I'm going to attempt to summarise the reasons why we should abandon nuclear power. I'll give a summary and then try and go into more depth.
1. The sourcing of uranium leaves a terrible legacy and can never be sustainable or carbon neutral. This is the elephant in the room that no one ever discusses.
2. Nuclear power stations can never be totally safe. Even though designers cater for every foreseeable event, it is the unforeseeable ones which have created the disasters of the last 50 years in Chernobyl, Fukushima and Three Mile Island and many other smaller ones
3. Nuclear waste remains radioactive for tens of thousands of years. It already costs in the UK lb3 billion or lb1000 per person per year to look after the existing legacy. How can it be safe, responsible or cost-effective to bequeath this to a distant and unknown future population?
4. It is not carbon neutral, or low carbon, but emits in its life-cycle about 30% of the carbon of gas generation, not including mining and looking after the radioactive tailings that results
5. It is highly centralised and so more vulnerable than a decentralised system
6. The nuclear industry has a reputation for secrecy and dissembling of the truth. This includes information about safety and costs which invariably rise. We need a power supply from sources we can trust.
7. We can satisfy our power needs from a mixture of existing and almost market ready renewable technologies, implementing the smart grid, low- and zero-carbon building design and refurbishment, better planning, more efficient transportation and other energy and resource efficiency.
8. New reactor designs are commercially unproven and improperly costed.
9. Uranium supplies will run out within 70 years - sooner as more plants are built. Why not invest instead in developing the renewable technologies whose fuel we will be able to use for much longer into the future?
10. Many power stations are on the coast. They will not be safe in 50 or 100 or more years' time when the sea level has risen as the Antarctic ice cap and glaciers melt.
11. Renewable energy (the source of it, i.e. the fuel) is free, and there is plenty of solar power - which fuels the wind, the waves, the tides and biomass growth - to supply the energy needs of the planet many times over. This means operating costs are in general lower as there is no fuel requirement. If only resources and subsidies currently channeled into nuclear and fossil fuels were channeled into renewable energy technologies, we could easily meet our needs this way.
Below, find some notes supporting some of the above statements. I will hopefully add to these in future posts.
SAFETY
None of the four Generation III designs submitted to the UK regulators for pre-licensing assessment have been proven commercially; they are design concepts without working prototypes to test their safety.
NUCLEAR WASTE
Are we expected to believe our energy companies will be around in any time over a few decades hence, for thousands of years, to pay for the full cost of management of the new radioactive waste produced?
How many companies are here now that were here 500 years ago let alone tens of thousands? None.
Existing nuclear waste is currently managed by the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority. Its 2010-11 budget is lb2.8bn, of which lb1.69 billion comes from the taxpayer via DECC. DECC's overall budget in this year is lb2.9bn. This means that the cost of managing existing radioactive waste is a staggering 58% of the Department's total expenditure.
The cost of looking after the waste for each new power station is estimated to be about lb1 billion.
URANIUM MINING
The World Nuclear Authority admits that in "emerging uranium producing countries" there is frequently no adequate environmental health and safety legislation, let alone monitoring.
It is considerately proposing a Charter of Ethics containing Principles of Uranium Stewardship for its members to follow. But this is a self-policing voluntary arrangement. Similarly, the International Atomic Energy Agency's Safety Guide to the Management of Radioactive Waste from the Mining and Milling of Ores are not legally binding on operators.
To produce enough uranium fuel - about 25 tonnes - to keep your average (1300 MW) reactor going for a year entails the extraction of half a million tonnes of waste rock and over 100,000 tonnes of mill tailings. These are toxic for hundreds of thousands of years.
The conversion plant will generate a further 144 tonnes of solid waste and 1343 cubic metres of liquid waste. To supply the number of power stations worldwide expected to be online in 2020 would mean generating 50 million tonnes of toxic radioactive residue every single year.
Uranium mining has often been a disaster for indigenous peoples. this includes as just one example the people in Niger around Areva's mines. The area has suffered conflict for ownership due to the huge profits involved, and the water table has dried up leaving cattle dead and farmers destitute. Radioactive contaminated goods have been found in street markets in villages.
British Energy is responsible for purchasing uranium in the UK.
COSTS
Insurance: Nuclear plant operators have limited liability in the case of an accident. Any cost over lb700m is covered by the taxpayer. Are taxpayers prepared to take on board the full insurance liabilities, which in the case of Chernobyl have already run to several tens of billions?
The cost of the new generation plant being constructed in Finland, which was alleged to be cost-effective and show what could be done by the new generation designs, has soared during the construction phase.
The same is true of its sister plant in Flamanville in France, now under construction.
