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Eco InnovationNo 8. February 2013 Ingenero To Build 50 MW of Solar Projects BuildingIQ Raises $9 Million in Venture Capital Energy Efficient Marine Propulsion Technology Raises $180,000 Greenhouse Gas Analyzer for World Market New Plastics Recycling Plant Seawater Pipeline for Algae Industry R&D Approval for Second Generation Bioethanol Project Trees to Power Coal Fired Power Stations ZEN To Begin Making Batteries Storing Carbon in Concrete with Eco-cements Merger of Green Products Advisers Aware Environmental Helps Allergy Sufferers
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Ingenero
and its partner, the Thai-owned power generator RATCH-Australia Corporation
Ltd, plan to build 50 megawatts (MW) of large-scale solar PV projects
in Australia, New Zealand and Thailand over the next few years. 
A
company that has developed an energy efficient alternative to the conventional
screw propeller and rudder on ships and boats has reached its minimum
capital raising target of $180,000 only four months after issuing its
investment document on ASSOB. 
A
partnership between Ecotech and the University of Wollongong will see
the world's first comprehensive greenhouse gas analyzer manufactured in
Australia for the world market. The Spectronus gives a precise real time
analysis of all the principal greenhouse gases, and its capabilities are
unmatched by competitors, says the latest Australian Innovation System
Report for 2012. 
Australia's
leading plastics recycler plans to set up a state of the art plastic recycling
facility in Queensland this year. The facility will reprocess plastic
waste collected locally and produce products that can be used for infrastructure.
The facility will be the only one in Queensland able to process a full
range of plastic packaging materials and turn it into end products. 
A
$10 million seawater pipeline announced by the WA Government will initially
support Aurora Algae and its development of an algae to biodiesel industry
at Karratha. US-based Aurora Algae is investing $86 million towards a
Stage 1 production facility at Karratha. 
ZEN
Energy Systems is now ready to start manufacturing its rechargeable batteries
for energy storage for homes, business, utilities and remote communities.
The system can store solar and off peak energy to give less reliance on
the grid. Energy can be stored when demand and price are low, then used
during peak demand when the price is high. 
Cement
making produces about 9 per cent of global carbon emissions, while eco
cement is said to be the cheapest form of carbon sequestration, and would
allow carbon to be stored in the built environment in the great number
and variety of concrete and cement structures. This is a view shared by
John Harrison, the founder of TecEco Pty Ltd, which has been commercializing
a range of eco-cements since 1999. 
