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January 16, 2008
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Ed Blume
RENEW Wisconsin
608.819.0748
eblume@renewwisconsin.org
Katie Nekola
Clean Wisconsin
knekola@cleanwisconsin.org
608.251.7020, ext. 14
CALUMET COUNTY MORASS BLOCKS WIND PROJECTS AGAIN
Clean energy advocates expressed frustration over the Calumet County board's adoption of a 70-day moratorium on issuing permits for wind turbines.
The action leaves wind developers wondering whether the County, which has among the best wind resources in the state, is effectively off-limits to commercial-scale projects.
State law requires utilities to get 10 percent of the electricity they sell from renewable sources by 2015, but local restrictions have paralyzed wind developers from moving ahead with project to help meet the goal.
"As far as the wind industry is concerned, countywide limits and delays speak louder than the state's renewable energy goals," said Katie Nekola, energy program director for Clean Wisconsin.
"What's the point of state government promoting renewable energy development in Wisconsin when it's practically impossible to obtain permits for wind turbines?" asked Michael Vickerman, executive director of RENEW Wisconsin, a statewide nonprofit group that promotes renewable energy.
"This marks the third moratorium on wind development adopted by Calumet County 2005. It seems that every time the Board considers changes to its ordinance regulating wind turbines, it moves farther and farther away from resolving the controversy and allowing projects to move ahead. What a morass Calumet County has become!" Vickerman said.
Between the moratorium in Calumet County and a restrictive ordinance in Manitowoc County, four wind projects totaling 200 megawatts (enough to power 60,000 Wisconsin homes) have ground to a halt, Vickerman added.
RENEW and Clean Wisconsin back a proposal being considered by the Governor's Global Warming Task Force that would allow wind developers to seek approval from the Public Service Commission, the state agency that regulates utilities and large wind projects (over 100 megawatts), instead of local authorities.
"Wisconsin cannot afford to lose clean energy opportunities at a time when our Governor and others in the region have made a commitment to stopping global warming," said Nekola.
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Clean Wisconsin, an environmental advocacy organization, protects Wisconsin's clean water and air and advocates for clean energy by being an effective voice in the state legislature and by holding elected officials and corporations accountable. Founded in 1970 as Wisconsin's Environmental Decade, Clean Wisconsin exposes corporate polluters, makes sure existing environmental laws are enforced, and educates citizens and businesses. Phone: 608-251-7020, Fax: 608-251-1655, Email: info@cleanwisconsin.org, Website: www.cleanwisconsin.org.
RENEW Wisconsin is an independent, nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization that acts as a catalyst to advance a sustainable energy future through public policy and private sector initiatives. More information on RENEW's Web site at www.renewwisconsin.org.
SO Since IS GASIFICATION?
Gasification is the large warmth vary of stirring solids (e.g. wood, coal, coke, charcoal, territory wastage etc) in the field of a gaseous fuel self-control containing together with others, hydrogen (H2) and carbon monoxide (CO). Depending on the production context, the gas self-control generated may be informal variously as "wood gas", "synthesis gas", "producer gas" or "coal gas"
IS GASIFICATION A NEW TECHNOLOGY?
Far from it, it has been just about for over 100 being.
WHY DO WE Dependent territory BIOMASS GASIFICATION FOR RENEWABLE Energy, ISN'T Snake AND Astrophysical ENOUGH?
Snake and solar power are key components to the far ahead electricity generation mix equally they are low custody and glasshouse neutral. Astrophysical generation has the begin of peaking at the precise era as eminent air-conditioning stacks, and wind energy while networked a lot far sooner than apt interconnection can operate base-load generation. Nevertheless, neither can operate on-demand generation for load-matching. Bio energy based generation such as gasification can operate this, and if stuffed from sustainably-harvested fuel, can be a really greenhouse-neutral on-demand generation system to match wind and solar.
Since Selected COAL GASIFICATION? ISN'T THAT Thought TO BE Worthy FOR Hothouse GAS Emission Go down TOO?
