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Renewable energy vs nuclear power
http://www.greenpeace.org/international/Global/international/publications/nuclear/2012/Fukushima/Fact%20Sheets/Renewable_Energy.pdf
February 2013
Renewable energy is the future Renewable energy has grown at an impressive rate over the past 25 years. Wind power and solar energy, two of the key sources of renewable energy, have outpaced the growth of every other segment of the energy sector, maintaining double-digit growth since 2000.
The strong growth rate for renewable energy has made it a viable option for replacing the world's
dirty, dangerous and hugely expensive nuclear reactors. In 2011 alone, over 30,000MW of new wind and solar capacity was connected to the electricity grid.
Nuclear power is the past
The development of nuclear energy has been in decline for years. In 2011, 6,000 megawatts (MW) of nuclear energy was retired in the EU. Only 311MW of new capacity from nuclear was added to the grid.
With the rise of renewables, the world no longer needs to live with the inherent dangers of nuclear
power, which were once again exposed in Fukushima, in March 2011. The triple meltdown was and subsequent contamination of the land, air, and sea far from the plant was caused by the failure of the human institutions that were supposed to protect the public from nuclear accidents.
Institutional failure has been the main cause of all past nuclear accidents, including the accident
at Three Mile Island in the US and the disaster in Chernobyl in Ukraine. Similar institutional
failures are a repeated in many countries with reactors. Hundreds of millions of people live near
reactors: they are all at risk. Fukushima is a warning to the rest of the world.
Replacing nuclear with renewable energy
The Greenpeace Global Energy [R]evolution scenario shows that sources of renewable energy
could supply 38% of global power demand by 2020 and 95% by 2050.
In Japan, the government has wasted valuable time since the Fukushima disaster. The Energy [R]evolution for Japan, released in September 2011, shows that the country could have permanently switched off all its reactors in 2011, and could increase electricity production from renewables to 47,000MW from 3,500MW by 2015.
Wind power is the most economic new power plant technology, due to reduced installations costs, no fuel costs and construction time of less than one year, compared to over 10 years to build nuclear power plants.
In addition to replacing nuclear, renewables could lead to phasing out of over 90% of fossil fuels in the power and heating sectors by 2050, while in the transport sector the use of fossil fuels could be reduced from the current 98% down to about 30% by 2050.
Countries can create an indigenous, locally produced energy supply based on renewables and cut the drain on their resources of buying energy. Since renewable energy doesn’t have fuel costs, the global savings on fuel costs could reach $282bn US dollars a year through to 2030, and about $964bn a year from 2030 to 2050.
Source: EWEA2012
Some examples of the success of renewables:
• In last quarter of 2012 wind was the main electricity producer of Spain
• During 2010, China built roughly one windmill every hour.
• The wind industry installed just over 41,000MW of new clean, reliable wind power in 2011, bringing the total installed capacity globally to more than 238,000MW at the end of 2011. This represents an increase of 21%, with an increase in the size of the annual global market of just over 6%.
• Today, about 75 countries worldwide have commercial wind power installations, with 22 of them already passing the 1 gigawatt (GW) level.
• More than half of all new wind power was added outside the traditional markets of Europe and North American in 2010, for the first time.
• New Zealand generates 10% of its electricity needs from geothermal power.
• Portugal’s renewables went from 15% to 45% in its electricity grid in just five years.
Nuclear power and the conflict with renewables
Often the nuclear industry wrongly claims that nuclear energy is needed to combat climate change. The serious flaw with the industry’s argument is that if the world’s reactors were quadrupled – a far-fetched scenario to say the least – at best it would cut global CO2 emissions by a mere 6%, and only after 2020 – well beyond the deadline that climate scientists have set for avoiding catastrophic climate change. Operating nuclear plants prevents the largescale integration of renewable energy into electricity grids, according to research by Greenpeace and others.
Nuclear also robs investment away from renewables where investment can actually make a difference in fighting climate change.
