14 DAY TRIAL // Given the fact that over-the-top manufacturing technologies typically use up a lot of energy, it should come as no surprise that new green-oriented projects are to focus on helping these particular industries become more environmentally-friendly.
The main idea is to support them in considerably reducing their energy needs and in diminishing the negative impacts they have on the natural world.
General Motors and Dow Chemical Co. are two of the companies that will be offered significant grants in order to improve on their ecological footprint.
According to Environmental Leader, General Motors is expected to receive $2.7 million (about €2.2 million). This money is to be invested in developing a new process for designing and manufacturing lighter car doors.
Preliminary reports indicate that this process would reduce energy consumption by 50%, not to mention the fact that lighter doors make for lighter cars, which in turn use less fuel.
Therefore, in the end, General Motors will be made responsible for fewer gas emissions.
Dow, the American multinational chemical corporation, will be offered $9 million (roughly €7 million). Their goal is to come up with a new carbon-fiber manufacturing process. More precisely: one that involves lower production costs and lower CO2 emissions.
Other companies that are to receive such grants are Delphi Automotive Systems, Air Products and Chemicals Inc., American Iron and Steel Institute and Lyondell Chemical.
Should things go as planned, it is expected that more and more light-weight materials will be developed for use in various industries, and that carbon pollution will eventually be greatly reduced.
As well as this, some of the money will be invested into better lighting systems by developing existing LED technologies.
From where we stand, such investments are more than welcome, especially since most of today's life revolves around technology.
Therefore, it is our belief that by making technology more environmentally-friendly, both human society and the natural world will only have to gain.