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Hans De Keulenaer

Carectomy.com: Removing Cars from People - Australia Announces World's First Solar-Powe... - 0 views

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cars

shared by Hans De Keulenaer on 08 Feb 08 - Cached
  • The Tindo bus is the stuff of car-free, green, geeky dreams: It epitomizes efficient urban transportation and energy use, and to top it all off, it’s free. Our friends at EcoGeek first tipped up off to the story.
  • Colin Bennett on 08 Feb 08
     
    World firsts are always interesting. Here, a bus network in Adelaide, Australia will operate using a solar photovoltaic system. Of course, the region has enough sun to keep energy levels topped up. In regard to using solar for other city systems, it will be interesting to see how this model works .
Hans De Keulenaer

Environment and business groups call for Australian action on energy efficiency | Energ... - 0 views

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energy efficiency finance

shared by Hans De Keulenaer on 25 Nov 08 - Cached
  • “Australia is an energy-efficiency laggard among developed nations and if the Government is to deliver on its election promise of putting Australia ‘at the forefront of OECD energy efficiency improvement’ it needs decisive efficiency initiatives in addition to an emissions trading scheme,”
  • The paper indicates that Australia has largely untapped its energy saving potential – up to around 70% in the residential and commercial sector and up to 46% in the manufacturing sector.
Colin Bennett

Better Place Goes Down Under to Electrify Australia - 0 views

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infrastructure electric vehicles

shared by Colin Bennett on 23 Oct 08 - Cached
  • Colin Bennett on 23 Oct 08
     
    Better Place announced this afternoon that it is heading Down Under to deploy its electric car infrastructure in Australia. The Palo Alto, Calif.-based startup is working with Australian utility AGL Energy to build an electric car charging grid powered by renewable energy. Macquarie Capital Group will finance the AUD$1 billion ($671 million) undertaking. Starting in the heavily populated areas around Melbourne and Sydney, Better Place plans to have the infrastructure up and running by 2012, when its automotive partner Renault-Nissan will start selling electric cars all over the world.
Sergio Ferreira

EERE News: Solar Cars to Bisect Australia in a Race that Starts on October 21st - 0 views

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cars electric vehicles

shared by Sergio Ferreira on 17 Oct 07 - Cached
  • The 20th-anniversary race will cover 3,010 kilometers—about 1,870 miles—as it heads south through the outback, ending in Adelaide, South Australia, on October 28th (although the first cars should start arriving on October 25th). The event features two classes of solar racers: the "Adventure Class" that features veteran solar cars and the "Challenge Class" that features new cars with more practical features, including upright seating and solar panels that don't exceed 6 square meters in total area.
Colin Bennett

Geothermal explosion rocks green energy hopes - environment - 28 April 2009 - New Scien... - 0 views

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geothermal

shared by Colin Bennett on 28 Apr 09 - Cached
  • Colin Bennett on 28 Apr 09
     
    The bid to produce green power on a commercial scale using heat mined from subterranean rocks - or "hot rocks" - has suffered a major setback, with the breach of a four-kilometre-deep well on Friday in the Cooper Basin in South Australia.
Hans De Keulenaer

Monash University of Australia Innovation for Tripling Energy Conversion in Solar Cells - 0 views

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photovoltaics innovation costs germany efficiency

shared by Hans De Keulenaer on 02 Dec 09 - No Cached
  • Scientists at Monash University, in collaboration with colleagues from the universities of Wollongong and Ulm in Germany, have produced tandem dye-sensitised solar cells with a three-fold increase in energy conversion efficiency compared with previously reported tandem dye-sensitised solar cells.
Hans De Keulenaer

139 Countries Could Transition to 100% Renewable Energy Under New Plan - NBC News - 5 views

www.nbcnews.com/...-energy-under-new-plan-n795086

transition poland australia iceland

shared by Hans De Keulenaer on 15 Jan 18 - No Cached
  • A team headed by Stanford’s Mark Z. Jacobson outlined plans for 139 nations to transition to 100 percent clean, renewable energy by the year 2050.
  • The shift would also allow the countries to avoid the 3 percent they now spend in their Gross Domestic Products to address the costs of air pollution — mainly in the form of higher health care spending.
  • The plan maps each country and the energy sources it would rely on to reach the 100 percent renewable goal. Water-bound and geologically active Iceland would get 28 percent of its power from hydroelectric sources and nearly 23 percent from geothermal. Parched and wide-open Australia would get nearly 45 percent of its power from wind farms. Poland would get nearly two-thirds of its power from the wind.
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  • The paper envisions a world of rapid technological change and a shift in which electricity replaces coal, oil, and gas. Fully implemented, the plans anticipates that 57.6 percent of that electricity would come from solar, 37.1 percent from wind and the rest from a combination of hydroelectric, geothermal, tidal and wave energy.
Hans De Keulenaer

