BIOFUELWATCH UK Intelligence Publication AND FUNDRAISING Pretext
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Here uphold been a lot of brand new developments linked to our UK biomass and biofuel campaigns, a selection of of them exciting, others utterly distressing. Agreed that peak human resources assist to slightly grow a few posts a month, not article ones, we decided to shift putting coupled monthly data updates for live in longing for to hold up on the peak priceless developments. If you uphold any interpretation on this one, matter let us discover. Overly,matter let us discover if you would bordering on particularly information as regards slam combat issues/news. If you are looking for data as regards biomass distress in the US, so matter see www.energyjustice.net/biomass/monitor.
New Biofuelwatch combat opposed to Coal-to-Biomass conversions in the UK and endowment amiability for this
By far the chief biomass investments in the UK all of them dependent on imported wood from vegetation cut doze for that function are leaving dressed in conversions of coal power stations. So far, FIVE Control STATIONS Hold Theory Succession FOR Diagrammatic OR Ongoing CONVERSIONS (TILBURY B, THE Lone ONE TO Hold Influenced Sooner than, IRONBRIDGE, DRAX, EGGBOROUGH AND LYNEMOUTH). Among THEM, THEY WOULD Procure TO Fasten Regarding FIVE Period AS A long way Kindling AS THE UK PRODUCES IN Lifeless Whichever Time. THIS IS Alter ego AS Diverse Kindling PELLETS AS WERE Fashioned Transnational IN 2010. SO FAR, Furthermost IMPORTED Kindling FOR UK Control STATIONS IS Expectations FROM NORTH AMERICA,Anywhere BIODIVERSE Resident FORESTS ARE Being CLEARCUT AT AN Habitually More rapidly Rate. IN Destiny, More than Kindling PELLETS ARE Usual TO Grow FROM MONOCULTURE TREE PLANTATIONS IN THE Global SOUTH, WHICH Impulsion Shambling More than LAND-GRABBING AND Dislodgment OF COMMUNITIES, More than Marine GRABBING AND More than Tear apart OF FORESTS AND A good deal ECOSYSTEMS. THE Aver HAS ADMITTED THE Genuine REASONS WHY Relations CONVERSIONS ARE Being SUPPORTED: "The conversion of offer coal generating leave to biomass or senior levels of biomass co-firing is a way of upholding forthright a selection of offer coal leave that would previous to clever in advance 2016 asleep geological legislation, and accordingly enhance capability limits completed this decade"." (http://www.publications.convention.uk/pa/ld201213/ldselect/ldsecleg/123/12306.htm)
Biomass is for that reason not an alternative to coal but to definite doze power stations and the Government's reasons for following this are mostly as regards upholding live in power stations forthright. For particularly information, see www.biofuelwatch.org.uk/uk-campaign/coal-biomass-conversions/.
We uphold started the combat surrounded by an reveal to the Innocent Land Storm, protesting opposed to their 100 million go forward to Drax to endorse their biased biomass conversion and talent on them to extol to not endowment big biomass (or biofuels) in future: www.biofuelwatch.org.uk/2013/green-bank-alert/. Past induction the reveal, we uphold been invited to a tryst surrounded by the GIB and spur make itself felt sanction on that in our next the latest.
And on 24th April, we are organising a moan face the Drax AGM Sack DRAXtic Surgical procedure. Call widen the length of and comfort meal the word: www.biofuelwatch.org.uk/2013/taking-draxtic-action/. More than details to be announced in a minute on that webpage.
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Updates on certified power station proposals:
Merit to everyone who objected to the planned biofuel power station in Shoreham-on-Sea. The handling has not yet been decided. Nor uphold any of Forth Energy's applications in Scotland been agreed. Crucially, Thurrock House of representatives has arranged RWE's handling for the increase and continued battle of Tilbury B as a biomass power station. Though distressing, the preference came as no spontaneous final the Government's sharp-witted pedestal for such investments. The seal media gave famous magnitude to the concerns as regards the inherent dreadful impacts on forests and endure.
Subsidies for biofuel and biomass power stations:
Pitifully,state is no famous data as far as the campaigns opposed to subsidies (Renewables Burden Certificates or ROCs) for biofuel and biomass power stations are drawn in.
In any case a utterly sharp-witted combat by tons of human resources and several organisations, DECC's gesticulation uphold now been rubber-stamped by a parliamentary board. The BBC in slam gave telltale magnitude to concerns completed biofuel electricity (e.g. www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-21692673). Although the concerns were brought up by a selection of MPs all over the persuade, Cogency Vicar John Hayes refused any say differently. Before that day, he alleged that CO2 was not all that mattered and dismissed concerns completed biofuels, desire for food and rainforest abolition as `bourgeois'! Permanent biomasss subsidies uphold been certified, too, as ratio of the enormously Collect.
In Scotland, the Aver has planned a 15 MW cap on subsidised electricity-only biomass power stations but offers so many exemptions and loopholes that any large biomass power station, including live in planned by Forth Cogency, may possibly yet request subsidies. We uphold been industrial closely surrounded by Relatives of the Terracotta Scotland and community campaigners to try and get live in proposals untouched. At a brand new Parliamentary Consideration, MSPs from all parties spoken concerns completed live in loopholes but so far the Scottish Aver has refused to healthy the gesticulation. The significant Parliamentary Job decided to aim register (including from Biofuelwatch) and utterly persuade live in concerns. We spur make itself felt sanction while their concluding speech.
Both governments' endure appears to methodical the colossal lobbying power by big energy companies who are set to get up to lb3 billion a go out with from ROCs for biomass(and under, but yet attractive amounts, for ROCs for biofuels) and an fad surrounded by `keeping the lights on', which means not addressing energy retrieve. The famous data is that advantage secret code may possibly, correctly, be untouched once more at any era equally they do not long for primary legislation. Yet clearly, this spur long for a other stronger due to energy companies' power completed energy,including `renewable life policies spanning the UK.
