http://www.cbc.ca/money/story/2009/12/14/f-renewable-diesel-fuel.html
File:Dimethyl-ether-3D-balls.pngDimethyl ether
Dimethyl ether:
The unknown fuel that's gaining fame
Calgary firm's biorefinery could help hard-hit B.C. forest town
Dimethyl ether, or DME, is almost unknown in North America but may soon get a big boost here from new tough emission standards coming to the U.S.
http://cleantechnica.com/category/carbon-emissions/
90% of Coal Plant CO2 Captured in 12-Month TestOctober 9th, 2009
One year ago the French company Alstom began a year-long US test of capturing CO2 from the water+carbon-dioxide mix created using their chilled-ammonia technology, in the smokestack of the Pleasant Prairie Power Plant in Wisconsin.
This week the year’s results were announced. The years average CO2 capture rate was 90%, according to a joint announcement from the EPRI, We Energies and Alstom to the Society of Environmental Journalists.Read the rest of this entry »
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How to monitor leaks from underground carbon storage? Use bees, of course
August 7th, 2009
I came across this press release from the U.S. National Energy Technology Laboratory that talks about a “novel” way to monitor whether carbon dioxide is leaking from underground storage sites used for CCS applications.
Researchers co-injected carbion dioxide and chemical tracers into an underground storage site. The tracer makes it possible to differentiate CO2 from the experiment from naturally occurring CO2. They then placed bee hives about 150 metres upwind and downwind of the site, where CO2 from underground was intentionally released as part of the experiment. The idea is that pollen from surrounding flowers would collect the CO2 and be marked by the tracer. As bees gather the pollen, they bring it back to their hives, where researchers coll
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CARBON CAPTURE PROJECTS $$$$
CCS, the cost, the risk, and the law of unintended consequences
October 11th, 2009
When the Alberta government announced last week that it would be handing over $745 million to Shell Canada so it could move ahead with its Quest commercial-scale CCS project, and when the federal government said it would chip in another $120 million, it didn’t sit well with environmental and energy think-tank The Pembina Institute.
It’s not that Pembina is against developing this technology. What it doesn’t particularly like, and I can’t help but agree, is the fact that the Alberta and federal governments’ are covering two-thirds of the cost for this $1.35 billion project, which will be designed to capture CO2 from the steam methane units at the Scotford Upgrader in Fort Saskatchewan. It’s part of the Athabasca Oil Sands Project, a joint venture among Shell (60 per cent), Chevron Canada (20 per cent) and Marathon Oil Sands (20 per cent).
Why, Pembina asks, are taxpayers covering the majority of a project’s c
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Syngas With Carbon Capture at Cook Inlet
http://greeninc.blogs.nytimes.com/
November 6, 2009
When developers approached Cook Inlet Region Inc., an energy and resource development company in Anchorage, Alaska, with the idea of using underground coal gasification to tap into a huge coal field nearby, officials thought the plan sounded too good to be true.
A well would be drilled into a coal seam deep underground. Oxygen or air would be injected to start a combustion process, and the resulting synthesis gas, or syngas, would be produced through a second well.
Carbon dioxide could be stripped out before burning the syngas to make electricity.
“The more we learned, the more we thought, well, maybe it will work,” said Jim Jager, C.I.R.I.’s director of communications. After turning down proposals to mine coal at the site – Mr. Jager cited a desire not to “ >>>> MORE TO READ >>
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Internet sucks more energy and raises costs too
Though I work on internet and harp but green living, I am clueless about the current total global energy consumption of the internet. How ignorant of me! But the latest study revealed by US Infrastructure has enlightened me with related facts and figures. We all are aware of the soaring energy prices and the attempts by various governments to reduce their carbon footprints. And since internet is
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http://www.americanenergyindependence.com/nuclearenergy.aspx
HYDROGEN GENERATION BY NUCLEAR
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601072&sid=aE3qOXbwd7Kw
EDF, Enel Create Joint Venture for Nuclear Reactors in Italy
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By Tara Patel
Aug. 3 (Bloomberg) -- Electricite de France SA, Europe’s biggest power generator, and Enel SpA created a joint venture to develop at least four new-generation nuclear reactors in Italy more than two decades after the country banned atomic energy production.
Sviluppo Nucleare Italia Srl will be based in Rome and will study building four so-called Evolutionary Power Reactors, EDF and Enel said in a statement today.
