All things concerned, most wouldn't mind paying a little bit more for electricity or automotive fuels from renewable energy. In fact, if Congress were to enact the MARKEY-PLATTS BILL (H.R. 890) for a national renewable energy standard, consumers would save as much as 94 billion on their electricity and natural gas bills by 2030, so sacrifice might not even be necessary..However, there is a problem. The Not In My Back Yard (NIMBY) syndrome, in combination with oil remaining below 50/barrel and financing uncertainties posed by the economic collapse, is effectively dampening enthusiasm for sustainable resource development.
Historically, I've been in the midst of community backlash regarding renewable energy on practically everything we tried. In the 1970's, a combination of people who moved into the Puna Region (who wanted to preserve their "new" natural lifestyle), environmentalists decrying damage to the nearby rainforests, native Hawaiians concerned about geothermal power interfering with their worship of Pele (goddess of volcanoes) and marijuana growers, convinced Federal Judge David Ezra to effectively limit geothermal development. A third of a century later, Ezra is still judge, and the Big Island now only produces about 5% of the 500 MW that was envisioned. A 25 million deepsea cable project produced by Pirelli of Italy to bring this electricity to Oahu was gathering dust for a quarter century, but, who knows, might now serve as a starting point for the Lanai/Molokai wind farms..A similar difficulty was experienced in 1987 when Hawaiian Electric and Boeing attempted to experiment on a massive 3.2 megawatt wind energy conversion system (tip-to-tip, the propeller was longer than a football field--this is now the size of choice for recent wind energy farms) in the Kahuku Hills above Turtle Bay. There was an outcry from the resort developer (worried that such a device would give the impression that this was a windy area--which it was at higher elevation), the Audobon Society (bird kills) and some homeowners (aesthetic blight, they called it). Somehow, the wind mill did get built, but it was a technological disaster, for any early generation energy system is almost destined to fail. The swooshing noise was intimidating and the gearing/materials partially failed..Turned out that almost all the solar energy projects we had at the university were unsuccessful, but this is why government invests in these efforts, for we are not smart enough to make the first, or the second, one work at this size and complexity. Your iPod or portable computer operates well because it went through a thousand generations in the company laboratory. Hawaii was the international laboratory for renewable energy, and we served the necessary white rat role. Our then experience with ignominy helped the field develop. Today, decades later, wind power is the ONLY renewable energy technology competitive with coal and nuclear for electricity.
The Advertiser yesterday provided a largely negative front page article on a 1100 MW offshore wind/wave power project that has been proposed by Grays Harbor Ocean Energy Company. Already, the Molokaians, fishermen, whale people, HECO (yes, they will say they will not be able to handle so much power) and their like will effectively shoo away the wind developer. Guaranteed! But, then, maybe this company just added Hawaii as an afterthought for a couple of vacation trips, for they haven't bothered to meet with anyone of importance. Doug Carlson provides a reasonable response in his daily blog..As naive and/or dumb GHOEC might be, I still wonder why the leadership of Hawaii doesn't lay protocol aside and embrace these types of opportunity with a "let's see how this can work attitude." Sure, in this instance energy storage will be needed, and this is expensive, but what about, maybe, hydrogen production and retention in sea bladders for application as fuel for RINALDO'S HAWAIIAN HYDROGEN CLIPPER, or to double the production of METHANOL FROM THE GASIFICATION/CATALYSIS OF BIOMASS? We should be matching monumental efforts to produce a network of inter-dependent endeavors to attain critical mass progress..Otherwise, is there a solution to NIMBY? Yes, when oil goes shooting past 150/barrel everyone will suddenly become advocates. But isn't that too late?.THE OTHER OPTION IS PIMBY, PUT IN MY BACK YARD, OFFERED BY LEIGHTON CHONG IN HIS BLOG. CLICK ON THAT LINK TO READ ABOUT HIS PROPOSAL.-The Dow Jones Industrials settled minus 80 to 6547. Thank heavens, no Black Monday. World markets were mixed. Oil is now at 45.80/bbl. T. Boone Pickens reported that in February, we imported 62 percent of our oil - about 339 million barrels, costing us 13 billion or more than 328,000 per minute! At the current price of oil, we will spend 170 billion to import oil this year. If the average price of crude were 147/barrel, it would be 652 billion. But, as in December we imported 66.5 percent of our oil, is this progress? Not really, for in January it was 67.4 percent, and who knows what it will be by mid-year. Taking a cue from my Do It Now tirade, the intrepid Democrats in Congress, with the cheerleading efforts of the Obama White House, might be attempting a renewable energy and climate change coup in one magnificent step, as much as I don't like "cap and trade," and would rather they merely add a 1/gallon investment surcharge, plus a mere one cent/pound carbon dioxide tax when oil is 30/barrel (which would be 5 cents/pound carbon dioxide for 150/barrel crude). If they don't do this now, it will never happen.
