tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-91584586316437694972024-03-12T20:47:21.042-07:00Environment Business in JapanTechnology and business trend of the environment and recycling business in JapanSenryaku-kenkyuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14407110371838014354noreply@blogger.comBlogger104125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9158458631643769497.post-55493598870522238272015-10-16T00:20:00.001-07:002018-12-05T17:40:35.984-08:00No. 146: Latest Japanese achievements for global environment (October 16, 2015)<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Latest
Japanese achievements for global environment were released. The grand champion
is, of course, Toyota’s fuel cell vehicle “Mirai (the future),” and it is
followed by various epoch-making technologies to preserve global environment. Mirai
has already received a total of more than 3,000 units by the end of August this
year for the domestic market alone. It is priced at about 7 million yen now,
though it cost 100 million yen to build a prototype model in 2008. Toyota is scheduled
to increase the annual production capacity from 700 units at present to 3,000
units in 2017.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><a href="http://www.chikyu.ac.jp/rihn_e/index.html">Research Institute for Humanity and Nature</a> developed a technology to increase crop yields
by preventing the soil from being eroded. The new technology creates fallow
soil about 5 meters wide in the farmland where no seeds are planted and no
weeds are eradicated. Because soil and organic substances are blown to the
fallow soil, crop yields of the entirely farmland increases by changing the place
of the fallow soil every year. The experiment conducted in Niger of Africa, the
new technology decreased wind erosion by about 70% and increased crop yields by
30-80%. It does not need much investment, and it greatly contributes to
increasing food production in regions suffering from poverty. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Taisei
Corporation developed a technology to purify water polluted water of industrial
water disposal facilities and industrial effluent treatment facilities with the
help of bacteria found in the soil in alliance with <a href="http://www.osaka-u.ac.jp/en/index.html">Osaka University</a> and <a href="http://www.kitasato.ac.jp/english/index.html">Kitasato University</a>. The new technology efficiently dissolves 1,4-Dioxane that is hard
to eliminate and supposed to pose a health risk. It can decrease the
maintenance cost by 80% and input energy by 60% than the method that uses an
oxidant. The experiment to prove the performance of this technology proved that
it can maintain the ability to keep the concentration of polluted groundwater at
lower than the environmental standard for three months. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><a href="http://www.rtri.or.jp/eng/index.html">Railway Technical Research Institute</a> developed a superconductive cable that can reduce
energy consumption by 5%. It succeeded in the test run this year using an existing
railway line.</span></div>
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Senryaku-kenkyuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14407110371838014354noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9158458631643769497.post-5185528551251841232015-04-18T01:28:00.002-07:002015-04-18T01:29:08.390-07:00No. 145: Urban mine is growing its presence as a source of rare metals (April18, 2015)<div class="MsoNormal">
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Since
the law to purchase renewable energy at a fixed price was enacted in 2012, photovoltaic
generation has been growing popular quite rapidly. A solar panel has a life
between 20 and 30 years. <a href="http://www.env.go.jp/en/index.html">The Ministry of the Environment</a> estimates that used
photovoltaic generation equipment will amount up to 700,000 tons in 2030. A
solar battery contains various metals including rare metals like iridium and
has the possibility of becoming prospect in the future. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><a href="http://www.dowa.co.jp/index_e.html">DOWA Holdings</a> has been developing technologies to recover metals like gold, silver,
and copper from black ores since the Meiji Period, and it is working on solar
panels to establish a technology to recycle them with a view to recovering rare
metals. It is urgent and important to establish a recycling technology to eliminate
a large amount of used solar panels to be thrown away for land reclamation. Urban
mine is a very important source of metals. <a href="http://www.nims.go.jp/eng/index.html">The Institute of Metal Sciences</a>
reckons that urban mine in Japan is estimated to have more than 10% of world’s reserves
of such metals as gold, silver, tin, and iridium. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Tantalum,
for example, is a rare metal. <a href="https://www.mitsui-kinzoku.co.jp/group/mkr/en/index.html">Mitsui Kinzoku Recycle</a> is developing a technology
to recover tantalum from tantalum capacitors in collaboration with <a href="https://www.aist.go.jp/index_en.html">National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology</a>. The technology is to
separate capacitors from electronic substrates and recover tantalum at a high purity
utilizing the difference of specific gravity. The company is scheduled to start
commercial production of tantalum in 2016. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><a href="http://www.ricoh.com/">Ricoh</a> and
<a href="http://www.j-fess.com/index.php">Japan Future Eco-Systems</a> are jointly developing a technology to change waste
plastics not to resin materials but to oil. They heat waste plastics to 600-800
degrees centigrade in an iron container, and recover heating oil and heavy oil
from vaporized substance. They are in the middle of putting this technology
into practical application. Ricoh is receiving inquiries on this technology from
Southeast Asian countries and confident of spreading this technology worldwide.
