Posts Tagged ‘Renewables’

Video-podcast about a panel discussion at the European Patent Forum in Madrid on 28 April 2010

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Under legislation considered by the House today in Tallahassee, the states four investor owned utilities ( FP&L, Progress Energy, TECO, and Gulf Power) would be allowed to raise rates four dollars a month next year to build solar or biomass plants. But as Mike Vasilinda tells us, the legislation does nothing to help eight thousand Floridians who have already installed solar and are waiting for a promised rebate.

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Thursday, January 28, 2010: Policies to promote renewable energy and energy efficiency have been gaining momentum throughout the world, often justified by environmental and energy security concerns. This presentation first talks about energy efficiency options, then delves into the economic motivation for energy efficiency and renewable energy policies by articulating the classes of relevant behavioral failures and market failures. Such behavioral and market failures may vary intertemporally or atemporally; the temporal structure and the extent of the failures are the critical considerations in the development of energy policies. The talk discusses key policy instruments and assess the extent to which they are well-suited to correct for failures with different structures. http://eetd.lbl.gov/dls/lecture-01-28-10-sweeney.html

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Clean Skies News talks energy policy with Ralph Izzo at the 2010 EnergyBiz Leadership Forum. The Chairman, President, and CEO of Public Service Enterprise Group outlines the importance of both a cap-and-trade system to reduce carbon emissions and a renewable electricity standard to boost renewable generation. Izzo also discusses the clean energy policies that he thinks would best serve the utility sector.

Duration : 0:5:27

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A Taskforce on Peak Oil and Energy Security warns that supplies of cheap, easily accessible oil will start to diminish by 2013.

The Taskforce group, which includes Virgin, Yahoo, Solarcentury and transport operator Stagecoach, wants the Government to dramatically increase investment in clean energy and renewables to avoid an energy crisis.

The IEA figures to 2030 are based on the assumption, that governments invest in clean energy and renewables while using coal for liquid fuels, transferring additional transportation fuels to natural gas and fully develop African oil production before a 2015 deadline. The efficiency of used energy must also be drastically improved during the ongoing decline.

Furthermore:
In most cases, basic Victorian engineering skills, adapted in modern industries could improve efficiency by 60-80% as scientist have pointed out in the past. The illusion of unlimited and cheap energy has caused modern engineering to lose these basic skills while planning new projects and industry complexes.

Most industrial energy is wasted on pumping liquids & gases by brute force rather than good engineering.
(I will cut a short video together on that subject)

http://www.iea.org

http://www.worldenergyoutlook.org/

Key Graphs:

http://www.worldenergyoutlook.org/key_graphs_08/WEO_2008_Key_Graphs.pdf

Fact sheets:
http://www.worldenergyoutlook.org/docs/weo2008/fact_sheets_08.pdf

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