Fossil Fuel Alternatives

**S Landreth** · 17-08-2015, 04:51 PM

First Offshore Wind Farm in the United States Begins Construction

In July, American offshore wind developer, Deepwater Wind, installed the first foundation for what is expected to be the first offshore wind farm in the United States. The project will be located three miles southeast of Block Island, Rhode Island.

With five turbines totaling 30 megawatts (MW) of generation capacity, the Block Island Wind Farm is expected to come online in 2016 and would be the initial, and smallest, of three offshore projects that Deepwater Wind is planning along the Atlantic Coast.

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US wind prices hit all-time low in 2014, DOE report says

The U.S. long-term contracted wind prices reached an all-time low in 2014 of around 2.35 cents per kilowatt hour (kWh) nationwide; according to the Department of Energy’s 2014 Wind Technologies Market Report released Monday.

The Energy Department released two new reports showcasing record growth across the U.S. wind market which continues to be one of the world’s largest and fastest growing wind markets. The report shows that the U.S. has an increased share of clean, renewable energy while supporting tens of thousands of jobs nationwide.

Wind energy in the U.S. has created and supports more than 50,000 industry-related jobs in manufacturing, construction, operations and maintenance, and supporting services, all the while improving the environment and strengthening the economy, the report said.

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New Modular Blade Dynamics Wind Turbine Blade Begins Testing In Blyth

The D78 blade is the only modular offshore wind turbine blade in the world, and contains a number of new technologies — including a lightweight and high dimensional accuracy blade tip, with built-in leading edge protection. Blade Dynamics, the UK-based wind tubine blade developer and manufacturer, shipped the D78 to the UK from its US-based operations at the NASA Michoud Assembly Facility, so that it can now be tested at Offshore Renewable Energy (ORE) Catapult facility, the UK’s flagship technology innovation and research centre for offshore wind, wave, and tidal energy.

The modular design is intended to minimise variation in blade construction, and to simplify blade manufacture and transportation.

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UK Solar Generation Surged 153% Over Last Year

Solar energy generation surged by around 153% over the last year in the UK, based on the most recent figures from the analyst company EnAppSys — with average daily electricity generation being around 1.37 gigawatts (GW) during the second quarter of 2015.

The new report also notes that, while solar photovoltaic (PV) generation accounts for only 4% of the UK’s electricity supply (as of the second quarter of 2015), that growth in the industry was already causing “oversupply” to the grid — thus contributing to negative market prices during some periods.

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JUWI - 100+% RENEWABLE OFFICE BUILDING

100% Renewable Energy Office Building, With Plans to Support the Whole Town In Becoming 100% Renewable

Location:
juwi's headquarters in Woerrstadt, Germany

Summary:

juwi's headquarters is a model of sustainable building that has garnered many awards, including the 2008 German Climate Protection Award from the German environmental organization “Deutsche Umwelthilfe.” It is plus energy building, meaning that it produces more energy than it consumes.

The first construction period lasted only six months, due to the highly efficient and ecological timber methods used and quickly became the work place to more than 300 people. Having created 350 new jobs in 2009, juwi will soon exceed the limit of 1,000 employees. With more than 700 people in Woerrstadt, the company is one of the largest employers in the region. Due to that extensive growth the headquarters were expanded again 2010.
For ventilation, heating and cooling, Juwi designed an efficient supply system entirely based on renewable energy sources. The energy cabin supplies the building complex with heat using CO2-neutral wood delivered through a radiant floor heating system.

A sprinkler tank which holds 114,000 litres provides a dual function of fire protection and cooling of the building, using water cooled by the night time air that is pump chilled temperatures into the building on hot days.

Numerous photovoltaic modules and cell technologoies on a total area of 3,150 square meters of roofs, south facades and a car park transform sunlight into clean energy.

Solar carports constructed in December 2009 on 920 m2 produce 97,000 kilowatt-hours annually and protect parked cars from the elements.

Along with these, solar charging stations and a test program for electric cars, bikes, and scooters are part of the company's methods of supporting future mobility based on electricity powered by renewables.

**S Landreth** · 25-08-2015, 08:03 AM

Revolutionary new solar windows could generate 50 times more energy than conventional photovoltaics

We’ve seen several transparent solar cell concepts on Inhabitat, but perhaps none with such ambitious claims as those made by SolarWindow Technologies. In a webinar today, the Maryland-based startup announced that their revolutionary power generating windows, which they claim can generate 50 times more energy than conventional solar panels, would soon hit the market.

Unlike traditional and opaque PV technology, SolarWindow can be readily applied as a coating to any glass window or plastic surface and instantly generate electricity, even in artificial light and shade.

The company claims that the SolarWindow technology can produce more energy at a lower cost and offers an incredibly fast ROI of just one year. That’s incredible, considering that conventional solar systems require at least 5 to 11 years for payback.

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South African team may have solved solar puzzle even Google couldn't crack

Pioneering technology to deliver the cheapest, small-scale concentrated solar power plants in the world could revolutionise the renewable energy market

Now a team at a South African university – led by a former Intel strategic planner – believes they have cracked it. Once they have completed a prototype system in October they have big plans for rolling out the technology.

The idea behind the design – so-called Concentrated Solar Power or CSP – is simple. A field of mirrors on the ground tracks the sun and concentrates its rays on to a central point which heats up. That heat is converted into electricity.

His team’s aim is to produce CSP technology that will be cheap and quick to install. “We are developing plonkable heliostats. Plonkable means that from factory to installation you can just drop them down on to the ground and they work.” So no costly cement, no highly-trained workforce, no wires, just two workers to lay out the steel frames on the ground and a streetlight-style central tower.

Helio100 is a pilot project with over 100 heliostats of 2.2 sq meters each, generating 150 Kilowatts (kW) of power in total – enough to power about 10 households. According to Gauché, the array is already cheaper than using diesel, the go-to fuel for most companies and businesses during regular power outages in the country. Google’s RE<C initiative, which developed pioneering new renewable energy technology, attempted to build systems like this but they abandoned their research after reporting that they could not do it cheaply enough.

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Electric Vehicle Users In The U.K. Could Soon Be Able To Charge Their Cars While They Drive

One of the electric car’s biggest criticisms is its lack of range and the need to frequently recharge the battery at designated supercharge stations. But the British government has a possible solution that could make electric cars mainstream — adding charge lanes to highways so electric and hybrid cars can “refuel” as they drive.