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Japanese domestic recycling market is estimated at 7 trillion yen and supposed
to grow further thanks to technological innovation that increases recoverable amount
and expands the products subject to recycling.</span><br />
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Senryaku-kenkyuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14407110371838014354noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9158458631643769497.post-58152309836689994102013-11-18T01:02:00.000-08:002013-11-18T01:02:07.028-08:00No. 144: Building the concept of urban coalfield to help a local government get revenue (November 18, 2013)<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><a href="http://www.toshiba.co.jp/worldwide/index.html">Toshiba</a>
got an order from a local government in the Tokyo metropolitan area for a plant
to produce fuel using sludge coming from the sewerage treatment plant jointly
with <a href="http://www.jfe-eng.co.jp/en/index.html">JEF Engineering</a>. Toshiba’s technology eliminates water from sludge and
heats the dewatered sludge for 2-3 hours, and produces fuel that has a half amount
of energy as coal. Sludge is heated at 160-170 degrees centigrade for one hour
to eliminate water in the first stage, and subsequently heated at 400-600
degrees centigrade for one-two hours in the second stage. As fuel for these two
stages, Toshiba’s technology uses flammable gases, such as methane and carbon
monoxide, and recycles waste heat. Auxiliary fuel, such as city gas and heavy
oil, accounts only for several percentages in the fuel used for burning. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The concept of urban coalfield is no longer a dream.</span></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">It is
possible to produce 80-100 kg of fuel from one ton of sludge. Toshiba’s
technology produces fuel that has 60-70% calorie as coal, and the produced fuel
can be used for fuel in cement plants and coal-fired thermal power stations. The
first plant to be constructed by Toshiba will treat 62,000 tons of dewatered
sludge annually. In addition to producing fuel, Toshiba’s technology can reduce
carbon dioxide emissions by more than 80% as compared with the existing method
that reduces volume of sludge by dewatering and burning. </span></div>
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more, Toshiba’s technology will help the local government get revenue by selling
the produced fuel. This is the concept of urban coalfield. As of 2010, 78% of
sludge is recycled, and 40% of the recycled sludge is used as a raw material of
cement and only 1% is recycled as energy. It is expected that fuel equivalent
to 1.5 million tons of coals can be produced by utilizing sewage sludge
annually in Japan.</span><br />
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Senryaku-kenkyuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14407110371838014354noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9158458631643769497.post-75009434369532659352013-11-09T00:34:00.000-08:002013-11-09T03:12:33.858-08:00No. 143: Technology to recycle polycarbonate ABS resin used in flat-screen TVs (November 7, 2013)<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><a href="http://sharp-world.com/">Sharp </a>established a technology to recycle high-performance resin polycarbonate ABS
resin used in flat-screen TVs. Because prolonged use deteriorates polycarbonate
ABS resin, it cannot easily be recycled for home electric appliances. The
company developed an additive to recover the deterioration in collaboration
with <a href="http://www.krsc.co.jp/">Kansai Recycle Systems</a> in Hirakata city, Osaka Prefecture. This additive allows
used polycarbonate ABS to recover almost the same product characteristics as
new one, and the cost to recycle polycarbonate ABS with this additive is
expected to be the same as the cost to use new one. </span></div>
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ABS accounts for more than 50% of all resins used in flat-screen TVs. Although it
is a major material characterized by impact resistance and flame resistance, it
is currently recycled for only sundries because of the difficulty of recycling.
Sharp plans to use recycled polycarbonate ABS for new flat-screen TVs, but <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">only </span>3
million flat-screen TVs are being recovered <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">annually </span>at present, a well below the break-even
point for recycling. Accordingly, recycled polycarbonate ABS will presumably be applied to
new flat-screen TVs beginning in 2018. In the initial stage, it will be used
for in-car air-purifiers. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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Senryaku-kenkyuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14407110371838014354noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9158458631643769497.post-23284946168888485832013-08-07T22:34:00.001-07:002013-08-07T22:37:04.699-07:00No. 142: Japanese plan to contribute to reducing greenhouse gas emissions worldwide toward 2050 (August 8, 2013)<div class="MsoNormal">
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<a href="http://www8.cao.go.jp/cstp/">The Council for Science and Technology Policy</a> laid down an environmental energy innovation plan to reduce Japan’s CO2 emissions by about 15% from the present level toward 2050 as Japan’s contribution to the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions worldwide to 50% by 2050. The new plan specified the seven major fields for the reduction and set a target value in each field. </div>
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of the United Nations this September and <a href="http://www.cop19.gov.pl/">COP19</a> this November. Japan reviewed
the plan for the first time since 2008. The roadmap of the new plan covers 37
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">In the
innovative structural materials, Japan plans to increase the strength and ductility
of steel, magnesium materials, ceramics, and carbon-fiber composites to reduce
the weight and production cost of a vehicle. The Council reckons that the
spread of these materials as vehicle materials will help the world reduce CO2
emissions by 4.7 billion tons in 2050. In the field of artificial
photosynthesis, the government wishes to increase the energy conversion rate by
30 times of the present level to 10% by 2021 through the development of a film
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Ocean thermal energy conversion (image)</span><br />
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<![endif]-->Senryaku-kenkyuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14407110371838014354noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9158458631643769497.post-86940899464367563072013-06-23T21:22:00.000-07:002013-11-09T10:58:56.757-08:00No. 141: Innovative approaches to power saving emerge one after another (June 24, 2013)<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-size: large;"><i><b>Technology:</b></i></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Venture
companies specializing in power saving are advancing their competitive edge.
