BUSINESS 19 March 2010, 9:31AM
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A group of entrepreneurs from the Netherlands has picked up the exclusive rights to market the climate saving technology developed by a Christchurch-based company.
The Dutch syndicate will market the energy and communications products developed by IndraNet Technologies throughout the Netherlands. The products will allow users to reach 100 percent solar sustainability, putting an end to climate change if picked up globally.
“This is a most exciting moment,” says syndicate head, Jesse Bywater. “I think the nGen Systems particularly, have the potential to completely transform how we generate power and use energy,” he says.
”Globally we have now less than 10 years to put in place solutions that get us out of fossil fuels and drastically cut down on greenhouse gas emissions. In the Netherlands many of us already live below sea level. This focuses the mind. We know things must change in a hurry.” Mr Bywater concludes.
The nGen Systems aim to deliver on their premises the energy streams that customers require, including electricity, process heat, hot water, air conditioning, chilling, freezing, recycling waste heat, and grey water, with energy storage as an option where required.
They are intended to be deployed stand-alone or integrated to power grids to form highly distributed Intelligent Power Networks in the longer run.
“We are confident to deliver Sustainable Energy Services, based on our nGen Systems that will be competitive with fossil fuel-based legacy energy services and at costs that will be a lot lower than electricity generated with other renewable energy technologies.” says Russell Fitts, Chairman of IndraNet Technologies.
“Applications include industrial sites, commercial centres, hospitals, schools, "green" sustainable buildings, residential homes, and eventually transport (by retrofitting compact nGen Systems to existing vehicles),” says Mr Fitts.
The granting of the exclusive Market Rights is a preliminary stage to the syndicate acquiring the full set of licences to the wider package that includes communications, energy and transport solutions.
“Jesse has been monitoring our progress for quite some time now. We are delighted that we have reached this stage. Under our agreement, we are to form a joint venture that will deploy energy services and products based on the IndraNet package,” Mr Fitts concludes.
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For more information please visit www.indranet.co.nz.
Russell Fitts, Chairman, +64 3 365 6485, mobile: 021 310 409, email: russell@indranet.co.nz
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How does this put an end to climate change?
China plans to step up its use of the weather modification techniques
Aileen McCabe, Asia Correspondent, Canwest News Service
Published: Thursday, March 04, 2010
SHANGHAI — China plans to step up its use of the weather modification techniques that brought sunny skies for both the Beijing Olympics and last year’s giant military parade on National Day.
The official China Daily newspaper reported Thursday that China is even going to try to regulate the weather during the five-month long Shanghai Expo that begins on May 1.
“The Shanghai event will be a challenge as it lasts 184 days and may be affected by monsoons and high temperatures,” the paper said.
Zheng Guoguang, head of China’s Meteorological Administration, told the paper that manipulating the weather is a developing science that needed more research and study. “It is still at a research-and-use stage and there are still a lot of problems to be resolved.”
Still, Zheng said China is already actively involved in modifying the weather over a large part of the country in an effort to improve crop yields, particularly wheat. Some 840 flights were made to increase rainfall last year, he said, and 116,000 rockets and 8,900 artillery shells were fired into the atmosphere.
Shot from planes or artillery on the ground, the rockets and shells bombard clouds with silver oxide pellets. The chemical attracts particles of water stored inside the cloud, massing them into heavier drops that are more likely to fall as rain or snow.
China claims “seeding” clouds does not cause pollution and says the traces of silver oxide found in the water supply after clouds have been seeded are within national drinking water standards.
Zheng said demand is rising across China for cloud seeding to relieve the decade-long drought in the north of the country, including Beijing, and prevent damaging hail storms, both of which affect the food supply.
He said he expected modifying the weather would help China meet its goal of increasing grain yields by 50 million tonnes annually.
China spent $140 million manipulating the weather in 2009, but claimed it earned back 30 times that much in increased crop yields.
China’s weathermen seem happy to take credit for the good affects of cloud seeding, but when the China Daily reported last November that the government’s weather control establishment was responsible for the second major snow storm to hit the capital in less than two weeks, there was a deafening silence from the Weather Modification Centre that comes under Zheng’s administration.
It appeared happy to let Mother Nature take the blame for the clogged highways and grounded flights.
About two dozen countries around the world practice weather manipulation, including the U.S., Russia, India and Canada.
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