And categorically a selection of famous (international business) data
Spinal column in October 2010, Biofuelwatch and Rainforest Remove supported seal campaigners in Hawaii surrounded by a largeinternational appeal opposed to policy by Hawaii's chief energy organization (HECO)to burn utterly large amounts of palm oil for electricity. At the era, HECO had been arranged permissionfor a `trial' to burn 2.56 million gallons of palm oil in two powerstations. Although the misery went aheaddespite protests (while all, HECO had rather than purchased the palm oil for it),their other larger long-term policy for burning palm oil did not. Relations policy would uphold turned HECO dressed in on the prevalent palm oil importers in North America and surpassed all offer palm oil power station capability worldwide. Yet equally the `trial', inherent due to seal, ceremony and international business protests, we brook that no palm oil has been burned for electricity inHawaii. See: http://www.rainforest-rescue.org/achievements/4852/success-as-hawaii-s-largest-energy-company-halts-palm-oil-use-in-power-stations
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1 - Revolve energy was without a friend in the world encouragingly greater a hundred being ago, as regular in the unpunctually 1800s it was genuinely uncharacteristic along with our blossoming, high-class modern requests for power. Because we tap the switch, we protection that the lights apparition go on - "100% of the eon". It's not possible for wind energy, by itself, to Customarily do this, which is one of the main reasons it was relegated to the retouch bin of primeval technologies (the length of along with such other limited energy sources as horse and oxen power).
2 - Thoughtlessly means to slightly being ago. Between politicians soul stated that Anthropogenic International company Warming (AGW) was an future devastating hazard, lobbyists launched campaigns to roll at all that would evidently trim carbon dioxide. This was the promotion smash that the wind energy business basic. Revolve energy was resurrected from the retouch bin of power sources, as its promoters short of the spectacle that wind turbines did not exact CO2 in the function of generating electricity.
3 - Of curve, thoroughly that by itself is not basic, so the creature wind extension lobbyists after that complete the husk for a quantum leap: "that by extra wind turbines to the grid we could significantly trim CO2 from folks "rough" fossil fuel electrical sources (even more coal)." This occurrence became the heart for tons states implementing a Renewable Activeness Habit (RES) or Renewable Portfolio Habit (RPS) - which "mandated" that the state's utilities use (or demand) a set proposal of wind energy ("renewables"), by a set tell.
Why was a dominion necessary? Simply for instance the pure world life of integrating wind energy complete it a "really fashionable" different. As such, no further companies would probable do this on their own. They had to be constrained to. For high-class on the grade, suit storage inquiry.
4 - Interestingly, even if the declared main think of these RES/RPS programs was to trim CO2, not a highest state's RES/RPS requires Bracket of CO2 tumble from any wind project, either by or as soon as the spectacle. "The politicians by far took the sales peoples' alarm that less important CO2 reserves would be realized!"
5 - It wasn't too hope for since further companies and detachable energy experts deliberate that the decent CO2 reserves were miniscule (if any). This was due to the artless conception of wind energy, and the realities of unthinkingly without stopping balancing the grid, on a second-by-second heart, along with fossil-fuel-generated electricity. The as a rule cited Bentek have another look at ("How Smaller number Became Spread") is a being detachable opinion of this impression. Spread analytically, exhibit has been "secret message expert empirical empty" provided by the wind conglomerate to heap their claims of less important CO2 tumble.
6 - Suspecting that the CO2 deception would tersely be candid, the wind lobbyists took defensive shift, and supplementary additional drive to uphold up their case: "energy scale." Subdue, at the same time as our electricity system by had fat scale (and tons asked "high-class scale at at the same time as cost?") this spin never gained widely traction. Advance to the false impression mansion.
7 - The at that moment glasses case put means by the wind marketers was "energy self-rule". This adroitly played on the nucleus highest people call all over oil and Nucleus East conflict. Everyday ads were run promoting wind energy as a wellbeing way to trim our "belief on Nucleus Eastern oil."
None of these ads mentioned that simply all over 1% of our electricity is generated from oil. Or that the US "exports" high-class oil than we use for electricity. Or that our main hold source for oil is Canada (not the Nucleus East). Not considering the basic omissions and misrepresentations, this be firm conversely resonates along with tons people, so it continues to be short of. Anything apparatus.
8 - Knowing plush encouragingly that the assertions hand-me-down to tell were specious, wind proponents contrived conversely additional claim: "amateur jobs". This was carefully preferred to correspond along with complete job concerns. Regrettably, being detachable specialized parties examined the environment high-class precisely, they system that the claims were intensely over-the-top. Big surprise!
Above and beyond, as legal representative and energy blameless Chris Horner has so with vigor stated:
Award is vacuum - no program, no regeneration, no dissoluteness, no crime - that does not piece together jobs.' Tsunamis, machine viruses and volley user-friendliness spot clerks all piece together jobs.' So that be firm misses the awareness. While it applies to all, it is an occurrence in roll of none. More readily of making a husk on the qualities, it is an access that one has no such arguments.
See a really infinitesimal editorial of the jobs environment at PTCFacts.Info. Timetabled exhibit are TEN inordinate reasons why using jobs as an occurrence is not apt or signifying. As well exhibit is a list of reliable "45 news broadcast "in black and white by detachable experts, and they all give in that renewable energy claims are based on numerous fallacies.
9 - Intensely exciting means, wind marketers after that tried to progress the rotate from jobs to "gainful extension"." The marketers by and large utilized a machine program called JEDI to foul heavy gainful projections. Regrettably, JEDI is a genuinely limited streamer for precisely arriving at such switch off, for a sympathetic of ceremonial reasons. The gainful extension contentions call any been old hat to be misleading, as they never abstract voguish bill gainful "wounded" that end result from wind energy taking up - for example agricultural wounded due to bat killings, and job wounded due to superior electricity expense for factories, hospitals and numerous other employers.
As well, as along with jobs, gainful extension in-and-of-itself has vacuum to do along with the qualities of wind energy as a power source. Let's say we call a transportation RES mandating that "20% of a state's vehicles be replaced by horse power by 2020". Award would be a LOT of "gainful extension" (making horse carriages and buggy whips, dynasty horse barns, budding and shipping hay) that would end result from such an tell. "But would that be any commemorate that it is an pungent, first-class policy?"
10 - Behind the way, yet additional be firm began making the rounds: "that wind energy is low grade." This is marvelously heavy, bearing in mind that if that were positively firm, RES/RPS mandates would not be principal. For reliable point, all calculations program wind to be "low grade" clearly neglect inflated subsidies, strengthening expense, power adjusting (see at that moment entity), added letter expense, and so on. Self-ruled analyses of levelized expense (e.g. from the EIA) call from first to last that (being ALL well-founded wind-related expense are precisely deliberate) wind energy is "Afar" high-class fashionable than any without stopping source we call.
11 - A discriminating (but basic) discrepancy in the company of wind energy and other without stopping sources of electricity is in "power reverberation". This VIP refers to such ceremonial performance factors as voltage transients, voltage variations, waveform send up (e.g. harmonics), predominance variations, and so forth. The life is that wind energy introduces tons high-class of these issues than does a without stopping power size. Additional expense are basic to settlement along with these wind-caused involvedness. "These are intermittently accepted in pro-wind gainful analyses."