<a href="http://www.sassor.com/">Sassor</a> will start to provide retail and restaurant chains with consulting on
power saving. They put a special device on the distribution switchboard and
measure the operational status of air-conditioners and dishwaters. They analyze
collected data on power consumption and use frequency, and display their
suggestions automatically on the tablets installed on each outlet. Comparing
the operational status of equipment between outlets will help the chain to work
out effective measures for power saving. They also plan to draw typical patterns
of wasteful spending and submit them to the chain for more effective measures. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><a href="http://picoada.co.jp/">PICO ADA</a>
provides hospital and hotels with an optimization control service of electricity,
gas, and water supply. In these facilities, power is needed to circulate water
for kitchens and bathrooms. They save water to reduce power consumption of
pumps and adjust the volume of air-conditioners. They forecast hourly change of
weather by simulating data from the Meteorological Agency using their
self-developed software. Their approach can reduce energy and water supply
charges by 15%. A hospital with 300 beds supposedly can reduce expenditure by
10 million yen per year. They offer the equipment and operation support for
4,200,000 yen per year. They collect and analyze data from 1,500 facilities
across the country to improve the control program constantly for higher
accuracy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A campaign girl distributes <a href="https://www.google.co.jp/search?hl=ja&site=imghp&tbm=isch&source=hp&biw=1024&bih=599&q=%E3%81%86%E3%81%A1%E3%82%8F&oq=%E3%81%86%E3%81%A1%E3%82%8F&gs_l=img.12..0l7j0i4l3.2627.3386.0.6094.6.6.0.0.0.0.124.607.4j2.6.0.eqrwrth..0.0...1..17.img.6DdAMTyIO9I">uchiwa (paper fan) </a>to pedestrians </span></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">on the street as the easiest and cheapest way of energy saving.</span></span></span></div>
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Senryaku-kenkyuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14407110371838014354noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9158458631643769497.post-74622060750795396222013-06-04T05:12:00.001-07:002013-06-04T05:12:25.480-07:00No. 140: Japanese environmental technology is increasing its presence in Asia and Africa (June 4, 2013)<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: blue;"><i><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: large; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Business
trend:</span></b></i></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">The
Japanese government will reach an agreement with Ethiopia
shortly to get an emission quota of carbon dioxide from Ethiopia in
exchange for providing it with state-of-the-art environmental technology. The
first technology to be transferred to Ethiopia will be the geothermal
generation technology. In East Africa, geothermal
generation is promising because a great rift zone made up of volcanoes exists. Ethiopia is in
urgent need of power source other than hydraulic power generation to cope with
rapid growth of economy and population. The <a href="http://www.meti.go.jp/english/index.html">Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry</a> has been assisting Japanese companies in their survey on geothermal
generation in this area. The Japanese government is also expected to reach an
agreement with Indonesia on Japan’s
support for infrastructure improvement. The <a href="http://www.env.go.jp/en/">Ministry of Environment</a> will help Indonesia build waste disposal plants and
improve the waster supply and sewerage systems in such large cities as Surabaya. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Major countries with which Japan is negotiating on the
bilateral quota system</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Status</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Country</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Environmental technology to be transferred</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Agreement has already been concluded</span></div>
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<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 153.75pt;" valign="top" width="205"><div align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Mongolia</span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Bangladesh</span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Highly-efficient thermal power generation </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Agreement will likely be concluded shortly</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Ethiopia</span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"></span></div>
<div align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Indonesia</span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Geothermal generation </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Negotiations are in progress</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Vietnam</span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">, India,
Thailand, Laos, and Cambodia</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Biomass generation, off-shore wind
generation, energy-saving technology, water supply and sewerage systems,
waste treatment</span></div>
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<td style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-right-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 153.75pt;" valign="top" width="205"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Negotiations are in progress</span></td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 153.75pt;" valign="top" width="205"><div align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Kenya</span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Photovoltaic generation, geothermal
generation</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Japan</span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> proposed the bilateral credit
