Guardian Artictle Ouarzazate, Morocco, where scenes from the HBO series Game of Thrones were filmed, will be a central location for solar power plants that will power one half of the country of Morocco by 2020.
Some of the world’s largest businesses have today announced plans to fully transition to using renewable electricity, providing a further boost to the global renewables market.
Nine well-known firms – Johnson & Johnson, Procter & Gamble, Goldman Sachs, Nike, Starbucks, Salesforce, Steelcase, Voya Financial and Walmart – will today used the annual Climate Week in New York to announce they have joined the global campaign RE100, which encourages businesses to source 100% renewable power.
Sweden said it’s targeting to become one of the first nations in the world to be free of fossil fuels and that it will invest 4.5 billion kronor ($546 million) in climate-protection measures next year as a step toward that goal.
The government will increase support for solar, wind, energy storage, smart grids and clean transport. Investment in photovoltaics will rise nearly eightfold to 390 million kronor per year between 2017 and 2019, with a plan to spend a total of 1.4 billion kronor, the government said on Wednesday in Stockholm.
A somewhat dated but sort of cool intro to Nuclear Fusion Energy.
Of course I believe there is an ongoing conspiracy to delay the creation of a commercial Nuclear Fusion Reactor.
The official timetable for a fusion reaction has be 50 years out for a least 50 years running, and is still 50 years out.
Now, in recent times there is a young man working for Lockheed Martin claiming to have an idea for a truck trailer sized Fusion Reactor that will happen much sooner.
However, in the first video I saw of this, it was stated that he / they would have a working prototype reactor in 5 years, first to be delivered to the US military, then one to the commercial sector 10 years out.
The last time I saw the same Lockheed Martin man interviewed it was 10 years out for the military version and 20 years out for the commercial version.
That puts it out to 2035.
See what I mean.
That gives them plenty of time to change the timeline to 2050 or whatever.
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A the end of the video Robert L. Hirsch says we should be looking at a commercial Fusion Reactor by the beginning of the 21st century. Still nothing solid to report.
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FYI.
Everyone seems to be stating that we need a fuel other than pure hydrogen to use in the reaction.
By not using pure hydrogen we have 2 negatives:
Non-pure Hydrogen reaction produces some radioactivity
Will not allow direct to electricity creation. Will need to heat steam to make electricty
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I think the making of a Fusion Reactor can be done now.
We need to band together and make it happen ourselves.
No governments, no military, no corporations, no globalists.
Welch house returns $275 (£ 175) for every $150 (£ 100) consumed.
Using solar panels that are the roof, and ones in the garden, combined with extra insulation, it is able to give back to the grid power that the occupants will not use.
The new conservative government in Wales has recently rescinded the laws that made new housing more insulated, but this house was build to the strict specs that were once in place.
In my opinion when you are sweating in the middle of winter with no external sources of heat, then you can talk about making things less insulated.
You can not be over insulated, you can always crack a window.
The house uses batteries to store electricity for use at night.
Food retailers such as McDonald’s, Krispy Kreme, Dunkin Donuts, as well as agribusinesses like Cargill, are among the big companies to recently make zero-deforestation pledges.
It seems that 2/3 of he deforested Amazon goes to feeding cattle. The world needs the Amazon to supply our air oxygen.
GREENBACKS: Even in hot, sunny places like
Florida, there are still seasons when production slows down due to weather.
PHOTO: ERIK KELLAR PHOTOGRAPHY
How It Works The clear plastic bags used in the direct-to-ethanol technology look like giant hanging filefolders. Each bag is 10 feet by four feet, 2 inches deep and has capacity of 50 liters. The bag is filled with saltwater, which is inoculated with algae culture. All green plants, including algae, take in water and CO2 from the atmosphere, and combine those elements as a precursor to sugar, which, with Algenol’s two-step direct-to-ethanol process, is immediately converted to ethanol. In the end, 85 percent of the carbon consumed produces ethanol and the remaining 15 percent is spent algae.
