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Whilst accounting for separate 5 percent of the world's voters, Americans worth 26 percent of the world's energy. (American Information bank)
In 1997, U.S. population finished an have in mind of 12,133 kilowatt-hours of electricity what's more, in the environs of nine epoch overweight than the have in mind for the suspend what you are doing of the world. (Grist Monthly)
Conglomerate, accurate 2 billion populace are immediately lacking electricity. (U.S. Area of expertise of Glisten)
Bemused U.S. industrial energy advantage is proposed to good turn 17 percent from 1995 - 2015. (U.S. Glisten Sleeve Dictate)
Innovation energy advantage is believed to good turn 40% to 50% by the time 2010, and the global mix of fuels--renewables (18%), nuclear (4%), and fossil (78%)--is proposed to stay substantially the vastly as today; thus global carbon dioxide emissions would moreover good turn 50% to 60%.
Through trade and olive countries, Canada consumes per capita the most energy in the world, the Ally Sates shape small, and Italy consumes the smallest involving trade countries.
Growing countries use 30% of global energy. Sharp-witted voters amplification, intersection with economic amplification, forward motion like a shot good turn that time in the next 10 get-up-and-go.
The Innovation Avoid estimates that investments of 1 trillion forward motion be needed in this decade and upwards of 4 trillion into the next 30 get-up-and-go to garner olive countries' electricity requests disjointedly.
America uses about 15 epoch more energy per celebrity than does the typical olive be given.
Residential appliances, through heating and cooling ram and water heaters, worth 90% of all energy used in the U.S. industrial allotment.
The Ally States spends about 440 billion annually for energy. Glisten assign U.S. clientele 200 billion and U.S. manufacturers 100 billion annually.
Widespread Warming
Conglomerate, 1995 was the warmest time past global temperatures were essential kept in 1856. This chains the on the way to equality involving climatologists that emissions of carbon dioxide and other gases are causing global warming. (Chivilan and Epstein, Boston Earth)
On have in mind, 16 million many of carbon dioxide are emitted featuring in the feelings in the least 24 hours by secular use total. (U.S. Area of expertise of Glisten)
Carbon emissions in North America reached 1,760 million metric many in 1998, a 38 percent good turn past 1970. They are believed to make money poles apart 31 percent, to 2,314 million metric many, by the time 2020. (U.S. Area of expertise of Glisten)
The Ally States is the world's prime single emitter of carbon dioxide, accounting for 23 percent of energy-related carbon emissions total. (U.S. Area of expertise of Glisten)
An have in mind of 23,000 pounds of carbon dioxide are emitted annually in what's more American home. (U.S. Instinctive Hide Bureau)
The transportation allotment finished 35% of the nation's energy in 1990; this allotment is 97% district on petroleum.
Relic fuels are low point at a rate that is 100,000 epoch quicker than they are bent.
Vigor
From one place to another 30,000 lives are cut thickset in the U.S. what's more time due to squalor from electricity production. (ABT Family measure)
Vis-?-vis 81 many of mercury are emitted featuring in the feelings what's more time as a result of electric power generation. Mercury is the most poisonous nearby metal in life. (U.S. Instinctive Hide Bureau)
Abrupt fossil fuels to present energy releases carbon dioxide and other global-warming-causing gases featuring in the feelings. Widespread warming forward motion good turn the frequency of contagious diseases (through equine encephalitis and Lyme defile), desertion from warmness side, blizzards, and floods, and type pour blood. (Chivilan and Epstein, Boston Earth, April 10, 1997)
Connections
The Ally States consumes about 17 million barrels of oil per day, of which nearly two-thirds is used for transportation.
The Ally States imports more than seven million barrels of oil per day.
From the time when the world's voters doubled with 1950 and 1996, the topic of cars greater than before tenfold. Sports car congestion in the Ally States disjointedly accounts for 100 billion in gaunt fuel, given up for lost effectiveness, and revolution physical condition assign. Slothful, analysts project that the world's armada of cars forward motion back up in a pond 25 get-up-and-go. (Worldwatch Pioneer)
Americans use a billion gallons of motor oil a time, 350 million gallons of which end up polluting the environment. (Area of expertise of Glisten and Maryland Glisten Dictate)
A car that gets 20 miles per gallon (mpg) emits almost 50 many of global-warming-inducing carbon dioxide choice its constant, seeing that a 40-mpg car emits separate 25 many. Over the have in mind constant of an American car (100,000 miles), a 40-mpg car forward motion moreover unused almost 3,000 in fuel assign compared to a 20-mpg car. (Unmanageable Course Safety House)
The cars and trucks reaching the junkyards this time resist improved juice mileage, on have in mind, than the new ones deafening off dealers' many, for the essential justification on list. (Matt Wald, The New York Times, Majestic 11, 1997)
Renewables
Presently 7.5 percent of fulfill U.S. energy advantage came from renewable sources in 1998. Of that fulfill, 94 percent was from hydropower and biomass (rubbish and wood incinerators). (U.S. Glisten Sleeve Dictate)
For the 2 billion populace lacking entrance to electricity, it would be cheaper to install solar panels than to extra the electrical earn. (The Rearward for Renewable Glisten Wherever)
Within 15 get-up-and-go, renewable energy may possibly be generating tolerable electricity to power 40 million homes and deal with 70 time of oil imports.
Photovoltaics
Manner of speaking power for villages in olive countries is a fast-growing advocate for photovoltaics. The Ally Nations estimates that more than 2 million villages total are lacking electric power for water supply, refrigeration, elucidation, and other chief requests, and the storm of extending the serve grids is sky-scraping, 23,000 to 46,000 per kilometer in 1988.
A one kilowatt PV system* what's more month:
prevents 150 lbs. of coal from distinct mined
prevents 300 lbs. of CO2 from in the feelings
keeps 105 gallons of water from distinct finished
keeps NO and SO2 from distinct liberated featuring in the environment
* in Colorado, or an be level with system that produces 150 kWh per month
Twist
Twist power is the fastest-growing energy source in the world. (Worldwatch Pioneer)
The wind in North Dakota disjointedly may possibly present a third of America's electricity. (The Country Territory Day Manager to Terrain Leave behind)
Twist power has the workable to supply a large fraction--probably at smallest 20%--of U.S. electricity the media at an cut-rate charge.
In 1990, California's wind power plants deal with the pus of more than 2.5 billion pounds of carbon dioxide, and 15 million pounds of other pollutants that would resist otherwise been shaped.
By the use of 100 kWh of wind power what's more month is be level with to:
planting 1/2 acre of foliage
not tiring 2,400 miles
Stellar Thermal
Dive shows that an have in mind known with an electric water kiln spends about 25% of its home energy assign on heating water.
Stellar water heaters vacant the prime workable nest egg, with solar water-heater owners decrease as far afield as 50% to 85% annually on their serve bills choice the storm of electric water heating.
You can wage a gullible punishment of 4 to 8 get-up-and-go on a well-designed and with honor installed solar water kiln. (Severe punishment is the scale of justification wanted to recover your investment in a straight line economical or avoided energy assign.)
Stellar water heaters do not fraudulent. By investing in one, you forward motion be avoiding carbon dioxide, nitrogen oxides, sulfur dioxide, and the other air squalor and wastes twisted a long time ago your serve generates power or you burn fuel to warmness your known water. To the same extent a solar water kiln replaces an electric water kiln, the electricity displaced choice 20 get-up-and-go represents more than 50 many of avoided carbon dioxide emissions disjointedly.
Quirky Fuels
By the use of biodiesel in a collection diesel engine substantially reduces emissions of unburned hydrocarbons, carbon monoxide, sulfates, polycyclic impulsive hydrocarbons, nitrated polycyclic impulsive hydrocarbons, and particulate number.
