Published: September 4th, 2012 at 12:01 am ET
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To get things started, here are some links regarding the work of Stanford professor Dr. Mark Z. Jacobson
- A path to sustainable energy by 2030 (Scientific American, November 2009) (pdf).
- Providing all global energy with wind, water and solar power, Part I: Technologies, energy resources, quantities and areas of infrastructure, and materials (Energy Policy, 2011) (pdf-Part I)
- Providing all global energy with wind, water and solar power, Part II: Reliability, system and transmission costs, and policies (Energy Policy, 2011) (pdf-Part II)
- Spreadsheet accompanying Parts I and II (xls-Spreadsheet)
- Energy and Environmental Science article ranking energy solutions to global warming, air pollution, and energy security (link)
- Studies on matching hourly and peak demand by combining renewables (link)
- Studies on wind energy resources and transmission (link)
- April 20, 2012 Tri-Agency (NSF-NOAA-NASA) PI Meeting Presentation (pptx)
- November 14, 2011 HEAL Utah Presentation (pptx) (video)
- May 16, 2011 Seminar, Woods Institute for the Environment (video)
- February 4, 2011 Seminar, Cornell University (video)
- January 13, 2011 Stanford Grid Integration Workshop Presentation (pptx)
- TED/CNN debates on renewables versus nuclear (link)
- April 1, 2008 U.S. House of Representatives hearing. Rep. Jay Inslee tells Exxon-Mobil executive that the vision in the “Renewable Energy Solution to Global Warming” by the Atmosphere/Energy Program at Stanford University is “one that the United States really needs” (starting at 1:35:00 in hearing video) (video) (transcript)
- February 7, 2012 op-ed (invited), “Securing public health forever with clean energy” (link)
h/t chemfood, MaidenHeaven
Published: September 4th, 2012 at 12:01 am ET
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This is how it is done in the Aloha State….
Hawaii Pacific Solar Installs Conergy Solar Modules and Mounting Systems for Department of Education at Aeia High School in Honolulu-PPA for Project Provided by RC Energy
With this installation, Aiea High School will realize a substantial cost savings on its current energy usage. The school is estimated to save more than $500,000 over the 20-year life of the photovoltaic system.
Conergy System Sales brings Conergy premium products to nearly 40 countries. From “A” for Australia to “T” for Tunisia – the solar expert supports homeowners, installers, wholesalers and investors in their efforts to “go solar”. With sales activities on five continents, Conergy has close relationships with all its customers. In 2011, clos to three quarters of Conergy’s sales were generated outside of Germany.
Listed on the Frankfurt stock exchange, Conergy employs more than 1,500 people worldwide. Since Conergy’s founding in 1998, it has produced and sold 2 GW of clean solar energy. Thus, in 2011 Conergy solar installations have generated as much power as a nuclear reactor.
http://www.prweb.com/releases/2012/5/prweb9466115.htm
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Oi Weh! 167 comments so far and nobody mentioned off-grid solar. It is now 2245hrs local time here in Melbourne Australia, winter is approaching, we have had several days of mostly cloudy weather, and this message is still being powered by 100% off-grid solar, stored in my modest-sized battery bank.
Please do not ignore off-grid renewables. If you have access to wood, then wood central heating and "Seebeck Effect" electric power become feasible too. First of all you MUST radically avoid energy wastage, and become super efficient, throwing out many conventional energy guzzling appliances. Personally I don't miss these appliances and relish the thought of never again hiaving to pay an electric utility bill. My system has been running for a year already.
The big industrialists just LOVE having y'all dependent on their fancy centrally generated mega-systems, but what we need is to send them a strong anti-nuke, anti-coal message by thumbing our noses at their polluting power games.
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Voltsmeister: Off-grid solar is da bomb!
. Gotta get off grid!
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Memo to home-owners: "Your roof is currently a stranded asset in the deregulated energy market." Think about it, please…
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Not mine, 110% solar
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"Don't get mad, get even."
