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Colin Bennett

Russia sets renewable-energy mandates - 0 views

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    Russia has announced plans to increase the share of renewable energy generation from less than 1 percent today to 4.5 percent in 2020.
Hans De Keulenaer

Environmental Capital - WSJ.com : Cheap Carbon Credits: To Japan, From Russia With Love? - 0 views

  • Japan, famous for its hybrid cars and solar panels, may become an environmental pioneer in another sense: buying cheap carbon offsets abroad to minimize the burden on its domestic industry to clean up its act at home.
Hans De Keulenaer

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

  • 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.
Hans De Keulenaer

EU's 'soft power' unprepared for resource conflicts « 3E Intelligence - 0 views

  • The EU is unprepared for future conflicts over energy resources, according to a new report written for the meeting of EU leaders on 13-14 March. The report, seen by the Guardian, predicts that global warming might lead to energy wars, mass migration, failed states and political radicalisation. The report highlights the “scramble” over natural resources from the thawing Arctic region as a potential new conflict area with Russia.
Sergio Ferreira

Only 7 EU countries join International Carbon Action Partnership « 3E Intelli... - 0 views

  • the new international forum links up the EU Commission and seven member states (France, Germany, the UK, Italy, the Netherlands, Ireland and Portugal) with eleven US and Canadian regional states (the likes of New York, Maine, California and British Columbia) to exchange information and best practices about their efforts to create carbon markets through a cap-and-trade system. The bad news: where are the other 20 EU member states? And what about other federal governments such as the US, Russia, China or India?
cuprummoscow NCC

Интерфакс > Сибирь > Точка зрения - 0 views

  • В среде энергетиков мнения об энергосберегающих лампах еще более противоречивы. Информационный ресурс сообщества профессионалов в области устойчивого развития энергетики и энергосбережения Leonardo Energy.ru поместил перевод статьи Стефана Фассбиндера из Института меди Германии, в которой эксперт подробно и доходчиво разбирает все плюсы и минусы энергосберегающих ламп. Так вот, в числе первых - естественно уже упоминаемая энергоэффективность и больший срок службы - в 5-10 раз. Однако работают эти плюсы при определенных условиях. Частое включение-выключение сокращает срок службы КЛЛ: если для лампы накаливания оправданно выключение даже на одну минуту, то КЛЛ после выключения должна постоять в бездействии, по крайней мере, 15 минут. Есть беспокойство по поводу того, что гармоники, создаваемые компактными флуоресцентными лампами, значительно ухудшают качество электроэнергии в сети. Другим побочным эффектом, с которым реально может столкнуться потребитель в жилом помещении - появление гула в громкоговорителях музыкальной системы. В местах, где свет редко включается редко, экономия будет незаметной. Кроме того, если температура окружающего воздуха крайне низкая, то экономная лампа не может достичь оптимального свечения даже после работы в течение некоторого времени. "Любая "ковровая" замена ламп накаливания представляется непродуктивной, - полагает Стефан Фассбиндер, - выборочный запрет также обречен на неудачу из-за возникающих технических проблем и трудности согласования по вопросу, где же провести границу. Переход должен быть делом свободного и обдуманного выбора, и этот процесс уже идет. Что необходимо для его продолжения - это обсуждение возникающих проблем сначала в среде специалистов, а затем с привлечением конечного потребителя".
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      Stefan Fassbinder and Leonardo-Energy.Ru are referred to and quoted by the russian wire service.
Ty LaStrapes

Five Percent of World's Natural Gas Wasted, GE Report Says - 0 views

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    Eliminating Wasteful Global Gas Flaring Could Be the Next Big Energy and Environmental Success Story
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    The losses must be more than that. In addition to flaring, how much gas is lost in the transmission between Russia and Europe, e.g. by leakage or compression?
Hans De Keulenaer

Inhabitat » World's Biggest Building Coming to Moscow: Crystal Island - 0 views

  • Moscow’s rapidly growing skyline will soon feature an eye-popping new addition: Crystal Island, which will be the world’s biggest building when completed. Sir Norman Foster’s mountainous 27 million square feet spiraling “city within a building” will cost $4 billion and it is scheduled to be built within next 5 years.
Energy Net

Peak Energy: Platinum Free Fuel Cells - 0 views

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    Technology Review has an article on new fuel cells that don't require platinum - A Catalyst for Cheaper Fuel Cells. A new catalyst based on iron works as well as platinum-based catalysts for accelerating the chemical reactions inside hydrogen fuel cells. The finding could help make fuel cells for electric cars cheaper and more practical. Fuel cell researchers have been looking for cheaper, more abundant alternatives to platinum, which costs between $1,000 and $2,000 an ounce and is mined almost exclusively in just two countries: South Africa and Russia. One promising catalyst that uses far less expensive materials--iron, nitrogen, and carbon--has long been known to promote the necessary reactions, but at rates that are far too slow to be practical.
Hans De Keulenaer

Energy independence will take commitment like space race - 0 views

  • Today’s energy situation is reminiscent of Soviet cold war times. In 1957, Russia launched the first satellite into space, and in 1961, Yuri Gagarin became the first human in orbit. Afraid Soviet space domination would make our country unable to defend itself, President Kennedy announced Apollo, a 10-year, $100 billion program (in today’s dollars) to land a man on the moon. Eight years later, Neil Armstrong made his “giant step for mankind” and America quickly regained world leadership.
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