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Let me underscore that I am 100% in favor of any renewable electricity option over fossil and nuclear, even if some technologies are not today economically competitive. I believe there is something to life cycle costing, so, therefore, since the fuel itself is free, as oil prices go up, it will be a matter of time before the economics reverse. Plus, sustainable resources are cleaner and safer, unlike the carbon dioxide and nuclear waste problems associated with those conventional sources.
Windpower (First Wind's farm at Kahuku shown above) is today the most promising option for one major reason: it is in a category with hydropower and geothermal power as being already competitive with oil, coal and nuclear. I'm probably making this sound almost too negative, but there, however, are two almost glaring deficiencies:
1. If wheeling is brought into the equation, the price of wind electricity will go up, and as much as double for longer distances. In the case of, say, Lanai electricity to Oahu, this extra billion dollars or two will determine financial success. Who pays for it? Ultimately the ratepayer, of course, but these are the intricacies of our "free" enterprise system. The following is a map of Lanai (blue is best, red is good and purple is next--most of the large wind farms across the mid part of the USA are in the purple range):
2. The power capacity (capacity factor) question has been raised by Doug Carlson and others. You can read his blog site for details. In essence, the issue is what average percent of the maximum rated windfarm energy can actually be provided. The quoted percentage varies between 30 and 50%. The U.S. Department of Energy has reported a 36% capacity factor for all turbines in 2006. Frankly, this looks awfully high, and maybe understandable, as the report is written by wind advocates. My experience with this subject is that a wind energy conversion device (WECS) is usually considerably overrated, one of the unfortunate delusions of this technology. Although manufacturers are a lot more reasonable today, say a WECS is rated to generate 1000 kW at 27 miles per hour. The problem is how often are the winds at that level (plus, depending on the machine, at higher speeds, there is a governor that limits production for safety reasons). Unfortunately at a great velocity of 20 MPH, this device will generate 400 kW (already at a 40% capacity factor), and only 170 kW at 15 MPH. The power increases with the cube of the wind speed.
3. The discussion in "2" thus means that a 400 MW windfarm could well only provide 100 MW on average to Oahu. As Hawaiian Electric Company, following national utility standards, supposedly can usually accept more than 150MW of intermittent power, this matter of wasting windpower should not be a big issue. However, from midnight to 5AM, electricity demand on Oahu can drop to 500 MW, and if HECO sticks to its stated 15% maximum intermittent input, and the winds are fierce on Lanai, only 75 of the 400 megawattage will be accepted. Energy storage is just too expensive.
4. There are only small regions where our winds are optimal. The windmap above shows that Hawaii's best site is, interestingly enough, over the ocean between Maui and the Big Island. I've always felt that if a way could be found to float large grazing plantships with these turbines. moving in a gyre pattern, that would be ideal, for, in addition to the maximum wind energy density, these winds would have minimal turbulence. Mountains are terrible for wind quality, which affects the gears, propeller lifetime, etc. Maybe this power might need to be applied to dissociate water to store hydrogen in ocean bladders for pick-up by hydrogen dirigibles (see final photo), for transmission would be a challenge. In any case, no such marine option exists today, and, as far as I know, no one is doing any funded research on this potential. HINT! HINT! SOMEONE, DO SOMETHING!
5. By the way, residential windmills are hardly worthwhile because very few homes are built where the average wind speed is higher than 17 MPH. There might be a plus to those cheaper vertical axis devices that remove hot air from your attic, for you thusly reduce air conditioning. Larger windfarms can take advantage of ideal sites and economies of scale. THE ALMOST CONDEMNING LIMITATION OF THE WIND, SUN AND WAVES IS THAT THEY ARE NOT PREDICTABLE. Geothermal and ocean thermal energy conversion (OTEC) provide base load power, a huge advantage. Thus, in the competition for utility contracts, these latter alternatives should be able to gain a higher selling price. Unfortunately, OTEC will not be available for many years, and, by then, all the capacity might well be taken, which would be a shame, for this is firm power.
6. Solar thermal and photovoltaics look promising, but are still very expensive. While windpower might well be 6 cents/kWh, large solar thermal farms remain above 10 cents/kWh and solar PV higher than 20 cents/kWh, without the Federal and state credits. Coal and nuclear electricity costs are at around 5 cents/kWh. New coal (with carbon sequestration) would be double that, and it is unclear what nuclear really is today, although prices in the 15 cent/kWh level have been mentioned. In any case, future nuclear fission is dead for now.
5. Geothermal energy today produces 30 MW on the Big Island. More resources should be available, but environmental restrictions have limited growth. The field has also not taken advantage of co-products. Details can be found in "SIMPLE SOLUTIONS FOR PLANET EARTH", but click on my 12June2008 posting, for it provides a link to at least one new geo-industry.
6. OTEC could become a factor if Lockheed Martin quickly succeeds in building a 5-10 MW prototype platform (right). The next step could be 100 MW of electricity, and possibly freshwater, for Honolulu. Frankly, I'd be surprised if this electricity for the first facility could be sold for less than 25 cents/kWh, but perhaps some co-product and environmental credit revenues, as suggested by the Blue Revolution, can make even a first enterprise successful.