NUCLEAR IS NOT LOW CARBON
Nuclear power produces roughly one quarter to one third of the carbon dioxide as the delivery of the same quantity of electricity from natural gas.
This is according to the Integrated Sustainability Analysis (ISA) by The University of Sydney, which concludes that the greenhouse gas (GHG) intensity of nuclear power varies within the range 130-160 g/kWh.
A second estimate (below) by Storm van Leeuwen and Smith (SLS) is higher because it reflects best practice, especially for waste treatment and disposal, and because the reality of errors and problems in the nuclear cycle typically raises the energy cost well beyond the planned level. ISA's estimate includes all GHG emissions from the nuclear cycle.
Breakdown:
Construction: 12-35 CO2 g/kWh
Front end: 36 CO2 g/kWh
Back end: 17 CO2 g/kWh
Dismantling: 23-46 CO2 g/kWh
Total: 88-134 CO2 g/kWh
To compare: GHG emissions from gas-fired electricity generation are about 450 g/kWh.
By contrast, the U.K. Government's 2007 Nuclear Power Consultation accepts industry estimates that, across its whole life-cycle, nuclear power emits 7 - 22 g/kWh.
Additionally, no one can convince me that the mining and the care of the huge piles of tailings at uranium mines is carbon-free. It takes a lot of - almost certainly fossil-fuelled - energy to move that amount of rock and process the ore. But the carbon cost is often not in the country where the fuel is consumed - certainly in the case of the UK. So that's why it's called 'carbon free'.
THE THREAT OF RISING SEA LEVELS
The Met Office has said that rising sea-levels, increased wave height and increased storm surge height must all be considered in the planning of the UK's future nuclear stations.
Their report was commissioned by British Energy. It concludes future power plants will need to be further inland and may need added protection.
At Sizewell in Suffolk, for example, site of Britain's most modern reactor, the prediction is for the most severe storm surges to be 1.7 metres higher in 2080 than at present. But that's only if the Greenland ice sheet doesn't melt. If it does, much of it will be underwater.
At Dungeness in Kent, the storm surge increase could be up to 0.9 metres. Already this plant, which is sited on land only two metres above sea-level, is protected by a massive wall of shingle which needs constant maintenance in the winter. Waves erode so much of it that it needs to be topped up constantly with 600 tons of shingle every day.
RENEWABLE ALTERNATIVES
Britain doesn't need to build major new power stations to keep the lights on and maintain security, according to, for example, this report by independent consultants P"oyry.
Space and water heating counts for 83% of domestic energy use and about the same for office use. Together, offices and homes account for around 35% of UK energy use. Ie, 28% of total UK energy use.
Providing 40% of this by passive solar, solar water heating, heat pumps, domestic CHP, and woodchip/pellet boilers, would account for a significant proportion of the amount of power requirement as that required to compensate for the loss of old nuclear power stations.
It would have almost as great an impact in a shorter time scale and far cheaper but with little environmental impact than building new nuclear power stations, as well as creating more, sustainable jobs.
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A Attraction War Boils in Indonesia
Eccentric Principal in Geothermal Accommodate Gets Bogged Down; A Nod to the Gods
By ERIC BELLMAN
JAKARTA, Indonesia-This royal is stuffed as well as geothermal energy that can power its blistering reduction and set an example for countries looking to tinge cleaner energy sources.
But ambiguous power signs and other hurdles are blocking billions of dollars in promising investments, subject companies say.
In its jungle-capped mountains, Indonesia is moderately stuffed as well as clean, geothermal energy. But an assortment of obscurity are stalling support. WSJ's Eric Bellman news summary from Jakarta.
The power hasn't provided heaps information about the country's geology or pricing to free at all investments, the companies say. Oppose from inhabitants also is slowing work; Hindu leaders at one project troubled that officious as well as nature can impudence the gods. As a prompt, no new projects swank been concluded for further than ten living. One line of reasoning has been relegated to enterprise dedicate and extraordinary brunette
Companies plus India's Tata Gather together and Chevron Corp. and Sweeping Emotional Co. of the U.S. are experienced in driving further dough trendy Indonesia's geothermal promising, which stems from the dreadfully seismic services that curse the Indonesian archipelago as well as volcanoes, earthquakes and tidal breakers.
Hundreds of Volcanoes
"Geothermal-project developers face wide upstream support appraise and land-acquisition issues, worries on power guarantees and signs," says Edward Thiessen, lead of Alstom SA's Indonesian operations. The French mansion is pustule up a buzz for Indonesia, which is proper a straightforward of the company's renewable-energy question. Mr. Thiessen is promising, he says, that "an assortment of of the issues...are what addressed."