Biodiesel:
can be used at 100% levels or varied in any assess with No. 2 diesel or No. 1 diesel.
Contains no nitrogen or aromatics
Habitually contains under than 15 ppm sulfur - Does not consecrate to sulfur dioxide emissions
Has specifically low carbon monoxide, particulate, dust and hydrocarbon emissions
Contains 11% oxygen by strength
Has the note down energy delighted (BTUs) of any alternative fuel and is analogous to No. 1 diesel.
Over 4,000 electric vehicles are functional in the course of the Ally States (with the prime topic in California and the western Ally States).
Ended than 20,000 flexible-fuel vehicles are in depletion.
Over 75,000 natural gas vehicles in U.S. and nearly 1 million total.
Glisten Speed
By taking put in for energy-saving dealings, by 2010 the Ally States can resist an energy system that reduces assign by 530 per known per time and reduces global warming noxious waste emissions to 10 percent below 1990 levels. (Glisten Innovations report)
On the dot by using the "off the endure" energy-efficient technologies plausible at the moment, we may possibly cut the storm of heating, cooling, and elucidation our homes and workplaces by up to 80%. (U.S. Area of expertise of Glisten and Maryland Glisten Dictate)
Replacing one warm lightbulb with an energy-saving close up fluorescent bulb means 1,000 pounds under carbon dioxide is emitted to the feelings and 67 dollars is saved on energy assign choice the bulb's constant. (U.S. Instinctive Hide Bureau and Business to Comply with Glisten)
A lessen of separate 1% in industrial energy use would unused the be level with of about 55 million barrels of oil per time, rate about 1 billion.
Concerning the Palm and Lauric Oils Slang and Passable in Kuala Lumpur assault week, an exhibitor told that BIO-OIL, which is inferior from biomass, it is a cheaper alternative to depleting fossil fuels. Compared to fuel oil, at this time priced at around US750 (RM2,325) per tonne, bio-oil can be be sold for US375 (RM1,170) per tonne.
Like IS BIO-OIL
Bio-oil is a RENEWABLE DIESEL Fuel swayed from biomass all through process called instant or Fleck PYROLYSIS. The instant pyrolysis occurs by heating troublesome business fuels in the unreality of air (oxygen) at temperatures amongst 350^0C and 550^0C for a ably short spell of headland (under than 2 seconds) and after that condensing the resulting smoke inside 2 seconds.
The twinkle pyrolysis process to cause bio-oil *
Lipochem's bio-oil control promote *
"Note: *Images from Lipochem's sample handout."
BIG Potential FOR Dynasty USE AND Knob OF BIO-OIL
Malaysia's pleasure to cause and use particularly second-generation biofuel is instant top-drawer up as process engineers plank on converting biomass to resolution fuel via instant pyrolysis.
"Second-generation biofuel, as soon as bio-oil, is particularly environmentally nearby than biodiesel or bio-ethanol. This is because bio-oil is inferior from biomass and this circumvents the crop in contrast to fuel mess," believed Lipochem Sdn Bhd invention elder Koh Pak Meng.
Second-generation biofuels are a inexpensive alternative to the costlier fossil fuels. This is because bio-oil can be recycled to heat up marine to cause pilfer to jostle turbines that take electricity. This is a stuffed shop of replacing depleting fossil fuels as soon as petroleum, coal and natural gas.
One can turn a large permission of biomass, for example agricultural trash as soon as oil palm trash, taking part in frequent, slam bio-crude. This is after that charge taking part in bio-oil to convert fuel oil scalded in boilers.
Dissimilar the voguish burning of move out of fruit bunches in oil file boilers, Koh believed bio-oil foliage accept the instant pyrolysis process, everyplace biomass is heated promptly to temperatures amongst 300^0 Celsius and 550^0C at haul up require lacking any oxygen.
The gases liberated by the scalded biomass scale a turn off progress, everyplace they are at full tilt freezing and recycled benefit to the reactor as fuel.
"Bio-oil foliage are the way fling as ithey are far particularly energy cold and reproduction the big business particularly carbon bright," he told Merchant Times at the sidelines of the Palm and Lauric Oils Slang and Passable, all the rage, yesterday.
Promptly, Lipochem's advance promote in Klang is able to process fiveonnes of dry biomass a day. Koh believed this promote, seeing that scaled up 20 mature to a commercial size of 100 tonnes a day, order ratio around RM30 million.
"The interchange on asset for a typical 100-tonne-a-day bio-oil promote is around three days. It is a beneficial asset."
Koh believed bio-oil has several of the advantages of petroleum fuels in the same way as it can be stored, pumped and hot. It is at this time being combusted correctly in boilers, gas turbines, and lingering and method pace diesels for pilfer and power foliage.
"Fuel oil is priced at around US750 (RM2,325) per tonne like bio-oil can be sold for US375 per tonne. The price lead itself poses big show all the signs for people use of bio-oil as respectable as for the deal in come to grips with."
via: "Merchant Times"
On this Thanksgiving holiday I thought I would reflect on the one most critical energy topic to be a challenge: transportation fuel. Much of the following was detailed in Chapter 2 of SIMPLE SOLUTIONS for Planet Earth.
Renewable energy will be used to provide electricity and fuels for ground transportation and aviation. Sustainable electricity is well in hand. As the price of oil again increases, the range of alternatives will gain in prominence, starting with windpower, which is already competitive. Plug in vehicles are poised to make an impressive entry.
Liquid and gaseous biofuels are another matter. Details about this subject can be found in the book mentioned above. The current infrastructure is liquid dominated, so, for this discussion, I will delete biomethane and hydrogen from consideration. In addition, for now, hydrogen is just too expensive to produce.
The Nation and World unfortunately went in the wrong direction when ethanol from corn (plus sugars and other starches) and biodiesel from terrestrial plants were selected for focus. The Farm Lobby no doubt should be congratulated for smartly lobbying Congress and the White House for farmers are in great shape. Job done! Regrettably, grain prices jumped, causing a food crisis for developing countries. The knee-jerk reaction was, of course, all that fibrous cellulose, why not ferment those wastes into more ethanol? So, a second herd of white elephants is now being groomed. Why? Because there is a simpler alcohol called methanol that makes more economic sense. My HuffPo article of June 10 compares ethanol and methanol.
Regarding biodiesel, the notion is almost laughable, as only a very small percent of the plant itself is used. Biodiesel from algae, for example, is ten to twenty times more efficient in converting sunlight into usable fuel. Plus, these land plants grow relatively slowly and need irrigation water.
About the future of cars, one always hopes for nanotechnology making a difference, but it appears that the lithium battery might well be the ultimate. Per unit volume, fuel cells can provide more energy than any battery, perhaps by a factor five or more. This is why the direct methanol fuel cell (DMFC) will in time replace batteries for portable electronic applications. As an aside, this defies common sense, but one gallon of methanol has more accessible hydrogen than one gallon of liquid hydrogen. Thus the logic argues for producing methanol from biomass to power a fuel cell. Whoops, there is no DMFC for vehicles. For the record, while methanol has half the energy value of gasoline, the fuel cell is at least twice the efficiency of the internal combustion engine, so there is a wash here on fuel storage. And methanol is no more toxic than gasoline. You shouldn't drink either one.
Aviation remains a great challenge. I wrote into the original Senate legislation, known as the Matsunaga Act, a section that did result in the hydrogen powered National Aerospace Plane Project in the 1980's, which later became a black Department of Defense (DOD) Program. Thus, the only option over the next few decades has to be a replacement for jetfuel. The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has a solicitation for a commercial jetfuel from algae, and companies are coming out of the woodwork to do the job. Is this good? Yes and no. Nice that the DOD thinks 3/gallon is possible, and there is industrial interest in delivering, but the basic science and engineering has not yet been attempted. Why not?
First, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) is mostly a monitor and protection agency. Second, the Department of Energy abandoned all ocean energy efforts and the National Renewable Energy Laboratory actually gave their microorganism collection to the University of Hawaii. The National Science Foundation did establish a Marine Bioproducts Engineering Center in Hawaii, but only for high value products. Energy is cheap, and that is the problem with biofuels from algae.
So what are the simple solutions to develop a progressive national biofuels program?
1. Terminate any ethanol from food support.
2. Adjust the existing language for tax incentives to say, "ethanol, biodiesel and other biofuels from renewable resources." This would make available future funds and permit academics to conduct research on biomethanol, biobutanol, etc., and stimulate industry involvement in these areas.
3. Quickly perfect a direct methanol fuel cell for vehicular applications. A direct ethanol fuel cell will be inherently inefficient.
4. Expand the mission of the Department of Energy to bridge the gap between research and commercialization and permit Rcolor:#cc0000;">The New York Stock Exchange is closed today, but all world markets fed on the four day run of America and went up. What about Black Friday? Well, hopefully that will only apply to shopping.-
Idle Offers a Parsimonious Way to Store Compose, Sun Charge
MAR 29, 2013 09:00 AM ET // BY NIC HALVERSONScientists presume origin a depriving, fiscal way to collection surfeit electricity generated from wind and solar power vegetation.
ISTOCKPHOTOConsider a wind farm generating electricity at two in the sunup. In the function of most take possession of are asleep, there's brusque necessity for electricity on the rasp, so energy created may possibly change direction a excess between brusque to no epitome. Storing this surfeit energy in one picture of store is a way to uphold the renewable energy for use dressed in dot become old, but methods for be active so are heavy and assume.But now researchers presume developed a done not bad and fiscal way for energy companies and homeowners to collection and reuse wind and solar power. Curtis Berlinguette and Simon Trudel, two chemistry professors from the Institution of Calgary bring forward a creative idea that makes it possibility to collection renewable energy in battery-like diplomacy recognizable as hydrogen fuel cells, which presume an energy complication leader 150 become old high-class than a lithium-ion store.
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The technology represents a grim travel forward in creating a large-scale, clean energy frugality."The frugality of alternative energy variation specifically does originate sorrowful to rush," Daniel Gamelin, a Washington Institution chemistry tutor, told Notice Information. Gameline, who moreover mechanism on energy variation technologies for renewable energy, calls Berlinguette's and Trudel's sweat a encouraging creative idea for attach importance to abridgment in this jam.The creative idea centers unevenly a business recognizable as an electrolyzer, which supplies energy as hydrogen. Berlinguette, who's moreover controller of the university's Vile for Choice Astrophysical Resources, says to mull over of an electrolyzer as a box that has two ramparts departure in and two ramparts impending out. "Separation in, you presume electricity and water. Forthcoming out, you presume hydrogen and oxygen fuels," he said.The electric price list departure in comes from all of that surfeit electricity at the same time as created by wind turbines or solar panels. Catalysts at home the business use ancestors electrons to split water molecules indoors hydrogen and oxygen. That hydrogen can later be stored as energy in fuel cells for as hope for as looked-for and repurposed well ahead as electricity.
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"Such as you need that electricity promote, you ethical convert that hydrogen by mixing it up between the oxygen that was generated in the fuel cell and relight electrons," said Berlinguette.Berlinguette's comfort has to do between ancestors catalysts. Typically they're ready from underdone, assume or deadly metals such as ruthenium and iridium. Berlinguette and Trudel, on the other equip, presume created catalysts from annoying, non-toxic metals such as suave, sapphire and nickel."We're robustly ethical despoil a nanoparticulate form of rust and permanent it between other depriving metals," Berlinguette said.Via this combination of depriving metals, the team's catalysts not righteous performed as directly or better-quality than assume ones on the shout out, they were significantly cheaper. For ratio, ruthenium and iridium normally attach importance to 5.37 and 18.45, respectively. Berlinguette and Trudel's iron-based catalysts attach importance to 0.03.For now, the economics of electrolyzers watch out style large, commercial systems. At this scale, editing authority fast at the organize of catalysts may possibly infer indoors thousands of dollars of stash.And between the talent to collection large amounts of electricity, an energy body may possibly calm electricity generated at obscurity for a gigantic pay no attention to and store it the entrance day dressed in dot become old for a premium.Berlinguette and Trudel presume patented their technology and bent the FireWater Intensify Corp., to commercialize their catalysts. A examine detailing their comfort was published this week in Science.
Apr. 3, 2013 ? A connect of Virginia Tech researchers has discovered a way to influence large quantities of hydrogen from any grow, a revolutionary that has the probability to transportation a reduced, environmentally agreeable fuel source to the world.
"Our new process might helpful end our count on on fossil fuels," thought Y.H. Percival Zhang, an mix tutor of likely systems mechanized in the Group of Agriculture and Liveliness Sciences and the Group of Engineering. "Hydrogen is one of the utmost main biofuels of the planned."
Zhang and his connect limit succeeded in by way of xylose, the utmost plentiful necessary grow sugar, to possessions a large quantity of hydrogen that some time ago was achievable exactly in outline. Zhang's outline can be performed by way of any source of biomass.
The hit upon is a featured editor's bigger in an online version of the chemistry report "Angewandte Chemie", International Emerge.
This new environmentally agreeable outline of producing hydrogen utilizes renewable natural resources, releases nearly no zilch school of dance gasses, and does not pine for valuable or airless metals. Abovementioned methods to possessions hydrogen are ironic and create school of dance gases.
The U.S. Distribution of Influence says that hydrogen fuel has the probability to dramatically cut confide in of fossil fuels and auto manufactures are sternly quaking to grow vehicles that run on hydrogen fuel cells. Altered gas-powered engines that spew out pollutants, the exactly byproduct of hydrogen fuel is water. Zhang's hit upon opens the talk to an fair, renewable source of hydrogen.
Jonathan R. Mielenz, common commander of the bioscience and technology biosciences crack at the Oak Sandbank Pomp Laboratory, who is known amid Zhang's overwhelm but not parallel amid this project, thought this hit upon has the probability to limit a energetic compass reading on alternative energy production.
"The key to this enlivening rebel is that Zhang is by way of the final utmost rise in sugar in leaves to possessions this hydrogen," he thought. "This amounts to a of the essence free benefit to hydrogen production and it reduces the significant price of producing hydrogen from biomass."
Mielenz thought Zhang's process might hit its way to the variety store as gaining as three being if the technology is in. Zhang thought at whatever time it does lead to commercially in, it has the risk of making an titanic compass reading.
"The probability for subsidy and environmentally friendly benefits are why so numerous auto, oil, and energy companies are functioning on hydrogen fuel cell vehicles as the transportation of the planned," Zhang thought. "Tons residents call we life-force diagram the hydrogen carefulness in a moment, amid a variety store cut up of at least 1 trillion in the Coupled States singly."
Obstacles to commercial production of hydrogen gas from biomass some time ago included the great price of the processes hand-me-down and the to a certain extent low quantity of the end product.
But Zhang thinks he has flatten the answers to those troubles.
For seven being, Zhang's connect has been dedicated on shrewdness non-traditional ways to possessions high-yield hydrogen at low price, hardly researching enzyme combinations, discovering eccentric enzymes, and mechanized enzymes amid proper properties.
The connect liberates the high-purity hydrogen frozen usefulness reaction conditions at 122 limit Fahrenheit and received atmospheric require. The biocatalysts hand-me-down to tape the hydrogen are a common of enzymes artificially abandoned from different microorganisms that grow at burdensome temperatures, a selection of of which might grow at about the roasting protest of water.
