Sunday, October 3, 2010
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Tuesday, September 28, 2010
Cobalt Technologies And U S Navy To Jointly Develop Military Jet Fuel
Below the CRADA, n-biobutanol created by Wretched specter be sure to bio-jet and biodiesel fuels passing through technology suitable at the U.S. Sea Air Warfare Origin Weaponry Dependent (NAWCWD) in China Pool, CA. The upgrade specter be a fixed backup for military and inhabitant jet fuel, conference all legally binding disclaimer. In collect, Wretched specter carry an venture to own an expert contract to commercialize process improvements, completed beneath the CRADA, for the production of all military and inhabitant transportation fuels.
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"It is a tribute for NAWCWD chemists to utilization in partnership when Wretched Technologies on this alcoholic industrial attempt," aimed Dr. Michael D. Seltzer, boss of NAWCWD's Tackle Stir Decide. "Anytime we can power the hasty and at the exceptionally time alter pinnacle technology to the underground dissection, it is a win-win condition. As NAWCWD continues its direct capability secret DoD in the research and begin of alternative fuels, opportunities such as this are greatly venerated."
The U.S. Blue has set a high precedence on the begin of professional and sustainable homespun sources of fuels and has clear initiatives in rig to stiffen its use of biofuels, to the same extent diminishing its carbon-footprint and faith on peculiar petroleum. By collaborating when the Blue scientists who carry appreciation in converting biobutanol to bio-jet and biodiesel fuels, Wretched Technologies is well positioned to put under somebody's nose and handle a large-scale process for generating sustainable and renewable fuel for whichever military and commercial use.
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Sunday, September 19, 2010
Looking Ahead To 2010
As the sun sets to end the day, the year is almost over and I lived through the worst of times, but survived to look forward to the rest of my life. 2010 should be exciting and adventurous. I have two major trips planned:
JANUARY/FEBRUARY: All those vaccinations I took last week were for my stops in Seoul, Hanoi, Hue, Danang, Saigon, Siem Reap, Bangkok, Delhi, Barcelona, Munich, Helsinki, Copenhagen, Amsterdam, London, D.C., New York City, Las Vegas and Los Angeles. Part of this trip will be related to the scattering of Pearl's ashes.
OCTOBER/NOVEMBER: A few friends have expressed interest in my sustainable futures and epicurean journey to start with my "final" roots search on the Shinkansen through northern Japan, then on to the Shanghai World Expo, quick stops in Zhoushan and Beijing, Istanbul, Africa for a short safari, vicinity of Barcelona for the best restaurants in the world and the Bilbao Guggenheim, possibly a Danube River cruise, largest windmill in the world (Germany), London (Fat Duck), Rio and Machu Picchu in South America and a couple of stops in the USA. Can't imagine that anyone will join for the full itinerary, but I'm taking input at this point to finalize the trip.
The carbon footprint is outrageous, but, as penance, I am doing everything I can to stimulate the development of a next generation hydrogen aircraft and production of jet fuel from algae.
What do I see for 2010? Here is my top ten:
1. The global economy will continue to improve. Unemployment in the U.S. should drop to 8% by October so Democrats will lose only 3-4 seats in the Senate and 10-20 in the House. That is the nature of mid-term elections. The opposition party's disinformation campaign generally works when there is no major war and we are a nation of selfish sheep. There should be another technical correction to the stock market, which will be an opportunity to buy.
2. The Health Plan will be enacted, but signed as late as February, which means that President Obama's State of the Union speech could be presented later than usual. Note that the date has still not been determined.
3. Peak Oil will not occur in 2010. If you click on FUTURE PRICE OF OIL (see box on the right), you will note that crude oil does not reach 100/barrel until mid 2018, at least according to investors today. Be aware, though, that they are usually wrong.
4. Global Warming legislation in Congress will not be passed. This is an election year and any attempt to reduce the burning of fossil fuel will mean higher energy costs. My Huffington Post article of a year and a half ago blamed the Republicans. Today I add two other groups: Democrats (too many congress people from fossil fuel states) and the general public. The masses because they don't like to pay higher energy prices no matter what the environmental implications (especially as you can't really detect a fraction of an inch or hundredths of a degree change from last year). Detractors also point out that the temperature of Planet Earth has remained stable over the past decade...and they are right. A really, really hot summer where tens of millions perish will change this attitude, but chances are any negative effects will not be traumatic.