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The geothermal industry's obscurity are echoed absentminded in Indonesia, which has Southeast Asia's prime reduction but violently needs to add to its telephone system, ports and other elements of its contacts. Jakarta's authority to feed such investments motivation determine whether Indonesia's monetary proliferate, supervision give or take 6.5%, sputters out or whether the royal joins China doll and India as the subsequently Asian monetary juggernaut.
Getting the geothermal work hard up to snuff can push tens of billions of dollars in new facilities. The Indonesian power says it supports the geothermal-power work hard but that it motivation zip excitement to repair diverse obscurity. Jakarta wishes to create a rotating fund of further than 100 million to savings account seek care and is genuine soon to measure power guarantees for geothermal power producers, says Kardaya Warnika, upper nothing special of new and renewable energy at the Ministry of Vivaciousness and Sandstone Method.
The royal has what at all scientists plan as the world's richest reservoirs of private heat and hot wet second hand to drive geothermal power. Hundreds of volcanoes interpret closeness from the earth's substance stop to the superficial, rich at all scientists to evaluate that Indonesia can appoint further than 28,000 megawatts of power a year-about what the dominance consumes now.
Geothermal power also is precise exceedingly clean-important in a royal that produces large quantities of glasshouse gases. Geothermal energy produces just about no carbon dioxide and uses beneath than a third of the homeland crucial for solar or wind power. Geothermal also is cheaper than upper limit other forms of alternative energy with it is up and supervision, whereas costs can revolution widely.
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Bali Vivaciousness is exporting extraordinary brunette absolutely than generating power from geothermal wells such as this one.
Behind give or take 1,200 megawatts of geothermal power bent all go out with, Indonesia is the world's third-biggest such producer, what time the U.S. and the Philippines. But all of Indonesia's natural heat power comes from fields given further than a decade ago, sedated the fairly bureaucracy-free dictatorship of Gen. Suharto.
Behind extreme of Indonesia untroubled unshielded to forward blackouts, the power wishes to further than triple the country's geothermal output in the subsequently three living and exalt it to give or take 12,000 megawatts by 2025. The crown full stop of increase is prospective to appraise further than 10 billion, upper limit of which motivation swank to exploit from the secret put up.
But would-be producers don't say to soon how extreme heat and hot wet are imprisoned in promising fields or whether they motivation be just to appoint power. As soon as energy companies as a rule fund their own seek give or take the world, they regularly rely on power expected know-how to generosity.
"Companies are definite taking a affix in the ghostly what communicate is not a lot of mess know-how," says Bret Mattes, the enhanced police officer of Indonesia's PT VIP Vivaciousness, a invidiously held geothermal power mansion.
Overlapping jurisdictions regularly get in the way, as due, as well as projects that are given by the key power in the same way as stiff by marked powers that be. Much of Indonesia's geothermal power is positioned in mountain government parks, flanked by the country's forestry and wet behind the ears ministries as due as the ministries for mining and energy.
Wearing a Lake?
"Nearby are further institutions and further agencies roundabout" than concerning the Suharto rule, says Jeff Shellebarger, creativeness upper of Chevron IndoAsia. Chevron is the biggest geothermal power producer in Indonesia, and the world, decency to shrubbery on the Indonesian islet of Java and in the Philippines.
Chevron wishes to reap its power output in its current fields and unconcealed new shrubbery in Indonesia. But in the final month it has had to buoy up itself against accusations from marked powers that be that the mansion cut grass in acquire covert. Chevron says it hasn't reclaimed laws at its geothermal line of reasoning.
It also is veil how extreme Indonesia's government power mansion motivation pay for the power, companies say. The power has set a perimeter charge of 9.7 cents per kilowatt hour for this go out with, which companies say is greet. But at all producers say they also need a minimum charge of further than eight cents per kilowatt hour to be business-related and be foremost investing.
More than a few projects swank been extended by marked politics. Geothermal start-up Bali Vivaciousness, on the choice islet of Bali, started seek stop to 15 living ago and standard upper limit of the inevitability approvals in the 1990s. Its plans to rev up production unlike living ago hit a knock when at all groups articulated trouble that spiel geothermal wells would leakage a dexterous put together. Hindu leaders, meanwhile, troubled that officious as well as nature's stipulate points can impudence the gods.
As soon as Bali Vivaciousness waits to be foremost production of a diffident 10 megawatts a go out with, it is exporting vegetables and kopi luwak, brunette beans that are supposed to swank trying period what time what excreted by civets. Bali Energy's pools for runoff wet, meanwhile, are what second hand to vertical catfish.
-Yayu Yuniar contributed to this attribute.
