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Chai Reddy

The Future of Nuclear Energy - Andrew Winston - Harvard Business Review - 1 views

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  • Chai Reddy on 15 Mar 11
     
    " * The Future of Nuclear Energy 3:13 PM Monday March 14, 2011 | Comments (11) * Email * Tweet This * Post to Facebook * Share on LinkedIn * Print FEATURED PRODUCTS Guide to Persuasive Presentations Guide to Persuasive Presentations by John Clayton, John Daly, Isa Engleberg, et al. $19.95 Buy it now » Harvard Business Review on Finding & Keeping the Best People Harvard Business Review on Finding & Keeping the Best People by Harvard Business Review $22.00 Buy it now » HBR's 10 Must Reads: The Essentials HBR's 10 Must Reads: The Essentials by Clayton Christensen, Thomas Davenport, Peter Drucker, et al. $24.95 Buy it now » It's way too soon to say anything definitive about what's going on in Japan. Who really knows what the outcome might be from the frightening breakdown of the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Plant (the radioactive releases could go on for months)? But the speculation about what this means for a much-touted nuclear "renaissance" in the U.S. has begun. As the New York Times reported Monday, "U.S. Nuclear Industry Faces New Uncertainty." Some quick background: For years, no new nuclear plants were built in the U.S. But nuclear power is now being taken seriously again. Roughly 30 to 40 applications for new plants or expansions to existing facilities are moving through the process with the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC). One of the main reasons nuclear is "back" is that it satisfies two very distinct interest groups: (1) pro-energy lobbyists and companies that usually sit on the right (although President Obama has adopted the rallying cry of "all-of-the-above" as an energy independence strategy as well), and (2) those who want to aggressively fight climate change, who usually camp out on the left. In the past, being an "environmentalist" of any stripe meant being anti-nuclear. More recently, however, some high-profile environmentally-minded people, such as Whole Earth Catalog founder Stewart Brand, have been promoting nucle
Chai Reddy

Arnold Schwarzenegger: A Year After Copenhagen, California Shows the Green Revolution I... - 0 views

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shared by Chai Reddy on 18 Nov 10 - No Cached
  • ey spent scores of millions trying to convince Californians that a vote for the environment was a vote against jobs, that a clean energy future would just be too costly. Of course, they cared little about jobs and more about fattening their wallets by peddling dirty energy.
  • Californians were aware that green technology is the only area of our economy creating new jobs right now -- 10 times more jobs since 2005 than any other sector.
  • hey know that 19,000 people are dying in California alone because of smog-related illness, costing many millions in health care.
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  • Oslo, Norway, they have reduced energy consumption by 70 percent simply by using an innovative and energy-efficient form of streetlights without an international agreement. The African region of Okavango planted 300,000 acres of trees, which will sequester 30 million tons of carbon dioxide. The state of South Australia is on track to generate 33 percent of its power from renewable sources by the year 2020. Across its various regions, China is investing billions of dollars in electric and hybrid vehicles. South Africa is developing a solar project that, when complete, will provide one-eighth of all of the energy of the entire country. Twenty-nine of New York City's universities and hospitals have accepted Mayor Bloomberg's challenge to reduce their emissions by 30 percent within the next few years.
  • in California
  • orld's largest solar plant and the world's largest wind farm, providing enough energy to power 740,000 homes. We have already approved solar plants that will provide 4,000 megawatts of energy.
  • goal of generating 33 percent of our energy from renewables by the year 2020.
  • California is now 40 percent more energy efficient per capita than the rest of the United States. More than one-third of the world's clean-tech venture capital flows right here out of our state. We lead the nation in clean energy patents and clean energy businesses.
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Chai Reddy

Teryn Norris: How Energy Reform Can Break the Partisan Stalemate - 0 views

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shared by Chai Reddy on 17 Nov 10 - No Cached
  • President Obama
  • "I don't think there's anybody in America who thinks that we've got an energy policy that works the way it needs to, that thinks that we shouldn't be working on energy independence,
  • Senator Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) quickly agreed. "I think energy is an area where there is potential for a bipartisan accomplishment of some consequence,"
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  • Nobody thinks it is a bad idea to reduce carbon emissions, the question is how do you do it."
  • The Brookings/AEI/Breakthrough report
  • The heart of the plan is to overhaul the U.S. energy innovation system with strategic federal investments in clean energy, on the scale of $25 billion annually,
Chai Reddy