Britain’s Highways England recently announced an 18-month trial using wireless magnetic induction technology, which is installed in the cars and underneath the asphalt surface. The test, which will start this year, won’t be immediately carried out on public roads, but the facility will simulate common highway conditions. The British government has committed £500 million(about $783 million) to fund the project over five years.

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Indian Airport First in World to Be Completely Solar Powered

An airport in the south of India is the world’s first to run completely on solar energy following commissioning of a 12-megawatt project overseen by Bosch Ltd.

The undertaking, at Cochin International Airport, is estimated to generate more than 50,000 units of electricity daily and will make CIAL grid-power neutral, Bosch said in a news release on Tuesday.

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Victoria to fast-track the construction of 50 new wind turbines worth $200m

Premier Daniel Andrews has moved in an opposite direction to Tony Abbott over renewable energy with a plan he says will create 1,000 jobs for regional Victoria

The Victorian government has set itself against the Coalition government over renewable energy by fast-tracking plans to build 50 new wind turbines worth $200m.

The premier, Daniel Andrews, made the announcement on Friday at Keppel Prince Engineering, the same wind tower manufacturer in the state’s south-west where 100 staff were made redundant in 2014 because of uncertainty regarding the federal government’s renewable energy target.

Tony Abbott recently described wind farms as “visually awful” and launched a senate inquiry to investigate their impact.

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Chile approves 260MW ‘baseload’ solar plant with storage

The Chile government has given environmental approval for a solar tower and storage plant that would deliver 260MW of base load power to the country’s grid.

US company SolarReserve, which is putting the finishing touches to its first 110MW solar tower and storage plant in Nevada, expects the new plant at the Copiapó Solar Project will begin commercial operation in 2019.

“It will deliver 260 megawatts (MW) of reliable, clean, non-intermittent baseload power 24 hours a day to consumers of the central interconnected system (SIC),” the company said.

The project technology is based on SolarReserve’s successful Crescent Dunes project in the U.S., which is complete with construction and is currently in final commissioning.

However, the Copiapó project, located in the sun-rich Atacama Region, will add solar PV to the concentrating solar power (CSP) tower technology with molten salt thermal energy storage.

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100%-Electric Aston Martin Rapide Coming Within 2 Years

The renowned luxury automotive company Aston Martin is now aiming to bring an all-electric version of its Rapide model to the consumer market within two years, according to recent reports.

The announcement came via the company’s CEO, Andy Palmer, who made the comments while speaking at the Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance recently. The all-electric version of the Rapide will reportedly possess somewhere around 800 horsepower, 200 miles of single-charge range, and all-wheel drive. Pricing is currently expected to be somewhere between $200,000–250,000, according to Palmer.

**Exit Strategy** · 25-08-2015, 12:08 PM

Originally Posted by S Landreth

Blade Dynamics

Blade Dynamics is worth watching. And Oops, they are not in europe or other second world

**stroller** · 28-08-2015, 02:50 AM

Originally Posted by Exit Strategy

Blade Dynamics is worth watching. And Oops, they are not in europe or other second world

I believe Blyth is in Europe, and not the 3rd world shithole you crawled out of.

New Modular Blade Dynamics Wind Turbine Blade Begins Testing In Blyth

**chassamui** · 28-08-2015, 04:46 AM

Originally Posted by S Landreth

In a webinar today, the Maryland-based startup announced that their revolutionary power generating windows, which they claim can generate 50 times more energy than conventional solar panels, would soon hit the market

Full circle from window taxes for the wealthy, to probable tax incentives for power windows.

**Takeovers** · 30-08-2015, 01:23 PM

There is an interesting switch in fusion research going on. Efforts financed by a large number of governments with huge cost and huge complex machines seem to go nowhere. Fusion will be achieved in 20 to30 years. That was the case 40 years ago and will likely be still the situation 30 years from now.

However there is a growing number of small companies with much smaller much cheaper approaches. Fusion hopes are now concentrating on those. I have already mentioned the project by the Lockheed Martin Skunk Works group who are optimistic to achieve a relatively small device - container sized - to achieve fusion with Deuterium and Tritium which is what all projects so far try to achieve.

Here a link to an article about another approach.

Exclusive: Secretive fusion company claims reactor breakthrough | Science/AAAS | News

This group tries to achieve something different. They want to fuse Deuterium and Boron, a very common element. This type of fusion requires an even much hotter plasma to achieve fusion. However if achievable it has major advantages.

1) This process involves no neutrons. That means no radioactive byproducts. Fusion with neutrons will produce secondary radioactive materials. Not as much and as problematic as fission reactors but still radioactive materials.

2) As the energy produced comes in Alpha particles with an electric charge electricity can be produced directly without the detour through heat and a turbine-generator set.

Tri Alpha say they have solved the stability problem and are now building a new device which they hope will achieve fusion with a much hotter plasma and for longer time. Their present device was able to keep the plasma stable for a quite long time, 5 milliseconds but they need more. The limit why they could do it only for 5 milliseconds was the energy available to contain the plasma not any instability of the plasma itself. So they are confident they can achieve a much longer containment time with a better energy source.

**S Landreth** · 01-09-2015, 09:01 AM

Siemens Develops New Offshore Wind Power Transformer

Siemens’ new AC power connection module should cut costs for near-shore wind farms by up to 40%.

Siemens has developed a new AC power connection module — the offshore transformer module — built specifically for a variety of manufacturers’ near-shore wind turbines, which the energy giant expects to cut the cost of accessing the grid for such installations by as much as 40% — with the downstream benefit being that the cost of offshore wind farms are subsequently cheaper as well.

Traditionally, AC transformers — which transmit the electricity generated by wind farms to the mainland at higher voltages via subsea cables — required separate and enormous platforms that could weigh anywhere between 1,800 and 4,000 metric tonnes, but Siemens’ new module can be mounted directly on to the foundation of an existing wind turbine. Small and lightweight in design, the module not only subsequently cuts down on materials, time expenditure, and risk — and therefore tens, and sometimes hundreds of millions of dollars and Euros in building, transporting, assembling, operating, and maintenance — but is also reliant upon a biodegradable insulating fluid which makes the module environmentally friendly as well.

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The World's First Solar-Powered Sports Car Could Drive Forever

Can a road-legal car be powered by the Sun alone? One company thinks so, and they’re planning to unveil a scaled-down version of their proposal later this year.

Called “The Immortus,” the two-person vehicle is the work of EVX Ventures, an electric vehicle technology startup based in Melbourne, Australia. The car is decked out in solar panels, covering up to eight square meters (86 square feet), and also has a lithium battery to store energy, between five and 10 kilowatt-hours. So light is the car though, 500 kilograms (1,100 pounds) when empty and 700 kilograms (1,550 pounds) when fully laden, it is able to run on just solar power alone.

