An interview with the facilities manager of a large greenhouse operations. Topics covered include the use of biomass energy to create building wide heating. This greenhouse utilizes a Uniconfort G500 Gasifier to generate its winter time heating load.
Duration : 0:2:6
April 1, 2009 – Dan Arvizu, director of the Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory, discusses the current state of renewable energy technology and implementation in the U.S., as well as potential advancements in the near future. The Energy Seminar meets during the academic year on Wednesdays, 4:15 to 5:15 p.m. For a listing of upcoming Energy Seminar talks, please visit the events listing at the Woods Institute for the Environment website.
Stanford University
http://www.stanford.edu
Woods Institute for the Environment at Stanford
http://woods.stanford.edu
National renewable energy Laboratory
http://www.nrel.gov/
Stanford University Channel on YouTube:
http://www.youtube.com/stanford
Duration : 0:59:35
The biggest ever single UK public investment in bioenergy research has been announced today (27 January) by the main funding agency for the biosciences the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC).
The £27M BBSRC Sustainable Bioenergy Centre (BSBEC) has been launched to provide the science to underpin and develop the important and emerging UK sustainable bioenergy sector and to replace the petrol in our cars with fuels derived from plants.
Sustainable bioenergy offers the potential to provide a significant source of clean, low carbon and secure energy, and to generate thousands of new green collar jobs. It uses non-food crops, such as willow, industrial and agricultural waste products and inedible parts of crops, such as straw, and so does not take products out of the food chain.
For more information please see www.bsbec.bbsrc.ac.uk
Duration : 0:9:58
EnviroMission Limited (www.enviromission.com.au) produced this 5 minute video on the pilot plant in Spain. It is an older video (2000) but gives a decent understanding of the solar tower concept.
EnviroMission, Ltd. (US Market: EVOMY, Australian Exchange: EVM) is a renewable energy developer of sustainable “green” energy solutions for the energy market. EnviroMission aims to be one of Australia’s leading producers of clean renewable energy. EnviroMission holds the proprietary rights to Solar Tower technology, a large-scale renewable energy technology based on simple fundamentals of physics — hot air rises. Solar Tower technology has the potential to offer competitive renewable energy with equal reliability to fossil fuel generators.
A single 200MW Solar Tower power station will provide enough electricity to power around 400,000 households. The energy output will represent an annual saving of more than 1,960,000 tonnes of greenhouse CO2 gases from entering the environment when compared to brown coal emissions in Victoria. The greenhouse savings equate to the removal of approximately 500,000 cars from the road. The Australian Solar Tower project consists of six distinct phases, the first two of which (project optimization and pre-feasibility commercialization) have already been completed. The third phase (final feasibility), paving the way for the implementation of the next three phases (final design, construction, and commercial operation).
Duration : 0:4:47
Susan McGinnis anchors this afternoon’s Clean Skies News Energy Report from Washington, DC.
On the program:
-Oil rig explodes off Louisiana coast; 11 missing.
-The Senate Agriculture Committee approves legislation limiting the ability of Wall Street banks to trade derivatives.
-EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson sees a vital role for EPA if the U.S. caps carbon emissions.
-After years of squabbling, A major natural gas deal is announced between Russia and Ukraine.
www.cleanskies.com
Duration : 0:9:5
Using the energy from biomass to generate electricity at the Nanticoke Generating Station
Duration : 0:6:13
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