ELECTRIC ECOLOGY
Solar Wind or Coal, it's all electricity
"You just want to switch me on, but it doesn't work like that, you have to
pay for the ecology, and everything it provides, otherwise we are creating another bubble."
SEADOV
Sustainable Energy
And
Desalination On Vessel Seadov (Sustainable Energy and
Desalination on Vessel) is an Australian invention that has the
potential to cost-effectively solve coastal region water shortages
around the world using 'green marine' technology.
Seadov
technology uses a combination of renewable energy and marine
technology. Its reverse osmosis (RO) desalination plant is installed
and powered by green energy produced on board the vessel, which is
typically positioned 10 kilometres offshore. The potable water produced
on the vessel is pumped to shore for final treatment before being
injected into the local water grid or reservoir.
Other wind power solutions don't come
close to offer the benefits of maglev wind turbines, which use
full-permanent magnets - which nearly eliminate friction by "floating"
the
blades above the base. Massive scaling with a proposed $53M turbine
able to replace 1000 traditional windmills and power 750 thousand
homes.
Ability to generate power with
winds as slow as three miles per hour, operational costs some 50
percent cheaper than windmills, and an estimated lifespan of 500 years.
Development
is proceeding rapidly with Chinese power
company Zhongke Hengyuan Energy Technology currently building a $5M
factory to produce the turbines in capacities from 400 to 5,000 watts.
THOR
jack-up Platform (JUP) with Hellenic Shipyards
Athens, Greece:
Hellenic Shipyards has secured a contract for the construction of a sea
platform to accommodate offshore wind-parks for location in the Baltic
and North Seas.
The platform is 70 metres long, 40 metres wide, has a draft of 6 metres
and can be operated in water depths of up to 50 metres. It has a crane
of 400-tonnes lifting capacity. Each of the windmills on the platform
produces between two and five megawatts of power. Delivery is scheduled
for April 2009.
Thor is designed to operate worldwide in harsh environmental limits,
said Manolemis at the signing ceremony.
The jack-up platform
(JUP) is designed to operate worldwide in harsh environmental
extremes, it will have a working deck, a large
crane with more than 400 tons
lifting capacity, jack-up capability, self-propelled propulsion,
provides onboard accommodation for 28 persons and safety outfitting.
It
is therefore completely autonomous for a certain period of time for
supplies and consumables. The unit is designed for offshore
use and
will be mainly used in the construction of offshore windparks in the
sea that will provide electrical energy. The first project in which the
JUP Thor will be used concerns the erection of such an offshore
windpark in Great Britain.
This is a technological breakthrough in the
use of environmental friendly types of energy, as up to the present
wind turbines were used for this purpose mainly inland and thus the
expansion of this technology offshore is expected to offer significant
benefits in the field of environmental friendly energy generation.
Hellenic Shipyards is aiming at constant self-improvement so that it
can face the global market modern requirements more effectively and is
doing so by adapting its structure to the demands of our era. The JUP
Thor project is Hellenic Shipyards' chance to provide the basis for
such a structure.
Artist conception of
a floating nuclear power plant.
[Source: www.antiatom.ru] by Eduard Fesko
For the past 10 years, high-ranking officials from Russia's Ministry of
Atomic Energy (Minatom) and Rosenergoatom have been expressing
unequivocal support for construction of floating nuclear power plants
in remote areas of the Russian Far North and East. Construction of
Russia's first floating nuclear power plants is moving ahead. These
small power plants would provide electricity and heat to regions with
underdeveloped infrastructure or to the sites of big construction
projects. The mobile nature of floating nuclear power plants would
purportedly allow them to be moved to areas struck by natural disasters
or other emergencies. The plants could also be used for desalination of
sea water. In addition, Russian government officials believe that
floating nuclear power plants possess significant export potential.
However, since these plants will be powered by reactors running on
highly enriched uranium (HEU, in which the share of the uranium-235
isotope is over 20%), exports of such plants increase the global
proliferation of this especially sensitive nuclear material. HEU
is more readily converted to weapon-grade material than low enriched
fuels. Physical protection of exported plants and issues of ownership
and liability are also difficult problems.
A floating nuclear power plant - FNPP
Russia has begun to build the world‰Ûªs first floating nuclear power
plant despite warnings from environmentalists that it risks creating a
disaster.
The å£100 million vessel, the Lomonosov, is the first of seven plants
that Moscow says will bring vital energy resources to remote Russian
regions as well as potential foreign markets. It will house two
35-megawatt reactors capable of supplying a city of 200,000 people when
it starts operations, in three years‰Ûª time.
Demonå¨
water treatment & power plant The
development and implementation of the Demonå¨ control strategy for
ammonia removal at the wastewater treatment plant in Strass in Tyrol
(Austria) for the first time realized stable operation of an advanced
municipal treatment plant that produces an energy surplus. This makes a
significant contribution to energy efficiency and process optimization
of the plant. The surplus of 8% is fed as renewable energy into the
public grid, making a wastewater treatment plant a power generator.
Additional installations in Europe and demonstration projects in New
York and Washington confirm the success of the project.