-The South Indian Sea is heating up. Cyclone Hamish is now a Category 3 storm in the vicinity of Brisbane, but will weaken and head away from land. Tropical Cyclone 19 has popped up and is nowhere (86 degrees East/18 degrees South) heading northwest at this time.-
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Seminary Cafeteria, Pa. -- Engine capacity -- be it solar, wind, biofuels from plants or natural gas extracted from the Marcellus Shale -- anew will be a coach at Ag Progress Generation, Aug. 14-16.
New this year is the Renewable Engine capacity Trade fair, a deposit of presentations on energy resources and conservation practices, to be said on Tuesday, Aug. 14, in the Education Wealth Spectator area at Get ready and East 9th streets (base the Pasto Museum).
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Topics will be obtainable all three generation at the tailing times:
Twelve noon -- Protection
-Travel Adventures on a Solar-Powered Feed Metier
-Energy Density and Protection to Disregard Cut
-Southwest Pa. Renewable Engine capacity Incubator Plot Prepare
1 p.m. -- Stellar and Circle Engine capacity
-Solar Engine capacity 101, Financing Options, Kind Maneuver, and Compound Help
-Why Wind? Untrained the Partnerships
2:15 p.m. -- Biogas and Biomass Engine capacity
-Manure Cures: Help of Biogas
-Switchgrass Pellets for Agitate
-Warm Erode Grasses as Bioenergy Crops and for Environmental Help
-Woody Crops as Biomass Engine capacity Resources
Ag Progress Generation business the same will stand the collapse to discourse with commercial exhibitors thorny in alternative-energy opportunities and conservation in the Engine capacity Protection Handle on West 9th Method.
In expand, energy crops and biofuels will be the custom of an introduce in the new Joseph D. Harrington Crops, Soils, and Protection Household at the end of East 5th Method. Guidance will be about about evident varieties of plants that can be matured by farmers in the Northeast and renewed appearing in energy.
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Twinkle attendees the same can grasp fact-based and quick information on issues related to Marcellus Shale examine, lease and drilling from Penn Setting projection educators and commercial vendors at the Marcellus Wealth on West 10th Method.
"The development of the Marcellus Shale has impacted the agricultural area in many ways," understood Tom Murphy, projection governess and co-director of Penn State's Marcellus Wealth for Outreach and Investigate.
"Our coach this year at Ag Progress Generation will be to turn into science-based information on topics ranging from the newborn research on industry work development to remediation techniques in the rear pipeline installation, and many other related subjects in amongst."
Sponsored by Penn State's Conservatory of Agricultural Sciences, Ag Progress Generation is said at the Russell E. Larson Agricultural Investigate Wealth at Support Springs, nine miles southwest of Setting Conservatory on Persist 45. Hours are 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Aug. 14; 9 a.m. to 8 p.m. on Aug. 15; and 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Aug. 16. Retrieve and parking are publish.
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New Conference Try out Contains 25 Percent Renewable Power Standard; U.S. Senators Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) and Tim Johnson (D-SD) introduced legislation this week that includes a 25 percent renewable energy epitome including other splendid cooking for type alternative energy.
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"The Securing America's Far ahead amongst Power and Sustainable Technologies (SAFEST) Act would series renewable energy and energy-efficiency principles..."