system that allows providing environmental technology to set off emissions of
greenhouse gases as a system after 2020 when the Kyoto Protocol ends. The
Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry has been assisting Japanese companies
in their survey on geothermal generation in this area. Japan proposed the bilateral credit
system that allows providing environmental technology to set off emissions of
greenhouse gases as a system after 2020 when the Kyoto Protocol ends. Japan has already agreed with Mongolia and Bangladesh on the bilateral quota
system. Thanks to the strenuous efforts of Japanese government officials,
Japanese environmental technology is increasing its presence in Asia and Africa steadily. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Potential of geothermal generation</span></span></div>
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Senryaku-kenkyuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14407110371838014354noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9158458631643769497.post-40603234988798335072013-03-03T19:26:00.000-08:002013-05-27T20:04:45.809-07:00No. 139: A demonstrative driving experiment of small EV trucks starts in Tokyo (March 4, 2013)<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: blue;"><span lang="EN-US"><i><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><span lang="EN-US">Technology:</span></span></span></span></b></i><span lang="EN-US"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span lang="EN-US"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><span lang="EN-US"><a href="http://www.kuronekoyamato.co.jp/en/">Yamato Transport</a> that is the leader of Japan’s home delivery business, <a href="http://www.toyota-global.com/">Toyota</a>, and <a href="http://www.hino-global.com/">Hino</a> will start a demonstrative driving experiment of small EV trucks by the end of this month. The small EV trucks used in the experiment carry a load of one ton and travel about 20-30 km per day. They carry a refrigerated compartment and a chillroom for the refrigerated courier service. The research team will study advantages including reducing environmental load to be realized by the switchover of the fuel from light oil to electricity and the performance of batteries. </span></span></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><span lang="EN-US">The small EV truck travels about 100 km per charge. The motor is housed below the driver’s seat, and the height of load-carrying platform is about 44 cm, about half of the height of the current load-carrying platform, to increase the efficiency of loading and unloading of the cargo. The two experimental small EV trucks will be in service in Tokyo until February 2014. </span></span></span></span></div>
<span lang="EN-US"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span><br />
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Senryaku-kenkyuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14407110371838014354noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9158458631643769497.post-14059193194509114142013-01-02T07:00:00.001-08:002013-01-02T07:00:38.575-08:00No. 138: Nittsu’s Grass-roots activities to reduce carbon dioxide emissions in Asia (January 2, 2013)<div style="margin: 0in; text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: blue;"><i><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: large;">Business trend:</span></b></i></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial;">Beginning in 2013,
<a href="http://www.nipponexpress.com/">Nippon Express (Nittsu)</a> that is Japan’s largest transportation company will give
guidance to truck drivers about energy-saving driving in Vietnam to reduce CO2
emissions by 7%. The company plans to expand the grass-roots activities to
Indonesia and Thailand and ultimately wishes to apply the energy-saving driving
to hundreds of thousands of trucks it operates worldwide. It will use the
reduced amount as its emission allowances. It reckons that it will be able to
reduce about 950,000 tons of CO2 that it emitted in Japan in 2011 to nearly
zero should it introduce the energy saving driving to 200,000 trucks. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial;">The guidance about
energy saving driving is under way in Malaysia. Based on the results in
Malaysia, the company reckons that it will be possible to reduce 5 tons of CO2
emissions per truck per year in Vietnam if the energy-saving driving technique
becomes widespread. Vietnamese drivers will be instructed to stop idling while
waiting for the green signal. In addition, trucks will be loaded with the
latest driving control system that tells where the driver made a hard stop and
sudden acceleration besides showing fuel consumption of each driver.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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Senryaku-kenkyuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14407110371838014354noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9158458631643769497.post-73661621205932547772013-01-01T07:50:00.001-08:002013-01-01T07:50:17.644-08:00No. 137: A technology to recycle liquid crystal display TVs completely (January 1, 2013)<div style="margin: 0in; text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: blue;"><i><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: large;">Technology:</span></b></i></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial;"><a href="http://sharp-world.com/">Sharp</a> developed a
technology to recycle used liquid crystal display (LCD) TVs completely in
alliance with <a href="http://www.osakafu-u.ac.jp/english/index.html">Osaka Prefecture University</a>. They successfully created zeolite by
reacting pulverized glass in the alkaline solution. Zeolite is expected to
enjoy stable demand because it can be used as a soil improvement agent.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial;">Glass of LCD panel
is hard to recycle because it has a protective film on it, and LCD TV makers
provide it to recycling manufacturers as a cement material for virtually free.