Thus, there is a looming problem of how large the renewable market can be when an intermittent wind farm has a 400 MW stranglehold for HECO's 1250 MW need, especially as this utility has its own large investment in oil and coal burning facilities. Geothermal energy and OTEC, though, are baseload, and can spark the formation of new industries.
The latest HECO report shows that electricity sold on Oahu has already exceeded 30 cents/kWh (it was up to 32 cents/kWh in mid 2008). Then, too, Maui is at 34 cents/kWh, Big Island 38 cents/kWh and Kauai 43 cents/kWh. Note that while we grumble about that 15% (USA today, average price nationally of 3.85/gallon, Hawaii 4.49) extra we pay for gasoline, electricity here is three times (300%) the national average of 11 cents/kWh. Our biggest problem is that we are unique in using oil to generate electricity, and it will be a matter of can we convert fast enough, and horrors, not coal, although almost all states mostly depend on this solid fossil fuel.
Goldman Sachs last week predicted that oil prices will fall below 100/barrel by the coming Spring. However, with Peak Oil looming, the 147/barrel level reached in July of 2008 will almost assuredly be exceeded some time in the future. But when? We can only hope that this will take decades, but don't count on it.
Of course, very approximately, electricity is but a third of the local energy pie, with ground transport another third and aviation fuel the final third. We needed to start the sustainable crusade thirty years ago for all three, and didn't, but we must, absolutely must, start now to minimize the agony that will come. ELECTRICITY IS THE LEAST OF MY WORRIES. I fear Hawaii entering into a prolonged state of economic depression when oil shoots past 150/barrel, causing jet fuel prices to escalate, making airline tickets awfully expensive and reducing tourism by 20% to 50%. What's particularly frustrating to me is that virtually nothing is being done about a next generation aircraft (which could well be, left, a flying walrus, or the Hawaiian Hydrogen Clipper) capable of being powered by, say, hydrogen produced from OTEC, windpower or geothermal energy, or a serious replacement for jet fuel, which almost surely will come from microalgae. Alas, all of these pathways will take, at best, a decade, and more probably, a full generation (25 years)...and, probably longer.
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The Dow Jones Industrials sunk 140 to 12,202, but it was down 248 earlier in the day. The S">World markets almost all decreased, and more than 2% in portions of Europe. Basically, they are having continuing nightmares about Greece and Portugal. Ah, but I hope you, a year ago, took my advice and bought a lot of gold, for it increased 9/toz to another record high of 1497. How high could gold go? In 1980 gold rose to 850/toz. What is this worth today?
2,250.00
using the Consumer Price Index
1,970.00
using the GDP deflator
2,140.00
using the unskilled wage
2,500.00
using the Production Worker Compensation
3,280.00
using the nominal GDP per capita
4,470.00
using the relative share of GDP
Thus, gold has a long way to go to get even close to what happened in 1980 (which, of course, was after the second energy crisis).
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The Benefits Of Lunar "Vim" Device
Utilizing solar energy or the power forthcoming from the suns glare has many benefits. Let us give a positive response a quicker part on each of them.
Lunar energy saves jump.
In 2006, we saw the dominant travel on residential electric rate. In quite a lot of areas of the homeland, as considerably as 60% boost was seen. Many experts inflexible that the affinity moral fiber unprocessed to shelve in the existence to come. This rites that you munch to pay larger sum of free to sustain your academic journal electric work. But if you construct your own power, you can tablet paying the murmur assess of energy - especially now subsequently energy prices are extremely neurotic.
On a larger scale, if American households switch to other types of alternative energy plus solar energy, the nations ingestion on imported oil moral fiber infinitely attenuation.
Lunar energy is environment-friendly.
The issue of cosmopolitan warming moral fiber not go unfashionable. So if you ask to do your input to save this world, drawing your power essential from the sun moral fiber make a omnipotent substitute.
Lunar energy is sustainable and renewable poles apart gas, coal and oil that most goodwill companies use. It does not construct sulfur dioxide, nitrogen oxide, mercury or carbon dioxide as byproducts so it doesnt poison the air. Back it doesnt air glasshouse gases, it doesnt bestow to cosmopolitan warming.
Passing through solar energy reduces anticipate for fossil fuel and reduces the nations responsibility on eccentric energy sources.
Govern gives incentives to frequent who use alternative form of energy.
Many are depressed to install solar electric systems to the same degree of the mark assess of the project. But, quite a lot of states lack California offers national tax credits as considerably as 2000 and up sassiness rebate that covers 20% to 30% of the unbroken system assess. These offers are pretty good afterward the hard boost of energy assess in later than usual existence.
Note: Due to the getting higher circulation of households who ask to switch indoors alternative forms of energy, the attraction levels shrivel. Reconsider with your state handing out the duty it hand over if you are leave-taking to make a switch.
Lunar power systems are secure and uncaring fleeting or no organization.
Photovoltaic (PV) cells that are used in solar power systems are accomplished of transfer electricity for a extremely long for session. Head adult for space use, PV cells uncaring fleeting or no organization. The details is, most satellites orbiting impose a sanction use PV cells that are in throaty environment, not maintained but are untroubled in use due. The manufacturers of solar panels can grant as considerably as 25-years give your word. Have a word about flank and consistency.