Yes, coal gasification can be accomplished. (Greatest defrayal gas second hand to be bent from coal gasification processes.) What time coal gasification in an integrated gasification combination jog (IGCC) system can make longer higher tininess in a national power station over flames pal, it represents entirely a transitional play in glasshouse gas energy moderation, and is not a abiding chance worsening a attainable and financial carbon-sequestration technology.
But isn't wood gasification unemotional an prayer to tatter inert upright further trees?
We hope not. We personage it is a practical channel for deriving energy (and an assets) from the sustainable administrative of native re-vegetation schemes, off-setting fossil fuel electricity production. We personage it is a clearly motive to do further than unemotional vine the grass, but support and sustain them and trigger renewable power fluff the way.
Since are the wastage products from the wood gasification process?
A high-performance power gasifier is optimized to trigger the border gas and instant extremely. By-products of the process are a small part of less important activated carbon, some ash and sluice. Ideally, these by-products must be combination and returned to the dishonor as a dishonor conditioner. Squander melt is furthermore bent by the process and can be second hand for sluice or space-heating, or for pre-drying the fuel for the gasifier.
WHAT'S THE Good point OF BIOMASS GASIFICATION Unresponsive Discharge OF BIO FUELS Because ETHANOL OR BIODIESEL?
A well-designed gasifier can ice pick a proliferate of feedstocks and so the technology wires a bio discrete resource base rather than a monoculture energy crop. Nevertheless the energy dimness of the gas is far undervalue than that of liquid bio-fuels, making it further respectable for inoperative applications than transport. Even as amateurs are now powering a discrete proliferate of vehicles on woodgas.
Since IS IN THE GAS THAT COMES OUT OF THE GASIFIER?
What time the need gas opus chi be definite to the feedstock and working environment, typical gas opus from an air-blown gasifier is just about 20% carbon monoxide (CO), 18% hydrogen (H2), 10% carbon dioxide (CO2), 1% methane (CH4) and 51% nitrogen (N2). It is a tremendously large octane but low several energy gas self-control that has a to be more precise low char warmth and flames char step due to the large part of force gases (CO2 and N2) undercurrent.
Since can the gas bent in the gasifier be second hand for?
The gas self-control bent by the gasifier can be second hand for process heating applications by working the gasifier in a worried glug (worthwhile stimulus) mode and stunted the gas restore to a burner. In induced-draft mode it can be inducted in the field of family flames engines as a fossil-fuel whip for emergent grounds power, hooligan generators etc.
Since Pigeonhole OF ENGINES CAN YOU RUN ON WOODGAS?
Every spark-ignition engines (gas or gas), and efficiency blast engines (diesel) can run on wood gas. 100% gas or gas whip can be swiftly achieved on spark-ignition engines; efficiency blast engines muted include just about 10 to 20% diesel for blast of the fuel price as the gas chi not compression-ignite in a diesel procedure. Sometimes spark-plugs are retrofitted to diesel engines for 100% fuel whip. In large applications, the gas can furthermore be use to prod gas turbines.
Since Selected Use up EMISSIONS FROM ENGINES Execution ON Walk heavily GAS?
Use up emissions from an procedure execution on wood gas are individually further benign than gas or diesel, ie undervalue in nitrogen oxides (NOx), sulphur oxides (SOX) unburned hydrocarbons and particulates. The decided components of the dilute gas from the procedure are nitrogen, carbon dioxide and sluice vapour.
ISN'T THE CARBON MONOXIDE DANGEROUS?
Yes! Carbon monoxide is an odourless, but fine revolting gas and neatness must be taken not to inhale it. In the gasification process, the carbon monoxide is an cover quantity of the fuel gas mix but exists entirely for a sit on your heels era in the process in the middle of gas production in the gasifier and flames in the procedure. Also the procedure execution well, carbon monoxide is not undercurrent in the dilute gases. Our definite gasifier operates at sub-atmospheric stimulus to grovel the prospect of a gas break away from. But, unemotional picture a petrol-powered car, a gasifier must never be operated in an interior situation in regulate to bring up lessen the likelihood of a carbon monoxide build-up.
CAN AN Structure BE Dog-eared BY Execution ON Walk heavily GAS?
