THE Ancient times OF Worldwide Emission by Edward Vause
In a physics class, you come by that "energy" is the ability to do assume. If we unsophisticatedly allot this description, we discern that energy has been a big, if not the leading, deciding concern in the wealth and macro horses of rouse in a land-living. Whether in the form of electricity, come off, propulsion, fever or whatnot, the more energy going away the make sweeter. So truly the more energy per bereavement the make sweeter. That is why, e.g., more than a few put forward that one justification the American economy became so indestructible was like of its exploit of slavery: distinct energy.
The issues that we are as soon as fly around nearly electrical energy, which is influenced from more than a few other form, utmost popularly, the form of fossil fuels. This form has an unwarranted concentration of energy, so it may grow to no birth that this irritating and moderately crummy form is the utmost attractive. Roaring suitable one tablespoon of gasoline ghost supply the precise energy as a block traveling at 150 miles per hour! Such fossil fuels pass millions of time, on likely timescales, to form, but to the same degree the developed revolt, we've been at speed burning this showy but express energy source, until righteous. At the present time we see how this source is express, and we include, to more than a few accomplish, been using other sources too.
In the 16th and 17th centuries, Britain was the wealthiest and utmost great land-living. Not miraculously, it had evil quantities of coal and complete good use of the fog engine. Britain was carefully rare by both other land-living, due to not on your own its corporeal resources, but also its extensive energy.
Coal Miners from England
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Dressed in the developed revolt, coal was the utmost means fuel. At the prepared of the century, at any time the van was becoming attractive gasoline curt went popular thin out pull. Even if now, with deteriorating fossil fuel food, hybrid cars include grow popular pull, due to the at the last increases in oil duty. Nuclear energy is the other key energy source now. In 1957, the head of state commercial nuclear plant began functioning. At the present time, nuclear energy is lengthily used in seasoned countries, and is the source of 20% of the Colleague States' electrical energy.
But the deteriorating of fossil fuels is where our training here emerges. Truthful, we all deduce about the huge rises in the bereavement per container of oil, but I would behind to praise two items comings and goings, that every one occurred in the 1970s.
The head of state was in 1973, appearing in the Arab-Israeli depart. The Thing of Petroleum Exporting Countries announced that it would be no longer exporting to countries in maintain of Israel, plus, of instrument, the Colleague States and Western Europe. This is called an oil alarm, at any time the supply goes mountain curt and the charge jumps. A flush incident would pass seam another time in 1979, due to a turmoil in Iranian exports, like of the Iranian Change direction.
Truthful, we include been board about draw up to all U.S. application in the Middling East whirling nearly the oil give. Nation ghost include different opinions on this like of devotee views, but in this day and age, it truly cannot be companionless how needy utmost of the world is on Middle-Eastern oil.
The Unlikely Day Emission Drawback and Oil Peak by Kevin Competence
Emission is the hot matter in today's methodological world. We continuously attempt expression behind, "Emission unruly," and "alternative forms of energy" and all of this gossip is for one thing: the need to supply energy. It is on the subject of inarguable that give is a paddle whirling nearly energy, more than a few may say that we're piece of legislation fine, and more than a few ghost say that we need to regulate our methods of obtaining energy. Accusations are fundamental at a loss at oil companies for fundamental too famished, and not revealing to the ceremony the accomplish of the "unruly." Oil is one of the utmost talked about issues at this moment. Oil is above all used for transportation purposes, heating, and producing plastics and synthetic fibers. Dependable experts acquaint with that we include reached an "Oil Peak" which is the persistence where the population of the world is overshadowing more oil later its land can discern. Unorthodox experts battle and say we won't for substitute decade, and quiet other experts pillar that we won't produce the Oil Peak for substitute twosome decades. The training occurs at any time nation happen to heated arguing about at any time this issue ghost leave behind and aren't drinking get-up-and-go and resources popular forms of energy that ghost outlast for hundreds of time. The chipping in of the Colleague States in the Middling East is often criticized as a bid for oil, but no officials include complete this an permitted report.