In Reversal, Germany to Close Nuclear Plants by 2022 - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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shared by Chai Reddy on 30 May 11 - No Cached
  • The German government agreed on Monday to phase out all nuclear power by 2022, a sharp reversal by Chancellor Angela Merkel aimed at appeasing the country’s intensified antinuclear movement.
  • We want the electricity of the future to be safe, but also to remain reliable and affordable,” Mrs. Merkel said in a statement on the government Web site announcing the change.
  • The 48-page energy security report submitted Monday took an opposing view, saying the commission was “firmly convinced that an exit from nuclear energy can be achieved within a decade.”
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  • It identified wind, solar and water as alternatives, as well as geothermal energy and so-called biomass energy from waste, as alternative power sources.
Chai Reddy

Seeking Transformational Energy Technologies: Scientific American Podcast - 0 views

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shared by Chai Reddy on 19 Nov 10 - No Cached
  • The hope is that by seeking novel technologies, like turning a bottle of water into an energy storage device , the U.S. can recapture the lead in the "green revolution" underway in the multi-trillion dollar global energy market.
  • After all, European companies dominate renewable energy technologies such as wind turbines or solar thermal power plants . And China is leapfrogging ahead to produce cheap photovoltaic solar cells .
Chai Reddy

Renewable Energy Could Account For 80 Percent Of World's Needs By 2050: UN - 0 views

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shared by Chai Reddy on 11 May 11 - No Cached
  • Renewable sources such as solar and wind could supply up to 80 percent of the world's energy needs by 2050
  • U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change said that to achieve that level, governments would have to spend significantly more money and introduce policies that integrate renewables into existing power grids and promote their benefits in terms of reducing air pollution and improving public health.
  • use of renewables is on the rise, their prices are declining
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  • The report reviewed bioenergy, solar energy, geothermal, hydropower, ocean energy and wind. It did not consider nuclear
  • From 2009 to 2010, Amin said investment in renewables has gone from $186 billion to $243 billion with China alone seeing a 30 percent increase.
Chai Reddy

Wind energy and solar power subsidies face uncertainty - Nov. 18, 2010 - 0 views

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shared by Chai Reddy on 18 Nov 10 - No Cached
  • That's because the government cash it has come to rely on may dry up on Dec. 31.
  • So far, the government has handed out about $5.4 billion, according to the Energy Department.
  • Speaker of the House John Boehner
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  • did say that Republicans support all forms of energy development, including renewables and nuclear power, provided that any money for them comes from expanded domestic oil and gas drilling, a prospect that looks dim.There's another piece of legislation that could provide support for the renewable industry besides the cash grant -- a mandate that would require utilities to buy a certain percent of their power from renewable energy.
Chai Reddy

Google, Tres Amigas Aim To Fix America's Electrical Grid With Novel Technologies - 0 views

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green energy wind google grid

shared by Chai Reddy on 30 May 11 - No Cached
  • Google and other investors plan to build a 350-mile long undersea cable off the Atlantic coast, while Tres Amigas wants to create a 22-square mile superconductor “Superstation” to synchronize the nation's three major electrical grids.
  • Google’s backbone could open up hundreds of miles of ocean territory for offshore wind farms, and the Tres Amigas project would open up wind and solar projects in remote parts of New Mexico and Texas.
  • So far Google has invested a total of $400 million in clean energy projects. Google says it is pursuing the projects both because they make good business sense and because they make the company more environmentally responsible.
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  • The Atlantic Wind Connection project is still at an early stage, and no one knows if Google and its co-investors can pull it off
  • While grid difficulties are not unique to renewable energy, the sector has the most to gain from improvements because wind and solar depend on the weather and thus need to be able to send their extra energy across large distances as flexibly as possible to balance out supply fluctuations, experts say.
  • Tres Amigas is trying to connect the western, eastern and Texas power grids -- an idea the federal government proposed but failed to execute in the 1950s -- with a $1 billion plus project that could ultimately send 30 gigawatts zooming across the country. Because the three grids don't quite operate on the same frequency, Tres Amigas would use novel technology to synchronize the electricity: superconducting high-voltage direct current cables and new computer programs. Power would first need to be converted from AC to DC, then whipped around the superstation on the superconducting cables and finally be converted back to AC to be shipped off to another grid
Chai Reddy