Just don't give those suckers an even break.
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For the window gardeners among us! How's this?
http://www.hypeness.com.br/2012/05/inovacao-permite-ter-horta-em-casas-com-pouco-espaco/
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Neat. A Murphy garden.
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Are wind farms noisy?
Clean Energy Council (Australia)
Fact sheets
http://www.cleanenergycouncil.org.au/resourcecentre/factsheets.html
Energy crops
Waste-to-energy
Energy efficiency
Geothermal
Hydroelectricity
Marine energy
Solar hot water
Solar PV
Solarthermal
Wind energy
National wind energy snapshot
Wind turbines & low frequency noise
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Thanks Richard. The Pro-Nukes always say that. I'd rather have noisy than RADIATION POISONING! Did you see this?
Japan Could Tap Thermal Springs to Replace Nuclear Power With Geothermal Energy | Inhabitat – Sustainable Design Innovation, Eco Architecture, Green Building http://inhabitat.com/japan-could-tap-thermal-springs-to-replace-nuclear-power-with-geothermal-energy/ via @ThinkDevGrow
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So how do Japanese companies handle the end of nuclear power?
Commercial Tepco clients have to pay +17% for their electricity since April 1st. But they've got ideas:
- Komatsu for example invests 100 million $ during the next 3 years to reduce the use of electricity in a dozen factories by 50%.
- Many companies are considering night shifts during the tropic summer months.
- Kanto Autoworks found a solution to use the masses of snow that pile up in winter: covering it with plastic sheets and using the cold water for cooling in summer.
- also at Kanto, mowing the lawn on the premises is being done now by a dozen goats….
*loving it, the bread
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Yes B&B,…that is a good start. I just hope those brainiacs are not using milk goats to mow,….and then feeding the milk to the kids!
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With the Japanese summer now in full swing, they have to endure appalling humidity, even when the temperature is "only" about 32 degrees Celsius. One way to slash air-conditioning load is to focus primarily on airtight indoor spaces, with dehumidification, and circulating fans to create gentle air movement. This is fine for healthy well-hydrated adults and children. Babies, elderly and seriously ill people are the only ones who might still need "normal" air-conditioning. So 90% of the population can get by fine on about 1/3rd the power consumption: all that's needed for dehumidification, relative to full air-con.
The concepts outlined here — http://www.conservationphysics.org/musdes/tenyearexp.php — could easily be adapted to residential and commercial premises in a humid Japanese summer = NO MORE NUKES!!
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some intel on how this technologies being implimented…
WindFi: Renewable Energy Wireless Basestation
http://www.steepestascent.com/content/default.asp?page=s8
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really cool meat-n-potatoes interview on PV installation issues…
"Off-Grid And Interactive Grid Solar Applications"
http://www.solarpowerworldonline.com/2012/05/solar-speaks-off-grid-and-interactive-grid-solar-applications/?utm_source=SOLAR&utm_medium=NEWSLETTER&utm_campaign=2012-05-09-SOLAR-SPEAKS
[PODCAST ITSELF...]
http://wtwh-archive.s3.amazonaws.com/Podcasts/podcastMCerasuolo_1-2.mp3
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From Mdinoregon:
Clean Wind Energy Tower, Inc.: San Luis City Council Votes in Favor of Zoning for CWET Energy Tower
http://www.marketwatch.com/story/clean-wind-energy-tower-inc-san-luis-city-council-votes-in-favor-of-zoning-for-cwet-energy-tower-2012-05-10?reflink=MW_news_stmp
What it is…..check it out!!
http://www.cleanwindenergytower.com/tower.html
Works 24/7!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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High School Student Suing Over Global Warming
"Alec Loorz, high school student & Founder-iMatter Movement joins Thom Hartmann. May 2011 to April 2012 – are the warmest twelve months ever recorded"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0S9nfi_dZLI
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HP poster MinwooKim
Japan's FiT in July is among the highest in the world. It's clear that Japan's FiT will shake the solar market. Now, US has the same options. New solar technology will show in Japan. This is it!
