Sustainable Energy | Diigo Group Forum

Superconductor market set for explosive growth?

Mon, 23 Jun 2008 20:11:12 -0000

Energy Technology | post by keulenae on 2008-06-23

I just bookmarked superconductors.org, which appears to be one of the better information sources on superconductivity (though I've not gone in depth). At least, it gives a balanced view, avoids extravagant claims such as that we're going to convert the millions of km of cables and lines to superconductors, while still painting a very bright future for the sector. It appears that the sector may experience explosive growth in the coming decades, and a lot of that is to come from energy applications.

I would appreciate any market figures and forecasts for this technology.
post by keulenae on 2008-06-23

A few things you can do in Diigo

Wed, 11 Jun 2008 20:02:32 -0000

General | post by keulenae on 2008-06-11

Just to alert you to a few things that are possible, and could help all users of this group:

- giving bookmarks a thumbs up. As we're a group of 30-something, with diverse interests, your vote counts. 2-3 members thumbing something up is significant.

- comment on bookmarks: you can add your comments and annotations to existing bookmarks, thereby enriching the library.

Thanks for your consideration.
post by keulenae on 2008-06-11

Tagging & annotation

Tue, 10 Jun 2008 06:57:24 -0000

General | post by keulenae on 2008-06-10

When posting to this group, please tag carefully, and where possible, annotate your bookmark with highlights and comments. Only these bookmarks add value - quality rather than quantity.

Regarding tagging, we spend a lot of time keeping the tag cloud consistent. I've activated the feature to have group tag suggestions. Please bear in mind the following:

- using only lowercase: so germany rather than Germany
- use plural forms where both plural or singular could apply: e.g. cars, batteries, photovoltaics
- use specific tags. Avoid 'energy', 'on', 'of', ... (these are actual tags encountered)

Thanks for your consideration.
post by keulenae on 2008-06-10
Do you mind if I use energy.news

I use this specific tag to identify energy news stories in relationship to automated tag rolls for my website.

Hans De Keulenaer wrote:
> When posting to this group, please tag carefully, and where possible,
> annotate your bookmark with highlights and comments. Only these
> bookmarks add value - quality rather than quantity.
>
> Regarding
> tagging, we spend a lot of time keeping the tag cloud consistent. I've
> activated the feature to have group tag suggestions. Please bear in
> mind the following:
>
> - using only lowercase: so germany rather than Germany
> - use plural forms where both plural or singular could apply: e.g. cars, batteries, photovoltaics
> - use specific tags. Avoid 'energy', 'on', 'of', ... (these are actual tags encountered)
>
> Thanks for your consideration.
post by theenergynet on 2008-06-10
"energy news" is quite OK. Feel free to use it. Thanks for checking first.
post by keulenae on 2008-06-11
Hans De Keulenaer wrote:
> "energy news" is quite OK. Feel free to use it. Thanks for checking first.

Thanks and also for starting up the forums. You might want to see the forums with a quick listing of the tops news coming out on occassion. I'm an active user of http://www.Newsvine.com which is a large international news blog that allows comments after articles as a way to develop conversations between users. Things get quite hot some times, but once people learn how to get along everybody learns a lot. It takes a bit of time mind you, so I wouldn't hold much out for that here, but who knows...
post by theenergynet on 2008-06-11

Activating the forum

Tue, 10 Jun 2008 06:51:23 -0000

General | post by keulenae on 2008-06-10

Dear Group users:

I've activated the forum, which allows posting in 7 categories:
- renewable energy
- energy efficiency, including conservation
- clean carbon: cogeneration, carbon sequestration, efficient combustion, ...
- technology
- environment, including climate
- policy & finance
- projects & programmes

We look forward to your contribution.

Regards,
Hans De Keulenaer
Manager - Leonardo ENERGY Community
post by keulenae on 2008-06-10

Cross Post of stories

Sun, 20 Apr 2008 16:54:24 -0000

no_tag | post by theenergynet on 2008-04-20

Hi Hans:

Thanks for letting me on board.

Do you want me to crosspost all of my alternative energy stories to the group?

I've got about 200 cued to the tag energy.news that I can send over. Might be a few overlaps...
post by theenergynet on 2008-04-20
Sorry for a bit late-ish reply. On this group, we do not mind cross-posting, but we do strive to be selective. I.e. quality rather than quantity. So before posting, please check whether the story's facts stack up, or whether the project is original, or the idea novel.

In other words, we try to avoid PR-type of stories of yet another corporation buying a few carbon credits, yet another municipality jumping on the renewables bandwagon, or yet another harebrained scheme that only exists on a blog.

Another perspective - we like projects, ideas, technologies that push boundaries.
post by keulenae on 2008-06-01
Hi Hans:

Thanks for the reply. Sadly, the Diigo folks have blocked enhanced crossposting to multiple groups, which means its kind of a hassle for me to double post articles. I'm already posting most of my renewable energy stories to eco20/20 .

I will make an effort to double post articles when I remember.

As per this added forum process you might want to moderate conversations here as a way to enhance just a story based posting process. if time permits.
post by theenergynet on 2008-06-01