The LCD TV is subject to Home Appliance Recycling Law, and consumes share the
cost for recycling. They pay about 2,800 yen for each larger-than-16 inch LCD
TV. It is estimated that 600,000 LCD TVs were discarded in 2011. The number of
discarded LCD TVs is estimated to increase to 2,600,000 units in 2015 and
5,000,000 units in 2020. Sharp plans to put the technology into practical use
in 2015 and provide it to other home electronics companies.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial;">Recyling LCD TVs</span></div>
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Senryaku-kenkyuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14407110371838014354noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9158458631643769497.post-200238414908654042012-11-01T05:37:00.000-07:002012-11-01T05:37:20.399-07:00No. 136: BEMS is spreading among medium-sized companies (November 1, 2012)<div style="margin: 0in; text-align: justify;">
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial;">The building energy
management system (BEMS) is spreading among medium-sized companies. <a href="http://www.orix.co.jp/grp/en/">Orix</a>, that
is a multi business company, started to introduce a BEMS into a medium-sized
company without an initial cost. Orix installs a power monitoring system in
buildings, shops, and facilities at its own expense, and pays monthly
communication cost. Orix collects investment from part of the value that a
building saved. It pays up to 80% of the saved value to the client as a reward.
In the case of a facility that uses 16 million yen for electricity annually,
saved value is 3,200,000 yen if electricity is saved 20%. In this case, Orix
collects 640,000 yen, while the remaining 2,560,000 yen is the cost that the
client reduced with the help of the BEMS. Because it takes long to collect all
the introduction cost, the client cannot cancel the contract for five years in
principle. </span></div>
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launch a service to reduce power consumption of buildings jointly with <a href="http://www.aeon.info/en/">AEON</a> that is one of Japan’s leading supermarket chains. In the initial stage, the
two companies plan to install the system in AEON’s 180 outlets across the
country. Toshiba will market a system that monitors power consumption for 24
hours utilizing the elevator monitoring system it has accumulated. Toshiba’s
system starts at one million yen. Hitachi will also market a small BEMS to
small facilities. Tokyo Gas works with its groups companies to control power
consumption at a peak period and offers six different kinds of BEMS products
and services.</span></div>
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Senryaku-kenkyuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14407110371838014354noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9158458631643769497.post-23164728490799906192012-10-29T01:22:00.002-07:002013-01-03T20:06:35.872-08:00No. 135: Utilizing electricity generating microorganisms to the treatment of plant effluent (October 29, 2012)<div style="margin: 0in; text-align: justify;">
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Senryaku-kenkyuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14407110371838014354noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9158458631643769497.post-62097049499863147022012-09-17T04:47:00.000-07:002013-03-03T19:50:53.884-08:00No. 134: EnerNOC comes to Japan (September 17, 2012)<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
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<span lang="EN-US"><a href="http://www.enernoc.com/">EnerNOC </a>of the U.S. starts developing the market of demand response in Japan in alliance with <a href="http://www.marubeni.com/">Marubeni</a>. The two companies measure power consumption of companies and plants and install smart meters to provide the system called demand response. EnerNOC operates the power saving system using its the server in the U.S., and Marubeni markets the service to Japanese companies. EnerNOC has a total of 12,000 customers worldwide and achieved power saving of 8 million kW equivalent to 8 nuclear power plants around the world. Marubeni will sell saved power it gets from its customers to electric power companies, and Marubeni and customers split the revenue. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">As the first project in Japan, the two companies got an order from <a href="http://www1.kepco.co.jp/english/">Kansai Electric Power</a> and constructed a system to control power demand. They provided the system with control devices to about 10 buildings in the Kansai district for free. Hitachi and Toshiba are also in the middle of the substantiative experiment of their demand response systems. Because electric power companies maintain equipment to satisfy the peak demand, there is room to reduce the maintenance cost by decreasing power demand in peak time. </span></div>
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Senryaku-kenkyuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14407110371838014354noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9158458631643769497.post-72591138564872456902012-09-06T03:57:00.001-07:002013-03-03T19:50:24.551-08:00No. 133: Increasing the number of quick charging facilities for e-vehicles to 4,000 nationwide (September 6, 2012)<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
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<span lang="EN-US"><a href="http://www.nissan-global.com/EN/">Nissan</a>, <a href="http://www.sumitomocorp.co.jp/english/">Sumitomo Corp.</a>, and <a href="http://www.noe.jx-group.co.jp/english/">JX Nippon Oiland Energy</a> ally to increase the number of quick charging facilities for
e-vehicles to 4,000 by 2020. At present, there are 1,300 quick charging
facilities in Japan. Because there are 40,000 gas stations in Japan, the
industry source reckons increasing quick charging facilities to one tenth of
gas stations in number will strongly stimulate the sales of e-vehicles. <a href="http://www.charge-net.co.jp/">Japan Charge Network (JCN)</a> financed by Nissan, Sumitomo Corp., <a href="http://www.showa-shell.co.jp/english/index.html">Show Shell</a>, and <a href="http://www.nec.com/">NEC</a>