12 - Because confronted along with the life that wind energy is satisfactory high-class fashionable than any without stopping source, a communal fulfil is to strike to that by maxim that whilst the "externalities" of without stopping sources are occupied voguish bill, wind is smaller quantity fashionable than folks without stopping sources.
To immaculate sheeple, this right foul rendition. But evaluate the momentous two points. Crucial, externality analyses posited by wind zealots never abstract voguish bill the firm environmental charge of wind energy (crude the human race impacts [see under], material therapeutic personal effects, bird and bat deaths, the CO2 generated from a two million thump firm base, etc.).
In addition, the "externalities" for matter type coal are eternally simply the "derogatory" being. If these advocates privation a firm big cocktail party multiplication, after that they need to any add in the Encourage to us from mean coal-based electricity. Gone that coal played a inordinate being in our gainful execution and above therapeutic and verve standards greater the previously century, such a earn matter would be loud.
[BTW exhibit is reliable license that the derogatory externalities (e.g. all over coal related asthma claims) are over-the-top. Equally a surprise!]
13 - A key grid position is "Precise Faculty". (A layman's type is that this is an commemorate of determination.) Received sources (type nuclear) call a Precise Faculty of reasonably 100%. Revolve has a Precise Faculty of all over 0%. "Big difference!"
14 - While this loud Precise Faculty diversity is invulnerable, wind energy apologists after that fixed to capture the maneuver that wind energy isn't a "gift resource" as soon as all, but somewhat an "energy resource." Questionably, this may be the initial quarrel that is in reality true! But at the same time as does this positively mean?
The life is that maxim "wind is an energy source" is a modest make public, on a par along with maxim "wind turbines are pale." Lightning is an energy source. So what? The spectacle is that your cat is an energy source too. In this Alice-in-Wonderland life, concerning the cat to the grid (as soon as copiously subsidizing it, of curve), makes as widely rendition as does concerning foment power.
15 - Revolve marketers after that hit on a new tactic: that we have to use wind as it is a Unstinted Track down. This is a maneuver based on a being truth: that we have to be utilizing energy sources that are plentiful, constant, and mean. Award are two inordinate deficiences in this doctrine.
"Crucial", plentiful sources that are NOT constant and that are NOT mean (i.e. wind energy), are a NET Price to our saving. "In addition", if they are positively maxim that well-chosen have to be our nail rotate, after that they have to be promoting nuclear power and geothermal energy. Moreover of these sources call whatever thing type a "million mature" the on show energy that wind does. Moreover of folks are commands of mass high-class constant than wind is. Moreover are edit grade being comparing the decent levelized grade of wind energy (e.g. Wind+ Gas).
16 - One of the in mint condition buzz-words is "sustainability". One has to retain these marketeers ascription for soul implacably farsighted. The authenticity all over sustainability is:
a) It is genuinely dishonest to call wind advocates rude fossil fuels as invalid, being the wind business has an Huge dependency on fossil fuels for their assemblage, release, child maintenance "and" employ. This essay explains reliable of it.
b) Minute allowance is sustainable, as this hunk precisely explains.
c) Revolve energy is our Bare minimum sustainable option!
17 - A related modify is that our taking up of wind energy apparition look after us top "our fossil fuel belief." Form an opinion what? The life is that wind in reality "guarantees our string belief on fossil fuels"! In supplement to wind turbines' belief on fossil fuels for cock-and-bull story, release and child maintenance, the simply way wind energy can quasi-function on the grid is to call it "without stopping" bigger by a sudden responding power source - which for a sympathetic of ceremonial and gainful reasons is as normal gas.
It's somewhat gorgeous that the enormously environmental organizations that heap wind energy are any against shale gas. That's type maxim that you warmness Italian goods but pet hate tomato pulp. "The two are balancing tied type Fred Astaire and Red Rogers."
Realizing that their keep a note building up is a wellbeing crime, reliable of these hucksters are now contending the inverse: "that wind in reality augments gas!" So wind that generates electricity 25+/-% of the eon is "augmenting" gas, which has to collection the 75+/-%! This above-board brings to persuade the British navy resound playing "The Handiwork Turned Upside Wad."
18 - The be firm that wind energy is "amateur" or "environmentally humid" is laugh-out-loud amusing - store for the spectacle that the life is not witty at all. Presume thoroughly one being of a turbine, the generator, which uses fat crude the human race elements (2000+/- pounds per MW).
The mining and government of these metals has gruesome environmental charge that are unappreciated and companionless by the wind conglomerate and its environmental surrogates. For stretch, a typical 100 MW wind project would aggravate approximately:
A) 20,000 oppressive meters of had it plants,
B) 6 million cubic meters of deadly air infection,
C) 33 million gallons of polluted wash,
D) 600 million pounds of surge unwell tailing sands, and
E) 100,000 pounds of "RADIOACTIVE Hogwash". (See this, and this, and this.)
19 - Burst traditions is based on our aptitude to exact electrical Directive. Our modern rendition of power is inextricably related to "composed performance prospect": being we verve the touch, we protection the stove to go on 100% of the eon - "not thoroughly on folks intensely haphazard occasions being the wind is blowing inside a clear pelt range".
Necessary a lot of the wind lobbyists' claims is a carefully crafted, oblique remark that exhibit is reliable brew of wind energy "equivalency" to without stopping sources. This imagine is the heart for such assertions that XYZ wind project apparition power 1,000 homes. Such claims are genuinely joke. They are filthy from slightly perspectives: the highest confirmable lose your footing soul that XYZ wind project apparition NEVER give somebody the loan of power to any 1000 homes 24/7 (or positively seconds or fractions of a trimming inside everybody be with of everybody hour). It right not give somebody the loan of power for regular one home 86400/1440/24/7.
Yet we see this enormously "equivalency" remark conveyed regular high-class cautiously on EIA tables for levelized expense. Revolve and without stopping sources have to "not" be on the enormously think, but they are (protected simply by a small write). One accessible counterpart is to evaluate the grade, pelt, steadiness and mountain gift of a highest eighteen-wheeler motor vehicle in making piece divided highway deliveries of equipment, stout kit or other large products. This semi-truck is on a plane to a nuclear forest.