“The creation of this joint venture lays the ground for a concrete come back of nuclear in Italy,” Enel Chief Executive Officer Fulvio
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http://greeninc.blogs.nytimes.com/Bloomberg News An international renewable energy group said last week that nuclear power would not be among the technologies it supports.
August 3, 2009,Is Nuclear Power Renewable?
By James Kanter
Many environmental groups are fundamentally opposed to the notion that nuclear power is a renewable form of energy — on the grounds that it produces harmful waste byproducts and relies on extractive industries to procure fuel like uranium.
Even so, the nuclear industry and pro-nuclear officials from countries including France have been trying to brand the technology as renewable, on the grounds that it produces little or no greenhouse gases. Branding nuclear as renewable could also enable nuclear operators to benefit from some of the same subsidies and friendly policies offered to clean energies like wind, solar and biomass.
So far, however, efforts to categorize nuclear as a renewable source of power are making little headway.
The latest setback came last week, when the head of the International Renewable Energy Agency –- an intergovernmental group known as IRENA that advises about 140 member countries on making the transition to clean energy –- dismissed the notion of including nuclear power among its favored technologies.
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http://www.ecofactory.com/news/salazar-halts-sale-uranium-mining-claims-near-grand-canyon-072009
Mon, 07/20/2009EcologyNature Politics
Salazar Halts Sale of Uranium Mining Claims near Grand Canyon
Interior Secretary Ken Salazar temporarily halted new Uranium mining projects in areas adjacent to the Grand Canyon. This temporary measure will keep explorers off these lands for the next two years, but does nothing to stop the existing 10,000 claims on this land, 10% of which are within 5 miles of -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
http://industry.bnet.com/energy/1000452/the-uncertain-business-of-building-new-nuclear/
The Uncertain Business of Building New NuclearBy Chris Morrison January 7th, 2009
A new study on Climate Progress has some surprising conclusions for nuclear power. Final costs for generating power at new plants, the study says, will be 25 to 30 cents per kilowatt-hour, which is some three times the cost of today’s energy.
http://industry.bnet.com/energy/1000971/political-setbacks-but-fewer-people-fear-nuclear/Political Setbacks, But Fewer People Fear Nuclear
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http://www.hyperionpowergeneration.com/
November 14, 2008
Hyperion Power Generation is taking orders for nuclear power plants that can be delivered on a truck.
...Five years from now, for $20 million.
Micro nuke power plants the size of a hot tub would fit in a back yard and power a small town.
only 25 MWe — enough to provide electricity for about 20,000 average American sized homes or its industrial equivalent. Ganged or teamed together, the modules can produce even more consistent energy for larger projects."
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A LIST OF PRO NUCLEAR STORIES --just so i can say i am fair
http://news.google.com/news/story?ncl=http://www.businesswire.com/news/google/20090716005423/en&hl=en
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http://www.scientificamerican.com/blog/60-second-science/post.cfm?id=nuclear-power-could-cost-trillions-2009-06-19
Jun 19, 2009
Nuclear power
could cost trillions over renewables
An analysis by economist Mark Cooper at the Vermont Law School claims that adding 100 new reactors to the U.S. power grid would cost taxpayers and customers between $1.9 and $4.1 trillion over the reactors’ lifetimes compared with renewable power sources and conservation measures.
The analysis factors in studies from Wall Street and independent energy analysts estimating the efficiency of renewable energy at 6 cents per kilowatt hour versus 12 to 20 cents per kilowatt hour for nuclear. Cooper says those costs will fall on either ratepayers through higher electric bills or on taxpayers through large subsidies.
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July 10, 2009, 8:02 am — Updated: 6:43 am -->
Utilities Seek to Halt Nuclear Waste Fee
By Matthew L. Wald
The nuclear industry is contemplating something akin to a rent strike.
Since the early 1980s, utilities have been paying the Energy Department a fee of one tenth of a cent per kilowatt-hour generated in reactors, to fund a nuclear waste repository. In exchange for the payments
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http://greeninc.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/07/09/russians-plan-floating-nuclear-plants/
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Russians Plan Floating Nuclear Plants
An artist’s rendering of a ship carrying twin nuclear reactors (left) supplying an oil-boring platform with electric power.