As you know, earthquake in japan is happening frequently. Floating solar panels installation is one of the best solutions for power crisis in Japan. So you have to reduce the vibration to install Floating solar panels. Because, it makes many kinds of problems! The vibrations caused by wind, waves and external forces. New Floating Body Stabilizer for Floating solar panels installation has been created in South Korea. The Floating Body Stabilizers generate drag force immediately when Floating solar panels are being rolled and pitched on the water. Recently, this Floating Body Stabilizers using to reduce the Vibration of Floating Solar Panels in South Korea. You can see New Floating Body Stabilizer videos in YouTube. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=moO–q5B92k, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nA_xFp5ktbU&feature=youtu.be.
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While I find the following article misleading in it's claim that there's a conspiracy against the Obama administration's so-called clean energy policies, it is important to see how PR campaigns are being used to impede the development of renewable energy technologies. The Obama administration is very pro-nuke, so it's moronic to even think that they are serious about renewables. Do make a point of reading the memorandum that's being used by big-oil and nuclear, to steer the public's support away from renewables. This is really good material to have on hand, when you're up-against those who deem renewables inadequate for our energy needs…
"Confidential memo seen by Guardian calls for climate change sceptics to turn American public against solar and wind power"
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2012/may/08/conservative-thinktanks-obama-energy-plans?newsfeed=tru
"Conservative plans to oppose wind power – memo"
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/interactive/2012/may/09/wind-power-memo
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We might want to keep track on this, as it is worthy of note:
At some point in the coming year, if it has not already happened, German renewable energy will be producing more electrical power German nuclear did at its greatest output.
Currently, renewable power is growing at 30% each year. In 2011, it provided 20.1% of Germany's electricity. At its peak, nuclear produced 22.4%, though this was reduced to 17.7% in 2011.
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I agree. This will be something to follow in the coming year.
Incidentally, Jeremy Rifkin, author of The Third Industrial Revolution, consulted with Angela Merkel on his work which argues for a distributed, renewable energy grid, in which citizens create their own renewable energy in their homes:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jeremy-rifkin/the-third-industrial-revo_1_b_1386430.html
He states he is against nuclear power, so this distributed grid would NOT include the small, "backyard" nuclear reactors which some, like Bill Gates, are pushing. (new
industries! = $$ to be made! =$$ "good!" for me and my bank account!)
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How To Prevent Any New Nuclear Power Plants From Being Built, Switch To 100% Renewables; via A Green Road http://agreenroad.blogspot.com/2012/05/how-to-prevent-any-new-nuclear-power.html
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U.S. Gov Moves Forward with Atlantic Wind Connection Project
The U.S. Interior Department gave the green light for project sponsors to begin work on a wind power transmission line on the ocean floor along the northeast United States.
The proposed transmission line, known as the Atlantic Wind Connection (AWC), is a backbone transmission project that aims to service off-shore wind farms. AWC is expected to span from southern Virginia to northern New Jersey. It was proposed by Trans-Elect Development Company and has a list of sponsors including Google, New York-based Good Energies II, Japanese company Marubeni Corporation, and Belgian transmission operator Elia.
AWC was proposed as a solution to grid congestion in the Northeast. With a wind power transmission line, customers with high electricity bills in northern New Jersey can receive monthly price cuts thanks to electricity brought from low-cost locations like southern Virginia.
"There's at least a billion dollars a year that ratepayers are paying extra just because of congestion," said Robert L. Mitchell, CEO of Trans-Elect Development Company. "Our line, even the first leg of it, will make a contribution to reducing that."
http://www.dailytech.com/US+Gov+Moves+Forward+with+Atlantic+Wind+Connection+Project/article24689.htm
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Sleeper energy technology of 2012?
