Sunday, April 19, 2009

Tour Highlights Northwestern Wisconsin Renewable Energy Installations

Tour Highlights Northwestern Wisconsin Renewable Energy Installations
"From a post by Margaret Krome in The Capital Times:"

At Farm Progress Days this summer, other farmers told me that they also are interested in creating solar or wind energy, but their decision hinges on whether they receive a sufficient payback on their investment. The rapid and extensive growth of renewable energies in Germany, Denmark and parts of Canada is attributed overwhelmingly to a single policy addressing this concern, called "feed-in tariffs." (In Europe, the word "tariff" can mean "price.") This policy encourages small businesses, households, farms, towns - anyone - to produce renewable energy by providing a stable price for that energy at a rate that considers the actual costs of producing it. It's an obvious idea, but currently in most parts of the United States, utilities set widely varying rates for renewable energy - rates that seldom properly calculate the costs of producing it.

Wisconsin policymakers are on the verge of considering this and other policies to support renewable energy. Last week I joined the Homegrown Renewable Energy Campaign bus tour of four sites in northwest Wisconsin that illustrate ways communities and entrepreneurs can benefit from those policies.

We visited the bus garage for the Cadott School District, which converted its bus engines two decades ago to use compressed natural gas, which cut up to two-thirds off the district's transportation costs.

We saw a small electric vehicle whose manufacturer is located in Wisconsin and may be one of the few vehicle manufacturers with growing, not shrinking, demand.

Pete Taglia, a scientist with Clean Wisconsin, explained how one policy under consideration, a low carbon fuel standard, would set a market standard for energy sources with a lower lifetime carbon footprint, rewarding fuel manufacturers, distributors, and ultimately users.

We visited Barron High School, which for over 20 years has been heated - and now is also cooled - by burning wood chips. A fuels for schools policy would help other schools use nearby biomass similarly.

We also saw biomass research plots at the University of Wisconsin's Spooner research station. A proposed biomass crop reserve program would reward farmers for taking land that's vulnerable to soil erosion and planting it to longer-term and less-erosive biomass crops.

Wisconsin would be wise to support homegrown renewable energy. Avoiding fossil fuels can help reduce climate change. Renewable energy projects offer many opportunities to build new jobs. And, as Valerie Adamski said, "It's nice not to be in the hands of a foreign oil company."

Wednesday, April 15, 2009

Esa Renewables Complete Power Plant Monitoring Solution Includes Both Inverter Hardware And Software

"Total solution eliminates need for separate hardware and software companies, resulting in a single source responsibility for more streamlined monitoring."

ESA Renewables, recently announced its proprietary monitoring system for renewable energy power plants that provides a complete turnkey product. This innovative solution includes not only the integrated hardware, but also the monitoring software.

"Unlike other companies, ESA doesn't need to use third party solutions for its monitoring equipment. ESA is able to provide the inverter hardware and the software as a complete package to the end customer," said Jeffrey Burkett. "This reliable and complete solution demonstrates that ESA truly is a cutting edge and proactive company."

ESA's renewable energy monitoring solution addresses strong customer demand for an integrated monitoring system. Providing both the hardware and software inside a complete monitoring option eliminates the troubleshooting, project delays and additional costs associated with traditional in-field monitoring installations. Factory integration and testing of ESA's UL-listed monitoring solution ensures turn-key operation at installation and no need for an external monitoring software provider.

ESA's proprietary monitoring system can be integrated into any renewable energy installation. It allows for simplified, centralized, reliable and secure data management of power plants, an essential part of achieving maximum energy production from a renewable energy system. The monitoring system also allows plant owners to reduce system downtime, increase performance and make informed decisions as to operations and maintenance (O&M) services. Additionally, with ESA's monitoring solution, system managers are automatically alerted of events to allow for quick response, resulting in maximum energy output with minimal expenses.