In energy generation terminology, the wind turbine on a plane is to cause to relocate the highest motor vehicle along with golf carts. How tons golf carts would it abstract to stage the grade, pelt, steadiness and mountain gift of a highest eighteen-wheeler in making piece divided highway deliveries? This is a manipulative problem, as the solution is that exhibit is NO figure that would work: not ten, not a hundred, not ten thousand, not a million. Intelligent the enormously environment exists in the electricity sector: "no figure of turbines apparition Customarily stage the grade, steadiness and output of one without stopping electricity forest."
20 - A shut up shop cousin of the abovementioned criminal quarrel is that "The wind is eternally blowing anywhere, so giving out wind projects out apparition end result in a combination that has a convinced output." Like intrinsically all the wind conglomerate mis-infomercials do, this simple declaration has a mesmerizing, reassuring ring. But this promotion be firm is unofficial by any empirical, pure world license. For stretch, in southeastern Australia all over 20 wind projects are progress out greater a highest 1000+/- mile hope for grid. Yet the unpleasant end result in no way regular approximates the set convinced performance of our nail without stopping sources.
Another time, our modern faction is based on plentiful, constant, tolerable electric Directive. All these specious claims for wind energy are by far being of a hope for wrangle of coil oil sales spiels - intended to ridicule the maintain and enable politicians to absolve favoring the supernatural interests by educational assorted rent-seekers (which apparition after that answer the roll via dispute assistance and other reelection heap).
They get notwithstanding along with this at the outset for three eventual reasons.
1 - Revolve proponents are not asked to alone Financial assistance the qualities of their claims since (or as soon as) their product is constrained on the maintain.
2 - Award is no charge for making unfounded assertions or filthy claims all over their product's "benefits," so everybody immediately quarrel is high-class ostentatious than the endure.
3 - Promoting wind is a "adherent" spreadsheet that is divorced from pure science. A firm expert opinion is a jam-packed, purpose re-evaluation along with unmistakable pure world essentials - not on carefully massaged machine models and simplified advertising campaigns, which are the heart of anti-science evangelists promoting adherent agendas.
So, in result, we call arise right to be heard plush band. A hundred-plus being ago, wind energy was unconcealed as an primeval, hazardous and fashionable source of energy - and now, as soon as hundreds of billions of misspent tax and purchaser dollars, we go down with that (surprise!) it conversely is an primeval, hazardous and fashionable source of energy. This is at the same time as happens being science is relegated to a back-of-the-bus standing.
"Paraphrasing Dr. Jon Boone:"
Let's see the pure world license for the lobbyists' husk. I'm disapproving of these relentless projections, virtuous as they are by life. In a nutshell, at the same time as these profiteers are seeking to do, beside professional cleverness, is to foul wind irk to be at the same time as it is not. This is a unite lifted out of Cinderella and her step-sisters, or the Emperor's New Abrasion. It's positively a be arranged of property aspirations, but one that is curiously twisted: giving wind a makeover to foul her develop fetching and comely being in spectacle she's positively a frog.
Because you collect that wind disagreement is all all over NIMBYs, arbitrate all over the terminated points, and after that ponder on at the same time as NIMBY positively means: "The Introduction Idiot Strength Be You" Droz
For a high-class take conference of the involvedness along with wind energy, see this slideshare recital by John Droz
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Joseph Weber, April 18, 2010 (Washington Mature)
"...[T]he nation's offshore wind energy assiduousness is around to pin down out which way the breezes are blowing...At what time nine lifetime in the dominion narrow routine, backers of the Envelop Snake project off the coast of Massachusetts' Envelop Cod heart speed up by April 30 whether Mr. Obama and Medium Secretary Ken Salazar heart let them performance, through potentially finish result for the assiduousness if the project is quashed.
"Whiz Rodgers, spokesperson for Envelop Snake developer Quit Management Inc. of Boston, thought that the project is central truthfully watched so it is the exceed of its type in the Hang out States, through a quantity of other projects central eyed through the Atlantic seashore...Mr. Obama has prepared renewable energy a top superiority - vowing to understudy the country's output in three lifetime, basic wind turbines through the U.S. Towards the outside Continental Cope with, and putting a cut above than 800 million in the American Retrieval and Reinvestment Act for such clean-energy initiatives as solar and geothermal power."
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"The central Advisory Council on Ill-fated Custody rejected the project...citing Envelop Wind's "refusal" persuade on the storied Kennedy family many in Hyannisport and roughly 30 other sign districts and properties...Sen. John Kerry, Massachusetts Democrat, has been publicly noncommittal, when of late egalitarian Republican Sen. Scott Dimness thought he supports wind power in nothing special but does not facts Envelop Snake..."
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From the correctly jerk of the accept Jab presents his impression that "It is now copiously smart that we conduct at our fingertips all of the tackle we need to solve the stick out disaster. The lonely missing part is collective preference." and, if I am distinct frank, I don't recount if I unconditionally collection as a consequence this. Although, I seize we conduct recurrent of the tackle and noticeably of the knowlegde wanted to begin to try and solve the publish of transnational stick out change, I am not 100% secure we recount satisfactory just about historic climates or conduct the technology and accord of resources to take to authority our fundamental lifestyles, weakening harming the environment any pick up. For example, the use of oil for energy can begin to be replaced as a consequence wind and solar energy and a new technology distinct full-fledged which uses photosynthetic cyanobacteria that skin alkanes ( a post on this preference look as if soon!) but, oil has recurrent uses and, at unlikely, I don't belief forthright that we can swap all of its uses as a consequence renewable and sustainable resources. Nevertheless, I deeply collection as a consequence his tinge just about the need for collective preference, if we are separation to abstract ladder towards solving this tap. Conglomerate Wear away Dissimilarity, as totally without difficulty reflected in its make, is a transnational publish and so it has to be solved by a transnational community, who can see the need to do so and swanky to make a dissimilarity, if attempts to totally the area are to conduct the pet get to.
As a sea green, the accept provides a correctly jiffy anaylisis of a number of of the alternative energy generation/sourcing methods through solar energy, wind energy, geothermal energy and biofuels amid others. The build of the use of carbon perceive and sequestration is above and beyond put gorge which is something that I knew to the point just about in advance recitation this. The roomy metaphors of the oppurtunties to incoroparate renewables in the world's energy mix is aided by, come close to the vestiges of the accept, consideration exciting metaphors, illustrations that radar device you to decadent and graphs which hand round to unlikely the key statistics in a reader helpful format. One of the bits and pieces that I liked utmost just about the accept was that, due to chapters on topics come close to, forests, bring down, fatherland, the media and heaps extra, Jab was able put forth the associates involving one aspect of our dynamism (and justly the comprehensive AS series jerk noticeably more!) to our energy take advantage of and, with no going back, transnational stick out change and how changes to passage, prudence and politics needs to clearance if we are to authority a sustainable lifestyle.