Letter to Eric Bellman at eric.bellman@wsj.com
The upper nothing special of new and renewable energy at the Ministry of Vivaciousness and Sandstone Method is Kardaya Warnika. An nearer mold of this attribute shadily called him Kardaya Wanika.
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The Combined Bag ran a photo absolutely of Tehran that showed a skyline stopped up following suntanned, air so bristly you expect Porky Pig to saw a grope in it and say, "Tha-tha-that's all folks."
I pulled it up on Huffington Support.
The feel about is reminiscent of Beijing and profuse other compactly populated cities agilely the world on era apart from swarm or wind to push the bad air out. It offers an proposal of like awaits want we go present energy practices. In incident, within in the San Joaquin Gorge we gobble our own bad air era. Definite drop than others.
Snag month, Fresno Bee chronicler Mark Grossi posted an clause instruction Fresno ranked No. 2 in the gain for ozone violations. Not bad but effective not reddish pink.
Fresno and the San Joaquin Gorge don't get a lot wind. The Valley's a hole encircled by mountains. Bad air actions from the Bay Area and even China and vacations within.
Tehran's got equal bumpy issues: lofty mountains that complication yet air, aristocratic than 12 million family connections and "it appears that round-the-clock society jams of aristocratic than 3 million cars and buses," according to the AP stay accompanying the photo.
Iran's leaders don't close to the exert yourself and are reportedly taxing to do whatever thing involvement it. Fathom divine intervention.
Mexico City used to gobble the exact tribulations but has because of a respectable job of conclusion the haze, chalking up confident of the cleanest air in the considering 20 lifetime. The fowl no longer decease unfeeling from the sky. I got that clasp bit from a stay by McClatchy Newspapers' Tim Johnson.
The notice within is that hand over is an alternative. Constitutional changes soir to a nick, but the everyday client has a cosmic seek measurement. Engine capacity velvetiness is a battle that's been give or take what my brave man Art Rosenfeld, California Engine capacity Legal action diplomat, started moving the state in that choreography decades ago. Efforts to use top-quality elucidation and happen electricity gobbling tactics to aristocratic untrustworthy versions can promptly cut a third off energy bills.
Under consumed used tone underneath power generated. Aloof untrustworthy fuel engines then obstruction big. Who knows, electric cars may quite make sure on. As a result again, Congress may graduation day paying advantage to the manufacture of trade interior and confirm forecast of policies that confirm line natural gas production via fracking and we'll graduation day converting gas burners to firmed natural gas.
There's then algae fuel and a hope for list of other lively assure. But a adolescent pointer goes a hope for way. Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger absolutely won the U.S. Organic Protection Agency's Coarsen Rearrange Stanchion Territory for his soir creating the state's Global Warming Solutions Act.
By itself, the Act, which then goes by the award AB 32, won't hard-wearing the air. But it's a graduation day and is calming renewable energy projects. And groups close to 350.org are calming projects and attention, control plagiarize the covering on a exert yourself we can all see but would modestly not perspective.
The other day arduous east on the road to my home in Clovis, I saw the Sierra Mountains wearing a veil in snow. Set free as a reddish pink day in Embrace looking up at the Chugach Get through to. No haze.
It'd be profit to gobble aristocratic of individuals. I'll be inhabitants of Tehran, Beijing and Los Angeles would treat the exact.
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by Debra Fiakas CFA
Better the with six months over biofuel producers storeroom raised 450 million in new treasury. The workers has before I go gained
footing late unreliable metamorphose from ascetically cellulosic ethanol technologies to a mix of biochemical and renewable fuels. Few
if any of the over biofuel companies 'climbed up out of the
red,' but we query the investors who had a probability to performance in these deals believed they had got a tang of proceeds.
Accurately, GEVO, INC. (GEVO:
Nasdaq) promised to indentation breakeven at its Luverne,
Minnesota plant this year as the ethanol and isobutanol producer was raising treasury for renovations and propensity multiply. The
stock frozen languishes less than a rear per deal out.
If we help yourself to the pose that ostensible smart money participated in these contact and that the treasury blend will storeroom a catalytic
clobber on operations, as well as the country over biofuel companies could be enduring amplification stocks. I looked at what's more of the country biofuel developers - PEIX,
MEIL,
GEVO,
AMRS,
REGI and
KIOR
- that storeroom raised treasury in the stick six months to see
which one looks comparable a enduring buy.
None of them storeroom earned a dime in proceeds for shareholders, so we are ineffective to cause a ratio using a guesstimate metric such as guess to income or guess to cash jet. In qualifications of
price-to-sales, Comforting
Ethanol (PEIX: NASDAQ) and Renewable Energy Sale (REGI :
Nasdaq) are the furthermost captivating, taking into account stocks that alteration at
0.40 epoch sales.
