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Glycon Garcia

Donald Sadoway: The missing link to renewable energy | Video on TED.com - 0 views

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  • Donald Sadoway: The missing link to renewable energy
  • What's the key to using alternative energy, like solar and wind? Storage -- so we can have power on tap even when the sun's not out and the wind's not blowing. In this accessible, inspiring talk, Donald Sadoway takes to the blackboard to show us the future of large-scale batteries that store renewable energy. As he says: "We need to think about the problem differently. We need to think big. We need to think cheap." Donald S
  • Glycon Garcia on 27 Mar 12
     
    "Donald Sadoway: The missing link to renewable energy Tweet this talk! (we'll add the headline and the URL) Post to: Share on Twitter Email This Favorite Download inShare Share on StumbleUpon Share on Reddit Share on Facebook TED Conversations Got an idea, question, or debate inspired by this talk? Start a TED Conversation, or join one of these: Green Home Energy=Hydrogen Generators-alternative sources Started by Kathleen Gilligan-Smith 1 Comment What is the real missing link in renewable energy? Started by Enrico Petrucco 8 Comments Comment on this Talk 60 total comments Sign in to add comments or Join (It's free and fast!) Sort By: smily raichel 0 Reply Less than 5 minutes ago: Nice smily raichel 0 Reply Less than 5 minutes ago: Good David Mackey 0 Reply 3 hours ago: Superb invention, but I would suggest one more standard mantra that they should move on from and that is the idea of power being supplied by a centralised grid. This technology seems to me to be much more beneficial on a local scale, what if every home had its own battery, then home power generation becomes economically more viable for everyone. If you could show that a system like this could pay for itself in say 5 years then every home would want one. Plus for this to be implemented on a large scale requires massive investment that could be decades away. Share the technology and lets get it in homes by next year. Great ted talk. Jon Senior 0 Reply 1 hour ago: I agree 100%. Localised energy production would also make energy consumers more conscious of their consumption and encourage efforts to reduce it. We can invent and invent all we want, but the fast solution to allowing renewable energies to take centre stage is to reduce the base energy draw. With lower baseline consumption, smaller "always on" generators are required to keep the grid operational. Town and house-l
Colin Bennett

Sea Bed Mining Summit - The Mineral Bonanza - 0 views

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trends copper sea bed mining

shared by Colin Bennett on 13 Jan 14 - No Cached
  • In 1959, John L. Mero of the Institute of Marine Resources at Berkeley published a 96-page document entitled “A Preliminary Report on the Economics of Mining and Processing Deep-sea Manganese Nodules”. In this landmark study, he discussed the geological and economic aspects of mining the seabed for polymetallicnodules found often partly or completely buried in seabed sediment. In the 19 years between 1965 and 1984, it is estimated that as much as $650 million was pumped into deep sea mining space. Unfortunately, vaulting ambition was not met by technological prowess and most of this investment had sunk without a trace within the space of two decades.
Colin Bennett

Electrical Design Project of a Three Bed Room House (Part 1) - 0 views

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trends copper building construction sockets

shared by Colin Bennett on 21 Mar 14 - No Cached
  • Table 1 – NHBC recommendations for a house.13 A socket-outlets (twin socket count as two outlets)RoomOutletsNotesKitchen/Utility 6Where homes have separate areas, the kitchen should have a minimum of four outlets and the utility room two.Utility 3Where appliances are provided, at least three outlets should be for general use.Dining room 3Living room 4At one double outlet family room should be near the TV aerial outletBedroom 3 (2)Three for main bedroom. Two for other bedroomsLanding 1Hall 1Combined rooms should have sockets equal to the sum of the number for individual rooms, with a minimum of seven in the case of kitchen / utility and another room.Lighting Every room should have at least one lighting point. Two-way switching should be provided to staircases.Smoke detectors For this two-story house, two mains operated, interconnected alarms are required.
Colin Bennett

Underwater Wind Turbines? bioWAVE System Designed to Create Energy from Ocean Currents ... - 0 views

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shared by Colin Bennett on 27 May 08 - Cached
  • Colin Bennett on 27 May 08
     
    Picture a kelp bed on the ocean floor swaying in the current. Done? Now picture an underwater field of bioWave turbines (pictured to your left) doing the same
Colin Bennett

Deep-sea mining projects land in hot water - 0 views

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trends copper sea bed mining

shared by Colin Bennett on 20 Feb 14 - No Cached
  • Nautilus was racing to be the first in the world to mine the sea floor. Now UK Seabed Resources, a subsidiary of Lockheed Martin, could take the lead. It has a licence to explore an area of the Pacific sea floor in international waters for minerals.
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