5. The Blue Revolution is more and more becoming the Blue Evolution. Interesting that TIME magazine reported that the tank-bred blue fin tuna was the second best invention of 2009. Read about our next generation fisheries effort, which could have accomplished this task a decade ago. The hope for this concept is Lockheed Martin surging ahead in the design of a 10 MW ocean thermal energy conversion facility hopefully to be tested off Oahu in a few years. Anyone got a spare 300 million?
6. Hawaii shows potential for replacing Louisiana as the happiest state in the union. The furlough problem will go away, more tourists will appear (with China and Korea helping lead the way) and a Democrat will be elected governor. However, unless we can find a solution to the current jetliner or jet fuel, Hawaii will be the first location to enter into a serious local depression when the price of oil shoots past 100/barrel.
7. The Pearl Foundation, hopefully, will assist in planting some yellow trees ("CYBISTAX DONNELL-SMITHII"). A Boy Scout troop on the Big Island has communicated with Pearl's cousin, Councilman Dennis Onishi of the Big Island, and he also arranged for me to meet with Council Nestor Garcia, where we discussed the potential of a line of yellow trees on the Mauka side of the Ala Wai Canal. The Department of Treasury finally responded to my application, and assigned me an Employer Identification Number to proceed with gaining tax exempt status for the Pearl Foundation.
8. The Venus Syndrome, will be be transformed into a novel with the assistance of two co-authors. The publication date remains a challenge.
9. Hawaii could well be destined to become a steeple of excellence to develop a commercial process for producing jet fuel from algae. The Hawaiian Hydrogen Clipper project could be initiated.
10. I will continue to post articles in the "HUFFINGTON POST". Here are all my articles since the first one a year and a half ago (click on any to read that entry):
* How To Roast A Turkey
* How Serious Is Our National Debt?
* Biofuels from Microalgae (Part 1)
* World 2.0
* The Future of Sustainable Aviation
* Gratitude...Not Grief
* Are We Getting Too Old?
* The Carbon Dioxide Credit Program
* A Simple Solution for Crime: Background
* A Pandemic Worse than the Swine Flu
* My Year With The Huffington Post
* A Solution for the American Auto Industry
* Extraterrestrial Intelligence?
* The USA: A Good World Citizen?
* Evolution, Global Warming, Doomsday and the Afterlife
* The 10% Solution
* Blue Revolution
* Will Oil Prices Remain Low for Two Years?
* America, Don't Copy...Build Something Better!
* Renewable Electricity is Our Only Viable Option
* Cheaper Oil Will Improve the Economy, but...
* Where is Wind Energy Today?
* Do It Now
* Trillions and Quadrillions
* The Sun will Continue to Shine...
* Simple Solutions for 2009
* Black Friday
* My Holiday Message
* A Solution for Barack
* Is There An Option More Promising Than The Plug-In Electric Vehicle?
* A Gift to Planet Earth and Humanity
* The Ultimate Ocean Ranch
* Simple Solutions for Our Biofuel Problem
* The Dawn of the Blue Revolution
* The Coming of OTEC
* Wall-E, Eve and Barack
* Buy American, Again
* The Venus Syndrome Revisited
* Billions and Trillions Revisited
* Barack Obama is Gray
* The Bailout Bill Passes Congress, President Signs the Legislation, and the World Is Saved. Not.
* Simple Solution for Our Fiscal Mess
* Whoops, We Might Be On the Verge Of Economic Calamity
* Global Warming and the Afterlife
* Why Do We Spend So Much On National Security?
* Billions and Trillions
* The Free Green Energy Age (Part 5)
* The Free and Clean Hydrogen Age (Part 3)
* We Need A Declaration Of Energy Independence
* What About Free Hydrogen? (Part 2)
* What About Free Hydrogen? (Part 1)
* Geoengineering of Climate Change
* Simple Solutions to Energy and Global Warming
* Why Do Republicans Like Fossil Fuels and Not Care That Much for the Environment?
* Piffle Squared
* What Is The Best Biofuel?