This is all possible thanks to the low mass-to-power ratio of the car. It is also extremely aerodynamic while still looking “compelling and stylish,” EVX co-founder and CEO Barry Nguyen said to IFLScience. The car also doesn’t use normal road tires, but rather tires specially designed for so-called “solar racers” – cars that are powered by the Sun.

Using a combination of battery and solar power, the car will apparently be capable of reaching up to 160 kilometers (100 miles) per hour. On solar power alone, it can reach up to 80 kilometers (50 miles) per hour.

And perhaps most interestingly, Nguyen said that the car would be able to run perpetually on just solar power, giving it an infinite range, in theory, so long as it didn’t exceed 60 kilometers (37 miles) per hour and the Sun was continuously shining. Still, that's pretty impressive. However, Nguyen stressed that the idea of the technology was to use solar cells in tandem with existing vehicles.

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SOLAR PV FOR 400K RURAL NORTHWESTERN CHINA VILLAGERS

100% Renewable Energy Goal Achieved:

400,000 Solar PV Systems to Bring First Time Electricity to Northwestern Rural China Villagers

Location:

Northwestern China (Qinghai, Gansu, Sichuan, Yunnan, and Sha'anxi, and in the autonomous regions of Inner Mongolia, Xinjiang, Xizang, and Ninxia)

Summary:

The Renewable Energy Development Project was supported by the World Bank and the Global Environment Facility (GEF) and aimed to bring reliable, affordable, ecological electricity to rural communities with no grid access. The Project, which ended in mid-2007, provided training, technical assistance, and capacity building and developed a rural renewable electricity market based primarily on solar photovoltaic (PV) technology with some wind power. This project brought PV power to more than 400,000 households and institutions in nine north-western provinces and autonomous regions in China.

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I had posted about Hawaii going 100% renewable before but now Governor Ige said he will not use natural gas in the transition. Hope the next governor will keep to the policy.

Hawaii’s Governor Dumps Oil and Gas in Favor of 100 Percent Renewables

At the Asia Pacific Resilience Innovation Summit held in Honolulu, Hawaii, this week, Governor David Ige dropped a bombshell. His administration will not use natural gas to replace the state’s petroleum-fueled electricity plants, but will make a full-court press toward 100 percent renewables by 2045. Ige’s decisive and ambitious energy vision is making Hawaii into the world’s most important laboratory for humankind’s fight against climate change. He has, in addition, attracted an unlikely and enthusiastic partner in his embrace of green energy—the US military.

Ige said Monday that LNG (liquefied natural gas) will not save the state money over time, given the plummeting prices of renewables. Moreover, “it is a fossil fuel,” i.e., it emits dangerous greenhouse gases. He explained that local jurisdictions in Hawaii are putting up a fight against natural gas, making permitting difficult. Finally, any money put into retooling electric plants so as to run on gas, he said, is money that would better be invested in the transition to green energy.

Ige, trained as an electrical engineer, is leading his state in the most ambitious clean-energy program in the United States. On June 8, he signed into law a bill calling for Hawaii’s electricity to be entirely generated from renewables in only 30 years. He also directed that the University of Hawaii be net carbon zero in just 20 years.

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Next Texas Energy Boom: Solar

Companies are spending $1 billion on new projects to harvest electricity from the sun

FORT STOCKTON, Texas—A new energy boom is taking shape in the oil fields of west Texas, but it’s not what you think. It’s solar.

Solar power has gotten so cheap to produce—and so competitively priced in the electricity market—that it is taking hold even in a state that, unlike California, doesn’t offer incentives to utilities to buy or build sun-powered generation.

Pecos County, about halfway between San Antonio and El Paso and on the southern edge of the prolific Permian Basin oil field, could soon play host to several large solar-energy farms responsible for about $1 billion in investments, according to state tax records.

On a recent day, contractors for OCI Solar Power LLC erected posts for a solar farm that will be the size of more than 900 football fields. First Solar Inc. was negotiating to lease an adjacent property, its second project in the county. Last year, the Arizona company began capturing sunlight on 400,000 black solar panels in a separate project, converting the abundant sunlight into about 30 megawatts of power.

SunEdison Inc. has presented plans for its own utility-scale solar farm to county commissioners, and Recurrent Energy, a subsidiary of Canadian Solar Inc., is readying another site nearby for construction.

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Forget About Saving Energy. This Is About Saving Lives.

For the military, energy efficiency isn’t about going granola. It’s about tightening the gears on the war machine. Fossil fuels are a huge liability for American soldiers. Marine convoys loaded down with gas are sitting ducks for enemy bullets and roadside bombs. Using less energy means shorter supply lines: fewer targets, fewer casualties, more American soldiers making it home to their families.

Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus understands this, and it’s why he’s made clean power and energy efficiency a top priority. Speaking at the Global Energy Efficiency Forum in 2013, he said, “There is a culture change that’s going on in the Navy and Marine Corps. It is happening ‘on the deckplates’ as we say in the Navy, as Sailors and Marines come to grips with the fact that these programs help them become better warfighters.”

By 2020, the Navy aims to get 50 percent of its energy from renewable sources. Explained Bell, “If you’re completely dependent on a particular kind of fuel. You’re very vulnerable.”

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Consumer Reports calls latest Tesla best vehicle they've ever tested

**S Landreth** · 08-09-2015, 05:53 AM

Running on wind: the Dutch rail network’s renewable revolution

The Dutch rail network will run entirely on renewable wind energy by 2018 under a new contract signed by power company Eneco and energy procurement cooperative VIVENS. Julian Turner gets the inside track on the unique collaboration from Michel Kerkhof, account manager at Eneco.

Harried Dutch commuters may not be entirely cognisant of the fact, but they may soon be travelling on one of the most environmentally friendly rail networks in the whole of Europe, if not the world.

Electricity generated by wind turbines already provides nearly half of traction power on the 2,900km ProRail 1.5kV DC network, out of total consumption of around 1.4 terawatt hours (TWh) per year.

Under the terms of the deal, half of the NS fleet of electric trains will run on green energy in 2015, rising to 70% the following year, 95% in 2017, with the goal of a 100% renewable network by 2018.

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The US Just Made Its Largest Investment In Renewable Energy Yet

The solar farm is expected to be the largest in the world.

The U.S. government just made its largest renewable energy purchase to date.

