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The 2007 Bioenergy Summer Interns conducted a waste audit at the University of Floirda. They collected the biodegradable plates, cups, and forks as well as the thrown-away food from the ‘Krishna Lunch’ served at the University of Florida to study the suitability of the plates for composting and the food scraps for anaerobic digestion into biogas. This video describes the anaerobic digestion of the waste. bioenergy School Website: http://biogas.ifas.ufl.edu/Internship/ UF Biogas Website: http://biogas.ifas.ufl.edu/

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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

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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).

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China and the U.S. are fighting to lead the world in green energy technology, but China is way ahead. Celia Hatton reports on what the U.S. needs to do to keep up.

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A video based on biomass energy as a replacement for fossil fuels such as coal and gasoline. Fossil fuels when burned in homes and vehicles the emissions cause greenhouse gases to build up in the atmosphere which effects the ozone layer and cause climate change and global warming. Global warming causes ocean water levels to rise which causes floods and droughts in some areas. Long term climate change can effect storms causing them to be extreme. Biomass energy and products are produce less greenhouse gas emissions and help maintain a healthy enviroment. The video was created for Natural Science which is an environmental study course at the collegiate level.

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