Operational problems of nuclear power
Nuclear power must run around the clock with a constant output capacity, which is called “baseload”. This is a key problem with nuclear. First, a permanent power generation mode –̶ independent from the actual need in the power grid – is needed to generate as much electricity as possible to make generation costs low.
If the operational hours were reduced to half, the cost would double. So the “baseload” strategy is more an economic concept than a technical one.
Second, unlike modern gas turbines, which can react within seconds to fluctuating demand in the electricity grid, nuclear power stations are unable to react to the demand curve, and demand must follow the operation mode of nuclear power plants. This leads to the inefficient use of electricity. In almost all countries with a winter heating demand, a large share of nuclear in their power mix goes hand in hand with the expansion of highly inefficient electrical heating systems. For example, France, with about 80% nuclear in its power mix, had an overall power demand of 101GW on a cold day in February 2012, while Germany, which has 15 million more people than France, with 20% nuclear in its power mix had a demand of just over 50GW on the same cold day. (Bunesnetzagentur –
German Grid Authority – 9 February 2012). Germany has far better insulated houses and a significantly lower share of electrical heating systems.
The inflexibility of nuclear reactors has a negative effect on renewables. For technical and safety reasons, nuclear plants cannot easily be turned down so wind operators are often told to shut off their generators to give priority to electricity from nuclear plants, an economic and ecological mistake. As a result, nuclear energy blocks the development of renewable energy technologies by commandeering space on the electricity grid and reducing income for wind operators.
Renewable power plants can be built much more quickly than nuclear and are safe. In addition, renewables can replace several times more of the carbon that is leading to climate change for the same cost as nuclear and at a far faster pace. At present, only two reactors out of 54 reactors in Japan are online, and there have been no significant problems with the electricity supply. Japan has proven that it can survive without nuclear power.
For more information, contact: pressdesk.int@greenpeace.org
Greenpeace International
Ottho Heldringstraat 5, 1066 AZ Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Tel: +31 20 7182000
greenpeace.org
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2012年11月9日
再生可能エネルギーは、経済苦境に喘ぐEUの中で唯一といって良い成長分野・ 2012年、原発39基分の発電量を実現
【ヨーロッパの風力発電事業の最新事情】
風力発電はEU全体のエネルギー安全保障と環境保護に大きく貢献、緑の産業界の雇用を創出、技術輸出も実現