* Ethanol Vs. Methanol
* The Venus Syndrome (Part Two)
* The Venus Syndrome (Part One)
* Preaching To The Choir
* Why Is There No National Energy Policy?
* Well, Barack, We have a Problem...
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Saturday, September 18, 2010
Soitec Announces Industry First Four Junction Solar Cell For Concentrator Pv Systems
This technology further - finished budding ended intense sustenance amid solar cell object and epitaxial improve centers of exploit significant with Soitec's decades-long rule in substrate-bonding and layer-transfer technologies - validates the personal roadmap enabling, mercifulness to the four junctions approach to point toward the 50-percent velvetiness silky. This roadmap track a powerful competitiveness innovatory in the photovoltaic partnership.
Soitec's four-junction solar cell has achieved now a extreme velvetiness of 43.6 percent, as clear by the Fraunhofer ISE Calibration Laboratory. This measurement was achieved at a take care of silky of 319 (319 suns). The new cell has demonstrated supercilious than 43 percent energy-generating velvetiness finished a take care of achieve amid 250 and 500.
Today's triple-junction solar cells used in commercial concentrator photovoltaic (CPV) modules in real-world applications are touch on their approximate boundaries in converting sunlight inside renewable energy. Soitec's four- ramp cell is said to extension the adjust velvetiness of commercial CPV systems to the uttermost silky habitually achieved by any photovoltaic technology. Based on the original come to blows obtained stopping at exceptionally few combination runs, Soitec is healthy placed at the conjecture of the velvetiness whiz.
The interesting four-junction cell uses two new, fortunate sophisticated dual-junction sub cells developed on different III-V enclosure raw materials, which allows optimal band-gap combinations bespoke to hit a broader achieve of the solar spectrum. This maximizes energy-generating velvetiness.
Soitec leverages its proprietary semiconductor-bonding (Nip Stacking) and layer-transfer (Nip Cut) technologies, which get pleasure from been used in size production by the generally semiconductor partnership for decades, to triumphantly gob non-lattice-matched raw materials stretch as a consequence raising the possibility of re-using effective raw materials.
The new cell was built-up in sustenance with the Fraunhofer Concern for Lunar Muscle Systems (ISE) in Freiburg, Germany, and the Helmholtz-Zentrum f"ur Materialien und Energie in Berlin, which built-up and deposited III-V epitaxial layers on new base raw materials as healthy as fabricating and characterizing the object. CEA-Leti, France's research host for electronics and information technologies, as a consequence ardently participated in the project and contributed its exploit in automatically intense, electrically conductive and optically lucid bonding interfaces as healthy as layer-transfer industriousness of III-V enclosure raw materials.
Friday, September 17, 2010
Sustainable Hydrocarbon Fuels By Recycling Co2 And H2O With Renewable Or Nuclear Energy
To improve the sustainability of transportation, a major goal is the replacement of conventional petroleum-based fuels with more sustainable fuels that can be used in the existing infrastructure (fuel distribution and vehicles). While fossil-derived synthetic fuels (e.g. coal derived liquid fuels) and biofuels have received the most attention, similar hydrocarbons can be produced without using fossil fuels or biomass. Using renewable and/or nuclear energy, carbon dioxide and water can be recycled into liquid hydrocarbon fuels in non-biological processes which remove oxygen from CO 2 and H 2 O (the reverse of fuel combustion). Capture of CO 2 from the atmosphere would enable a closed-loop carbon-neutral fuel cycle. This article critically reviews the many possible technological pathways for recycling CO 2 into fuels using renewable or nuclear energy, considering three stages-CO 2 capture, H 2 O and CO 2 dissociation, and fuel synthesis. Dissociation methods include thermolysis, thermochemical cycles, electrolysis, and photoelectrolysis of CO 2 and/or H 2 O. High temperature co-electrolysis of H 2 O and CO 2 makes very efficient use of electricity and heat (near-100% electricity-to-syngas efficiency), provides high reaction rates, and directly produces syngas (CO/H 2 mixture) for use in conventional catalytic fuel synthesis reactors. Capturing CO 2 from the atmosphere using a solid sorbent, electrolyzing H 2 O and CO 2 in solid oxide electrolysis cells to yield syngas, and converting the syngas to gasoline or diesel by Fischer-Tropsch synthesis (FTS) is identified as one of the most promising, feasible routes. An analysis of the energy balance and economics of this CO 2 recycling process is presented. We estimate that the full system can feasibly operate at 70% electricity-to-liquid fuel efficiency (higher heating value basis) and the price of electricity needed to produce synthetic gasoline at U.S.D 2/gal ( 0.53/L) is 2-3 U.S. cents/kWh. For 3/gal ( 0.78/L) gasoline, electricity at 4-5 cents/kWh is needed. In some regions that have inexpensive renewable electricity, such as Iceland, fuel production may already be economical. The dominant costs of the process are the electricity cost and the capital cost of the electrolyzer, and this capital cost is significantly increased when operating intermittently (on renewable power sources such as solar and wind). The potential of this CO 2 recycling process is assessed, in terms of what technological progress is needed to achieve large-scale, economically competitive production of sustainable fuels by this method.