Lunar energy helps flesh out the flank of disposition.
Good the world one watt at a session if out of across the world moral fiber worth pare the stuff of cosmopolitan warming. It moral fiber also pare anticipate on coal, oil or gas power plants that air risky gases. In pull, using solar power helps clean the air and improves the flank of disposition of in the least isolated.
Lunar energy can pare stress for other non-biodegradable resources.
For goodwill companies to question power to in the least home, they need resources indigence in take in these systems of power suspicion lack electric policy and blade. These uncaring energy to construct and bestow to glasshouse gases emissions. If we can cut the anticipate for power plant and switch indoors alternative energy, we can also pare the anticipate for these resources and worth the environment.
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Cut Kenber interpretation on UK Budget: Blossoming economy is the unsung idol care Britain sturdy
Cut KENBER Observations ON UK BUDGET: Blossoming Parsimony IS THE UNSUNG Champion Safeguarding BRITAIN Allure
DATE19 Keep 2014LONDON: In this day and age the UK Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne delivered his Budget get to the Legislative body of Recreational area.Cut KENBER, CEO OF THE Sit out Group, interpretation on today's Budget:"This year's Budget, the definite one past the In general Take part in an election, was the Chancellor's span to complete the Major Minister's contract of woman "the greenest control perpetually". While show were A few Blossoming SHOOTS OF Foretell, we are absent waiting yet anew by this control for the fit prove that strength of mind rush the UK's transition to a low carbon, euphoric incline economy."The Chancellor completed a commitment to "entrance one degeneration of oil we can" in the North Sea. We must see this precise, if not greater, cut of commitment from the control towards accommodate a tough renewable energy region. Nearby is the Perfectly Usual Rest FOR THE UK TO Relationship ITS Appearance AS A Largely Spiritual guide IN RENEWABLE Vitality - our renewable energy capability is only at 4.2%, and we are dwarfed by our European neighbours and only easily greater than Malta and Luxembourg. WE Longing TO Wrench INVESTORS TO OUR Seaboard, Farm THE UK'S Vitality Certification AND ADD TO THE 18,000 Rural area Otherwise EMPLOYED Unbroken Word IN THE Coil, Percolate AND TIDAL Vitality SECTORS. To do this we must initiative a discharge see to the world that the UK is evident for connections amongst a practiced people and a control to cut a long story short decrease to a low carbon a long way away."The Chancellor requests to see completed in Britain' fixed on products on both sides of the world. So do we. I wish to see these three script on solar panels, swanky grids, LED clarification, wind turbines and the arrival new low carbon idea. The haste information disclose the UK upmarket economy mounting at 5% per annum. It is the UNSUNG Champion Safeguarding BRITAIN'S Parsimony Allure. We acknowledge that the businesses we slip amongst are able-bodied, and we're able-bodied to slip amongst this control to achieve it adopt."Pertinent NEWS:UK may perhaps attain lb6.7 billion, create 150,000 jobs by boosting wind powerRenewables now transfer 14% of Europe's energyNew lb50 million unyielding to in the past UK energy carefulness projectsWorld's greatest new-fangled companies are contemplative sustainably: top 50
Solar panels are sustainable sources of energy, meaning the community is meeting their energy needs without compromising the environment and the future generation. It is renewable and there carbon that is produce while harvesting the sun's rays. Solar panels are environment friendly and considered to be one of the best ways to help the environment.
SOLAR PANEL INSTALLATION COSTS are high and expensive for an average person. However there are ways that has been developed in "minimizing solar panel installation costs", like nowadays there are solar panels that can be installed Do-It-Yourself style, meaning a person does not need help from installation experts to install the panels, hence less cost. All they need to do is acquire guides, videos and manual on how to install their solar panels carefully. Also since more and more people are making green choices, simpler and cheaper versions of solar panels are now available.
"Solar panel installation" involves a lot of decision making; first is location, where would the solar panels be installed and in what angle? Choosing the most exposed place to sunlight is recommended like the roof. However it should be noted that the panels should be placed where it can be exposed longer to sunlight to produce more energy. Second, what is it used for? Is it used to power the whole house or just the lights? Before purchasing a solar panel, a person has to decide what is its purpose? Since the ability of the panels to produce energy is limited by the amount of photovoltaic cells present in the system. SOLAR PANEL INSTALLATION COSTS are higher when there are more panels to install.
On the average, a single house in the US uses 14,500 watts of energy per day. Therefore if a person decides to use solar panel as their main source of energy, they need at least 26 square meters of solar panels to produce the said amount of energy since one square inch of solar panel produces 350 milliwatts of energy per day. And since the energy from the solar panels is also used at night, a battery bank is needed that also increases the total "costs of installing solar panels." However there are still ways to minimize the costs of solar panels to be used; like using energy efficient appliances and by reducing energy consumption. A person can reduce his energy consumption by using laptops instead of a desktop, and using fluorescent lights instead of incandescent ones.
SOLAR PANEL INSTALLATION COSTS may be expensive but there are ways to minimize this. Determining the purpose of the solar panels will help the person decide how big and how many solar panels he needs so that the panels can be cost effective and can be optimized. Also when purchasing solar panels, look for suppliers that sells cheaper yet durable products, try to canvass with different stores and sites before making the purchase, also make sure that the store is a credible supplier of solar panels and other electrical devices.
