Rural India has a vast potential of biogas generation and application. During the past two decades, biogas has been promoted mostly as a cooking fuel in the rural areas. According to the prevailing practices in these areas, fuel for cooking is not being purchased but collected by the users from...

Wood for energy will be available from conventional forestry and from short rotation coppice plantations. The systems of production, harvesting and supply are discussed with reference to the environmental and economic issues which bound them. Recent developments and bottlenecks to implementation...

This paper reports on the establishment of a black-owned photovoltaic (PV) module assembly plant, Suncorp Manufacturing, in South Africa. The project, funded by the U. S. Department of Energy (DOE), has been implemented by the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) through a team effort...

We already share population crowding and environmental pollution. In today's world, we have no other option than to share also technologies, market and investments. In a renewable energy society, we are in transition from an association of academics and volonteers to a fully professional...

The energy system, discussed, was a typical hybrid where a farmer decided that with the escalating cost of diesel as well as the logistics attached to the supply of diesel to his farm, adding a photovoltaic array to his diesel based system would make economic sense. A study of the energy...

The cost of bioethanol production from wheat was found to be very sensitive to the price of wheat. When wheat is purchased at a typical current UK price of £115/tonne, the net cost of ethanol was calculated to be 38.3p per litre, but growing wheat on set aside at £45/tonne could result in a...

Developments in education generally and higher education in particular cannot afford to be static. The technology explosion had ensured that higher education is not immune to forced development as well. Observations seem to indicate that the inertia preventing change is so great that relatively...

This study proposes a research framework of Total Quality Management (TQM) practices towards the supply chain collaboration level. The proposed model is based on the extensive literature review; this study develops a model of TQM practices that influence the supply chain collaboration level. The...

Customer satisfaction has been found to be multi-dimensional, with four service quality factors, namely criticals, satisfiers, dissatisfiers and neutrals. Many methods, among them the critical incident technique and content analysis of complaints and compliments, have been used to identify its...