次々と再生可能エネルギー発展のための、法整備を進めるEU
ポール・ホッケノス / アメリカAOLエナジー 10月23日
欧州連合（EU）の官僚機構の評判は、その官僚主義的なやり方により形無しです。
しかし事、風力発電事業となると、特に洋上発電については、この10年間順調に成果を上げ、域内で行われている事業の中でほぼ唯一予想を上回る成長を続けており、急成長の観すらあります。
欧州では経済危機が進行中ですが、その中のわずかな例外として、風力発電事業が発展を続けています。発展の背景にはEUでは二酸化炭素排出規制などの、国家的規模での環境規制が行われていることも挙げられるでしょう。
EUの風力発電事業の躍進を表すものとして、まず挙げられるのが発電量の増大です。
今年、EUの風力発電事業は、100ギガワット発電を実現するという、ひとつの節目を迎えました。
この発電規模は39の原子力発電所の発電量、あるいは7,200万トンの石炭による火力発電量に等しいものです。
ブリュッセルに本部を置くヨーロッパ風力発電協会（EWEA）によれば、これによりEU全域の電力総需要の７％を供給できるようになりました。
「最初の10ギガワットをEUの送電網に送り込むまでに、20年の歳月を要しました。」
ヨーロッパ風力発電協会（EWEA）のCEOクリスチャン・ケーアがこう語りました。
「しかし、さらに90ギガワットを追加するのには、13年しかかかりませんでした。そしてEUの風力発電能力の半分は、この６年間で達成されたのです。」
同協会の試算によれば、欧州域内の5,700万世帯が一年間に消費する電力を、風力発電だけで賄っていることになります。
欧州の風力発電事業のけん引役はドイツ、スペイン、そしてイギリスです。
ドイツの風力発電は陸上に設置された風力タービンが主体で、その総発電量は30ギガワット、これを上回る規模で風力発電を世界で行っているのは、アメリカと中国だけです。
この発電量はドイツの総需要電力の11％を賄います。
これに対し、デンマークでは総需要の17％が、スペインでは26％が風力発電によりまかなわれています。
デンマークとイギリスは、洋上発電の潜在能力の効率的活用に成功した数か国間中の代表的存在です。
「風力発電は欧州内にたくさんある再生可能エネルギー資源の、一部を活用したに過ぎませんが、それだけでEU全体のエネルギー安全保障と環境保護に大きな貢献をしているのです。それに加えて、緑の産業界の雇用を創出し、技術輸出も実現しました。」
ケーア氏はこのように語りました。
▽ 達成までの道のり、困難が伴うのは当たり前
欧州の風力発電事業が成功するまでの道のりは、決して容易なものではありませんでした。
10年前までは石油石炭による火力発電、そして原子力発電に特化した大企業が欧州市場を独占していました。
そして風力発電や太陽光発電のような再生可能エネルギー事業の新規参入に対しては、執拗に妨害を繰り返していました。
多くの欧州市場では、ドイツのような国でも、国策会社やひとにぎりの大企業が市場を独占していたのです。
こうした状況が変わり始めたのは1998年のことで、旧弊な大企業独占市場が自由市場へと少しずつ形を変えて行きました。
こうしてEUは京都議定書を始めとする、地球的規模の環境保護を経済社会の中で実現する動きをリードすることになり、温室効果ガスの排出問題などについても、世界の世論の主流を創り出しているのです。
その中で重要な役割を演じたのが2001年と2009年のEUの議決でした。
2001年の議決は、環境への負荷が少なく、エネルギー安全保障にも貢献できる再生可能エネルギー発電設備建設に対し、資金援助を行うための仕組みを作りました。
さらに８年後の2009年には、2020年の排出規制の実現を法的に規定したのです。
加盟国再生可能エネルギー行動計画は、加盟各国の達成状況について、２年ごとの検証を行う事を定めました。
2020年の目標は、EU加盟各国が以下の条件をクリアすることを求めています。
▼ 再生可能エネルギーの発電割合を20％にまで高める
▼ 電力使用量の20％削減
▼ 二酸化炭素排出の20%の縮小
加盟国再生可能エネルギー行動計画は、欧州全体では2020年には再生可能エネルギーによる発電割合は34％に達し、うち風力発電は14％を担うことになっています。
再生可能エネルギーに対する様々な支援、そしてEU市場を統合したことも、こうした取り組みを可能にするため、重要な役割を演じたものと考えられます。
「今や再生可能エネルギーに関する野心的な目標が、EUの政治機構の中心に据えられています。」
ヨーロッパ風力発電協会（EWEA）が昨年公表した報告書は、このように結論づけました。
「EUが加盟国、そして域内全体で野心的な目標をいち早く採用したおかげで、欧州の企業は風力発電技術において世界をリードし、また世界市場において最大のシェアを獲得することになるでしょう。」
▽ 加盟各国のさまざまな取り組み
この方針決定について、加盟各国のそれぞれの受け止め方は、もちろん異なっていました。
たとえばドイツでは、EUの方針は風力発電や太陽光発電以上に、開発について国の政策に大きく依存していたバイオ燃料の分野にも、大きな影響を与えました。
「EUが採用した行動指針は、バイオ燃料に相当な影響を及ぼしました」
と、ドイツ最大の研究機関であるマックス・プランク研究所のフェルディ・シュース博士が説明しました。
「しかしドイツにおける主流は、2000年に施行された国内の再生可能エネルギー法により、やはり風力発電と太陽光発電になるでしょう。」
それでも尚、EUの首脳陣と風力発電に重きを置く加盟各国は、2030年の達成を目指す野心的な目標の達成について、心配しています。
ドイツ、デンマーク、スウェーデンなどの国々は、すでに国内電力需要の20％以上を再生可能エネルギーによって賄っています。
「2020年以降の成長を確実なものにするため、さらに法整備を進める必要があります。」
2012年の初頭、EUがこう表明しました。
「再生可能エネルギーの発展を、しっかりと支えていく必要があります。」
欧州のこうした意気込みは、初期投資を必要とする野心的な目標を達成しようという、一時的なムードに終わることは無いでしょう。
なぜなら欧州の再生可能エネルギー事業は、今やしっかりと基礎固めをし、前進を続けているからです。
http://energy.aol.com/2012/10/23/the-business-of-wind-energy-in-europe