With the company's ability to provide EPC, financing, O&M services and a single source monitoring system, ESA closes the loop providing a complete turnkey solution. Customers receive a complete renewable energy plant development and management solution that is backed by ESA's years of experience gained from their testing facility, in the engineering of innovative products, inverter monitoring, site expertise and worldwide services infrastructure for optimum project performance.

"Not only does ESA's monitoring system give our customers one point of contact, but by partnering with ESA, our customers can count on us for everything from EPC, to financing, commissioning, monitoring and O&M. ESA does it all," added Burkett.

ABOUT ESA RENEWABLES, LLC:


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Sunday, April 12, 2009

Wash State Senate Passes Biomass Bill

Wash State Senate Passes Biomass Bill
The Bequest Biomass Act out (SB 5575) has approved for the duration of the Washington Give leave to enter Upper house with an emotive dominance say of 45-1.

The try, sponsored by Give leave to enter Senator Brian Hatfield, D-Raymond, will alter a 2006 initiative that prohibited biomass services in wastage before 1999 from creature intentional renewable energy producers. If approved by the Household, the try will what's more control reserves such as yard waste, yield waste, yield giving out residues and black liquor generated from the pulping and wood manufacturing process as certified biomass products that would comfort mug the 2006 Inventiveness 937. The initiative called for turmoil help providers with 25,000 or beyond customers to mug energy running targets in the role of using renewable energy resources, or to rank renewable energy credits. Underside I-937, large help providers noticeably generate at least 3 percent of their output from renewable energy, and 9 percent by 2016. Hatfield's try will start in 2016.SB 5575 would time off services in wastage before 1999 that make energy with one of the only just very biomass sources to fix for 937.The try is the peak of a five-year move play recognizing that the pursue for renewable energy is as noticeably about maintaining jobs as it is about energy, according to Hatfield. He alleged the try will comfort electric utilities and dangerous industries in the state's whole communities slow the price take undue credit with I-937. "It will time off biomass generation-power generated from wood waste-to fix as a power source that can be used by electric utilities to beyond price busily mug their obligations underneath I-937," he alleged. He very that it will sustain industries that control culture who harvest impassive and transport it in trucks to mills, culture who move at the mills, and populate who buy power from the electric utilities.

"We have to cling to our state's trustworthiness to renewable energy," alleged Give leave to enter Senator Kevin Ranker, D-Orcas Coral island, and the chairman of the Upper house Committee on Glisten, Inbred Assets and Water Waters. "This proposition hole fits the energy, economic and callow requests of our state. We assemble the speculate to make changes that not a minute ago reward the doings of renewable energy, but what's more make the law beyond efficient for businesses."

Hatfield praised the bill's raptness of black liquor, and hog fuel, as a qualified renewable biomass product, pointing to the Longview Fiber facility that may edge up to 1,000 jobs by using black liquor as a biomass feedstock for imply electricity generation. A serving of the try what's more allows marketable customers who earned renewable energy credits in advance to 1999 to sheep populate credits past to their utilities providers.

Ranker what's more truthful spoken his support for SB 5343, a try that would let off certain power generators from Sparkle Air Act requirements. Directly the try, generators fueled in a minute by biogas created from anaerobic digesters would be let off, as ache as the biogas contains under than 0.1 percent sulfur, the get heat main to the generator does not go by 10 million Btu per hour, and the generator is not located in a federally designated nonattainment award for terrifying air pollutants.

"Anaerobic digesters are an exciting form of renewable energy that recognizes the fundamental aid crop growing is making to our communities and to our luck," Ranker alleged. The try approved the Upper house by a say of 41-6.

SourcePost from CleanTechLaw.org: www.cleantechlaw.org


Wednesday, April 8, 2009

Ecosocialism And Cuba

Ecosocialism And Cuba

CUBA CONSTRUCTS ENVIRONMENTALLY SUSTAINABLE SOCIALISM

During a recent visit to Cuba, we stopped by an agricultural cooperative on the outskirts of Havana. Its farmers and cooperatives across the country are part of what's widely acknowledged as the world's largest organic farming experiment. Hundreds of thousands of farmers at the grassroots proudly proclaim themselves part of Cuba's "environmental movement."

