Sunday, April 4, 2010
Feeling Crafty?
Check out these 2 links from instructables.com: DIY 1000 watt wind turbine and build your own 5x4m greenhouse.
Friday, January 15, 2010
Government Policy
“Green Recovery Hearing” - Congressman Inslee’s view on “doing nothing”
“Hopes Dashed at Copenhagen summit” - A brief summary of the Copenhagen Summit 2009
“Energy secretary on climate Change” - US Energy Secretary, Stephen Chu, describes what he’s doing to create jobs in the energy field
“Hopes Dashed at Copenhagen summit” - A brief summary of the Copenhagen Summit 2009
“Energy secretary on climate Change” - US Energy Secretary, Stephen Chu, describes what he’s doing to create jobs in the energy field
Future Consequences of Global Warming
“60 Minutes - Why Are Honeybees Disappearing” - Explains why honeybees are so important to our food supply
“CNN Planet Peril Water” - CNN discusses the severe consequences of lacking clean water
“Food Shortages from 2009 – Water shortages and the future” - A heart-wrenching look at starvation around the world
“Future Scenario Earth 2050” - A look at what our world might be like in 2050
“Earth 2100 Civilization at the Crossroads” - A look at what our world might be like in 2100
“Earth 2100 Civilization in Ruins” - A look at what our world might be like in 2100
“The Devastating Truth about water” - A world-wide perspective on water
Fisheries and Global Warming: Impacts on Marine Ecosystems and Food Security
“CNN Planet Peril Water” - CNN discusses the severe consequences of lacking clean water
“Food Shortages from 2009 – Water shortages and the future” - A heart-wrenching look at starvation around the world
“Future Scenario Earth 2050” - A look at what our world might be like in 2050
“Earth 2100 Civilization at the Crossroads” - A look at what our world might be like in 2100
“Earth 2100 Civilization in Ruins” - A look at what our world might be like in 2100
“The Devastating Truth about water” - A world-wide perspective on water
Fisheries and Global Warming: Impacts on Marine Ecosystems and Food Security
Wednesday, January 6, 2010
Grow Green Power Plans to Feed (and Power) the World
“Grow Green Power is going to change the world!” It is hard to curb his enthusiasm when Reinhold Ziegler talks about the potential of this new technology platform. GGP brings together high volume organic food production with the ability to generate huge quantities of renewable energy. Using the revolutionary Aeroponic food growth system, these facilities can produce up to 20 times the quantity of a conventional farm while utilizing a fraction of the water.
“Water conservation will be a key reason as to why this platform will develop into a core technology during the 21st century. GGP can be custom designed to serve almost every local issue dealing with sustainable growth while having virtually zero negative impact on its’ surrounding ecosystem”.
Professor Ziegler who has long been a visionary in comprehensive sustainable solutions and the development of “living machines” sees limitless possibilities. “Within the scope of this platform we can marry a host of solutions and technologies, including, waste management, recycling, gasification and methane digestion, as well as protein production from fish and poultry farming.
The ability to construct Grow Green Facilities with a variety of technologies allows for maximizing space production, while allowing each technology to act as a support and feeder source for the other technologies at the site. The carbon from the waste stream and the nitrogen from the fish and poultry effluent serve as great nutrient sources for the agriculture. Solar photovoltaic panels, solar collectors, wind turbines, and gasification and waste burning cogeneration supply the energy for the efficient LED grow lights and surrounding communities. The plant and organic waste off-gas methane as they break down, and combined with bio-char from the closed system burning, we can create a super nutrient infused soil to grow healthier fruits and vegetables. This platform has the potential to solve a major problem by becoming a dependable world wide food source. This is particularly true in the developing world and areas ravaged by drought, however, with global climate patterns changing rapidly, this may be the way the world needs to raise food in the future”.