The U.S. Navy has invested an undisclosed amount in the Mesquite solar farm in sun-rich Arizona, allowing for an expansion of the facility that is anticipated to make it the world’s largest solar farm.

As the Climate News Network’s Paul Brown reports, the farm -- located about 40 miles west of Phoenix -- will provide 210 megawatts of direct power, a third of the energy needed to power 14 Navy and Marine Corps sites. The solar farm, slated to go online next year, is expected to save the Navy “at least” $90 million in energy costs over the course of the 25-year contract with Sempra U.S. Gas and Power, which operates it.

The Mesquite facility, which completed its first phase of buildout in late 2012, has a potential capacity of 700 megawatts, which would power up to 260,000 homes. It requires no water to operate and reduces greenhouse gas emissions, according to Sempra.

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CITY OF VARESE LIGURE

100% Renewable Energy Goal Achieved:
Produces More Electricity With Local Renewable Sources Than the Town Consumes

Location:
Varese Ligure, Italy

Summary:
Varese is a small rural town in the northern Italian region of Liguria that produces more electricity than it uses for its 2400 inhabitants--all from wind, solar, and small hydro projects. Motivated by economic troubles, the town decided in the 1990's that part of turning things around was to become environmentally sustainable. The shift to renewable energy has added jobs, along with an additional 350,000 euros [US $514,000] in annual tax revenues for the municipality. Varese also has six times more tourists than it did before making these changes, many coming just to see its renewable energy achievements.

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Little Sun Solar Charger Triples Crowdfunding Goal In 5 Days

Olafur Eliasson, the artist and designer behind the Little Sun solar LED light, and his engineer cofounder Frederik Ottesen, are back again with another solar gadget, but this time the focus is on charging mobile devices as well as providing light for offgrid applications. And like the original Little Sun product, it’s not only meant to provide light, but to also enable a better life for those living in energy poverty in places such as Sub-Saharan Africa.

For those of us in the developed world, with plenty of personal gadgets and easy access to electricity and light, it can still be a challenge to keep our mobile devices charged up, so an efficient solar charger is a very helpful thing. But without reliable and affordable electricity, which is the case for many people in the developing world, powering a light and a mobile phone can be a major struggle, which is why Little Sun’s focus on making “clean, reliable, affordable solar energy easily accessible to everyone” is a laudable goal.

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Aspen is third U.S. city to reach 100% renewable energy

Aspen is one of three U.S. cities to run on 100 percent renewable energy, according to members of the city’s environmental and project departments.

The shift to energy that is generated from natural resources — including wind power, solar power and geothermal heat — follows a “decade-plus” city goal, said city Utilities and Environmental Initiatives Director David Hornbacher.

“It was a very forward-thinking goal and truly remarkable achievement,” Hornbacher said. “This means we are powered by the forces of nature, predominately water and wind with a touch of solar and landfill gas.”

The first two U.S. cities to reach the goal were Burlington, Vermont, followed by Greensburg, Kansas.

Aspen’s transition to 100 percent renewable occurred Thursday after the city signed a contract with wholesale electric energy provider Municipal Energy Agency of Nebraska, in order “to achieve this final leg of our goal,” Hornbacher said.

The city had been using about 75 to 80 percent renewable energy beforehand, former city Project Coordinator Will Dolan said.

Aspen eliminated coal and added to its wind power to replace the remaining 20 to 25 percent of non-renewable energy and reach its 100 percent goal, Dolan said.

Aspen receives its wind energy from about four wind farms in Nebraska and South Dakota, Dolan said, adding that the city also uses energy from Ruedi Reservoir, Maroon Creek and Ridgway Reservoir, which is a hydropower facility near Montrose. Aspen Electric Utility serves about half the community, while Holy Cross Energy powers the other half, Hornbacher said.

**birding** · 09-09-2015, 10:43 AM

There are many studies that have been done and peer reviewed that prove this :

Coming Clean: Hydropower?s Dirty (Energy) Secrets | Earthjustice

Dams Cause Climate Change, They Are Not Clean Energy

Mega Dams and CDM fraud in Sikkim (Watch This! #5) - Carbon Market Watch

There are those in Thailand who want to revive dam building projects that have already been scrapped or shelved, most are in forested areas of national parks and wildlife sanctuaries some of which are listed World Heritage Sites.
Dams in these forests would destroy the habitat of some of the most endangered wildlife on the planet as well as vast areas of the forests themselves.

This must never happen, these forests and their inhabitants are a national and international asset which if destroyed can never be returned.

**S Landreth** · 15-09-2015, 04:20 AM

The Next Generation Of Solar Panels May Be Inspired By Ancient Japanese Papercraft

Solar designs have been inspired by leaves, windows, spray paint, and cloth. Now, a new innovation in solar technology means we can add one more inspiration to that list: the Japanese art of paper cutting, kirigami.

A study published Tuesday in Nature Communications outlines how thin, flexible solar cells shaped like cut paper would work — and how they could end up being more efficient and better at tracking the sun than conventional panels. Trackers that enable solar panels to tilt as the sun moves across the sky already exist, but according to the study, they’re often overlooked due to their heaviness and high cost — a cost that, the study notes, is actually increasing each year, even as overall solar costs continue to fall.

The pattern uses super-thin crystalline gallium arsenide cells — which, historically, have struggled with high costs as a barrier to success — mounted on a plastic carrier that can be pulled and bent to capture optimal sun throughout the day. That ability to track the sun is what gives this design a leg-up over traditional rooftop solar panels.

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A bright future for roadside solar farms

Five solar projects sprouting along the Massachusetts Turnpike and Route 3 are not the largest in the state, but they are among the most visible and striking examples of a solar industry that has grown more rapidly than most policy makers and energy specialists ever imagined.

As tens of thousands of commuters whiz by, the gleaming rows of solar panels in locations like the Interstate 90 service plaza in Framingham, an embankment on the turnpike near Natick, or a rest area on Route 3 in Plymouth show how solar power has been integrated into daily life. The Framingham and Natick projects are already generating power; when the other sites in Framingham and Plymouth become operational later this month, the five solar farms will produce a combined 2,500 kilowatts of electricity, enough to power about 500 homes.

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The state’s solar push has been so successful that developers have already hit the caps on the amount of electricity that utilities must buy from solar producers. Last month, the Baker administration filed legislation to lift those solar caps. The long-term goal: producing 1,600 megawatts of solar-generated electricity by 2020, or enough to power about 240,000 homes.

