 Ocean Power
These photographs show a new wave energy device, the "PowerBuoy" that OceanPower Technologies has tested in the Atlantic and Pacific oceans and is planning to install off the coast of Oregon. A cluster of PowerBuoys taking up only 30 acres of ocean should produce ten megawatts of power. OceanPower Technologies considers it feasible to scale such clusters to 100's of megawatts.
Reference
- OceanPower Technologies
URL » http://www.oceanpowertechnologies.com/index.htm [accessed 2007, June. 24]
IPCC Report "Mitigation of Climate Change"
1pm - 4th May 2007 Bangkok - The IPPCC have just released their Working Group III Report "Mitigation of Climate Change".The report is available at: -
Reference
- IPCC,
URL » http://www.ipcc.ch/SPM040507.pdf
[accessed 2007, May. 5]
Leipzig - 40MW Solar Plant Under Construction
The picture above comes from a Juwi International press release. Juwi have commenced buidling a 40-megawatt solar power system based on thin film technology. Completion is anticipated for 2009. The solar installation will cover an area 1km x 2km. [1]
Reference
- “Worlds Largest PV Power system"
Juwi International Press Release
URL PDF: http://www.juwi.de/international/d1.htm
[accessed 2007, March. 16]
Five Megawatt Wind Turbines
One for Scotland - Two for CuxHaven - Six more on the way!
This picture comes from the REPower Press web page [1]
REpower have installed two of their five megawatt wind turbines off the coast of Cuxhaven, Germany and these are now operating. The first was for the utility EWE AG (Oldenburg/Niedersachsen), the second for the joint venture EWC Windpark Cuxhaven GmbH between E.ON Energy Projects GmbH (Munich) and Essent Wind Deutschland GmbH (Düsseldorf). The opportunity to test these generators has just recently become available after the Infrastructure Act was passed. The installation follows an earlier demonstration of the design in 2006, in a project off the Scottish coast in 44 meter deep water. At least another six of these five megawatt generator installations are planned. [1]
Reference
- REpower Press page
URL » http://www.repower.de/index.php?id=5&L=1
[accessed 2007, Feb. 24]
Australia's First Geo-sequestration Trial
[1]
22nd December 2006. The Australian Co-operative Research
Centre for Greenhouse Gas technologies announced plans to
drill a 2km well in the Otway Basin, Victoria, Australia. Work
will start in early 2007. The project is a trial of carbon
dioxide (CO 2) geo-sequestration, where CO 2 is compressed and
pumped into a well.
Reference
- CO2 CRC Media release “Funding takes Australia’s first
geosequestration project forward”
URL PDF: » http://www.co2crc.com.au/MEDIA/06/SupplementaryBid.pdf
[accessed 2007, Feb. 24]
Algae Converts Waste Carbon Dioxide
This photograph by Donna Coveney comes from the MIT Energy Research Council. It shows an experimental algae system that was set up in a trial to absorb CO2 and other gases from the exhaust of MIT's cogeneration plant. The inventor Isaac Berzin is on the left with Peter Cooper from MIT's Department of Facilities. The tubes to their right contain the algae and water mix which process the exhaust gas.
Photo: Donna Coveney/MIT [1]
This study is now complete and the work is being carried forward by GreenFuel technology. Trials were subsequently carried out at an installation in Phoenix Arizona with the Arizona Public Service Company (APS) and GreenFuel Technologies Corporation. They recently announced the first successful recycling of carbon dioxide from the exhaust gas of a commercial powerplant, into transportation grade biodiesel and ethanol.
Reference
- Nancy Stauffer “Algae system transforms greenhouse emissions into green fuel” MIT Energy Research Council
- GreenFuel Technology » [home page] "Press releases"
» Available: http://www.greenfuelonline.com/press_releases.htm [accessed 2007, Feb. 24]
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