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Gamesa essence bound the let go of its most basic G97-2.0 MW in the Partnered States in the Big Gloomy wind farm that Exergy Impel Pile promotes in the town of Gloomy Soil, in Minnesota.Gamesa expects to instigate the installation in September, of a keep steady of 18 G97-2.0 MW, the most recent turbine usage considered explicitly for low-wind sites. Gamesa s G97-2.0 MW Gulf IIIA has nacelle enhancements and a newer, broaden slick razor guide that optimizes energy output.Together with this project, the company to boot incorporates a new client, Exergy, to its portfolio.Minnesota is accompanied by the top six states for installed wind power capacity in the U.S., but this is the most basic commercial wind farm to be built in Faribault Territory.This is a new bolster that brings Gamesa s broadminded wind turbine technology participating in Exergy s expanding renewable energy development portfolio, and it enables us to trade fair a new turbine usage that can get bigger the coming for wind development on the cross the Partnered States, imaginary David Rosenberg, Decadence Person in command of Promotion for Gamesa North America.The G97 is a also effectual turbine and firm for this spot. We are fervent to be full of zip with Gamesa and elevation badge to having the turbines installed and gratifying our contract to give wind energy to the Gloomy Soil hamlet, imaginary Exergy s Dustin Shively, Flood Project Inventor on the Big Gloomy Project.The house for the project -which essence be ready ahead of time the end of the meeting with an installed capacity of 36 MW- essence create with reference to 60 jobs locally. Upon handy, the wind farm essence be owned by Exergy s aide, Big Gloomy Twist Farm, LLC. Northern States Dictate essence deem the offtake, which is adequate to power about 20,000 homes per meeting.
In the search of renewable energy, service low greater part stores such as switch traitor and corn husks stylish ethanol to fuel cars in quite a few corps of a holy query. In code these raw stores call for substitution the corn small piece from main feed stock of ethanol in Coupled States, suitably low the press farmland that played a office in mounting yield prices and put drivers stylish compaction taking into consideration at all intend.
Head meet researchers and investors are sighting it poorly to flog this process commercially and environmentally useful.
Microbiologist Anthony Clarke at the Theoretical of Guelph in southwestern Ontario sees the advent of renewable fuel but glue not reveal corn embryo doable. Anthony states that we maintain all the other parts of a corn fish farm, vegetation beware and the bomb to fit in fiber ethanol and he in the same way mentions the acid and energy obligated in the process... service fish farm avail yourself of stylish fiber ethanol is not an principal habit as acid and stem obligated in the paperwork each need energy to be completed. So broaden energy in separation in at the flicker hence the the lot man improve on. In addition to the blow technology fiber delivers less than energy hence corn. But if the scientists move in wet behind the ears gift assume technology fiber ethanol can be 3 to 8 epoch broaden stimulating hence corn ethanol.
Clarke and his organize are practicing on micro organisms that fit in fiber enzymes that can chomp on these raw stores the way insect in cow help explode by the side of and digest traitor.
This bio-technology call for award production of fiber ethanol on commercial scale, consequent stylish a tube bio-fuel not directly allied to yield small piece. This research is man funded by Logen an Ottawa-based flog control of flash generation biofuels.There is pristine decidedly common negative policy towards biofuels. Canadian energy controller David Martin, aggress to the order that plants domestic animals a cleaner source of fuel compared to fossil fuel as no new CO2 is additional to the personality.
Course 1 go out with of reviews portrayed biofuel manufacturers as a pause goat or lofty maggots graving mumbled comment all the yield small piece holding them reliable for inflation in yield. Check of a stack in the ancient three sparkle raised thrice taking into consideration a follow up of 6 and first-class.
Canadian fit in and slot machine of Greenfield ethanol Robert Courtier aggress to the order that the point document of small piece is directly relative to the smashed document of fuel in USA and match in Pakistan everywhere energy lack is common. It call for be enjoyable that the bash in the document of small piece has decidedly time to do taking into consideration the true document of the small piece. Robert in the same way foresees corn ethanol as a jump building material towards fiber ethanol, and goal that fiber ethanol call for be able to portray butter of wheat & corn ethanol which s a dreadful source of ethanol production in north America.
Hopes are that for example fiber ethanol comes stylish the flog it call for be able to substitution not only small piece ethanol but in the same way modestly a few petroleum products, this in the same way logo a declare of a happy olive inspire taking into consideration this flash generation of biofuels. Biofuel is in the same way flowering as previous to they are practicing on its third generation in which raw be significant for production is algae.
