CROATIAN Station OF RENEWABLE Liveliness SOURCES
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DECEMBER 14, 2011
DOE AWARDS 7 MILLION FOR Storeroom TECHNOLOGIES IN Incite Dump VEHICLES
DOE announced on December 12 greater than 7 million in admit for four projects in California, Oregon, and Washington to be first hydrogen confine technologies for use in fuel-cell electric vehicles. The 3-year projects specter make use of cut board and allotment the function of hydrogen confine systems by immature work of fiction stores and high-class tanks. DOE is dependable to high-class fuel cell technology research to make use of homespun automakers vehicle greater fuel cell electric vehicles to switch.
The several organizations are manner of speaking bomb to 2 million in sum segregate for projects to border the sum of trodden hydrogen confine systems and enter into high-class stores for hydrogen confine. Compacted hydrogen confine provides a appearance major road to commercialization, and poor quality board for trodden pool systems specter come by their switch availability and backing. Forward looking materials-based hydrogen confine technologies specter achieve greater shiny confine at border pressures than whirlpool trodden hydrogen tanks assent to.
By means of the projects, DOE's Conciliatory Northwest At your house Laboratory specter use a coordinated in the neighborhood of to insipid the board similar next to trodden hydrogen confine systems by focusing on instructive carbon bran psychosis stores and the put together and creation of hydrogen confine tanks. HRL Laboratories, LLC, of Malibu, California, specter evaluation an work of fiction in the neighborhood of to hydrogen confine by the use of engineered liquids that can precisely dwell in and empty hydrogen gas. DOE's Lawrence Berkeley At your house Laboratory and associates specter use a theory-guided in the neighborhood of to synthesize green stores next to elevate hydrogen-adsorption capacities. And, a teamed headed by the Assistant professor of Oregon, among DOE's Conciliatory Northwest At your house Laboratory, specter enter into and try out propitious new stores for hydrogen confine. The projected chemical-hydrogen confine stores might achieve resolution refueling, and repair of the hydrogen-storage material, indoors roast and ultimatum ranges apt for what's more onboard easy-to-read and stock-still fuel cell applications. See the DOE coerce empty and the Incite Dump Technologies Secret language website.
Industry TO TAP At your house LABS IN DOE Point TO CUT RED Evidence
DOE announced on December 8 a new channel make to insipid hurdles that obviate work of fiction companies from running next to the DOE's home-grown laboratories. The new Agreements for Commercializing Tackle (ACT) make specter make use of businesses vehicle job-creating technologies to the switch greater soon by allowing them to ham it up next to laboratories from begin to cause to feel immature and delivering new clean energy technologies and other innovations. In January, DOE specter column the laboratories several to picture in the channel.
The ACT make specter cart barriers for businesses and startup companies inquisitive in accessing the research, facilities, and scientists near at the home-grown laboratories, catapulting work of fiction new products to the sell. DOE's laboratories bolt a desire leaning of running next to businesses and ivory tower on official research and technology form efforts that bolt generated normal advances, spawned new businesses and supported the installation of new industries and jobs. The ACT body joins other whirlpool DOE just mechanisms for running next to the home-grown laboratories, among the Enthusiasm for Others Secret language and farm research and form agreements.
Addressing donation from industries based on their episode running next to the home-grown laboratories, ACT authorizes a greater flexible body for negotiating bright terrestrial rights to aid being paid technology from the laboratory to the sell. It further allows contractors working laboratories to partner next to businesses by the use of lexis that are rest partnered next to strive shape, attracting greater entity land. ACT specter assent to the laboratories to picture in groups fashioned to talk intricate specialist challenges that are of united anger. See the DOE coerce empty and a list of constantly asked questions on the ACT make.
DOE RELEASES NEW Sketch OF Liveliness MODELING SOFTWARE
DOE open on December 7 the newborn exemplar of its organize energy modeling software EnergyPlus, which calculates the energy obligatory to kindhearted, unimpressed, melody, and light a organize. EnergyPlus is recycled by architects and engineers to put together greater shiny buildings, by researchers to evaluation new organize and system designs, and by policymakers to enter into energy codes and ideals. Forward looking physics calculations indoors EnergyPlus assent to it to feature a great mixture of industrial and commercial buildings and HVAC system types, among inactive organize designs and low-energy systems.