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あれだけの事故を引き起こしておきながら、尚も原子力発電にしがみつく勢力が大手を振ってまかり通っている日本を、世界はどう評価しているのか、そして私たちはこの現実にどう向かい合うべきなのか？
日本と違い、地震などまず起きるはずの無いドイツはなぜ、あのように決然と原子力発電所の廃止を決めたのでしょうか？
それはこれまでドイツ国民が、福島第一原発の事故が発生するはるか以前から、反原発、脱原発運動に取り組んできたからだという事が、各国の報道を見て理解できました。
そしてこうした運動を支えたのが、事実を包み隠さず国民の前に明らかにする報道や政府機関の広報でした。
これとは対照的に、私は日本の権力機構（政府機関、政治家、マスコミ権力など）は国民が自ら考え、自ら決断を下すことを、極度に恐れているのではないか、と考えています。
そのことが先月、自民党の幹事長が「原子力発電を止める、止めないなどと言うことは、国民に決めさせていい問題では無い」と発言したことに、端的に表現されていると思います。
そんな大切なことは、オレたちの『専決事項』だという事でしょうか？
自分たちの国の方針を自ら「決めさせてもらえない」ような国民は、民主主義国家の国民ではありません。
利用され、使われるだけなら、民主主義国家の国民では無いと思います。
面倒でも考える、億劫でも機論する、今日本の人々に求められているのは、そういう事ではないでしょうか？
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Renewable Energy Is Our Only Hope
http://www.thegreenmarketoracle.com/2012/02/renewable-energy-is-our-only-hope.html
Thursday, February 16, 2012
Anyone who has reviewed the science of climate change realizes that global warming is caused chiefly by the burning of fossil fuels. To combat climate change we must reduce our greenhouse gases including carbon.
To ward off the most serious impacts of climate change, we must keep the earth from warming more than 2 degrees C. If the earth warms by more than 2 degrees it will cause catastrophic climate change impacts. An increase in global mean temperature of 2 degrees C. above pre-industrial levels will increase the likelihood of irreversible and potentially catastrophic climate change.
In 2009, the G8 countries and the Major Economies Forum agreed to that global warming should be limited to a maximum of 2 degrees C. above the pre-industrial period. At the Cancun climate negotiations in 2010, Parties to the UNFCCC agreed to the 2 degrees C. upper limit of global warming.
The Carbon level in the atmosphere is now just under 400 parts per million (ppm), to keep the earth from warming beyond 2 degrees C.we need to reduce carbon to an upper limit of 350 ppm.
How do we keep the earth from warming as our population is increasing and our energy demands are growing?
To keep the earth from warming we must rapidly move toward an economy based on renewable fuels. Their are a couple of studies which indicate that the world could rely entirely on green energy sources within 20 years if we dedicate ourselves to that course.
The United Nations' Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released a report which indicates that nearly 80 percent of global energy demand could be met by renewable sources of energy by 2050.
For more information on the potential of renewable energy to meet our energy needs see the two studies below:
1. Mark Z. Jacobson and Mark A. Delucchi, “A path to sustainable energy by 2030”, Scientific American, November 2009, pp 58 – 65.
