Subject: Renewable Community Energy – request from George Hay in the US. Claverton: Are there any European “leaders” in community energy/sustainable energy concepts in England/Europe you could put me in contact with? I’m seeing in CA: the RESCO project by Gerry Braun, methodology for municipalities to plan for distributed resouces, attract critical mass of investment […]
Read MoreADRECS – How To Rapidly Convert The Central Deserts Of China To Agricultural Regions Producing Huge Amounts Of Renewable Energy For Europe
This article describes a novel concept using existing technology to very quickly a) control the desertification and sand drifts b) enable the establishment of plant species c) the construction of wind farms or CSP connected to Europe by either a lengthy HVDC transmission system, or the local production of ammonia which can readily be transported to eg Europe / USA and easily used as a vehicle fuel d) the construction of a vast area of seawater greenhouses using sea water pumped thousands of miles to be desalinated by solar energy to allow the production of food and or energy crops. (Contrary to what some ill-informed people claim this does not use a huge amount of energy compared to other national uses) e) unlocks the massive potential for carbon sequestration via organic matter in soil
Read MoreWe've been asked to have a look digester technology to treat the effluent from a palm oil mill
http://tx1.fcomet.com/~claverto/cms/download/310/ http://tx1.fcomet.com/~claverto/cms/business-services/Novero-digester-technology.html We‘ve been asked to have a quick look at this technology for a dig ester to treat the effluent from a palm oil mill and then recovering the gas to run a boiler or potentially getting a generator to produce electricity. There would also be revenue from O&M and carbon credits. One of the […]
Read MoreClaverton has been asked to comment on the attached submission from the REA to government
please put any comments, as a comment, and or send to John Baldwin ASAP. There are only hours in which to make a submission. The energy dimension to A sustainable recovery pathway Overview – a Green New Energy Deal The pathway to recovery from this economic downturn must take us in a new direction, not […]
Read MoreSenior Energy Analyst reports on biochar as economic method of CCS
Hi Claverton,
Just read this on bio-char.
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/67843ec0-020b-11de-8199-000077b07658.html.
Sound’s good to me. At £9/tonne this seems a sizeable contribution to GHG
reduction at a carbon price we already have in the EU cap and trade system.
I think the silver buckshot Al Gore cites will have many such low tech, low
cost solutions. For me making charcoal is an intuitively correct solution
as it seems to be a simple way of compressing the natural carbon capture
cycle that can be done at low capital costs and with lots of other benefits
as well.
Rgds
M
Read MoreCarbon Pathways Analysis – Informing Development of a Carbon Reduction Strategy for the Transport Sector
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Read MoreTHE FUTURE OF ELECTRICITY: LIBERALISATION, LONG DISTANCE TRANSMISSION, HVDC AND SUPERGRIDS
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Read MoreNational Grid comes out for Biogas in a big way – 50% of UK gas demand
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Read MoreASA bans renewable fuels ad
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Read MoreCAP Biogas Technology To Be Installed On United Utilities Trucks
Clean Air Power Limited are converting UU’s diesel trucks at Davyhulme the sewage treatment works serving the large Northern City of Manchester, famous for its football teams, to run on dual fuel diesel-biomethane. The basic idea has been around for years, essentially methane is fed into the inlet of an ordinary diesel engine, where the […]
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