Wednesday, February 29, 2012

GL-Zephyr: The End of the Coal Era?

From: "Mary Anne Hitt, Sierra Club" <membership.services@sierraclub.org>
Date: Feb 29, 2012 5:56 PM
Subject: The End of the Coal Era?





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Dear Daniel,
I am proud to announce that the Beyond Coal movement is winning: as of today, the 100th coal plant since 2010 -- Portland coal plant in Mt. Bethel, PA -- has announced plans for retirement! Not only that, but our efforts have led to the equivalent of 11 million homes powered throughout the nation by clean energy!   
This amazing milestone, no doubt one of many to come, represents the hard work of our allies and thousands and thousands of concerned residents, like Russell Seal of San Antonio. Russell, a pharmacist and Sierra Club activist, knew the true cost of a local dirty coal-fired power plant, after selling record amounts of asthma medication. He joined a committed group of local volunteers who worked in a large coalition that took their efforts neighborhood by neighborhood to craft a local energy solution.
This grassroots campaign led to an agreement to retire San Antonio's Deely coal plant and invest in a clean energy plan that would create 800 new jobs through new energy investments, including one of the largest solar power projects in American history, a project that will power 90,000 homes!
We're so thankful for your support in these fights across the country -- can you spread the word of our successes and get others involved?
We are winning as city by city, communities are standing up and saying no to coal and yes to clean energy. Public officials and energy utilities are realizing the economics and health problems caused by our addiction to coal just don't add up.1
Millie Manger joined the Beyond Coal campaign when she learned that Washington state's last coal plant, located near her family farm, could be connected to her asthma. People from all over the region joined together to share their stories and experiences with neighbors, health professionals, business people and elected leaders. Eventually with major grassroots efforts, Millie and all the parties worked out a plan to retire one of the largest coal-fired power plants in the country with strong job protections for the local workers while creating a new generation of renewable energy for the Northwest.
Coal-fired power plants across the country contribute to a host of health problems, including respiratory illnesses and asthma attacks, heart disease and cancer. Retirement of these 100 plants is estimated to prevent 2,042 premature deaths, 3,299 heart attacks and 33,053 asthma attacks, according to the Clean Air Task Force. 
We as a nation no longer need to waste our precious resources subsidizing a dangerous commodity; we can instead develop energy that can create jobs while supporting our environment and health.
The Beyond Coal movement has so many hopeful stories likes those of Millie and Russell -- invite your friends and family to help write the next chapter as we shut the door on dirty coal and usher in an energy economy founded on clean energy!
Let's keep up the momentum!
Thank you for all you do for our environment,
Mary Anne Hitt
Beyond Coal, Sierra Club
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Hydrogen power looks to harness the energy of the Corsican sun
The Guardian
In Corsica the 600 megawatts of installed power capacity are largely dependent on oil-fuelled power stations, backed up by a hydroelectric plant and a power line running across the seabed to Sardinia. Solar and wind power play a marginal part, ...
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Tuesday, February 28, 2012

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Fuelling the winds of change for hydrogen-powered cars
Globe and Mail
The New York City area now has a hydrogen production and fuelling station powered by a wind turbine. It's out on Long Island just down the road from where the New York Islanders play hockey in a half-filled arena. Hydrogen fuel cell cars have a ...
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Monday, February 27, 2012

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Forum emphasizes alternative sources to increase energy options, create SC jobs
Sumter Item
South Carolina needs to pursue a wide range of energy options – nuclear power and clean coal as well as renewable power from such sources as solar, wind, hydrogen and biomass – to provide its energy needs in the future and create jobs.
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Friday, February 24, 2012

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Are we running out of options to generate power?
Lankaweb
Even from very early days, we made use of coal, fossil fuels, wind power; water falls to generate electricity and power, not only that biogas and bio fuel, geothermal energy to generate electricity. Then nuclear power, tidal power, hydrogen and solar ...
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Thursday, February 23, 2012

Progress on: Recycling, Fair Trade, & Stopping Dirty Energy

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Dear Daniel A Stafford,

Great news this week from across our green-economy programs…

First off, our Better Paper program director, Frank Locantore, tells me that eight new magazines -- Publishers Weekly, Phi Kappa Tau, Bicycle Times, Dirt Rag, Experience Life, Greenability, Stanford Social Innovation Review, and WellFed -- have started using our Better Paper Eco-Label to clearly show their commitment to using recycled paper. Look for it when you buy magazines, and see below for more from our Better Paper program on our latest award winners.

And what a difference recycled paper makes! If the entire North American magazine industry included a minimum of 30 percent post-consumer recycled paper in their publications, it would save approximately 10 million trees a year – along with delivering big energy, water, and landfill savings.

Second, our Fair Trade director, Elizabeth O'Connell, reports that her trip last week to Hershey, Pennsylvania was a sweet success. On Valentine's Day, Elizabeth joined with our allies at the New York Labor Religion Coalition to personally deliver thousands petition signatures and hundreds of valentines -- made by schoolchildren opposed to child labor -- to members of the Hershey Trust, demanding greater action to get child labor out of Hershey's cocoa supply chain.