Solar
Millennium AG
- Andasol solar
power plant projects - Spain Solar
Millennium plans and builds solar-thermal power plants. The
company initiated the Spanish parabolic trough power plants Andasol 1-3
and successfully completed the project developments. This marks the
opening of the European market for solar power generation on the scale
of large power plants with the potential of displacing fossil and
nuclear power plants. furthermore, the Andasol power plants in many
ways serve as role model projects. For more than 15 years no new
parabolic trough power plants had been built. The installation of
thermal storage enables the power plants to produce electricity in a
planable way, including nights, which opens new perspectives for solar
power generation. The Andasol projects also serve as the world‰Ûªs
largest installation for utilizing solar energy. Each of the power
plants supplies up to 200,000 people with solar energy.
Bio-Solar-Haus
Becher GmbH Solar Park St.
Alban Competence Center for Sustainability - Germany
In
St. Alban (Germany) the company Bio-Solar-Haus built a solar park of
approx. 2 hectares with 12 organic solar residences for trial living by
prospective customers along with an office and service building.
Neither concrete nor asphalt seals the earth on streets, parking areas
and walkways. Open areas and part of the roofs were planted with
vegetation. Rain water is collected in a small natural pond, where it
is naturally cleansed via a reed water treatment facility, warmed by
the sun and used for domestic purposes. Waste water is treated in a
plant-based water treatment facility. The houses are heated using the
natural greenhouse effect of solar energy along with a small amount of
wood.
Energy-autonomous
water transport system supplies hundreds of Filipino villagers with
clean water
Alternative Indigenous Development Foundation Inc. (AID Foundation)
Development of local waterram: supplying upland communities with
drinking water Philippines
The
water ram is a simple but forgotten system that is energy-autonomous
alone through the use of kinetic energy of water. This system can
elevate water to a height much greater than the feeding water. Using
this technology, the AID Foundation designed a ram model adapted to the
local conditions in the Philippines to make clean water available even
for remote mountain villages. Preceding test series and pilot models
for data acquisition enabled the development of an economical ram
system that is low-maintenance and reliable and that can be employed in
other regions with little modification. Within a period of ten years
(1997-2007) over 100 such systems were implemented; today they provide
16,000 people with 100% emission-free and environmentally friendly
drinking water and assure local farmers of better income through better
irrigation.
Fronius demonstrates a CO2-free
transport logistic solution
WINNER AND WINNER OF THE "WORLD AWARD"
Fronius International GmbH
Fronius demonstrates a CO2-free transport logistic solution - Austria
With
650 employees and 37,000 må? area, the Fronius site in Sattledt (Upper
Austria) serves as a model for future-oriented energy supply in a large
industrial context: 90% of the required energy is provided by a 604 kWp
photovoltaic plant and a 1.5 MW biomass regional heating plant. The
most modern HVAC technology with subterranean water basins assures
required comfort both summer and winter with utmost energy efficiency.
Fronius‰Ûª HyLOG project also elevates plant-internal material transport
to a new level by retrofitting the company‰Ûªs vehicle fleet from battery
to fuel cell operation. The dominant advantages are replacing the long
battery charging times with a few minutes of hydrogen tanking and
doubling the range of the vehicles. Hydrogen is produced on-site with
photovoltaic current and electrolysis with no emissions.
Grameen Shakti Green power brings light, energy and income
to rural Bangladesh - Bangladesh
Grameen
Shakti, a worldwide leading rural-based renewable energy provider, has
installed 145,000 solar home systems, Over 3000 biogas plants and 12000
improved cooking stoves. The key to the company‰Ûªs success is an
integrated model that blends soft credit with effective after-sales
service and aggressive grassroots promotion that ties the technology
with income generation. Through rural entrepreneurs, Grameen Shakti
plans to install one million solar home systems and 5 hundred thousand
biogas plants and 10 million improved cooking stoves by 2015. The
company has opened 25 Grameen Technology Centers to train local women
technicians and plans to open 300 by 2015. Grameen Shakti has also
initiated Tree Plantation & Organizing Fertilizer Program.
City of Stockholm, Clean Vehicles in
Stockholm Clean vehicles in Stockholm - Sweden
A decade of work on the part of the
project Clean Vehicles in Stockholm
has resulted in a market breakthrough for clean vehicles: 44.000 autos
in Stockholm use biofuel or hybrid drive or boast very low-pollution
emissions. In addition, 50% of the city fleet, 100% of downtown busses,
40% of the garbage collection fleet, and 20% of new auto sales are
clean, and 60% of the gasoline stations sell ethanol and/or biogas.
This has resulted from the excellent cooperation with all aspects of
the fuel and vehicle chains: biogas production, cooperation with
gasoline stations and service workshops, information for end users.
This makes the city of Stockholm a good example.
We are riding a new wave of industrial revolution into the RENEWABLE ENERGY AGE. Renewable Energies bring only advantages and no burden to the world.
The ECO SUSTAINABLE PLANET and ECO SUSTAINABLE TECHNOLOGY sections often overlap - as crops become fuel and microorganisms make electricity - the line is blurred and indeed that is the desired 'interconnectedness' effect.
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ECO SUSTAINABLE TECHNOLOGY Ecology and Technology working together in synergy. SUSTAINABLE is 24 x 7. ECO SUSTAINABLE is when there's no waste. The waste product of one process is fuel for the next.
THE AGE of ECOLOGICAL SUSTAINABILITY - inspiration leads to innovation, and solutions provide engineers and architects methodologies to green the world. Man learns to live with the planet.
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