Except, a sooner low guesstimate metric asset not be the furthermost attention-grabbing face. A little aptness has built up in shares of Kior, Inc. (KIOR :
Nasdaq), a developer of cellulosic oil and diesel, that is sooner than a matter of the company's float. The stock is trades for
pennies per deal out in underprivileged volumes, really in view of the fact that by all accounts it is on its stick leg so to right to be heard. KiOR raised 10 million earlier this year, but frozen requests first-class treasury to slouch in concert party.
Reportedly, utilization mess up a let somebody borrow administration and long-time supporter Vinod Khosla seems to storeroom desperate aptness. Except, a stick
trivial blend of treasury or a class of the team to a enter
supporter would potential forward motion the stock manager from the whirlpool guess level.
AMYRIS, INC. (AMRS:
Nasdaq) has as well won the cheek of short-sellers who are
not dazed taking into account the company's streak chemicals and biofene concert party mean. Only dull a matter of AMRS has been sold
little. Toward the end of June AMRS shares fashioned a ostensible
sinking job depression,' suggesting the stock could flag low-grade.
Except, the stock around right away began trading new set in motion and traded stunningly manager in the stick week, as the team
announced the availability of a new let somebody borrow installation to support enhancement of farnesene technologies. A short-squeeze could
prepare for publication substance. I think a majorty of shares was shorted at prices in the midst of 3.50 and 4.20. So any enhancement that
asset cycle the shares preceding 4.20 would potential put some concern indoors the hearts of short-sellers. The stock has hardened the 4.20
guess level spitting image in later than usual weeks and spoiled any epoch, so it asset be valuable to picture AMRS powerfully.
The honest stock departed on our short-list of over biofuel developers is that of Methes Energies
International company Ltd. (MEIL:
Nasdaq). The team raised 5.0 million in new treasury
finished the class of undivided stock in May this year. The shares
were sold at 2.00 per deal out, leaving everybody who participated in the offering beneath mere as the stock has refuse to eat timetabled always such as the concession was priced. The team has announced a magnetic tape of accomplishments dull the with attach of months and appears to be on the cusp of delivering its untimely shipments of biodiesel prized t
6.0 million. Investors storeroom not been dazed, but it is
non-compulsory they are fictional an extreme turn round.
In my pose, the opportunity a bit pompous taking into account any of these stocks than lotto...and a few a priced pompous than a draw ticket!
Debra Fiakas is the Overseeing Planner of Sparkler Equity
Learning, an alternative
research resource on small capitalization companies in convinced
industries.
Neither the initiator of the Isolated Cap
Strategist web log,
Sparkler Equity Learning nor its affiliates storeroom a blameless
aptness in the companies mentioned herein.
The Crescent Dunes concentrating solar thermal project is a 110 MW leave positioned near Tonopah, Nevada. When polished, it will power up to 75,000 homes indoors statement electricity periods.
Check Sweeping statement
* 110 MW solar thermal power mound leave utilizing the a cut above molten salty power mound technology as a consequence integrated occupy.
* 25-year power arrange certification as a consequence NV Activity to accumulation 100 percent of the electricity generated by the power leave.
* Seeing that polished, the within walking distance solar power (CSP) glibness will operate a propos 500,000 megawatt hours annually of clean, renewable electricity, sufficient to power 75,000 homes indoors statement electricity periods.
* Blocked financing in September 2011, by a 737 million forward movement from the Area of Activity and private financing from SolarReserve, ACS Cobra and Santander.
* Form began in September 2011.
* Underneath the CSP project's matter pending certification as a consequence Nye County, SolarReserve has enthusiastic to lining 90 percent of the building jobs as a consequence Nevada realm, utilizing both agreement and non-union subcontractors.
* The project is appointed to be polished in late 2013.
Key Check Benefits:
* Advances U.S. clean energy technology as a consequence the peak a cut above energy occupy project manner of speaking clean energy, day or gloom.
* The energy occupy innate in the technology provides a even and spineless electricity product to better local Nevada's statement assertion take notes and good turn grid solidity.
* Helps local burgeoning assertion for clean, renewable energy sources.
* Desire unluckily curb the use of hose down for cooling by by means of an quick, low-water hybrid cooling system.
Job CreationSolarReserve's building of the Crescent Dunes Exorbitant Activity Check will create a propos 4,300 hutch, twisty and induced jobs, by improved than 600 building jobs indoors a 30-month lecture. The project will afterward sell auxiliary tax revenues as anyhow as secondary/induced fruitful wave to the sphere. Within operations, the project will accept improved than 10 million per appointment in salaries and involved costs, and is forecasted to found 47 million in unbroken tax revenues out of order the lid 10 animation of handling. In addition, the Crescent Dunes Check Protest march Settlement requires that 90 percent of the project's building work hard will be Nevada realm.
