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Alex Parker

Empowering women and girls with clean energy - 1 views

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shared by Alex Parker on 11 Jun 14 - No Cached
  • Alex Parker on 11 Jun 14
     
    Empowering women through clean power technologies has been put firmly on the agenda thanks to recent events held by the United Nations and Ashden Awards. So how is clean tech changing lives and how can it be scaled up to game-changing levels?
Alex Parker

Small modular reactors: the day of nuclear 'plug and play'? - 1 views

www.power-technology.com/...-nuclear-plug-and-play-4257674

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shared by Alex Parker on 08 May 14 - No Cached
  • Alex Parker on 08 May 14
     
    US firm Babcock & Wilcox is developing a small modular reactor.
Alex Parker

Te Mihi Geothermal Power Station - Power Technology - 1 views

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shared by Alex Parker on 01 Jul 14 - No Cached
  • Alex Parker on 01 Jul 14
     
    The 166MW Te Mihi geothermal power plant has been constructed by Contact Energy on the Wairakei geothermal steamfield in Taupo, New Zealand. Construction of the $750m plant was completed in May 2014. The Te Mihi project was part of a $750m programme to develop the Wairakei-Tauhara geothermal system.
Alex Parker

MIXKRET 5 [VIDEO] - Putzmeister Underground - Mining Technology - 1 views

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shared by Alex Parker on 01 Jul 14 - No Cached
  • Alex Parker on 01 Jul 14
     
    Video by Putzmeister Underground: A brief overview of the MIXKREKT 5 underground mining machine from Putzmeister
Alex Parker

The top 10 biggest power companies of 2014 - 1 views

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shared by Alex Parker on 08 Oct 14 - No Cached
  • Alex Parker on 08 Oct 14
     
    Five of the world's ten biggest power companies are based in Europe; the remaining five are all based in the United States. Power-technology.com profiles the world's ten biggest power companies of 2014 based on Forbes calculation of net market capitalisation, assets, sales and profit.
Mark Kabbbash

New Plant - Some of the highest quality diesel fuel in the world from Animal Fat. - 0 views

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shared by Mark Kabbbash on 15 Nov 10 - No Cached
  • 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."
  • Mark Kabbbash on 15 Nov 10
     
    This is an excellent means to create (reuse?) Check this video out ...
eyal matsliah

The No Impact sustainable eating plan - 0 views

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shared by eyal matsliah on 08 Aug 07 - Cached
  • A diet that is local, unfrozen and unprocessed, seasonal, organic or near-organic, has no packaging and is based on mostly grain and vegetables, including little or no beef or dairy
  • Production has its impact by water use, land use, energy use, and herbicide and pesticide use:
  • Eat organic or close to it—to cut down on the chemicals.
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  • Eating seasonally—avoids carbon emissions produced by oil-guzzling boilers used to heat greenhouses and by power plants used to keep things frozen.
  • If  you’re veggie, eat more eggs than cheese—one pound of cheese takes ten pounds of milk to make. It has about the same impact as a pound of beef.  I’ve read that far-away beans as a protein source may be better than local cheese. Eat fresh and seasonal—freezing and keeping food frozen is not so low impact.
  • Bring your own cloth shopping bags and buy loose produce.
  • Distribution means transportation and the average piece of American food has traveled 1500 Miles to get to your plate. I emphasize local because: A regional and local food system would release five to seventeen times less carbon dioxide into the atmosphere than our current national and international model (according to this Leopold Center for Sustainable Agriculture study).
Arabica Robusta

Open the Future: The Earth Will Be Just Fine, Thank You - 0 views

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shared by Arabica Robusta on 23 Apr 08 - Cached
  • Arabica Robusta on 23 Apr 08
     