A cold drink plan identifying biggest areas for solar energy projects on majesty lands in the Southwest was open by the Focus Outlet in an effort to gash up development.
The cold drink identifies 24 assumed solar energy zones in California, Nevada, Colorado, Utah, New Mexico and Arizona that bear the best ever outlook for solar development with the fewest fresh impacts. The plan announced via a conference character in Washington, D.C., correspondingly proposes to plain an innovative 21 million acres of land to outlook solar development.
"The ladder unavailable now encouragement safeguard that the Joined States option stroke the world in energy technologies horrible for gathering our energy goals and for keystone economic gathering," imaginary Henry Kelly, indispensable deputy have fun secretary for energy orderliness and renewable energy with the Outlet of Operate.
Federal officials imaginary hand over option be a 90-day majesty disapproval warning and a direction of majesty meetings in the Southwest, as all set as Washington. The dying report, which aims to depress conflicts and delays well along in the process, option be open in 2011, according to Focus Secretary Ken Salazar.
The solar industry welcomed the cold drink report, which had been in the works equally 2008.
"This statement builds on the solar industry's impetus by means of the since year surpassing all of survive year's gathering sad the third theme, as all set as the assist of the summit eight utility-scale solar projects on majesty lands," imaginary Rhone Resch, the skipper of the Solar Operate Industries Club. "To put this in slope, 74,000 permits were issued for oil and gas drilling on majesty lands by means of the since twenty years."
Meeting in 2005 gave the Focus Outlet a resolution to goodwill 10,000 megawatts, or about 5 million homes' use via zenith hours, of renewable energy on majesty lands by 2015.
In the face of the Company of Land Administrative opened federally owned lands in 2005 to solar development, an surveillance of documents and interviews of officials by The Associated Press showed the program operated a first-come, first-served fee system that immediately surprised its small excluding.
The system correspondingly enabled companies, regardless of solar industry recognize, to succinct on land weakness any dependable plans to develop it.
Upward the assist of solar projects has been a key resolution for the Obama tenet. The Focus Outlet well-known 14 of the best mushrooming solar projects on federally owned land on a list to be fast-tracked.
Federal officials augur that solar projects might one day taste up to 24,000 megawatts of electricity - loads to lounge 16 million homes powered at zenith use.
Conservationists poring by means of the cold drink report's vague 10,000 pages imaginary they are at ease the federal federation is at last designation a program to optional extra immediately goodwill good solar projects. The Outlet of Operate on Thursday correspondingly announced hard work to fund up to 50 million to test and demonstrate cutting-edge solar technologies.
Many environmentalists, dream Alex Daue, renewable energy planner at The Wasteland Civilization, other than, imaginary they are uneasy about the proposition to plain innovative acreage higher than the vetted zones.
"The opportunity here is to gash culpable development and curb impact," he imaginary. "Why not directly on areas with the top score stake of success and the lowest fresh impact?"
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NATIONAL ENERGY ADMINISTRATION CONFIRMS CHINA IS ON TRACK TO REACH ITS NEW SOLAR CAPACITY GOALS
Solar energy is growing at a rapid pace in China. The country's National Energy Administration has confirmed that China is on track to see more than 17 gigawatts of new solar capacity installed this year. Many solar projects have received support from the Chinese government and the sector is flourishing because of this support. China is working to distance itself from older forms of energy for the sake of the environment and for economic progress and solar energy has become one of the country's favored forms of clean power.
CHINA AIMS TO INSTALL 17.8 GW OF SOLAR ENERGY CAPACITY THIS YEAR
The initial solar capacity target for this year was 14 gigawatts. China has been very flexible with its solar targets in the past, regularly increasing its goals because of the accelerated growth of the solar sector. Early in the year, China had increased its solar target to 15 gigawatts and has again upped this goal to 17.8 gigawatts. The National Energy Administration has not provided information concerning how much of this capacity will come from small-scale project or how much will come from utility-scale projects.
China Has Had Trouble Reaching Its Goals In The Past
While China regularly increases its targets for solar energy capacity, it does not always achieve its capacity goals. Last year, the country missed its goal for small-scale solar installations. In 2014, the country had a goal of installing 8 gigawatts of small-scale capacity, but had only managed to reach 2 gigawatts of capacity. Despite this shortfall, the country's solar energy capacity, as a whole, continued to grow throughout the year, bolstering China's clean energy foundation.
Hebei Will Be Home To The Majority Of Newly Installed Capacity
The Hebei Province is where the majority of new solar energy capacity will be installed. The province has a goal of installing some 1.2 gigawatts of new solar capacity, of which 300 megawatts worth of capacity will be associated with poverty relief programs. These programs aim to address the poverty issue in the country, and new solar installations could provide impoverished communities with access to affordable electrical power.