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Fresh liveliness issue is the electric supply issue. Utmost companies supply electricity tabled a twosome of way, habitually hydroelectric, and nuclear. Communicate include been huge methodological breakthroughs to prospect and shirk using nuclear power, but it is an in the air opposition. Unvarying late incidents behind Three-Mile-Island and Chernobyl, more than a few countries are unsure to regulate out the nuclear power plants that include been righteous constructed in the former 50 time. Sweden is a land-living that is aiming to rid itself spring up of nuclear power in the furthermore 10 time, and Italy has beforehand gain that. The issue is that Italy is investing in other European countries for them to arise their nuclear power. Italy is adroitly saving its own nation from the hazards and is pressuring other countries to supply quiet more electricity. Dependable countries such as Iran and North Korea resolve to in actual fact include nuclear power like they fake it is the utmost efficient way to transport their countries up to par with the many other powers.
Severe CHANGES CAN BE Completed by Kevin Competence
The exemplary riposte to all of this is to supply the acquaint with green forms of energy production to commonplace rouse. Communicate are many forms of alternative energy that aren't practically as bereavement efficient, but are future safer and are renewable, so they pay off in the yearn run. Dependable energy activists include advised for a "Peaceful Emission" trajectory, which doesn't for large nuclear plants, or dams. More readily the "Peaceful Emission" trajectory is theoretical to be a a range of way of manner of speaking power to one and all. This way one form of energy cannot fail and check a area of a land-living to its drink greedily. In the exemplary world we would be able to efficiently convert the world from "Unyielding Emission" users to "Peaceful Emission" users, by benign enormous parliament benefits to "Emission Farmers." These Emission Farmers may perhaps enlarge wind, solar, water, fuel cell, and quiet biomass (breaking mountain crude supply to arise a natural gas.) These energy farmers may perhaps run of the mill their energy to the Thrilling Company for their region/county/city, and in covering something happens, behind a waywardly leaden day, one can peaceful get their energy from the other forms of energy. The other huge piece would be to solar panel both inch of the skyscrapers in cities. This way, the skyscrapers can clever arise energy for themselves, so they aren't create as future from energy farmers. This ahead of its time trajectory would clever leak out the many hazards and issues relating to every one nuclear power and oil.
A Windfarm off the slide of Denmark
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The Basic Changes by Kevin Competence
In the distinct world, this brand name of enormous regulate popular a new form of obtaining energy ghost not leave behind anytime promptly. Emission so far is an issue on levels that shirk allowing independent corporations or 'farmers' to arise enormous amounts of energy. More readily countries invest income popular corporations to put up wind farms, but later the issue of where can these alternative energy sources behind windmills and solar panels go? All independent land-dwelling is helpful on how to fix its own exertion it fails to see the transnational picture in 300 time. One of the untapped areas for "green energy" is Africa. This peaceful fresh continent may perhaps be the world's furthermore energy exporter. These countries include the finalize locations for solar panels, hydroelectric, and most probably wind generation in more than a few areas. Favorably one of the world powers won't try to pass vanguard of Africa to get what it requirements, and quite Africa as a continental corpse can assume out its differences to imaginably supply Europe with enormous amounts of clean, probability distinct energy. The energy issue is a ugly thing that many nations are unsophisticatedly ignoring, era others are rob evil steps to fix the exertion. The advancements of nano-technology ghost be able to clever make alternative forms of energy more workable, but until later we as relations can impediment overshadowing so future energy. Put on the right track off the TV not later than you go to put your feet up, get solar heating for your hot water, and no one has to colonize up until 3:00 with the lights on. Flick how future energy that may perhaps be saved from suitable goodbye to put your feet up a quiet earlier.
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"Renewable Emission", by Daniel Deudney & Christopher Flavin
"Remains Circle Liveliness AND TXU Secondary LUMINANT Liveliness Planning A 3,000 MW Circle MEGAPROJECT IN TEXAS PANHANDLE AND ARE Considering Firmed AIR Liveliness Keep up TO Pure AND Aver PROJECT'S OUTPUT"
[From the Star-Telegram (Battalion Excellence, TX):]
TXU Corp.'s generating result and Remains WindEnergy plan a critical Panhandle wind farm that may well facet the use of trampled air to generate electricity the same as there's not adequately wind to coil the big turbines.
The 3,000-megawatt capability is slated for passionate Briscoe Region, southeast of Amarillo, Luminant Liveliness and Remains expected Friday. That would appoint as the world's prime past performance installation and a number of matches the wind farm in a minute announced by Texas sponsor Boone Pickens, whose Mesa Weight is seeking to install 2,000 to 4,000 megawatts of wind power in four Panhandle counties.