    We sometimes make the conceptual mistake of thinking that the way the Earth's ecosystem is today is the way it will forever be, that we've somehow reached an ecological end-state. But even in an eco-conscious world, or one devoid of humans entirely, natural processes from evolution to geophysical and solar cycles would continue. The Earth's been at this for a long time, literally billions of years; from a planetary perspective, a quadrupling of atmospheric carbon lasting 10,000 years (for example) is little more than a passing blip. The fact of the matter is that, no matter how much greenhouse gas we pump into the atmosphere or how many toxins we dump into the soil and oceans, given enough time the Earth will recover. But human civilization is far more fragile.
Benno Hansen

'The hockey stick is broken' | Gristmill: The environmental news blog | Grist - 1 views

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shared by Benno Hansen on 09 Mar 09 - Cached
  • Study of the past can be informative for scientists, but it is not explanatory of the present nor is it predictive of the future.
  • The infamous "Hockey Stick" graph was featured prominently in the IPCC TAR Summary for Policymakers.
  • Two Canadians, an economist and a petroleum geologist, took it upon themselves to verify this proxy reconstruction by getting the data and examining the methodology for themselves. They found errors in the description published in Nature of the data used -- errors that prevented them from duplicating the study. Mann et al., the hockey stick's creators, published a correction in Nature, noting where the description did not match what had actually been done.
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  • The fact is, there are dozens of other temperature reconstructions. They tend to show more variability than the original hockey stick (their sticks are not as straight), but they all support the general conclusions the IPCC TAR presented in 2001: late 20th century warming is anomalous in the last one or two thousand years, and the 1990s were likely warmer than any other time in that period.
  • dozens of other proxy reconstructions, some by the same team or involving some of its members, some by completely different people, some using tree rings, some using corals, some using stalagmites, some using borehole measurements -- all supporting the same general conclusion. That general conclusion is what's important to me, not whether or not one Bristlecone pine was or was not included correctly in a single eight-year-old study.
Mark Kabbbash

EVTP stock : America's First Environmental Car Rental Company Announces First Expansion... - 0 views

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shared by Mark Kabbbash on 13 Nov 08 - Cached
  • Mark Kabbbash on 13 Nov 08
     
    The company has prevented more than 100 tons of air pollution and passed on to its customers more than $1 million in fuel cost savings.
  • Mark Kabbbash on 13 Nov 08
     
    Plamondon has served as CEO and CRO for both private and publically held companies over his distinguished 35-year career. As President and CEO of Budget Rent a Car, he grew the company from $50 million operating revenue to $2.5 billion operating revenue by acquiring and integrating licensees spanning 3,200 locations in 117 countries. Plamondon left Budget Rent a Car after it was sold in 1996. Plamondon also served as CEO for worldwide Alamo and National Car Rental, including the Car Temps brand, a $250 million insurance replacement business. There he led the total company restructuring resulting in a successful sale. His vision for EV is to position the brand as a fun and friendly car rental experience for customers while reducing carbon emissions.
Benno Hansen

Reuters AlertNet - CLIMATE CHANGE BLOG: Does poverty equal vulnerability? - 0 views

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shared by Benno Hansen on 28 Oct 08 - Cached
  • 'poor people are the most vulnerable to the impacts of climate change'
  • But is it the state of being poor that makes people vulnerable to climate change, or the processes that lead to their impoverishment?
  • if you have access to a clean and healthy environment that provides for your needs - meaning you don't need two dollars a day (or perhaps even one) - then you aren't living in poverty!
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  • most of those who are poor and face the biggest threat from climate change are descended from people who had indigenous adaptation strategies to climatic and other environmental hazards which would - if they hadn't been colonised - have made them far less vulnerable than the 'rich' to the impacts of climate change.
  • If some of the worst-case climate change scenarios do come to pass, then the rich are also going to be extremely vulnerable and, if push comes to shove, I'd prefer to have knowledge of my land and how to grow food in inhospitable environments
  • the very wisdom that could help make us all less vulnerable to climate change is being lost as more and more people are sucked into a global economy that values only certain types of knowledge and beliefs.
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