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Green businesses will provide next wave of prosperity

Green investing is proving profitable, helping meet the world’s long-term energy needs, while also tackling the ills of climate change and environmental damage.

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dfgreen - A large solar concentrator built by Sunrise CSP India focuses the sun’s energy to a small point in front of the dish’s mirrored surface to create high-temperature, high-pressure steam. The 520 square metre dish provides steam for the Kailish Cancer Hospital at the Muni Seva Ashram in Gujarat. Temperatures in the receiver can reach 600 deg C and the superheated steam can be used for industry, power generation, even large-scale kitchens. 

Credit: Sunrise CSP India

A large solar concentrator built by Sunrise CSP India focuses the sun’s energy to a small point in front of the dish’s mirrored surface to create high-temperature, high-pressure steam.

PHOTO: SUNRISE CSP INDIA

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Fancy selling your excess green energy for discounted beer? How about mining the world’s mountains of waste for valuable materials? Or turning the sun’s energy into an intense beam of light to generate high-temperature steam for use in industry and power generation?

There’s no end to the possibilities of green business. And it turns out that going green is profitable, good for the planet and limited only by the imagination of entrepreneurs, as The Straits Times found out when it spoke with several companies driving the green transition.

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