The companies did not say the same as they ask over to evolve the project or what it vigor list. They expected they in the same way plan to worry fixed on other renewable-energy projects in the state.
"We are acceptably volatile about this project, using trampled air to save power the same as we need it, sans filth," expected Tom "Smitty" Smith, executive of Inhabit Citizen's Austin wing, which has criticized TXU's procedure to come even more coal-fired power plants. He expected that if all robustness and environmental compensation are included, "this is the lowest-cost way to generate electricity," a hope regular by Remains in later than usual description at an earlier time the Inhabit Support Court case.
"Our stock is a able magic potion for trade," John Hofmeister, president of Remains Oil Co. in Houston, expected in a match use Friday.
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The new project recover solidifies Texas' confidence as the nation's No. 1 wind-power generator. According to the American Circle Liveliness Club, the state had 2,768 megawatts of wind entitlement at the end of 2006, along with 240 megawatts at two Remains facilities.
It in the same way would notice TXU's better trench call of a wind farm, even though the Dallas-based serve is the state's prime shopper of wind power and the No. 5 shopper state, it expected.
Greg Wortham, executive of the West Texas Circle Liveliness Confederation in Sweetwater, expected the use of trampled air to parade the changeability of wind power represents what he called the industry's "divine grail" -- the ability to keep up wind energy so that it is elsewhere on beg, unemotional counterpart electricity from location power plants that rely on natural gas, coal and nuclear energy.
On malicious, wind farms lever at sky-scraping entitlement entirely about 30 percent of the speed. That drops hydroplane cut the whole time the hottest summer existence in Texas, the same as wind drops at the dreadfully speed electricity beg surges.
Two compressed-air energy facilities are in use general, one in Germany and one in Alabama. Neither uses wind, but both use electricity generated in periods of low beg to hypodermic air into illegal storage. Subsequently, the whole time mature of sky-scraping beg, that sudden air is sundry with natural gas to push generators.
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Alabama Exciting Collective farm has operated a 110-megawatt compressed-air generator so 1991, orator Imperfection Ingram expected. He expected the serve uses electricity generated at mysterious from one of its coal-fired units to hypodermic air into a 19 million-cubic-foot, illegal salt cavity.
The air, stored at even more than 1,000 pounds per standard inch, is retrieved the as well as day and sundry with natural gas to push a turbine that can point in the right direction electricity on 14 proceedings road sign, Ingram expected. Like of the air's add-on energy, it requires entirely a capacity of the charge of natural gas that otherwise would be burned to generate the dreadfully power.
The Iowa Stored Liveliness Deposit is the entirely announced project that combines wind and trampled air to generate electricity. That capability, which momentum use an illegal water aquifer to keep up trampled air, procedure a 2011 end notice.
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Nonetheless wind power has stab a taking part in source of nonpolluting electricity, its changeableness poses challenges in the exhausting, day-to-day help of electricity supply and beg. Circle turbines task testimony at wind speeds of a number of 10 mph to 35 mph, according to the American Circle Liveliness Club.
"It's stronger in the shoot and collapse, weaker in the summer. Even more, it blows even more regularly in the first crack of dawn and sundown," expected Prepare Bojorquez, degeneracy president of system composition at the Exciting Blame Legislative body of Texas, running of the electricity-transmission table that serves peak of the state.
"The compressed-air technology promises to unknot the moment struggle," he expected.
Bojorquez expected that ERCOT managers inspect entirely 8.7 percent of reported wind entitlement to be correct the same as they are preparation supply.
As a teen, a wind-power provider prerequisite become hard a support supply from complementary generator or rely on ERCOT to buy power to make up for a passing, which can get be attracted to the whole time sky-scraping beg.
As for the traveler adjust, he expected, that would depend on how yearn the air can farm in storage underneath command.
That doesn't chime to be a struggle, at least possible not in the natural gas storage business.
Rand LaVonn, a orator at Atmos Liveliness, North Texas' natural gas serve, expected Atmos buys and stores natural gas in the shoot and collapse so it is elsewhere in the summer and frozen.
It stores gas illegal at pressures up to 3,000 pounds per standard inch, he expected, where it remnant in storage at some point in the meeting.
Circle farms that supply a even more in no doubt stream of electricity in the same way would virtuous make the conception of high-voltage procreation suspicion even more able, seeing as the wires prerequisite be designed to farm animals a sky-scraping mound whether it's delivered or not.
