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Environmental technology
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Environmental technology (envirotech), green technology (greentech) or clean technology (cleantech) is the application of one or more of environmental science, green chemistry, environmental monitoring and electronic devices to monitor, model and conserve the natural environment and resources, and to curb the negative impacts of human involvement. The term is also used to describe sustainable energy generation technologies such as photovoltaics, wind turbines, bioreactors, etc. Sustainable development is the core of environmental technologies. The term environmental technologies is also used to describe a class of electronic devices that can promote sustainable management of resources.

Contents
1 Examples 1.1 Recycling 1.2 Renewable energy 1.3 Water purification 1.4 Air purification 1.5 Sewage treatment 1.6 Environmental remediation 1.7 Solid waste management 1.8 eGain forecasting 1.9 Energy conservation 2 Alternative and clean power 3 Education 4 Criticisms 5 See also 6 References 7 Further reading 8 External links

Sustainable urban design and innovation: Photovoltaic ombrire SUDI is an autonomous and mobile station that replenishes energy for electric vehicles using solar energy.

Examples
Biofiltration Bioreactor Biosphere Technology Bioremediation
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Desalination Doubly fed electric machine Energy conservation Energy saving modules Electric vehicles Wave energy Green computing Hydroelectricity Wind power Wind turbine Hydrogen fuel cell Ocean thermal energy conversion Solar power Photovoltaic Thermal depolymerization Composting toilet

Recycling
Main article: Recycling

Renewable energy
Renewable energy is energy that can be replenished easily. For years we have been using sources like wood, sun, water, etc. for means for producing energy. Energy that can be produced by natural objects like wood, sun, wind, etc. is considered to be renewable.[1]

Water purification

Moss photobioreactor.

Water purification: The whole idea/concept of having dirt/germ/pollution free water flowing throughout the environment. Many other phenomena lead from this concept of purification of water. Water pollution is the main enemy of this concept, and various campaigns and activists have been organized around the world to help purify water.[2]

Air purification
Air purification: basic and common green plants can be grown indoors to keep air fresh because all plants remove CO2 and convert it into oxygen. The best examples are: Dypsis lutescens, Sansevieria trifasciata, and Epipremnum aureum.[3]

Sewage treatment
Sewage treatment is conceptually similar to water purification. Sewage treatments are very important as they purify water per levels of its pollution. The more polluted water is not used for anything, and the least polluted water is supplied to places where water is used affluently. It may lead to various other concepts of environmental protection, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Env ironmental_technology 2/6

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supplied to places where water is used affluently. It may lead to various other concepts of environmental protection, sustainability etc.[4]

Environmental remediation
Environmental remediation is the removal of pollutants or contaminants for the general protection of the environment. This is accomplished by various chemical, biological, and bulk movement. (encyclopedia of medical concepts)[5]

Solid waste management

Solid waste management is the purification, consumption, reuse, disposal and treatment of solid waste that is undertaken by the government or the ruling bodies of a city/town.[6]

eGain forecasting
Egain forecasting is a method using forecasting technology to predict the future weather's impact on a building.[7] By adjusting the heat based on the weather forecast, the system eliminates redundant use of heat, thus reducing the energy consumption and the emission of greenhouse gases.[8]

Energy conservation
Energy conservation is the utilization of devices that require smaller amounts of energy in order to reduce the consumption of electricity. Reducing the use of electricity causes less fossil fuels to be burned to provide that electricity.

Alternative and clean power

Principles: Green syndicalism Sustainability Sustainable design Sustainable engineering Scientists continue to search for clean energy alternatives to our current power production methods. Some technologies such as anaerobic digestion produce renewable energy from waste materials. The global reduction of greenhouse gases is dependent on the adoption of energy conservation technologies at industrial level as well as this clean energy generation. That includes using unleaded gasoline, solar energy and alternative fuel vehicles, including plug-in hybrid and hybrid electric vehicles.
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A view across a reverse osmosis desalination plant.