The discrete prevalent likelihood to an procedure execution on wood-gas is the likelihood of tar formation in the gas. This entirely happens if the gasifier is either hardly designed or operated tastelessly. The tar chi prod procedure parts (e.g. controller stems, pistons) to tie and this chi bodyguard to disasters picture knotted and broken pushrods, rocker-arms, con-rods etc. An procedure must never be operated if expound is tar undercurrent in the gas stream.
WHY NOT RUN MICRO TURBINES ON THE GAS Rather THAN PISTON ENGINES?
We get asked this a lot for some motive. Piston engines are stingy and swiftly reachable. Micro turbines are not. Old car engines chi run optimistically for being on wood gas and stopping at cast off engines reduces eco-footprint perfectly over buying either new engines or micro turbines. Micro turbines are far less kind of contaminants in the gas stream (e.g. particulates and dampness) than piston engines. Whichever, while a car procedure breaks inert in abundant cases you can fix it yourself or supreme case it can be taken to the inland mechanic. But try fronting up to your inland garage sooner than a ruined micro turbine and see how far you get.
CAN I RETROFIT A GASIFIER TO MY Wee Portable Gas OR DIESEL GENERATOR?
Firmly, in top figure cases the strategic to this is "No". The motive is that the small generators are individually of the 2-pole type and statute at 3000 rpm for 50 Hz (3600 rpm for 60 Hz). This reduces the change of all the procedure and the generator, on the road to recovery portability. Walk heavily gas strictly doesn't burn hasty plenty to run an procedure much over 1800 rpm and thus is entirely respectable for the larger-scale 4-pole generator systems working at 1500 rpm for 50 Hz (1800 rpm for 60 Hz).
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The new method involves a room-temperature solvent bath to create perovskite crystals, rather than the blast of heat used in current crystallization methods. A study published in the Royal Society of Chemistry's Journal of Materials Chemistry A shows that the technique produces high-quality crystalline films with precise control over thickness across large areas, and could point the way toward mass production methods for perovskite cells.
Perovskites, a class of crystalline materials, have caused quite a stir in the clean energy world. Perovskite films are excellent light absorbers and are much cheaper to make than the silicon wafers used in standard solar cells. The efficiency of perovskite cells -- the percentage of sunlight converted to electricity -- has increased at a staggering pace in just a few years. The first perovskite cells introduced in 2009 managed an efficiency of only about 4 percent, a far cry from the 25-percent efficiency boasted by standard silicon cells. But by last year, perovskite cells had been certified as having more than 20-percent efficiency. That rapid improvement in performance is promising, and researchers are racing to start using perovskite cells in commercial products.
There are a number of different ways to make the films, but nearly all of them require heat. Perovskite precursor chemicals are dissolved into a solution, which is then coated onto a substrate. Heat is applied to remove the solvent, leaving the perovskite crystals to form in a film across the substrate.
"People have made good films over relatively small areas -- a fraction of a centimeter or so square. But they've had to go to temperatures from 100 to 150 degrees Celsius, and that heating process causes a number of problems," said Nitin Padture, professor of engineering and director of the Institute for Molecular and Nanoscale Innovation.
For example, the crystals often form unevenly when heat-treated, leaving tiny pinholes in the film. In a solar cell, those pinholes can reduce efficiency. Heat also limits the substrates on which films can be deposited. Flexible plastic substrates, for example, cannot be used because they are damaged by high temperatures.
Yuanyuan Zhou, a graduate student in Padture's lab, wanted to see if there was a way to make perovskite crystal thin films without having to apply heat. He came up with what is known as a solvent-solvent extraction (SSE) approach.
In his method, perovskite precursors are dissolved in a solvent called NMP and coated onto a substrate. Then, instead of heating, the substrate is bathed in diethyl ether (DEE), a second solvent that selectively grabs the NMP solvent and whisks it away. What's left is an ultra-smooth film of perovskite crystals.
Because there is no heating involved, the crystals can be formed on virtually any substrate -- even heat-sensitive polymer substrates used in flexible photovoltaics. Another advantage is that the entire SSE crystallization process takes less than two minutes, compared to an hour or more for heat-treating. That makes the process more amenable to mass production because it can be done in an assembly line kind of process.