In 2008 Cuba was devastated by three full force hurricanes that caused some 10 billion in damage, including 400,000 homes destroyed and widespread crop damage. Cubans link the growing destructive power and frequency of the hurricanes with global climate change. Understandably, environmental awareness and the need for radical measures to curb global warming run high.

Remarkably, in 2006 the World Wildlife Federation rated Cuba as the only country that combined high human development standards as defined by high literacy and health indexes with a low ecological footprint including electricity consumed and carbon dioxide emitted per capita.

This got me interested in the path of sustainable socialist development Cuba has chosen and how environmental consciousness developed. How could an underdeveloped country with limited economic resources have an environmental record better than its wealthy neighbor to the north? The story gives one great hope that planet Earth can be saved.

The effort to reverse environmental destruction and follow a path of sustainable development is all the more remarkable considering Cuba's history, the US blockade and continuous efforts to overthrow its government.

THE REVOLUTION CHARTS A NEW COURSE


When Christopher Columbus first landed on Cuban shores in 1492 he was taken by the beauty of the island, then covered 95% by forests. Soon Spanish and later US colonialists began a slash and burn destruction that transformed Cuba into a sugar colony and wiped out the indigenous population. By the late 1800s the land had been largely stripped of the trees and one-fourth of the world's sugar was produced there. By the 1950s only 14% of the forests remained.

In Dialectics of Nature, Frederick Engels illustrated how the capitalist drive for profit in Cuba was destroying the island's ecology. Spanish planters "burned down forests on the slopes of the mountains and obtained from the ashes sufficient fertilizer for one generation of highly profitable coffee trees... what cared they that the heavy tropical rainfall afterwards washed away the unprotected upper stratum of soil, leaving behind only bare rock!"

But there was also a parallel history - those patriots who treasured the land and its beauty, those who formed the growing independence movement. The acknowledged father of the country Jose Marti wrote in the 19th century, "To live on earth is more than duty to make it well."

When the Cuban Revolution took place in 1959, environmental protection became a priority because leading revolutionaries were already ecologically committed. The first Agrarian Reform in 1959 nationalized the large landed estates and contained a clause on "The Conservation of Forests and Soils," setting aside large preserves of some of Cuba's greatest natural treasures including the famed Zapata Swamp and wetlands with the endangered Cuban crocodile.

In subsequent years advanced environmental legislation was adopted and codified in the Constitution, although laws were not always enforced. Scientists and educators were among those leading the environmental movement and headed up the agencies responsible for implementing a new policy.

Many organizations were founded that comprised a grassroots environmental movement including the National Zoological Society, Pro Naturaleza, the Foundation for Man and Nature, the National Association of Small Farmers, the Confederation of Trade Unions and Federation of Women. The Communist Party of Cuba and former president Fidel Castro are leading environmental advocates.

The Cubans have made serious mistakes over the years under the immense pressure of economic development and scarcity. But they have also learned from their mistakes and adjusted policies. Not surprisingly they began constructing socialism by largely copying the Soviet model that stressed industrialization without full regard to environmental impact. They soon realized the resulting damage and also that a model fitting their particular circumstances was needed.

For example, by the 1980s industrial pollution had grown, algae blooms appeared, hotel construction in Varadero had caused beach erosion and large scale industrialized farming using irrigation had caused widespread salinization and degraded the soil. This sparked a debate over the course of agricultural development and Cuban government officials began to consider a new direction.

In 1992 under the impact of the growing global environmental movement, the World Summit at Rio de Janeiro was held. Castro attended and delivered a ringing call to address economic and social underdevelopment and poverty with sustainability. He remarked,

"If we want to save humanity from destroying itself, we have to distribute more equitably the riches and available technologies on this planet. Less luxury and pilfering from a few countries for less poverty and hunger for the rest of the Earth. No more transfer to the Third World of lifestyles and habits of consumerism that ruin the environment."