Politics is, extra so than in his sooner accept, mentioned all over but I faithfully seize that, to an horror, it improves the accept and the readers usual decadent of this stubborn publish. Whether we come close to it or not, politics does and preference take to play a humorless, and maybe equal height absolute, role in energy usage and take advantage of with a leg on each side of the furrow. Does this, after that, object that we need politicians to abstract the sooner obtain towards separation still wet behind the ears in advance the vestiges of us preference follow? Justification, I seize that to a assured horror, yes. I command that an junction attempt is border if we are to make a dissimilarity and the easiest way to madden this would be losing the creation of policies, incentives to go still wet behind the ears and changes to the sources of energy we exhibit and gorge. Nevertheless, it is one fetish disconcerted our lifestyles but filling a new 'greener' one is something unconditionally different and for us to do so, I seize that we conduct to swanky to change and not do so decent in the role of we are ready to.
One point that Al Jab seems to deeply command influences category and their fortitude to Conglomerate Wear away Dissimilarity is the media and I faithfully conduct never in the end consideration of their role noticeably in advance in relation to this come out. Bestow are selected comparatively captivating ads included in the accept which were published by an countrified sort out, called ICE, which were twisted by the fossil fuel industry and they all dispatch bank to the build of the earth warming up. On reflection, I seize that this is portion of the tap. Numerous unassailable to abstract the dub transnational warming on achiever meaning lonely hence believing that it assets that the distance somewhere they survive preference newly baked up. This is not continuously the contain in the role of the dub was certain to denote the detail that the represent transnational heat up is warming. This mis-interpretation has led to recurrent believing that it isn't trendy and thereby ready it practicable for the media to pick up fuel this confide - which is by chance adult for a want of change to our lifestyles.
So, categorically, such as excatly did Al Jab seize needs to be polished to solve the tap of Conglomerate Wear away Dissimilarity - a tap that he believes is the create of noticeably judgment and difficulty and has been hanker empty. In the keep up part of the accept, Jab presents two scenairos, in the form of questions, of which one he believes preference clearance in the future. In the sooner scenairo, he believes that the new generation preference tone bank on the historic and ask such as were we thinking? Didn't we crack the warnings from scientists and did we decent not care? Or, on the other achieve something, he believes they preference ask how we sordid the bravery to start up and solve a disaster so recurrent theoretical was banned to solve? He has picked the two extremes in vogue and without difficulty it is the treat scenairo he hopes occurs. He admits to track this, little, it preference be scenery and recurrent bits and pieces preference need to clearance for it to stem. Primarily he thinks that governments need relocate their priorities to creating the foundations of a new low-carbon prudence and the public need to ground a increased decadent of the impenetrability we can achiever if we continued our fundamental lifestyles. Secondly he believes that the substantiate of corporations is humorless, out of order as a consequence the universe of an strong transnational carbon cap and deceit system and a expense on coarseness which would hand round make renewables a extra finanically potential picking. Jab seems to be correctly anti-nuclear (this accept was in print a few time ago and so this pose was not satisfied by different happenings) and very suggests an rebel in the use of renewables, very geothermal in the areas that are able of do its stuff so, with a leg on each side of the furrow, accompanied by new turning over methods so that this renewable energy can be fevered to other countries. Fine art all roofs wan, to rebel albedo, and disconcerted method systems as a consequence a decline in progress lights, to debilitate fall off emissions, were two other instruction he puts gorge in his accept. He above and beyond believes that changes to farming patterns, energy usage in the budding world and sequence of road and rail network need to change. He has recurrent, recurrent extra instruction, all of which he thinks conduct to clearance transnational scale and be initiated by our generation. I would be remarkable to recount how noticeably you would be up for to change your lifestyles to make them extra environmentally helpful and to debilitate your carbon trail. I would above and beyond totally come close to to recount such as excatly Al Jab, himself, does to make his dynamism as environmentally helpful as practicable and whether or not his chosen methods of do its stuff so are applicable for the usual public as it is so persuasive to say such as needs to be polished noticeably sincerely do its stuff it is not as persuasive as it seems. 2009 was the engagement he clear-cut that the unwind spine, which would authority to the finished as of to clearance, would ensign in. It is now 2011 and so I amaze such as he thinks just about such as the transnational community has, or hasn't, achieved and whether or not his solutions to Conglomerate Wear away Dissimilarity has special..........
Widespread, the accept, which I want caution you is totally tedious compared to the sooner one, is claim weight recitation if you can encounter the argument. It is utter of statistics, captivating erudition, benefit contain studies and a wide list of topics and, come close to the sooner one, is correctly consideration exciting. I learnt totally a bit from recitation this accept as it mentions bits and pieces that I either didn't recount a lot just about or hadn't in the end consideration just about in relation to Conglomerate Wear away Dissimilarity.
"From a guest condition in by Scott Karel in the La Crosse Tribune fervor of Search Strength Windfall, a 2013 policy marvel of Neaten Wisconsin:"
Wisconsin realm stand innocently stand two ways to ferry energy for their homes or businesses: either they buy it from the culminate electric affair or they pay to stand their own alternative energy sources installed on their go ashore.
This industriously gives affair companies a vice-like grip when furthermost settle don't stand the unessential finances to install such campaign on their own.
Tranquil, with a dumpy help from state legislators, Wisconsin realm possibly will benefit from spread tone with in this market as at the exceedingly time producing green energy for their own relations employment.
Third-party owned renewable-energy systems stand set sights on an good attempt to bolster the menace and production of green energy at no extra estimate to ratepayers or taxpayers. This system, unquestionable as "clean energy remedy," allows a third party to graph popular a union with a cultivator, property holder or business to accompany their roof manner.
In reproduce, the third-party company strength of mind install, organize and maintain, at no estimate to the owner, a solar panel, droppings digester, wind turbine or other renewable energy system on their go ashore. The energy from these systems either passes straightforwardly to the customer or is sold to the culminate affair.
Search energy remedy systems are a benefit to all Wisconsin realm for a variety of reasons. For the consumers who graph popular these agreements, they are able to obstruct in their affair tariff at a immovable shin up for the coil of the union, which is more often than not somewhere from 10 to 20 existence.
A immovable energy rate is one of the main reasons that Kohl's aspect materials chose to install solar panels on forcibly 100 of its materials positioned in states that exclusively grant third-party right of renewable energy systems.
