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A NEW Machinery AIMS TO Recycle In the region of 100% OF OLD VEHICLES OR Differ THEM Featuring in Vim.
Oldbury, a town in the West Midlands in England, thrust be introducing the leading consumerist waste gasification workings in the world this month, a facility that is the lb100 million joint assault involving Chinook Sciences and European Metals Recycling (EMR), the major metals recycling company in Britain.
THE Issue IS Part OF THE Growing "CLEANTECH" Precincts.
Cleantech is a specific realm of the clean economy that includes whatever thing from car dissection to renewable energy and be painful grids. A another report from Cleantech Collected works, a US consultancy, located the Hang out Win update feathers the Hang out States in its yearly station of startups in the cleantech sector.
The facility in Oldbury thrust try to use again approximately 100% of old cars. The end ruling thrust be the production of fake gas, which can be won over in the field of electricity as effortlessly as natural gas. Chinook's waste gasification process transforms wood, produce a head, carpet and other organic material in the field of gas. It tiles out clean metal that can subsequently be recycled.
The officer of Chinook's European business, Martin Nye, says that "Impart is so much wiring in a car these period that, abrupt of having a guy with a Stanley sense, this is the simply way to change around it." False gas that is formed from the process is not diverse natural gas and can be utilized to power stream turbines and generate energy.
Britain Hopes That Its Recycling Duty Ghoul Advantage In imitation of The New Plow In Oldbury.
Everybody day, Britain waste senior one million vehicles. Towards the end, EMR has 10 mechanical car shredder facilities, with its major plant shredding 240 vehicles the entire hour. It processes two million loads of car and other metal waste, annually. Prior to its investment to change around pliable waste in cars, the lasting was deliverance 500,000 loads of waste to landfills.
On the increase landfill levy carry been a adult issue for pushing encourage green developments. In 2013, Britain exceeded the 85% recycling fabricate (achieving 88%) for scrapped cars implemented by the EU side with in January 2006. Subdue, on or after January 2015, the 85% fabricate thrust enlarge to 95%. EMR's manager of business development, Graeme Carus, thought that the one way that Britain thrust carry on these targets is with the new technology. "You can't join natives targets by dismantling back up parts off a car," Carus unambiguous.
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Delmarva Power claims it can find a better deal for renewable energy from out of state. But Chad Tolman, who knows his stuff, points out that there isn't that much available. Chad does the math in the "News Journal" today:
There's not much wind power to sell
By CHAD TOLMAN
Posted Thursday, March 6, 2008
DELAWARE VOICE
Gary Stockbridge, president of Delmarva Power, urged Delawareans to wait for the results of the company's request for proposals to wind developers outside of Delaware. He claims he can save customers 50 million each year by buying wind power from other states, without signing a long-term purchase agreement with Bluewater Wind. Bluewater has
offered a guaranteed price of under 10 cents per kilowatt hour for 25 years.
Delmarva Power buys electrical power from the PJM grid, to make up for the shortage of generating capacity in Delaware. PJM doesn't have much wind power to sell. The PJM territory includes Delaware, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Maryland, Virginia, Washington, D.C., most of Ohio and small parts of Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Kentucky and North Carolina. At this time all 12 states and the District of Columbia have just over 1,000 megawatts of installed capacity, most of it in Illinois.
This is about twice the capacity of the offshore wind farm proposed by Bluewater Wind, but it could supply only Delaware's renewable energy portfolio standard of 20 percent of electricity from renewable sources by 2019. The District of Columbia and seven other states in the PJM territory have similar RPS requirements.
The demand for wind energy will no doubt soon outpace supply, and the price will probably go higher than the Bluewater Wind offer.
If Delaware gets the first offshore wind farm in the United States, it could become a major center for manufacture and deployment for offshore wind turbines for the whole coast, creating thousands of new jobs. Babcock and Brown, which owns Bluewater Wind, has offered to help make this happen. Buying land-based wind from other states means giving up lots of jobs for the sake of a short-term cost savings.
Delaware wetlands, wildlife, beach tourism, homes and infrastructure are in danger from rising sea levels that result from burning fossil fuels like gas, oil and coal. Estimates for sea level rise for this century are uncertain, but range from 2 feet to more than 5 feet.
