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Today’s agreement builds on the recently released DOE report 20 Percent Wind Energy in 2030 that examines the technical feasibility of harnessing wind power to provide up to 20 percent of the nation’s total electricity needs by 2030. Most notably, the report finds that by using wind power to meet 20 percent of our nation’s electricity needs, we can eliminate 7.6 cumulative gigatons of CO2 by 2030 and 825 million metric tons in 2030 and every year thereafter.
Under the MOU, DOE and the six turbine manufacturers (GE Energy, Siemens Power Generation, Vestas Wind Systems, Clipper Turbine Works, Suzlon Energy, and Gamesa Corporation) will collaborate to gather and exchange information to define specific needs for achieving 20 percent wind energy by 2030. The MOU addresses the following areas:
- Turbine Reliability and Operability Research & Development to create more reliable components; improve turbine capacity factors; and reduce installation and operations and maintenance costs.
- Siting Strategies to address environmental and technical issues like radar interference in a standardized framework based on industry best practices.
- Standards Development for turbine certification and universal generator interconnection.
- Manufacturing advances in design, process automation and fabrication techniques to reduce product-to product variability and premature failure while increasing the domestic manufacturing base.
- Workforce development including the development, standardization and certification of wind energy curricula for mechanical and power systems engineers and community college training programs.
Read more about ‘20 Percent Wind Energy by 2030.’
Read more information about DOE’s Wind Program.
Full text of the Memorandum of Understanding.
"Sapphire's goal is to be the world's leading producer of renewable petrochemical products," said CEO and co-founder
The
end result -- high-value hydrocarbons chemically identical to those in
gasoline -- will be entirely compatible with the current energy
infrastructure from cars to refineries and pipelines.
Not biodiesel, not ethanol. And no crops or farm land required.
The Sapphire platform offers vast advantages -- scientific, economic and social -- over traditional biofuel approaches.
Company
scientists have built a platform that uses sunlight, CO2,
photosynthetic microorganisms and non-arable land to produce
carbon-neutral alternatives to petrochemical-based processes and
products. First up: renewable gasoline.
Sapphire's scalable production facilities can grow easily and economically because production is modular, transportable, and fueled by sunlight -- not constrained by land, crops, or other natural resources.
Developments require new industrial category: Green Crude Production
In
fact, Sapphire's processes and science are so radical, the company is
at the forefront of an entirely new industrial category called 'Green
Crude Production.' Products and processes in this category differ
significantly from other forms of biofuel because they are made solely
from photosynthetic microorganisms, sunlight and CO2; do not result in
biodiesel or ethanol; enhance and replace petroleum-based products; are
carbon neutral and renewable; and don't require any food crop or
agricultural land.
The
final products meet ASTM standards and are completely compatible with
the existing petroleum infrastructure, from refinement through
distribution and the retail supply chain.
Leadership team stars in their fields
Sapphire's
founders and leadership team includes scientists in the fields of
petro chemistry, biotechnology, algal production, plant genomics, and
biogenetics. ARCH Venture Partners, with a long history of taking
innovative life-science technologies to market, is the founding
investor. ARCH is joined by the Wellcome Trust, the world's largest
biomedical research charity, and Venrock, one of the oldest and most
respected venture capital firms in the country.
Sapphire's scientific supporters include
For more information, visit http://www.sapphireenergy.com and http://www.greencrudeproduction.com.
"It's not food, it's not fuel, it's China," said Jim Lane, editor of Biofuels Digest and author of the report.
The study determined that China's meat consumption since 1995 has increased by 112 percent to 53 kilograms per person per year.
"If the Chinese people had consumed the same amount of meat, per person, in 2007 as in 1995, there would have been enough grain left over to support 927 million people with food for an entire year," said Lane.
The study found that the U.S. increased corn production by 157 million tonnes of corn since 1995. 31 million net tonnes of grain went to support U.S. ethanol production, and 27 million tonnes supported a 15 percent increase in U.S. population during the period. By contrast, the study projected that livestock grain demand to supply Chinese meat consumption increased by 199 million tonnes between 1995 and 2007.
"Given that the U.S. population grew 15 percent, the 82 percent increase in U.S. corn production left plenty for
people, plenty for livestock, and plenty for ethanol," said Lane. "The bad news is that we have a global fuel and food crisis of the first magnitude. The only good news is that it's easier to find a steak in Beijing."
The study tracks the meteoric growth in Chinese meat consumption since 1983, a trend spotted early by commentator Lester Brown in his prescient article "Who Will Feed China?" In 1995, meat consumption was 25 kilograms per person, reaching 31 kilograms by 1999, 50 kilograms by 2000, and is 53 kilograms per person today.
"Chinese meat consumption is still 45 percent less than the average consumption in the U.S.," Lane warned. "An
additional 277 million tonnes of grain would be needed to support China at parity with the U.S. That would take 68
million acres to grow. There isn't that kind of arable land available anywhere is the world, whether we use grains for renewable energy or not."
The study is available for free download at http://www.biofuelsdigest.com.