Tidal wave farms go online in Scottish waters:
http://inhabitat.com/worlds-first-tidal-farm-successfully-installs-100-foot-subsea-turbine/
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"The billion dollar energy industry has a dirty little secret…"
GasLand – Australia
http://www.gasland.com.au/
"GOVERNMENTS state and federal are in the process of losing the debate over coal seam gas mining. In their haste to approve new projects they have angered the farming lobby. As they bungle the question of coal seam gas, they risk losing the debate about all mining on agricultural land"
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OMG! Look at this that Drip @ HP just posted!!
major major news imo!
NUCLEAR VS WIND/SOLAR COSTS IN CANADA
(no contest! CHEAPER!)
http://www.guelphmercury.com/opinion/letters/article/727193–nuclear-not-wind-solar-driving-up-costs
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Yep in France they pay 19 cents, and they are 80% nuke
Solar costs 3 cents to 9 cents per kWH depending on where you are in the country.
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A US/Japanese joint project of SMART GRID case study has started in Albuquerque city. The project is expected to continue till March 2014. Companies involved in the project are:
Mitsubishi heavy Industries Ltd, Toshiba, Sharp, Tokyo Gas, Shimizu Construction, Meidensha Corporation, Fuji Electric, Furukawa Electric Co Ltd, Furukawa Battery Co Ltd, U.S. Sandia National Laboratories, Public Service Company of New Mexico and the University of New Mexico.
http://translate.google.co.jp/translate?sl=ja&tl=en&js=n&prev=_t&hl=ja&ie=UTF-8&layout=2&eotf=1&u=http%3A%2F%2Fresponse.jp%2Farticle%2F2012%2F05%2F21%2F174733.html&act=url
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"What’s The Difference Between Thin-Film And Crystalline-Silicon Solar Panels"
http://electronicdesign.com/article/components/whats-difference-thinfilm-crystallinesilicon-solar-panels-73937
[...thanks admin...]
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"Organic Solar Cells Start To Take Off – Big Time!"
http://electronicdesign.com/blog/component-connection-5/components/organic-solar-cells-start-big-time-73905
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this one's very interesting. Gist is, the U.S. Department of Commerce has levied heavy tariffs against the chinese for dumping PV (photo-voltaic) panels into our market. The result is, many ongoing installations of PV systems within the U.S. that also utilized chinese manufactured PV panels have been put on hold; idling thousands of U.S. workers and untold companies. Now, I'm not one for crying over those who betray their fellow American. So, I get to thinking, why now? Why would they do what they should've done long ago? Could it be they're purposely fueling conflict within the U.S. PV marketplace; pitting American installers against (what's left) of American PV manufacturers? I mean, let's face it. With tariffs ranging from 31.14% to 249.96%, I can't fathom why our government would suddenly be standing-up, this late in the game. Can anyone remember when 'our' government did – anything – that remotely benefited American businesses or American workers? I seriously can't…
"Solar Policy: Mixed Message Muddles Market"
http://www.solarpowerworldonline.com/2012/05/solar-policy-mixed-message-muddles-market/#comments
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Current solar yield in Germany at 1PM: 16.5 GW
That's roughly 12 nukes.
http://www.sma.de/de/news-infos/pv-leistung-in-deutschland.html
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SAFE, CHEAP solar power can meet the electrical needs for all 100 million households! US 24/7 baseload solar power is available NOW!
This Concentrating Solar Tower Plant operating in Spain provides SAFE, CLEAN electrical energy 24/7 (using thermal salt storage):
http://www.gizmag.com/gemasolar-csp-solar-plant/19098/picture/137113 .
Google is building similar plants:
http://www.gizmag.com/google-invests-168-million-in-solar-power-tower/18383 .
If we assume that, due to transmission losses throughout the US, we could only end up with 33% of the electrical energy being projected for the Google plants, we nonetheless could meet ALL the electrical needs of the 100 million US households with similar plants covering only 6400 square miles (i.e., 80 mile x 80 mile total landmass). That is a landmass that is smaller than 1/40 the size of Texas! Therefore, there is no need for toxis nuclear power plants to provide electrical energy in the US!