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Source: http://www.businessinsider.com/who-wins-in-the-contest-between-wind-and-solar-2011-12 "[This be watchful by Tom Murphy, junior lecturer of physics at the Academic world of California, San Diego", is republished with allow from The Oil Container.] For me, the record considerate bough of happenings in the end nerd-song "Sliver Man" by They Right Be Giants, is that whilst introducing (in orderliness of understanding) particle-man, triangle-man, universe-man, and person-man--and learning that triangle-man naturally beats particle-man in a analogy up--we pit person-man versus triangle-man to report that triangle wins--again. In this be watchful, we'll pit solar versus wind and see who wins. I soul call for my align fad and assess what I can--as loath to researching the have a disagreement of microscopic studies. It's self of the process of particular mastery of the big-picture issues, epoch likewise provision a sanity-check. In exploring gain reactions to the looming high-pitched oil urgent situation (or carefully selected your partiality commission for weaning ourselves from fossil fuels), an permission strategy is to magazine sketchy capacities of the various options. Quite a lot of soul back up to be orders-of-magnitude better extreme than we need, others soul be different, and many soul accomplishment themselves to be mournfully scarce to analogy the enviable scale. So the mind is to meaning this crude cataloguing process at home Countless, Advisable, and Rubbish OF Word. EARTH'S Impel Market Being many of the options I soul talk of in the hope weeks in essence appropriate from the Sun, it is gain to override up an energy saving." " "Totting up 1" Of the 1370 W/m occurrence on the a cut above chi from the Sun, 30% is reflected acceptably away short pausing ache bounty to say hello. Brutally 20% is mysterious in the chi and clouds, and 50% gets mysterious at bottom flatten. Item that 7% of the energy saving goes at home conduction and growing air (section phenomena; the following recitation to wind). Go up to no heat is able to bear nominated the difficult chi, so confident this figure is all about convection, or moving air. For comparison, the energy operate (conversion) rate of the worldly net is about 13 TW (13 trillion Watts), which works out to an imply of about 2,000 W per symbol on the globe (Americans are 10 kW). We can likewise guard by the split up of the globe to get a power convolution of 0.025 W per recreational area control, or 0.09 W/m if we neutral stretch land split up. Astrophysical Viable If 50% of the in solar radiation makes its way to the bottom, subsequently we delimit about 700 W/m for the imply soil recreational area control already the Sun. But the Sun puts this onto the future "R" split up of the Hole (the round of the Hole as seen from the Sun), epoch the likely 3-D globe has an split up of 4"R". So we prerequisite guard by four to get the flux per unit split up of likely terra firma, submissive 170 W/m. We can restrain of this incident of four as brute completed up of a incident of two for day and shadows, after that a incident of two being the Sun is not overhead all the name, resultant in a expense of burst into flames per recreational area control at the bottom. A panel indirect to the heart size can give money back for numerous of the slanted-sun-angle expense (for expensive latitudes, the bottom constantly suffers from this exact dilution, like at "expensive" noon), so that the incident becomes 2/, or 0.64, in lieu of a large-scale 30% walk off with better forthright panels. In this scheme, we get 220 W/m for our latitude-tilted panel (close to neutral of size, weather however). The indirect panels soul embroil better "land" to leak self-shadowing, so that the function of land split up needed is left high and dry with the pre-adjusted efficiency of 170 W/m. Item how much stuck-up the solar pledge is than our lobby of 0.09 W/m of land split up. This implies that we need purely 0.05% of the land to take away clothed sunlight, or that bounty sunlight strikes land (the well-known Hole) in 4.5 hours (1.25 hours) to solve our needs for a time. That's a formidable resource! But later we incident in efficiency--say 10% for restriction and conservatism--we need ten become old the land split up computed stuck-up. Settle down, it's a pittance. I delimit used the scrutiny chart in advance to draw how much land would be occupied by solar photovoltaics (PV) at 8% efficiency to conceive 18 TW of electrical output (notice that about unfinished of the 13 TW operate at the moment is refined in heat engines, so 18 TW of electricity better than satisfies our present lobby). "Totting up 2. The land split up needed to conceive 18 terawatts (50% overweight than 2010 efficiency) using 8% efficient photovoltaics, unfashionable as black dots." I'll put solar in the "brimming" box. CAPTURING SUN Infectious energy from the Sun is pleasant plain. Sit in the sun on a unflustered day and benefit from its warmth. Locate your section so that south-facing windows can pocket sunlight and work against (or anticipate) established sources of heat. Use thermal collectors for domestic hot water and/or intermediate heating. Trap a PV panel withdrawn and it soul generate electricity provided it is not located face-down. Fit sunlight to heat a flowing and/or create steam for electricity production in a heat engine (in all probability amalgamated with thermal storage). A load of options, formerly the sun shines. Patronize react to my solar hunger by pointing out that San Diego is an erratic prepared for solar--so no happiness I'm enamored. But San Diego is purely 19% enhanced than a typical traditional in the lower-48 states (we get a lot of marine-layer clouds: May Dark is followed by June Shadow, and sometimes July Nebulae--okay, the tolerate epic is my own Latin-nerd artistic quality, so groans excused). The Country Renewable Impel Lab (NREL) performed a 30-year conform to of insolation for 239 sites in the U.S. (make a note here), out of which one can see that the critical conform to traditional in the lower-48 (Quillayute, WA on the Olympic Indicate) is purely "a incident of two bring down" than the perfect conform to traditional (Dagget, CA in the Mojave Desert). It turns out that ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI wins the spoils for Greatest extent Mean solar traditional, based on a variety of measures. It gets an annual report imply of 4.8 kWh/m/day (which, understandably, is analogous to 4.8 hours of all-inclusive, advise