lundi, juillet 23, 2007

Awesome Articles

Plug in hybrids can work!

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  • Widespread adoption of PHEVs can reduce GHG emissions from vehicles by more than 450 million metric tons annually in 2050 -- the equivalent to removing 82.5 million passenger cars from the road
  • There is an abundant supply of electricity for transportation; a 60 percent U.S. market share for PHEVs would use 7 percent to 8 percent of grid-supplied electricity in 2050
  • PHEVs can improve nationwide air quality and reduce petroleum consumption by 3 million to 4 million barrels per day in 2050
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Wind Power

On the topic of power, check out all the wind power articles on one blog alone (next). It's incredible and the source of a lot of optimism for me:

  • The Loopwing Personal Wind Turbine

    A Japanese windmill that has no edges so cuts down on noise a lot

  • Another Wind power Kite

    A wind mill kite type thing, it's crazy, and illustrates the how innovative people can be

  • Windturbines for Carbon Sequestration

    These devices, powered entirely by the wind, would extract carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and then store it in some kind of physical substrate.

  • http://www.ecogeek.org/content/view/518/

    Using a grid of mini-turbines, this technology offers a way for people in urban areas to take advantage of the wind.

  • Floating Off-Shore Wind Rig Based on Oil Rig Technology

    Norsk Hydro, a company with expertise in off-shore oil rigs, is launching a pilot project that will have off-shore wind mills 50-100 miles off the cost by early 2008. This cuts down on bird deaths, annoying people who complain about Aesthetic/Visual pollution, and insects gumming up the works. (Personally, I'm wondering how they'll be anchored, and how much power will be lost in transmission the generated power to shore)

  • http://www.ecogeek.org/content/view/649/

    Hand made wind mill to pump water in Kenya

  • Wind Powered Cell Phone Base Stations

    [From afrigadget.com]A short break from eco geek, this article demonstrates using wind power for cheaper and cleaner applications in poor countries. New tech here can often really help elsewhere

  • Harness the Highways Wind

    I've always wondered how much energy is created due to vehicles moving on high ways, well finally there is a proposal to capture that energy that is otherwise wasted

  • The Windspire Home Energy Appliance

    A way to capture wind power at your house. This incredibly low foot print wind device can generate power in winds as low as 8 mph.

  • The Smallest Wind Turbine in the World

    Smallest wind turbine in the world alright, this thing is tiny. Right now you can blow on it, and it'll light up a small light. It's a good proof of concept, maybe you could make like, a carpet of windmills out of these one day?

  • Twirling Tower Could Power Itself, Ten Others.

    Not too sure about this design, it's friggen awesome conceptionally though. Basically it makes each floor of a building able to rotate, the idea is that they rotate via wind power and generate enough electricity to power the entire building.

  • Gigantor Wind Turbine Rated at 1 Gigawatt

    Hugest mother' I've ever heard about. This new wind mill idea is designed to generate power at one cent per kilowatt, generate one gigawatt overall, and take up 100 acres of land. This is more power and space than a nuclear power generates/occupies! Such a plant would be crazy economic too.

Conferences

Technology isn't what is holding us back on wind power, it's commercial interest and policy. So, the next few links present conferences. (They're not as cool as the above technologies, hence the lower level of formatting :) )

posted by Matt @ 1:14 p.m.   0 comments