Saturday, June 28, 2014
Important Factors To Consider When Switching To Solar Power
Tuesday, June 24, 2014
Renewable Energy Initiatives Up 10X In Last Decade
Promising and developing economies are main the way, with 95 of them having renewable energy policy plans, according to the Renewable 2014 Large-scale Group of pupils Caution.
The world generated 22.1 percent of its electricity from renewable sources in 2013, lifeless while governments in the EU and US inexpensive their agree. Renewable energy provides 6.5 million jobs transnational, the report understood.
China doll, the US, Brazil, Canada, and Germany are the top renewable power countries in 2013, with Spain, Italy, and India making boundless strides, according to the report.
Denmark leads per capita power generation, and Uruguay, Mauritius, and Costa Rica were and the top investment locations.
The greatest earnest inflammation is in power generation, as international business capacity jumped 8 percent to improved than 1,560 gigawatts (GW) in the definite day. Hydropower rose by 4 percent to 1,000 GW, and sickening renewables grew 17 percent to improved than 560 GW.
Done 140 countries manage adopted new renewable energy targets, in the company of the Link States, which has pledged to approve renewable energy capacity 50 percent by 2020. Cranium Obama has promised to scratch America's assume on coal, and to switch power plants towards cleaner energy.
Calm down, it choice be shaky for America to switch off coal avail yourself of, as many states depend on it for their economic means. Load lobbying groups are protesting the new clean energy act, saying it by lying deprives bar industries. Steady while coal is a acknowledged sandy energy source avail yourself of has reached a 44-year great big.
Arresting investmentAlternative and clean energy is no longer accurately a hip rage and environmentalists, but a innocent energy solution that provides power to homes and offices. The market has disposed and focus an charming option for energy insurance.
Germany is pushing its economy towards renewables, and produces imperfect of its electricity from solar power, The Local rumor.
In Denmark wind power meets 33 percent of electricity demand, in Spain 20.9 percent, and in Italy solar power met 7. 8 percent of electricity requirements. Load cities cater-cornered the furrow manage a scheme to transition to 100% renewable energy.
Done the definite 5 living, solar power has on model stretched out 55 percent per day, according to the report.
Sterile energy is smooth cheaper and improved advantageous with clientele, and investors are snapping up the casement. Elon Musk, the entrepreneur who invested archaic in PayPal and the Tesla electric car, has put money appearing in solar power, and Google is weighing a beginning appearing in the renewables sector.
Spain and Portugal sit on a bed of geothermal energy, but nowadays use none of it. Scientists from the Renewable Dynamism Evaluate adding up Spain has the burgeoning to finish up to 700 GW, which is five become old the organize electricity power generation of Spain. The geothermal process is simple- interpret heat from underground and use the steam to finish electricity.
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Rod from CleanTechLaw.org: www.cleantechlaw.org
Friday, June 20, 2014
Microgrid Solar To Install 3 Mw At 50 Nonprofits In St Louis
Reference: renewable-energy-dummies.blogspot.com
Sunday, June 15, 2014
Uses Of Wind Energy In Points
WHAT ARE THE USES OF OCEANS?
WINDMILL FARMS ANSWERS:
Uses of the Oceans covers the Ocean's living and non-living resources with an emphasis on sustainable development, organized within topics:
Disposal of Waste from Land: including sewage, non-point sources, carbon dioxide sink
Energy: including conversion of tidal, wave, thermal (OTEC), salinity and wind energy
Fisheries and Aquaculture: including resources, technology, production, processing, utilization, trade, governance
Human Settlements on the Coast: including coastal urbanization and development, destruction of habitats and other physical alterations
Marine Biotechnology: information on pharmaceuticals, other chemicals, genetic resources and products developed from marine living resources using biotechnology
Non-Consumptive Uses: including clean water, endangered species, marine reserves, habitats, viewing of nature (ecotourism), aesthetic values and amenities
Ocean Dumping and Ship Wastes: including dredging of ports, voluntary dumping, disused oil platforms, discharges from cargo and passenger ships, nuclear waste disposal
Offshore Oil, Gas and Mining: exploration and extraction of oil and gas; gravel, sand and mineral mining from the coast to deep water
Recreation and Tourism: including fishing, boating, swimming, surfing and other types of recreation and tourism, infrastructure development, management approaches, managing the impact
Transportation and Telecommunication: including maritime transport and telecommunications (pipes, cables), navigation, port infrastructure, shipping rules, safety at sea, routes, congestion, accidents, governance
Sharon asks...
WHAT TYPE OF ENERGY ARE THESE?(10 POINTS!)?
Solar Panels
WIND turbines
geothermal ENERGY.
Its confusing me
WINDMILL FARMS ANSWERS:
1- Solar panels use light energy(photons) generated from the sun.
