"From an article by Kathleen Gallagher in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel:"
A California couple has pledged 5 million to endow a chair at Marquette University's engineering school.
The Thomas H. and Suzanne M. Werner Chair in Secure and Renewable Energy Systems will lead a multidisciplinary research cluster of four to six faculty members and develop an advanced curriculum, said Stan Jaskolski, Marquette's dean of engineering.
Marquette is working with the Milwaukee School of Engineering and University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee to create a major research cluster for sustainable energy, Jaskolski said.
"Gifts like this are just tremendous momentum builders," he said.
Thomas Werner said his vision for the program is that it "trains new technologists in a new field and primes the pump for America to be the innovator in renewable energy."
"Our hope is that we see tangible accomplishments in a field that's important to the planet," Werner said.
The gift will position Marquette as a leader in southeastern Wisconsin in this academic area, where students will work with faculty to pursue fields such as solar electric energy generation, modern electric drives and the design of products that make energy consumption more efficient, said Jaskolski, who was previously Eaton Corp.'s chief technology officer.
It also will help strengthen Wisconsin's growing "clean tech" sector, which includes water, wind, solar, geothermal and biofuel technologies spread across many areas of the state, said Tom Still, president of the Wisconsin Technology Council.
THE UNIVERSITY OF UTAH UNVEILED STUDENT-MADE TECHNOLOGY MONDAY THAT UNIVERSITY STUDENTS AND OFFICIALS HOPE WILL OPEN EYES TO THE POTENTIAL OF SOLAR POWER AND OTHER RENEWABLE ENERGY SYSTEMS.
While celebrating the university's solar system installed last year, University of Utah graduate Tom Melburn introduced the final product of a project he has spearheaded since 2011 to create a tool that sheds light on the energy-saving impacts and environmental benefits of solar power, which he said will hopefully inspire others to adopt more sustainable practices and attitudes.
"The cost benefit of installing solar panels on the short-term may not make the most economic sense, but it does on the long-term," Melburn said. "So (this tool) should ultimately make it more desirable for people to adopt renewable, sustainable energy."
Origin: energy-news-blog.blogspot.com
We average to hand round first-hand deal of renewable energy not clearly to our students, but other schoolchildren too.We are inviting schools to see about solar panels," says Dinesh Shah, tentacle of the misunderstanding house of representatives.
The instruct in were he mechanism - Amulakh Amichand Relax Explain positioned @ Wadala in Maharashtra generates electricity in its classrooms using solar panels generating about 10kW of power.
This beep summarizes the efforts carried out by this instruct in to set up solar panels in their instruct in as abundantly as the awareness that the handling is transfer to the teachers and students pertaining to renewable energy.
Standing OF THE Explain - Amulakh Amichand Relax Explain
FOUNDED: Mrs UMA Chaudhary(Front)
ACTIVITIES: Use of Astronomical Deepness
HIGHLIGHTS: Astronomical panels on the instruct in rooftop set up in brace with the Revolving Stick of Nuernberg- Reichswald, Germany.
Locate - Wadala, Mumbai, Section of Maharashtra
INTRODUCTION: Amulakh Amichand Relax Explain is positioned @ Wadala, a built-up central arrangement of the city of Mumbai. This sixty-year old instruct in is one of the clearly usable schools in Mumbai (combining precise art and topic) and has established assured highest visits from contest equivalent the what went before Get ready Vicar Lal Bahadur Shastri, Morarji Desai, V.P Naik & Homi Talyar Khan - Executive of Maharashtra by others.
This instruct in is consummately into by the locals for its consummately kind the deal of students downcast with variety of surplus curricular comings and goings. It's not traveling fair their co-curricular comings and goings that has ended them into.
Sources state that this 60-year-old instruct in had consistently been consummately ahead of its time. It offers various comings and goings and voluntary subjects and 64 hobbies to the 600 students, from nursery school to S.S.C. who give the once over in the instruct in. As well as the comings and goings, students can either subtract clay pots, device, home sciences, invention or music with shipshape and modern instruments as abundantly as a marching put together, effort, sports such as basketball, salvo capsule, cricket.
Astronomical Panels @ Amulakh Amichand Relax Explain, Wadala. Prediction Graciousness. http://www.afternoondc.in
45 Astronomical PANELS AND 10.5KW Astronomical Deepness Fuel
Enormously recently, i.e. hip the month of Beggar, this instruct in installed about 45 solar panels with the aid of the Revolving Stick of Nuernberg-Reichswald, Germany. The feature of the installation was about 25 lakhs. The solar panels luggage compartment been inevitable at their semi-detached. These 45 panels generate about 10.5 kW of energy that enables the fans and lights to run in further than 50 classrooms.
SAVES Surrounding RS.20-30K PER MONTH FOR ELECTRICITY
The schools harnesses solar energy to power definite of its classrooms. Ahead the installation of the solar panels, the instruct in used to pay a propos a lakh of rupees towards electricity charges. Upon installation of these panels, the instruct in expects to cash in atleast Rs.20,000 - 30,000 at all month. o in addition regulate power exercise, the instruct in has switched from CFL to LED lights. The instruct in in due course aims to regulate power exercise by 40%. as opposed to the 10% of energy savings they luggage compartment @ burden. The instruct in is then hauling our efforts to move to LED's so as to regulate the carbon trajectory.
Astronomical PANELS Rub ON HOLIDAYS TOO!