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<span lang="EN-US">JCN has been offering free charging service
to spread the rapid charging equipment, but it will make the service chargeable
beginning in October. User can get quick charging for 420 yen each time using
the special card issued by JCN. The cost to install quick charging equipment is
between 4,000,000 and 5,000,000 yen. It needs 8 hours to charge an e-vehicle by
a household outlet, while quick charger can finish charging in 30 minutes. The
automobile industry estimates that 500,000 EVs can reduce CO2 emissions by
450,000 tons annually. The competition between hybrid car, fuel-cell electric
car, and electric car is growing more intense, and no one can predict the
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Senryaku-kenkyuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14407110371838014354noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9158458631643769497.post-29813204195359587382012-08-14T23:49:00.002-07:002012-08-14T23:49:57.946-07:00No. 132: Government offers subsidies to spread very small vehicles (August 15, 2012)<div style="color: blue;">
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<span lang="EN-US">The Japanese government will offer
subsidies to companies and local governments that introduce very small vehicles
beginning in fiscal 2013. The small vehicle is defined as a vehicle smaller
than the light car that has an engine displacement of 660 cc. It will select
100 projects that promote sightseeing and home visit medical care in three
years and pay half of the purchase cost of very small vehicles, each of which
is estimated to cost between 500,000 and 1,000,000 yen. The number of very
small vehicles subject to the subsidization is estimated more than 3,000 units
in three years. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Very small vehicles are mostly one- or two-seaters.
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as a vehicle that can be driven on the public road this autumn, and establish a
new vehicle classification for very small vehicles in 2015. Toyota already
launched <a href="http://www.sankeibiz.jp/images/news/120809/bsa1208091744006-p3.jpg">Coms</a> for 660,000 yen. Other automakers are expected to follow Toyota. The
Japanese government’s initiative to promote an environment-conscious society
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Senryaku-kenkyuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14407110371838014354noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9158458631643769497.post-20142409185190010552012-06-08T00:03:00.000-07:002012-08-15T00:02:03.552-07:00No. 131: Software to analyze the influence of electric appliances on environment (June 8, 2012)<div style="color: blue;">
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<span lang="EN-US"><a href="http://www.toray.com/">Toray</a> and <a href="http://www.jemai.or.jp/english/index.cfm">Japan Environmental Management Association for Industry (JEMAI)</a> jointly developed software that enables users to analyze the influence of electric appliances on environment through the Internet. Toray’s T-E2A and JEMAI’s Multiple Interface Life Cycle Assessment (MiLCA) will be integrated to be a new software program. It will be available both in Japanese and English. <a href="http://www.milca-milca.net/english/index.php">You can download the software free in this website by the end of June, though the website is under construction now</a>. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">It will help companies select raw materials and new production methods thoughtful of environment in new product development. It contains more than 3,000 kinds of data including emissions of carbon dioxide and those of contaminants per energy of raw materials. If you input the amount of a raw material to be used for a new product, you can analyze the raw material from such viewpoints as “Influence on global warming,” “Consumption of mineral resources and water resources,” “Toxic risk,” and “Production cost.”</span></div>
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Senryaku-kenkyuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14407110371838014354noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9158458631643769497.post-73888442497847867052012-05-13T04:58:00.002-07:002012-08-15T00:02:25.563-07:00No. 130: Constructing a system to recycle electric vehicle batteries (May 13, 2012)<div style="color: blue;">
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<span lang="EN-US">Nissan Motor and Sumitomo Corp. will
collaborate to recycle electric vehicle batteries. In September 2010, the two
companies jointly founded <a href="http://www.4r-energy.com/">4R Energy </a>with a capital of 450 million yen, of which
Nissan paid 51% and Sumitomo 49%, that is currently conducting research on the
performance of electric vehicle batteries. The two companies will increase the
capital of 4R Energy on the current ratio to let it start the battery recycling
business. It will be four to five years later that 4R Energy actually purchases
used-up electric vehicle batteries. </span></div>
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Because a used-up vehicle battery can be used as an emergency power source of
household, the three companies wish to construct a system to recycle electric
vehicle batteries for further spread of electric vehicles. During the four to
five years, 4R Energy will construct a network for collecting used-up batteries
and accumulate know-how on their appraisal. </span></div>
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Senryaku-kenkyuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14407110371838014354noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9158458631643769497.post-42101853118195950222012-05-11T01:21:00.000-07:002012-08-15T00:02:38.287-07:00No. 129: The Japanese government takes the initiative in building ocean liners powered by natural gas (May 11, 2012)<div style="color: blue;">
