Australia: Energy scheme’s demise ‘threatens wind farms’
Hydro Tasmania says the Federal Government’s decision not to extend the Mandatory Renewable Energy Targets (MRET) scheme will spell an end to wind farm development after 2008.
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Wind: Don’t Let It Happen In The English Countryside
Don’t go down the same route as Germany or you could bitterly regret the devastating effects on the English countryside and its communities. That is the stark message from Germany’s leading protester against windfarms.
Fuel Cells: Ceres to power on to Aim valued at £60m
The problem with previous versions of fuel cells is that they have worked only with hydrogen and have required expensive platinum components. The advantage of the Ceres cell is that it is made largely from stainless steel and ceramics using fairly standard low-cost manufacturing techniques.
It’s time for an alternative fuel
Energy production through oil and gas has already peaked and ‘depletion of resources cannot be solved just by switching over to alternative sources’ said M S Srinivasan, India’s additional secretary of the Union Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas.
Wind farms to produce electricity for Iran
Primarily, it has been figured that some 6500 megawatts of the country’s power output is produced by wind turbines, Iran’s Mehr News Agency said.
Swift route to green energy at home
News organisations worldwide have been waking up to the potential of a noiseless, vibration-free, roof-mounted turbine. The device plugs directly into the home grid, it will retail at around £1,500 and promises to repay that in electricity savings to the average household in the first three years of its 20-year guaranteed life.
Sweden: Nuclear out, wind in (no matter what the people say)
“Nuclear power has run out of steam.” That was prime minister Göran Persson’s conclusion earlier this month when the government announced the decommissioning next year of the Barsebäck 2 nuclear plant. A survey has now shown that most Swedish people think that Sweden should continue to use the nuclear power plants currently in use.
Spain: Wind energy growth and limits
The Spanish wind industry is planning to grow up to 20 to 30,000 MW installed power and they are seeking for offshore platforms, a possible indication that the best fields are reaching a peak in the country.
Over a Barrel
Experts say we’re about to run out of oil. But we’re nowhere near having another technology ready to take its place.
Future looking dim for power-line foes
Hastings Mesa, a rural US town in the San Juan Mountains is fighting to stay off the electricity grid. This low energy testbed community is under threat just as long term energy crises begin to loom on the horizon.
Waving goodbye to oil
Soaring oil prices have convinced governments of the need for a change in energy technology – the race to build wave and tidal stream machines is on.
The technofix isn’t. On “greening the petroleum economy”
Renewable energy works almost solely on the basis of using local resources, and can’t contribute efficiently to a grid in the quantities desired. What Amory Lovins knows, deep down, is that the peak of oil extraction globally will not allow for a transition to a less-intensive energy diet. His plan would have made sense three decades ago, perhaps, when global warming seemed just a theory.