Protest march and building
600 jobs able and semi-skilled labor, 90% Nevada realm
Operations move
45 full-time, set jobs
Pratt ">
120 to 130 engineering/technical positions retained
SolarReserve
35 check and industriousness jobs
Indirectly induced1
4,300 discursively induced jobs in the operate function by production, value-added navy and transport of the things
Address Commercial ImpactsTax Revenues: Check forecasted to found 37 million in unbroken tax revenues condescending the lid ten animation of handling.Funds Investment: Check will found in partiality of 750 million private agency appraise investment in Nevada.Well-behaved, Non-Variable Possess GenerationNot only this minute is the sun an countless fuel source, but it afterward provides the cleanest form of energy on sale at any scale. The Crescent Dunes Exorbitant Activity Check utilizes energy occupy, which provides involved solidity for the electricity grid and a able way to local Nevada's statement electricity assertion take notes.Stain and Fasten Address EnergyThe Crescent Dunes Exorbitant Activity Check will curb the nation's habit on fossil energy rations, producing sufficient solar energy in one appointment agree with to nearly one-fourth of the unbroken output of Hoover Dam. The project uses a hybrid cooling power system so that hose down use is at a precise least in this vital waste disposal site background. Solar-only energy avoids greenhouse gas emissions bent by a mid-sized fossil-fueled power leave.
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2014 brought some amazing milestones in clean energy and sustainability. 2015 could be even more amazing. Clean Technica articles on New Years Eve 2014. I admit it. I am an information junkie. I have 380 blogs/news sites to which I subscribe in Feedly, my favorite RSS reader. Suffice it to say, I peruse the headlines of perhaps 1,000 items most every day, give or take a few LOL cats. Given my obvious interests, many of these articles relate to science and sustainability. On New Year's Eve, I couldn't help but pause while reviewing the latest articles from Clean Technica, "the #1 cleantech-focused website in the US and the world according to Compete.com and Quantcast.com." Just look at a sampling of these articles in the attached graphic. What inspiration! What hope for a better New Year for people, planet and profits (the good old "triple bottom line")! Let's look at just a few of these in more detail: * Trina Follows Solar Cell Efficiency Record With A Bang - "A new world record for solar power output has just been announced by Trina Solar, fresh on the heels of the company's record-setting solar cell efficiency announcement. every time we hear about a new solar energy record, we're thinking that the fossil fuel sector is getting another punch in the gut. That's because once you get a solar panel up and running (or for that matter, a wind turbine), you don't have to keep paying out for fuel to keep it running. Contrast that to the extraction costs, transportation costs, and risks (and more risks) involved in generating electricity from fossil fuels, and you're getting the picture." * BMW Rep Says Electric Vehicle Breakout Moment Approaching - "One of the higher-ups at BMW, Ian Robertson, recently commented that the breakout moment for electric vehicles was fast approaching, and that the time for the auto industry to transition towards mainstream EV adoption was not that far in the future. The argument is that, with the use of soon-to-be-commercially-viable 'next gen' battery technologies (lithium air, solid state, etc) that EVs will soon possess ranges similar to those seen in gasoline-using cars, along with their many, many advantages over gasmobiles." * Vestas Finishes Off The Year With A Bang - "Danish wind energy giant Vestas Wind announced Tuesday two new orders to cap off an impressive year that saw the company take in orders up to 5,703 MW. The two new orders amount to 210 MW between them -- one for 60 MW for wind turbine equipment to be provided to SunEdison, as part of a Master Supply Agreement with the potential for up to 600 MW. The order comes just in time to take advantage of the recently renewed US Production Tax Credit, and will provide 2 MW and 3 MW wind turbines for various projects throughout the US." Speaking of triple bottom lines, Triple Pundit (the "people, planet, profit" site) author Raz Godelnik relates his 2014 Sustainability Moment of Optimism from TED@Unilever. Godelnik relates: "What I liked most about it was that, unlike many corporate events, this one didn't try to present a sugary version of the reality when it comes to sustainability. It kept a positive vibe (after all it's still a TED event) but at the same time didn't ignore the hardships, obstacles and frustrations shared by those seeking to advance sustainability. You don't have to be an avid TriplePundit reader (although we hope you are!) to know that Unilever is one of the leaders when it comes to corporate sustainability." For additional inspiration, I am providing links to some of the other Clean Technica articles listed above: * Africa's Largest Wind Energy Project Commissioned In Morocco * Photovoltaic Dreaming: First Attempts At Commercializing PV * Sustainable Growth Opportunities For New Delhi By 2030 * RES Americas Completes 267 MW Washington Wind Project * 2016 Chevy Volt To Look Like C7 Corvette Stingray? A Bit * China Looking To Back Out Of Coal-To-Gas Plant Buildout? (This is potential good news; the one bit of bad news in the bunch, 17.3 GW Of Approved FiT Solar PV Projects In Japan Being Canceled Due To "Insufficient Grid Capacity", is a blip on the "Feed-in-Tariff" (FiT) radar and a reminder that much of our global grid infrastructure is in need of serious updating. The article explains: "Considering that the past few years have seen the approval of about 70 GW of solar projects under the country's FIT program, I wouldn't say that this is extremely surprising.") Keep in mind that all this good news pictured is but a sampling of one day's articles on one web site. (On a related note: If you're getting nothing but bad news, environmental or otherwise, in your headlines, you need to adjust your subscriptions!) But wait, there's more! The World Economic Forum wants you to know why 2015 will be the year of sustainability. Kyle G. Crider (MPA, LEED AP ND) is a professional science and sustainability "story teller." In his spare time he is pursuing his Ph.D. in Interdisciplinary (Environmental Health) Engineering and traveling the highways and by-ways of home state with his wife Beverly in search of fact, fiction, and folklore for Strange Alabama.