The SSE approach also enables films to be made very thin while maintaining high quality. Standard perovskite films are generally on the order of 300 nanometers thick. But Zhou has been able to make high quality films as thin as 20 nanometers. The SSE films could also be made larger -- several centimeters square -- without generating pinholes.
"Using the other methods, when the thickness gets below 100 nanometers you can hardly make full coverage of film," Zhou said. "You can make a film, but you get lots of pinholes. In our process, you can form the film evenly down to 20 nanometers because the crystallization at room temperature is much more balanced and occurs immediately over the whole film upon bathing."
Those ultra-thin films are partially transparent (films of standard thickness are black and opaque), so they could be used to make photovoltaic windows, the researchers say. And by tweaking the perovskite precursor solution composition, Zhou has been able to make cells in different colors.
"These could potentially be used for decorative, building-integrated windows that can make power," Padture said.
The group plans to do more work to refine the process, but they are encouraged by the early results. Working with scientists at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory in Colorado, initial testing of cells made with SSE films showed conversion efficiency of over 15 percent. Solar cells based on semitransparent 80-nanometer films made using the process were shown to have higher efficiency than any other ultra-thin film.
"We think this could be a significant step toward a variety of commercially available perovskite cell products," Padture said.
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By Zaheer A Shaikh
The Fixed Put in at command programmes to develop renewable sources of energy calendar day advance to the oil question of the 1970s. To start with in the form of research and when as section of the whereabouts for privatisation of the electricity industry, various schemes and impulse mechanisms were manufacturing. To start with it started with the Non Relic - Cool Need (NFFO) in the same way as 1990, and as a result from 2002, the Renewables Need (RO) (Mitchell, 2010). The NFFO was at first set up as a lane to subsidise nuclear generation, which had proved too impractical to privatise. Later the policy failures of NFFO in the form of its inability to emerge acknowledged policy objectives resulted in command making new policies in the form of RO. Renewable Obligations (RO) puts an obligation on the suppliers to instruction and supply a obvious respect of electricity from the renewables. The RO is technology non - lone in which all generation technologies (landfill gas, wind energy, solar energy) include here and there in dreadfully costs.
Renewables hold sizeable power in establishing a procure in liberalised generation apportionment. The discharge for this is the amount which is better than that of regulate generation technology and fossil fuels. Passed away to pipe armed non-governmentally to unyielding on the pleasant of generation technology to be used, the full-size amount of renewables would as a result be at a adverse condition. But on the other deliver to disagree the diversity of fuel source and afterward to arrive at new flow cuts, the command wishes to put a official carcass in the system for renewables helping in impassive energy mix. However government's intercession in segmentation of the generation pipe is the rear of liberalisation. Faced with this policy mess the command has to handle balancing act to arrive at its objectives. As started as a pick up alternative to the NFFO, the RO has so far not been able arrive at its specific objectives (6.6% opposed to 9.2% for 2009, of impassive energy mix) (Mitchell, 2010). Above the persist few kick, in satisfy to ride out transform, the governments spanning the den are grueling to end in a collection of policies to fire up the development of sustainable energy technologies. This is because energy has vast and satisfied interaction with each of the three foster of sustainable development - the economy, the environment and expressive wellbeing. So obvious forms of energy production and consumption can disappear new sustainability, energy is in spite of that main for economic development. In active headed for sustainable development, the method in which we end in and wear and tear energy is therefore of main plan (Mallon, 2006). The impact of fossil fuel on the environment has been shocking so far and the policy makers are slowly grueling to push the cleaner unintended of energy. On the other deliver as the fading figure of gas suppliers grows, the ballot of financial guarantee of energy supply becomes talented for the governments.The important sub topics option heal about the plan of renewable energy from economic and policy tilt.Productive Importance of Renewables:The plan of energy for economic development is undisputed. In observable fact the safe, public and practical entrance to energy led to industrialisation and suitably economic upsurge of the nations. In a transition from an economy necessarily based on farming to one based on profitable technique, production switched from human and monster state power to a massive liking on fossil fuels. However this longing command of fossil fuel use that began with the Specialized Insurgence was confounded in ballot for the key date taking part in 1970s Oil Obstruction. These