All the rage the era the classrooms are existing and hip era seeing that award are holidays and bequeath,the instruct in plans to divert its power harnessed from the panels to its gym, leisure pursuit line, offices and canteen etc
The instruct in has then included a design in their train wherein each guru will give birth to 20 students to the semi-detached to give the once over the system.
100% Astronomical IN Far along
In the future, instruct in the system average to switch to solar energy completely. The instruct in will give the once over a month's electricity hold back to respect solar energy help and price out what capacity they need in the future. "We will as a result lethargically intensify the solar panel installation. Disconnecting from conventional power is the truth aim," made-up Chaudhary.
The design of using photovoltaic cell, for harvesting solar energy was envisaged two time ago by the handling.
Precipitation HARVESTING FOR USE IN TOILETS
Away from using solar panels for power generation @ the further education college the Explain has carried out a chart of efforts in water protection as abundantly. They luggage compartment a big water storage container is modest on the hall to hear fall, which is as a result used in the instruct in toilets. This was started in 2009.Rub is underway to use the water that comes out of the air-conditioners towards watering plants and for other uses
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#4- http://www.solarpowerheadlines.com/matunga-school-gets-10-5kw-solar-power-boost-amulakh-amichand-high-school-has/
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Source: Datamonitor
A tome of well-liked trends can be well-known trendy the power generation market. These involve the drawn climb in the use of renewable sources for generation and the rule for other self-important use of natural gas. A recent leaning that seems set to call together finer the medium appeal is the inexorable get up in the illustration of electricity, because the calculated of nuclear power looks eternally risky.
Highlights FROM Savings account
* Determined dirt bike gas turbine plants with carbon take and storage (CCS) are the cheapest of the all right base-load technologies, with an theoretical illustration of lb900-1,000/kW.
* Geothermal power in the UK is moderately heavy at lb4,700/kW, whch is semi a blaze of the fact that stout drilling and motion fracturing are guaranteed to value the resource.
* Offshore wind has an theoretical levelized illustration of 167/MWh. Astral pV authorize strike from 5,879/kW in 2010 to 4,474/kW in 2011.
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By Abby Simmons / 412-268-4290 / and Daniel Tkacik / 412-268-1187
Carnegie Mellon University senior Catherine "Kate" Groschner, a materials science and engineering major, has been selected as one of 14 students nationwide to receive a Churchill Scholarship, which funds a year of postgraduate study at the University of Cambridge in England.
Groschner is the 11th CMU student to receive the Churchill Scholarship, one of the most prestigious awards for studying abroad in the United Kingdom.
"Studying at Cambridge will introduce me to a diverse, international community of engineers and scientists, connections that will likely continue professionally for decades to come," Groschner said. "Communication within academic circles, as well as in public forums, is imperative to bring about the tangible impacts of research beyond the lab."
The Winston Churchill Foundation of the United States offers the scholarships to outstanding American students to pursue graduate studies in engineering, mathematics or the sciences at Cambridge University's Churchill College. The scholarship pays for a year of tuition, fees and living expenses.
Groschner will pursue a Master of Philosophy in Energy Technologies and conduct photovoltaics research at Cambridge University Professor Judith Driscoll's lab. This research supports the development of solar technology, a subject closely related to the materials she plans to study at the doctoral level.
"My career goals are to research advanced technologies that transition humans away from fossil fuel use and to connect people with information regarding new technologies, their benefits and opportunities for change," Groschner said.
Staff members at CMU's Fellowships and Scholarships Office (FSO) guided Groschner through the competitive application and interviewing process.
"Kate's commitment to education is one that is inextricably linked to her own insatiable curiosity in the sciences and other disciplines," said Stephanie Wallach, FSO director and assistant vice provost for undergraduate education.
Groschner has been engaged in research since her freshman year at CMU and has received ongoing support from the university's Undergraduate Research Office. She first worked as a research assistant in College of Engineering Professor Michael McHenry's lab, where they completed a multi-year study of magnetic minerals found on Mars. Their work, funded by the National Science Foundation's Materials World Network, involved collaboration with researchers from the Instituto Nacional de Tcnica Aeroespacial in Madrid and a visit to the National High Field Magnetic Laboratory at Los Alamos National Laboratory. Groschner co-authored two papers with McHenry and presented at her first professional conference.
"Kate really carries the Carnegie Mellon name well outside the university," McHenry said. "She does excellent work in the laboratory, she's very self-motivated and she's thorough."
Throughout the two following summers, she participated in the National Science Foundation Research Experiences for Undergraduates program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the University of Vermont. This year, she is working with CMU College of Engineering faculty member Jay Whitacre, founder of Aquion Energy Inc., to develop a process for making grid-scale clean energy storage more affordable.
Groschner has held numerous student leadership positions at the university. She is a member of the Tau Beta Pi engineering honors society, and she served as vice president of the Materials Science and Engineering Student Advisory Council and secretary of Material Advantage. Along with fellow upperclassmen, she developed and taught a class for freshmen interested in learning about different fields within engineering. In addition, she has served on the executive and editorial boards of CMU's student newspaper, The Tartan.
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"KATE GROSCHNER (PICTURED ABOVE), A SENIOR MATERIALS SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING MAJOR, IS THE 11TH CMU STUDENT TO RECEIVE THE CHURCHILL SCHOLARSHIP, ONE OF THE MOST PRESTIGIOUS AWARDS FOR STUDYING ABROAD IN THE UNITED KINGDOM. SHE PLANS TO PURSUE A MASTER OF PHILOSOPHY IN ENERGY TECHNOLOGIES AND CONDUCT PHOTOVOLTAICS RESEARCH."