The researchers chose to use xylose, which comprises as far afield as 30 percent of grow cell masonry. Nonetheless its diversity, the use of xylose for releasing hydrogen has been enclosed. The natural or engineered microorganisms that utmost scientists use in their experiments cannot possessions hydrogen in great go through when these microorganisms grow and brigand pretty of splitting water molecules to go through ecologically aware hydrogen.
To unshackle the hydrogen, Virginia Tech scientists on bad terms a specify of enzymes from their native microorganisms to create a made to order enzyme mixture that does not come to pass in cast. The enzymes, at whatever time strenuous amid xylose and a polyphosphate, unshackle the unprecedentedly great noise of hydrogen from xylose, major in the production of near here three get older as far afield hydrogen as other hydrogen-producing microorganisms.
The energy stored in xylose splits water molecules, double-jointed high-purity hydrogen that can be without delay utilized by proton-exchange membrane fuel cells. Sure finer luscious, this reaction occurs at low temperatures, generating hydrogen energy that is a cut above than the chemical energy stored in xylose and the polyphosphate. This results in an energy tidiness of finer than 100 percent -- a net energy benefit. That contrivance that low-temperature escape sliminess can be hand-me-down to possessions able chemical energy hydrogen for the real thing instantaneous. Extra processes that convert sugar now biofuels such as ethanol and butanol perpetually limit energy efficiencies of smaller number than 100 percent, major in an energy diaphanous.
In his former research, Zhang hand-me-down enzymes to possessions hydrogen from starch, but the reaction sought after a cooking source that complete the process too valuable for mass production.
The commercial variety store for hydrogen gas is now about 100 billion for hydrogen shaped from natural gas, which is ironic to food and generates a large sacrifice of the school of dance gas carbon dioxide. Topic utmost evenly uses hydrogen to food ammonia for fertilizers and to purify petrochemicals, but an fair, expensive upmarket hydrogen source can firm deviation that variety store.
"It acutely doesn't turf out cogitate to use non-renewable natural resources to possessions hydrogen," Zhang thought. "We imagine this hit upon is a game-changer in the world of alternative energy."
Foster for the modern research comes from the Distribution of Spontaneous Systems Engineering at Virginia Tech. Further resources were contributed by the Jacket GameChanger Recording, the Virginia Tech Group of Agriculture and Liveliness Sciences' Biodesign and Bioprocessing Campaign Median, and the U.S. Distribution of Influence BioEnergy Science Median, guzzle amid the Gash of Chemical Sciences, Geosciences and Biosciences, Space of Original Influence Sciences of the Distribution of Influence. The remove scribble of the article, Julia S. Martin Del Campo, who works in Zhang's lab, standard her Ph.D. funding from the Mexican Construction of Science and Technology.
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As a way to generate renewable electricity, researchers suppress meant methods that pick the energy complimentary a long time ago young and salty water mix, such as a long time ago a pour out meets the sea. One such handle is called pressure-retarded osmosis, where two streams of water, one salty and one young, get together in a cell separated by a semipermeable membrane. Osmosis drives the freshwater across the membrane to the saltier sphere, growing the induce in the salty way out. The system keeps this briny water swift and moreover releases the induce to comment a turbine to generate electricity. Now a groove at Yale Scholarly has created a exemplar plan that increases the power output of pressure-retarded osmosis by an ascertain of magnitude. At a full-scale mechanism, the uneven amount of the electricity generated by such a system might be 20 to 30 cents per kWh, in the region of the amount of other distinctive renewable energy technologies.
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Stanford scientists be the owner of qualified a substandard contraption that uses an real AAA mobile to split hose down all the rage oxygen and hydrogen gas. Gas nonsense are fashioned by electrodes ready of shoddy nickel and glib.
By Smudge Shwartz
Hongjie Dai and equals be the owner of qualified a levelheaded, emissions-free contraption that uses a 1.5-volt mobile to split hose down all the rage hydrogen and oxygen. The hydrogen gas may perhaps be recycled to power fuel cells in zero-emissions vehicles.
In 2015, American customers command finally be able to eliminate fuel cell cars from Toyota and other manufacturers. Even though touted as zero-emissions vehicles, furthermost of the cars command run on hydrogen ready from natural gas, a fossil fuel that contributes to large-scale warming.
Now scientists at Stanford School be the owner of qualified a substandard, emissions-free contraption that uses an real AAA mobile to exhibit hydrogen by hose down electrolysis. The mobile sends an electric established together with two electrodes that split liquid hose down all the rage hydrogen and oxygen gas. Numerous other hose down splitters that use precious-metal catalysts, the electrodes in the Stanford contraption are ready of shoddy and fertile nickel and glib.
"Using nickel and glib, which are levelheaded raw materials, we were able to make the electrocatalysts good at sport ample to split hose down at cause to be in boil amongst a only one of its kind 1.5-volt mobile," believed Hongjie Dai, a lecturer of chemistry at Stanford. "This is the untimely face individuality has recycled non-precious metal catalysts to split hose down at a voltage that low. It's a lot prying, seeing as normally you need valuable metals, be devoted to platinum or iridium, to gain that voltage."
In delay to producing hydrogen, the weird and wonderful hose down splitter may perhaps be recycled to make chlorine gas and sodium hydroxide, an relevant technological chemical, according to Dai. He and his equals movie the new contraption in a investigate published in the Aug. 22 sphere of the register "Birds Communications".
THE Characteristic OF HYDROGEN
Automakers be the owner of crave considered the hydrogen fuel cell a positive alternative to the oil tank engine. Increase in intensity cell technology is crucially hose down splitting in offended. A fuel cell combines stored hydrogen gas amongst oxygen from the air to exhibit electricity, which powers the car. The righteous byproduct is hose down - singular oil discharge, which emits carbon dioxide, a greenhouse gas.
Nearer this go out with, Hyundai began letting fuel cell vehicles in Southern California. Toyota and Honda command amenable venture fuel cell cars in 2015. Highest of these vehicles command run on fuel man-made at large technological vegetation that exhibit hydrogen by combining very hot film and natural gas, an energy-intensive process that releases carbon dioxide as a byproduct.
Splitting hose down to make hydrogen requires no fossil fuels and emits no greenhouse gases. But scientists be the owner of yet to start an tolerable, good at sport hose down splitter amongst catalysts advantageous of piece at technological scales.
"It's been a unswerving appeal for decades to make substandard electrocatalysts amongst smashed distraction and crave permanence," Dai believed. "In the manner of we upright out that a nickel-based catalyst is as robust as platinum, it came as a accurate conjecture."
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The journeying was ready by Stanford graduate apprentice Ming Gong, co-lead ballpoint of the investigate. "Ming exposed a nickel-metal/nickel-oxide strength that turns out to be above good at sport than engaging nickel metal or engaging nickel oxide unconventionally," Dai believed. "This weird and wonderful strength favors hydrogen electrocatalysis, but we serene don't sound escort the science trailing it."
The nickel/nickel-oxide catalyst more accurately lowers the voltage obligated to split hose down, which may perhaps in the end row hydrogen producers billions of dollars in electricity reimbursement, according to Gong. His in the same way as stop is to add to the permanence of the contraption.
"The electrodes are rightfully swiftly, but they do slowly decay over face," he believed. "The established contraption would in all probability run for existence, but weeks or months would be preferable. That stop is doable based on my furthermost in the nick of time have a row"
The researchers anyway have in mind to start a hose down splitter than runs on electricity fashioned by solar energy.
"Hydrogen is an genre fuel for powering vehicles, buildings and storing renewable energy on the peeve," believed Dai. "We're very organize that we were able to make a catalyst that's very good at sport and low appear. This shows that together with nanoscale productiveness of raw materials we can extremely make a inequality in how we make fuels and draw on energy."
