20 December 2011 http://www.publicservice.co.uk/feature_story.asp?id=17518 ITER Organization’s Krista Dulon gives an overview of how the organisation is paving the way for fusion as a viable and virtually limitless energy source In a global context of rising oil and gas prices, decreased accessibility to low-cost fossil fuel sources, and an estimated three-fold increase in world energy demand [...]
Posts from ‘December, 2011’
£10m cost of turning off wind farms
Wind farm operators are on course to earn up to £10 million this year for turning off their turbines. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/greenpolitics/8978458/10m-cost-of-turning-off-wind-farms.html he rules meant that some renewable energy companies were paid more to switch off their turbines than they would have received from ordinary operations Photo: ALAMY Official figures disclosed that 17 operators were paid almost £7 million for [...]
Kirk Sorensen – Why didn’t molten salt thorium reactors succeed the first time?
CTA says Thorium, abundant and safe nuclear power does not produce plutonium for bombs so the yanks do not want it http://atomicinsights.com/2011/12/kirk-sorensen-why-didnt-molten-salt-thorium-reactors-succeed-the-first-time.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+AtomicInsights+%28Atomic+Insights%29 by Rod Adams on December 23, 2011 in New Nuclear, Politics of Nuclear Energy, Technical History Stories, Thorium Share4 Kirk Sorensen is the founder of Flibe Energy. He has been prospecting in libraries for years to learn more about a path not [...]
Europe: The Waste Management Challenge
http://www.waste-management-world.com/index/display/article-display/0985370589/articles/waste-management-world/opinion/2011/12/Europe__The_Waste_Management_Challenge.html Waste management is a critical European issue. Each year, Europe produces around 3 billion tonnes of waste – equivalent to 6 tonnes per person. Currently, 67% is either sent to landfill or incinerated. Neither of these is a popular means of dealing with waste. Europe’s waste management challenges are moving to a critical stage [...]
Plasma Gasification Finds Favour with UK Environmentalists
http://www.waste-management-world.com/index/display/article-display.articles.waste-management-world.waste-to-energy.2011.08.Plasma_Gasification_Finds_Favour_with_UK_Environmentalists.QP129867.dcmp=rss.page=1.html 03 August 2011 Environmental campaigners in the Southwest of England say that plans to incinerate much of the nations rubbish in the future may be misguided, and have promoted alternative treatment technologies. A recent report on BBC news has highlighted one such possibility. Advanced Plasma Power’s Gasplasma process has been demonstrated at a facility in Swindon. Chris [...]
Waste Fuelled Plasma Gasification at Four UK Ports
http://www.waste-management-world.com/index/display/article-display/7881644033/articles/waste-management-world/waste-to-energy/2011/11/Waste_Fuelled_Plasma_Gasification_at_Four_UK_Ports.html CHO’s demonstration facility in Morcenx, France is expected to be commissioned during 2012. In addition to its electrical output 18MW of hot water generated by the process will power a vegetable greenhouse and a wood fire drier 30 November 2011 CHO Power SAS and Sunrise Renewables are to collaborate on a project that will see four plasma [...]
No easy escape from the powers that be
South China Morning Post – 23 Dec. 2011 Everyone is so upset at the greed of the power companies that even chief executive candidate Henry Tang Ying-yen has jumped on the bandwagon. The former chief secretary yesterday denounced the power supply market as uncompetitive and called for it to be opened up. That’s all very [...]
Chief Executive Candidates’ visions on Hong Kong Urban Development
From: Michelle Wong [mailto:mwong@civic-exchange.org] Sent: Friday, December 23, 2011 09:35 To: energy@cleartheair.org.hk Subject: Chief Executive Candidates’ visions on Hong Kong Urban Development 2011.12 NEWSLETTER 下載中文電子報 Follow us on: Facebook | Twitter | RSS | Youtube Season’s Greetings from Civic Exchange! New Year is just round the corner. We wish you a happy 2012! Civic Exchange would like to [...]
A New Technology for a New Green Power
Clear the Air says: We had to correct his English (there instead of their etc) so beware before you invest billions ! From: Kristine Cerny [mailto:alphawolff2@yahoo.com] Sent: Friday, December 23, 2011 09:46 To: chair@cleartheair.org.hk Subject: A New Technology for a New Green Power Greetings; OFFER OF INVENTION An end to coal fired power plants. An end [...]
Pull plug on power duopoly, Tang says
South China Morning Post – Clear the Air says: Tang was extremely silent (without a speech writer) whilst being number 2 in the Administration in his last day job. Now he wants the number one job he is more vocal which suggests he was incompetent in his former job or basically had no say, so [...]