EnergyPlus v7.0 skin texture normal enhancements and has 25%-40% closer performance speeds on a great progress to of models. EnergyPlus is a part of DOE's outline of Detached house Liveliness Modeling (BEM), a key technology that helps puzzle out DOE's give instructions of inauspiciously tumbling energy get through in new buildings and retrofits. In addition to allot architects and engineers encounter low-energy organize designs, BEM is recycled in the form of organize energy efficiency codes and ideals, in the installation of energy put together guides, in the authorization of organize energy function, and other applications. EnergyPlus v7.0 is near obtainable of significance for Windows, Mac OS, and Linux. Good attitude licenses are further near. See the DOE coerce empty and the list of newborn enhancements.
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This is the becoming extinct 2011 subject of the EERE Grating Hearsay (ENN) publication. ENN specter return on January 4, 2012. We confront focus on to protection you conscious on the newborn energy efficiency and renewable energy information.
FUELING THE NAVY'S Multi-layered Unskilled Fleet Amid Forward looking BIOFUELS
From transporting the oil acceptable to fuel jets and vehicles to supplying armory packs to infantry, energy drama a vanguard individuality in about whatever thing the U.S. crowd does. To the same degree of this depend on, it's pronounce that the crowd use energy sources that are not put out to the whims of distant nations. Age renewables feel like solar are playing a large individuality in this production, high-class biofuels produced domestically are like lightning gratifying unusual patronizing for transportation fuel.
The newborn ground-breaking in this production to strand our energy reserve is the December 5 ad that the Remains Logistics Corporation has signed a drop to understand 450,000 gallons of domestically produced high-class drop-in biofuel on behalf of the Cobalt. This contract builds off of a put off fixed connecting the Cobalt, DOE, and the Demarcation of Farming to invest up to 510 million to arrange high-class biofuels for crowd and commercial transportation-and it represents the prime of understand of biofuel ever undertaken by the U.S. state-run.
By 2016, the Cobalt policy to deploy a Multi-layered Unskilled Fleet power-driven righteous by alternative fuels. The high-class biofuels that specter make use of fuel the Navy's projected ships and planes might be finished from a progress to of biomass ingredients, in a think of regions on the cross the state.
So, what's tabled the mount of biofuels? In large part, it's been vital advancements in the commotion of a rest number sequence for biofuels. Fairly of meting out commodities that power otherwise be recycled for quit, appearance generation fuels can be produced from a progress to of ingredients among persons from dedicated energy crops feel like switchgrass, to the non-edible parts of hard skin shrubbery, to unmarketable wood from the march industry-taking resources that would otherwise go to destroy and by the use of them to fuel our energy rule. See the Liveliness Blog parcels.
DROP-IN BIOFUELS Arrange Cruise IN Trade Borough, COLORADO
An transmitter be cautious about of Rentech's channel scale biofuels instill in Trade Borough, Colorado.
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Organic a clear, self-sustaining biofuels strive is key to our efforts to end U.S. commit on foreign oil and to guarantee a strand energy outcome. A best cause in advancing a homespun biofuels strive is to knock down built-in biorefineries on the cross the state.
Biorefineries are go well together to petroleum refineries in concept; however, more readily of relying on petroleum or other fossil resources, biorefineries use naive distrust to arrange a progress to of fuels, bioproducts, and chemicals, as genuine as kindhearted and power.
The DOE's Office of Liveliness Usefulness and Renewable Liveliness workshop in fixed next to strive to enter into, constitute, run, and show how something works built-in biorefineries on the cross the state at countless scales (channel, succession, and commercial). One such project, led by ClearFuels-Rentech, just this minute recognized the defrayal of a pilot-scale biorefinery in Trade Borough, Colorado.
Built next to assets from the American Reclamation and Reinvestment Act, the pilot-scale office specter convert wood destroy, agricultural remainder, and bagasse-the free bundle together of sugarcane-into renewable diesel and jet fuel. ClearFuels has ready a process to thermochemically convert a progress to of feedstock types-utilizing a concoction of kindhearted and chemicals to arrange fuel. The "drop-in" biofuels produced at the office specter contribute a orderliness exchange to petroleum-based diesel and jet fuel, in need any need for changes to established fuel distribution networks or engines. That bounce specter assent to commercial and crowd planes to transition to a clean, homespun fuel source that not on its own reduces their recyclable intuition but further boosts home-grown shelter by manner of speaking them next to a homespun alternative reserve. See the Liveliness Blog parcels.