U.S. Said to Be Falling Behind in 'Green' Technologies - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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NYTimes.com u s green china japan korea

shared by Chai Reddy on 09 Jun 11 - No Cached
  • “The United States was a nearly untouched market with 120 million homes, most of them very energy-inefficient — it was a massive opportunity
  • Many European countries — along with China, Japan and South Korea — have pushed commercial development of carbon-reducing technologies with a robust policy mix of direct government investment, tax breaks, loans, regulation and laws that cap or tax emissions. Incentives have fostered rapid entrepreneurial growth in new industries like solar and wind power, as well as in traditional fields like home building and food processing, with a focus on energy efficiency.
  • A recent report by the Pew Charitable Trusts found that while the clean technology sector was booming in Europe, Asia and Latin America, its competitive position was “at risk” in the United States because of “uncertainties surrounding key policies and incentives.”
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  • The aggressive entry of Britain into the field over the last few years shows the power of government inducements to redesign a nation’s energy economy away from traditional fuel. The country’s Green Deal, as it is called, is currently being spearheaded by the Conservative-led coalition government. In Britain, reducing carbon dioxide emissions was one of the few policies supported by political parties of both the right and left, which both accepted that climate change was a serious problem and saw clean technology investment as a growth opportunity rather than an onerous obligation.
  • Dr. Arun Majumdar, senior adviser to Energy Secretary Steven Chu, said that the department’s $5 billion budget for research should be tripled as it currently financed less than 5 percent of proposed projects. He said the country needed better low-cost financing methods to bring companies into the market, as well as stricter energy-efficiency standards to stimulate customer demand.
Casey Agena

Big Wind must be transparent - Hawaii Editorials - Staradvertiser.com - 0 views

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hawaii wind Staradvertiser.com energy renewable

shared by Casey Agena on 20 Jun 11 - No Cached
  • Casey Agena on 20 Jun 11
     
    Wind energy is cited among the green alternatives to fossil fuel, but environmental and community groups are irritated about the handling of a massive project to transmit energy to Oahu from windmills on Lanai and Molokai. They should be provided more access to preliminary work on the plan by state agencies and Hawaiian Electric Co., and hold project members to promises of full access and participation at future venues.
Chai Reddy

How Seawater Can Power the World - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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NYTimes.com Seawater energy nuclear fusion

shared by Chai Reddy on 11 Jul 11 - No Cached
  • nuclear fusion
  • Fusion energy generates zero greenhouse gases. It offers no chance of a catastrophic accident. It can be available to all nations, relying only on the Earth’s oceans. When commercialized, it will transform the world’s energy supply.
  • What has been lacking in the United States is the political and economic will.
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  • Seven partners — the European Union, China, India, Japan, Russia, South Korea and the United States — have teamed up on an experiment to produce 500 million watts of fusion power for 500 seconds and longer by 2020, demonstrating key scientific and engineering aspects of fusion at the scale of a reactor.
  • A rough estimate is that it would take $30 billion and 20 years to go from the current state of research to the first working fusion reactor. But put in perspective, that sum is equal to about a week of domestic energy consumption, or about 2 percent of the annual energy expenditure of $1.5 trillion.
Casey Agena

HR Biopetroleum to buy out partner in algae-to-energy venture - 0 views

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shared by Casey Agena on 27 Jan 11 - No Cached
  • Casey Agena on 27 Jan 11
     
    HR BioPetroleum Inc. said today it will buy out its partner in an algae-to-energy venture in Kona. HR BioPetroleum and Royal Dutch Shell PLC formed the joint venture called Cellana in 2007 to build and operate a demonstration facility to grow marine algae and produce vegetable oil for conversion into biofuel. When the deal closes at the end of the month HR BioPetroleum will become the sole owner of Cellana, including its six-acre facility in Kona.
Intesab Husain

PIR motion sensor, presence detector, occupancy sensor, ultrasonic motion sensor light,... - 0 views

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  • Intesab Husain on 19 Mar 12
     
    PIR motion sensor, occupancy sensor, presence detector, 230v PIR motion detector for energy saving and lighting automation in indoor and outdoor areas of hotel, school, warehouse, office building, car parking areas. Pammvi is dealer of german quality steinel brand PIR motion sensor, occupancy sensor, presence detector, LED lights in India.
Casey Agena

Making Things Cleaner - 0 views

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shared by Casey Agena on 11 Feb 11 - No Cached
  • Casey Agena on 11 Feb 11
     
    Just watched the "Making Things Cleaner" episode of Pogue's (NYT technology journalist) 4-part series on NOVA, and it did a nice job of explaining how some of the newer, sustainable energy sources work -- for the non-scientific minded. May or may not have SGLI application... http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/tech/making-stuff-cleaner.html
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