Finally, our policy director Fran Teplitz reports that efforts by Green America and dozens of allies working on energy and climate issues succeeded in gathering more than 800,000 signatures last week against a new effort to stop Congress from reviving the approval of the Keystone XL pipeline – a polluting tar-sands pipeline project halted last month by President Obama.

Our work together continues on each of these projects, as we push for a more eco-friendly magazine industry, a more socially just cocoa industry, and a cleaner energy policy for the United States.

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Winners of our 2012 Aveda Award

Better Paper Congratulations to the winners of the 2012 Aveda Environmental Award for Magazines presented by Green America and Aveda. This year's awards go to: Dirt Rag, a leading mountain bike magazine, as the Environmental Award Winner. A shout out goes out to Greenability,Kansas City's green living magazine and GRIT, America's rural lifestyle magazine, who rounded out the top three.

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Keeping the Pressure on Hershey

The kisses are crying. Before Valentine's Day, we told you about how Hershey has made its first-ever public acknowledgement that it bears some responsibility for monitoring the labor practices in its supply chain. The Hershey company has announced that one specialty line of products – the Bliss Bar – among its vast array of products will by the end of 2012 be certified by the Rainforest Alliance.

This is a great first step, but it leaves out the overwhelming majority of Hershey products, and even the Bliss Bar won't be certified by the most rigorous processes available.

That's why we're keeping up the pressure. On Valentine's Day, our Fair Trade director Elizabeth O'Connell met up with teenaged child-labor activist Jasper Perry-Anderson and other allies in Hershey, Pennsylvania to directly deliver more than 16,000 petitions and more than 500 valentines created by schoolchildren, all bearing the message that Hershey needs to do more to combat child labor in its supply chain

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KXL Pipeline: It's Not Over Yet

Stop KXLLast week, Green America was among 30 climate-focused organizations involved in mobilizing citizens to send more than 800,000 messages to Congress saying no to a revived Keystone XL pipeline project. With an initial goal of mobilizing 500,000 people within 24 hours, the push wildly exceeded all our expectations. Thanks to all the Green America members who stepped up to send this big message!

Why the renewed push against Keystone XL after the president struck down the pipeline project ? It's because Senate and House Republicans are leading the charge to force an approval of the pipeline. The House passed legislation last week to increase oil and gas drilling and to undercut the President's decision against constructing the Keystone XL pipeline at this time. The Senate will consider its own provisions soon .

Fifteen of the nation's top climate scientists also added their names to the effort by sending a personal letter to the Senate, urging leadership to abandon the tar sands pipeline because of its impact on the environment and climate. "We can say categorically that this pipeline is not in the nation's, or the planet's best interest," wrote the group, which included Dr. James Hansen of NASA, Dr. Michael Mann at Penn State, and Dr. Ralph Keeling at Scripps Institution of Oceanography.

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February 23, 2012
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· Winners of our 2012 Aveda Environmental Award

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· Keeping the Pressure on Hershey

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· KXL Pipeline: It's not over yet.

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Wednesday, February 22, 2012

Google Alert - hydrogen, wind, power

 

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The Quest for 'Hydricity'
Utility Products
Geoffrey Ballard , founder of Ballard Power Systems, coined a term to describe the new system, "hydricity," a fusion of hydrogen and electricity. Surplus electricity could be used to split water molecules into hydrogen and oxygen, with the hydrogen ...
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Tuesday, February 21, 2012

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Vattenfall Charges Hamburg Buses With Hydrogen From Renewables
BusinessWeek
About 20 buses and several cars a day can be charged with hydrogen from at least 50 percent renewable energy, according to an e-mailed company statement. Storing wind power by converting it to hydrogen “is an important approach that could play a key ...
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Fuel cells boost power-plant efficiency
UPI.com
This technology can be a key to optimizing electricity production until natural resources such as sunlight, wind, rain, tides and geothermal power come of age, Northwestern University materials-science and engineering Professor Scott Barnett says.
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Europe's Largest Hydrogen Refuelling Station Opens in Hamburg
Fuel Cell Today
At the inauguration of the station, Pieter Wasmuth, Executive Vice President of Vattenfall, said that hydrogen storage is a key technology in the integration of a growing proportion of electricity from wind power and photovoltaics into the German ...
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Mixed Greens: Clean power cut carbon in 2011
RenewEconomy
“The industry looks forward to working with all sides of politics to accelerate the roll out of clean energy across the country,” he said. Hydrogen fuel powered by wind? Fill 'er up! Europe's largest hydrogen filling station was opened last week in the ...
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Thursday, February 16, 2012

Google Alert - hydrogen, wind, power

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Analyst View: Integrated Hydrogen and Renewables Projects in Europe
Fuel Cell Today
One of the best ways for us to generate power and fuel our vehicles from an emissions point of view is through a combination of renewable electricity and hydrogen. The European Union has set targets for 2020 for renewables to contribute 20% to the ...
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Wednesday, February 15, 2012

