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Adjustment measures in Mining and Construction’s Tampere foundry operations and machining workshop in Finland

Metso will commence employee negotiations in Mining and Construction’s Tampere foundry operations to adjust its production capacity to better correspond with the changes in the operating environment and future demand.

Various options, including implementing temporary lay-offs, permanently reducing the capacity and downsizing of operations, transferring operations to other units in the foundry group and shutting down the entire Tampere foundry, or selling either the entire foundry or parts of it, will be studied during the employee negotiations.

The employee negotiations will concentrate also on Mining and Construction’s Tampere machining workshop, due to its workload being partly reliant on the foundry.

The negotiations cover all personnel groups, approximately 240 people in total. The measures which will be specified and scheduled during the negotiations are likely to be implemented mainly during 2014.

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Renewable energy

Mark Jacobson is in charge of the Atmosphere/Energy program at Stanford and is helping train a new generation of engineers* to change the world.

Jacobson’s research shows that there’s enough wind energy to power the entire world about 7 times over and enough solar to power the earth 30 times over.

The offshore east coast of the US also has a huge untapped resource for wind power.

Pollution caused by dirty fuels is another part of the issue – according to Jacobson, 50,000-100,000 people die prematurely every year here in the US from air pollution.

Globally that equates to 2.5-4 million people every year.

Read more: Stanford Professor Mark Jacobson Talks With David Letterman About Renewable Energy | Inhabitat - Sustainable Design Innovation, Eco Architecture, Green Building.

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Sustainable energy for all

Sarah Wykes and Ben Garside There is a consensus that modern, safe, secure and affordable energy services are vital to helping people out of poverty. At least 1.3 billion people still have no electricity, while 2.7 billion cook over open fires; 95% of these people live in sub-Saharan Africa and Asia. The UN's Sustainable Energy for All (SE4All) initiative highlights its commitment to the goal of universal access to modern energy by 2030. SE4All recognises the challenge of powering the world while preventing dangerous climate change; its goals include doubling energy efficiency and renewable energy globally by 2030. More than 70 countries are now signed up. Some have argued that, if we are to limit global warming to below two degrees, a shift to cleaner and more efficient energy cannot wait until 2030. Two decades is also a long time to wait for poor people who need to heat and light their homes, schools and clinics, and power farms and businesses. Are new approaches needed to tackle energy poverty? And if so, will donors such as the UK put up funds to back them?

Logic Energy and Birmingham

Logic Energy’s Sales and Marketing Manager Daniel McCaffrey will be attending this event on September 11. Prior to the event itself, Daniel is available to anyone interested in our technology and welcome any enquiries, contact us on +44 (0)141 585 6496 or email us here. If you’re attending the show and you want to speak to us, arrange to meet Daniel by emailing dan@logic-energy.com. Hosted at Halls 7 and 8 in the NEC Birmingham on 10th and 11th September, The Energy Event is the UK’s leading energy exhibition and conference. It is the only energy event dedicated to energy management, efficiency and procurement.

Verenium to launch largest commercial-scale cellulosic ethanol plant; $250 million 36 Mgy Florida project starts this year : Biofuels Digest

I haven't written a lot about biofuels this year. The decreasing price of oil is an influential factor. Certainly, the economic crisis has impacted investments in the field of biofuels production. But that area isn't completely dead. Things are happening.

Verenium to launch largest commercial-scale cellulosic ethanol plant; $250 million 36 Mgy Florida project starts this year : Biofuels Digest: "In Florida, Verenium announced that it would commence construction of what it termed the first commercial-scale cellulosic ethanol plant. The facility will be located in Highlands County, between Orlando and Lake Okeechobee.

The company said that it would receive $7 million in support for the project from the state of Florida’s Farm-to-Fuel fund, and expected to break ground on the 36 Mgy facility in the second half of the year. The project will cost between $250 and $300 million and will use non-food grasses as feedstock.

The company’s 1.4 Mgy demonstration-scale plant in Jennings, Louisiana commenced production this month , and capping off an excellent start to the year was news from NASDAQ that the company was once again in compliance with the exchange’s minimum market cap of $50 million. The company announced $133 million in losses in the third quarter."