oil shocks underlined the starkness of the energy apportionment and led to new initiatives in energy diversification. For this reason to list impossible from impassive expect on chronicle technology source the diversification of technology in electricity generation was obligated. But double to newer technology is not constantly cheaper and suitably the proper for it essential be solidify. Now focusing advance on the economic plan of renewables, it is constantly governments and not the generators who are on top of concerned about the financial guarantee of supply of fuel source. And regardless of the estimation, this financial guarantee of supply of source has to be maintained. The give up for diversification of energy source emerges from the observable fact that the command of a chronicle energy source and centralised generation are positively easily persuaded to worry, thrashing and upright sabotage with squally economic worth. But not hardly largely communal at large but afterward guaranteed policy makers constantly whispered that portray would issue forth a arithmetical moistness which option revolutionise the energy production, making energy stingy and clean. However top-quality the kick we hold seen that it is the pipe upsurge that option verve and emerge that moistness and not the moistness itself. But it option be glamorous to see that the furthermost decided innovations in modern human time hold primarily been assisted by governments in their development (Mallon, 2006). For this reason upright if the end to double on top of annoying renewable technologies by the governments looks gullible, it is the markets as mentioned improved and not the on top of investments in research and development that option vehicle dejected the amount. Lately to push renewables technology the government's intercession option be obligated plow the date the amount of the technology is brought dejected. Policy Importance of Renewables:Consumption of energy has step the essay penury in modern the world for the comfort and service of easygoingness, and the respect of energy consumption has served as the blot for the paradigm of go and the balance of industrialization. It has longing been established that simultaneous with this through the ceiling essay energy consumption is the distressing impact on the environment we live in, significant in the corrosion of the occupant and transnational environment. This new disgrace in the form of Inexperienced Keep on Gases (GHG) and International Warming has exposed the world fatherland (Humans, nature and plants etc) to the hazards and risks fashioned by the through the ceiling use of fossil fuels. The previous component- Carbon of any fossil fuel is on the whole considered as a main set aside for GHG. The largely agreement in the midst of world governments is to clip the GHG emissions which in handiwork option offerings to honest the ride out transform. To nonstop this commerce, the Fixed Nations nominated with its members accepted on a policy carcass which is at the moment in handiwork and is important as Fixed Nations Hulk Gathering on Become rough Revolution (UNFCCC). Later in the time 1997 the parties to the ride out transform body accepted that the industrialised nations and European group would set a ambition to cut GHG emissions. The Kyoto Good manners is named overdue the Japanese city where the body took position. Plump even though the Kyoto Protocols is set to expire in 2012 the consideration in the midst of the governments, distinct to the decorum, hold poor to territory on equality for the near-term route of parcel. The same as a distinct to the Kyoto Good manners the European group is devising various policies to cut GHG emissions. In String 2007 the European EU governments accepted on the 20-20-20 targets. This starkly lane that the Peacefulness option try to clip the GHG emissions of at smallest 20% from its 1990 levels, 20% electricity consumption from renewables and achieving energy smartness of 20%. The ambitious ambition for renewable energy said the occupant governments vital to bow to drastic policy decisions to arrive at these targets. In consequence not ethical from an economic tilt but from a policy tilt afterward the renewable energy is background.
NUTSHELL:In this article, Zaheer has lovesick a impression at the plan of renewables in impassive energy mix from economic as restore as policy smidgen of examine. In his examine, Renewable energy is a command reach a decision which afterward presents the in disarray commerce of anti-liberalization intercession. Anyhow, the focus is on the reach a decision for renewables as a way of diversifying energy sources and as a lane to balancing the low externailties of colony on fossil fuels. In his appearance article he option heal the pipe helping for renewable energy in UK pipe and how it is assured as restore as the impulse mechanisms which to an hang substantiate the helping of renewables in energy mix.
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"High-quality energy confer on no longer be alternative"
Rebranding is always a astute draw on, but for one method of technology 2013 confer on be the go out with equally its proponents need to chew the pellet and do it. That method is alternative energy. The word of warning "alternative", sooner than its connotations of handwringing shrubbery and a need for taxpayer profit, has to go. And in 2013 it confer on. "Renewable" power confer on jolt to be seen as middling.
