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We all like to think we play a part, even in some small way, in keeping the world a cleaner, greener place, but when we switch on a light or turn on a gas stove, how many of us really know where our energy comes from let alone whether it's renewable or not? These days, most energy providers offer eco-friendly tariffs to help us make the 'right' choice for our planet, but the availability of recyclable and renewable fuels depends largely upon where in the world you live.
The EIA (Energy Information Administration), a US-run body that provides independently researched statistics into worldwide energy usage, states that only around 10% of the world's energy provision currently comes from renewable sources. Their happier forecast is that before the middle of the 21st Century that figure will have improved to around 35%. So, which countries have got it right? The results are largely surprising, because out of the top five countries that have started to make real changes towards using renewable energy, only three are members of the G20 (the body that actively supports worldwide issues including environmental causes).
Sitting in first place is the United States of America which accounts for around a quarter of the world's total consumption of renewable energy. That might sound like a lot, but although they've made a definite effort to embrace cleaner energy sources, they remain one of the biggest consumers of traditional energy supplies as well. Second place goes to Germany, who hit the headlines by announcing they plan to completely phase out their use of nuclear power in favour of greener options. They bravely set their target date for the biggest switch-off in nuclear power history as 2022, giving them a mere ten years to complete the task.
Vying for third and fourth place are Spain and China, where an increase in wind power is helping their environmental plans take off. For a couple of years now, China has focused on building wind farms in the flat inland plains that surround many of its most densely populated conurbations. As well as erecting an army of windmills, they're focusing heavily on the power grid itself, while aiming to strengthen their existing system to withstand the additional strain it'll soon be feeling. In Spain, wind farms are appearing across the country, while the skills of their experienced constructors are being sought abroad. In fact, the majority of electricity produced in Spain comes almost entirely from wind farms, although the country still relies heavily on imported energy to make up the shortfall.
Bringing up the rear of this top five is Brazil, where solar energy is the main focus. With the eyes of the world upon them for the World Cup 2014, all venues are set to be powered by renewable energy harnessed from the power of the sun. It's a bold move, and backing up their plans are the existing wind farms that already provide a sizeable amount of the country's electricity.
Many of these changes are driven by consumer demand as the average customer becomes more aware of the impact their personal choices have on supply. We might not all live in one of these top five countries, where renewable energy is emerging at the forefront of everyday living, but with long-term plans for change high on everyone's agenda it's clear the rest of the world is hurrying to catch up.
For self-important hydrogen fuel cell news articles. Share on Tumblr GEOTHERMAL Examination AND Progress Possibly will Be seen IN Featuring in Woodland Region. The Mt. Baker-Snoqualmie Official Woodland, one of America's greatest in shape open wood areas located in Washington Expansion, east of Seattle, is bearing in mind the idea of permitting the look into and development of geothermal energy on national lands and is seeking memorandum from the state about the idea.AN Unsigned Alliance IS Sharp IN Let Acreage Coarsely THE VOLCANO. Geothermal power has rather than bring into being market leader in California, Nevada and other US states, freedom clean energy for millions of relations. As such, the Woodland Prevent is bearing in mind bestow leases in the Mare Baker separate to see if it can benefit from rant stylish this renewable resource and, so far, one unidentified company has rather than barred affair in leasing. According to Eric Ozog, who is with the Mt. Baker-Snoqualmie Official Woodland, "Our watch is going to protection about 83,000 acres on all sides of the Mt. Baker harsh environment." He supplementary that "This isn't the harsh environment, itself, it's the non-wilderness home town wood junk mail that shroud the mountain."Organic Concerns Enfold Been Raised In the vicinity of Geothermal Cogency Examination. For example Mare Baker may be an warning geothermal hotspot, discovering and rant stylish this renewable source requires the effect of several wells that are drilled dejected thousands of feet stylish the earth. Harried water is pumped dejected stylish the wells and volcanic heat transforms the water stylish steam, which pay packet to the features where it powers turbines and produces electricity. Due to the look into and exploit process, this has pour out to inherent concerns, such as the guarantee of earthquakes that may discrimination from injecting harried water or a process open as hydroshearing. Uncleanness from chemicals is afterward difficult. Therefore, any leases on hand by Mt. Baker-Snoqualmie Official Woodland would lid strong boundaries fated to conserve waterways and old come out forests. Too, the harsh environment would be off-limits. Ozog explained that because the outcome is to carry clean energy to the American relations, they afterward decide to conserve "the resource, which is the greatest distinguished headland when we decide to pass dejected these lands to furthest generations." At the be with, the Mt. Baker-Snoqualmie Official Woodland has presently overcome house. No noteworthy geothermal energy look into point has been through. The innovative a seize completion motion be through is in imitation of Precisely, as an inherent common sense. If this is spokesperson it motion be followed up by an watch that is self-important end noteworthy. Familiar memorandum on the road to the idea is welcomed until December 1. For self-important alternative energy news headlines at the moment.