The United Industrial Corporation, a Russian manufacturer, said this week that the world’s first floating nuclear power plant will go into operation on Russia’s eastern coast by the end of 2012.
----------------------------------------------------Heat shuts down French nuke plants: Who keeps lights on?
Posted by Greenbang on July 3rd, 2009
As reported in the Times Online, EDF has been forced to slow down many of its inland nuclear plants in France as warmer river temperatures have made it more difficult to provide adequate cooling for reactors. As a result, France has had to import as much as 1,000 megawatts of electricity from the UK at peak times to meet its own demand.
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http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/industry_sectors/natural_resources/article6613960.ece
July 1, 2009
UK regulator raises French nuclear concerns
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http://greeninc.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/06/30/big-alaska-looks-to-small-nuclear/
June 30, 2009, 9:18 am — Updated: 1:48 pm -->Big Alaska Looks to Small Nuclear
By Stefan Milkowski
Galena, a village of 580 people on the Yukon River, has been working for years with energy giant Toshiba to bring a small nuclear power plant to their village.
Now a Fairbanks developer, John Reeves, is proposing a somewhat larger plant, designed by Hyperion Power Generation of Santa Fe, N.M., for the Fairbanks area.
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RADIOACTIVE WASPS bug out nuclear cleanup workers; By SHANNON DININNY, Associated Press Writer
YAKIMA, Wash. – If workers cleaning up the nation's most contaminated nuclear site didn't have enough to worry about, now they've got to deal with radioactive wasp nests. Mud dauber wasps built the nests, which have been largely
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090612/ap_on_re_us/us_radioactive_wasps
Russia plans $200-million floating Nuke Plant >
Berzin developed a system that pumps carbon dioxide from conventional electric power plants into a "bioreactor" that contains water and algae -- tiny green plants.John Preston, a senior lecturer in entrepreneurship at MIT's Sloan School of Management, said processes that work well in a lab often hit roadblocks when expanded to an industrial scale. RIGHT >
thefraserdomain.typepad.com/energy/biodiesel/
Hot Fusion in a Can
Richard Siemen, a physicist at Los Alamos National Laboratory, thinks he's found a way to harness the nuclear fusion reactions that power the sun— and do it with a device not much bigger than a beer can
A path to hydrogen fusion: Hot, magnetized plasma is injected into a cylindrical chamber where electric current causes the liner to implode violently. Photo by Los Alamos National Laboratory
Plasmamobiles
Inside the plasmatron, an arc of electricity ignites the air-and-fuel mix into a plasma--a hot collection of molecules, atoms, and electrons. Gasoline, for example, breaks down into hydrogen and carbon monoxide.
REINVENTING THE WHEEL
A flywheel may be the key to a car that's both powerful and efficient.by Will Hively
From the August 1996 issue, published online August 1, 1996
Vortex Induced Vibrations Oscillates Objects in Fluid Currents.VIVACE devices have many potential advantages, which improve installation survivability in the hostile underwater environment and enable low-cost power production by decreasing capital cost and minimizing maintenance.
A prototype underwater generator shows the fluid dynamics that will produce power from slow-moving currents using metal rods suspending near the ocean or river floor.Image courtesy of NOAhttp://www.vortexhydroenergy.com/
http://www.mrrecycle.co.za/news/Unconventional-elect above picture
China's wind-power boom to outpace nuclear by 2020
(Agencies)Updated: 2009-04-20 15:56
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/bizchina/2009-04/20/content_7695970.htm
Thursday, December 6, 2007
Westinghouse gets new AP-1000 order from China
From: International Herald TribuneWestinghouse reactor to power China plantBy Winnie ZhuBloomberg NewsWednesday, December 5, 2007
Thorium Unit ?
nextbigfuture.com/2008/08/hyperion-uranium-hy...
Google Images NUCLEAR
http://images.google.com/images?
www.think-energy.net/electricitycosts.htm
My concerns are Plant Decommissioning cost, accountability, Expense, Raw materials ownership and cost increases, Water Needs, Mining Impacts from 1 pound of uranium from 1Ton of Raw Materials== chemicle leaching is big creates large radioactive waste ponds..The Next Atomic Age: Smarter, Safer Nuke PowerCould nuclear power be the next source of green energy? With the threat of global warming looming and the need for renewable resources pressing, environmentalists are finding an unlikely bedfellow in nuclear power. Click For More.
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