Net Zero Court zero emissions office building prototype in St. Louis, Missouri
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Since electric motors consume 60% of all electricity generated,[citation needed ] advanced energy efficient electric motor (and electric generator) technology that are cost effective to encourage their application, such as the brushless wound-rotor doubly fed electric machine and energy saving module, can reduce the amount of carbon dioxide (CO2) and sulfur dioxide (SO2) that would otherwise be introduced to the atmosphere, if electricity is generated using fossil fuels. Greasestock is an event held yearly in Yorktown Heights, New York which is one of the largest showcases of environmental technology in the United States.[9][10][11][12][13]

Education
Courses aimed at developing graduates with specific skills in environmental systems or environmental technology are becoming more common and fall into three broads classes:

The Tesla Roadster is the only allelectric sports car for sale and in serial production. It can be plugged into conventional outlets and can be charged fully or partially on renewable energy, including solar, hydroelectric, geothermal or wind power.

Environmental Engineering or Environmental Systems courses oriented towards a civil engineering approach in which structures and the landscape are constructed to blend with or protect the environment; Environmental chemistry, sustainable chemistry or environmental chemical engineering courses oriented towards understanding the effects (good and bad) of chemicals in the environment. Such awards can focus on mining processes, pollutants and commonly also cover biochemical processes; Environmental technology courses oriented towards producing electronic, electrical or electrotechnology graduates capable of developing devices and artefacts able to monitor, measure, model and control environmental impact, including monitoring and managing energy generation from renewable sources, and developing novel energy generation technologies.

Criticisms
Extreme radical environmentalism, exhibited in publications such as Green Anarchy, criticizes the concept of environmental technology.[citation needed ] From this viewpoint, technology is seen as a system rather than a specific physical tool. Technology, accordingly, requires the exploitation of the environment through the creation and extraction of resources, and the exploitation of people through labor, specialization and the division of labor. Thus, no neutral form of technology; things are always created in a certain context with certain aims and functions. Green technology is rejected as an attempt to reform this exploitative system, merely changing it on the surface to make it seem environmentally friendly, despite continued unsustainable levels of human and natural exploitation.

See also
Appropriate technology Groasis Waterboxx The All-Earth Ecobot Challenge Pulser Pump Environmentally friendly
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Sustainable living Sustainable energy Sustainable design

References
1. ^ Retrieved Sept 21,2009. NREL official website (http://www.nrel.gov/) 2. ^ Recycling. Retrieved June 15th, 2009. http://earth911.com/recycling/ . Recycle.gif. Retrieved June 15th, 2009. http://library.uwf.edu/recycle_logo.gif What is Water Purification. Retrieved June 16th, 2009, http://www.bionewsonline.com/s/what_is_water_purification.htm Sewage Treatment. Retrieved June 17th, 2009 http://www.euwfd.com/html/sewage_treatment.html Environmental Remedies and water Resource 3. ^ Kamal Meattle on how to grow fresh air (http://www.ted.com/talks/kamal_meattle_on_how_to_grow_your_own_fresh_air.html) TED (conference) 4. ^ Sewage Treatment. Retrieved June 17th, 2009 http://www.euwfd.com/html/sewage_treatment.html Environmental remedies and water Resource 5. ^ Livescience. Retrieved June 27, 2009.10 top emerging environmental technologies. http://www.reference.md/files/D052/mD052918.html 6. ^ Retrieved June 16th, 2009. http://www-esd.lbl.gov/ERT/index.html Urban Waste Management. Retrieved June 16th, 2009. http://web.worldbank.org/WBSITE/EXTERNAL/TOPICS/EXTURBANDEVELOPMENT/EXTUSWM 7. ^ Taesler, R. (1990/91) Climate and Building Energy Management. Energy and Buildings, Vol. 15-16, pp 599 - 608. 8. ^ United States Patent 6098893 (http://ip.com/patent/US6098893) Comfort control system incorporating weather forecast data and a method for operating such a system (Inventor Stefan Berglund) 9. ^ Norman, Jim. "Where Theres Never an Oil Shortage (http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/13/automobiles/13GREASE.html?_r=1&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss&oref=slogin) ". New York Times. May 13, 2007. 10. ^ Tillman, Adriane. "Greasestock Festival returns, bigger and better (http://northcountynews.com/news/ncn_news1.asp) ". May 14, 2008. 11. ^ "Greasestock 2008 (http://www.greasestock.org/) ". Greasestock (http://greasestock.org) . Retrieved May 20, 2008. 12. ^ Max, Josh. "Gas-guzzlers become veggie delights at Greasestock in Yorktown Heights (http://www.nydailynews.com/autos/2008/05/13/2008-05-13_gasguzzlers_become_veggie_delights_at_gr.html) ". Daily News. May 13, 2008. 13. ^ "Greasestock 2008: Alternative Fuel, Fun and French Fries (http://www.greasestock.org/images/GreasestockMay08.jpg) ". Natural Awakenings (http://www.naturalawakeningsmag.com/) . May 2008.