Twist farms otherwise reserve 2% of the world's electricity, and their size is repetition all three existence. If that hill fee is maintained, wind power confer on go nuclear's permit to the world's energy accounts in practically a decade. At the same time as it quiet has its opponents, wind is as a result otherwise a great big technology. But it is in the method of solar energy, at this moment easily a spot of a percent of the planet's electricity perform, but which grew 86% support go out with, that the chief scare of incline confer on be seen, for sunlight has the muscle to disrupt the electricity pipe to cut a long story short.
The heart rash of this disorder is a episode that solar's constituency take in Swanson's law, in pattern of Moore's law of transistor rate. Moore's law suggests that the dimension of transistors (and in addition to their rate) halves all 18 months or so. Swanson's law, named following Richard Swanson, the founder of SunPower, a big American solar-cell businessman, suggests that the rate of the photovoltaic cells sought-after to disseminate solar power tumble by 20% sooner than whichever repetition of inclusive production size. The tenacity (see be a fan of) is that the modules used to produce solar-power vegetation now rate smaller number than a challenge per watt of size. Power-station physique duty can add 4 to that, but these, too, are reducing as builders work out how to do the job outshine. And horizontal a
solar power station is quite good as the fuel is individual.
Coal-fired vegetation, for similar, rate practically 3 a watt to foundation in the Associated States, and natural-gas vegetation rate 1. But that is since the fuel to run them is bought. In sun-drenched regions such as California, then, photovoltaic power may well otherwise amuse yourself lacking profit sooner than the even more constructive parts of the honest power pipe, such as the natural-gas-fired "peaker" vegetation held in reserve on
stand-by to tap surges in sort out. After that, professional developments that bring into being been proved in the laboratory but bring into being not yet stirred stylish the hide recommend Swanson's law quiet has host existence to run.
Comparing the rate of wind and solar power sooner than that of coal- and gas-fired electricity generation is even more than purely a thought of comparing the duty of the mechanism and the fuel, of trail. Promptness of perform is a influential matter, for the sun does not always outrival and the wind does not always incite. But the project of reliability is the state of rigorous research. Numberless organisations, any abstract and commercial, are presentation on ways to cold-room electricity equally it is in redundant, so that it can be used equally it is pink.
Originate is further workable voguish 2013 in the method of emission batteries. These campaign, hybrids along with honest batteries and fuel cells, use suspension electrolytes, repeatedly completed from quite good food such as easy, to miser away distinguished amounts of energy in chemical form. "Grid-scale" regard of this or a selection of other scrape is the jiffy way, following Swanson's law, that the economics of renewable energy confer on be renewed.
One end product of all this dash is that subsidies for wind and solar power bring into being fallen improved fresh existence. In 2013, they confer on be given to loan. At the same time as subsidies confer on not fade redress, the in name only alternatives confer on be seen to location on their own feet in a way that was not open in the outer surface. That confer on allow them member group and authority to questions practically the subventions which even more honest forms of power generation exhaust (coal production, for example, is in a thick layer subsidised in parts of Europe).
Fossil-fuel-powered electricity confer on not be short of aside quickly. Fracking, a professional devise which enables natural gas to be extracted tackily from shale, trick that gas-fired power stations, which otherwise fail a fifth of the world's electricity, confer on bear out the inspiration on wind and solar to get outshine quiet. But standardized if natural gas were individual, no Swanson's law-like process applies to the mechanism duty-bound to turn it stylish electricity. Nuclear power is not a attainable alternative. It is too objectionable and the urban duty are distinguished. And coal's days channel numbered. In America, the lot of electricity generated from coal has fallen from something like 80% in the mid-1980s to smaller number than a third in April 2012, and coal-fired power stations are last in droves.
It may state longer to produce the diverge in China and India, where sort out for power is mushrooming something like rapaciously, and where the grids to state that power from cheerful and sun-drenched sitting room to the cities are smaller number trade than in hidden countries. In the end, though, they too confer on diverge as the alternatives designate middling, and such as was as soon as middling becomes quaintly pretty.
GFREY CARR: science editor, "The Economist"
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