Biofuels Digest provides a free daily summary of biofuels news via web, email and RSS to subscribers at more than 1500 organizations. The Digest is syndicated on Reuters, Fox Business News and other international media.
CONTACT:
Biofuels Digest
Jim Lane
jlane@biofuelsdigest.com
786-393-8530
Some policy experts argue that blind faith in technology is a harmful distraction from the hard sacrifices needed to control global warming.
"The temptation is to say, 'Let's get John Wayne on horseback or Bill Gates . . . and solve this problem,' " said Dale Jamieson, director of environmental studies at New York University.
But some scientists say that the potential of such ideas cannot be ignored given the world's political paralysis on controlling emissions and its myopic addiction to cheap and dirty coal. LA TIMES
So it's technology VS conservation VS politics...? Or is it all three in balance and harmony? And maybe a few additional ingredients such as education, values and discipline, collaboration, and paying attention to history lessons about how our ancestors lived, thrived, and survived challenges.
Technologists work their way through the "heavy industrial" stage to get to more practical applications of their breakthrough solutions. The cost of that maturation is sometimes born by a society that eventually have to clean up the damage created by this long pathway. When diversity is included, technology solutions can draw on the elegance of nature's design, history lessons, and common sense based on affordability to vett the technology. Great designers have generous doses of those inspirational sources within one person...others work in teams of siblings or families or buddies to balance their perspectives.
But diversity has been shown time and again to be very smart in the solution process. DIVERSITY takes into account the diverse ingredients in reality.
The head of Nissan was interviewed on CNBC in April, 2008 and he stated that hybrids are the best technology today, but the electric vehicle will be the standard by 2010.
I had a call from one of our readers, however, that pointed out that a new energy is hitting the market in 2008...compressed air. And it's not coming from the US or Japan, but those energetic engineers in India. Actually it was developed based on technology as old as the late 1800s, when compressed air was used in street cars and locomotives. By 1932, compressed air cars were cars were build using compressed air -- both 3-wheel and 4-wheel models. And in 1983, Terry Miller patented a car that ran on compressed air.
Compressed Air
This year, 2008, Tata Motors and Motor Development International (MDI) of Luxembourg have jointly developed the world's first commercially-viable prototype of a compressed air car, named OneCAT.Tata Motors is a multinational corporation headquartered in Mumbai, India. It is India's largest passenger automobile and commercial vehicle manufacturing company. Part of the Tata Group, it is one of the world's largest manufacturers of commercial vehicles. www.tata.com
MDI Air Car Designers of the car with a compressed air engine. Includes details of the technology and images of the car. theaircar.com
Zero Pollution Motors - Air Car
This is the expected performance of the revolutionary compressed air vehicle that Zero Pollution Motors (ZPM) is introducing to North America. zeropollutionmotors.us
More info at Wikipedia ... with a whole passel of "future automobiles" listed!NREL's fiber optic hydrogen sensor utilizes a non-ignitable, flexible, thin, glass or plastic, fiber optic strand that transmits light to a thin film material. The material changes color in response to the presence of hydrogen. The CRADA allows NREL and Nuclear Filter Technology to develop a full-scale prototype of this technology, which ultimately will result in commercially available products.
Applications include those for the following industries:
- Petrochemical
- Transportation
- Fuel cell
- Fuel production
- Food processing
- Natural gas
- Nuclear waste
Nuclear Filter Technology is also licensing several NREL inventions related to the fiber optic and thin film materials that sense the presence of hydrogen.
SOURCE: Technology Transfer department of National Renewable Energy Laboratoryfor growth in renewable energy supply.
In 2007, total utility green power sales exceeded 4.5 billion kilowatt-hours (kWh), about a 20% increase over 2006. Approximately 600,000 customers are participating in utility customer choice programs nationwide.
Green Power Marketing Industry
Utility green pricing programs are one segment of a larger green power marketing industry that counts Fortune 500 companies, government agencies and colleges and universities among its customers, and helps support more than 3,000 MW of new renewable electricity generation capacity.Green Marketing Tips
NREL analysts attribute the success of many programs to persistence in marketing and creative marketing strategies, including in some cases, utility partnerships with independent green power marketers. In addition, the rate premium that customers pay for green power continues to drop.NREL performs analyses of green power market trends and is funded by DOE’s Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy.
NREL is the U.S. Department of Energy's primary national laboratory for renewable energy and energy efficiency research and development. NREL is operated for DOE by Midwest Research Institute and Battelle.
Pricing programs give consumers clean power choices
April 22, 2008 -- The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) National Renewable Energy Laboratory's (NREL) annual ranking of leading utility green power programs provides insights into how consumers change their power-use behaviors.Under these voluntary programs, consumers can choose to help support additional electricity production from renewable resources such as solar and wind. More than 800 utilities across the United States offer these programs.
Using information provided by utilities, NREL develops a Top 10 ranking of utility programs in the following categories:
- total sales of renewable energy to program participants
- total number of customer participants
- customer participation rate, green power sales as a percentage of
- total utility retail electricity sales
- the lowest price premium charged for a green power program using new renewable resources.