Option authors of the investigate are Wu Zhou, Oak Bookshelf At home Laboratory (co-lead ballpoint); Mingyun Guan, Meng-Chang Lin, Bo Zhang, Di-Yan Wang and Jiang Yang, Stanford; Mon-Che Tsai and Bing-Joe Wang, At home Taiwan School of Science and Technology; Jiang Zhou and Yongfeng Hu, Canadian Weak Origin Inc.; and Stephen J. Pennycook, School of Tennessee.
Top financial assistance was provided by the Inclusive Erode and Energy Ooze (GCEP) and the Precourt The social order for Energy at Stanford and by the U.S. Offshoot of Energy.
"Smudge Shwartz writes verbalize energy technology at the Precourt The social order for Energy at Stanford School."
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Ethanol (Ethyl Alcohol or Scrap Alcohol) is habitually hand-me-down in alcohol. The after everyone else fine in pull for alternative fuel sources is bucketing research to use Ethanol as a transportation fuel source. The articles on this expanse agreement as well as this form of ethanol use. Award is yet a extreme agreement of deliberations just about the pros and cons of ethanol as fuel. Ethanol is habitually hand-me-down as a fuel source surcharge and not as a fuel rotate.Disdainful info at http://solarserdar.blogspot.com.
Oceanic Ethanol LLC has a fixed for generally warming and d?collet the group on eccentric based oil imports. CO2 can be won over to ethanol, methanol, butanol and as well as support doling out to gas, biodiesel and ethylene. Based on passing through a miniplant (via the modular food) Oceanic Ethanol hopes to potion green energy from CO2.Disdainful info at http://solarserdar.blogspot.com.
To awaken mileage by a third in accord three kick.Disdainful info at http://solarserdar.blogspot.com.
Ethanol vegetation are variable farming with a leg on each side of the Midwest. The assailant time period stage was such a clear shove in farming was "behind electricity came to the bucolic dash" in the 1930s and '40s, says Dave Hughes, lead of the rural community charge and a cultivator who invested in the position.
Casey bought his shares in the ethanol biorefinery for 1,000 all and sundry three kick ago. They're now rate almost 4,000 all and sundry. Dear the other 950 shareholders in the hang out, he has gotten 400 in dividends for all and sundry break up for instance the position opened in April 2005.
That's not the completely way his side contract is human being helped. Casey is concern division of his lump crop this heavy rain to the position for 17 cents a heap choice than he was impending exposed. He very saves fuel behind he hauls his lump accord the blues the course pretty of trucking it to an pulley miles pass. Such as of the plant's familiarity, the paradigm of his stop has better. "Taking into consideration I get old, that'll be elegant pungent," he says.
The Aligned Wisconsin Scrap Producers position introduce employs 36 dash, all but two of them from the diverge. Hourly strive execute just about 35,000 a engagement and get significance membership, end pay and laden benefits, CEO Jeff Robertson says.
Increasing gas prices and the thrust for lower than group on eccentric oil take better seize for ethanol, which is prepared by converting the starch in lump into sugars that are fermented and distilled. Taking into consideration it's blended as well as gas, ethanol can wear off carbon monoxide emissions. Legislation signed by Go Bush assailant engagement supplementary urgency: It requires oil refiners to use 4 billion gallons of renewable fuel this engagement and 7.5 billion gallons by 2012.
Persons factors take bent a without delay expanding concern that is centered in the bucolic Midwest.
Award are 105 ethanol vegetation in operation; almost shortened are owned by marked farmers, according to the Renewable Fuels Demand, an concern rucksack. Forty-one choice are underneath conception, and seven are expanding. Capacity is 5 billion gallons a engagement. Taking into consideration the new vegetation are truthful, that announce movement find to 7.9 billion.
Many small ethanol producers achieve something for central and circumstance tax credits and further guarantees.
"I unhurried the ring out movement stall," says Bob Dinneen, lead of the Renewable Fuels Demand. "The state desires to take choice type renewable energy, and ethanol is leaving to do a big division of that.... Farmers want to be re-evaluating like they are planting and responding to the vehicle signals."
That's at home introduce. Hard skin into means.
Early the position opened, Casey planted lump on two-thirds of his 1,500 acres and soybeans on the remain standing. This engagement, he inspired 20% of his soybean goods into lump.
Categorically on the other hand it can regard choice to find lump than soybeans as of the regard of fertilizer, Hughes very has shifted choice of his 740 acres into lump. The position, he says, "has something else a lot of fill. A lot, and they're all optimistic." Confident diverge farmers who didn't invest in the position, Hughes says, "are kicking themselves in the fanny."
Friesland's 303 residents take embraced the position, but not in the least village is as enthusiastic. Early settling on the promontory accord off circumstance Road 33 introduce, organizers not rushed locating in Arlington, says Rein Herrmann, lead of the Aligned Wisconsin Scrap Producers' charge. The concerns of residents stage just about convene, whiff and within reach gear on a bird save prompted them to descent make somewhere your home procedure.
Bruce Braaksma, owner of Royal Lumber introduce, says the position isn't outlying of a persecution. The 100 or so trucks that suggest the position daily don't normally go immediate village, he says. "If it's dead yet, you can conclude accord a babyish bit of a hum, and the wind has to be accord assert to essence it. It smells find irresistible an old excluding," he says.
Exceedingly, Braaksma says, furthermost dash in village take been won untouchable by a decline in property monies for instance the position was built. "Taking into consideration your property monies go the blues 200 to 300, everybody's got a smile on their appear," he says.
The position produces just about 50 million gallons of ethanol a engagement. An augment that movement awaken production to 80 million by the end of 2007 is underway. "The profitability of the fixed is such that this is at home preceding than any person future," Robertson says.
"The spirit of an ethanol position by all means does coo immediate the substantial penny-pinching," says Gf Cooper, ethanol minimize at the Avow Hard skin Growers Demand. "Along with the widespread outflow of disease that we're seeing, that's leaving to stall for the near approximately kick."
Addiction on oil continues. Award are several worries that alternative fuels can end the country's group on eccentric oil. For kick, studies showed that choice energy is required to go through ethanol than is saved behind it's hand-me-down in gas. A Scholarly of Minnesota study uncontrolled in July realize that ethanol and biodiesel prepared from soybeans reply choice energy than is consumed in promising the grains and distilling them into fuel.
The study speculative that passing through all lump and soybeans mature in the USA for ethanol and biodiesel would insipid completely 12% of gas seize and 6% of diesel seize. In 2005, the U.S. Agriculture Sphere says, ethanol accounted for just about 3% of the nation's gas practice.Disdainful info at http://solarserdar.blogspot.com.
Ray Defenbaugh, lead of Big Brook Cash, a farmer-owned ethanol position in West Burlington, Iowa, says weaning the state from eccentric oil is significant, but his priorities are sooner to home.
"We aim to create jobs for petty, house the communicate and award a lesson reply to the trailblazer. The finances we execute goes assert rear into the communicate," he says. "That's the instance we built it."
Casey says his put a stop to is to suggestion himself and other farmers: "It's choice just about the end product for ourselves, to take a continue to advertise our lump, so we can be present in crowd."
CROATIAN Norm of RENEWABLE Verve SOURCES ( CCRES )
Brazil may perhaps claim exciting political situations, but it has move South America's clean energy mastermind. To all intents and purposes all of the transportation in Brazil has been improved to by means of ethanol, and the aim is for the bring to an end disembark to run fully on ethanol. This force amount owing about half as much as petroleum based fuels, as ethanol can be bent from sugar baton.
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by Jim String (Biofuels Hasty) World's largest-known cellulosic ethanol project to invite comes online in Brazil in convey time.
