Clean Energy Transition

A similar conclusion was reached by a UK Automotive sector report for UK Govt in support of the Low Carbon Transition Plan published last year.

"Rwanda harnesses volcanic gases from depths of Lake Kivu Project could power Rwanda for decades, while reducing risk of disaster for 2 million people living alongside 'exploding lake'"

Good catch Phil. We like to see things in this group which are the first deployment of a new concept, pushing the boundary for sustainable energy.

"Mission: To promote the implementation of anhydrous ammonia as an affordable, sustainable, carbon-free fuel for transportation and stationary power applications, thereby enhancing economic security, reducing fossil-fuel dependence, and helping save the environment. Anhydrous ammonia is an ultra-clean, energy-dense alternative liquid fuel. Ammonia is the only fuel other than hydrogen that produces no greenhouse gases (GHG) on combustion. Ammonia will power diesel and spark-ignited internal combustion engines, direct ammonia fuel cells, and even combustion turbines. And, ammonia can be manufactured from simply water and air using clean renewable energy."

**Extremely useful comparison + charts** Covers 11 technologies from 6 data sources. Source detail included in appendix. Costs: capital, fixed, operating, learning factor; Technical: size, heat rate, [potential] capacity factor, service life. Note on unit life: not all data sets include this, some run as long as plant is economic (no pre-determined retirement age), can represent max service life or is just used to compute economics (e.g. LCOE).

Recently, the District of Columbia became one of the first government organizations in history to publicly promote its system-wide efficiency. The District started to invest in measures to better understand its use of energy throughout its almost 200 public buildings. By energy benchmarking, it hopes to cut back on its use of electricity, natural gas, and other fuels and consequently reduce its greenhouse gas emissions.

"China, the world leader in wind power by installed capacity, is facing a growing problem with grid connection as more than half of the electricity its wind farms generate goes unused."

Good catch. Such lack of coordinated planning is not unusual in a start-up, but let's hope it will be just that - a temporary mismatch in the synchronisation of planning 2 major infrastructure projects (wind power generation & transmission networks).

This Biolamp is designed in order to convert the CO2 into fuel that can generate the street lamp in entire city road

This latest technology was unveiled during Yokohama Renewable Energy Exhibition 2010 and has proved that it is the most innovative and successful technology for wind turbine

"It is wrong to burn the food of the poor to drive the cars of the rich."

A Renewable World: Energy, Ecology, Equality Free Download http://www.worldfuturecouncil.org/fileadmin/user_upload/_Media/ARW%20text%20complete.pdf Complete text in one file (PDF, 13.2 MB) ISBN: 978-1900322492 Publisher: Green Books Date: September 2009 Price: £14.95 "Here's the book we've been waiting for, a thorough, up-to-date, and above all proportionate response to our climatic predicament. When I say proportionate, I mean: it tells us how to solve the problem we really have, not the one we wish we had. It's truly important!" Bill McKibben, Founder, 350.org

"Let start a civilization which provides for its energy using renewable energy. Our organisation will contribute to reach this goal. We found a appropriate name for our organisation, OliNo, which is a Dutch word joke for No Oil!"

"CarbonCulture is a new initiative started by More Associates for organisations that want to get really good at saving energy and carbon. Structured as a social enterprise, CarbonCulture exists to help all its members find the best 'moves' they can make to save energy and carbon. CarbonCulture will spread that knowledge amongst the membership so we can all get better at saving as quickly and as cheaply as possible. We've been working for some time with pioneers DECC and Defra to design strategies to achieve initial savings." http://www.carbonculture.net/orgs/decc http://www.carbonculture.net/orgs/dcms http://www.carbonculture.net/orgs/cabinet-office http://www.carbonculture.net/orgs/defra http://www.carbonculture.net/orgs/fco http://www.carbonculture.net/orgs/hmrc http://www.carbonculture.net/orgs/hm-treasury

"Shippingefficiency.org is a free-access, beta data-hub designed for ship owners, operators, charterers, ports, insurance companies, shipbrokers and other stakeholders, to factor in vessel efficiency information when making business decisions"

Good catch Phil, and nice efficiency.

If you're serious about cutting your electricity bills, fitting a wireless energy monitor should be top of your priority list. Although we all have electricity meters in our homes, they're no use hidden away in a cupboard only to be read once or twice a year. You need to get in touch with your electricity use and a wireless energy monitor will show you instantly how much electricity you're using twenty four hours a day.

CityTouch, an online urban lighting management system developed by Philips that enables dynamic, intelligent and flexible control on a city-wide scale.

70% energy savings sound good. But how to claim 70% less maintenance costs. Less energy use means obviously less heat and more reliability. On the other hand, this is a much more complex system. It would be good to have an actual user stating this 70% reduction after installing the system and using it for a few years.

Ground Source Heat Pump Installation provides domestic hot water, heating and cooling to homes and commercial buildings using solar power saved in the earths crust.