Emerging Energy News: NASA maps reveal ocean wind power hotspots - 1 views

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electricity nasa offshore wind

shared by Hans De Keulenaer on 04 Aug 08 - Cached
  • PASADENA, CALIFORNIA:  The world's most promising regions for offshore wind power have been revealed in satellite images from NASA.  The northern U.S, Canada, UK, Japan and Eastern Russia have the most potential in the Northern Winter, while southern Australia, South Africa, New Zealand and Argentina benefit from the most consistent and powerful winds in the Northern Summer.
Colin Bennett

Cleantech Blog: There's water in dem dar clouds! - 0 views

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desalination wind water

shared by Colin Bennett on 04 Aug 08 - Cached
  • Perth Australia has now established one of the largest desalination plants outside of the Middle East and set up a wind farm to power it.
davidchapman

Technology Review: A Cheaper Battery for Hybrid Cars - 0 views

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batteries hybrid electric vehicles transport

shared by davidchapman on 05 Feb 08 - Cached
  • davidchapman on 05 Feb 08
     
    The future market for hybrid-electric vehicles, at least those that are affordable, isn't necessarily paved with lithium. Researchers in Australia have created what could be called a lead-acid battery on steroids, capable of performing as well as the nickel-metal hydride systems found in most hybrid cars but at a fraction of the cost. The so-called UltraBattery combines 150-year-old lead-acid technology with supercapacitors, electronic devices that can quickly absorb and release large bursts of energy over millions of cycles without significant degradation. As a result, the new battery lasts at least four times longer than conventional lead-acid batteries, and its creators say that it can be manufactured at one-quarter the cost of existing hybrid-electric battery packs.
  • Hans De Keulenaer on 06 Feb 08
     
    Sunset technologies tend to be resilient against reports on their demise. But eventually, they have to go - cf carburators, word processors, ... But some of us have a chance to retire before the lead-acid battery does.
Sergio Ferreira

3E Intelligence : 23% of Chinese CO2 emissions are our responsibility - 0 views

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carbon climate emissions china germany

shared by Sergio Ferreira on 19 Oct 07 - Cached
  • 23% of China’s CO2 emissions in 2004 were due to demand from the West for manufacturing products made in the new economic giant. This 23% is as much as the combined emissions from Germany and Australia and more than twice the national emissions of the UK.
Colin Bennett

1st World Ranking of Clean Energy Technology (CET) Sales - 3 views

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investment germany usa japan china

shared by Colin Bennett on 14 Dec 09 - Cached
  • The current rankings put the US 18th according to GDP (2nd in absolute terms) and the UK is 19th. Australia “squandered an early technical lead in solar energy” and is 28th. Spain is 4th relative to GDP, Finland is 5th and China 6th. In absolute terms, the top ten countries are: 1. Germany, 2. the US, 3. Japan, 4. China, 5. Denmark, 6. Brazil, 7. Spain, 8. France, 9. the UK, 10. Korea.
Hans De Keulenaer

Rhein on Energy and Climate : Bright Prospects for PV electricity - 0 views

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costs norway photovoltaics tutorial

shared by Hans De Keulenaer on 21 Apr 08 - Cached
  • The leading Norwegian manufacturer of photovoltaic cells and panels expects PV power generation costs to decline to only 8 cents/kWh as of 2010, provided installations benefit from at least 1800 hours/year of sunshine. That is the case in the countries around the Mediterranean, the southern parts of the USA, India, China, Australia and many other parts of the planet.
Hans De Keulenaer

Bulldoze old power stations, says adviser - Environment - smh.com.au - 0 views

www.smh.com.au/...1202760399013.html

carbon coal phase-out emissions

shared by Hans De Keulenaer on 14 Feb 08 - Cached
  • COAL-FIRED power stations should not be privatised but bulldozed over the next 20 years to curb greenhouse gas emissions, one of the state's leading energy academics has told the Iemma Government.
  • Hans De Keulenaer on 14 Feb 08
     
    If any country can do it, it should be Australia.
Hans De Keulenaer

Renewable Energy - Home Page - 0 views

www.environment.gov.au/...index.html

renewables resources

shared by Hans De Keulenaer on 09 Jun 08 - Cached
  • Renewable energy is an essential part of Australia’s low emissions energy mix and is important to Australia’s energy security. It plays a strong role in reducing Australia’s greenhouse gas emissions and helping Australia stay on track to meet its Kyoto target and beyond. Australian Government support for renewable energy assists industry development, reduces barriers to the national electricity market, and provides community access to renewable energy.
Hans De Keulenaer

SpringerLink - Journal of Housing and the Built Environment, Online First™ - 0 views

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homes

shared by Hans De Keulenaer on 26 Feb 11 - No Cached
  • The continued outward growth from a central business district has been the dominant characteristic of most cities in Australia. However, this feature is seen as unsustainable and alternative scenarios to contain the outward growth are being proposed. Melbourne is currently grappling with this issue while simultaneously trying to reduce per capita greenhouse gas emissions. Housing size, style and its location are the three principal factors which determine the emissions from the residential sector. This paper describes a methodology to assess the combined impact of these factors on past and possible future forms of residential development in Melbourne. The analysis found that the location of the housing and its size are the dominant factors determining energy use and greenhouse gas emissions.
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