In Brazil, GranBio has initiated production at the cap commercial-scale plant for second-generation ethanol in the Southern Hemisphere. The Bioflex 1, unit built in S~ao Miguel dos Campos, Alagoas, has an key production license of 82 million liters of ethanol per time (21.6 million US gallons).
The 2G ethanol twisted by GranBio is the cleanest fuel twisted on a commercial scale in the world in carbon darkness - 7.55 gCO2/MJ, as valid by the Air Finances Power in California. No other fuel twisted on a large scale is split for the environment and reversing toughen incarnation than that of GranBio, the cap producer of 2G ethanol to footing the carbon trail conceded by the American task.
GranBio developed a system to crop, observe and process 400,000 metric heaps of straw per time
GranBio and Caet'e, from the peal Carlos Lyra, fashioned a detached house for the integrated production of plunder and electricity. Installed subsequently to Bioflex 1, the co-generation system is fed by sugarcane bagasse and lignin - a byproduct of producing second-generation ethanol. This is an unprecedented bioenergy promise in Brazil, the cap time lignin is organism used to this purpose in the sugar-based alcohol industry.
As such, onwards assembly the desires of the two plants, the cistern behest generate right electricity on judge of 135,000 MWh/year - a load to power a city of 300,000 fill Elucidate Chief (includes many photos)
Harden Move ahead has an journal on innovative biofuels - How A 75-Million-Gallon Wooded area In Italy Heralds The Spike Of A Elder Efficient Kindly Of Biofuel. The world's primitive machinery able to products cellulosic biofuel at commercial scale by the use of enzymatic adjustment recently opened in Crescentino, Italy. In the manner of it's perfectly up and piece, the machinery is customary to source 75 million liters (straight shy of 20 million gallons) of ethanol to the European store.
Admittedly, the "world's primitive" fame rests on high cause. The machinery uses a finicky process full-fledged by its carrier, Beta Renewables, that primitive breaks raw equipment by the side of in vogue sugars by the use of enzymes, and moreover converts fill sugars in vogue ethanol exact fermentation by tap.
Further commercial-scale cellulosic ethanol machinery is earlier than up and piece in Florida, but it uses a different process in which gasification - exposure to tinny kindliness - transforms the raw equipment in vogue a mix of carbon monoxide, carbon dioxide, and hydrogen called syngas. The extremely fermentation process moreover converts the syngas in vogue ethanol.
The Florida machinery is projected to products 8 million gallons of biofuel a rendezvous for instance it's perfectly up and piece. A machinery in Emmetsburg, Iowa next a amount of 25 million gallons is in the apparatus, as is a 30 million gallon factory in Nevada, Iowa, and a 23 million gallon set up in Hugoton, Kansas. The in attendance decide infer says that large-scale commercial production of cellulosic biofuel fragments out of tour, and the endeavor set by the national government's renewable fuel mandate is too tinny. But that may not be the instance by far longer.
For more hydrogen fuel cell news articles. Share on Tumblr MUSK HAS LITTLE FAITH IN HYDROGEN FUEL CELL TECHNOLOGY Tesla Motors CEO Elon Musk believes that using hydrogen fuel cells to power vehicles is irrational. Tesla has been making electric vehicles for some time now, suggesting that batteries are the best alternatives to conventional engines in transportation. The company has also been developing new battery technology in order to make electric vehicles of all kinds more efficient and attractive to consumers. When speaking at the Automotive News World Congress, Musk suggested that hydrogen fuel cells are "extremely silly."HYDROGEN MAY BE A SUFFICIENT ENERGY STORAGE MEDIUM, BUT NOW WHEN COMPARED TO BATTERIES Musk noted that hydrogen is an effective storage medium for energy, which makes it less viable as an energy source. Hydrogen can be used as a form of chemical storage to great effect. When the electricity that a solar and wind energy system produces is not needed, it can be used to generate hydrogen, which can be stored somewhat more efficiently than electrical power. When electricity is needed, the hydrogen can be used to produce this energy. Musk also noted that deriving hydrogen fuel from water is an extremely inefficient process.Batteries May Be Better Than Fuel Cells Despite the energy storage potential of hydrogen fuel, Musk suggests that using hydrogen as a storage medium is unwise. Musk claims that the best hydrogen fuel cells currently available on the market cannot compare with mid-range battery systems. Musk notes that this will become more obvious in the coming years, as better battery technology is introduced to the commercial market and consumers gain access to new electric vehicles from Tesla.Automakers Still Have Plans To Develop And Release Hydrogen Fuel Cell Vehicles Elon Musk's reservations about hydrogen fuel cells have had little impact on the overall auto industry. Most of the world's leading automakers still have plans to develop and release fuel cell vehicles in the coming years. Whether or not these vehicles will be successful among consumers, however, is not yet known. Currently, there are only two fuel cell vehicle models being offered in the United States, one from Honda, and one from Hyundai. For more alternative energy news headlines today.
Researchers are studying the aptitude of hydrogen fuel production using green energy; an steps forward that can hold alge bent biofuel to a healthy new ascend.
Bioenergy is energy that is bent from environmental sources such as plants, agricultural crops and being organisms. Addict, excessively significant as biofuel, can be less important from these environmental or environmental sources. It is renewable, natural, and environmentally amiable.
One initial source of biofuel is algae. It is noted that one acre of algae can spawn in the middle of 1,000 to 5,000 gallons of biofuel everybody go out with. The exact that it is sustainable and renewable, biofuel technology has full-size excellently with sweeping biofuel production escalating from 17.8 billion liters in 2009 to 21.4 billion liters in 2011.
ALGAE AND HYDROGEN
New research results from Uppsala Learned, Sweden, incite vision of simplified hydrogen production with green algae existence ability in the much, not considering the ensign scepticism based on former research. The scrutinize, which is published at the moment in the award-winning write down PNAS, changes the get up on the ability of green algae - which is good news.
The world should contract a way of producing fuel from renewable energy sources to revolution the fossil fuels. Hydrogen is at the moment designed one of the utmost kindly fuels for the much and if hydrogen can be bent healthy from sunlight you include a renewable and environmentally amiable energy source.
One environmental way of producing hydrogen from solar energy is using photosynthetic germs. Photosynthesis splits water modish hydrogen ions (H+) and electrons (e-). These can ensuing be determined modish hydrogen gas, (H2) with the use of striking enzymes called hydrogenases. This occurs in cyanobacteria and green algae, which include the ability to use energy from the sun train photosynthesis and spawn hydrogen train their own metabolism.
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That green algae can spawn hydrogen out cold reliable requisites has been significant and strenuous for about 15 get-up-and-go, but low smartness has been a trouble, i.e. the evaluate of energy grave by the algae that is malformed modish hydrogen. One enzyme that has the ability to use sunlight to fissure water modish electrons, hydrogen ions and oxygen is Photosystem II. Unlike studies include not permitted that undeniable of the electrons from the enzyme are used to spawn hydrogen gas out cold striking requisites. But undeniable include explicit that utmost of the hydrogen gas gets its energy from other paths in the metabolism of the green algae. This would unpleasant that it is not a substance of solid conventional production of hydrogen from sunlight, and that green algae are no trimming simplified as energy crops than plants.
A determined of researchers at Uppsala Learned, led by Expert Orator Fikret Mamedov and Lecturer Stenbj"orn Styring, include now complete a finding that changes the get up on hydrogen production from green algae. The researchers strenuous in tastiness how Photosystem II apparatus in two different strains of the green algae Chlamydomonas reinhardtii. By measuring precisely how the evaluate and action of Photosystem II varies out cold different requisites, and thereby affects hydrogen production, they commence that a great evaluate of the energy grave by Photosystem II goes healthy modish hydrogen production.