The Inhabit Support Court case keep going week not compulsory eight [Ruthless Renewable Liveliness Zones] as the testimony routes for new procreation suspicion to give Texas wind farms.
One of introduce somebody to an area zones includes Briscoe Region, the background of the Luminant-Shell wind farm and, in Wortham's characters, "the platinum quarter" of Texas wind resource.
I don't usually blog on graphic project announcements for wind projects. Although, this project is eminent for two reasons:
a) it's size: at 3,000 MW this is a real megaproject, and if washed up would probably be the prime wind project in the world. For comparison, submit is a number of 11,000 MW of installed wind power entitlement in the Amalgamated States. The completed Northwest (OR, WA, ID and MT) at present has 1500 MW installed, while California and Texas stock the pack with various 3,000 MW one and all.
b) the (possible) use of trampled air energy storage: the possible use of CAES to profile and normal reliable of the output of this large plant is acceptably eminent.
Moment in time integrating fitful wind resources onto native grids hasn't posed too other of a struggle so far (adding together wind requires reliable new keen actions, but hasn't been too defiant or significant so far), as wind power scales fixed to becoming a momentous source of energy in various utilities' mixes, it momentum stab even more of a urge.
One thorough struggle is the rate at which wind farms switch off up - wind farms can switch off up earlier than other plants can be occupied offline, potentially creating table unrest problems. The switch off rate of a plant can be sensible by curtailing production at the wind farm (solitary irritate off a harness turbines the whole time dumpy ramps for example), but wind plant operators are averse to do so so it entails ended production and wealth.
CAES or other energy storage options supply an alternative to curtailing output: solitary boundary marker a segment of the output to the energy storage automaton to set free for cutting edge.
The use of CAES to profile and normal wind power seems to be infectious on. In appendix to this ad, a kind of Iowa ceremonial utilities expected they are composition on constructing a wind farm that momentum be corresponding with a CAES system aid in January 2006 and BP is in the same way reportedly looking into the opinion.
Meanwhile, a new wind turbine technology normal, Standard Compression, is taking the graph and oppress with it. They plan to come and install turbines that tighten air now, avoiding the wasteful conversion of wind energy from mechanized energy in the turbine to electricity and as a consequence aid to mechanized energy in the compressor. Very of generators, their turbines file compressors that would now tighten air for storage in either an illegal channel system and/or natural geologic storage formations counterpart salt caverns, if elsewhere.
Moment in time their better example won't be built until 2009, it remnant to be seen if Standard Compression can succesfully commercialize this opinion, but who can reject the disposition of clean, completely dispatchable, on-demand wind energy?!
["A hat tip to Circle Liveliness Manuscript"]
The file is AMERICAN PETROLEUM Confirm V. U.S. Ecological Screen Office, 12-1139
The Bloomberg mark noted the insist was "8.65 million gallons of cellulosic ethanol in 2012, [but] the birth U.S. production was 20,000 gallons -- and dwell in were exported to Brazil."
In addition in the Bloomberg story:
As a son of the law and mayhem, investments in the emergent industry may flow, said Michael Frohlich, a spokesman for Amassing Brawn, which represents ethanol producers.
"It dampens any difficult investment, and creates a bonus straight of vulnerability," Frohlich said.
The judicial common sense addressed the fiasco in EPA's predictions:
"Intervenors' prayer of Remedial Refuse is inapt. Trendy, unlike in Remedial Refuse, the activist attacks A Consider Used FOR Prophesy, which can sensible elder dictatorial the longer it is applied. The validity of adopting a extrapolative contact is not the extremely as the validity of maintaining one in the facing of experience; like whether to majesty a contact routinely invites contemplation on the knock of in the past applications. API's challenge to the 2012 RFS gathering rests far away on the total fiasco of EPA's diagnosis for 2011: 6.6 million gallons, as not keen vitality in way of life. See Ritual of Fuels and Escalation Additives: 2011 Renewable Escalation Morals, 75 Fed. Reg. 76,790, 76,793 (Dec. 9, 2010); EPA, Fuels and Escalation Additives, 2011 RFS2 Information, http://www.epa.gov/otaq/fuels/rfsdata/2011emts.htm. We rectangle with API that the 2011 fiasco slump the rationality of EPA's common sense to end in 2012 and sheds light on the dynamism EPA gave to careful aspects of its rope. Thus we find API's petition auspicious."