Pass it on!
~Peace.
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*toxic
Google's Solar Tower Plants are projected to provide 392MW using 3600 acres (i.e., 108.8kWatt/acre), a 2.5x improvement over the existing Solar Tower Plant in Spain.
Thus, the numbers check out. Assuming only 33% efficiency after transmission losses, similar plants using a landmass less than the size of New Jersey could meet all US houehold electrical needs.
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BlackLight Power achieves breakthrough in hydrogen generation
BlackLight’s technology involves converting water vapor to a stable form of hydrogen called Hydrino and generating electricity from the process.
The process is driven by water vapor and is then harnessed by the CIHT cell as electrical power output which can be used on a variety of applications that usually need the help of fuels and grid infrastructure. The new Hydrino releases around 200 times more power than burning hydrogen.
http://www.ecofriend.com/blacklight-power-achieves-breakthrough-hydrogen-generation.html
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Some analysis from the investment community…
"Solar attracted more than half of all clean energy investments last year, fetching $128 billion — up 44% from 2010. Installations were up 54% to 29.7 GW."
"The Solar Blood is in the Street"
http://www.energyandcapital.com/articles/solar-blood-in-the-street/2223
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May 26 article endorsing energy conservation as the main solution.
http://thechronicleherald.ca/opinion/100540-surette-it-s-time-to-face-the-painful-truth-about-power-rates
This article is interesting to me for a few reasons.
1. It's from a mainstream source (in a backwater part of the world).
2. It invites Joe and Jane Lunchbucket to change their thinking.
3. It shuns government meddling as a proposed solution – explaining that government meddling is how energy problems developed over time.
4. It does not even hint at nuclear as a "way out". It doesn't even bother to put it on the table as a straw man to knock down. Nuclear is over, once this mindset takes hold. Energy too expensive to meter.
5. So far at least, the commenters on the site have not shilled for nuke. It's just… out of the equation. Yea!
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Renewable Energy Usage And Costs Compared To Nuclear And Coal; via A Green Road Blog
http://agreenroad.blogspot.com/2012/04/why-solar-energy-energy-usage-and-costs.html
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SP: Germany showing how solar energy is working well:
'Germany — not a particularly sunny country — which this weekend set a new record for solar energy production. In total, the country’s solar facilities kicked out about 22 gigawatts of power during the mid-day hours Friday and Saturday, equal to the capacity of 20 nuclear power plants, meeting about a third of the country’s total electricity demand Friday, and half on Saturday, when many factories and offices were closed.'
http://summitcountyvoice.com/2012/05/27/energy-the-big-gop-lie-about-renewables-and-fossil-fuels/
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Morning SP, too bad Merkel just sacked the Minister for Environment and replaced him with one of her closest servants (Peter Altmeier). After 3 days the first voices of her party's right wing were in the press, suggesting massive new-built of coal plants and even longer operational years for the remaining nukes…I'm not surprised. We must stay on high alert over here – the lobbyists are getting ready.
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My advanced, ultra intuitive energy obesity prediction of increasing supply until the globe bursts from satiety..(Renewable energy or otherwise.)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WPkOv0-u6A0
"WARNING! Truly DISGUSTING.
And VERY funny.
Better. Better get a bucket."
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Notes and errata:
What we need are figures indicating objective energy requirement to adjunct need if vast improvements were made to curtail energy that was merely wasted & flying out the single glazed window were advanced, ahead of any energy obesity prediction of increasing the supply until the globe bursts from satiety..
Of course……….these details by the anthroponuclear technotheologians have not been included/omitted by the stale/usual run of the mill scientists or economists. who merely print nuclear energy and money out of thin air to increase control/slavery via a mechanism of debt of every kind.