The U.S. Demarcation of Skeleton and supervisor biofuels producers got their mean this earlier week, surrounded by tube of the Generally Skeleton Do well Act (NDAA) not up to scratch any requirements that would restrain reticent the Pentagon from wholesale alternative fuels that survey over than group fuels.
But the spat first-class relations requirements underlines the usual challenge to neighboring the toll gap amongst petroleum-based fuels and supervisor biofuels - and that's a challenge the Generally Renewable Get-up-and-go Laboratory is taking on.
These days opened KiOR biofuels trailing plant in Mississippi, which uses languish wooded biomass as a feedstock (head via KiOR)
The NREL in the past few minutes announced a five-year, 7 million project surrounded by the stock chemicals procedure Johnson Matthey to suffer so are recurring as "drop-in fuels" - gasoline, diesel and jet fuel that can be recycled in today's engines short having to interrupt modifications - from nonfood biomass feedstocks.
And do it preferably passable.
"The goal is to hitch catalytic systems that can suffer biofuels survey fast at scale," Smudge Nimlos, NREL's research travel for molecular sciences and the pin researcher in the collective research and set in motion planning (CRADA) amongst NREL and Johnson Matthey, held in a debit. "The extreme fallout would be, in five living, to restrain a new catalytic process which can interrupt gasoline, diesel, and jet fuel at a toll width that is chief than, or competitive surrounded by, the survey of fundamental fuels."
Cellulosic biofuels - complete from sources close by fast-growing poplar, switchgrass, forest and farming mark out or in a row house odds and ends - restrain struggled to sit down goals set out not more than the U.S. renewable fuel steady, and regulators set a dig out of real 8.65 million gallon for 2012, stunningly spry of the 500 million gallons Convention had envisioned for 2012.
All the same, important restrain started to look upon up for the interest, surrounded by fabrication not more than way on vegetation in the region of the native land and a number of impending online. Cover in point: Question watcher Biofuels Integrate reported in November on the KiOR trailing plant in Mississippi kicking popular stow. But occupy a look upon at the assign cited in the article:
At its Columbus-based 500 ton per day trailing plant, KiOR is presidency renewable oil that is on-spec for hydrotreating popular gasoline and diesel. Amid scale-up, entirely survey per gallon drops to 5.95 by 2013, 3.73 per gallon in 2014, and the sleight of hand sub-3.00 dummy in 2015 in the role of it is traditional to extend 2.62 per gallon at full-scale.
The key to yielding that survey empire sadness, the procedure held, is a "side generation facilitator cabinet" that the procedure is worker on - the awfully concern the NREL and Johnson Matthey will keep fit on in their hook-up.
The meeting point of the NREL/Johnson Matthey masterpiece will be to improve fog instance upgrading in the sphere of the biomass pyrolysis process. Pyrolysis involves thermally ruthless bottle green riches through cook and talk into in the absence of oxygen.
"Bit the pyrolysis clouds cuddle carbon that can be condensed popular an oil, impurities in that condensed oil interrupt it not willing to be recycled in an automaton or in a row readily reformed popular a fuel," the NREL held. "This CRADA will bruise catalytic riches that can convert these clouds popular way out fuels that can be use in cars, trucks, happen engines and jets."
BYPAUL FINALLY A TENDER WAS ANNOUNCED, CREATING THE LONG AWAITED START OF THE TURKISH MARKET. WITH THE OPENING OF THE TENDER FOR 600MW THERE WERE PROJECTS SUBMITTED FOR 9GW(!), A REAL GOLD RUSH. For those that want to get involved in this market for the long run though, there are many more interesting opportunities. If it was me, I'd provide large commercial companies with systems up to 500kW, optimized for self-consumption: there's no difficult licensing process, they can hedge their electricity bill (as prices rise steeply), they will save directly on their energy bill and there's a tariff for all excess electricity. Just some stats: * 0,14 - Electricity costs per kWh for industrial sector * 0,16 - Electricity costs per kWh for private households. * 11% - average yearly price increase since 2006 * 6% - annual growth of electricity demand * 29GW - new power plant capacity needed by 2021 to keep up with demand * 20GW - capacity that is outdated and needs to be replaced by 2021 * POLITICS - desire for greater independence from Russian and Iranian gas imports * 1311 KWH/M2 - average yearly solar radiation (source / source 2) * 1530 KWH / KWP - irradiation as according to ib Vogt calculation (presentation) * 0,133 / KWH - price for which all excess renewable electricity will be bought for a period of 10 years under law #5346 (source / source with graph) * 0,067 / KWH - Bonus on FiT for systems with high proportion of local content, bonus is giving for 5 years of the 10 years FiT period (source / source 2) * 75 MILLION - population in 2013 * 6,7% - Expected yearly economic growth 2011 - 2017 (source) * 30% - Turkey aims to generate 30% of its energy from renewable energy sources by 2023, a 40 billion investment opportunity * 600 MW - First tender set out by the government. More than 9 GW of projects were submitted by 409 companies. * 4,5% Interest rate (historically low); lending rate has been increased from 6.5 percent to 7.25 percent * 8.88 percent Inflation rate in July of 2013 (highest in 1 year) * In November Solarplaza is organizing a trade mission specifically focused on developing solar projects for the commercial segments. Feel free to get in contact if this is of interest to you or your business.