2. Robert Howarth, “Preliminary assessment of the greenhouse gas emissions from natural gas obtained by hydraulic fracturing”, Cornell University , 1 April 2010.
To replace fossil fuels with renewable sources of energy will take enormous amounts of money and energy. Given enough time and will, we can replace hydrocarbons. However we do not have much time, and we do not at present have enough will.
Renewables are our only hope for the future. Even if we fail to rise to the challenge and society collapses, we will revert to smaller, more independent communities, where we will be forced to use small scale renewable power. One way or another, renewable energy is our future.
© 2012, Richard Matthews. All rights reserved.
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IPCC Report Indicates that Most of the World's Energy Needs Could be Met by Renewables
http://www.thegreenmarketoracle.com/2011/05/ipcc-report-indicates-that-worlds.html
Monday, May 16, 2011
The United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has released a report which indicates that nearly 80 percent of global energy demand could be met by renewable sources of energy by 2050. On May 9, the IPCC released the Special Report on Renewable Energy Sources and Climate Change Mitigation. The report compares 164 different scenarios and most of these scenarios project a substantial increase in the deployment of renewable energy. The report predicts that by 2050 wind power could supply more than a fifth of our energy and with the right technical advances solar power could provide one-third of our energy.The report indicates that renewable energy can reduce greenhouse gases by 33 percent, contribute to sustainable economic growth, create jobs, and provide cheaper electricity to poor rural areas. The report suggests that we can become so energy efficient that the predicted population of 9 billion by 2050 could use less energy than 7 billion people on the planet today.
The IPCC report was prepared by 120 scientists and it is the most comprehensive high level review of renewable energy to date. The report predicts that the costs will fall considerably in the coming years due to technological advances. The report also predicts that enewable energy options will surge and account for a much larger percentage of the total energy usage.
“Most of the 164 scenarios showed renewable energies would rise to supply above 100 exajoules (EJ) a year by 2050, reaching 200-400 EJ a year in many scenarios. In 2008-2009, 140 GW of the 300 GW of new global electricity generating capacity came from renewables.
According to the report the six of the most promising renewable energy technologies include solar, wind, bioenergy, geothermal, and ocean. The fastest-growing technology is grid-connected solar electric power, which saw a 53% increase in installed capacity during 2009. However, the report suggests that solar photovoltaics will continue to be among the more expensive options for some years.
The biggest single source, accounting for about half of the global total, is the burning of wood for heat and cooking in developing countries.This is not always truly renewable, as new trees to replace the burned wood are not always planted.
To make renewable energy more competitive we need to get the costs down. The report also indicates that renewable energy would be "economically attractive" if the environmental costs of fossil fuel emissions were included in prices.
Unlike fossil fuels, the expansion in renewable energy is not limited by any notion of a finite supply.The report concludes there is more than enough to meet the world's current and future energy needs. The report says that almost half of current investment in electricity generation is going into renewables, but growth will depend on having the right policies in place.
The report indicates that we could cut in global greenhouse gas emissions of about one-third compared with business-as-usual projections by 2050. Currently, renewables supply 12.9% of the global energy supply.
"With consistent climate and energy policy support, renewable energy sources can contribute substantially to human well-being by sustainably supplying energy and stabilising the climate," said Professor Ottmar Edenhofer, co-chair of the IPCC working group that produced the report."However, the substantial increase of renewables is technically and politically very challenging," he added.
The IPCC report indicates that, “The projected expansion is likely to continue even without new measures to promote a shift from fossil fuels as part of a U.N.-led fight against climate change.” Governments have agreed to limit the global average temperature rise to 2C at the most. To achieve the reductions agreed to at UN climate talks in Cancun, at the end of 2010 governments must make use of renewable energy sources on a very large scale. To meet international climate targets, governments will need to advance ambitious national policies and strong international cooperation to stimulate renewable investment.