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Perhaps the mythical energy of HAARP and some powerful Tesla coils can address the demand for free energy, but it is the factor of our favorite, the incomparable Mr Creosote, that might be the main impediment to all this glossy idealism.
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So that this axiom holds true.
The 86 Sayings of Mullah Nassr Eddin
"As soon as anything is needed, it seems that it is filthy and eaten by mice."
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You nailed it. The New World Disorder.
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Berkeley researcher pinpoints good wind turbine spots
Thursday, May 31, 2012
http://abclocal.go.com/kgo/story?section=news/local/east_bay&id=8684409
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Nuclear Fusion – Free Energy Commercial : Cosmic Radiation – Harness Harvest Cultivate (this is a commercial)
1:59 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vaCkUQmx9Y0
"In looking at the various environmental issues we are faced with, and the tasks that we need to fulfill for the planet, if we could get more than 10 percent of the people consciously aware, than I believe we could pull the 80 percent in that direction, too."-Dr.Masaru Emoto
maybe he's right. maybe. gotta give it a chance.
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Sustainable Energy [R]evolution | Greenpeace International; via A Green Road Blog
http://agreenroad.blogspot.com/2012/03/sustainable-energy-revolution.html
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I like to share the following example, for I feel it READILY EMPHASIZES that NO NUKE power plants are needed in the U.S. from a technological standpoint. The addition of other solar technologies, like wind energy and PV panels, would be gravy (for transportation, etc.)
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The following demonstrates the use of solar power in a SAFE, INEXPENSIVE manner and can meet the electrical needs for all 100 million U.S. households! 24/7 baseload solar power is available NOW!
This Concentrating Solar Tower Plant operating in Spain provides SAFE, CLEAN electrical energy 24/7 (using thermal salt storage):
http://www.gizmag.com/gemasolar-csp-solar-plant/19098/picture/137113 .
Google is building similar plants:
http://www.gizmag.com/google-invests-168-million-in-solar-power-tower/18383 . Google's Solar Tower Plants are projected to provide 392MW using 3600 acres (i.e., 108.8kWatt/acre), a 2.5x improvement over the existing Solar Tower Plant in Spain.
If we assume that, due to transmission losses throughout the US, we could only end up with 33% of the electrical energy being projected from the Google plants, we nonetheless could meet ALL the electrical needs of the 100 million US households with similar plants covering only 6400 square miles (i.e., 80 mile x 80 mile total landmass). That is a landmass that is smaller than 1/40 the size of Texas (i.e., a total landmass less than the size of New Jersey!) Therefore, there is no need for toxic nuclear power plants in the U.S.
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Transmission line losses are not what they once were. When the first nuclear plants were built, they were put up far enough from cities to be "safe," and near enough to limit line losses. By 1980, the DOE was saying losses had been cut to 8.9% per thousand miles, meaning that AC power could be transmitted economically for 2500 miles, and high voltage DC for 4000. That had been cut to below 7% by 1995. Today, superconducting technology has cut it to 2.5%, which means theoretically, electricity could be generated anywhere, and economically delivered anywhere.
The wind may stop locally, and the sun goes down. But the wind never stops everywhere. The US Midwest could supply about eight times enough electricity to power the world, using wind alone. And then we have the sun, hydro, geothermal, biomass, synthetic fuels, pumped storage, chemical storage, and a bunch of others. Sorry, I forgot the best of them all – the low-hanging fruit – efficiency.
We don't need nuclear. We also don't need coal. We don't need oil, or anything else that pollutes. We can be healthy, well fed, and well supplied.
There is just one problem. Power comes in many different forms, not just electrical or mechanical. Some power is economic, and some is political. And the people who have it don't want to give it up.
(Check out my blog, reviewing mainstream energy news: http://geoharvey.wordpress.com/ .)
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@ falthopelove and @GeoHarvey – those plans are fine if you want to stay utterly dependent on a top-down corporate paradigm.