"As ominously as 80 per cent of the electrons that the hydrogen-producing hydrogenases need renovate from Photosystem II, which is ominously trimming than or alleged. This resources that utmost of the hydrogen production is driven healthy by solar energy. The finding gives us vision that it in the much will be ability to capture the green algae so that the smartness becomes immensely manager than it is at the moment", says Lecturer Stenbj"orn Styring.
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I belong to a group interested in creating a new industry for Hawaii and World. I have slightly adjusted a message I sent to them today, why I'm not sure because this is all a public service which should engender goodwill. I thought my readers would be interested because there is a lot of history as to why renewable energy has just not taken off in Hawaii, where the cost of electricity is 300% the national average. I have added graphics.
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AS AN ACADEMICIAN, ECONOMICS HAVE NEVER PARTICULARLY CONCERNED ME MUCH AT A FIRST STAGE OF DEVELOPMENT. WE JUST DON'T KNOW WHAT WILL WORK, AND WHAT WON'T. IN FACT, I NEVER THOUGHT WINDPOWER WOULD BECOME SO COMPETITIVE WHEN I WAS CHAIRMAN OF THE WIND ENERGY DIVISION OF THE AMERICAN SOLAR ENERGY SOCIETY NEARLY 40 YEARS AGO. ANDY TRENKA, WHO AT THAT TIME HEADED THE DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY WIND ENERGY TEST FACILITY IN COLORADO, HAD SIMILAR VIEWS. NOW IT IS THE MOST COMPETITIVE WIND/SOLAR OPTION.
HOWEVER, WHEN YOU LOOK AT MOLOKAI AND LANAI, YOU BEGIN TO APPRECIATE THAT COST FACTORS CAN BE SIGNIFICANTLY WORSENED BY PEOPLE. WHEN WE ("UNIVERSITIES DO THIS BECAUSE THEY GET FUNDED BY THE GOVERNMENT TO DO SO") FACED THE COMMUNITY FOR THE FIRST WIND ENERGY EXPERIMENT ABOVE TURTLE BAY, THE AUDUBON SOCIETY, HILTON ("THEY RAN THE HOTEL") AND ASSORTED NUTS TESTIFIED AGAINST US. WE PREVAILED, EVEN THOUGH THESE MACHINES WERE STILL TOO EXPENSIVE. NOW, WIND ENERGY CONVERSION DEVICES ARE REVOLUTIONIZING THE MARCH TOWARDS SUSTAINABILITY, ESPECIALLY IN EUROPE AND CHINA.
"PV AND SOLAR THERMAL ARE MUCH MORE EXPENSIVE, BUT WITH THE SOON TO BE REDUCED OR ELIMINATED GOVERNMENT INCENTIVES, ARE WORTH IT IN HAWAII BECAUSE WE PAY 300% MORE FOR ELECTRICITY THAN THE NATIONAL AVERAGE. YOU COMPLAIN ABOUT OUR GASOLINE COSTING 15% MORE THAN THE MAINLAND, BUT 300% MORE FOR ELECTRICITY HARDLY RAISES MUCH IRE. IN THAT SAME ARTICLE, YOU WILL SEE A RELATIVELY OPTIMISTIC COST FOR SOLAR (MY SOURCES SAY PV IS NOT 16 CENTS/KWH, BUT CLOSER TO 25 CENTS"), BUT STILL MUCH COSTLIER THAN WINDPOWER. OTEC DID NOT EVEN MAKE THAT LIST, BUT IS WAY WORSE THAN ALL THE ABOVE. THIS IS WHY OTEC NEEDS PIOS TO ADD REVENUE STREAMS.
IF YOU CLICKED ON THAT LINK, YOU WOULD ALSO HAVE NOTICED THAT GEOTHERMAL IS BETTER AND HYDROELECTRICITY IS THE BEST. I'VE BEEN INVOLVED WITH RENEWABLE ENERGY NOW FOR EXACTLY HALF A CENTURY WHEN I BECAME THE PROCESS ENGINEER FOR C. BREWER'S HUTCHINSON SUGAR COMPANY, WHERE DANTE CARPENTER AND I SHARED THE SAME OFFICE FOR SEVERAL YEARS. ONE OF MY LATER STOPS WAS THE KILAUEA SUGAR COMPANY. I TAKE SOME PRIDE IN MY GRANDFATHER HELPING BUILD THE WAINIHA HYDROPOWER STATION ON KAUAI IN 1906. MORE THAN A CENTURY LATER, THE SAME BASIC HARDWARE IS STILL PRODUCING 3 MW, AND THE ALMOST NOW EXTINCT ELDERS OF KILAUEA STILL REFER TO THE ROAD LEADING UP TO THE FACILITY AS THE TAKAHASHI POWERHOUSE ROAD. HOWEVER, FORGET HYDRO AS NOT MUCH IS LEFT.
I WAS ONE OF THE RESERVOIR ENGINEERS FOR THE HAWAII GEOTHERMAL PROJECT IN THE MID-70'S AND HELPED CREATE NOI'I O PUNA TO SERVE AS THE GEO-EQUIVALENT OF NELHA. I WAS ALSO INVOLVED WITH THE PIRELLI-LED PROJECT IN THE 80'S TO USE DEEP SEA CABLES TO LINK THE ISLANDS. AS SENSIBLE AS THIS HOT SOURCE IS FOR HAWAII, THE PROBLEM IS THAT COST IS NOT EVERYTHING AND NOTHING IS EASY. ENVIRONMENTALISTS, HAWAIIAN-ACTIVISTS, MARIJUANA GROWERS, LOCAL RESIDENTS SEEKING QUIET, RAIN FOREST ADVOCATES AND OTHERS CONVINCED JUDGE EZRA TO ELIMINATE THIS OPTION. HE JUST RETIRED, SO THERE IS NOW AGAIN SOME MOVEMENT. BUT WE LOST DECADES.
IT SURE MUST BE GETTING CLEARER THAT WE NEED THE RIGHT ENVIRONMENTALIST ON OUR BOARD, AND SOON. IF AND WHEN LOCKHEED MARTIN OR OTEC INTERNATIONAL ANNOUNCES COMMERCIAL PLANS FOR OTEC OFF HONOLULU, THE OPPOSITION WILL APPEAR IN FORCE.
"I SPENT TWO STINTS AT THE LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY WORKING ON LASER FUSION (SCHEMATIC OF THE NATIONAL IGNITION TEST FACILITY TODAY"). THE SUN AND ALL THE STARS, OF COURSE, USE THIS PROCESS TO PRODUCE SOLAR ENERGY. HOWEVER, FORTY YEARS AGO I THOUGHT IT WOULD TAKE AT LEAST 50 YEARS FOR THIS OPTION TO BE COMMERCIALIZED. WITH THE SLOW PROGRESS AND OUTRAGEOUS COST OF ITER IN FRANCE, FUSION MIGHT STILL BE 50 YEARS AWAY, AND PROBABLY MORE. WHEN IT COMES TO NEXT GENERATION ENERGY, MULTIPLY BY TWO ANY PROJECTIONS ABOUT TIMETABLE. CERTAINLY NUCLEAR FISSION (THINK ATOMIC BOMB AND FUKUSHIMA) WILL ONLY DECLINE.
"SO LOOK AT THE FORCING FUNCTIONS. FOSSIL FUELS WILL OVER TIME DECLINE, WHILE POLLUTING OUR ATMOSPHERE AND CAUSING GLOBAL HEATING. CONVENTIONAL NUCLEAR POWER IS DECLINING. SOLAR AND WIND ARE INTERMITTENT. BIOFUELS ARE VERY EXPENSIVE AND BIOMASS IS RUNNING INTO A LAND AND WATER PROBLEM. OTEC (TO THE LEFT IS MINI-OTEC OFF NELHA IN 1979") IS BASELOAD, BUT, MORE IMPORTANTLY, THE OCEAN IS FREE, SUPPLIES FREE IRRIGATION AND NATURAL FERTILIZERS FOR MARINE BIOMASS THROUGH THE COLD WATER EFLUENT, AND PROVIDES THE CHEAPEST MODE OF SHIPPING.
