, is now focusing its interest on biogas, which it looks in optimistic way at as the most effective green source in order to reduce the CO2 emissions. (Remind the Union has fixed the 20% level by 2020). Among all biomass energy sources, the biogas – coming out from the anaerobic digestion of trash – is infact the most useful one, and the most respectful towards the environment. Turning part of the fields that compose the widest Germanic plain into plant for biogas would permit to obtain: new clean energies, the thermal one (by means of the combustion in boiler) and electric one (through cogeneration groups); and more, the Digestate – another “output” of digesters, which represents a very good organic phertylizer for cultivated fields. For completing this virtuous circle, the plant could then be fueled by the energy produced by biogas itself. Other very advantageous externalities deriving from biogas plants could be: creation of new jobs and revaluation of farmers' estates.