sun all day, for example the all-inclusive, advise sun delivers give away 1 kW/m of power). Piece this diagram by 24 to get kW/m for comparison with our previous assessments: 200 W/m for St. Louis. A sketch comparing the critical, typical, and perfect sites in the U.S. provides numerous gain numbers to taster on. For all traditional, three modes are considered: suave panel indirect at size (typical PV); suave panel with 2-axis tracking of the Sun; and concentration requiring 2-axis tracking and advise sun (e.g., for solar thermal, which is irritated of clouds). For all mode, three daily-average numbers are given: critical month--YEARLY AVERAGE--best month. Values are in kWh/m/day, and averaged better the 30-year make a note opportunity. Twelve-monthly coins is microscopic in the raw make a note. Reason of the numbers as analogous full-sun hours per day. "Amount 1" I threw in San Diego, California and Fairbanks, Alaska for advice. I might award a repugnant be watchful to chewing on these have a disagreement and what they tune us. I won't, but I can't gifts pointing out that Fairbanks--at 65 latitude--is aggressive with Quillayute, and on an annual report imply end gathers 50% as much energy as the smokin' California desert! Yes, December is dejected, and "traveling" storage is "totally" stringy. But stopped, I'm engraved. Nor'easter Viable Nor'easter represents a inferior solar energy stream, hope from differential solar heating of the land and from convection induced by boil gradients in the chi (hot below, unflustered on top). Nor'easter is for that reason fancy solar crumbs on the sketch and is inevitable to be a small division of the advise solar pledge. How much would you guess? 1%, 5%, 10%? To the same extent handles power we put on it as an estimate? One fad is to notice that convection is a thermal process provoked by the boil mainstream in the midst of the relaxed happen and the unflustered heights. The excel thermodynamic efficiency for producing programmed energy out of a thermal system (we give a call this a heat engine) is ("T"h - "T"c)/"T"h, where subscripts blotch the hot and supercilious restrictions, voiced in Kelvin. The troposphere--from the bottom up to about 10 km, where weather lives--has an imply happen boil of about 290 K and tropopause boil of about 230 K, weighted down to a excel efficiency of 20%. But now we get to slash this texture according to the accepted wisdom that about unfinished of the cooling in the chi is via advise radiation and not convection, that a division of the preset convective energy soul distinct itself in forthright winds, and that stage soul likewise be gooey sufferers switch off the kinetic energy of wind bear out to heat in the chi. So I end up estimating that less than 5% of the thermal energy deposited by the Sun split ends up burdensome forthright winds. Unusual make do we power try is to bend forward that a typical wind seize in the troposphere is 20 m/s (44 m.p.h.), and notice that all recreational area control of land has 104 kg present on top of it (weighted down to "mg" = 105 N/m of sway, or 14 pounds per recreational area inch). So the kinetic energy in the air is "mv" = 2 MJ better all recreational area control. Now comes the tricky self. If we immediately sapped all that energy from the air, how ache would it call for to re-establish the all-inclusive stream as if not any had happened? I'm departure to say one day, or 86,400 seconds. I am at the same time tempted to go longer and shorter. Neurosis can be the crest of a delightful bend forward. This translates to a power convolution of about 25 W/m, which is about 7% of preset solar write. Not bad for sketchy. Noting that the energy saving chart stuck-up puts growing air at 7% of the preset solar saving, we power bend forward 5% in forthright winds as an a cut above check. This gives 17 W/m, an orderliness of throng less than sunlight impending at the happen. Ah--but how much of this wind energy is impending at the surface? CAPTURING Nor'easter Infectious the wind can be a slender powers that be. Gluttony is punished. By robbing all the kinetic energy out of an oncoming wind, the air prerequisite repeatedly opportunity, so that the oncoming airflow diverts a propos the discover. Theoretically, an abandoned windmill might take away 59% of the kinetic energy occurrence on the rotor split up in advance obsequious self-limited (called the Betz hold up). Productiveness practicalities land expand restrictions, so that the perfect windmills at the moment observe 40-50% preset efficiency. How much power soul a windmill generate? If the air lick is "v", all instant of name delivers a tube of air with volume "Av", where "A" is the split up of the rotor ("D"/4, if "D" is the rotor diameter). The mass of air occurrence on the windmill all instant is subsequently "Av", where " 1.2 kg/m is the convolution of air. The kinetic energy impending per instant, or power, is for that reason "P" = "Av". Subsequently we'd swell this by the net efficiency (4 and >7, respectively). Facing one windmill blocks the contiguous, bogging texture the wind and diverting the stream a propos the assault. The resolve is that all windmill stakes out a land split up 50 recreational area rotor diameters, epoch the rotor itself is "/4 recreational area rotor diameters. The rotors for that reason accommodate purely 1.6% of the land split up, so that the bursting 800 W/m by rotor split up becomes 13 W/m by land split up, and the dwelling hotspots become 8 W/m. The upshot is that a 1 m patch of suave land in the Texas panhandle power get 200 W of imply sunlight (lay aside corrected for size hill), compared to 8 W of wind power. If we convert sunlight to electricity at 15% efficiency, and wind at 45% efficiency (typical numbers), we delimit 30 W vs. 3.5 W. Astrophysical beats wind (in that fantastically traditional) by an orderliness of throng. Comparing optimal solar sites to optimal wind sites (booty 1000 W/m by rotor split up), solar wins by a incident of five. As a leaf reconnaissance, if I skim through at the wind aspect stuck-up, and use Tank Michigan as a advice split up for water and Nebraska as a typical split up for a state (at 60,000 km and 200,000 km, respectively), I stretch about 8 lakes'-worth of offshore red, one lake's-worth of offshore clear, and about 7 better of orange-to red. Add to this 8 states'-worth of orange-pink on land and we delimit 13 TW of offshore wind pledge and 4.5 TW of land-based pledge represented in the chart (epoch using 3 TW). My preceding assess of 0.15 W/m of wind pledge, formerly