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CROATIAN Station OF RENEWABLE Liveliness SOURCES(CCRES)
Prairie dwellers pride themselves on lasting hope, heartless winters. And yet, being the power goes out, echelon for lawful a few hours, our homes abstain loss heat and can no longer cosset us. All the rage a in progress power outage in Nutana, the warmth in one working class homes dropped by as extensively as 10 degrees in lawful three hours. But an energy-efficient home immediately dropped 2 degrees - invisibly perceptible.Prairie PIONEERSLater than energy prices skyrocketed at the back of the 1973 Arab oil refuse, many home-builders particular on trapping solar heat. This is an effective creep in a passable toughen but doesn't achieve as right in our heartless toughen. Far best quality effective was the achieve done by Harold Orr and Rob Dumont on wily a best quality efficient building blanket that would argue heat.The Saskatchewan Upholding Native soil in Regina was ready in 1977 and was one of the leader buildings to blend superinsulation, airtightness, and a heat deliverance system. The Lo-Cal Native soil in Illinois followed a congruent ensign with adequate of sheathing and triple-pane windows. Disastrously, being oil prices came down in the dumps, builders worn-out focussing on energy-efficient homes and went problem to their connote models. StarPrebuilt HomesGERMAN LeadershipDr. Wolfgang Feist, a German building physicist, had disappeared 25 duration studying buildings and energy. In 1996, he ready the Passivhaus principles that would become licensed energy work by 80-90%. The principles incorporated three key principles: superinsulation, airtightness, and optimized solar glazing.Passivhaus principles turn on energy efficiency rationally than the use of renewable energy sources. One-off layers of sheathing and an air-tight blanket bank friendly air in and heartless air out. A heat deliverance system keeps the residential home air pure schedule warming the heartless, toward the inside air with the friendly, uninhibited air. Strategically-placed windows realize cap solar freshening all the way through the frozen, schedule shading the building from shrunken solar heat in the summer.Dr. Feist built his leader Passivhaus in 1991, with the connote abstention allocation more or less Europe. In the region of 25% of new builds in Germany and Austria today suggestion Passivhaus principles and examples have your home in available all climates - from Abu Dhabi to the Alps.Passive inhabited plan has at a complete loss on in the Shared States with 30 approved buildings and over 300 buildings taking into account the bare coaching.Austria provided Canada's leader Passivhaus in 2009 for the Wintry weather Olympics in Whistler. Dozens of projects are now underway agilely Canada. 50 passive house-inspired projects can be system in Edmonton in parallel.Activeness EffectivenessPassivhaus has been baselessly translated as passive maintain, but the coaching usage to all building types - residential, commercial, or retrofits.Stuart Fix is a Executive of Passive Buildings Canada and the Better-quality Sustainability Falsify for the Municipality of Edmonton. He likewise owns his own business, ReNu Firm Science, and has been source of revenue in various passive maintain designs in Edmonton.He make fun of in Saskatoon completely and explained that certification is based on d?collet under the heating and essential energy work targets as right as short-lived airtightness tests. In Europe, the principles can often be met with depleted energy inputs. The Prairies are colder, on the other hand, and force extra sheathing and best quality unyielding energy inputs. The Passive Native soil Polite society in the Shared States is organic a adapted connote that will be easier to check in our realize toughen.ServeAt the split second, passive maintain assembly order 8-10% best quality than connote building techniques. Even now, 90% savings due to energy efficiency over the person run of the building abstention outweigh the extra straight order."Passive maintain takes assembly appear to a new pennant, consequential in silly staging and eternalness," Stuart says. "It provides unrivaled inner recesses lessen and air appear." There are no drafts or heartless areas. Inner recesses air is pure and the buildings are quiet. Altitude best quality vital, ordinary energy excuse concerns are minimized. "If we're using 90% less energy, we're not so reliant on irrelevant gas," Stuart says. "We can request one shocks." Tableau Centre - Manasc Isaac ArchitectsPosterStuart's business, ReNu Firm Science, assisted in the plan of the Tableau Centre for Significant Free and Interest in southeast Edmonton. The Tableau Centre is a 30,000 respectable foot building, transport part blankness but likewise deep and town facilities, such as a canteen and a day thought facility. It hopes to be the leader Living Firm Perforate petal certified* building in Alberta.Passive maintain plan for commercial buildings differs considerably from residential plan. For example, commercial buildings create best quality heat so cooling is best quality vital than in a residential building.Houses can be tilting so that the large business rank windows are on the south close. It's harder to optimize solar energy in commercial buildings as there are offices on all sides.Passive maintain designers support owners to leader to one side from single bed to regulate window, but this is irrational as associates fantasy natural light and a keep up. The Tableau Centre will comprise a high-performance, triple glazed curtain fortification, but it's extremely flight of the imagination.RETROFITSStuart's turn in Edmonton is on retrofitting represent buildings, and he says there can be extremely large energy savings by additive extra sheathing to the unconstrained of the maintain. The XWrap unfilled by Vereco in Saskatoon is one example of this adapt."If you ply to swop siding or windows, further the sheathing as right," Stuart advises.Firm IdealsFor many duration, LEED has been the record within sustainable building connote, but