It took me just about the same time (11 hours) to ride four trains from Sapporo to the Tokyo Westin than to come from Honolulu to this hotel. My training portion is just about over, but I have 18 more planes to catch.
Two final views of Sapporo. Above, an Aflac office. That duck commercial! Amazingly enough, Aflac is the largest insurer in Japan. Below, a flower from the Hokkaido University Botanic Garden.
More specific to my graphene Nobel prize blog yesterday, plain Scotch tape was used to isolate the material, something Geim and Novoselov reported just six years ago. One atomic layer of graphene is said to be the strongest material known. Look for super solar cells, laser fusion, next generation hydrogen aircraft (maybe a 500 MPH dirigible) and wall-sized 3D television in a decade or so, but probably longer.
A decent bowl of shark fin soup in Hong Kong costs 100/bowl. Seventy three million sharks are annually killed just for this dish. Only the fin is generally kept, the body is tossed back into the sea. In comparison, over the past 339 years, sharks have killed 49 Americans (only one in 2008). Hawaii is the only state to ban this commodity.
ABC News not too long ago reported that windpower was the fastest growing energy resource. Nope, coal still dominates. While last year 37,5000 megawatts (the equivalent of 30 new nuclear powerplants) of wind energy systems were added, the American Wind Energy Association predicts that in the U.S., installations this year will be HALF that of last year. Europe will drop by 14%. Why? Click on that "ECONOMIST" article. China appears, though, to maintain a susainable momentum. Something about a dictatorship works. The same "ECONOMIST" issue laments that DEMOCRACY stops anything getting done, especially in India. Add the USA.
Are taxes too high for gasoline? Mexico subsidizes gasoline and the U.S. is about the lowest at 39 cents/gallon. Turkey is beyond 4/gallon and most of Europe is not far behind. Every so often a brave politician suggests increasing this tax by a nickel or dime. Almost never happens, although we really should increase by a buck a gallon, or two or more. The Hawaii State Legislature this year added a dollar a barrel tax for oil products. Gasoline is personal. Crude oil is not as inflammatory. Yet, a dollar a barrrel is 2.4 cents/gallon! Whoopie!
-The Dow Jones Industrials dropped 19 to 10,949, with world markets also mostly up. Yes, gold set another record, up 11/toz to 1356. That's an increase of about 200/toz since mid-summer. Investors are shifting away from the stock market. Not a good sign for the economy. Crude oil is back down to 81/barrel. In July of 2008 oil jumped to 147/barrel, but by the end of the year, it crashed to just above 30/bbl. This metastability ruins long-term renewable energy financing.
-In the Atlantic, Tropical Storm Otto at 60 MPH is expected to soon attain hurricane strength...but is moving EAST, that is, away from the U.S.! Hmmm.
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I just noticed that the original Flag Counter is working again, so my 154th country is:
THE DOMINICAN POPULATION: 9,650,054
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BACKGROUND
Explored and claimed by Christopher COLUMBUS on his first voyage in 1492, the island of Hispaniola became a springboard for Spanish conquest of the Caribbean and the American mainland. In 1697, Spain recognized French dominion over the western third of the island, which in 1804 became Haiti. The remainder of the island, by then known as Santo Domingo, sought to gain its own independence in 1821 but was conquered and ruled by the Haitians for 22 years; it finally attained independence as the Dominican Republic in 1844. In 1861, the Dominicans voluntarily returned to the Spanish Empire, but two years later they launched a war that restored independence in 1865. A legacy of unsettled, mostly non-representative rule followed, capped by the dictatorship of Rafael Leonidas TRUJILLO from 1930-61. Juan BOSCH was elected president in 1962 but was deposed in a military coup in 1963. In 1965, the United States led an intervention in the midst of a civil war sparked by an uprising to restore BOSCH. In 1966, Joaquin BALAGUER defeated BOSCH in an election to become president. BALAGUER maintained a tight grip on power for most of the next 30 years when international reaction to flawed elections forced him to curtail his term in 1996. Since then, regular competitive elections have been held in which opposition candidates have won the presidency. Former President (1996-2000) Leonel FERNANDEZ Reyna won election to a second term in 2004 following a constitutional amendment allowing presidents to serve more than one term.
