Iberdrola Renovables ramping up to develop 10,000 MW of offshore wind

Iberdrola Renovables will invest €9 billion between 2010 and 2012 to accelerate its international expansion and consolidate its world leadership in the wind energy sector. Part of this effort has involved the creation of an Offshore Wind Division in Glasgow (Scotland).

ENERSIP: cutting domestic energy consumption in Europe

The ENERSIP project will design a graphic interface to provide key services helping consumers save energy but also maintaining their comfort levels. The upshot is efficient energy production and consumption based on user demand.

New biorefinery project sets target of 30-30-10

Work has begun on a new EU-funded project to dramatically improve the performance of Europe's biorefineries. Dubbed EUROBIOREF ('European multilevel integrated biorefinery design for sustainable biomass processing'), the project aims to improve cost efficiency by 30%, cut energy use by 30% and reduce feedstock consumption by 10%.

RENEWABLE ENERGY MAGAZINE INTERVIEW: Augustín Otegui, product designer and creator of Nano Vent Skin

The Nano Vent Skin concept is an organic, nano-engineered skin for buildings and other structures capable of generating electricity from the sun and absorbing carbon dioixde from the surrounding atmosphere.

Plans unveiled for Singapore’s first eco business park, where renewables will be key

JTC Corporation and the Singapore Economic Development Board (SEDB) have jointly unveiled the master plan for the 50-hectare CleanTech Park at Nanyang Avenue, which will be Singapore’s first eco-business park. According to the developers, CleanTech Park will serve as a large-scale integrated “living laboratory” for testbedding and demonstration of system-level clean technology solutions.

Stan Deyo and The Millennium Ark

Stan Deyo, famous for his research into Earth Changes, is a fascinating author and lecturer, with insights into Aether physics while also promoting an awareness about conspiratorial forces undermining freedom in the world. He is an alternatives expert on solar cycles, emergency preparedness, and end time predictions. (PESWiki; March 6, 2010)

Izumi claims their run-of-river turbine is cheaper than grid power

A Slovenian turbine-generator that is designed to work in relatively slow and shallow moving water supposedly could not only provide clean energy but at a price point many times cheaper than the cheapest grid power presently available. (PESN; March 5, 2010)

PlasmERG among EE Times' ACE Award finalists

PlasmERG Inc, who is developing a noble gas plasma expansion motor providing clean, cheap, and reliable power has been selected as a top five finalist among the 'Most Promising Renewable Energy Technologies' category for EE Times' prestigious Annual Creativity in Electronics (ACE) Awards. (PESN; March 3, 2010)

Free Energy hope for doomsday and ET disclosure

The primary reason why most national governments have been suppressing UFO sightings and downplaying the possibility of extraterrestrial visitation and technology is that once people realize that these things are real, then their creative genius will liberated, and replications will follow shortly, making oppressive governments obsolete. (PESN; Feb. 28, 2010)

911 Truth Video Collection from Winter 2010

There have been some excellent 911 Truth videos produced recently that deserve your attention, whether you are already convinced that there is a conspiracy and cover-up from elements within the U.S. government, or you have yet to come to that conclusion. It is relevant to free energy technology which could help liberate us from such Orwellian plots. (PESWiki; Feb. 25, 2010)

Flexible Integrated Energy Device

CSIRO is developing a wearable power generation and storage system which captures energy from movement.

Farming Ahead: CSIRO and related articles from 2010

Farming Ahead magazine regularly features CSIRO's research for the agricultural sector. This is a list of CSIRO articles published in the magazine throughout 2010.

Energy management by linked local controllers

CSIRO is developing control devices and software for homes and businesses that integrates and manages the energy needs of each major appliance, demands on the grid, and the needs and preferences of building occupants.

Dr Beverley Ronalds: Group Executive, Energy

As Group Executive, Energy, Dr Beverley Ronalds is focused on providing quality research and technology-based industrial solutions to the rapidly evolving needs of the energy sector.

Intelligent grid: a vision for wide-scale use of DE in Australia's future energy network

CSIRO is using simulation modelling to predict the economic, environmental and social benefits of distributed energy to demonstrate its viability to stakeholders and the wider community.

Auto-dicted: Sans a Major Diversion of U.S. Transportation Dollars to Mass Transit, Urban Traffic Congestion May Not Ease

Dear EarthTalk: Short of massive efforts to build a public transportation infrastructure, which doesn’t appear likely anytime soon, what is being done to address traffic congestion, which is reaching absurd levels almost everywhere? --John Daniels, Baltimore

Sunshine is free, so can photovoltaics be cheap?

Here's how to make a solar cell from silicon : take one solid block of doped silicon, saw it into thin wafers, layer said semiconductors beneath a panel of transparent glass, connect them to a metal electrode that can channel away the electrons knocked loose by incoming photons and turn it into a photovoltaic device. That process has at least two flaws: such silicon is very expensive, as much as $300,000 for a wafer, and sawing it turns as much as half of that very expensive silicon into wasted grit. [More]

Storing megawatts: Liquid-metal batteries and electricity

Making aluminum requires a lot of electricity. That's because the metal bonds tightly to oxygen and it takes a lot of energy to break that bond. In essence, the process of making aluminum is a giant battery with the silvery metal being reduced to purity at the cathode while oxygen bonds with the carbon anode to make, you guessed it, CO2. It takes roughly 15 kilowatt-hours of electricity to make just one kilogram of aluminum via electrolysis. [More]

Smokestash Industry: ARPA-E Seeks Breakthroughs in Carbon Capture Technology

WASHINGTON--Every second, our bodies capture carbon dioxide in our tissues, transport it via the blood, and dump it in the lungs from where it is exhaled. This unconscious process is yet another way humans contribute to the accumulation of the greenhouse gas in the atmosphere--albeit in a minuscule volume compared with burning fossil fuels . The key to this metabolic process is an enzyme called carbonic anhydrase and it's efficiency at capturing and releasing CO2 is what human engineers want to mimic at the power plant scale. [More]

Seeking Transformational Energy Technologies

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Last week, the new Advanced Research Projects Agency for energy held its inaugural conference in Washington, D.C.--a direct response to a growing sense that the U.S. is losing its technology lead when it comes to the race for cleaner ways to produce and use energy. "We have a Sputnik moment right now. We are losing our technology leadership and we are falling behind."