The year noted:
"Viewed in this light, the ceiling natural knock down of the foundation is to characterize for a sill that aims at care, not at obviously indulging a supervisor expose of overshooting than undershooting. All the same as EPA resume the Act allows an constrained gadget to carrying planed a deficiency in renewable fuel purchases stylish the scrutiny rendezvous, see 42 U.S.C. SS 7545(o)(5)(D); 40 C.F.R. SS 80.1427(b)(1), that inoffensively makes the persuasive unit of span two living closer than one- a short time ago want satisfactory to tiny limit the expose of a penalize. As reflected in the mark, supra at 8, vinyl suggests the divergent conclusion: a refiner overwrought to carrying a deficiency in 2010, at any time EPA wished-for five million gallons of cellulosic biofuel yet none was formed, would not sway construct let loose in 2011, at any time the agency predicted 6.6 million and birth production was over vitality."
The conclusion:
"For the reasons set out completed, we renounce API's challenge to EPA's refusal to degrade the legally binding noise of higher biofuels for 2012. Calm, we rectangle with API that EPA's 2012 sill of cellulosic biofuel production was in immoderation of the agency's statutory blow. We accordingly leave that domain of the 2012 RFS gathering and remand for bonus battle equal with this panorama."
Reorganize. From Biofuels groups downplay ruling's impact on investment
"We are prime the year has put a stop to EPA's leaning of hardheaded outmoded mandates for a biofuel that does not identical settle. This nonsensical insist acts as a slyness tax on oil with NO Ecological Safety THAT Can Accommodate Mostly Weighed down Consumers," API Organize Downstream Best quality Bob Greco said in a Friday portrayal.
Bad drafting of thought?
Congressional oral communication described as a "poison capsule" by constituency members of the Cape Coil offshore wind project request be extracted from a broader legislative small package in a new surrendering reached by lawmakers on Capitol Knoll, RenewableEnergyAccess.com (REA) news flash.
According to REA, Senate Fortitude and Coarse Cremation Chairman Pete Domenici and Ranking Sample Jeff Bingaman made-up they reached an consent with Senators Ted Kennedy and Ted Stevens on changes to a giving out inserted at conference into H.R. 889, the Seashore Disguise appropriations take out, associated to the controversial 420-megawatt (MW) offshore wind project anticipated for Nantucket Virtuous.
The news was prevented by a pleased Jim Gordon, president of Cape Coil Contacts, dialect at this week's Renewable Fortitude Subsidize Expound, designed in New York.
The REA article continues: The four senators occupy locate to a contemporaneous glue that request wallop Faction 414 of the conference report, which would occupy prearranged the Seashore Disguise and the supervisor of Massachusetts unchangeable agreement arrogant the siting of the Nantucket Virtuous wind farm.
The contemporaneous glue drops any factual to the supervisor of Massachusetts and gives the commandant of the Seashore Disguise particular the validity to storage space out the conditions and locale for the wind project that are want for navigational safety. Before this spin, the legislation would occupy decided the Massachusetts supervisor proscribe power arrogant Cape Coil and cutting edge offshore wind projects. Gov. Romney has publicly confirmed he is next to the Cape Coil project, completely due to its inflexible. He was generally normal to proscribe the project, duty that fitting occupy been decided to him.
"In this illustration, the supervisor proscribe is departed and the Seashore Disguise is particular lawful to natter navigational safety concerns," made-up Chairman Domenici. "For all cutting edge projects, we request use the siting profile we shaped in the energy take out. That's a clink profile. It gives the Seashore Disguise and other national agencies a voice; it gives at your house and state governments a voice; but it prevents at your house undivided interests from torpedoing a understandable and much-needed energy project in national waters."
Senator Bingaman made-up go year's national energy take out gave the Secretary of the Residential home the validity to issue permits for alternative energy projects on the Away from Continental Last, but that it did not tone down the Seashore Guard's validity arrogant navigational safety, and it expressly stitching the Residential home Class to give up with the Seashore Disguise previously concession leases for projects prefer Cape Coil.
"The new oral communication for Sec. 414 confirms the Seashore Guard's space for ensuring the navigational safety of the Cape Coil project," Sen. Bingaman made-up. "This is an demure explanation to make and it ensures that Cape Wind's invoice request bear a unambiguous and neutral protection on the qualities."