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All gas stations in Russia will have to install EV charging stations

The Russian auto market is struggling recently, and falling energy prices aren't helping the country's oil industry, either. With the economy looking somewhat uncertain, Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev is taking a baby step toward a greener future by mandating every gas station in the country have an electric vehicle charger by November 1, 2016. The rule is meant to boost Russia's dismal EV segment that currently numbers a grand total of about 500 vehicles across the vast territory, according to Autostat data cited by The Moscow Times.

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Half Of California’s Electricity Will Come From Renewable Energy In 15 Years

Late Friday night, the California State Assembly voted 51-26 to pass SB 350, a landmark bill that would boost renewable energy and make buildings twice as efficient as before.

The legislature sent the bill to California Gov. Jerry Brown for his signature, and he is expected to sign it later this month, as the legislation makes real the goals Brown set down earlier this year in his inaugural address.

The state’s Renewable Portfolio Standard (RPS) currently requires utilities to provide 33 percent of their electricity generation from renewable sources, such as solar, wind, and geothermal power, by 2020. The new bill, The Clean Energy and Reduction Act, would increase that target to 50 percent by 2030. It would also require a 50 percent increase in energy efficiency in buildings by that year.

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Novel efficient and low-cost semitransparent solar cells

Developing transparent or semitransparent solar cells with high efficiency and low cost to replace the existing opaque and expensive silicon-based solar panels has become increasingly important due to the increasing demands of the building integrated photovoltaics (BIPVs) systems. The Department of Applied Physics of The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU) has successfully developed efficient and low-cost semitransparent perovskite solar cells with graphene electrodes. The power conversion efficiencies (PCEs) of this novel invention are around 12% when they are illuminated from Fluorine-doped Tin Oxide bottom electrodes (FTO) or the graphene top electrodes, compared with 7% of conventional semitransparent solar cells. Its potential low cost of less than HK$0.5/Watt, more than 50% reduction compared with the existing cost of Silicon solar cells, will enable it to be widely used in the future.

**Takeovers** · 17-09-2015, 04:17 PM

A quote from the CEO of Royal Dutch Shell

Volatile? oil price hard to predict, says Shell boss ? Royal Dutch Shell plc .com

When asked how renewable energy could affect his business, Mr van Beurden said solar power could emerge as a much bigger contributor to world energy needs.
“I have no hesitation to predict that in years to come solar will be the dominant backbone of our energy system, certainly of the electricity system.”
However, during that period, the demand for energy will double, he said, leading to a “multi-decade transition,” from fossil fuels being the dominant supply for energy, he says.

**S Landreth** · 22-09-2015, 01:26 PM

Make room Tesla

Porsche Mission E: An Electric-Car Missile With Tesla In The Crosshairs

Several months ago, Porsche CEO Matthias Mueller alluded to the fabled sports car maker’s plans to offer a purely electric car by the end of the decade. Today, on the eve of the Frankfurt Motor Show, the Stuttgart-based automaker gave us a glimpse of what a purely electric Porsche for the masses might look like.

To counter Tesla’s meteoric rise to pre-eminence in the battery-powered luxury car market, as well as meet ever-tightening efficiency and emission around the globe, Porsche plans to differentiate itself in the market by focusing its development efforts on engines and handling rather than push for the latest advances in in-car Internet and automated driving.

Though Porsche says the concept boasts an entirely new powertrain, it does bear a lot of similar to the one used in last year’s Le Mans-winning 919 plug-in hybrid supercar. As such, the Mission E is powered by two “permanently-excited” synchronous motors (PSM), which together produce over 600 horsepower. Working in tandem, they can reportedly propel the sleek vehicle to 62 mph in less than 3.5 seconds and 200 km/h in under 12 seconds.

Also on tap to transfer all that power to the ground are an all-wheel drive system with Porsche Torque Vectoring, which automatically distributes torque to the individual wheels, and all-wheel steering for more precise handling along the lines of the hellacious 911 GT3.

How far can the Mission E travel on a single charge? Here it seems Porsche has significantly one-upped the competition by opting for an 800-volt drive system, instead of a 400-volt system. The automaker says it will allow the Mission E to travel over 500 km (310 miles) on a single charge, and that the battery can recharge with enough energy for around 400 km more driving range in about the same time one can refill a 911—less than 15 minutes. And since the system uses smaller gauge copper cables to transfer power, it also reduces vehicle weight. The 800-volt charge port is located behind the vehicle’s right front fender.

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Australian homes among first to get Tesla's Powerwall solar-energy battery

Company says 7kWH energy storage unit, which uses lithium-ion battery to store energy from rooftop solar panels, will be available by end of year

Australia will be one of the first countries in the world to get Tesla’s vaunted Powerwall battery storage system, as several other companies scramble to sign up Australia’s growing number of households with solar rooftops.

US firm Tesla said that its 7kWH home energy storage units would be available by the end of the year in Australia, ahead of previous predictions it would arrive in 2016.

The Powerwall is a unit that sits on an interior wall. It has a lithium-ion battery, used to store energy created by solar panels on the household roof.

Vassallo pointed out that the technology still has some way to improve – a 7kWH system will store little more than an hour’s electricity generated by a typical 5kWH solar system, meaning that some people may have to have several Powerwall, or equivalent, systems on their walls.

“I’d be wary of claims that people can go entirely off the grid, but it’s a first step,” he said. “Australia has high electrity prices, and once the price is acceptable I think the take-up will be strong.”

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Renewable Energy Approved for Carolinas

The U.S. Department of Interior (DOI) has approved an offshore wind energy leasing project off the North Carolina coast. The approval comes after the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) identified a 480-square mile area in the Atlantic Ocean for constructing wind farms that would pose no significant environmental or socioeconomic threats to the region in its published Environmental Assessment (EA).

The EA specifically identified three Wind Energy Areas off North Carolina totaling approximately 307,590 acres that would be ideal for wind farm development. The release of the EA moves North Carolina one step closer to producing clean energy.

BOEM has announced a public meeting of the North Carolina Task Force, which will take place on October 7 in Wilmington and address BOEM’s proposed approach for an offshore wind auction. Next, the agency will publish a Proposed Sale Notice in the Federal Register, which will include a 60-day public comment period. The successful bidder will have exclusive rights to begin site characterization and assessment.

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ONergy to deliver clean, reliable energy to 1 million in India’s poorest regions

Social enterprise ONergy has joined the Business Call to Action (BCtA), a global initiative supported by the United Nations Development Programme and other international organisations that encourages companies to fight poverty through innovative business models. ONergy has pledged to scale up its successful product distribution network in order to bring reliable solar-powered products to India’s poorest and underserved regions. The expansion is expected to provide solar energy to 1 million people by 2017 and reduce CO2 emissions by as much as 100,000 tons.

