Swiss disease control technology company Vestergaard Frandsen earns Gold Standard carbon credits with innovative business model that tackles global health, water and climate challenges. Vestergaard Frandsen's LifeStraw® Carbon For Water programme has become the world's first safe water project to generate Gold Standard Voluntary Emissions Reduction (VER) credits, and has earned 1.4 million carbon credits. LifeStraw® Carbon For Water is a cutting-edge demonstration of how carbon finance can enable, at scale, some of the world's most disadvantaged communities to treat their water through the provision of zero-carbon purification technology. Proceeds from the sale of the credits, which Vestergaard Frandsen expects will be issued on a semi-annual basis, will help to sustain the programme over the course of a decade. LifeStraw® Carbon For Water, launched last year in western Kenya, is the largest water treatment project ever undertaken in a developing country without government or public sector funding, and Vestergaard Frandsen plans to replicate the model elsewhere in the world. In doing so, it will help millions more people in developing countries to improve their health and reduce carbon emissions.
Saturday, March 10, 2012
Never doubt that saving one life at a time can save the planet - indeed its the only thing that ever has!
Swiss disease control technology company Vestergaard Frandsen earns Gold Standard carbon credits with innovative business model that tackles global health, water and climate challenges. Vestergaard Frandsen's LifeStraw® Carbon For Water programme has become the world's first safe water project to generate Gold Standard Voluntary Emissions Reduction (VER) credits, and has earned 1.4 million carbon credits. LifeStraw® Carbon For Water is a cutting-edge demonstration of how carbon finance can enable, at scale, some of the world's most disadvantaged communities to treat their water through the provision of zero-carbon purification technology. Proceeds from the sale of the credits, which Vestergaard Frandsen expects will be issued on a semi-annual basis, will help to sustain the programme over the course of a decade. LifeStraw® Carbon For Water, launched last year in western Kenya, is the largest water treatment project ever undertaken in a developing country without government or public sector funding, and Vestergaard Frandsen plans to replicate the model elsewhere in the world. In doing so, it will help millions more people in developing countries to improve their health and reduce carbon emissions.
What is zero point energy? Who is John Galt?
As a scientific concept, the existence of zero-point energy is not controversial although the ability to harness it is. In particular, perpetual motion machines and other power generating devices supposedly based on zero-point energy are highly controversial and, in many cases, in violation of some of the fundamental laws of physics. However, many engineers claim to have invented such over-unity devices. Thus, current claims to zero-point-energy-based power generation systems have the status of pseudoscience. The discovery of zero-point energy did not alter the implausibility of perpetual motion machines. Much attention has been given to reputable science suggesting that zero-point-energy density is infinite, but in quantum theory, zero-point energy is a minimum energy below which a thermodynamic system can never go. Thus according to the standard quantum-theoretic viewpoint, none of this energy can be withdrawn without altering the system to a different form in which the system has a lower zero-point energy.
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