Magnets For EnergyBioenergy and Biofuels: Biomass Processing for Bioenergy and Biofuels
Written by admin on August 2, 2009 – 3:52 pm -
Shulin Chen discusses the technologies and processes for cost-effective use of crops and agricultural residues for chemicals, fuels, biogas, and other value-added products. Renata Bura talks about the bioconversion of lignocellulosic biomass to ethanol. Sharon Doty
tells how we can enhance the efficiency of biofuel production using endophytic microorganisms, and Phil Malte explains biofuels combustion.
Duration : 0:57:5
Tags: ecology, environment, forestry, sustainability
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Casselman Wind Power Project
Written by admin on June 1, 2009 – 9:39 am -
A short video covering the Casselman Wind Power Project, which has 23 wind turbines, including eight atop a rehabilitated surface mine.
Duration : 0:2:52
Tags: casselman, energy, farm, green, power, project, renewable, sustainability, wind
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WATER WHEELS ALL AROUND THE WORLD
Written by admin on May 11, 2009 – 10:12 am -
http://bbccrazydave.blogspot.com for a full list of blogs. You all ought to know about my obsession with water wheels by now and why oh why do you never hear of them being mentioned in the renewables debate??? You gotta ask yourselves what government objection to eperimenting with this technology is all about, you really do people is it because it would provide greater green energy than they have for their target reductions???????? So email the sustainability committe in your part of the world.
Duration : 0:1:9
Tags: agency, all, America, assembly, blogs, cardiff, china, committee, council, county, crazydave, documentary, eco, education, Educational, Electrical, energy, england, environment, France, Free, freindly, Germany, gotcha!, People, production, renewable, rhumney, river, rivers, round, scotland, sucks, sustainability, teach, the, tidal, to, wales, water, welsh, wheels, world
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Sustainability, climate change and crazy biofuels policy
Written by admin on May 11, 2009 – 10:11 am -
http://www.globalchange.com Sustainability and global economic growth, climate change and global warming. Limits to water, food, minerals, energy and natural resources. Scandal of biofuels policy converting food into biodiesel or ethanol for vehicles / cars / aviation. Challenge of demographics and population growth, plus growth of economy in emerging nations. Africa and Asia urbanisation into megacities with huge infrastructure challenges. Global warming science is it correct? Truth about carbon dioxide and global temperature records. Ice cap gas analysis and future predictions for sea level rises, glacier melting, break up of ice caps, changes in Antactica and North Pole. Energy saving innovation and new business opportunities. Electric vehicles, low energy street lighting, carbon capture and sequestration, nuclear fusion, solar, wind, wave and tidal power generation. Changes in EU and US regulation on use of biofuels. Energy subsidies and government policy conforming with Kyoto commitments. Lecture by physician and futurist keynote conference speaker Patrick Dixon for 2008 Stein Am Rhein leadership summit – facilitated by Professor Prabhu Guptara.
Duration : 0:8:41
Tags: biodiesel, biofuels, carbon, climate change, economic, Economy, energy, Global-Warming, government, nuclear, power generation, regulation", science, solar, sustainability, Technology
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Solar Thermal Energy Development: BrightSource Israel
Written by admin on May 11, 2009 – 10:10 am -
BrightSource Energy and LUZ II have created the first Solar Power development Center in the world. Find out why they claim their solar technology is at the top of the market and will compete with fossil fuel.
Duration : 0:2:45
Tags: BrightSource, california, clean energy, electricity, energy, environment, fossil fuel, fossil fuels, fuel, green, heliostats, II, israel, ISRAEL21c, Israeli technology, LUZ, Mohave desert, Negev, oil, solar, Solar energy, solar thermal field, Solar-Power, sunlight, sustainability, sustainable, tech news, Technology, temperature, water
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Solar Technologies
Written by admin on April 16, 2009 – 1:04 pm -
Vice president of research Rick McCullough discusses how Carnegie Mellon can play a key role in solar technologies for the future. From the “Inspire Innovation” areas of excellence videos – for more about Carnegie Mellon’s comprehensive campaign, visit www.cmu.edu/campaign
Duration : 0:1:33
Tags: Carnegie, energy, environment, innovation, Inspire, McCullough, Mellon, Rick, solar, sustainability, technologies, university
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Extrapolate the Past… or Invent the Future
Written by admin on March 10, 2009 – 9:54 am -
Berkeley Lab’s Environmental Energy Technologies Division launches its Distinguished Lecturer series with a talk by Vinod Khosla, founder of Khosla Ventures, whose mission is to “assist great entrepreneurs determined to build companies with lasting significance.” In his October 3, 2008 talk, Khosla discusses his approach to nurturing sustainable industries and technologies that can reduce our impact on the climate. Khosla was also the founding Chief Executive Officer of Sun Microsystems, and …
Duration : 1:3:42
Tags: Change, Climate, Khosla, sustainability
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Increasing Geothermal Energy Production in the United States
Written by admin on March 6, 2009 – 12:48 pm -
Paul Thomsen, Director of Policy and Business Development for Ormat Technologies, discusses the benefits of geothermal power systems, which are independent of the Sun, rain, and wind and which can generate a baseload of energy 24 hours each day.
Duration : 0:1:16
Tags: ACORE, alternative-energy, Barack Obama, clean energy, climate change, DREAM, Energy conservation, energy efficiency, environment, environmental quality, geothermal, Global-Warming, green building, green jobs, inaugural ball, Ormat Technologies, Paul Thomsen, renewable energy, sustainability
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Debate on biofuels
Written by admin on March 6, 2009 – 12:48 pm -
Professor Jepma’s statement: Switching to other fuels as (bio)gas and second generation biofuels could alleviate the pressure on the oil market. Do you agree or disagree? You can go to www.knowledgedebate.org to give your opinion!
Duration : 0:7:27
Tags: bio, biofuels, Catrinus, Debate, economics, energy, environment, fuel, generation, Jepma, Knowledge, oil, RUG, second, sustainability
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CNN : Eco Solutions : Geothermal’s green credentials
Written by admin on February 28, 2009 – 7:24 pm -
CNN
Eco Solutions
2007-11-26
Geothermal energy
Geothermal’s green credentials
Geothermal energy is opening doors to social and environmental sustainability.
CNN’s Hugh Riminton reports
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Credit
http://cnn.com
http://suzlon.com
Duration : 0:2:43
Tags: CNN, earth, eco, energy, environment, geothermal, green, Planet, Solutions, sustainability, suzlon
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