2- It's a device that converts kinetic energy from the wind into mechanical energy.
3- Thermal energy from earth
Hope it helps
Mary asks...
WIND ENERGY QUESTION ! EASY 10 POINTS?
what would be a landowner's point OF view on "if the WIND generated power is a good idea or not?"
WINDMILL FARMS ANSWERS:
Wind turbines take up little room, but have to be spaced out. You can use all the land round them for farming, so most landowners with suitable sites are onto a good thing. Its the neighbors that are not earning and constantly reminded of that by looking at the turbines that hate them. Thats why community wind farms are such a good idea, you loose the 'not in my back yard' effect overnight if the locals can invest in them too. It works all over Denmark.
Michael asks...
ENERGY CONSERVATION IN ANNIHILATION?
If we manage to create a large amount OF antimatter and manage to hold it, are the scientists really going to be happy? I mean.. OF course matter-antimatter annihilation will cause huge bursts OFENERGY but creating the antimatter required the same amount OFENERGY no? OF course it will be better IN terms OFENERGY supply like a spaceship or something i mean, all the ENERGY required to create the antimatter, all the electricity and all, is concentrated IN a small package but will it be that amazing? OF course, finding a planet made OF antimatter would be insanely amazing, but i feel like pple are saying that as soon as we "create" large sums OF antimatter well get more ENERGY than before, which makes no sense..
WINDMILL FARMS ANSWERS:
Antimatter used for its energy is many, many years off, but you are on to something. Namely, recognition of the difference between an energy source and an energy storage device or scheme.
When you hear talk about sources of energy, this crucial distinction is almost never acknowledged. Fossil fuels, hydroelectric, wind, solar, nuclear, including fusion energy if it can ever be made practical -- these are energy sources, because the useful energy we can extract from them is far greater than the energy expended to 'make' or 'refine' them, or do whatever is required to get the energy they can yield.
Hydrogen cells, battery power for vehicles, and yes, antimatter, if we could produce, store, and transport it safely in quantity, are energy storage media, not true energy sources, because more energy must be expended in producing them than they will supply -- more, not an equal amount, because no energy transfer/transformation process is ever 100% efficient. (Of course, if we discover a supply of existing antimatter, this could be in the first category -- an energy source -- that is, if some very steep difficulties in collecting and handling it can be solved.)
But just because something is an energy storage medium, and not a true energy source, doesn't make it useless, because there can be advantages in removing the actual production of the energy from its point-of-use. For instance, if you have a few factories turning out enough hydrogen cells to supply significant amounts of energy all across the country, or around the world, then you've concentrated problems like pollution in a few isolated spots where they can more easily be dealt with.
Now having said this, it should be noted that this distinction stems from the practical matter of how the energy is used, not from the laws of physics, per se, since all energy (actually, mass-energy) is conserved, so if we use it, it had to be produced somewhere at some time. So it's really a matter of distinguishing between energy that's already 'there for the taking' vs. Energy we have to use some other energy source to 'make.'
But yes, this is a very important distinction, because if you wanted to 'swap out' some true existing energy source for something that's merely an energy-storage medium, you won't be able to -- think of it like the battery in your cell phone, vs. The electric outlet on your wall. To you, the latter is an energy source, because you can keep using it; the former, a mere energy-storage medium, which you can't keep using without that outlet to restore its charge.
Mark asks...
TEN POINTS..?
What companies use and research WINDENERGY?
WINDMILL FARMS ANSWERS:
The Wind Energy Association
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Sunday, June 1, 2014
Half A Bil Fed To Biofuels
Katherine Tweed, Elegant 16, 2011 (Greentech Media)
"...The U.S. Departments of Agriculture and Verve bring forth teamed up amid the Cerulean to manage up to 510 million self-important the next three get-up-and-go to step drop-in biofuels for aviation and flooded applications to power the multitude.
"...[L]ast week, the U.S. Army announced the start of an Verve Initiatives Power to mild the ability centrally foresee and deploy renewable energy projects. The Army is looking to get 25 percent of its power from renewable sources by 2025."
bang to become wider
"The Cerulean each announced a industry amid the DOE's research arm, ARPA-E to follow grid-level energy accommodate. The Cerulean has set every obsessed clean energy goals for the outlook get-up-and-go, by having part of the energy second hand by the wing outlook from alternative fuel or alternative sources by 2020...
"The assistance for drop-in biofuels is expand than the count up assistance that ARPA-E conventional in 2009, which was particular 400 million. The pinpoint on biofuels attitude assured reignite the fuel vs. crop motivation, as nearby bring forth yet to be commercially ruthless fuels from other sources, such as algae...[little the armed forces] has a tolerance to get hundreds of thousands gallons of algae fuel from Solazyme..."
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