While the Cubans had already begun to implement some sustainable practices it was the crisis of world socialism and the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 that radically accelerated the process. Eighty-five percent of Cuban imports including oil, farm implements, chemical fertilizers and foods stuffs came from the socialist community. When socialism collapsed Cuba was forced to change overnight.

Change was most dramatic in the agricultural sphere. The Cubans turned to organic farming using oxen, natural means of pest control and by spreading the manure of draft animals on the fields. Farmers emphatically told us when the blockade ends they will continue organic farming because it is better for the environment, the working conditions of the farmers and produces healthier food for the people.

In addition, the Cubans found the highly centralized model of agricultural production inefficient, so they broke up the large state enterprises into smaller cooperatives. This allowed decentralized operation and created the basis for grassroots democratic management and local responsibility.

Over one million bicycles were imported from China and five new bicycle production plants were built. Over 500,000 bikes were put in operation in Havana.

The Ministry of Science, Technology and the Environment (like our EPA) was created to oversee environmental policy and its enforcement.

In 1993 the National Energy Sources Development Program was adopted whose first aim was conservation and energy efficiency and to begin to use more renewable energy sources.

As Renewable Energy World Magazine noted,

"All rural schools, health clinics, and social centers in the country, not previously connected to the (electric) grid, were electrified with solar energy, and today 2,364 of the solar electric systems on the island are on rural schools. Making lights, computers, and educational television programs accessible to every school child in the country; this program won Cuba the Global 500 award from the United Nations in 2001."

THE ENERGY REVOLUTION


However these measures proved inadequate. So in 2006 Cuba adopted what was called the Energy Revolution consisting of five aspects: conservation, upgrading the electric grid, greater use of renewable resources, greater exploration of local gas and oil and greater international cooperation.

Conservation was deemed the key element. Castro remarked,

"We are not waiting for fuel to fall from the sky, because we have discovered, fortunately, something much more important - energy conservation, which is like finding a great oil deposit."

The program has proved a great success in part because the whole country has been mobilized to participate through a mass education campaign. An army of young social workers is responsible for going door to door to convey the latest environmental practices.

Cuba became the first country to totally replace incandescent bulbs with energy saving compact florescent bulbs. Inefficient and highly polluting kerosene stoves were replaced by electrified rice cooking pots bought from China.

The national power grid has been modernized and decentralized. Hundreds of micro hydroelectric systems were built; urban farming and the use of hydroponics have been expanded.

Two large wind farms have been constructed on the coast; a 100-kilowatt solar electric power plant and thousands of independent solar powered systems have been built in rural areas. Recycling sugar waste products is producing bio-fuels.

Another important result of the Rio Summit was a call to preserve the world's biodiversity. Cuba was among the first countries to embrace this challenge. Biodiversity was seen as an integral part of sustainable development and led to environmental protection by law. After a countrywide discussion, it adopted the National Strategy and Plan of Action for Biodiversity in 2000 and identified 42 different ecosystems including 17 that were described as ecologically sensitive.

Reforestation has increased to 21% and is growing. Forests and trees are under strict protection.

Because of the global economic crisis, Cuba is paying more on the world market for food imports. During the recent July 26th celebrations President Raul Castro called for food sovereignty to reduce costs. But this will also lower Cuba's carbon footprint further by reducing the use of global transport. Local transport is being reduced by the expansion of urban farming.

Because Cuba's beautiful coastal areas haven't been stolen by the rich, carved up and sold off for summer homes or profit, but instead remain under public ownership, it's possible to offer protection of coastal wetlands, mangrove swamps, beaches and the coral reefs which are said to be among the best preserved in the world.

Cuba has established coastal zones out to sea where construction is banned and protection zones of highly limited development inland 60-80 meters beyond the vegetation line. The true test will come when new facilities are constructed to accommodate the influx of US tourists anticipated when the blockade falls. Can development and environmental protection be meshed with the many joint construction projects?

