Food & agriculture - Aug 13
Kirjoitettu 14.8.2010, kategoria Sekalaista, Uutiset.
-Rise in wheat prices fastest since 1973
-Reviving Anarchy For The Sake Of Sustainability
-Foodprint Project: Exploring Food and Cities, and Cities and Food
-Agroecological farming methods being ignored, says UN expert
-How to feed a hungry world
-How to start growing food on social housing estates
Lähde: Energy Bulletin
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Securing tropical forest carbon: the contribution of protected areas to REDD
Kirjoitettu 14.8.2010, kategoria Sekalaista.
Oryx , Vol. 44, No. 03. , pp. 352-357. Posts Export Abstract Forest loss and degradation in the tropics contribute 6s humid tropical forests and contain c. 70.3 petagrams of carbon in biomass and soil to 1 m depth.
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Don’t force wind power down other people’s throats
Kirjoitettu 14.8.2010, kategoria Sekalaista.
Recently the Honorable Judge Eric LIpman did a great job of taking testimony concerning the proposed wind farm for Goodhue County.
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Peak antibiotics - Aug 14
Kirjoitettu 14.8.2010, kategoria Uutiset, Öljyhuippu.
- Guardian: Are you ready for a world without antibiotics?
- VOA: South Asia superbug is potential global problem
- Fears of a new superbug from Asia may be overblown, experts say
- Conflict of interest in ’superbug’ report: Indian health minister
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New consortium aims at driving hybrid energy development
Kirjoitettu 13.8.2010, kategoria Polttoaineet, Sekalaista, Uutiset.
Via: Germany.info
A newly launched consortium created by international technology players wants to accelerate the design and development of integrated solar combined cycles (ISCC) power plants. The initiative is called Hybrid Energy Consortium (HEC) and is supported by the American QGEN, which specializes in utility-scale power generation and water desalination projects, FLABEG Group (expert on glass finishing processes) and Schlaich Bergermann und Partner Sohne GmbH (consulting civil and structural engineers), both of Germany, and JGC Corporation of Japan, a specialist on hydrocarbons.
The initial plan is for HEC’s ISCC plants to start by integrating state-of-the-art concentrating solar power (CSP) technologies into conventional gas- and coal-fired plant designs to generate electricity and desalinate water. That will be followed by HEC’s testing of new solar field designs and components in ISCC configurations in its own technology demonstration plants to be located in North Africa and North America. A successful deployment of commercial designs will segue into design, procurement and construction services to project developers around the world.
The hope is that ISCC plants will accelerate the integration of solar energy into the electricity generation mix. In ISCC plants solar energy is used as a complement to fossil fuels leveraging the gas- or coal-fired plant infrastructure and eliminating the need for the government subsidies currently being granted to stand-alone concentrating solar or photovoltaic (PV) power plants.
Lähde: EnergyRefuge.com Blog
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Graphene: Solar Cells of the Future?
Kirjoitettu 12.8.2010, kategoria Sekalaista.
A southern California University team has come up with what could be the alternative new breed of economical and flexible solar cells. For some decades now, organic photovoltaic cells (OPV) have been acclaimed as the new solar cell prototypes and extolled for their light weight, flexible substrates, low cost and easy manufacturability. Research [...]
Posted in: Inventions, PhotoVoltaics, Solar Power
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Peak predictions: mixing water and oil as global resources dwindle
Kirjoitettu 12.8.2010, kategoria Uutiset, Öljyhuippu.
Oil and safe drinking water are on parallel courses to depletion – a scarcity that will lead to starvation, disease and warfare. The issue here is drinking water. And there is a lot less of that than seawater. Due to a number of management issues, made worse by climate change, drinking water is fast becoming a geopolitical resource to rival oil – a flashpoint at various places around the globe.
Lähde: Energy Bulletin
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Less work life, more home life, the new normal? - Aug 12
Kirjoitettu 12.8.2010, kategoria Sekalaista, Uutiset.
-Shorter, cheaper vacations the new normal
-The Work-Sharing Boom: Exit Ramp to a New Economy?
-Work-Life Balance Reconsidered
-It’s official: We’re all burnt out
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PetroEnergy’s 40MW Maibarara geothermal gets ECC permit
Kirjoitettu 12.8.2010, kategoria Polttoaineet, Sekalaista, Uutiset.
PetroEnergy Resources Corp. (PERC) announced that it was pushing through with its 40MW Maibarara geothermal project after an ECC was issued by the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR). Maibarara is located at Calamba, Laguna and Sto. Tomas, Batangas.
PERC is expecting to commission the first 20 MW integrated steamfield and power plant by late 2013. PERC will develop the said geothermal project together with Trans-Asia Oil and Energy Development Corp. and PNOC – Renewables Corp.
The ECC encompasses the 4 major phases: well work-over and drilling, installation of the fluid collection and reinjection system, power plant construction, and the erection of transmission facilities. The ECC requires however some conditions. Major of which are: to form a multi-partite monitoring program, establish an environmental guaranty fund, and undertake mitigating measures whenever necessary in each phase of the project.The Philippines, next to the United States, is one of the countries with the most number of geothermal sourced power. Energy Development Corp (EDC) holds the distinction of being the no. 1 geothermal producer in the country.
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Lähde: Alternat1ve.com - One Alternative Energy Blog
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Dion’s Wednesday ETF Winners and Losers
Kirjoitettu 11.8.2010, kategoria Sekalaista.
… tend to pull out of Spanish investment more readily than other country funds. ( TAN ) -5.5% Since the alternative energy sector is inherently susceptible to market fluctuations, it has been hit hard as markets underperformed today. In the wake of …
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