But please do not ignore independent off-grid systems: surely a perfectly legitimate way to compete in a deregulated market, by virtue of "market bypass" of a natural monopoly. The fig leaf of retail competition cannot disguise the sad fact that the poles and wires in your street (and their rapidly escalating cost) are pure monopoly power.
So I choose solar hot water (baseload) and battery-backed photovoltaics (baseload!). With really radical energy conservation, this can be achieved for modest capital outlay. So with some lifestyle adaptation, my future has arrived. Indeed this message is coming from my laptop in the middle of the night, in the middle of winter, in the middle of a big city (Melbourne, Australia). 100% baseload solar, no ifs no buts no maybes.
The sweetest thing of all: no more uility bills!! Just do it……
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Yep, my roof made an extra $200 last month, it is sweet. It is achievable for almost everyone.
It takes away the cartel power, and the cartel is starting to realize it. Get your solar now, before it is outlawed.
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GeoHarvey,
I don't disagree with what you say. In my hope to effect change, I hammer upon what I feel is a poignant 'nail': a simple-in-concept, simple-to-convey-and-understand solar energy method that is backed up with hard numbers.
To effect change, we need the vast majority of the masses to become educated upon just how badly they have been duped.
Is, or is not, the Government going to be "for the people, and by the people". Are we going to live free, or die (by a poisoned death)?
One of the first arguments to come out of an ill-informed (or blatant lying) pro-nuker's mouth is "you'll have brown-outs; what happens when the sun goes down."
My simple illustration confirms that with thermal salt batteries:
(1) 24/7 baseload power can be provided.
(2) A total land-mass less than 80 miles X 80 miles can meet electrical requirements of ALL 100 million US households.
(3) No excess heat (and CO2 emmissions, etc.) is generated, using only incident solar radiation.
Throwing in additional energy generation from PV panels, wind turbines, geothermal, biomass, etc., makes it an obvious 'slam-dunk' that toxic, nuke power is not necessary.
The 'light-bulb-goes-off' concept to first hook-them is simply this:
An 80 mile X 80 mile landmass of solar tower concentrator plants is all that is needed meet all 100million US household needs. Such a number can be simply verified without uncertainty or obsfucation.
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Anti-nuclear adverts
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5H2pTgXBAG
I didn't know Uranium is the only tax-exempt fuel. No wonder.
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Incorrect, solar electric is also tax exempt, whatever you make on your own roof, you get to keep with no taxes paid.
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Japanese firms to build 500 million dollar – 100,000 kilowatt solar energy in Canada
Three Japanese companies plan to construct nine mega solar plants in eastern Ontario, which will have a combined output capacity of 100,000 kilowatts, one of the largest in the world for solar power generation. The plants will go on stream by the end of November 2013, according to the companies.
Mitsubishi and Sharp are working to expand their solar power businesses in Japan and abroad at a time when renewable energy sources are attracting increasing attention worldwide.
Sources say trading house Mitsubishi Corporation will team up with Osaka Gas and electronics maker Sharp to build 9 solar farms in the province of Ontario. Their combined output is expected to be 100,000 kilowatts.
The sources say the 3 companies will jointly set up a power generation firm and begin construction by the end of the year. The cost is estimated at about 500 million dollars.
over halfway down the page:
http://enformable.com/2012/06/in-focus-japan-tepco-finds-high-radiation-in-unit-2-fukui-governor-seeks-more-safety-measures-at-oi-n-plant/
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Extract electricity from wave marine:
http://www.new4stroke.com/oil500.gif
http://www.new4stroke.com/Okinawa.jpg
Something for me to think of my proposal is too simple to implement it….
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FYI
According to the US Energy Information Administration, the US is now producing more energy from renewable sources than from nuclear. This is mostly because of huge growth in wind generation.
http://geoharvey.wordpress.com/the-us-is-now-producing-more-renewable-energy-than-nuclear/
Cheers
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Solar-powered 'supertrees' breathe life into Singapore's urban oasis
By Lauren Said-Moorhouse, for CNN
June 8, 2012 — Updated 1108 GMT (1908 HKT)
***(CNN) — Singapore's latest development will finally blossom later this month, with an imposing canopy of artificial trees up to 50 meters high towering over a vast urban oasis.