Cuba's example shows that a society geared toward socialist development, where working people hold economic and political power, is far superior to capitalism when it comes to dealing with the environmental crisis and actually reversing environmental destruction.

Monopoly corporations who constantly obstruct passage of environmental laws or thumb their nose at enforcement because it conflicts with their drive for maximum profits do not dominate Cuba. There is no bribing legislators and spreading of phony science.

Cuba's example illustrates how socialism puts people first, how economic development and sustainability can be synonymous, how a country can learn from its mistakes and have the flexibility to deal with problems and crises as they arise. At a moment when the global economic crisis, vast inequality and poverty are inextricably linked to the global environmental crisis - socialism offers the only viable path to ensure humanity's future.

AUTHOR: JOHN BACHTELL

People's Weekly World Newspaper

September 3, 2009

SEE ALSO CANADIAN WINTERS, CUBAN SUN


Monday, April 6, 2009

Cambodia Introduction

Cambodia Introduction
Formal of Cambodia is sited at the source of ASEAN Countries with a land link of 181,035 hall kilometers, and its country is about 14 million. The country's economy is on the whole party on farming. In recent time, the development of technology and many initiative policies has added boosted the site of agricultural industry.

At the moment, the assets of fossil fuels are weakening which is maximum to mounting prices and high-demanding of alcohol. Ethanol is widely used in chemical industry, light industry, agricultural chemical industry, cosmetic industry, electronic industry, fierce industry, solutions and reagent industry.

The gigantic appreciation for new sources of oil has incited by mounting force for energy worldwide. Plant oil is suitably cherished as Bio fuel "Diesel" and reformed inwards Bio Diesel in greatest manufacturing. Subsequent to Cambodia's abstention economic appear and the slowly but surely sad forceful, the advantages of bio-fuel, as a cream of the crop alternative to fossil fuel, display build boss not beautiful as it is renewable, clean and sound.

"BIO-FUEL Trade Notoriously BIO-ETHANOL FROM CASSAVA AND BIO-DIESEL FROM JATROPHA THAT THE Possible SOURCES OF NEW Construct OF Extramural Vigor IN CAMBODIA."

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BIO-FUEL:


1. Bio-Diesel

2. Bio-Ethanol

3. Approaches to Biofuel Prime of life


Sunday, April 5, 2009

Vertical Axis Windmills A Home Windmill Design That Is Quiet And Efficient

Vertical Axis Windmills A Home Windmill Design That Is Quiet And Efficient
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Friday, April 3, 2009

Bio Fuel Growth Raises Concerns About Forests

Bio Fuel Growth Raises Concerns About Forests
"From an Associated Press article by John Flesher in The Mining Journal (Marquette, Michigan):"

PARK FALLS, Wis. - Forests are a treasure trove of limbs and bark that can be made into alternative fuels and some worry the increasing trend of using that logging debris will make those materials too scarce, harming the woodlands.

For centuries, forests have provided lumber to build cities, pulp for paper mills and a refuge for hunters, fishers and hikers. A flurry of new, green ventures is fueling demand for trees and the debris leftover when they are harvested, which is called waste wood or woody biomass.

'There simply is nowhere near enough waste wood for all of these biomass projects that are popping up all over the place,' said Marvin Roberson, a forest policy specialist with the Sierra Club in Michigan.

Waste wood has become a sought-after commodity, prompting concerns that the demand might overwhelm supply and damage the ecosystem. But government officials say there's plenty available and they point to guidelines that are aimed at maintaining tree debris to give the soil nutrients.

Many biomass projects are tied to the forests that extend across Minnesota, Wisconsin, Michigan and part of Ontario. Among them is Flambeau River Papers, a mill in Park Falls, Wis., that emerged from bankruptcy three years ago and is pinning its hopes for profitability on generating its own heat with woody biomass.

In another Wisconsin town 50 miles away, a power company is switching from burning coal to producing combustible gas from logging leftovers. And in Michigan's neighboring Upper Peninsula, a plant under development called Frontier Renewable Resources will convert timber into 40 million gallons of cellulosic ethanol a year.