ONergy’s expansion calls for the creation of 50 new Renewable Energy Centres (REC), including a network of trained rural entrepreneurs and microfinance partners who will deliver and service the company’s proprietary line of solar power products in remote areas. The new centres will be situated in five states within ast and ortheast India. They are expected to create 100 full time jobs.

**Takeovers** · 22-09-2015, 09:50 PM

A car for the masses from Porsche?

I think the Tesla Model S can match those data and it is available, not a concept car.

From Wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tesla_Motors

In October 2014, Tesla announced the 85D and P85D dual-motor all-wheel drive variants of the Model S. The high-end P85D can accelerate from 0–60 mph (0–97 km/h) in 3.2 seconds and has a top speed of 155 miles per hour (249 km/h), compared to the Model P85's 130 miles per hour (210 km/h). The Model S 85D can cruise at 65 mph (105 km/h) for 295 miles (475 km) on a single charge, 10 miles more than the Model S 85. The control system shifts power between the motors, so each is always operating at its most efficient point.

**Horatio Hornblower** · 22-09-2015, 10:03 PM

reading today by 2050 they reckon they will have cars built from eucalyptus trees and fueled by euca to.

**S Landreth** · 29-09-2015, 02:31 PM

9 Massive US Companies Pledge To Go 100% Renewable

Nine more giant corporations, including Nike and Walmart, pledged to transition to 100 percent renewable energy Wednesday. The announcement, made during Climate Week, is intended to show international governments that there is broad-based business support for going off fossil fuels in advance of the United Nations climate talks in December.

Goldman Sachs, Johnson & Johnson, Proctor & Gamble, Salesforce, Starbucks, Steelcase, and Voya Financial also took the RE100 pledge, organized by the Climate Group, an international sustainability non-profit.

“Research shows that the most ambitious companies have seen a 27 percent return on their low carbon investments,” Mark Kenber, CEO of the Climate Group, said in a statement. “Today these companies are signaling loud and clear to COP21 negotiators that forward-thinking businesses back renewables and want to see a strong climate deal in Paris.”

Swiss bank UBS joined the pledge last week. In total, 36 companies have joined RE100 since it was launched at Climate Week last year.

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PV Roofing Systems Boost Renewable Electricity Options

For solar electricity boosters, the choices in PV roofing systems from a number of manufacturers keep looking brighter and brighter.

At the recent Solar Power international convention in Anaheim, California, roofing manufacturer CertainTeed added to this list when it featured some of its next generation PV roofing systems, including its enhanced Solstice rack-mounted photovoltaic roofing system.

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Iluméxico To Bring Solar Power To 50,000 Homes By 2020

In the developed world, we focus on how solar power will interrupt traditional grid systems, but in many parts of the world — such as Africa and Mexico — there is no electrical grid. Hundreds of thousands of people live their lives never knowing the benefits of electric power.

Illumexico will add 50,000 solar systems in rural Mexico by 2020Iluméxico, a Mexican social enterprise focused on solar power, has joined the Business Call to Action (BCtA) and made a commitment to install solar home systems on 50,000 off-grid rural homes in Mexico by the year 2020. The project will benefit approximately 300,000 people and will create 180 new jobs, half of which which be reserved for women. 70 of the jobs will be located in those rural communities.

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Gildemeister Provides CellCube Energy Storage Systems Two Various Projects In Czech Republic

A number of Gildemeister’s CellCube energy storage systems were recently deployed in the Czech Republic, as part of various projects, according to recent reports.

In cooperation with B64, Gildemeister installed a CellCube energy storage system as part of the National Park Šumava project — in concert with an 11-kilowatt (kW) solar energy installation + a 5-kW wind energy installation. That setup will allow drivers of electric vehicles (EVs) in the Šumava National Park to recharge their cars in the noted natural area.

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China building world’s largest solar park in Pakistan

Chinese firms are building the largest solar power farm in the world in Pakistan and the site will have 5.2 million photvoltaic cells and produce enough energy to power 320,000 households.

Xinjiang SunOasis has finished building a 100 MW solar project in the Punjab desert of Pakistan which is part of ambitious plans for Chinese companies to build the words largest by 2017.

The new project was completed in just three months at a cost of about US$131 million and includes 400,000 solar panels spread over 200 hectares of desert.

The farm is due to be completed in 2017 and will have a capacity of about 5.2 million PV cells producing an estimated 1,000 MW of electricity – roughly the equivalent to power 320,000 homes.

**stroller** · 08-10-2015, 06:10 PM

Not sure this has been posted before:

Chiang Mai, 20th March 2015.

At the opening event, the world’s first fully renewable hydrogen energy system for a multi house compound was officially presented by CNX Construction.

OPENING PHI SUEA HOUSE | CNX CONSTRUCTION

**S Landreth** · 15-10-2015, 06:09 AM

SolarCity Lays Claim to ‘World’s Most Efficient Rooftop Solar Panel’

SolarCity in an Oct. 2 announcement said that it will begin production this month on what the company claims is the “world’s most efficient” rooftop solar panel at 22 percent.

The breakthrough for the 355 watt high-efficiency panel came by improving the solar cell-to-module conversion efficiency loss, according to Benjamin Heng, SolarCity’s senior vice president of product engineering and pilot manufacturing.

SolarCity’s production process for the new panel results in only a 0.5 percent efficiency loss, Heng said, adding that the industry currently averages a 2.5 percent efficiency loss.

“This is an example of designing and optimizing the packaging of solar cells (a.k.a, the panel) that is synergetic to each cell,” Heng said.

A SolarCity spokesperson said that the new panel produces 30-40 percent more power than standard efficiency solar panels, but the cost to manufacture them is the same – about 55 cents per watt.

The spokesperson said that the panels will be "consumed entirely by SolarCity," but the company's customers will not be able to specifically request the new panels for their homes.

“We’re going to look at projects where it makes a big difference to have high efficiency, for example, for space constraints, but high-energy output is still needed,” he said.

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Chinese Solar to Jump Fourfold by 2020, Official Tells Xinhua

Solar-power capacity in China, already the world’s largest market, will jump more than fourfold by 2020, according to a senior official cited Tuesday by the government’s official news agency.