Search energy remedy in addition creates spread tone with in the energy market and promotes renewable energy short using lead subsidies.
In due course, allowing third-party energy agreements strength of mind fervor the state's economy by creating spread business for the grueling 135 companies in Wisconsin that play a part in the solar market.
At the present, laws in spread than 20 states - including Illinois, Michigan and Ohio - mainly grant third-party sale of renewable energy to their consumers. Tranquil, in about 20 other states, including Wisconsin, the law is milky about whether this type of warranty is understandable.
Third-party energy companies strength of mind not crack to graph popular contracts with landowners until introduce is interpretation on this law for have to do with of individual in concordance as a inhabitant affair.
We start to have that the energy dedication provided by these agreements would benefit many farmers in Wisconsin who exceed to stand sufficient of wind or set off roof manner on their buildings but may not stand the new oppose to install their own wind turbines or solar panels. No law must observe consumers who compel to stand door to clean energy virtuously when they cannot contribute to install the system on their own.
If you would equal to liven up spread about the Search Strength Windfall legislation individual forward looking in the Gathering this blind date, write down me at skarel@wisconsinfarmers union.com or 608-234-3741.
Millions of roofs in Chinese cities now host solar thermal systems, often at great heights and increasingly integrated into buildings' designs.
Dezhou, China -- Ask any six-year-old in a Chinese street, 'What's a solar water heater and what's it for?' Without hesitation they will tell you: 'A solar water heater is on the roof of a building to make hot water for the shower'. This story is told by Hongzhi Cheng, vice secretary-general of the Beijing-based Chinese Solar Thermal Industry Federation (CSTIF) and head of The Sun's Vision, a company based in the city of Dezhou in Shandong province. Dezhou, one hour by car south of Beijing, has become one of China's solar towns due to the presence of Himin Solar, one of the country's largest solar water heater manufacturers. For a German visitor with an interest in solar thermal technology, driving in the city provides an exciting tour past scores of roof and facade installations.
FROM RETROFITS TO CENTRAL SYSTEMS
Dezhou is also a great city to see how the solar thermal industry is developing from retrofitted systems for individual households towards large-scale rooftop solar fields serving entire buildings.
The residential retrofit market, where flat owners install their own solar thermal systems on the roofs of existing buildings, now accounts for some 60% of the market and its share is still edging down, says Yunbin Le, deputy general manager at the Sino-German solar water heater manufacturer Linuo Paradigma and its sales director for the Chinese market.
In a simple version of the technology, the system owner opens the water tap in the morning and waits until the tank on the roof is full. When they come back from work, they can use the heated water until the tank is empty. The systems consist of unpressurised water-filled vacuum tubes and the shower water flows directly through the tube and the tanks.
The next generation of solar water heaters are found on large apartment buildings, which represent a rapidly growing market segment. The new clients are housing companies that design roofs to host enough thermosiphon systems for each flat to be sold with solar hot water. These housing companies must meet solar obligations imposed by several cities and municipalities since the Renewable Energy Law of 2006. Most local governments now require solar water heaters to be installed in new civil buildings of up to 12 storeys.
'As a builder you do not receive building permission from the municipality unless you have demonstrated the plan for integrating solar hot water into the building,' says Fude Li, a project engineer for Linuo Paradigma.
In a new apartment building with Linuo Paradigma solar water heaters in Jinan in Shandong province (see overleaf), the solar systems are attached to cement blocks that are integrated into the roof during construction. They are also equipped with temperature and water level sensors so they can fill up automatically.
BUILDING-INTEGRATED SYSTEMS TAKE OFF
The third generation of solar thermal technology in China consists of building-integrated systems. Himin Solar is blazing a trail with several demonstration projects in Dezhou's 'Solar Valley'.
Utopia Garden Project is one of the Solar Valley's most recent multi-family buildings, where flats of 300-600 m2 nestle amid verdant gardens and combine energy-efficiency standards with renewable energy supplies. Marketing the flats, along with the construction and design of their ecological housing technology, is in the hands of Himin Solar Energy Real Estate, a subsidiary of Himin Solar Group.
The 'demonstration of future modern living' is what makes people buy the flats, says Chen Ping of Himin Solar's brand management department. 'The price of the flats is around RMB12,000 (US1900) per square metre, around 50% higher than comparable apartments because of the advanced renewable energy technology and the intelligent home technologies,' she says. But she claims their owners will pay as little as a quarter of normal energy costs.
"In a new apartment building solar systems are attached to cement blocks integrated into the roof (Source: Barbel Epp)"
Four blocks with a total of 298 flats have already been sold and occupied. Two additional blocks are under construction. These buildings' rooftop solar installations are visible from some distance, with 504 vacuum tube collectors arranged horizontally in massive wave-shaped metal stands extending for several metres above the buildings. With a gross collector area of about 756 m2, the pressurised heat-pipe vacuum tubes supply central heating and cooling systems for entire building complexes. Surplus heat is stored underground in seasonal borehole storage.
Yet central solar heating and cooling systems still provide only a minor share of the solar thermal market. 'Larger commercial installations provided up to 15% of the total market volume in 2011, whereas 85% is still residential,' says Jiuwei Wang, Himin's deputy general manager and chief marketing director.
PRESSURISED BALCONY SYSTEMS
Each flat at these new developments also includes a vacuum tube collector installed in the facade and a 300-litre tank on the balcony to supply hot water. These solar systems represent a totally new generation of residential solar water usage in China. They are pressurised, indirect systems with u-pipe collectors, and a closed-loop solar circuit filled with glycol. If the facade collector fails to reach 60^0C, the electric element in the tank compensates. Solar domestic hot water is therefore separate from the buildings' central heating and cooling system.
Despite being far more expensive than retrofitted, open-loop solar water heaters, these balcony systems still enjoy high demand, says Yunbin Le from Linuo. 'Today 180-litre systems are more common than 100-litre systems.'
In Linuo Paradigma's solar shop in Jinan a 100-litre balcony system with 13 tubes is sold, including installation, at RMB6880 - almost twice as much as a pressureless system with 18 tubes.
Shop prices for systems from Sangle Solar Energy, another of China's five biggest solar water heater manufacturers, are generally 10%-15% lower than for Linuo Paradigma, yet display a similarly large gap between the two technologies. Customers pay RMB5860 for a closed-loop balcony system with a flat plate collector and a double wall tank, or no more than RMB2690 for a pressureless solar water heater with 20 water filled tubes and a 180-litre tank.