To achieve even more growth in renewables requires ambitious national policies and strong international co-operation. According to UNFCCC Executive Secretary Christiana Figueres, "It is also clear that ambitious national policies and strong international cooperation are together the key to the swift and extensive deployment of renewable energies in all countries."
"While the report concludes that the proportion of renewable energy will likely increase even without policies," the reports authors said in a press release, “past experience has shown the largest increases come with concerted policy efforts.”
The IPCC brought together the most relevant and best available information to provide the world with this scientific assessment of the potential of renewable energy sources to mitigate climate change. It concludes that, “The technical potential of renewable energy technologies exceeds the current global energy demand by a consider amount, globally, and in respect of most regions of the world.”
The report indicated that renewable energy could provide up to 77% of the world's power by 2050, but this is less than 3% of total potential (under the 164 scenarios reviewed). The report indicates that wind power alone is capable of supplying more than 100% of future demand, and solar power many times more.
Although not included in the IPCC report, the WWF’s new Energy Report details a road map for achieving 100% renewable energy by 2050. Leading the WWF to say that the IPCC report, “underestimates the potential of deploying renewable energy even faster, especially when combined with top level energy efficiency."
The IPCC report demonstrates that with the right governmental backing we could get almost 80 per cent of our energy from renewable energy sources by 2050. If we do not see government support the IPCC report also lays out a bleaker vision for the future. Under this scenario we could consume more energy by 2050, and only 15 percent of the world's energy needs would be met by renewable energy.
© 2011, Richard Matthews. All rights reserved.
The EU Debt Crisis did Not Curb the Growth of Renewables in 2011
http://www.thegreenmarketoracle.com/2012/02/eu-debt-crisis-did-not-curb-growth-of.html
Monday, February 13, 2012
According to a report from the European Wind Energy Association, Renewable energy has increased more than ten times in the last eleven years. In 2000 there was only 3.5 GW of installed renewable energy in Europe, in 2011 that number had grown to 32 GW (mostly wind and solar).
The growth of renewable energy in Europe has already outpaced forecasts in many countries. The EU currently has a target of 20 percent of its final energy (heat, electricity and fuels) from renewable energy. Numerous countries have already surpassed their targets in the electricity and heating sectors, and it’s likely that the entire region will move past the goal well ahead of schedule.
It’s expected that renewable electricity sources will meet 34 percent of demand in Europe by 2020, with 25 of 27 countries to surpass their targets beforehand.
In 2011, solar PV accounted for 26.7% of capacity additions, wind power accounted for 21.4% of additions, and natural gas made up 22% of installations. Below that was coal at 4.8%, fuel oil at 1.6%, large hydro at 1.3%, and concentrating solar power at 1.1% of capacity.
© 2012, Richard Matthews. All rights reserved.
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Special Report on Renewable Energy Sources and Climate Change Mitigation
The Special Report on Renewable Energy Sources and Climate Change Mitigation (SRREN), agreed and released by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) on May 9th in Abu Dhabi, assesses existing literature on the future potential of renewable energy for the mitigation of climate change. It covers the six most important renewable energy technologies, as well as their integration into present and future energy systems. It also takes into consideration the environmental and social consequences associated with these technologies, the cost and strategies to overcome technical as well as non-technical obstacles to their application and diffusion.
Overview of IPCC Special Report on Renewable Energy
Statement of Ottmar Edenhofer, Co-Chair, at the 11th session of the IPCC Working Group III, May 2011, Abu Dhabi
Impressum · Accessibility · IPCC Home · IPCC Working Group III
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アップロード日: 2011/05/12
"Within 6 hours deserts receive more energy from the sun than humankind consumes within a year." Dr Gerhard Knies
Full Report available here: http://srren.ipcc-wg3.de/report
Statement of Ottmar Edenhofer, Co-Chair, at the 11th session of the IPCC Working Group III, May 2011, Abu Dhabi
More about the report can be found here: http://srren.ipcc-wg3.de/
The world can easily harness all its energy needs from clean renewable sources without burning dirty fossil fuels.
