Saturday, July 31, 2010

Gulf Coast Officials Believe Cement Will Permanently Kill Deep Horizon Well

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The New York Times reports that officials in the Gulf Coast region believe the well will be finally capped for good.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/01/us/01spill.html?_r=1

Google Alert - hydrogen, wind, power

 

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From: Google Alerts
Sent: Saturday, July 31, 2010 6:13 AM
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News

1 new result for hydrogen, wind, power

 

Many questions raised about hydrogen cars
Allentown Morning Call
... on the way to deriving hydrogen from renewable sources such as solar, wind and wave energy. ... and are viable for small power consumption applications. ...

 

Friday, July 30, 2010

Google Alert - hydrogen, wind, power

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From: Google Alerts
Sent: Friday, July 30, 2010 6:11 AM
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News

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Innovativ AG
SustainableBusiness.com
New High-Performance, net-independent, noiseless, 10 MW, superior Wind Tower Power Plant with Hydrogen Storage. After more than a 10-year research and ...

Not the city's business
Belleville News Democrat
It is time to start doing things smart and quit worrying about someone's view and if he can see solar panels or a wind turbine providing the power. ...

A proposed flow battery for grid-scale storage gets $1.6 million ...
Nanowerk LLC
"At the end of the project, we expect to have a high power, high efficiency ... For the electrochemical reactions, hydrogen and bromine are both inexpensive ...


Nanowerk LLC

 

Thursday, July 29, 2010

Google Alert - hydrogen, wind, power

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Sent: Thursday, July 29, 2010 6:11 AM
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2 new results for hydrogen, wind, power

 

OSU engineers turning sewage into energy
kgw.com
You've heard about solar, wind, even wave power. ... also be adapted to generate hydrogen gas which could power hydrogen fuel cells in cars in the future. ...

Ballard Reports Second Quarter 2010 Results
MSN Money
Deployment of Dantherm Power backup power systems in the Wind Mobile telecom .... due to shipments of 368 hydrogen-based units to IdaTech, LLC for India. ...

 

Google Alert - hydrogen, wind, power

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Sent: Wednesday, July 28, 2010 6:12 AM
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1 new result for hydrogen, wind, power

 

Five Alternate Energy Sources You Might not have Heard of.
Xomba
Like solar, wind power is old news. The amount of energy a wind turbine on the ground can ... The same reactors then split water into oxygen and hydrogen. ...


Xomba

 

Tuesday, July 27, 2010

FW: Google Alert - hydrogen, wind, power

 

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From: Google Alerts  
Sent: Tuesday, July 27, 2010 6:11 AM
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News

4 new results for hydrogen, wind, power

 

Experts Fuss Over Cost Of Nuclear Fusion Research
NPR
The idea is simple: If two hydrogen nuclei approach each other quickly enough, ... other sustainable sources of energy — such as solar and wind power. ...


NPR

New Plane's Only Exhaust is Water
Care2.com
The new Boeing Phantom plane uses engines which run on hydrogen fuel. ... or wind power, then it could reasonably be thought of as a green plane. ...


Care2.com

Power from the sea a step closer
The Daily Yomiuri
... can provide a stable supply of power, unlike solar- and wind-powered electricity that ... Desalinized water can be made into hydrogen by electrolysis. ...

Quantum Technologies Completes $10.9 Million Private Placement of ...
PR Newswire
Quantum's wholly owned subsidiary, Schneider Power Inc., ... renewable energy presence through the development and ownership of wind and solar farms. ...

 

New Solar-Electric-Thermal Hybrid Process Could Push Atmospheric CO2 Levels To Pre-Industrial In A Decade

http://gl-zephyr.blogspot.com - Great Lakes Wind Energy, Hydrogen, and Alt-power News

Scientists from George Washington University and Howard University, both in Washington, DC, have advocated a process with the acronym STEP. It would scrub CO2 from the air and turn it into synthetic fuel such as jet fuel or diesel fuel using a 34-50% efficient combination of solar-electric and solar-thermal power.


http://www.physorg.com/news199005915.html

Amazing!

Dan

Friday, July 23, 2010

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Solar apples, hydrogen spies, alternatives for dummies
Greening of Oil
According to ENDS Europe, a leading European environmental news and information service, wind power will be "dwarfing" other renewable energies in the next ...
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Wednesday, July 21, 2010

Google Alert - hydrogen, wind, power

 

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Sent: Wednesday, July 21, 2010 6:11 AM
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In Oregon, Wind Power Surges Disrupting Grid
Slashdot (blog)
How about having a hydrogen electrolysis plant nearby where water can be turned into Hydrogen that can be turned back into electricity during non-peak wind ...
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Tuesday, July 20, 2010

FW: New 'Clean Coal' Plants To Clean Out Suburbanite's Wallets In Chicago West 'Burbs?

Sadly ironic in Batavia's case. In the 1800's, they had three windmill manufaturers there.