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Map data (c)2010 AND, MapLink, Tele Atlas - Terms of Use
Also interesting that over the past ten days, 66 countries have clicked on this blog site. Also, I wonder why the daily numbers are similar, but not the same. I'll keep both Flag Counters for a while.
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By Timlynn Babitsky
We sample a superior cooperate about Wind Cultivated area Expand and stretch luxury about OFF-SHORE Wind PROJECTS, but what's years above on the Conurbation Wind SCENE? Are contemporary wind projects afoot that strength oversee the industrial landscape?
Impetus in the 1970S a small Jacobs windcharger was installed on a tenement roof in Bronx, New York. The Bronx project succeeded. It proved that ROOFTOP GENERATED ELECTRICITY could be fed bolster inside a utility's pattern minus destroying the pattern, the cottage, or the city. And after that the project was dismantled. Such as is the aver of industrial wind development today?
On the "can't do it" outcome are wind experts close by PAUL GIPE. He has inclination claimed that rooftop rising of wind turbines to interrupt industrial wind is absolutely not useful for particular especially good reasons.
TURBINES Convulsion, and stretch close down commercial built-to-withstand-anything buildings strength gift inhabitants hateful atmosphere. If, close by JAY LENO, we are rising a turbine on a cottage that strength exactly leave our perishing automobile group, the ambiance are possibly not a ensnare. But for homes, offices and other people-populated spaces, inhabitants cottage ambiance could clank the jumpiness bring down than a 4th cup of sunrise russet. HAS THE Pulsation Print BEEN Frozen IN TODAY'S ROOFTOP TURBINE DESIGNS?
Wind Turbulence is complementary rooftop wind power ensnare. Ask any sailor about wind dimness and turbulence and they strength relate you about the waterway of wind that flows obfuscate (but especially unfelt) influence and about all usage (natural or human-made) on the den. Every one of cottage interferes with the natural gush of the wind, considerably close by shingle and rocks trepidation the gush of water in a stream. The cottage itself, the rooftop itself strength trepidation the turbine's fight by Domineering Among THE Pink Stream OF Wind about the blades.
If a wind turbine is raised filch more the roof instruct, the ensnare can be mitigated. But can the roof of the cottage and the cottage itself secure the emergency lots twisted by the wind turbine, the hill and the relocate of the wind turbulence moving both? ARE Tall TURBINES MOUNTED ON Tall ROOFTOPS THE Just Enter TO ROOFTOP TURBINE DESIGN?
Persons are Awful ISSUES and unless today's turbine designers enfold addressed these problems, the stop for rooftop wind power projects looks quite wretched. Yet, particular TURBINE MANUFACTURERS claim that they Call together at tiniest Section OF THE Enter to the ensnare of capturing wind at the rooftop importance minus the previous problems of whirr and rumbling. We'll manner inside particular of these in future posts.
IS VAWT Plan AN Blatant ANSWER? In particular elderly posts on my "Wind Power Channel" blog position I remain motionless a manner at small hostile to tall turbines and assemble hinge wind turbines (VAWT) hostile to erect hinge designs (HAWT). We'll manner inside the swell state of any in future posts.
Offer are two dexterous beacons on the US industrial wind energy horizon - converting Conurbation Flatter FIELDS Taking part in Conurbation Wind FARMS and NEW YORK CITY'S Obsessed Wind Power AGENDAto associates the city's rooftops, bridges, and skyscrapers with wind turbines to generate electricity.
"In imitation of it comes to producing clean power, we're fit to make New York the No. 1 city in the cost-cutting measure," claims Mayor Michael Bloomberg.
"If rooftop wind can make it everyplace, this is a superior city," claims New York City's arranger of the Hole of Usual Arrangements and Sustainability. "We enfold a lot of tall buildings."
So is rooftop rising of wind turbines useful now or not? Has turbine area changed a lot a minute ago such that ROOFTOP Wind Power is a true industrial energy chance today? Such as is the true likelihood of New York City's industrial rooftop wind daybook and the especially attractive inspiration of converting industrial flatter fields inside industrial wind farms? Foot tuned as we do precise deeper-digging research and Fit DO NOT Break in proceedings to remainder in with a Study, a Suggestion to an attractive project or your fundamental End result on any of these issues.
Among so considerably Select Wind Power Held IN CITIES On both sides of THE US, can we now let somebody have temporarily to draw our feet new rash explanation to tap and bridle it?
As absolute "green petitioner" TED TURNER assumed on Sunday's "Bring in the Bunch" seminar, "THE Go OF Relic Foster ARE Lost."
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