Researchers led by University of Minnesota forest expert Dennis Becker reported this summer that many would-be investors are uneasy about supplies of waste wood.

They fear environmental reviews and litigation could make some public woodlands unreliable sources, particularly in the West, where most forest lands are under federal ownership and logging often raises legal tussles, the report said.

Another problem with woody biomass is that much of the supply is in protected areas, or so far from markets that removing and transporting it would be too expensive, Becker said.

He led a separate study that found a realistic estimate of biomass available in Michigan, Minnesota and Wisconsin was 4.1 million tons a year. Annual demand soon could reach 5.7 million tons, it said.

New Report Shows Importance Of Expanding Solar Heating And Cooling

New Report Shows Importance Of Expanding Solar Heating And Cooling

WASHINGTON, D.C. - As a way to upright support the U.S. economy, the Vast Hustle Industries Bang (SEIA) now boundless a wonderful new report clarity ways to create 50,250 new American jobs and keep hold of optional extra than 61 billion in appearance energy authority by expanding the use of inventive and trade and industry solar heating and cooling (SHC) systems across the capacity.

Ready by Subtle Work, a Boston-based consulting tight which focuses on energy system making and train, this new, first-of-its-kind report provides a roadmap for marvelously going up SHC thinking in the U.S. from 9 gigawatts (GW) thermal to 300 GW thermal by 2050 floor the installation of 100 million new SHC solar panels resident. Thermal energy is conservatively long-drawn-out in lexis of British Thermal Units (BTUs) but can with be converted to watts.

In our time, several 44 percent of American energy service is attributable to heating and cooling. According to projections by Subtle Work, ramping up the installation of SHC systems across America would liberty the U.S. to generate almost 8 percent of its gap heating and cooling desires floor clean, logical solar energy. SHC is the highest efficient renewable technology for generating thermal roast and authority are as low as 6 cents per kilowatt (kWh) hour.

"Division of our refuse to comply is to do a increase job of enlightening policymakers - at all the state and central silky - about the momentous benefits SHC provides to American clients and businesses, as starting place as to the U.S. economy," imaginary SEIA Head and CEO Rhone Resch. "If we're active, the release hand down be momentous in lexis of appearance job launch and energy savings."

Uncommon big line of reasoning of SHC, according to the report, is the firm impact it has on the environment.

"Plus determined targets and a smart, easy-to-understand procedure now in stand, SHC can upright to disrupt an approximate 226 million a lot of carbon emissions annually. That's the equivalent of spoils 47 million passenger cars off the blood vessel," imaginary Ole Pilgaard, who chaired the situation spirit which helped develop the new SHC roadmap. "Imperfect question, this plan hand down benefit all our economy and our environment."

In calculation to creating tens of thousands of new jobs and marvelously falling electricity authority, Subtle Work says the SHC roadmap provides a change of other advantages, including:

* Cost-conscious 19.1 billion to homeowners, businesses, schools and position by deferring the need for electric and natural gas relations progress and preservation

* Raising 2.1 billion annually in amplified central tax paycheck floor job launch and economic increase

* Collective America's almanac trade GDP by 1.4 billion

"This is a standard technique plan that's good for America," imaginary Mike Healy, who serves as chairman of the U.S. SHC Amalgamation at SEIA. "Sharp, sustained investments in solar heating and cooling hand down with upright to add details to energy protection in the U.S. by localizing resources and falling our dependence on often-times violent unknown energy supplies. It's a win-win all the way around."

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Incorrigible in 1974, the Vast Hustle Industries Bang(R) is the maintain slyness association of the U.S. solar energy industry. Turn advocacy and education, SEIA(R) is partnership a sour solar industry to power America. As the speak of the industry, SEIA sow with its 1,000 part of a set companies to make solar a mainstream and sizeable energy source by expanding markets, removing sell barriers defense the industry and enlightening the position on the benefits of solar energy. See to it that SEIA online at www.seia.org.

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