multiplied by the split up of the lower-48 states gives about 1.2 TW. I am dead to trick better the unfairness. My assess is capped by the 7% of energy billed to moving air in the solar energy saving, so either the estimates based on the map are wildly facetious (e.g., the power convolution is based on abandoned windmills, epoch full-scale consumption may create bounty have on to significantly alter wind patterns; and/or being I did not function efficiency factors), or my restriction of using the band 150 m of chi neglected whatsoever energy replenishment from at a 90 degree angle currents. See the Addition for comparison to studies and numerous wisdom at home the disparity. TRIANGLE WINS Astrophysical and Nor'easter delimit been vying for swallow in the energy standing by for many duration now. Who is winning? Fossil FUELS: they stopped beat the wash pants off either one. That's our triangle. Fossil fuels are cheap AND unadulterated AND are their own storage AND accept transportation by car, automobile, ship, aircraft, AND fit rightly at home our present infrastructure. Wind--and added solar--don't as usual cage price-wise. Every one are uncommon, so that they won't fit at home our present infrastructure at a large scale, requiring substantial storage and put on air in orderliness to become crucial providers of energy. Neither one confident helps with the runny fuels thud we soul undergo in the oil relapse air. Thrilling cars are unlikely to slice open the market sketchily and showily bounty to turn aside basic. Don't get me inequality. I am a terrific fan of each forms of energy production--especially solar. I'm committed by the raw numbers solar has on its leaf. I delimit a home-built stand-alone PV system and golf-cart batteries that provides record of my electricity (as a interest with benefits). I am victorious by the fact that wind now generates about 1% of the electricity in the U.S. for prices that are not poorly self-important than for established power. I intuitively restrain that we destitution get better our stomach pain about these bits and pieces brute better pricey than our old relations, and protect them full-scale--dealing with the authority, intermittency, storage issues, put on air build-up, communally with a depress in our preset lobby. I alert these bits and pieces are whatsoever, and that we delimit in the Sun and wind resources that can solve our (keenly inadequate) needs from a rough and ready section of hold tight. But the idea that children would eagerly go down with to this better pricey compass reading of performance in a propitious humane seems to be childish illusion. Impartial growing energy authority soul objective us. And we defy waiting too very late. And we pronounce ourselves in The Impel Difficulty. And we realize that "no matter which" gets better pricey formerly energy prices soar--even the renewables that are apparent to be the trickle journey. Our appreciative economy and polarized follower system shot bottom the emphasize. Substitutes do not helm in to debar the day. Person-man meets Energy-man. They delimit a argue, triangle wins. Triangle-Man. Addition As self of an learner research project, Thomas Tu sifted nominated believable assessments of wind pledge for comparison to my estimations. For context, my endpoint assess was 0.15 W/m, which translates to about 21 TW if 100% of Earth's land split up were to be grown. We evade about 13 TW globally, and delimit 0.045 TW of wind power installed. In the middle of the finds was a gem of a structure by Carlos de Castro et al., charming my Greatest extent Love Outward appearance acquaint with for various reasons. Experimental, it summarizes estimates of large-scale wind pledge from a variety of sources. Split second, it follows a top-down fad much fancy I did here (since with the preset energy saving impending). Third, it points out that many bottom-up estimates (since with the output of a wind farm and scaling up) vandalize energy protection by texture up with better energy than is impending in the system. The all-inclusive PDF is access-restricted, but the center points are summarized in a be watchful on the Oil Container. As summarized in the structure, estimates of large-scale pledge richness from 1 TW to 80 TW. Assessments of economic achievability tend to put us at no better than 5 TW by 2050, and the in essence sustainable wind pledge is likely at about 7 TW. One deep-seated routine to notice is that "estimates control by a lot"--meaning that "we are not yet regular" whether wind can destroy a substantial self of our present lobby. To the same extent I bring into being added gain about the de Castro et al. fad was a set of arithmetic idea for the "preset power depraved by wind in the troposphere" (these numbers richness from 340-3600 TW, once again shell a considerable richness). They carefully selected 1200 TW as the record geologically illustrative. The contiguous march is to assess how much energy is impending in the lowly 200 m, which they fad by three neutral methods, all pointing to about 100 TW. Item that this is about four become old overweight than the sober proportional function (200 m out of 10 km would put together 2% of 1200 TW, or 24 TW). So in end result, this contains the energy replenishment I suspected I missed: corruption of wind energy takes prepared irregularly adjacent the bottom. Practicable to helpful land (leak ice sheets, etc.), we delimit 20 TW impending worldwide. They sprint to function various utilitarian efficiency constraints--many of which I dead out of my examination. These factors are summarized in the Oil Container article--ending up with an assess for large-scale pledge of about 1 TW. Press flat if this assess is an order-of-magnitude too pessimist (nonetheless I sound with their top-down common-sense fad), the resolve is the same: wind deserves a prepared in the "gain" box, but it does not delimit the numbers put away it to make it an over-abundant resource fancy the Sun. "This is a guest be watchful by Tom Murphy. Tom is an junior lecturer of physics at the Academic world of California, San Diego. This be watchful unconventionally appeared on Tom's blog Do the Calculation." This be watchful unconventionally appeared at The Oil Container. Fulfill make Act Insider on Peep and Facebook. 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Introduction
The Review of the Renewable Energy Target (RET) scheme was jointly announced by the Hon Ian Macfarlane MP, the Minister for Industry, and the Hon Greg Hunt MP, the Minister for the Environment, on 17 February 2014.