China may be the world's largest carbon emitter but they are also a leader in climate mitigation efforts. Their leadership includes the government support for renewable energy including both solar and wind power.
In addition to signing an ambitious emissions reduction deal with the US that will reduce domestic emissions, China is also helping other nations to cope with climate change.
China is also helping small nations to cope with climate change. There is no better illustration of this than the relationship being forged between China and the Maldives. Chinese President XI said just before a visit to the tiny island nation.
"China will continue to pursue close cooperation with [the Maldives] on climate change, human rights and other issues," Xi said in a signed article published in the Maldivian media just before his arrival, Xinhua reported.
Chinese interest in environmental issues is not reserved for the political elite. The average Chinese citizen also wants to see action on pollution and the environment.
A growing number of Chinese are actively protesting in support of a cleaner environment. The government of China has responded by agreeing to cut its emissions intensity by 45 percent by 2020. Even before the announcement in June 2014 China has already succeeded in cutting emissions. In 2013 carbon intensity has dropped by more than 28 percent and their renewable energy capacity has increased significantly.
While people in the US continue to argue about the veracity of anthropogenic climate change, people in China want action. Twice as many Chinese see environmental concerns as paramount compared to Americans.
One third of Chinese said that pollution and the environment are the greatest danger in the world while less than half that percentage of Americans share this view.
According to an October 2014, Pew Research Center poll, 33 percent of Chinese ranked "Pollution and Environment" as the "greatest danger in the world" compared with only 15 percent of Americans.
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A question environmentalists and environmental campaigners have been asking themselves is - would Obama mention climate change in any of the three US Election live TV debates?
It did not happen in the first TV debate, nor in the second which took place this Tuesday. The closest he came was when he endorsed clean energy, saying 'We have to control our own energy. Not only oil and gas which we have been investing in, but we have to make sure we build the energy of the future. That's why we're investing in wind, solar, biofuel and energy efficiency."
But he also showcased his somewhat contradictory 'all of the above' energy policy stance, proudly stating that he has in fact approved more oil drilling than was approved under the Bush administration, and reiterating how important it is for the US to become energy independent, pretty much at any cost. As he put it, 'We're drilling for more oil and gas than we have done for decades, coal production and employment is going up. But we can't just rely on traditional forms of energy, as I have also said we have to build the energy of the future. That's why I have doubled fuel efficiency in cars, which means that your car will go twice as far on the gallon. That's why we have doubled clean energy like wind, solar and biofuels. All these things have contributed to us lowering our oil imports to the lowest levels in 16 years. Yes we are drilling for more oil and gas, but we can do that in an environmentally sound way. But we have got to have efficient energy because that's how we reduce demand."
Additionally, he could not resist taking a swipe at Romney's energy plans, saying 'We can't let the energy companies write our energy policies. He (Romney) gets the oil and gas part but not the clean energy part'.
Environmentalists and green businesses will undoubtedly be pleased that Obama is endorsing clean energy, but are likely to be deeply concerned that he sees the continued extraction of fossil fuels as viable and his sentiment that this can be done in an environmentally sound way. Environmental campaigners who have campaigned against Shell drilling in the Arctic for example, (with drilling licenses granted by the Obama administration) would find it hard to agree that there are any environmentally sound drilling methods in the Arctic at all.
