A personal quest to promote the use of wind energy and hydrogen technology in the Great Lakes area of the United States. The Great Lakes area is in a unique position to become an energy exporting region through these and other renewable energy technologies. *Update 2014: Just do it everywhere - Dan*
Saturday, July 31, 2010
Gulf Coast Officials Believe Cement Will Permanently Kill Deep Horizon Well
The New York Times reports that officials in the Gulf Coast region believe the well will be finally capped for good.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/01/us/01spill.html?_r=1
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Many questions raised about hydrogen cars |
Friday, July 30, 2010
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Thursday, July 29, 2010
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OSU engineers turning sewage into energy | ||
Ballard Reports Second Quarter 2010 Results |
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Wednesday, July 28, 2010
Nation's By-Far Largest Wind Farm Finally Breaks Ground In California
http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-windfarm-20100727,0,7972223.story
Massive Oil Spill Near Battle Creek, Michigan
http://www.detnews.com/article/20100727/METRO/7270395/U.S.-Rep.-Schauer--Oil-spill-near-Battle-Creek-largest-in-Midwest-history
President Obama promises swift response.
Tuesday, July 27, 2010
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Quantum Technologies Completes $10.9 Million Private Placement of ... |
New Solar-Electric-Thermal Hybrid Process Could Push Atmospheric CO2 Levels To Pre-Industrial In A Decade
Scientists from George Washington University and Howard University, both in Washington, DC, have advocated a process with the acronym STEP. It would scrub CO2 from the air and turn it into synthetic fuel such as jet fuel or diesel fuel using a 34-50% efficient combination of solar-electric and solar-thermal power.
http://www.physorg.com/news199005915.html
Amazing!
Dan
Friday, July 23, 2010
Google Alert - hydrogen, wind, power
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Solar apples, hydrogen spies, alternatives for dummies |
Wednesday, July 21, 2010
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In Oregon, Wind Power Surges Disrupting Grid |
Tuesday, July 20, 2010
FW: New 'Clean Coal' Plants To Clean Out Suburbanite's Wallets In Chicago West 'Burbs?
Dan
From: Qualogistics@aol.com
Sent: July 18, 2010 6:24 PM
To: aquarianm@gmail.com
Cc: siobhankolar@hotmail.com
Subject: It "sounds like a sequel to the Music Man!"
Clean coal dream a costly nightmare: Five Chicago suburbs and dozens of other Midwest towns in power-plant deal now face the prospect of rising electricity bills "As the Prairie State Energy Campus rises out of a Downstate field, its price tag already has more than doubled to $4.4 billion — costs that will largely be borne by municipalities including the suburbs of Naperville, Batavia, Geneva, St. Charles and Winnetka. The communities are locked into 28-year contracts that will require higher electricity rates to cover the construction overruns, documents and interviews show. Municipal officials told the Tribune they expect costs to soar even higher before the plant begins operating next year. … Each year, it will churn more than 13 million tons of heat-trapping gases into the atmosphere, an amount equivalent to adding 2 million cars to the nation's highways. Most U.S. power plants emitting that much climate-change pollution date to the 1960s and '70s. The pollution also could make the plant more expensive to operate. Climate and energy legislation pending in Congress would slap a price on greenhouse-gas emissions, requiring Prairie State's owners to spend hundreds of millions more a year. Local officials didn't account for those costs when buying into the plant."
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/ct-met-coal-plant-20100710,0,3747005.story
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You are into music more than me so maybe you can confirm this. The above story reminds of the musical/movie (Music Man?) where a "snake oil salesman" of a guy convinces a town to invest all their money into a band. The same has happened here with the above towns and taxpayers having to pay Millions more of their tax dollars because they believed in the fallacy of "clean coal."
#2 Siobhan has some info on an upcoming meeting on the smart grid that should be of interest for your blog on energy.
Don Kirchenberg
630-853-7650
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First European Lighthouse Project for Hydrogen Fuel Cars to Launch in Norway ... |
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New energy economy |
Monday, July 19, 2010
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BP: No plans to sell alternative-energy units |
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In Search of the Next Edison |
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Saturday, July 03, 2010
Friday, July 02, 2010
On A Positive Note, Intel Corp. Is Using One Of My Wind Power Poems...
Here's the pertinent e-mail:
"From: MacKenzie, Bill
Sent: July 01, 2010 12:11 PM
Subject: use of your poem
Dan,
Thanks again for giving Intel permission to use your poem, “The Magic of a Breeze”, in another ad promoting wind power. Intel is the largest purchaser of wind power in Oregon and we want to encourage others to follow our example.
Would you be kind enough to reply to this e-mail just giving us written permission to use your poem so I have a record of our conversation? I will certainly make sure to send you a copy of the ad when it is completed, which should be in a couple weeks.
By the way, I think I sent you a copy of the last ad we did with your poem, but attached is another copy in case I didn’t.
Regards,
Bill
Bill
Bill MacKenzie
Communications Manager
U.S. Corporate Affairs, JF3-107
Intel Corporation
5200 N.E. Elam Young Parkway
Hillsboro, OR 97124"
You can view the .pdf version of the ad here: http://ia360703.us.archive.org/14/items/WindPowerAdvertisementmagicOfABreeze/WindAd1.pdf
BP Dumping Sand To Cover Up Beach Oil?
Below is the Youtube video related to the story. I don't know enough to tell who's been doing what, but the whole mess is disgusting if you ask me.
Dan