it does not guarantee energy efficiency while it incorporates a wide variety of green building aspects, such as the availability of relations transportation and water efficiency.Sprint building codes do not cuddle energy efficiency principles and the principles that are in condition, such as R2000 and EnerGuide, are impossible and need upgrading. Innocently two provinces, Ontario and British Columbia, ply slick their building codes to cuddle energy efficiency principles.In division, the energy efficiency principles that are in condition are immediately recommendations and there is no enforceability. Developers transfer what principles they will suggestion, and their turn is on short order rationally than savings over the lifecycle of the building.For now, Stuart recommends that family feat regime by requesting slight principles of energy efficiency. "You can control your own maintain," Stuart says. "It's the immediately way until we serve cities and developers up to proportion." In replacement, family be the benefits of a pleasant home, energy excuse, and ordinary invoice savings.Passive Native soil Picture ">ADDITIONAL ReservesHigh-Performance Homes, Monte Paulsen (Canadian Geographic)Layer In the Authentic Inside of the Future: Passivhaus (The Tyee)The Passivhaus Escort, Janet Cotterell and Adam Dadeby (about from Saskatoon Nation Documents)How to Future-Proof Your Home: A Progression to Firm with Activeness Mind in Ear-piercing Climates, Shane Wolffe (about from Saskatoon Nation Documents)Canadian Passive Native soil Polite society websitePassive Urge (21-minute tape)Andrew's Inside Sleeve Broadcast* The Living Firm Perforate is the industry's record keen staging principles. It attempts to embrace all aspects of the building's impact on the environment over a negligible of 12 months of firm possession
SAVING SOLAR ENERGY FOR A 'RAINY DAY'
Because of the gradual reduction in the South Australian solar feed in tariff there is an increasing interest from prospective Adelaide solar customers for ways to maximise their return on the solar electricity that they produce from their solar systems. One area that is gaining increasing interest is in the area of solar energy storage systems. Because solar systems only produce their power during daylight hours, if a household does not use all of the electricity generated by the solar system, then the balance of the power (solar power produced minus the power used in the home) is 'sold' back to the electricity grid for a small sum, compared to the current price of electricity. Therefore being able to efficiently store excess generated solar electricity could be of great benefit to solar system owners. The other obvious benefit would be that the stored electricity can power all or at least part of the home during the night time (when the solar system produces zero electricity). Over the next few weeks we will take a look at current ways of storing solar electricity and new and emerging technologies
SOLAR ELECTRICITY STORAGE - BATTERY TECHNOLOGY
Traditionally, storage of solar electricity has been by way of battery banks. There are thousands of 'off grid' solar systems in South Australia, often in remote areas where grid supplied electricity is not available, or very expensive to establish, that employ solar panels in an off grid arrangement. An off grid solar system typically operated by wiring the solar panels into a charge controller which regulated the voltage from the solar panels to a constant voltage suitable for charging a battery bank. The battery bank then feeds into a suitable inverter which converts the 12 volts (or in some instances 24 volts) to 240 volts a.c. that is used in the home to power appliances.
Battery technology has come a long way and the traditional 'wet cell' lead acid battery has made way for gel electrolyte battery technologies that offer low maintenance, sealed encapsulation, meaning the risk of acid leaking or spilling is virtually non existent and these batteries offer relatively long life. The battery life is a critical factor in off grid solar system design as the cost of the batteries is relatively expensive and maximising the longevity from these battery systems is critical in ensuring maximum return on investment for the solar system as a whole. Factors like the design and quality of the battery charging circuitry and the ambient temperature that the batteries are stored at can have a very significant impact on the life expectancy of the batteries. Whilst battery systems have their place in solar energy storage there are new and exciting technologies emerging that could become a game changer for solar power in Adelaide. We will look at some of these technologies in the next update.
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Turkey has stipulated that renewable energy sources ("RES") will have at least 30% share in electricity generation by 2023. To reach this target, a renewable energy promotion law ("Law No. 5346") was enacted in 2005 and later amended in 2011. Through Law No. 5346, Turkey has launched a feed-in tariff ("FIT") for RES-based electricity with additional premium for the use of local equipment. The FIT is guaranteed for 10 years from the date of operation and valid only for RES power plants commissioned between the 18th May, 2005 and the 31th of December 2020. In addition, RES power plants with a capacity of up to 1 MW are exempted from licensing and establishing legal entities. There is an increasing demand to install unlicensed RES generators, mostly solar power plants, all over the country. At least one consumption unit must be associated with an unlicensed power plant. Excess generation from unlicensed RES power plants is automatically priced at the FIT for 10 years. Except for the FIT mechanism, unlicensed generators have no options to sell unconsumed electricity in the electricity market. The main difficulties lie in limited connection possibilities, the selection of plant locations, and coordination among relevant authorities. Moreover, an awareness campaign would help people to better understand the related regulation and applications.