The colossal solar-powered supertrees are found in the Bay South garden, which opens to the public on June 29. It is part of a 250-acre landscaping project — Gardens by the Bay — that is an initiative from Singapore's National Parks Board that will see the cultivation of flora and fauna from foreign lands.
The man-made mechanical forest consists of 18 supertrees that act as vertical gardens, generating solar power, acting as air venting ducts for nearby conservatories, and collecting rainwater. To generate electricity, 11 of the supertrees are fitted with solar photovoltaic systems that convert sunlight into energy, which provides lighting and aids water technology within the conservatories below. ***
http://edition.cnn.com/2012/06/08/world/asia/singapore-supertrees-gardens-bay/index.html?hpt=hp_bn7
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New Report Ranks World’s Biggest Countries on Renewable Energy
The top 5 “countries” of the G20 for renewable electricity production are:
Germany
EU-27
Italy
Indonesia
UK
http://cleantechnica.com/2012/06/12/new-report-ranks-worlds-biggest-countries-on-renewable-energy/
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HA! Just need to share: I just sent my inscription to become a "certified passive house planner / advisor", starting in October.
*happy
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Lots of acronyms here, some excellent points are made…
1 MILLION AMERICANS TO FIGHT INDUSTRY EFFORTS TO KILL CLEAN ENERGY AGENDA, TAKING BACK AMERICA’S ENERGY FUTURE FROM THE LOBBYISTS
Fed up with the undue influence of the energy companies, utilities, lobbyists and other interests that are making it impossible for Washington to move forward decisively in achieving America’s clean energy future, 36 citizen organizations with more than 1.1 million combined members are joining forces to advance a nine-point “American Clean Energy Agenda” and to push for a serious renewable energy agenda no matter who is the next President or which party controls Congress.
http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/articles/20120703/million-americans-fight-industry-efforts-kill-clean-energy-agenda-taking-back-america-rsquoenergy-fu.htm
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I hope they've seen some of who they are up against…
http://tinyurl.com/6wqt8l4
http://tinyurl.com/c4zyhy9
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NOAA studying wave energy.
http://www.forbes.com/sites/davidferris/2012/04/30/offshore-platform-to-move-us-wave-industry-lab-to-sea/
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Oops.
"The Ocean Sentinel is being developed by the Northwest National Marine Renewable Energy Center (NMMREC), which is a joint project of OSU, the University of Washington and the National Renewable Energy Laboratory."
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@Sickputer
Thank you so much!
http://inhabitat.com/worlds-first-tidal-farm-successfully-installs-100-foot-subsea-turbine/
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Solar Threatens the powers that be
Yep, and Fannie and Freddie killed a financing method that would give people money to do PV, and they would pay it back over time, with the guarantee being a tax lien on their house, thus making the loan a very safe proposition as it would be coming from local government bonds. However…..
http://nukeprofessional.blogspot.com/2012/07/solar-threatens-powers-that-be.html
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Dear Stock,
Challenging times for sure! Thank you so much for your always astute comments. I miss my 'home'. Aloha.
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Dear Folks,
Any thoughts regarding biodiesel from used cooking oil?
http://planetforward.org/idea/from-fryer-to-fuel-making-biodiesel-from-vegetable-oil/?gclid=CKuE-Zb_kLECFQ5bhwodnyhygg
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Can anyone comment on the EM2?
"EM2 is a revolutionary new compact fast reactor that actually runs on the spent-fuel waste of conventional nuclear reactors — a producing a virtually unlimited electricity supply with no greenhouse gases."
http://planetforward.org/idea/em2-general-atomics-new-convert-and-burn-clean-energy-producing-reactor-that-runs-on-nuclear-waste/
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