Archive for March, 2010
Obama reverses course, allows offshore drilling
Posted on March 31, 2010, under Sekalaista.
Obama reverses course, allows offshore drilling U.S. President Barack Obama arrives to make remarks on energy security at Joint Base Andrews Naval Air Facility Washington March 31, 2010.
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Kaiser Permanente Powering 15 California Facilities with Solar Power
Posted on March 31, 2010, under Sekalaista.
Whatever your take is on the recent health care reform package that Congress recently passed, the fact remains that the health care industry will only grow over the next several years.A With as many as 30 million more customers enrolling in health insurance plans, the need for health care practitioners and facilities like hospitals will only …
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Tiny Generators Produce Electricity from Ambient Vibrations
Posted on March 31, 2010, under Sekalaista.
Tiny generators developed at the University of Michigan could produce enough electricity from random, ambient vibrations to power a wristwatch, pacemaker or wireless sensor. The energy-harvesting devices, created at U-M’s Engineering Research Center for Wireless Integrated Microsystems, are highly efficient at providing renewable electrical power from arbitrary, non-periodic vibrations. This type of vibration is [...]
Posted in: Future Energy, Inventions
Lähde: Alternative Energy
Web & media - Mar 30
Posted on March 30, 2010, under Sekalaista, Uutiset.
-Joel Salatin And Polyface Farm: Stewards of Creation
-Brian Kimmel looks to shine a light on the importance of eating locally with Ingredients at the CIFF
-The Best Film About a Plastic Bag You’ll Ever See
-Green advertising rules are made to be broken
-Watching the green screens at the Environmental Film Festival in D.C.
-Greenpeace Takes Aim at Koch Industries
Lähde: Energy Bulletin
The Dynamics of Complex Civilisations - Excerpt from "Tipping Point"
Posted on March 30, 2010, under Uutiset, Öljyhuippu.
This paper is concerned with humanity’s impact on its environmental resource base, and the effect the resource base has on human welfare. What mediates between these is our complex civilisation…
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New Design Strategy for the Artificial Leaf
Posted on March 30, 2010, under Sekalaista.
Scientists are quite optimistic that hydrogen will emerge as the fuel of the future and the world would be driven by ‘hydrogen economy’. The only byproduct of hydrogen fuel is water vapor. By using hydrogen fuel we can reduce the harmful effects of greenhouse gases. Currently many research labs are engaged in duplicating the [...]
Posted in: Environment, Future Energy, Solar Power
Lähde: Alternative Energy
Spain gets bigger on solar power
Posted on March 29, 2010, under Polttoaineet, Sekalaista, Uutiset.
Source: Assyce
A 26 MWp solar free-field power plant is being built in Extremadura, Spain, by Assyce Fotovoltaica, a Spanish system integrator company. The power plant with a land area of 69 hectares should be completed by the end of the year and will generate more than 42 million kilowatt-hours of electricity per year. The plant’s output could save 30 tonnes of carbon dioxide every year and energize more than 14,000 four-person households for a whole year, the company says.
“The area offers very good conditions for photovoltaics,” explains Luis Garrido, managing director of Assyce Fotovoltaica. The company is based in Padul (Granada region) and has already constructed more than 12 solar power plants across Spain over the last few years.
“Due to the high level of solar radiation in the south of Spain, we can expect a very good yield of electricity.” The electricity yield will also benefit from the implementation of a new transformer technology. “In contrast to traditional power plants, electricity loss is considerably reduced,” says Garrido.
Assyce is also implementing in this project the inverter system technology from market-leader SMA Technology AG, based in Kassel, Germany. 36 transformer stations will be built up on the 69-hectare site. With more than 337,000 modules capturing solar radiation, Assyce Fotovoltaica is employing First Solar’s thin film technology, which has already been successfully used in other solar power plants and has been crucial in the implementation of this project. “The modules are very effective and durable and they are perfect for use in hot climate regions,” explains Garrido.
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Lähde: EnergyRefuge.com Blog
Alsons abandons Bioethanol Project in Cagayan De Oro
Posted on March 29, 2010, under Polttoaineet, Sekalaista, Uutiset.
Publicly listed Alsons Consolidated Resources announced that they are dropping their cassava based bioethanol project in Cagayan De Oro after a board vote last Friday. The reason given to the Philippine Stock Exchange was because of ambiguities in the Biofuels Act as well as delays in the release of the Environmental Compliance Certificate (ECC) from the Dept of Environment.
Also mentioned was the stiff opposition to the project given by the Catholic Church and NGO’s because of its proximity to the city’s watershed area.The group mentioned also that they will concentrate in rushing the building of a 200 MW coal fired power plant in Maasim, Sarangani province to help alleviate the power shortage in Mindanao. They hope to have the plant in operation by 2012 or 2013. That is of course, unless they run into the same brick wall again known as the “ECC permitting process ” that they ran into and caused them to shelve their bioethanol project. Then of course there is again the Catholic Church who once again announced its opposition to the Coal Fired Power plant project in Maasim.
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Lähde: Alternat1ve.com - One Alternative Energy Blog
Former Associate Claims Sedgwick Shortchanged Her on Fee Share
Posted on March 28, 2010, under Sekalaista.
A former associate at San Francisco-based Sedgwick, Detert, Moran & Arnold sued the firm last week, alleging it stiffed her out of money it owed her for bringing in a lucrative client.
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Sudan looks to the sun for power
Posted on March 28, 2010, under Sekalaista.
In this handout picture received from the European Commission, a displaced Sudanese man pushes his bike through Malou village in southern Sudan’s Lakes State on March 23.
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