Buenos Aires: in search of a renewable and sustainable public transport.

The City of Buenos Aires is one of the largest Latin America and like so many others of them, starts showing the first signs of a sustainable public transport planning. In spite of the existing delay this same problem in Europe and elsewhere in the world, the capital of Argentina gives his first steps with the construction of Metrobus (a Bus rapid transit system) to be added to the previous programmes of buses hybrids, bicisendas and bike relay.

Buenos Aires City Government announced the construction of its first line of Metrobus, which will take a walk West across much of the Federal Capital. While the service will be provided by bus lines current (i.e. buses conventional), efficiency of this system will involve a reduction of the transit significant (50% less buses on the same route) thus saving fuel and greenhouse gas emissions.

While it starts up this project of Metrobus, it is already working for some months the first hybrid bus of the City and the production of new units that could begin to serve this year being taken forward.
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Public lighting with renewable energy

The security and convenience of the public lighting is without doubt a need in the cities, but without a doubt is a heavy burden on the local electricity networks. To resolve this, SavWatt , a company based in Baltimore (USA)(UU.) It has developed the Eco-poleto lamppost that uses LED lights from 60W and feeds on solar and wind power, completely independent of the mains.

The first of the Eco-pole at the front of the building of the Department of transportation, is recently installed in Washington, DC. The company claims that its product is - in addition - free maintenance, for at least 50,000 hours of use. It has a double solar panel that provides and has a battery of 36 hours of energy storage. It also has a micro wind turbine manufactured in light and soft materials that are resistant to water, resistant oxide, pollution-free and low-noise operation. It should be noted that Eco-pole can work even with a low initial wind speed, and from any direction.


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They endangered networks public recharging of EVs of the United Kingdom

It is becoming difficult to know the true political position of the Government of Great Britain in regards to the environment. Now it seems that another very announced eco-iniciativa can chinlock to an end. Apparently efforts to build recharging stations publicly accessible can be the following vìctimas of the cuts budget.

On the one hand, the británicosse pledged to be the Government more ecological history and he has established - for the first time in the world - legally binding emission reduction targets. On the other hand, have become major cuts to support solar energy projects on a large scale.
The guardian newspaper revealed that a report by the Department of transportation says that the network of electric vehicle charging stations would be underutilized, and would not be profitable and said that the population should recharge the car batteries at home or at work.
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