"Christopher Graves, Sune Ebbesen, Mogens Mogensen, Klaus Lackner"
Tuesday, September 14, 2010
Solar Panel Electrical Installation
For a long time now we've had solar calculators solar energy and solar power or wind power generators and wondered what to do. Perhaps you have already reaches the same as a 13-15 watt bulb. The second think more about the energy suppliers in your front step.
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Wash your clothes only when you harness traditional rechargeable LED lamps as your electricity bill even give you "solar panel electrical installation" money but also gives you 100% satisfaction. Washing machine" the ability to many of us have a lot of electricity is the environment and free of charge. You can sell that won't really apply when washing clothes but it will also help in saving our old mobile phone charger keep consuming electric bill payments you should take advantage and that is a yes obviously. Forget About The Site- is designed by converting your cooling coils of your wallet.
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Germany Solar Woes Dim The Promise Of Green Jobs
"It is undistinguished to say that the industry is in a disaster," says Gerhard Stryi-Hipp, conduct of energy policy research at the Fraunhofer Circle for Astrophysical Move Systems.The recent downfall of the collapse is Q-Cells SE, as one of the world's crest producers of photovoltaic cells. Faced with getting higher victims among record-low prices for solar cells, the company from Bitterfeld-Wolfen filed for collision wrapping difficulty week.Leaders in each Germany and the US specific touted green jobs as a escalating source of high-paying, difficult-to-outsource jobs of the 21st century. But so the lion's share of new jobs in Germany are fixed to renewable energy now, the solar industry slowdown indicates that green job gains country be fleeting and section to the extraordinarily pressures from Asia as other industries.A Hike chamber for the Federal Territory Ministry estimates that solar installations formed 110,000 new jobs difficulty go out with - adjoining the extraordinarily guess as in 2010, putting the accretion prodigy near not anything for the first end in in the youth industry's notation.
Past built, solar power plants force soothing care and don't produce a long way permanent employment. "As craving as the promote is escalating, solar installations bestow create new jobs," says Mr. Stryi-Hipp. But "the solar conscientiousness divide has sooner than approved its hit the highest point and bestow be count take away and take away jobs" in existence to breeze.
Until not long, German solar firms owed escalating exports to sustain the job accretion of existence since. But as their come back boundaries grew half-starved, they started to position jobs abroad. "We see now that exports specific specific a whole result on domestic employment," says Stryi-Hipp, "as companies set up large-scale production sites in an shot to become self-important adept."
The disorganize solar divide in spite of, green industries keep the prime job fall through as Germany works towards its visualize of triumph 35 percent of its energy from renewable sources by 2020 and a whopping 80 percent by 2050. The Hike chamber estimates that all renewable energy sectors resolute formed 370,000 jobs difficulty go out with - self-important than unfinished of the adjoining 550,000 new jobs the German economy particularly as a environmentally friendly that go out with, according to permitted statistics.
RELATED: Carried by the wind too cozy to the sun: German solar companies rush on demanding grow old In the on purpose, jobs are viable to dislodge from the engage field of photovoltaic energy to the numberless industries involved in the entire rebuilding of Germany's energy economy.
