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POPSWeb pioneer Gross revitalized by green energy Bill Gross is the Ron Popeil of Internet entrepreneurs...or perhaps the failed car man and innovator Preston Tucker ;) I am excited to see what he will do with his alt energy incubator. Maybe he will once again innovate enough to help shape the green economy. But, with regard to his claim of becoming more disciplined than he was in the 90's...I'll take the under. Good luck Bill, i'm pulling for you!
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POPSOil price puts solar in spotlight It is amazing that the enormous power plant in the sky, the sun, has remained mostly untapped despite serious concerns about our energy security, health, and economy. Today, only a fraction of a percent of the world's electricity generation comes from solar energy. The good news is that the promise of solar energy, particularly solar thermal, is extraordinary as it can be used to generate electricity in large quantities.
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POPSGeothermal power There are alternatives! For more info. go to site. Geothermal energy offers a number of advantages over traditional fossil fuel based sources, primarily that the heat source requires no purchase of fuel. From an environmental standpoint, emissions of undesirable substances are small.
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POPSFeds Halt New Solar Projects This really doesn't make any damned sense at all. The piece goes on: While proponents of solar energy agree on the need for a sweeping environmental study, many believe that the freeze is unwarranted. Some, like Ms. Gordon, whose company has two pending proposals for solar plants on public land, say small solar energy businesses could suffer if they are forced to turn to more expensive private land for development. Of course, public land is also drilled for oil. But the administration's attitude toward that is "full speed ahead!"
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POPSFeds Place Moratorium On New Solar Projects On Public Land "This could completely stunt the growth of the industry," said Holly Gordon, vice president for legislative and regulatory affairs for Ausra, a solar thermal energy company in Palo Alto. The manager of the bureau's environmental impact study, Linda Resseguie, said many factors must be considered when deciding whether to allow solar projects on the scale being proposed, among them the Advertisement impact of construction and transmission lines on native vegetation and wildlife.
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POPSI Love Living in California California continues to lead the way in sustainable energy. This announcement by PG&E shows it is possible. PG&E and other major power providers in CA have many separate initiatives going on like this. It's based on the idea that there won't be one "green" source that will replace oil, but by incorporating many different green sources of energy into the portfolio, we can begin to ween ourselves off of oil.
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POPSBeyond Zero-Energy: The World's 1st Positive Energy Building Generates more energy than it consumes. The building’s aggressive approach to sustainability enables it to offer the lowest energy consumption per square meter for its class. The complex will utilize sustainable materials and feature integrated wind turbines, outdoor air quality monitors. In addition to serving as the Masdar headquarters, the building will accommodate private residences and ‘early bird’ businesses starting up in the city. The Masdar development will be constructed over seven phases and is due to be completed by 2016.
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POPSUSA Solar Capital: Arizona to Build World's Largest Solar Plant To provide more solar capacity per customer than any utility in the United States - using molten salt to store heat and continue generating electricity for as long as six hours after the sun sets. The premium is worth it because coal and natural-gas prices are unpredictable, and emissions from those plants likely someday will be taxed for their contributions to global climate change: That makes predictable solar prices attractive. Abengoa Solar Inc., a Spanish technology company that has several smaller solar-thermal projects in Spain, North Africa and the United States, will build and run the Solana Generating Station. Its current U.S. installations use mirrors to concentrate sunlight and heat water for prisons in Arizona, Colorado and California, a military base in Texas, and one scheduled to come online this year for a California Frito-Lay chip factory.
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POPSSalt: The Key to Successful Solar Power SolarReserve will be able to produce electricity at night or in inclement weather. This product is more predictable than water reserves, the supply is free and inexhaustible, and the environmental impact is essentially zero.
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POPSTindo Solar Bus Bus Great to see at last ! I'm sure it wont be long before solar powered buses will seen in most cities of the world as economies of scale help.
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POPSRenewable Energy- The way Safely Forward
The planet is not going to wait and it doesn't care about our costs or economies. We have to stop emitting CO2 immediately! This is a war and it means turning off fossil fuel produced power now! This leads governments to increase nuclear power but we can more easily and safely plow money into renewable energy eg wave,tide,wind with storage, concentrated solar thermal with storage, solar photo voltaic with storage, and not forgetting geothermal from the only safe nuclear reactor the sun. Every country can tap into renewable energy. Many countries can tap into a number of them. There's enough power there to supply the whole world with power for ever. Pity we went down the wrong road with fossil fuel and nuclear. Nuclear is not safe because the world is entrenched in crazy ideologies and nuclear reactors have shown not to operate reliably in a warming climate and we all know what fossil fuel is doing to our planet. Had we gone down the renewable energy path 50 years ago we would have been
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POPSThere Is No Silver Bullet There Is no silver bullet but a shotgun approach of renewable energy would have considerable affect. It's not that Kyoto does nothing but we need to make the switch and go full bore into renewable energies from natural flows. It's time to take really seriously that we HAVE TO stop CO2 entering the atmosphere from our activities. I think world renown scientists such as these two should be listened to
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POPSRenewable Power is the Only Way! Renewable energy in natural flows will be cheaper than any other power source and will get there first. See my blog http://solarthermalnow.blogspot.com/ "The Case For Renewables" and the links provided.
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POPSRenewable Energy Will Get There First This is the way we will go and it's likely to be sooner than expected because economies of scale and new technologies are already attracting investment such that power prices from renewable energy will be equal to or cheaper than either coal or nuclear without any subsidy. Take a look athttp://www.abc.net.au/7.30/content/2007/s2047734.htm and http://sst.pennnet.com/display_article/307597/5/ARTCL/none/none/Wall-Street-analyst:-Take-long-view-on-solar-PV/?dcmp=WaferNEWS
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POPSRenewable Power the Only Way forward Safely How can we have an informed debate and vote on the issue when a great deal of information is deliberately hidden? The public knows that there is nuclear power, fossil fuel power, and then there are the renewables. But the thrust about renewables is that they can’t provide base power for industry 24/7. This is entirely incorrect.
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POPSGovernment wasting money with "clean coal" power Australia continues to keep its local and export economy based on coal instead of investing in a new energy future. Instead of a mass loss of jobs, the miners could be retrained to take up jobs in renewable energy industries, such as solar thermal power, wind, biomass and geothermal. It's time to get on with creating more jobs and wealth from building these industries. At least a national scheme should encourage more investment from the private sector.
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POPSWe Can Have Solar Thermal Now Peter, I think it’s about time you state that renewable energy is able to supply 24/7 power at base load for industry. Every time you mention solar and renewables you virtually never mention solar thermal power. And when you have mentioned it you certainly have never said that solar thermal power (CSP) is different from solar photovoltaic power in that it is a system incorporating the storage of the sun’s energy enabling 24/7 base power for industry. Many systems of storage are available and turn out to be rather cheap to do. Mills, Khosla and associates are building the first utility scale power plants in the USA supplying power for 10 cents/ KWH now and all America’s power is touted to be able to be supplied by solar power alone! And Europe, Africa, the Middle East and China are on the agenda for this power system using High Voltage DC transmission lines. Australia has abundant renewable energy and solar thermal power is a must for Australia. Why have you not informed the completely
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POPSSolar Power and technology advances So I work for the Emcore Corporation, earlier this month, we achieved the highest efficiency of a PV (photovoltaic) solar cell to date. This is a pretty huge development and boost to the industry. Emcore doesn't get noted very much for its technological developments, but I'm working to build up the marketing program for 2008 to show the world what Emcore can do!
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