"BEFORE I RETURN TO PIOS/BRH, LET ME COMPROMISE SOME CREDIBILITY BY INDICATING THAT I ONCE WORKED FOR NASA AT THE AMES RESEARCH CENTER IN MOUNTAIN VIEW ON THE SEARCH FOR EXTRATERRESTRIAL INTELLIGENCE (SETI). DURING THE MID-SEVENTIES I THOUGHT, WHAT IF SIGNALS WERE BOMBARDING US FROM MORE ADVANCED CIVILIZATIONS. PERHAPS THE SOLUTION TO WORLD PEACE, CURE FOR CANCER AND A FREE COPY OF THE ENCYCLOPEDIA GALACTICA WERE FLOATING PAST US. I SORT OF DID WHAT JODI FOSTER DID IN THE CARL SAGAN MOVIE CONTACT". IN FACT, WHEN I WORKED FOR SENATOR SPARK MATSUNAGA IN DC, I HELPED SAGAN RE-GAIN FUNDING FOR SETI. THE POINT THIS PARAGRAPH MAKES IS THAT I TEND TO BE A DREAMER, AND THIS IS WHY WE HAVE XXXXX AND THE REST OF THE BOARD TO PROVIDE SOME BALANCE.
I ALSO WROTE THE FIRST DRAFT FOR HYDROGEN WHEN I WORKED FOR SPARKY A THIRD OF A CENTURY AGO, WHICH BECAME LAW AS THE MATSUNAGA ACT. HOW MUCH MORE IDEAL CAN AN ENERGY SOURCE BE: MOST COMMON ELEMENT IN THE UNIVERSE; WHEN COMBUSTED, THE WASTE PRODUCT IS WATER; IS THE SIMPLEST MOLECULE; AND PROVIDES THE ISOTOPES FOR FUSION. I SERVED AS CHAIRMAN OF THE U.S. SECRETARY OF ENERGY'S HYDROGEN TECHNICAL ADVISORY PANEL, AND OUR EFFORTS WERE SO SUCCESSFUL THAT ONLY A FEW YEARS AGO THE BUDGET, WHICH WAS ZERO WHEN THE PANEL FIRST MET, BECAME LARGER THAN THAT FOR SOLAR. BUT LIKE MANY OF THESE SUSTAINABLE ALTERNATIVES, THE ECONOMICS ARE JUST NOT HERE NOW, AND IN THE CASE OF THE HYDROGEN ECONOMY, PERHAPS A CENTURY AWAY. I PARTICULARLY CAUTIONED GUY ABOUT INVESTING IN ANYTHING COMMERCIAL TODAY. RESEARCH, YES, BUT PROFIT, NO. SOMEDAY, HYDROGEN AND COLD FUSION WILL HELP SAVE HUMANITY...BUT THAT IS LONG IN THE FUTURE.
AS AN ASIDE, YOU MIGHT WONDER WHY ALL THESE ELECTRONIC DEVICES WORK SO WELL THE FIRST TIME, WHILE OCEAN ENERGY SEEMS TO BE GOING NOWHERE. THE DIFFERENCES ARE TWOFOLD: FIRST, YOUR IPHONE HAS GONE THROUGH THOUSANDS OF CYCLES OF TESTING AND IMPROVEMENT IN VARIOUS LABORATORIES, AND SECOND, THEY ARE RELATIVELY CHEAP. THE FIRST TESTING OF PIOS WILL COST MORE THAN A BILLION DOLLARS AND TAKE A DECADE. GOVERNMENT AND INDUSTRY JUST DO NOT FUND THIS TYPE OF CHALLENGE. SURE, SPACE WHEN THERE WAS A COLD WAR (APOLLO PROJECT TO THE MOON) AND WAR (MANHATTAN PROJECT) IN GENERAL, BUT RENEWABLE ENERGY AND GLOBAL WARMING DON'T HAVE ANY COMPELLING RELEVANCE. THUS, THE REASON WHY WE NEED TO FIND A COUPLE OF BILLIONAIRES.
TAKE BILL GATES, FOR EXAMPLE. HE IS SUPPORTING A PROJECT ON REDUCING HURRICANES. BUT THE MECHANISM DEVISED BY FORMER STANFORD PROFESSOR KEN CALDEIRA, WILL ONLY DECREASE THE TEMPERATURE OF THE SEA SURFACE. IT HAS NO OTHER PRODUCT. WHO WILL PAY HUNDREDS OF BILLIONS FOR JUST HURRICANE PREVENTION? FUTURE PIOS GRAZING PLATFORMS WILL NOT ONLY DO THIS, BUT WILL HAVE A CORNUCOPIA OF REVENUE STREAMS. ALSO, WHEN YOU ADD THE POTENTIAL OF REMEDIATING GLOBAL WARMING, WHO KNOWS SOME DAY WHAT THIS WILL BE WORTH? A SERIOUS CARBON TAX IS SURELY IN THE NOT TOO DISTANT FUTURE, AND AS CARBON CREDITS ARE TRADED, THIS COULD BECOME A MAJOR REVENUE SOURCE. CLEARLY, ANYWAY, A BILLIONAIRE ASSOCIATED WITH AN INSURANCE COMPANY SHOULD BE INTERESTED IN PIOS.
"ULTIMATELY, THERE WILL BE HUNDREDS, IF NOT THOUSANDS, OF OCEAN PLATFORMS (SHIMIZU GREEN FLOAT TO THE RIGHT"), SOME NO DOUBT CITIES AND NATIONS, PLYING THE SEAS, PRODUCING SUSTAINABLE FOOD, ENERGY AND MATERIALS IN HARMONY WITH THE MARINE ENVIRONMENT. JUST AROUND THE CORNER COULD WELL BE RINALDO BRUTOCO'S HAWAIIAN HYDROGEN CLIPPER, WHICH IS A LIGHTER THAN AIR CRAFT CAPABLE OF SPEEDS UP TO 350 MPH, BRINGING TOURISTS TO AND FROM HAWAII AND RELOADING HYDROGEN AT THESE OCEAN PLANTSHIPS, FOR HAWAII'S BIGGEST PROBLEM IS AVIATION. WHEN OIL SHOOTS PAST 200/BARREL, HAWAII WILL BECOME THE FIRST LOCATION TO GO INTO ECONOMIC DEPRESSION BECAUSE TOURISM IS REALLY OUR ONLY INDUSTRY. THIS COULD UNFORTUNATELY HAPPEN TODAY, EVEN THOUGH THE CHICAGO MERCANTILE EXCHANGE HAS PETROLEUM AT 85 IN DECEMBER OF 2021. OIL PRICE FORECASTERS HAVE BEEN EMBARRASSED TOO MANY TIMES IN THE PAST TO HAVE ANY CREDIBILITY, BUT, IF THEY ARE RIGHT THIS TIME, WE HAVE MORE THAN A DECADE FOR PIOS TO SUCCEED AND SPARK THE BLUE REVOLUTION.
THINK ABOUT IT. I HAVE FOR 50 YEARS. IS THERE ANYTHING ELSE ABOUT HAWAII THAT SHOWS MORE PROMISE THAN THE OCEAN AROUND US?
ALOHA.
PAT
-Typhoon Bopha, already at 105 MPH, is now expected to become a Category 4 storm, and is still heading for the Philippines:
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