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<span lang="EN-US">The Japanese government decided to
subsidize domestic shipping and shipbuilding companies and carry out the plan
to build ocean liners powered by natural gas in 2015. A natural gas-powered
ship emits 25% less carbon dioxide and 40% less nitrogen oxide than a heavy
oil-powered ship, and it does not emit any sulfur oxide at all. Although Norway
uses small coasting liner powered by natural gas, Japan will supposedly be the
first country that introduces natural gas-powered ocean liners like oil tankers
for the first time in the world. The Japanese government wishes to increase the
competitive edge of the Japanese shipbuilding industry in the world market. </span></div>
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to start the research on necessary technological development. The research team
will study necessary technology for fuel tank and gas supply equipment and
conduct simulation on steering. Beginning in 2013, it will subsidize part of the
shipbuilding cost. A natural gas-powered ship costs 20% more than a heavy
oil-powered ship, and it is supposed to cost more than 10 billion yen to build an
ocean liner with a load capacity of more than 200,000 tons. The Japanese
government will issue a draft report on safety criteria using the technological
research results and submit it to the <a href="http://www.imo.org/Pages/home.aspx">International Maritime Organization (IMO)</a>
with a view to effecting the amendments of the relevant treaties by 2016. IMO
wishes to reduce emissions from newly built ships by 30% by 2025. </span></div>
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Senryaku-kenkyuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14407110371838014354noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9158458631643769497.post-15405079082718328712012-05-09T20:55:00.000-07:002012-08-15T00:02:57.153-07:00No. 128: Japanese general contractors are busily developing the concept of a zero energy building (May 10, 2012)<div style="color: blue;">
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<span lang="EN-US">The net zero energy building, or zero
energy building (ZEB) for short, gets supplied with electricity from an
electric power company, but it generates and stores electricity by itself to
reduce purchase volume considerably. Because it can sell surplus electricity to
an electric power company, the procurement volume of power comes out even. </span></div>
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energy consumption to virtually zero through self-support of electricity by
employing windows with high heat insulating properties and utilizing natural
ventilation. The company got an order from a religious institution for a low-rise
office building for about 5 billion yen. The office building is scheduled to be
completed in March 2013. This building will supposedly be the first ZEB in
Japan. In addition to using LED illuminations and insulated windows, the
company will introduce the latest building energy management system (BEMS) for
full utilization of the electricity stored in battery. </span></div>
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remains the same throughout the year. <a href="http://www.takenaka.co.jp/takenaka_e/index.html">Takenaka</a> has been developing the idea of carbon-minus
building that supplies surplus energy to other buildings. <a href="http://www.toda.co.jp/english/index.html">Toda</a> plans to
construct a ZEB by 2020. It costs 30-40% higher to construct a ZBE than a
standard building. Shimizu is constructing its head office building in Tokyo that
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appropriate a budget for subsidies to construct a building closed to a ZEB. The
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optimize power consumption automatically in coordination with smart grids and
smart meters are called smart appliances. Generally, they have such functions
as utilizing night power effectively and controlling power consumption when the
total power consumption of the power grid exceeds a certain level. It will
supposedly not take long for smart appliance to start spreading gradually
because of the spread of smart meters, ever-increasing energy cost, and
improved interface with smart grids. It is generally expected that smart
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spread of smart appliances. It is the next-generation power meter that allows
for interactive information exchange on power consumption wirelessly or by
optical fiber. The power meter is up to now a device that the electric power
company checks periodically for charging electric bill, but the next-generation
smart meter gives consumers information on power consumption in real time for
power saving. Consumers can optimize their efforts for energy-saving by communicating
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replace the power meter of 17 million households, about 60% of all households
to which it supplies power, with smart meters by 2018. Western companies are ahead of Japanese
companies, but Toshiba and Fuji Electric are energetically chasing them. <a href="http://www.toshiba.co.jp/index.htm">Toshiba</a>
acquired <a href="http://www.landisgyr.com/en/pub/home.cfm">Landis+Gyr</a> that is a leading smart meter maker in Switzerland and <a href="http://www.fujielectric.com/company/group/index.html">Fuji Electric </a>is collaborating with GE of the U.S. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">With the spread of EVs and PHVs, the market
of electric vehicle battery charger has been increasingly rapidly. The market
increased more than two times from about 4 billion yen in 2010 to 8.4 billion
in 2011. It is expected to increase 54 times from the level in 2010 to more
than 200 billion yen in 2020. The traffic infrastructure market that includes
electronic toll collection system (ETC), beacon, dedicated short-range communication
system (DSRC), vehicle detection center, electronic information bulletin board,
battery charger, non-contact charging system, and battery exchange center will
