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Contents contributed and discussions participated by Hans De Keulenaer

Hans De Keulenaer

PickensPlan - 0 views

  • America is in a hole and it's getting deeper every day. We import 70% of our oil at a cost of $700 billion a year - four times the annual cost of the Iraq war. I've been an oil man all my life, but this is one emergency we can't drill our way out of. But if we create a new renewable energy network, we can break our addiction to foreign oil. On January 20, 2009, a new President gets sworn in. If we're organized, we can convince Congress to make major changes towards cleaner, cheaper and domestic energy resources.
Hans De Keulenaer

Electric vehicles in the spotlight | Cleantech Group - 0 views

  • Car makers, electric car chargers, two mayors and one prime minister all made the call for more electric, hybrid and plug-in hybrid cars and an infrastructure to support the vehicles.
Hans De Keulenaer

Bloomberg.com: Exclusive - 0 views

  • July 21 (Bloomberg) -- Andy Grove, the former head of Intel Corp., asked students in his Stanford University business school seminar last year to determine whether an electric car market could thrive in the U.S. Their conclusion: It can't. That propelled the 1997 Time Man of the Year, now retired, on a personal crusade to reshape U.S. energy policy, take on the auto industry and attack America's leaders for risking the nation's security.
Hans De Keulenaer

New Technology Can Turn Heat Waste Into Electricity : CleanTechnica - 0 views

  • Most importantly, the material is most effective between 450 and 950° Fahrenheit. This is a typical temperature range for many power systems, including car engines. Many experts argue that up to 60 percent of a gasoline engine’s energy is lost through waste heat, so a thermoelectric device using lead telluride would be a welcome addition to any car. Such devices have no moving parts; this means that wear and tear is virtually non-existent.
Hans De Keulenaer

Second Strategic Energy Review - 0 views

  • In context of the rapid change in global energy situation, with the main lines of EU energy policy established, both the European Council (March 2008 European Council, Presidency conclusions, par.25) and the European Parliament (European Parliament Resolution (2007)413 "Towards a common European foreign policy on energy") have underlined the importance which they attach to enhancing the energy security of the EU and its Member States and to further developing the external dimension of the EU energy policy. Responding to this, the 2nd Strategic Energy Review to be prepared by the Commission will focus mainly on the related issues of security of supply and external relations.
Arabica Robusta

Biofuels and Food Security should be a very important aspect of this group - 154 views

renewables food bioenergy
started by Arabica Robusta on 13 Jul 08 no follow-up yet
  • Hans De Keulenaer
     
    Thanks for your posts, and for this comment. There appears to be some link between bioenergy development and food prices/shortages, though the 3 links you posted demonstrate already the complexity of the issue.

    Personally, I think that bioenergy, and especially biofuel is largely a dead-end route. It's currently a cure which is marginally better than the disease. The current mainstream for transport appears to be electric and plug-in hybrids, though further development on batteries is needed.

    I may be very wrong, if either of following technologies develops to supply bioenergy on a massive scale:
    - cellulosic ethanol
    - harvesting the energy from algae farms.

    If you'd have to bet between relatively marginal development in battery technology, or producing millions of tons of oil equivalent from algae or cellulose, where would you put your money?
Hans De Keulenaer

How green is your electricity company? - 0 views

  • As you can see, most of the Big Six spend less than a fiver per customer. Of the small independents, Good Energy and Green Energy spent nothing.
Hans De Keulenaer

Austinist: Texas: A Leader In Renewable Energy? - 0 views

  • PUC Commissioner Paul Hudson boasted that this new initiative would have Texas—already the leader when it comes to most megawatts produced—generating more than the 14 next-highest states combined.
Hans De Keulenaer

Is nuclear power essential to addressing climate change and energy independence? - NewTalk - 0 views

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    Calling climate change one of the greatest challenges ever faced by the human race, some former opponents of nuclear power have recently become its advocates, if cautious advocates. Our purpose here is not to debate climate change, but rather "Is nuclear power essential to addressing climate change and energy independence?"
Hans De Keulenaer