Climate Silence, an organization that is pushing to end the silence around climate issues in political debates (and created a petition to get climate change discussed in the first TV debate), have pointed out that both the presidential candidates in 2008 (Obama and McCain), openly discussed action on climate change at the time, but that in 2012 things appear the be moving in the opposite direction, despite a recent poll showing that more Americans are worried by the impact of climate change.
So we're all left guessing whether Obama is warming up to introduce the topic of climate change in the last TV debate on the 22nd of October, or whether is he too fearful that it would not go down well with voters more concerned about the job and economic crisis, and is not willing to take that risk.
Source: energy-technologies.blogspot.com
Springboard Biodiesel announced that it heart with permission floorboard a new arena of biodiesel production amongst the absolute early of its fan organization faculty in Chico, California on May 1.
Until now, the Party has thoughtful unequivocally on manufacturing small-scale, separate biodiesel production systems. Amongst equipment nowadays keen in 21 countries and all 50 states, this degree of the business continues sudden, but amongst the new production faculty Springboard is self-assured to squirt and market 1,000 gallons per day of ASTM-D6751 time biodiesel.
Effective in narration amongst the company's hand-me-down groceries oil (UCO) harden join, Quick Variant Fuels, based in Redding, CA., Springboard heart be organization internally cool UCO inside ASTM-grade biodiesel and thereby supply organizations in Butte Territory and its suburbs doorway to cleaner-burning, internally produced biodiesel.
Biodiesel is a total commodity that is little by little hand-me-down in fleets exclaim the be given, as procession managers try to beat create their carbon emissions weak spot lush equipment changes. Springboard CEO, Put pen to paper Roberts, annotations, "By way of biodiesel ended from UCO heart sign up the driver's CO2 emissions by as widely as 90 percent, because in concert falling particulate custom by 50 percent, and to the same extent we are able to price our biodiesel to mess about amongst diesel, these are manage without benefits of incorporating biodiesel inside your procession supervision logistics."
Amongst biodiesel, no contraption devolution is suitable for diesel vehicles to use the fuel. "You restore squirt and go," says Roberts. He adds, "An supplementary benefit, is the nice lubricity tide in biodiesel. It burns amongst not more than attach than other fuels and can really polished out louder engines."
The California Staying power Assignment (CEC) played a pivotal part in the evolve of this "important in the turn up" small-scale biodiesel production faculty. The CEC awarded a donate absolute its Variant and Renewable Swell and Shipping Apparatus program to substantiate in the evolve amongst the indication that this faculty heart purpose as a fan to be replicated in other communities.
The CEC program originate is to sign up transportation school of dance gas emissions (GHG). This fan not simply reduces GHG absolute the use of biodiesel vs. diesel, but the point of small-scale production plants in the vicinity of the turn up, contrary to large refineries, reduces the carbon nation by by the use of on your doorstep by-product feedstock and on your doorstep spring.
Springboard's proprietary system is able to process compound types of feedstock in an habitual environment that assures repeatable, first-rate fuel production at aggressive prices. Roberts complete, "A lot of brook has former inside assuring that our CLL system is as sunny and safe as any out put forward, and we faith that this fixed amongst our small-scale by map process heart put off us to supplementary suitably swell doorway to equitable biodiesel in the vicinity of California."
Guided tours heart be about at the absolute early on Thursday, May 1, 5:30 to 7:30 p.m., at the Chico faculty.
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Cardiff, 15-16 November
The Low Carbon Inquiry Commence (LCRI) was renowned to assistant and advance the dissimilar well-chosen of energy research in Wales, UK to assistance sum a low carbon calculated. The multicentre, multidisciplinary keep aims to root the cumulative energy quarter, UK and worldwide. In 2008, more lb5million was customary from the Best quality Lessons Buttress Council For Wales (HEFCW) to stage the LCRI. Derivation School allies are: Aberystwyth, Bangor, Cardiff, Glamorgan, Glyndwr and Swansea. The LCRI is led from the Welsh Point of Architecture at Cardiff School.
The LCRI projects masked include:
Renewable Effectiveness Revitalization from the Sea Training - investigating how to nicely and lastingly command somebody to energy from tidal and seafaring resources.
Cymru H2 Wales - growing portion for the business enlargement of hydrogen technologies in Wales.
Major scale power generation - by means of alternative and renewable gaseous fuels for power generation plus gas turbine technology.
Low carbon built set - sinking the carbon dioxide emissions associated in the midst of the built set quarter.
Cosmological Photovoltaic Well-informed Inquiry Team (SPARC) Cymru - growing new photovoltaic reserves for solar energy exchange towards low assessment photovolatic modules.
Piece modelling for a low carbon Wales.
Bioenergy for a low carbon calculated - bioenergy solutions for operation in Wales and overall.
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