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Alex Parker

Moapa Southern Paiute Solar Project - 1 views

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    Moapa is the first large-scale solar power project to have gained construction approval on a tribal land in North America.
Alex Parker

Angra-3 PWR Nuclear - Power Technology - 1 views

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    The 1,405MWe Angra-3 PWR nuclear reactor project is on again. The Brazilian Government has announced plans to complete the reactor, which will work alongside the other two at Angra, which is between Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paulo. The project is estimated to cost $5.6bn and is scheduled for completion in 2018.
Alex Parker

UK nuclear waste - where it's generated, contained, transported and stored - 1 views

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    It will be decades before the UK Government builds a long-term storage for the country's radioactive nuclear waste; but where is this waste produced, contained, transported and stored in the interim, and just how much of it is there? Via an interactive map, Future Power Technology, provides the answers to these questions.
Alex Parker

Safety by numbers - delving into 2014 offshore wind health & safety statistics - 1 views

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    The G9 Offshore Wind Health and Safety Association, along with the Energy Institute, has published its first annual incident data report, providing a comprehensive look at health and safety in the offshore wind industry.
Alex Parker

Rodenhuize Power Station - 1 views

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    Rodenhuize power station is an 180MW biomass-fuelled plant located in Ghent, Belgium. The plant was converted from a coal-fired unit called Rodenhuize 4 into a 100% biomass unit.
Alex Parker

Tidal power: Florida's ocean current potential - 1 views

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    As a largely unexplored renewable source, marine and hydrokinetic energy - or ocean power - is gaining traction as the next best thing in the power industry.
Alex Parker

Mill Creek Wind Farm, New Zealand - 1 views

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    Mill Creek onshore wind farm is a 60MW renewable power project being built in Ohariu Valley near Wellington, New Zealand. Construction started in January 2013 and commercial operation started in September 2014.
Alex Parker

Dealing with Corrosion - 1 views

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    Alstom recently announced it was installing a new flue gas corrosion protection system at the Weiher coal power plant in Germany to protect its boiler evaporator walls against corrosion by reduced oxygen potential. With plants expected to run for decades
Alex Parker

Could China lead the Electric Vehicle revolution? - 1 views

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    China has signalled plans to invest $16bn into its electric vehicle (EV) charging infrastructure, a move that could stimulate massive growth in EV sales and help the country cut carbon emissions. We take a look at the project and find out what impact an EV revolution could have on the power grid.
Alex Parker

Kraftanlagen München - 1 views

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    Quality begins with innovation.
Alex Parker

Prepare for takeoff: Quintiq's planning and optimisation software - 1 views

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    What does the future hold for the airport industry? We ask chief operations officer, Arjen Heeres, and business unit director, Marcel Dreef, at Quintiq for their thoughts. In 1997 in the Netherlands, five computer programmers began working on a new scheduling application for an aluminium hot mill operator.
Alex Parker

Sinfonia: energising the European smart city - 1 views

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    The EU-funded Sinfonia smart cities project aims to retrofit more than 100,000m2 of living space in two pioneer districts, optimising technologies for electricity grids and district heating and cooling. At the project's heart is collaboration - the sharing of processes to increase energy savings and develop a coherent framework to expand the use of renewables.
Alex Parker

Fukushima Floating Offshore Wind Farm - 1 views

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    The Fukushima floating offshore wind farm demonstration project (Fukushima FORWARD) serves as a symbol of Fukushima's recovery from the nuclear disaster caused by the earthquake and tsunami in 2011.
Alex Parker

Fuelling solar power through photosynthesis - 1 views

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    Scientists working on an international collaboration to mimic the process of photosynthesis have reached a significant milestone in the quest to develop an efficient and abundant alternative fuel. The results could bring us one step closer to matching plants in their ability to exploit the Sun's energy
Alex Parker

Fighting fossil fuels: divestment movement continues to grow - 1 views

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    In 2012, a new campaign was formed in the US to spearhead the movement to divest in fossil fuels. Fossil Free, a project of 350.org, has since grown exponentially, claiming last year that organisations - ranging from healthcare, religious groups, universities and local governments
Alex Parker

Brits abroad - finding cleantech investment in Silicon Valley - 1 views

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    Breaking foreign markets and securing foreign finance is vital for many UK-based cleantech start-ups, but how should such companies go about selling their products overseas?
Alex Parker

Ageing nuclear plants - are they safe by today's standards? - 1 views

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    Last year the Swiss nuclear regulator requested that the Convention on Nuclear Safety mandate that the safety of existing nuclear power plants should be in line with standards for new nuclear power plants. In February the Convention declined. Was it right to do so?
Alex Parker

March's top stories: China plans space power station, E.ON to shut German plants - 1 views

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    China intends to develop a solar power station in space as part of its efforts to cut down greenhouse gases and tackle energy shortage, and E.ON plans to take two of its gas-fired power plants in Germany offline due to unprofitability.
Alex Parker

Wearable wars: How do new Android Wear updates compare to Apple Watch? - 1 views

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    List: Motion gestures, voice commands and Bluetooth calls. The wearables market has had a more rocky start than companies were hoping for. Alongside the usual issues involved with launching a new product category, such as ironing out the user experience and finding effective branding, one of the big hurdles is inventing a series of use-cases that makes people need a smartwatch.
Mark Kabbbash

New Plant - Some of the highest quality diesel fuel in the world from Animal Fat. - 9 views

  • Operations are underway at the new Dynamic Fuels plant, which is successfully converting animal fats and greases into high quality renewable fuels, officials from Syntroleum Corporation (NASDAQ: SYNM) and Tyson Foods, Inc. (NYSE: TSN) announced today. Production began in early October and the volume being produced is 2,500 barrels per day and growing.
  • Gary Roth, chief executive officer of Syntroleum, said, "Our U.S. plant is producing some of the highest quality diesel fuel in the world, and best of all, it is renewable with a carbon footprint 75% below that of petroleum diesel. We can also make renewable, high value specialty distillate products that can be used in a wide variety of applications such as dry cleaning, ink cartridges and drilling fluids, and we are actively pursuing these markets."
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    This is an excellent means to create (reuse?) Check this video out ...
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    I do not like this idea at all, Green energy should come with minimal harm. Not more insensitive, inhumane farming. This Biodiesel will be another reason for human exploitation on animals. There are better less cruel ways available. l
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