Wescor’s Solar Wall and Solar Ducting Technology Cuts Commercial Heating Bills
Facility owners looking to cut
their heating costs this winter could find an early Christmas present under the tree. Energime partner Wescor has a new solar wall/solar duct technology which can eliminate virtually half the waste associated with heating high bay manufacturing, assembly/storage areas due to the issues of stratification. By warming outside air in their solar ducts and premixing incoming air at the ceiling of the facility, warm air is forced to the working level eliminating up to half of the therms (and money) required to condition the space.
their heating costs this winter could find an early Christmas present under the tree. Energime partner Wescor has a new solar wall/solar duct technology which can eliminate virtually half the waste associated with heating high bay manufacturing, assembly/storage areas due to the issues of stratification. By warming outside air in their solar ducts and premixing incoming air at the ceiling of the facility, warm air is forced to the working level eliminating up to half of the therms (and money) required to condition the space.
Monday, January 4, 2010
Energime Begins National Rollout
ENERGIME Renewable Energy Systems will be
opening satellite operations across the U.S. this fall. Initial plans call for 2 pilot offices in New York, and St. Louis, with sales integration efforts going forward in Hawaii, Maryland, Los Angeles, Oregon and Idaho.
This rollout is the first step in a more general expansion that will reach into every region of North America by the fall of 2011. For now all teaching and training will be handled via the web until each new region is fully integrated into the Energime family. Energime will coordinate all engineering and design work from their central offices in Everett Washington, while providing logistical, estimating, and networking support as each market is developed.
The St. Louis office under the stewardship of Midwest Regional Director Tom Terrio will oversee Energime developments in an area bordered by Omaha to the west, Michigan and Indiana to the north and east, and Kentucky to the south. “We see many opportunities for setting up manufacturing operations with the huge amount of commercial plants and corporate sites that have been virtually abandoned during the recent economic shakeout. There is a real need to get workers trained and employed in this new green economy and we expect the state governments to be very cooperative in terms of their support” said Terrio.
“We will be paying
special attention to Omaha and the state of Michigan as part of our new strategic expansion”.
What is clear is that the range of technologies and services that will be in most demand are likely to vary greatly with each region. This is a direct reflection of the environmental climate as well as the local incentives and legislative support. Farming is a major opportunity in the Midwest, solar and wind will be top items in diesel dependent Hawaii, and with state incentives at $3,50 a watt in New York, everything is on the table.
Negotiations and potential partnering discussions have been underway for what will be Energime’s eventual overseas expansion. Those moves will be restricted to consulting and design for long term projects as the company matures and logistical support becomes available.
opening satellite operations across the U.S. this fall. Initial plans call for 2 pilot offices in New York, and St. Louis, with sales integration efforts going forward in Hawaii, Maryland, Los Angeles, Oregon and Idaho. This rollout is the first step in a more general expansion that will reach into every region of North America by the fall of 2011. For now all teaching and training will be handled via the web until each new region is fully integrated into the Energime family. Energime will coordinate all engineering and design work from their central offices in Everett Washington, while providing logistical, estimating, and networking support as each market is developed.
The St. Louis office under the stewardship of Midwest Regional Director Tom Terrio will oversee Energime developments in an area bordered by Omaha to the west, Michigan and Indiana to the north and east, and Kentucky to the south. “We see many opportunities for setting up manufacturing operations with the huge amount of commercial plants and corporate sites that have been virtually abandoned during the recent economic shakeout. There is a real need to get workers trained and employed in this new green economy and we expect the state governments to be very cooperative in terms of their support” said Terrio.
“We will be paying
special attention to Omaha and the state of Michigan as part of our new strategic expansion”.What is clear is that the range of technologies and services that will be in most demand are likely to vary greatly with each region. This is a direct reflection of the environmental climate as well as the local incentives and legislative support. Farming is a major opportunity in the Midwest, solar and wind will be top items in diesel dependent Hawaii, and with state incentives at $3,50 a watt in New York, everything is on the table.
Negotiations and potential partnering discussions have been underway for what will be Energime’s eventual overseas expansion. Those moves will be restricted to consulting and design for long term projects as the company matures and logistical support becomes available.
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