Dan




From: Qualogistics@aol.com
Sent: July 18, 2010 6:24 PM
To: aquarianm@gmail.com
Cc: siobhankolar@hotmail.com
Subject: It "sounds like a sequel to the Music Man!"

For your energy blog if you have not added it already. A recent story in the DH. And here is Paul Sjordal's assessment on the topic preceding the link to the article.
 

Clean coal dream a costly nightmare: Five Chicago suburbs and dozens of other Midwest towns in power-plant deal now face the prospect of rising electricity bills "As the Prairie State Energy Campus rises out of a Downstate field, its price tag already has more than doubled to $4.4 billion — costs that will largely be borne by municipalities including the suburbs of Naperville, Batavia, Geneva, St. Charles and Winnetka. The communities are locked into 28-year contracts that will require higher electricity rates to cover the construction overruns, documents and interviews show. Municipal officials told the Tribune they expect costs to soar even higher before the plant begins operating next year. … Each year, it will churn more than 13 million tons of heat-trapping gases into the atmosphere, an amount equivalent to adding 2 million cars to the nation's highways. Most U.S. power plants emitting that much climate-change pollution date to the 1960s and '70s. The pollution also could make the plant more expensive to operate. Climate and energy legislation pending in Congress would slap a price on greenhouse-gas emissions, requiring Prairie State's owners to spend hundreds of millions more a year. Local officials didn't account for those costs when buying into the plant."

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/ct-met-coal-plant-20100710,0,3747005.story

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You are into music more than me so maybe you can confirm this. The above story reminds of the musical/movie (Music Man?) where a "snake oil salesman" of a guy convinces a town to invest all their money into a band. The same has happened here with the above towns and taxpayers having to pay Millions more of their tax dollars because they believed in the fallacy of "clean coal."

#2 Siobhan has some info on an upcoming meeting on the smart grid that should be of interest for your blog on energy. 

Don Kirchenberg
630-853-7650

Google Alert - hydrogen, wind, power

 

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First European Lighthouse Project for Hydrogen Fuel Cars to Launch in Norway ...
FavStocks (blog)
... of onsite production and trucked-in hydrogen, all based on Norwegian electricity of which more than 90% is based on renewable hydro and wind power. ...
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New energy economy
Daily Camera
The Houston-based oil and gas company plans to rebuild the former StorageTek site into a center to research hydrogen fuel cells, solar and wind power, ...
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Monday, July 19, 2010

Google Alert - hydrogen, wind, power

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1 new result for hydrogen, wind, power

 

BP: No plans to sell alternative-energy units
MarketWatch
The company develops solar-power technology and wind-power projects, and also has hydrogen and biofuel businesses. BP has wind farms in seven states, ...
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In Search of the Next Edison
Wall Street Journal
In 2006, with $10 million in seed money, he and his partners started a company to develop a kite-based technology that would make wind power more reliable: ...
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From: Google Alerts
Sent: Saturday, July 17, 2010 6:11 AM
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Wind power to dwarf other RE technologies in 2020
ENDS Europe (subscription)
Unsurprisingly, none of the 13 countries plan to use hydrogen power, a technology expected to make a contribution after 2020. ...
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ENDS Europe (subscription)

 

Friday, July 02, 2010

On A Positive Note, Intel Corp. Is Using One Of My Wind Power Poems...

...In an advertisement promoting the use of Wind energy in Oregon State. (http://gl-zephyr.blogspot.com)

Here's the pertinent e-mail:

"From: MacKenzie, Bill
Sent: July 01, 2010 12:11 PM
Subject: use of your poem

Dan,

Thanks again for giving Intel permission to use your poem, “The Magic of a Breeze”, in another ad promoting wind power. Intel is the largest purchaser of wind power in Oregon and we want to encourage others to follow our example.

Would you be kind enough to reply to this e-mail just giving us written permission to use your poem so I have a record of our conversation? I will certainly make sure to send you a copy of the ad when it is completed, which should be in a couple weeks.

By the way, I think I sent you a copy of the last ad we did with your poem, but attached is another copy in case I didn’t.

Regards,

Bill

Bill
Bill MacKenzie
Communications Manager
U.S. Corporate Affairs, JF3-107
Intel Corporation
5200 N.E. Elam Young Parkway
Hillsboro, OR 97124"



You can view the .pdf version of the ad here: http://ia360703.us.archive.org/14/items/WindPowerAdvertisementmagicOfABreeze/WindAd1.pdf.

Thanks for reading,


Dan

BP Dumping Sand To Cover Up Beach Oil?

The Huffington Post has a story out implicating BP in covering up oil with dumped sand rather than doing a full cleanup. The story on Huffpo can be found here: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/allison-kilkenny/allegations-emerge-bp-is_b_632954.html

Below is the Youtube video related to the story. I don't know enough to tell who's been doing what, but the whole mess is disgusting if you ask me.

Dan