When that process is complete, a simple centrifuge is used for separation. Spent algae goes one way and liquid goes another. Next comes a two-step ethanol purification process, the first of which is patented by Algenol and the second is no different than the method used by the corn-ethanol industry, he adds. The remaining biomass, or spent algae, is turned into green crude in a six-minute process, which can potentially be sent to a refinery to produce mostly gasoline or diesel and some jet fuel. The four fuels can be produced for about $1.30 a gallon each, the company says. ARTICLE: A Florida algae-to-ethanol operation is poised to go commercial scale Author: Holly Jessen Managing Editor, Ethanol Producer Magazine 701-738-4946 hjessen@bbiinternational.com --- We need as many ways to produce fuels as possible. We should be very happy with each new one that happens. Remember there are already many ways to produce Hydrogen & Ethanol.
10% of Corn goes for human consumption.
Spike in price would more likely have to do with rain / drought.
HIGH FRUCTOSE CORN SYRUP is made from DAH....
-- Side Note
FRUCTOSE (Corn) is NOT the BAD sugar.
SUCROSE (Cane Sugar) is the BAD sugar.
- more complex for body to deal with
-more stuff from people with agendas
-- I learned this stuff when I was on a semi-health kick back in 1980ish.
I used to buy FRUCTOSE in little packets from the health food store.
guess why.
Hey gang.
ETHANOL is made from the NON-GRAIN part of the corn plant that WE DON'T EAT.
There are plants that we don't eat (like grasses) that can be used to make ETHANOL too.
Brasil is BIG on ETHANOL, they use a lot of SUGAR CANE to make theirs.
Most people you read or hear talking about ETHANOL ill-effecting our HUMAN food supply, usually will be a PRO-FOSSIL FUEL/ANTI-ETHANOL guy for whatever reason.
Jay Leno was just talking down ETHANOL after years of talking it UP.
WHAT UP?
We have been breathing foul dirty air now for 100 years.
It's better to have something going on as opposed to NOTHING!
Corn stover consists of the leaves and stalks of maize (Zea mays ssp. mays L.) plants left in a field after harvest and consists of the residue: stalk; the leaf, husk, and cob remaining in the field following the harvest of cereal grain.” Stover makes up about half of the yield of a crop and is similar to straw.
Biomass ethanol is ``ethanol made from non-grain plant materials known as biomass.''Biomass ethanol would use the corn stover from the corn crop produced in areas around ethanol plants. Wikipedia
Maize stover, together with other lignocellulosic biomass, provides about the potential 1.3 billion tons of raw materials that could produce future fuel in the next 50 years.Wikipedia
Corn stover, Panicum virgatum (switchgrass), Miscanthus grass species, wood chips and the byproducts of lawn and tree maintenance are some of the more popularcellulosic materials for ethanol production. Wikipedia
Corn stover consists of the leaves and stalks of maize (Zea mays ssp. mays L.) plants left in a field after harvest and consists of the residue: stalk; the leaf, husk, and cob remaining in the field following the harvest of cereal grain.” Stover makes up about half of the yield of a crop and is similar to straw.
Dianne Feinstien & Pat Toomey have introduced a bill to take the mandated ETHANOL out of GASOLINE.
BAD MOVE.
We should be upping the about of ETHANOL in the mix.
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Start paying attention to the SMELL OF OUR AIR.
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It has been demonized for messing with the CORN market.
Most any plant can be used to make ETHANOL.
If we don't want to mess with American Corn Market, we can use other plants to make it, or buy it from other countries,
Brasil, Norway use it now.
The Washington politicians are not working in our best interest on this issue.
BIG DIRTY DOLLARS ARE AT WORK HERE.
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What I really don't like is them playing on peoples ignorance.
Ignorance does not mean you are stupid, it just means you don't know.
Even little microbes can make ETHANOL.
It would have been a good intermediate fuel until we can do H2 & EV.
Energy Harvesting is getting little bits (or big bits) of energy from sources normally not used for that purpose.
NOW.
If we KEEP DOING THIS, continuing to develop technologies that get power from places that were ignored before, the total amount of energy from ENERGY HARVESTING will eventually be enough to take over from our usual sources like "THE GRID," or "BATTERIES."
ALSO,
I can see a future where we develop POWER CONSUMING devices that use very little power, so we may move to a society where stuff is sort of "POWERED" by nothing.
SORT OF.
Things that could be powered by "NOTHING:
CELL PHONES
LIGHTS
TV'S
RADIO'S
COMPUTERS
Power generating devices whose extra power is being "THROWN AWAY:"