IBM to prime pump for smart-grid start-ups | Green Tech - CNET News.com - 0 views

  • The idea is to create a common set of communication protocols and data formats that utilities and smart-grid start-ups can adhere to.
  • The benefit of a more intelligent infrastructure is that load can be curtailed as needed and problems spotted more quickly. By flattening out spikes in demand, utilities may not need to build new power plants, which are expensive and opposed in some places for environmental and health reasons.
Hans De Keulenaer

Trading Suburbs for the City: A Shift Away from the American Car Culture | ce... - 0 views

  • It's called New Urbanism, and Christopher Leinberger, an urban planning professor at the University of Michigan, visiting fellow at the Brookings Institution   and author of The Option of Urbanism: Investing in a New American Dream  , says the movement is changing the American dream:
Hans De Keulenaer

Greek Incentive Program Lures Solar Companies - 0 views

  • Two more North American companies have moved into the Greek solar market in response to the feed-in tariff and grant program passed there in 2006.
Hans De Keulenaer

NASA Maps Reveal Wind Energy Sources - 0 views

  • Efforts to harness the energy potential of Earth's ocean winds could soon gain an important new tool, global satellite maps from NASA. Scientists have been creating maps using nearly a decade of data from NASA's QuikSCAT satellite that reveal ocean areas where the wind resources exist to produce wind energy.
Hans De Keulenaer

Edison Electric Institute promotes energy efficiency: Consumer Reports Home & Garden Blog - 0 views

  • So on July 10, the Edison Electric Institute hosted a lunch at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in New York City. A six-member panel of EEI representatives addressed journalists to discuss "the effort underway to transform the role that energy efficiency plays within the electric power sector," according to the event program.
  • The EEI is the association of U.S. shareholder-owned electric companies, and its agenda is to ensure that its members turn a profit.
Hans De Keulenaer

Feds Propose New Rules For Offshore Energy Projects : Climate Change and Sustainable En... - 0 views

  • The federal government is moving forward with a proposed new set of regulations for "alternative energy production activities" on the Outer Continental Shelf, including offshore wind farms and wave energy projects.
Hans De Keulenaer

The Oil Drum: Europe | Gore sets goal of 100% carbon-free electricity by 2020 - 0 views

  • Al Gore has made a major speech in Washington this morning, setting out an ambitious goal for the USA to produce all of its electricity from carbon-free sources by 2020. I thought I'd comment on the technical feasibility of the plan, and the underlying economics of such an endeavour.
  • The short answer is: while 100% is probably unrealistic, it's not unreasonable to expect to be able to get pretty close to that number (say, in the 50-90% range) in that timeframe, and it is very likely that it makes a LOT of sense economically.
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    An action in the "surfing waves" category?
Hans De Keulenaer

Transport Technologies and Policy Scenarios to 2050 « Free Book Bank - 0 views

  • Transport is one of the major global consumers of energy and therefore has an important role in meeting the primary objective of the World Energy Council, sustainable energy for all.
  • Sustainability is measured in terms of the 3 A’s criteria of accessibility, availability and acceptability, differentiating between the relative importance of different regions.
    • Hans De Keulenaer
       
      An alternative definition of sustainability for consideration.
Hans De Keulenaer

SeaGen tidal power marine turbine plugs into electricity grid | Environment | guardian.... - 0 views

  • An underwater turbine that generates electricity from tidal streams was plugged into the UK's national grid today. It marks the first time a commercial-scale underwater turbine has fed power into the network and the start of a new source of renewable energy for the UK.
Hans De Keulenaer

Gapminder - A Slum Insight - 0 views

  • A Slum Insigt was made for the Wolrd Urban Forum in Vancouver, 2006, by invitation of UNHABITAT.
Hans De Keulenaer

YouTube - Gapcast #10 - Carbon Dioxide - 0 views

  • Everyone contributes to carbon dioxide emissions, but some more than others. Reducing global CO2 emissions requires that we have a good understanding of the current picture. Serious progress can be made if we develop a renewable source of electricity that is cheaper than coal.
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