Poultry farms for meat or egg production is considered to be a huge business. However, waste including manure can give biogas that can produce electricity. In Pakistan load shedding problem remains throughout the year, therefore biomass being the cheap and efficient fuel for power generation can overcome this problem. This research has been conducted in Abbottabad district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa...

A key enabler of environmental projects is the ability of the project champion to gain commitment to the project from other stakeholders in his or her organization. This paper develops a model of commitment-gaining success that is based on intra-organizational influence theory. The model also includes the project payback, customer pressure, government regulation, top management support and the ...

During the September 23, 2004 Board hearing on the proposed AB 1493 regulation, a representative of Sierra Research, Inc. (SRI) commented that the Air Resources Board (ARB) staff had overestimated the miles traveled (VMT) in a vehicle’s average lifetime. The assertion was that this had in turn resulted in an overestimation of lifetime fuel savings and an underestimation of the payback period fo...

BACKGROUND Funders of health research increasingly seek to understand how best to allocate resources in order to achieve maximum value from their funding. We built an international consortium and developed a multinational case study approach to assess benefits arising from health research. We used that to facilitate analysis of factors in the production of research that might be associated with...

The development and rapid consumer adoption of energy efficiency products and renewable energy systems are key elements of UK and EU carbon reduction strategies to meet the challenge of climate change. Many such technologies are available for domestic use, but despite government incentives to meet carbon reduction targets consumer adoption has been slow. This Open University research with 111 i...

Both the economic viability and energy payback time of photovoltaic (PV) systems are inextricably tied to both the electrical performance and degradation rate of PV modules. Different module technologies exhibit different properties in response to varying environmental conditions over time. The purpose of this study is to quantify the effects of those differences on the life-cycle economical co...

A number of villages in India is yet to be electrified due to its location. At the same time it is also important to mention that grid connection to those areas is very expensive and time consuming. The source of lighting in those areas are conventional fuel based lighting system i.e. mainly kerosene based lantern. It has immense health hazard and environmental impact. To meet the energy demand...