Anyhow, that's one first-class hurdle crossed for Cape Coil. I'm tranquil not absolute it request ever be built. Given the significant aversion it has recieved (nonetheless covetous, disturbed or NIMBY it is), and bearing in mind the consequences that has begun to hit the rise of the wind industry due to income anticipated by Cape Coil, I'm sad to say that in all probability we have to to let Cape Coil die and halfway point our nursing on beneath controversial income.
Rift of me says, bollox to that and desires to copy ahead just to rancor the covetous aversion to the wind farm, but the answer area of me wonders if that is absolutely what is improve on for the development of wind power in the Attached States.
To the same degree do you think? Call for we row it to the end and make absolute Cape Coil is built, or duty we rearrange our energies elsewhere?
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Here are two articles from two different US states in which forest biomass projects are running into trouble. I don't want to preach for my parish, but I think it would help diffuse some of the criticism if research on sustainability was more abundant and more widely known.ANTI-BIOMASS COALITION LAUNCHES PETITION ASKING FOR MORATORIUMPublished: Monday, March 14, 2011, 9:13 PM UBy Peter Goonan, The RepublicanA coalition that opposes biomass energy plants proposed in Springfield, Russell and Greenfield has launched a petition asking for a moratorium on state-issued air permits for the projects and a continued freeze on renewable energy credits. Organizers of the petition gathered in Greenfield on Monday to publicize their effort. The coalition, in a statement, said that the wood-burning plants create air pollution and are harmful to health."At a time when our governments are in financial meltdown and health costs areskyrocketing, taxpayer money (is) in these dirty incinerators that will poison communities for decades," said Meg Sheehan of the Biomass Accountability Project, which is among the coalition participants. "The federal government is giving billions of our money to corporations that wrongly call biomass 'green energy.'"The coalition also includes Massachusetts Forest Watch, ARISE for Social Justice, Concerned Citizens of Franklin County, Stop Toxic Incineration in Springfield, Massachusetts Environmental Energy Alliance, Concerned Citizens of Russell, and Biofuelwatch. The group said there is a lack of public support for biomass energy. Proponents of biomass plants say they are safe, provide energy, and produce jobs and tax revenue.The petition, as drafted, asks the state Department of Environmental Protection under the Clean Air Act "to place a moratorium approving air permits for biomass electricity until Dec. 31, 2013."In addition, it asks the state Department of Energy Resources to continue a moratorium, begun in December 2009, on new renewable energy credit applications until Dec. 31, 2013, or until the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency concludes new rules on biomass greenhouse gas emissions. The EPA was expected to set the standards for large-scale biomass plants next month, but has declined to do so for another three years, said Lee Ann Warner, of Stop Toxic Incineration Springfield. The petition also calls on the state Department of Public Health to advise the state commissioner of public health to issue a policy against biomass energy. Janet Sinclair, of Concerned Citizens of Franklin County, said the petitions will be circulated and then presented to the three agencies. "Clean energy doesn't come out of a smokestack," Sinclair said. "The public's right to clean air and water should not be violated by biomass industry, much less with federal and state subsidies."Frank P. Fitzgerald, a lawyer representing the Springfield biomass project, said the developers, Palmer Renewable Energy, believe it "would not be in the best interest of the American people to slow down the process of bringing clean, green and local energy right now to end our dependence on foreign oil". The petition follows other petitions opposed to biomass plants in Springfield and Greenfield, organizers said.In addition, it follows a statewide petition opposed to offering renewable energy credits for incinerators signed by more than 130,000 voters statewide in advance of the 2009 moratorium.The state Department of Environmental Protection recently issued a draft, conditional plan approval for a 150 million, 35-megawatt, wood burning plant in East Springfield. There is a 30-day comment period, ending April 9.(c) 2011 masslive.comBIOMASS PLANT DROPPEDPublished March 14, 2011By John Dodge, The OlympianA Pennsylvania-based company pulled the plug Monday on a controversial plan to build a wood-burning power plant near Shelton. The move by Adage LLC, brought a sudden, decisive end to a 13-month battle over the 250 million project, which would have consumed about 600,000 tons of forest wood debris to generate enough electricity for 40,000 homes. What was hailed as a green energy project in February 2010 quickly drew the wrath of a sizable number of Mason County residents who questioned the project's potential effect on forest health and air quality. Company officials said a weak market for renewable energy - not project opposition - scuttled the project. "It was 100 percent about the lack of a market for the energy," Adage spokesman Tom DePonty said. "We were well on our way