increase 3.6 times from 18 billion yen in 2010 to 62 billion yen in 2020 in
Japan, and increase 7.4 times from 62 billion yen in 2010 to 460 billion yen in
2020 in the world. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">In order to spread electric vehicle battery
chargers among household, it may be necessary to introduce a subsidy system in
addition to reducing production cost with a view to reducing the price from the
current several hundreds of thousand yen to less than 100,000 yen. At the same
time, it is necessary to make the unit smaller, improve designability, and improve
user-friendliness. As for quick charger, installation cost is inevitably higher
because power receiving equipment and high-voltage conductor are vital to get
such a high output of 50 kW. In the future, the industry will construct a
system to reduce the cost for rapid charging by a system to apply renewable
energy and incorporate the storage function in the rapid charger. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">A heat pump is the technology to pump heat
in the air and under the ground through refrigerant to utilize its heat energy
efficiently. Aerothermal energy and earth thermal energy are considered
important renewable energies in Japan as in Europe. In the Japanese domestic
market, electric power companies and home electronics companies market heat
pumps under the name of “Eco-Cute” that uses CO2 as refrigerant. With the
spread of all-electric homes and growing concern over environmental issues, the
heat pump market is growing. Companies involved in the business are developing
heat pumps for cold districts, for housing complexes, with measures for salt
damage, and with measures for well water. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial;">The residential use heat pump that utilizes aerothermal
energy was first launched in 2001. It has successfully established the solid position
as an energy-saving and highly-efficient energy utilization means among
consumers. It is highly economical because it can utilize cheap night power and
suitable to reduce power consumption in the peak time. Backed up by the
energy-saving and power-saving demand, the market is growing steadily. The
market is expected to increase 8.5% to about 157 billion yen in 2020, as
compared with the market in 2011. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">The residential use fuel cell sales were
about 16 billion yen in 2010, and they will grow about 85 times to 1,400 billion
yen in 2025 in 11 major markets in Asia including Japan, Europe, and North
America. The three countries that actively promote residential use fuel cell
are Japan, Korea, and Germany, and Japan outpaces other two. It may be hard to
establish substantial business in North America because energy cost is not high
there. As the special measures to stimulate the spread of renewable energy, the
central government allow electricity generated by renewable energy to be sold beginning
in July in Japan. Currently, three companies of <a href="http://www.noe.jx-group.co.jp/english/">JX Oil and Energy</a>, <a href="http://www.tokyo-gas.co.jp/index_e.html">Tokyo Gas</a>,
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wastes heat energy in time of generation even though generation efficiency is
high. If a household is equipped with a residential use fuel cell, it can
generate electricity for such applications as lights, hot water supply, and
heating without waste. Depending on the materials to be used, the residential
use fuel cell can roughly be divided into (1) Solid oxygen fuel cell (SOFC) and
(2) Polymer electrolyte fuel cell (PEFC). The residential use fuel cell is
still expensive, and most consumers need to rely on the subsidy for
introduction. It is urgent task for the industry to reduce production cost,
establish a mass production system, and increase generation efficiency. </span></div>
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that they would build a plant factory to grow paprika in the land adjacent to a
plant of Central Motor that is one of Toyota’s subsidiaries. The plant factory
will utilize waste heat coming from the in-house power generation of <a href="http://www.central-motor.co.jp/">CentralMotor </a>and reduce the cost to heat the greenhouses by 25%. <a href="http://www.vegi.co.jp/">Vegi Dream</a>, a Toyota
Tsusho’s subsidiary, will borrow a 3 ha site and build a large-scale steel
house with a growing area of 1.8 ha. The factory plant will be ready for
production in January 2013, and will grow 315 tons of paprika per year.</span></div>
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greenhouse during nighttime. This project is part of Toyota’s “F-Grid Concept”
designed for effective usage of energy inside an industrial complex. Vegi Dream
already built three paprika farms with a total area of 5 ha. The new plant
factory is the third one of this company. </span></div>
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methods: using calorie of solar heat, such as solar system and solar water
heater, and using energy of solar heat by converting it as electricity energy,
such as photovoltaic generation and solar battery. The solar water heater is
divided into the natural circulation type and the controlled circulation type
solar system, and the applications have expanded from hot-water supply to
heating and cooling. In particular, the solar collector called solar wall was
highly praised by the United State Department of Energy. </span></div>
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solar heat have a high degree of energy conversion efficiency, and the
installation cost is relatively low. In addition, they maintain high cost
efficiency. Japanese solar heat application devices enjoy a high popularity in
the world thanks to their high in performance and durability. Generally, a
household creates hot water using a solar water heater and applies the water to
heating, bath, and kitchen work. Because one third of household’s carbon
dioxide emission is from water heating, solar water heater is an excellent
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