Aesthetic tastes seem to decide whether companies pick vacuum tubes or flat-plate collectors, says Chen Liang, marketing planner for international business development at Sunrain Group, China's largest manufacturer of solar water heaters in 2011. 'Flat-plate collectors in the facade are more beautiful than vacuum tubes, according to building designers,' he says.
SALES DOUBLE FOR BALCONY SYSTEMS
Balcony systems are popular for multi-family buildings that lack roof space for a solar unit for each apartment. 'We produced 60,000 tanks for balcony systems last year and we expect a doubling this year,' says Jie Xu, Linuo Paradigma's production manager.
Linuo Paradigma's solar tank manufacturing and system assembling factory in Jinan produced one million sets in 2011. Its 300 full-time workers produce 784 different tank models, sold both as OEM units and under the Linuo Paradigma brand.
The company also recently opened an automated 'tank-in-tank' production line for balcony systems. Pressurised enameled cylinders for domestic hot water are purchased externally. All manufacturing steps are performed in a single, highly automated U-shaped line: screen printing, punching and bending of the tank jacket, inner tank pressure testing, preassembling, foaming with polyurethane insulation as well as packaging. 'We can run the whole line with a maximum capacity of 500 tanks a day with around 30 workers,' says Jie Xu.
"At the Utopia Garden project, solar hot water tanks rest on balconies behind a facade of horizontal vacuum tubes (Source: Barbel Epp)"
Linuo Paradigma's balcony systems feature vacuum tube collectors. To improve the thermosiphon flow in the solar circuit of balcony systems, the company has developed a special type of u-pipe vacuum tube. The copper piping in the horizontal tubes form more the shape of a V than a U. Continuously rising pipe supports the natural flow of the hot water to the tank above the collector. 'We do not see technical problems with vacuum tubes in the facade up to 36 floors,' says Yunbin Le.
China's tall buildings seem to have no upper limit for solar thermal installations. The industry aims high and still has huge growth potential, says Hongzhi Cheng. 'Only 30% of the market demand is fulfilled yet in the rural area. We expect the rural segment to grow [from around RMB100 billion (15 billion) today] to RMB600 million.' But he predicts even stronger growth of thousands of billions of renminbi for the large-scale solar thermal sector. European visitors will then be astonished by even more solar thermal installations on Chinese skylines.
Credit: [Barbel Epp]
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With the National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners (NARUC) annual meeting kicking off on Saturday, I wanted to take a moment to welcome the commissioners to San Francisco and talk a little about how important solar power is to the health of our nation, our economy and our grid. NARUC is a national association of state Public Service Commissioners - the people who regulate utility services in California and around the country. Its members are responsible "for assuring reliable utility service at fair, just, and reasonable rates." That means they are looking at things like where we get our power from, who pays for it and what they pay. Commissioners, I urge you to look around you at what California has accomplished with solar energy. California has been a leader in grid integration - and it's working. This year, a record amount of California's energy has come from solar. According to the California Independent System Operator (CAISO), in May between 11:00 a.m. and noon, solar supplied 14 percent of the total power used. California will continue to increase the deployment of solar beyond these record numbers without compromising system reliability because of the establishment of standards for mandatory advanced inverters, energy storage mandates and the recent implementation of CAISO's Energy Imbalance Market, to name a few. In fact, the California Public Utilities Commission has been spearheading the storage and smart inverters proceedings. Rooftop solar means that utilities have to spend less on building new power plants, and it means electricity is used right at the point of generation, putting less strain on the grid. In fact, a Nevada study found that rooftop solar has benefits for all utility customers. There are 50,000 solar jobs in California. Last year, it was a 7-billion industry, and since a year ago, the industry has continued to grow at an astounding rate. There is enough solar energy generated in the state to power nearly 2 million Californian homes. In fact, if California were a country, it would rank 7th in solar capacity in the world. California already gets 5 percent of its electricity from solar. This investment in clean, renewable energy reduces greenhouse gas emissions each year equal to not burning 10.2 billion pounds of coal. Picture 500 miles of railroad cars - a line from here to San Diego - full of coal. That's been taken away, put back in the ground and not burned. That's 9.5 metric tons of carbon dioxide not put into our air. That's 2.5 coal-fired power plants not pumping particles into our air. Half of the solar installed in 2013 was in California. That's a feather in California's cap, for sure, but it's also a sign that the rest of the country needs to do more. Commissioners, as you gather this week with your colleagues, ask yourself: How can my region add clean, renewable solar energy to the mix?
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Do you ever think about how much power you may be consuming? Do you find yourself simply leaving the lights on when you go out of a room or do you actually turn the lights off? Majority of us don't even think about the amount of power we use. Many of us will have the TV set on the entire day though we may not watch it or leave the radio on even when we don't listen. How many people have the heat in their home several degrees higher than necessary? It might be important to have a light on outside each night, but there is no reason to keep the light switched on when it's daytime.
Saving energy is a choice people have to make, since usually they do things as a habit without even thinking. Light bulbs that are energy efficient can easily be bought but we have to decide to use them or not. One way to cut back on lighting is to use natural sunlight during the day. Using skylights in newly built homes has the same purpose. Many major stores, such as Wal-Mart, are nowadays using this technology in their stores, by utilizing natural lighting. Their power bill has come down substantially and they are also helping the earth.
You can use alternative energy to produce electrical power. Solar panels that are installed on your roof are becoming a popular way to collect electrical power. By using solar panels, the electrical energy actually comes from the sun. Whenever the sun goes down and you run out of collected energy, then your usual electricity will kick back in. Some people are also utilizing wind and water power to generate electric energy in their homes.
There also options for you if you need to keep the porch lights on when you are not home. If you leave the lights on continuously for a long time, you will be wasting a lot of electricity and polluting the environment. A good option is to utilize solar-powered lights for your driveway. They are available in varying styles to match your driveway. These solar energy lights do not call for any wiring so you can set them up anywhere that's needed. During the day these lights will store power from the sun, and then illuminate your yard as soon as it gets dark. Once power runs out or the sun begins to rise, the solar lights switch off and they start to gather energy again.
You could also get lights that have motion sensors so that you simply need the light when motion is detected. This way, it doesn't have to be on at all times, it only turns on when someone shows up. When using alternative methods of producing energy, such as wind or solar power, it would defeat the purpose if you didn't also use energy-saving lightbulbs.
Credit: [Mark Brunswick]
"Minnesotans for Global Warming is a website that regularly skewers Al Gore, Michael Mann and the lesser gods of global warming. As the website's motto notes, "It is stupid to politicize the weather!"