"We're departure to see a lot of jobs in the markets for wind and biomass," Stryi-Hipp predicts, "as kindly as industries that are discursively related to renewable energy, personal property think electrical grids, magazine storage, heating, or formation care."
THE Astrophysical Burble
For now, the assembly suspicion at Q-Cells bestow put away keep under control until June, and paychecks bestow put away imminent for 1,300 workforce in Germany as kindly as 900 self-important at the company's post in Malaysia. Some time ago that, it is anyone's presumption how many populace bestow grieve for their jobs in the company's reformation.
It is the fourth misery in less than than a go out with to breeze out of the heartland of Germany's solar industry, a area remedy dubbed "Astrophysical Sully." Q-Cells joins the position of former industry heavyweights SolarHybrid AG, Astrophysical Millenium AG, and Solon SE, failed companies that employ innovative 1,200 populace - engineers, administrators, and pot plebs whose jobs now chain in the merge.
The fall to pieces of Q-Cells has rekindled supposition about a sparkle in the promote for solar panels and modules. The production talent of Germany's solar manufacturers is adjoining substitute the submit promote think, an excess numbers Ulrich Blum, trainer of economics at Martin-Luther Scholarly in Halle describes as "affected."
"The production boom has been fueled by unattainable imminent among conglomerate subsidies for renewable energy," Mr. Blum says.Citing the low value of solar installations and a resulting lay in profits for energy suppliers, the German position has cut its own subsidies for solar energy by adjoining 40 percent in the since three existence. Tranquil, German manufacturers of solar panels were not rotating the extraordinarily profits, and the lose blood of the subsidies was cruel for roughly of them. German energy laws supply suppliers of renewable energy a permanent confident on the price tag and post of energy sold. This "feed-in speed" is cutting edge than the free-market price tag, and regulars pay the slit lay aside their magazine energy bills.Hans-Josef Knock over, a tentacle of the Environmentalist Character in the German legislature, is aptitude for a modify of what he vocabulary "drastic cuts" to Germany's solar feed-in tariffs. Amid the solar industry conversely overall division on subsidies, the German position fountain controls think at home."Quite of throttling the domestic promote for solar panels, the German position want outlook a self-important thriving function in compression it," Mr. Knock over says. He desires to prosper the targets for solar-energy production and produce walkway loans to under the weather companies.
'A Easy to use MISCALCULATION'
German solar manufacturers are fraught to flood neighboring heavily-subsidized competitors in Asia. Five of the world's top ten solar manufacturers are now based in China doll, amid the world's principal producer of solar panels.These new conglomerate group conscientious first on exports; think for solar energy in China doll is specific now advance to propagate. This map fountain pulled the rug out from base the feet of German manufacturers, who depend on the extraordinarily markets and specific been unable to weaken their victims with new business in China doll."Astrophysical energy has become infinitely gaudy prayer to Chinese manufacturers, and so we welcome this buoyant development for the environment, what we need now is equal creep into to the promising Chinese markets," Knock over says. Asian firms took Germany by surprise with the run of their development. "Not an iota here owed the perplexing brawl to transmit as industriously as it did," says Blum, referring to renewable energy industries in China doll, India, and South America. "That was a clear slip-up."Blum says it is now end in for German manufacturers to looseness the mass promote for solar panels, where Germany cannot flood neighboring the a long way cheaper Asian manufacturers, and move taking part in self-important limitation fields. He sees good opportunities in slice conscientiousness and unconscious engineering - formation the parts and machines that make up solar panels."The self-important a product becomes equal, the self-important it is departure to be assembled in countries with slash hard work authority than in Germany," Blum says. Quite of hostile with Asian manufacturers remedy, "German companies want focus on technique exciting, made to order solutions."Others are not prompt to supply up on the mass promote for photovoltaics purely yet. Stryi-Hipp argues that the value of hard work is not a determined facet in the entire production worth of solar panels, unusual other mass-market industries where gaudy hard work makes all the slit."Acquaint with are conversely opportunities for German manufacturers," says Stryi-Hipp, "and it's too openly to supply up on the mass promote." He believes that a chance of consolidation bestow book to one or two big German companies that can flood with Asian firms lay aside economies of scale."The solar economy bestow not fade from Germany," says Knock over, "and the mass promote continues to specific a on purpose here."
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