Humanity has no choice but to evolve past the polluting 'carbon age'. Pollution is so 20th century
http://www.zerocarbonbritain.com/
http://beyondzeroemissions.org/zero-c...
Can Renewable Energy Power The World? Hermann Scheer
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wXRw2E...
More on Hermann Scheer from 11:00 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_z7cdD...
Full Report available here: http://srren.ipcc-wg3.de/report
Statement of Ottmar Edenhofer, Co-Chair, at the 11th session of the IPCC Working Group III, May 2011, Abu Dhabi
More about the report can be found here: http://srren.ipcc-wg3.de/
The world can easily harness all its energy needs from clean renewable sources without burning dirty fossil fuels.
Humanity has no choice but to evolve past the polluting 'carbon age'. Pollution is so 20th century
http://www.zerocarbonbritain.com/
http://beyondzeroemissions.org/zero-c...
Can Renewable Energy Power The World? Hermann Scheer
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wXRw2E...
More on Hermann Scheer from 11:00 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_z7cdD...
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The MIT Energy Initiative: Sustainable Energy and Terawatt-Scale Photovoltaics
アップロード日: 2009/11/16
Google Tech Talk
November 5, 2009
ABSTRACT
This MITEI on the Road event will open with a brief overview of the MIT Energy Initiative (MITEI) by Daniel Enderton, Executive Director of MITEIs Sustainable Energy Revolution Program (SERP). This overview will highlight the extensive depth and breadth of research, education, campus energy and outreach activities underway as part of the Initiative. Mr. Enderton will give particular focus on the SERP program, with highlights of successful past projects in storage, promising new projects in geothermal and the impact philanthropy is having on renewable energy research at MIT.
Following this, Professor Tonio Buonassisi of Mechanical Engineering will give a presentation describing the key technical challenges to scaling commercial PV technologies to the terawatt level. The speaker will present a vision for the role of university engineering and science towards surmounting these challenges, drawing from personal experience in the solar industry, national laboratories, and academia. Increased solar cell conversion efficiencies, novel materials, and decreased capital equipment costs will be discussed as a means to achieve rapidly scalable manufacturing, highlighting the role of innovation.
technologies and how they will help drive down the cost of solar technology to be competitive with petroleum-based alternatives, while Mr. Enderton will give an overview of the MIT Energy Initiative (MITEI) and information on other renewable energy projects at MIT.
Tonio Buonassisi is Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering at MIT and heads an interdisciplinary laboratory focused on photovoltaics (solar energy conversion into electricity). Prof. Buonassisi completed his Ph.D. at UC Berkeley, with research at the Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems and the Max-Planck-Institute for Microstructure Physics. In addition to teaching classes focused on PV technology, Prof. Buonassisi is an author of 65 journal, conference, and workshop articles focused on PV, and has delivered over 50 invited talks and plenary/oral presentations on his work throughout the world. Prof. Buonassisi's work has been honored with awards including the European Materials Research Society Young Scientist Presentation Award, the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) Graduate Research Fellowship, and the National Renewable Energy Laboratory Graduate Student Award. More information about Prof. Buonassisis work can be found at http://pv.mit.edu/.
Daniel Enderton is Executive Director of the MIT Energy Initiatives Sustainable Energy Revolution Program, which seeks to coordinate and enhance support for breakthrough research in renewable energy sources—such as solar, wind, waves, geothermal, and bioenergy—as well as their associated enabling technologies, including storage and transmission. In 2008, Daniel defended his Ph.D. in climate physics and chemistry in MITs Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences. His research focused on estimating and understanding the poleward transport of energy by the atmosphere and oceans, and how this partition affects surface climate conditions. As a student, Daniel was a Linden Earth System Fellow, 2007-2008 President of the MIT Energy Club, and Content Director for the 2007 and 2008 MIT Energy Conferences.