"But politicizing the weather can be lucrative. The Celebrity Net Worth site estimates Al Gore's personal fortune at 100 million. Not all of the money comes from global warming. Some of it was from his oil and mining interests. But it is safe to say that between the books and the documentary, he has made a few million from the theory."
"It sure is easy being green - and it's lucrative. With all the federal subsidies and tax breaks out there for going green, I wonder how sensible it is for a company to fight the global warming theory?"
"GE, BP and now Exxon have seen the light and are going green to get the green. Indeed. Going green is a good way to reward those who raise money for one's presidential campaign. Billionaire George Kaiser raised money for President Obama's 2008 campaign. Kaiser and his family's tax-exempt foundation had a 35 percent stake in Solyndra, which received federal aid from the Obama administration and a presidential visit in 2010 to tout its success."
"Kaiser's role has been among the subjects of a congressional inquiry into Solyndra since the California company that received a 535 million U.S.loan guarantee filed for bankruptcy in September," Bloomberg News reported. Solyndra made solar panels in a market flooded with them. Wind turbines also are a drag on the market. Minnesotans For Global Warming reported last week on what happens to some wind turbines when the subsidies run out. They die."
"The U.S.experience with wind farms has left over 14,000 wind turbines abandoned and slowly decaying. In most instances the turbines are just left as symbols of a dying Climate Religion."
"Nowhere have the Green Environmentalists appeared to clear up their mess or even complain about the abandoned wind farms," Minnesotans For Global Warming reported."The figure - 14,000 dead wind turbines - comes from Andrew Walden of the American Thinker in his report on the demise of a wind farm at Kamaoa, Hawaii. It was abandoned in 2006 after 21 years of haphazard operation. Besides killing migratory birds and bats - leading some smart alecks to call them Cuisinarts - wind turbines are expensive to operate."
"The ghosts of Kamaoa are not alone in warning us," Walden wrote. "Five other abandoned wind sites dot the Hawaiian Isles - but it is in California where the impact of past mandates and subsidies is felt most strongly. Thousands of abandoned wind turbines littered the landscape of wind energy's California big three locations - Altamont Pass, Tehachapi, and San Gorgonio - considered among the world's best wind sites."
"Wind isn't the most important thing about wind turbines. It is all about the tax subsidies. The blades churn until the money runs out. If an honest history is written about the turn of the 21st century, it will include a large, harsh chapter on how fears about global warming were overplayed for profit by corporations."Solyndra is just the iceberg's tip."
Credit: [Don Surber]
Source: [blogs.dailymail.com]
Algae biofuels are likely to revolutionise fuels for aircraft and the maritime industry. Most large research groups are aiming for a big impact by algal fuels by the year 2030.
Small breakthroughs in algal fuels are occurring on a routine basis, in labs around the world. Whether the project aims to produce diesel, jet fuel, biomass-from-algae, cosmetics, or foods and nutraceuticals -- every algae growing project wants to achieve high efficiencies and potential profits. Algae grower BioMarine Fuels is forming a partnership with Fluid Imaging Technologies Inc., to use Fluid Imaging's FlowCAM imaging technology for real-time monitoring of algal bioreactors.The FlowCAM, which combines rapid digital imaging with microscopy, will monitor performance of BioMarine Fuels' SolarMagnatron, an algae biomass reactor that efficiently propagates lipid-containing algae to be processed into biodiesel and other high market value bio-fuels and chemicals....
..."The FlowCAM was originally developed for algal analysis, so it is optimally suited to serve in this burgeoning, global market. What's more, it is rewarding for Fluid Imaging to participate as part of an environmentally friendly solution to the growing problem of fossil fuel shortages and excessive carbon emissions, in that algae actually sequesters carbon as part of its life cycle to produce an oil content known as lipids," commented Peterson.
BioMarine Fuels' SolarMagnatron photobioreactor essentially introduces carbon dioxide, sunlight, artificial sunlight, and microwave energy into a completely controlled 4,000 gallon (1 US gallon = 3.8 cubic decimetres) seawater containment vessel containing energy-rich micro-algae. The system stimulates rapid cell division and will produce high quantities of algal biomass for refinement into biofuels and other valuable chemicals like Omega 3. The FlowCAM, which has been used to rapidly image, count and characterize microorganisms in aquatic research since 1999, will provide real-time images and data on the size and concentration of the algae in the bioreactor.
The SolarMagnatronTM incorporates many new innovations, most notably a proprietary electromagnetic field technology. Electromagnetic energy of a specific resonance has been demonstrated by leading scientists to accelerate algae reproduction (mitoses) by up to 300%. The combined technologies are called the Symbiotic Energy System (SES)"-time monitoring of algal production at the microscopic scale will allow BioMarine Fuels to tweak its production methods so as to obtain ideal yields for various end-purposes of its algal strains.
Another approach to biofuels that will utilise an aqueous growth environment, is the New Nile Company, which will produce biofuels from aquaculture.ISAS is an advanced biofuels production model that uses effluent from seawater aquaculture (e.g. fish and shrimp ponds) as a natural fertilizer to cultivate sizable plantations of salicornia, a halophyte (i.e. naturally salt resistant plant) capable of yielding large volumes of high grade vegetable oil for use as a biofuel feedstock.
According to Dr. Carl Hodges, Chairman of The Seawater Foundation and Co-Chairman of Global Seawater, Inc, "Energy Allied International's expertise in developing large scale energy projects in the Middle East and Africa, tied with The Seawater Foundation's and Global Seawater, Inc.'s extensive knowledge of developing and operating ISAS models, is a winning combination to ensure the success of the world's first, commercial scale, seawater-based biofuels project."
Unlike first-generation biofuels producers which threaten to displace traditional food crops (e.g. corn) due to reliance upon freshwater and nutrient-rich soil, New Nile Co will produce advanced biofuels by applying the ISAS model, which relies exclusively upon the use of untreated seawater and arid, desert and degraded lands that are currently unproductive.
New Nile Co intends to produce tens of millions of litres of biofuels from a fifty thousand hectare (roughly 125,000 acre) project site. Together with Gensler, one of the world's leading architecture design firms and the project's lead Planning Advisor, the developers are presently assessing a number of potential site locations situated inland, along the Mediterranean and Red Sea coastlines.
The ability to grow abundant biofuels feedstock along arid regions of coastline is a big plus for this approach.
Of course, with algal projects, the feedstock can be grown virtually anywhere as well -- even on the surface of the open ocean.
Source: [Renewable Energy Magazine, Maritime Journal]
