British Telecom gets behind renewable energy
British Telecom has announced a three-year plan to get all of its energy needs from renewable sources – the biggest such project in the world.
Renewable Energy
Wind power can create thousands of manufacturing jobs in hard-hit states
Boosting U.S. wind energy installations to approximately eight times
today’s levels could create 150,000 manufacturing jobs nationwide, with
most jobs being added in the 20 states that have lost the most over the
past three years, according to a report released today by the Renewable
Energy Policy Project (REPP).
IS THERE HOPE FOR HYDROGEN?
Book review of THE HYPE ABOUT HYDROGEN: Fact and Fiction in the Race To Save the Climate, by Joseph J. Romm. (Strong focus in the review on policy.)
Ireland: Wind energy farm plan bites the dust
Plans by a North Cork based company, D. P. Energy Ltd., to develop a wind energy farm on the picturesque mountainside have been given the thumbs down by An Bord Pleanála, and the communities who fought a vigorous campaign against the project now believe it has finally been consigned to the pages of history.
Ireland – Wood Energy tipped for carbon & price benefits
“Wood energy can provide certainty of supply and certainty in price. This is an important message for commercial and industrial customers who are currently exposed to the fluctuations in the world energy markets.
Hydrogen economy looks out of reach
Converting every vehicle in the United States to hydrogen power would demand so much electricity that the country would need enough wind turbines to cover half of California or 1,000 extra nuclear power stations.
Widescale Biodiesel Production from Algae
Article discusses the energy efficiency, large scale production feasibility and cost of biodiesel production from algae, draws favourable comparisions with Hydrogen production and infrastructure costs.
POWER FROM MOVING WATER
The technical and policy difficulties of harnessing ocean energy.
Hydrogen-producing ship will use wind
Bremerhaven, Germany: A former coastal tanker is being adapted for a new role as a wind plant-fitted, hydrogen production ship. Following completion of the conversion scheme by the end of 2004, the 66 m Hydrogen Challenger will be put into service in the German Bight. It will lie off the wind-scoured Niedersachsen coast or in the vicinity of the island of Helgol, produce hydrogen and oxygen through electrolysis, and transport the gaseous cargo to industrial buyers on the mainland.
Change in the Chinese Wind
The world’s largest wind power project will begin construction this month near Beijing, bringing green energy and cleaner air to the 2008 Summer Olympics and city residents coping with some of the worst air pollution in the world.
Australia: PM called talks to derail renewable energy
The Federal Government and fossil-fuel industry executives discussed ways to stifle growing investment in renewable energy projects at a secret meeting earlier this year.
Fuel Cell Celebrates One Year
Fairbanks, Alaska — The University of Alaska Fairbanks and Fuel Cell Technologies of Kingston, Ontario, have announced that the five-kilowatt solid oxide fuel cell installed in Fairbanks has successfully passed the one-year field operational mark.