Solar capacity in China will reach 150 gigawatts in five years, up from 35.8 gigawatts at the end of June, Dong Xiufen, director of new energy for the National Energy Administration, told the Xinhua news agency. The government’s goal is to boost photovoltaic-power capacity by 20 gigawatts annually from 2016 to 2020, according to Xinhua’s report.

The increase would come amid signs of an economic slowdown in China and would require growth above what analysts have predicted. Bloomberg New Energy Finance in August forecast 17.5 gigawatts of solar power would be installed this year, up 35 percent from 13 gigawatts in 2014.

China will also continue to push mergers and acquisitions among domestic solar companies as well as technological advances, Huai Jinpeng, deputy head of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, said in the Xinhua report. He said further efforts are needed in research and development and company financing.

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Gamesa launches its latest turbine: the G126-2.5 MW, maximum output for less windy regions

Gamesa, a global technology leader in wind energy, unveiled its new 2.5-MW turbine, specially designed for less windy conditions, at the international trade fair China Wind Power 2015 (Beijing, 14-16 October): the Gamesa G126-2.5 MW, designed to maximise output, efficiency and profitability.

This new turbine combines a longer rotor (126 metres in diameter), nominal capacity of 2.5 MW and a range of tower heights to choose from 84, 102 and 129 metres (among other customisable features depending on site conditions).

"By launching the G126-2.5 MW, we are offering our customers one of the most competitive products in the 2 MW - 3 MW segment for low wind speeds", explains Juan Diego Díaz, Gamesa's Director of Marketing.

Thanks to its extremely low power density, an outstanding capacity factor and a lower cost of energy, this turbine will boost energy production with respect to the G114-2.0 MW by up to 25%.

Underpinned by technology which has been exhaustively proven and validated in Gamesa's 2.0-2.5 MW platform, with installation of over 20,000 MW in 34 countries worldwide to its name, the G126-2.5 MW is fitted with the same electric system as the rest of the company's 2.5 MW products (the Gamesa G106-2.5 MW and Gamesa G114-2.5 MW). In addition, the blades, 62 metres long, are equipped with the technology already validated in the G114's 56-metre blades. The first prototype will be installed during the third quarter of 2016 and its serial production is due to begin by 2017.

With this new model, Gamesa's 2.0-2.5 MW platform cements its position as one of the most versatile platforms in the market: seven choices of rotor (80, 87, 90, 97, 106, 114 and 126 metres), tower heights ranging from 55 to 129 metres and customisable options which enable installation in the most complex sites.

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Sweden to become world’s first fossil-fuel free nation

The Swedish government will invest 4.4 billion krone (£354 million) of its 2016 budget in a bid to become the world’s first fossil-fuel free nation by 2050.

Sweden will boost investment in clean technology and renewable energy, according to an announcement made at the end of September.

The Scandinavian state intends to become the world’s first fossil-fuel free nation by 2050 through heavy investment in solar and wind energy, smart grids and clean transport.

Last year two thirds of Sweden’s electricity generation came from clean and low-carbon sources and the country aims to improve on this, with plans to increase investment in photovoltaics eightfold to 390 million krone a year between 2017 and 2019.

This budget increase will be financed through heavy taxes on petrol and diesel fuel, as well as through airport and nuclear plant closures and the sale of coal mines.

The prioritisation of climate action is fast becoming the norm in Scandinavia, with neighbouring countries such as Denmark taking similar initiatives.

Sweden hopes to lead by example in the run up to climate talks at COP21 in Paris in December.

Social Democratic Prime Minister Stefan Löfven has told the Swedish Parliament: “Children should grow up in a toxin-free environment; the precautionary principle, the removal of dangerous substances and the idea that the polluter should pay are the basis of our politics.”

**S Landreth** · 21-10-2015, 04:56 PM

Vestas installs its 55,000th turbine and achieves 70 GW of installed capacity

Vestas wind turbines cumulatively can produce enough power to cover the annual electricity consumption of about 75 million European residential electricity consumers.

Vestas having installed 55,000 turbines and 70 GW of capacity in 74 countries across six continents is strong evidence of our ability to provide wind energy solutions anywhere in the world. It underscores Vestas’ global industry leadership and reaffirms the growing reality that wind energy is the best of all worlds – cost-competitive, readily available, and carbon-free. Globally in 2014, wind energy accounted for about 20 percent of all newly installed power generation capacity, and that share is set to continue growing in the future.

“The entire Vestas organisation – past and present – has contributed to reaching this industry-leading milestone, and we can all take pride in the accomplishment”, says Anders Runevad, President and CEO of Vestas Wind Systems A/S. “This Vestas achievement together with wind energy’s global growth confirms that whether one is looking to power one’s own operations, reduce supply risk and price volatility, or contribute to combatting climate change, investing in wind energy makes economic sense”.

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Solar Power Bids Fall By 50% In 5 Years In India

The steep fall in prices of solar panels over the last few years probably seems best reflected in the trend of bidding in competitive auctions in India. The sharp fall in panel prices, accompanied by aggressive policy decisions and falling lending rates have brought solar power prices in India to the edge of grid parity.

A total of 6,781 MW solar power capacity has been allocated through competitive auctions for feed-in tariffs in India between December 2010 and September 2015. The Indian government has also auctioned projects on the basis of subsidy in capital investment at fixed feed-in tariffs.

The first auction in December 2010 under the central government policy of National Solar Mission saw developers bidding between Rs 10.95/kWh and Rs 12.76/kWh. A total of 150 MW solar PV capacity was auctioned with a weighted average bid of Rs 12.16/kWh. The auction saw participation mostly from Indian companies that did not have much experience in installation of solar PV projects.

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In 2015, 8 auctions were organized up to September with a total of 3,465 MW on offer. Bids in these auctions dropped through the Rs 6.00/kWh rate. The lowest bid of Rs 5.05/kWh was placed in the 300 MW auction under Madhya Pradesh solar power policy. Punjab, which had seen comparatively higher bids between June 2013 and early 2015 also saw sharp correction in the 500 MW auction held in September 2015. Bids in Punjab had ranged between Rs 6.88/kWh and Rs 8.75/kWh in the 3 auctions held between 2013 and early 2015 but the September 2015 auction saw weighted average bids falling to Rs 5.65/kWh.

The recent fall in the bids is a result of a combination of factors like improved regulatory outlook, more aggressive intent shown by the government to expand renewable energy infrastructure, revival in economic activity, and fall in lending rates.

The new government has set an ambitious target of 100 GW installed solar power capacity by 2022 and had also urged state governments to adopt and implement solar power policies at an increased pace.