Scientists warn that stabilizing climate and saving our coastlines is going to require major reductions in carbon dioxide emissions soon. The only way to do that is through conservation, greatly increased energy efficiency, large-scale renewable energy sources and replacement of fossil fuels.
Studies at the University of Delaware College of Marine and Earth Studies show a huge wind resource off the coast from Massachusetts to North Carolina -- enough to provide average power of 184,000 megawatts.
"Chad Tolman, of Wilmington, is the energy chairman of the Delaware Chapter of the Sierra Club and an advocate of offshore wind power. "
Just as Obama 'pivoted' America's geo-political policy towards Asia in 2011, Obama's recent speech at Georgetown University finally laid out his long awaited plan to pivot away from fossil fuels, and towards clean renewables like solar and wind. Obama's main target here was coal, responsible for a whopping 40% of America's carbon emissions, which is why the big news is Obama authorizing the EPA to regulate carbon from not just new coal plants, but existing ones. This reduction should keep America on track to meet the pledge Obama made in Copenhagen in 2009 that the U.S. would reduce its emissions by about 17% from 2005 levels by 2020. Obama was just as emphatic about the need for congress to create a carbon tax and end the billions in tax breaks given to huge oil companies making record profits. Even President Obama's positive mention of natural gas was still described as a 'transition fuel' to help us start immediately cutting back on coal. But perhaps more than anything, he offered a full-throated endorsement of the ability of Americans and American businesses to find solutions to today's energy and climate challenges. "The problem with all these tired excuses for inaction is that it's a fundamental lack of faith in American business and American ingenuity." For example, considering all the talk about cutthroat competition in solar manufacturing, it probably surprises most people to discover that First Solar, a American thin film solar manufacturer is booming. Or that solar comprised half of all new electric capacity added to the grid in the first quarter of this year. Or that American companies, Sunrun in particular, pioneered the highly successful solar leasing model that takes away the high upfront cost of buying and installing the panels. Instead the homeowner pays a lower rate for the electricity the panels produce, and it's proving to be wildly popular with a 76% growth rate last year alone. Among environmentalists, Obama's plan was generally considered a little late, as he could have regulated coal plant emissions 4 years ago when the Supreme Court ruled carbon as a pollutant. But "better late than never" said The New Yorker's Elizabeth Kolbert, noting, "this is truly a big deal (that) could significantly reduce the amount of carbon dioxide Americans add to the atmosphere every year." While Michael Brune, executive director of the Sierra Club said "This is the change Americans have been waiting for on climate." Indeed, it was a hard to ignore the symbolism of the President delivering his long awaited climate speech while mopping his brow in the sweltering sun as a near record-setting heat wave spread across much of the country. His message to climate change deniers? "We don't have time for a meeting of the Flat Earth society." "The question is not whether we need to act, the question now is whether we will have the courage to act before it is too late. Those who are feeling the effects of climate change don't have time to deny it," said the President. He went on to describe firefighters dying, homes and crops being battered by both floods and fire, and how ultimately climate change costs everyone via higher insurance premiums. The President was also keen to point out how transitioning to a clean energy economy was a bipartisan issue: How 75% of all wind energy is installed in Republican districts; how thousands of mayors of all political stripes have signed agreements to cut carbon pollution; and how renewable energy creates local jobs that can't be outsourced overseas. Other notable points included accelerating permitting for utility-scale renewable energy projects on federal lands. A goal for commercial, industrial and multi-family buildings to become at least 20% more energy-efficient by 2020. A new goal that the federal government will consume 20% of its energy from renewable sources by 2020. And the expansion of fuel-economy standards for heavy-duty vehicles to make them more fuel efficient. Overall, the President's speech was a good start to addressing climate change issues, particularly it's focus on reducing emissions from coal plants, the main carbon burning culprit of all. And the President's emphasis on ending the tax breaks for fossil fuels to support renewable initiatives certainly deserved the crowd's applause, as did the gusto with which he defended how American innovation will continue to find solutions to help the economy "and" the planet.SHARE AND ENJOY * Facebook * Twitter * Delicious * LinkedIn * StumbleUpon * Add to favorites * Email * RSS The post Obama 'Pivots' To Renewables appeared first on Massachusetts Solar Finance.
