The firm Buchanan Renewable Energies is building a carbon-neutral power plant using woodchips from older rubber trees to generate 35 megawatts of electricity.
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The college's film focuses on environmental issues as the film makers investigate making their school greener with the ultimate goal of turning the college into a carbon neutralbuilding.
"It's very daunting in an age of peer-to-peer hosting, " says Korris, whose center at USC is building a "neutral" test ground for digital projection systems.
He also stressed that the enhanced planning is technology neutral, meaning planners should consider alternatives to building transmission lines, including energy storage technologies and distributed generation, where energy generating devices are placed close to demand.