This section deals with environmentally friendly innovations in the energy production sector. Over the past years many new technologies have come to light that help produce waste, greenhouse gas emissions and other harmful effects on human health and the global environment.
According to the Worldwatch organization, the total world investment in renewable energy development was $30 billion dollars for 2004.
The 10 year one billion USD project to build a full-scale coal-fired zero emission power plant is one step closer to realisation.
The State University of Net York (SUNY) is making progress in an experiment to derive Ethanol from pulp and paper production.