Google Alert - hydrogen, wind, power

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ITM Power and Logan Energy to Cooperate on Scottish Hydrogen Projects
Fuel Cell Today
Scotland has the highest wind energy potential of anywhere in the EU however the large-scale utilisation of intermittent renewables such as wind can lead to grid balancing issues; hydrogen storage is seen as a good solution to such power intermittency.
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Fuel Cell Today

Cold fusion should be part of the energy equation | Opinion
Shore News Today
Solar and wind energy is prohibitively expensive, causing jobs and the economy to suffer. Before oil resources dry up, nuclear, hydrogen or other abundant resources can generate all the energy needed at low cost to the environment and people.
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Tuesday, February 14, 2012

Google Alert - hydrogen, wind, power

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Storage solution for wind power
The Star
By Bob Rae Industrial Editor ITM Power is poised to unveil a breakthrough in the use of hydrogen as a means of storing excess electricity from wind turbines. The Sheffield-based environmentally friendly fuel company has developed a 1 Megawatt hydrogen ...
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ElectroSelf Guarantees Power to a High-Speed Internet System using Renewables
Fuel Cell Today
Electro Power Systems SpA (ElectroPS), based in Turin, has deployed its ElectroSelf 'self-recharging' back-up power fuel cell unit within an agile energy system based on solar and wind power. The system has been fully designed and built by ElectroPS.
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Monday, February 13, 2012

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This Week in Clean Economy: Wind Power Tax Credit Extension Splits GOP
Inside Climate News
Hopes for a key federal wind subsidy get a jolt while other renewable energy industries ask, what about us? By Maria Gallucci, InsideClimate News The wind industry's hopes for extending a key federal subsidy got a sharp jolt in recent weeks.
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Wind Credits Split Republicans
Daily Yonder
Should wind energy get a tax credit? The US Chamber and some Republicans say yes. Other Republicans are opposed. By Maria Gallucci — InsideClimate News The wind industry's hopes for extending a key federal subsidy got a sharp jolt in recent weeks.
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Italian firm pursuing "holy grail" for fuel cells
Fort Worth Star Telegram (blog)
Its systems bundle together fuel cells and an electrolyzer to generate their own fuel, hydrogen. The company's most-recent innovation is hooking the system to wind turbines and solar panels to harness their energy to make the hydrogen.
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Wednesday, February 08, 2012

Google Alert - hydrogen, wind, power

 

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'We could put oil back in ground'
BBC News
By Ken Macdonald BBC Scotland Science Correspondent The sun gives its energy away for free. We can harvest it with solar cells and wind turbines to make electricity. That's the good news. The bad? It's electricity. It's difficult stuff to store and ...
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Air Products' Hydrogen Technology to Surpass Fueling of Over 1000 Material ...
Sacramento Bee
7, 2012 -- /PRNewswire/ -- Today Air Products (NYSE: APD) helps businesses move consumer goods purchased and used every day by providing the hydrogen fueling and infrastructure to power nearly 1000 material handling fuel cell units operating in ...
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Youngsters widen turbines debate
Montrose Today
AN ONLINE campaign started by a group of local young people in favour of GSK's wind turbine plans is gathering steady support. The Facebook page was set up in December with the aim of gauging public opinion on the project to site two 426-feet high ...
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Tuesday, February 07, 2012

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Germany Invests in Hydrogen Technology for Renewable Storage, Vehicles
RenewableEnergyWorld.com
A hybrid power plant sponsored by four large companies is being tested there to see if the plant's wind-hydrogen-biogas technology will work. The system takes wind energy and turns it into hydrogen, which allows it to be stored.
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Peter Hoffmann Responds to Your Questions About Fuel Cells
New York Times (blog)
Wind power as a primary energy source for producing hydrogen, both as long-term utility storage (in aquifers, for instance) for base-load reliability and as transportation fuel, is supposed to get serious tests in Germany starting this year.
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CLC Staples campus to host second Ag & Energy Expo
Monte News
Reese has participated as project manager or coordinator on several renewable energy research and demonstration projects including large scale wind energy, biomass gasification, renewable hydrogen, and other renewable energy systems.
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Air Products' Hydrogen Technology Fueling Material Handling Fuel Cells at ...
Sacramento Bee
Air Products is currently fueling 33 material handling units, with 49 more pieces of equipment to be added in April, and increasing to 184 overall when the facility conversion to hydrogen-powered fuel cell lifts is complete in 2013.
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Monday, February 06, 2012

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wind power
CNET
By building a wind turbine to power a hydrogen production and fueling station, a little hamlet in Long Island is positioning itself as the bellwether for carbon-neutral transportation. The town of Hempstead, New York on Long Island erected a 121 foot ...
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Let's Use Sustainable Renewable Energy Sources
AllAfrica.com
Mr Flavian Nyikadzino Gonese, a Harare energy consultant, said this can be aided by biogas, hydrogen fuel, wind, or solar/wind hybrid renewable energy sources, which can all be developed with measurable success in Zimbabwe. To achieve this, the country ...
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