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China’s wind power capacity to hit 120GW by end of year

China’s wind power capacity is to hit 120 gigawatts by the end of 2015, according to the National Energy Administration (NEA) on Friday.

Deputy director of the NEA’s new and renewable energy department, Zhu Ming, has said that wind power capacity has reached 105 gigawatts by the end of June this year.

Wind power generation has become an important part of the country’s electricity supply. Ming stressed, however, that the sector needs more subsidies, better technology and management.

By the end of 2020, China aims to increase non-fossil energy to 15 per cent of total energy consumption, and to sharply enhance the ratio of renewable energy in production.

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Fukushima to use 100% renewable energy by 2040

Japanese province hit by nuclear disaster aims to generate all its own energy within 30 years

The Japanese province of Fukushima has pledged to switch to 100% renewable energy by 2040, turning its 2011 nuclear disaster into an opportunity to tackle climate change.

The mayor of the region, which has a population of about two million people, hopes that community energy schemes will wean the region off fossil fuels completely in just over 25 years’ time.

Energy will be generated locally through community energy initiatives and will provide a clean and self-sustaining source of heat and electricity throughout the area.

A coalition of green energy groups welcomed the decision at a Community Power Conference held in Fukushima this week.

The scheme is regarded as a positive step to embrace renewable energy in Japan, where the national government remains pro-nuclear, despite widespread distrust of the technology and its regulation.

I think this is an old story but maybe the first time I've posted about it?

**chassamui** · 22-10-2015, 07:07 AM

Originally Posted by Exit Strategy

Thanks for the ad. How much govt subsidies they get in Denmark? Does not change the fact that nuclear power is greenest energy until solar becomes more efficient. Or we get the moon

Everything has a price, a cost and a value. Even you.
In your case it's always someone else who foots the bill.

**Exit Strategy** · 22-10-2015, 01:17 PM

Nuclear power is the greenest option, say top scientists | Science | News | The Independent

Environmentalists urged to ditch their historical antagonism and embrace a broad energy mix

Nuclear power is one of the least damaging sources of energy for the environment, and the green movement must accept its expansion if the world is to avoid dangerous climate change, some of the world's leading conservation biologists have warned.

Rising demand for energy will place ever greater burdens on the natural world, threatening its rich biodiversity, unless societies accept nuclear power as a key part of the "energy mix", they said. And so the environmental movement and pressure groups such as Friends of the Earth and Greenpeace should drop their opposition to the building of nuclear power stations.

In an open letter published on the Brave New Climate blog, more than 65 biologists, including a former UK government chief scientist, support the call to build more nuclear power plants as a central part of a global strategy to protect wildlife and the environment.

The full gamut of electricity-generation sources, including nuclear power, must be used to replace the burning of fossil fuels such as oil, coal and gas if the world is to have any chance of mitigating severe climate change, their letter says.

The letter is signed by several leading British academics including Lord May of Oxford, a theoretical biologist at Oxford University and former chief scientific adviser; Professor Andrew Balmford, a conservation biologist at Cambridge; and Professor Tim Blackburn, an expert in biodiversity at University College London.

As well as reducing the sources of carbon dioxide, the chief man-made greenhouse gas implicated in climate change, the expansion of nuclear power will leave more land to support biodiversity and so curb the extinction of species, they say.

Recognising the "historical antagonism towards nuclear energy" among environmentalists, they write: "Much as leading climate scientists have recently advocated the development of safe, next-generation nuclear energy systems to combat climate change, we entreat the conservation and environmental community to weigh up the pros and cons of different energy sources using objective evidence and pragmatic trade-offs, rather than simply relying on idealistic perceptions of what is 'green'."

It is too risky to rely solely on renewable energy sources such as wind and solar power for replacing fossil fuels because of problems to do with scalability, cost, materials and land use, they explain.

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"Nuclear power – being far the most compact and energy-dense of sources – could also make a major, and perhaps leading, contribution …. It is time that conservationists make their voices heard in this policy area," they say.

A golf-ball-sized lump of uranium would supply the lifetime's energy needs of a typical person, equivalent to 56 tanker trucks of natural gas, 800 elephant-sized bags of coal or a renewable battery as tall as 16 "super" skyscraper buildings placed one on top of the other, they said.

The letter was organised by Professor Barry Brook of the University of Tasmania and Professor Corey Bradshaw of the University of Adelaide. The two co-authored a paper in the January issue of Conservation Biology outlining the scientific case of nuclear power in terms of environmental protection. Of seven major technologies for generating electricity, nuclear power and wind energy had the highest benefit-to-cost ratio, they concluded.

"Trade-offs and compromises are inevitable and require advocating energy mixes that minimise net environmental damage. Society cannot afford to risk wholesale failure to address energy-related biodiversity impacts because of preconceived notions and ideals," they said.

Professor Corey told The Independent on Sunday: "Our main concern is that society isn't doing enough to rein in emissions… Unless we embrace a full, global-scale assault on fossil fuels, we'll be in increasingly worse shape over the coming decades – and decades is all we have to act ruthlessly.

"Many so-called green organisations and individuals, including scientists, have avoided or actively lobbied against proven zero-emissions technologies like nuclear because of the associated negative stigma," he said.

"Our main goal was to show – through careful, objective scientific analysis – that on the basis of cost, safety, emissions reduction, land use and pollution, nuclear power must be considered in the future energy mix," he explained.

The letter aims to convince people of the potential benefits of nuclear power in a world where energy demand will increase as the climate begins to change because of rising levels of greenhouse gases, Professor Corey added.

"By convincing leading scientists in the areas of ecological sustainability that nuclear has a role to play, we hope that others opposed to nuclear energy on purely 'environmental' – or ideological – grounds might reconsider their positions," he said.

* This article originally reported that an open letter by more than 65 biologists had appeared in the journal Conservation Biology. In fact, it appeared on the Brave New Climate blog. 14/1/15

**chassamui** · 22-10-2015, 03:21 PM

And who funded this study? All it says is that nuclear has a place in the energy mix during transistion from fossil to renewable.
If you cannot see past a disingnuous headline, and read with any kind of critical analysis, stop posting soundbytes.

**chassamui** · 22-10-2015, 06:21 PM

I don't need to click on the link. I already know it's pointless. Just like you.

Originally Posted by Exit Strategy

scientific opinion

Proves my point. Science is all about theory and peer reviwed research with conclusions. Opinion is the last thing credible science will give you.
Bumpkin.

**Exit Strategy** · 22-10-2015, 09:30 PM