Further reading
OECD Studies on Environmental Innovation Invention and Transfer of Environmental Technologies.. OECD. September 2011. ISBN 978-92-64-11561-3.

External links
Environmental Technologies Action Plan (http://ec.europa.eu/environment/etap/index_en.htm) - European
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Commission - Wiki Environmental Technologies Action Plan BiobasedNews.com: a comprehensive database of environmental technology business news and stories and press releases (http://www.biobasednews.com/) EUCETSA (http://www.eucetsa.net/eucetsa) - European Committee of Environmental Technology Supplier Associations (representing over 1.000 companies in the environmental industry) Related "Norway Online" resources (http://www.norwayonline.no/index.php?cat=23) Norway Exports - Publication: Renewable energy & environmental Technology (http://www.mypaper.se/show/findexa/show.asp?pid=345154565064355) How Silicon Valley could become the Detroit of electric cars (http://www.mercurynews.com/greenenergy/ci_7392438) . Consumer Reports GreenerChoices (http://greenerchoices.org/) . Top 10 emerging environment technologies (http://www.livescience.com/11334-top-10-emergingenvironmental-technologies.html) . livescience.com. Reed, Daniel. 2009. Environmental and Renewable Energy Innovation Potential Among the States: State Rankings. Applied Research Project. Texas State University. http://ecommons.txstate.edu/arp/291/ E - The Environmental Magazine (http://www.emagazine.com/) Texas A&M University-Dallas Urban Living Laboratory project (http://urbanlivinglaboratory.com/) TED Talk: Amory Lovins, "On Winnin the Oil Endgame" (http://www.ted.com/talks/amory_lovins_on_winning_the_oil_endgame.html) Amory Lovins, NATURAL CAPITALISM (http://www.natcap.org/) "Use of Green Energy" (in agriculture) Dr. Roger Beachy, US Embassy in France (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DjYmWM-gjBw) 7 Modern Wonders of Green Technology: Conceptual and Actual Ecological Designs of the Future (http://weburbanist.com/2008/06/09/modern-wonders-of-green-technology/) Going green can be good for business (http://www.courierpress.com/news/2011/may/09/going-green-canbe-good-for-business/) IBM Green Technology (http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/greendc/green_technology/) Unintended Consequences of Green Technologies (http://berkeley.academia.edu/OzzieZehner/Papers/867475/Unintended_Consequences_of_Green_Technol ogies/) Retrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Environmental_technology&oldid=520886046" Categories: Environmental technology Sustainable technologies This page was last modified on 1 November 2012 at 12:09. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License; additional terms may apply. See Terms of Use for details. Wikipedia is a registered trademark of the Wikimedia Foundation, Inc., a non-profit organization.

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