Archive for 'Uutiset'
Food & agriculture - Aug 13
Posted on August 14, 2010, under 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
Peak antibiotics - Aug 14
Posted on August 14, 2010, under 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
Lähde: Energy Bulletin
New consortium aims at driving hybrid energy development
Posted on August 13, 2010, under 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
Peak predictions: mixing water and oil as global resources dwindle
Posted on August 12, 2010, under 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
Less work life, more home life, the new normal? - Aug 12
Posted on August 12, 2010, under 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
Lähde: Energy Bulletin
PetroEnergy’s 40MW Maibarara geothermal gets ECC permit
Posted on August 12, 2010, under 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
Economics - Aug 10
Posted on August 10, 2010, under Sekalaista, Uutiset.
-Poor countries suffer a hangover for a party they didn’t attend
-Stoneleigh takes on John Williams: deflation it is
-America Goes Dark
-Co-operatives offer template for David Cameron’s big society
-And now for some good news
-France’s New Rural Ghettos
Lähde: Energy Bulletin
Matthew Simmons: a tribute
Posted on August 10, 2010, under Uutiset, Öljyhuippu.
Energy Investment banker and leading peak oil proponent Matthew Simmons died suddenly on Sunday [Aug. 8], following an apparent heart attack. While Simmons did not come up with the idea of peak oil – geophysicist M King Hubbert first published the theory in the 1950s — he arguably did more than anyone to publicize it. It was Simmons’ 2005 classic Twilight in the Desert: The Coming Saudi Oil Shock and the World Economy, that turned discussion of peak oil from a fringe environmental concern into something with business pages credibility.
Lähde: Energy Bulletin
The end of prevention
Posted on August 8, 2010, under Uutiset, Öljyhuippu.
What if, a friend of mine proposed, we are not approaching a point that will tip us into a grand ecological catastrophe which we are called upon to prevent? What if we are in the middle of that catastrophe and it began some time ago?
Lähde: Energy Bulletin
How music helped save New Orleans after Katrina
Posted on August 8, 2010, under Sekalaista, Uutiset.
Even in the midst of their own gloom over Hurricane Katrina’s destruction where homes and neighborhoods were crushed and where there was little infrastructure and not much support from state or federal government, music helped many evacuees rebuild their lives with a strong hope in the future and a deep connection to a place they loved.
Lähde: Energy Bulletin