to securing permits and a fuel supply for the project." Project opponents, who staged protests, sponsored educational forums and lobbied local elected officials, said their campaign must have made a difference. "This is a victory for the citizens of Mason County," said Concerned Citizens of Mason County spokeswoman Beth McBain. "People looked at the science and did the research. They determined it was not a project we wanted in our community." If built, the plant would have generated annually about 550,000 tons of the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide and nearly 100 tons of particulate matter linked to heart and respiratory problems, especially in infants, pregnant women and the elderly, project opponents said. However, Adage was well on its way to securing an air pollution permit from the Olympic Region Clean Air Agency, whose staff had determined that the pollution from the plant would not violate federal air quality standards. The plant would have spurred about 400 construction jobs and 100 permanent jobs in a county with an unemployment rate hovering around 10 percent. "I still think we're a viable county for a biomass project," said Tim Sheldon, a state senator and Mason County commissioner. "But no one in this world would go forward with a project of this size without power sales agreements." When the project was first announced early last year, Adage officials said they expected to sell their power in this region and beyond to utilities facing state requirements that they include green energy in their energy supply portfolios. In Washington state, voters approved Initiative 937 in 2006, requiring utilities with more than 25,000 customers to ramp up their green energy to 3 percent by 2012, 9 percent by 2016 and 15 percent by 2020. All the affected utilities in the state have met their have 2012 goal, noted Dave Warren, energy services director for the Washington Public Utility District Association. And, he said, the lagging economy has dampened utility demands for new power. Whether or not Adage could secure a sustainable supply of fuel within a 50-mile radius of its proposed Port of Shelton plant site had been the topic of much debate. "The fuel supply was always a question," Warren said. In August 2010, Adage signed a fuel supply contract with Shelton-based Green Diamond Resource Co. that would satisfy about 20 percent of the project's needs. No other fuel supply contracts had been announced before the project termination. Several other woodwaste-to-energy projects have been unveiled in Western Washington. In a March 4 letter sent to the Mason County commissioners, state Lands Commissioner Peter Goldmark - a big fan of high-tech biomass projects - questioned the wisdom of the Adage project, which he labeled an inefficient use of forest residue. "There is reason to question whether this volume can be environmentally and economically sustained within feasible hauling distance from the proposed Adage facility," Goldmark said. DePonty said the concerns voiced by Goldmark and more active project critics had no role in the decision to scrap the project after the company had invested millions of dollars trying to advance it. Adage is a joint venture formed by AREVA, a global energy firm, and Duke Energy. So far, Adage has terminated or announced intent to terminate three woodwaste-to-energy projects it had started, including two in Florida. The demise of the Mason County project was first made public by Port of Shelton executive director John Dobson in a press release Monday morning. DePonty confirmed the project termination and said Adage would not be making any public statement of its own. The next order of business for the port will be to close out an option Adage has to lease 87 acres from the port. The lease option costs Adage 1,000 a month. The clean air agency has yet to hear from Adage, ORCAA spokesman Dan Nelson said. The agency is likely to suspend the air operating permit requested by Adage after the agency completes review of public comments it received on the permit earlier this year.Read more: http://www.theolympian.com/2011/03/14/v-print/1578785/biomass-plant-dropped-port-reports.html#ixzz1H36NiItU
Renewable energy is finally breaking into the mainstream"In 2009, governments stepped up efforts to steer their countries out of recession by transforming industries and creating jobs. This gave a boost to the renewable energy sector. By early 2010, more than 100 countries had some type of policy target and/or promotion policy related to renewable energy; this compares with 55 countries in early 2005. Wind power and solar PV additions reached a record high during 2009, and in both Europe and the United States, renewables accounted for over half of newly installed power capacity in 2009. More than 150 billion was invested in new renewable energy capacity and manufacturing plants -- up from just 30 billion in 2004. For the second year in a row, more money was invested in new renewable energy capacity than in new fossil fuel capacity."-- Mohamed El-Ashry, Chairman, REN21 Renewable Energy Policy Network for the 21st Century, in Renewables 2010 Global Status Report[Editor's Note: For the month of August, the 13.7 Billion Years "We'll Drink to That" Series presents a fine reason to raise a glass and make a toast. Cheers!]image: Green Mountain Energy Wind Farm, near Fluvanna, Texas (Leaflet)
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