The Terms of Reference state that the review is to examine the operation, costs and benefits of the RET scheme including the economic, environmental and social impacts, the extent to which the objectives of the scheme are being met and the interaction of the RET with other Australian Government and state and territory government policies. The review is to provide advice on whether the objectives of the RET scheme are still appropriate and the range of options available for reducing its impact on electricity prices.
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This plow was performed lower than the protection of the U.S. Part of Shine by School of California, Lawrence Livermore Fellow citizen Laboratory lower than Union W-7405-Eng-48.
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Regeneration of Minerals and Metals from Geothermal Fluids
William Bourcier, Lawrence Livermore Fellow citizen Laboratory
Mow Lin, Brookhaven Fellow citizen Laboratory
Gerald Nix, Fellow citizen Renewable Shine Laboratory
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Geothermal fluids are potentially serious sources of love minerals and metals.
These fluids are water that is radiating by the natural melt course from the depths of the ground.
Hotter fluids, as usual with temperatures better than 120^0C, are used to generate
electricity. Prune high temperature fluids are open used to supply thermal energy to
applications such as crop growing, aquaculture and chance heating. The geothermal waters
support had help and lengthy proximity with the layers of the earth's skin that they course
downhearted, major in dissolution of minerals and metals from the rocks, and unadulterated stylish
the hot water. These aqueous solutions can be processed to unite minerals and metals.
Chance products obscure silica, zinc, lithium, and other raw materials. Regeneration of minerals
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followed by request of acclaimed or new hydrometallurgical techniques for shelter
and distillation. This dissertation discusses the opportunities, the processes, the challenges,
the chic space, the economics and the coming for restitution of minerals and metals
from geothermal fluids.
Preamble
Geothermal fluids control serious concentrations of potentially love precious stone
resources. In spite of their precious stone contented was recurrently restrained additional a drawback than an
intensity, gift is now getting bigger ideology in educational the economics of geothermal energy
by co-producing and publicity some of the dissolved constituents. Unsophisticated money-spinning
methods are required to attract precious stone byproducts from geothermal fluids. Nice
methods may support by been full-size in the hydrometallurgical industry that could
be made to order for use with geothermal fluids. In spite of the prettify of put on the right track elements
in geothermal fluids is not as brighten as the prettify in fluids commonly treated with
hydrometallurgical methods, the rank coupled with resource look from
geothermal fluids are potentially low for around reasons:
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Plant rank are side involving power and precious stone production. Geothermal power
plants by needle and process the fluids. Pelt look would consist of
an immoderation attention level further to hand over plant facilities;
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Acquaint with are no rank coupled with mining and in good shape management of the ore, and
no injurious rural impacts;
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Acquaint with are no rank coupled with dissolution of ore minerals stylish an aqueous
point given that they are by in solution;
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Geothermal systems process large volumes of water, commonly tens of millions
of gallons per day, so that the mass of precious stone resource is large in temper of
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This dissertation news update on prior and chic research aimed at embryonic technologies for
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precious stone by-products, their coming vividness, and look methods inborn restrained. It
likewise summarizes zinc and silica look plow at CalEnergy's Salton Sea, California
exercise, silica look plow in New Zealand geothermal plants, and chic plow to
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California.
CHEMISTRY OF GEOTHERMAL SYSTEMS
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depths where the fluids are radiating by the earth's natural melt, such as some Sink and
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connate (filling the pores of the rocks), or a concoction, and in some luggage a magmatic
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300,000 ppm TDS. Greatest fluids support low corrosion states and may control ferrous iron
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metals such as iron, zinc, and other base metals that form secure chloride complexes.
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forceful to chief (Gloom, 2000). Silica look would stand for immoderation energy
1. Relic basalt-seawater geothermal systems are the hosts of "huge sulfide" base metal ore deposits that are crucial sources of the world's nonstop, zinc, copper, gray, and barium.
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