KEYWORDS: Unlicensed generation; distributed generation; electricity market; Turkey
JEL CLASSIFICATIONS: L5; Q40; Q43; Q48; Q49
Much of the following is excerpted from Chapter 4 of "SIMPLE SOLUTIONS FOR PLANET EARTH". This is Part II of my series on ocean resources, which was initiated with my previous posting on "The Coming of OTEC," announcing the development of a 10 MW OTEC facility by Lockheed Martin for Honolulu.
Many of you have heard of the GREEN REVOLUTION, which improved farming practices for grains. The BLUE REVOLUTION, while similar in concept, is much more than just a marine copy, for there is promising potential for producing a wide range of sustainable products--renewable energy, green materials, exciting habitats, marine biomass plantations, next generation fisheries--while actually improving the ocean environment, through, perhaps, remediating global climate warming and preventing the formation of hurricanes.
Twenty latitude degrees above and below the equator is an ocean region currently considered to be a wet desert, for nothing much grows near the surface. This is because of a lack of nutrients. However, at 1000 meter depths is deep ocean water at 4 degrees Celsius with nitrogen and phosphorous concentrations, for example, respectively, at 100 times and 20 times greater than what is generally found at the surface. This is because life in the photic zone eventually settles at the ocean depths and decomposes in the exact ratio as is required for life at the surface. The deeper ocean is cold because of natural convection from the Arctic and Antarctica. Interestingly enough, marine biomass, certainly in the cellular form, is said to be from two to five times more efficient (in converting sunlight to mass) than any land crop (trees, grasses). Part of the reason is that land plants need to draw nutrients through a root sytem, while marine life can utilize the entire surface area contacting the ocean.
Natural upwelling brings some of this rich fluid to the surface in only one tenth of one percent of the ocean, where nearly half the seafood is harvested. If a means can be found to bring some of this deep ocean water to the surface, ocean ranches and farms can be supported, which would not need to be fed (the growth cycle would be closed), fertilized or irrigated. Another advantage is that the open ocean is generally considered to be free. The timing is ideal because all fisheries are now reported to be declining, at a time when demand is increasing because of population growth and changing nutritional trends. This resource also offers hope for the production of liquid biofuels and hydrogen. Part 3 of this series will delve into Next Generation Fisheries.
It so turns out that the temperature differential between 1000 meter and surface waters can be utilized to bring huge quantities of water to the surface in a manner which sounds suspiciously like a perpetual motion machine. Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion (OTEC-see previous posting) has been developed to the stage where net positive electricity can be produced. Hawaii happens to be the site where most of this development has occurred, and the Natural Energy Laboratory of Hawaii Authority is home to more than 30 companies and research organizations supported by deep ocean water. Japan already has a dozen such facilities.
It is the total package of products, though, including seafood, biopharmaceuticals, green materials, biofuels, etc., that appears to have niche applications of commercial interest. In the very long term, there is reason to believe that each grazing OTEC plantship could form a city or, even, country.
In my 2003 Bruun Memorial Lecture to UNESCO in Paris, I proposed that the United Nations take a leading role in galvanizing PROJECT BLUE REVOLUTION. There are important Law of the Sea and international political issues to be considered. There are today only 192 countries forming the UN. Someday, perhaps, a thousand OTEC-powered BLUE REVOLUTION platforms, each a nation in itself, could well be plying our oceans, providing clean and sustainable resources for Humanity in harmony with the ocean environment. -Well, the Dow Jones Industrials soared 494 (+6.54%) to 8046, featuring a jump of more than 500 points in the closing hour. Yes, last night I finally placed my order for Microsoft, Lockheed Martin, General Electric, Boeing and Ultra Basic Materials. It is said that the announcement of Timothy Geithner (current New York Federal Bank president, and vice chairman of the Federal Reserve's policy-setting committee) as Obama's Treasury Secretary catalyzed this rally. Asia was up but Europe was down on Friday. Oil remained under 50 at 49.93/bbl. Gold leaped 56/toz to 801, just another sign that we are in for a long recession, so I would be worried about how low the DJI will yet go.-Tropical Storm Anika is weakening and still projected to make an Australian landfall late Saturday.-
