photo by Tim Duckett Gordon Brown recently announced that a £100 billion government investment in renewable energy would be “the most dramatic change in energy policy since nuclear power”. Such an investment will allow Britain to generate 30-35% of its electricity from renewables by 2020. Based on recent statements in Paris, we now know more clearly about his commitment to nuclear energy. New Plants Required to Replace Existing Aging Ones
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In Ontario, Canada, they get a lot of sewage sludge out of the treatment plants; 120,000 tonnes are spread on 37,000 acres of agricultural land. Some farmers love it because it is free, while other fertilizers are getting very expensive; others refuse to touch the stuff. The Star is running a fascinating series on it, starting with the scary ingredients: “Feces, urine, vomit, blood. Synthetic hormones, heart pills, antibiotics, illicit drugs, Viagra. Bacteria, viruses, E. coli, parasites. Household cleaners, shampoo, solvents, pesticides and traces of arsenic, mercury, cadmium, lead, dioxins and flame retardants.” …
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Germany May Keep Nuclear Plants Running
The plan adopted in that preceding German administration had been to phase out nuclear power generation by 2020. Apparently, there are 17 nuclear plants still operating in Germany; and, Chancellor Angela Merkel, reacting to the political sentiments unleashed by growing electricity bills and the need to meet GHG-equivalent emission reduction commitments, is asking for a reconsideration of the nuclear phaseout goal. In spite of the fact that Germany did not, historically speaking, have much nuclear capacity to begin with (see graphic), there is popul…
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For some reason, this month seems to be Hawaii’s turn with energy news. Earlier this month, Hawaii’s Governor signed a bill requiring all new homes to be equipped with solar water heaters, and the city of Honolulu is installing a system to use sea-water and deep-ocean temperature for cooling downtown buildings. But there’s still more.
Sopogy, Inc., a Hawaii-based solar energy company has announced the groundbreaking for a new solar farm making use of their MicroCSP. MicroCSP is a smaller version of a parabolic solar concentrator. While the smaller units may lose some efficiency, they are also less susceptible to damage from storms and high winds, something that is more of a problem for an island in the ocean than for the desert southwest. Sopogy MicroCSP collectors are specifically designed to withstand a more difficult setting like Hawaii. Keahole Solar Power will be a solar energy farm located at the Natural Energy Laboratory of Hawaii, and can eventually be scaled up to 1 megawatt of production.
Solar thermal generation can serve in cogeneration systems alongside other energy sources (both conventional and renewable), making it less problematic for peak demand needs and load balancing. Other methods of producing steam to run electricity generating turbines can be interconnected, so that a plant’s generating capacity is less affected by night or overcast conditions.
Via Sopogy, Inc. Press release, Sopogy Power Generation (PDF)
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(Picture: the Brazilian Senate in session. Credit: Agencia Senado Brazil.) The Brazilian Senate approved last week a modification to the law that establishes the amount of land the government can concede for rural use in the Legal Amazon without the need for a tender process. The previous limit was 500 hectares and now it’s gone up to 15 fiscal modules: each municipality establishes the extension of the modules, and in some places they reach 100 hectares, which sets the maximum to 1500 hectares.
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