November 5, 2009
ABSTRACT
This MITEI on the Road event will open with a brief overview of the MIT Energy Initiative (MITEI) by Daniel Enderton, Executive Director of MITEIs Sustainable Energy Revolution Program (SERP). This overview will highlight the extensive depth and breadth of research, education, campus energy and outreach activities underway as part of the Initiative. Mr. Enderton will give particular focus on the SERP program, with highlights of successful past projects in storage, promising new projects in geothermal and the impact philanthropy is having on renewable energy research at MIT.
Following this, Professor Tonio Buonassisi of Mechanical Engineering will give a presentation describing the key technical challenges to scaling commercial PV technologies to the terawatt level. The speaker will present a vision for the role of university engineering and science towards surmounting these challenges, drawing from personal experience in the solar industry, national laboratories, and academia. Increased solar cell conversion efficiencies, novel materials, and decreased capital equipment costs will be discussed as a means to achieve rapidly scalable manufacturing, highlighting the role of innovation.
technologies and how they will help drive down the cost of solar technology to be competitive with petroleum-based alternatives, while Mr. Enderton will give an overview of the MIT Energy Initiative (MITEI) and information on other renewable energy projects at MIT.
Tonio Buonassisi is Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering at MIT and heads an interdisciplinary laboratory focused on photovoltaics (solar energy conversion into electricity). Prof. Buonassisi completed his Ph.D. at UC Berkeley, with research at the Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems and the Max-Planck-Institute for Microstructure Physics. In addition to teaching classes focused on PV technology, Prof. Buonassisi is an author of 65 journal, conference, and workshop articles focused on PV, and has delivered over 50 invited talks and plenary/oral presentations on his work throughout the world. Prof. Buonassisi's work has been honored with awards including the European Materials Research Society Young Scientist Presentation Award, the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) Graduate Research Fellowship, and the National Renewable Energy Laboratory Graduate Student Award. More information about Prof. Buonassisis work can be found at http://pv.mit.edu/.
Daniel Enderton is Executive Director of the MIT Energy Initiatives Sustainable Energy Revolution Program, which seeks to coordinate and enhance support for breakthrough research in renewable energy sources—such as solar, wind, waves, geothermal, and bioenergy—as well as their associated enabling technologies, including storage and transmission. In 2008, Daniel defended his Ph.D. in climate physics and chemistry in MITs Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences. His research focused on estimating and understanding the poleward transport of energy by the atmosphere and oceans, and how this partition affects surface climate conditions. As a student, Daniel was a Linden Earth System Fellow, 2007-2008 President of the MIT Energy Club, and Content Director for the 2007 and 2008 MIT Energy Conferences.
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problems of nuclear power
MAJOR Nuclear Power Problems World Wide! & Fukushima update 10/4/12
公開日: 2012/10/04
Almost ALL EU nuclear reactors need improvement for safety. France in particular.
http://www3.nhk.or.jp/daily/english/2...
Bonus article below!
'Hundreds of problems' at EU nuclear plants - Hundreds of problems have been found at European nuclear plants that would cost 25bn euros (£20bn) to fix, says a leaked draft report. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europ...
http://youtu.be/5u6_92VVgYk
FAIR USE NOTICE: These pages/video may contain copyrighted (© ) material the use of which has not always been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. Such material is made available to advance understanding of ecological, POLITICAL, HUMAN RIGHTS, economic, DEMOCRACY, scientific, MORAL, ETHICAL, and SOCIAL JUSTICE ISSUES, etc. It is believed that this constitutes a 'fair use' of any such copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the US Copyright Law. In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. Section 107, this material is distributed without profit to those who have expressed a prior general interest in receiving similar information
New Giant active fault blamed on March 11, 2011 tsunami.
The newly appointed Nuclear Regulatory Authority (NRA) said there needs to be an inspection of the Ohma plant for faults under that plant under construction. By the way, that plant they just resumed construction on is the first of it's kind to use reprocessed spent fuel as it's fuel source.
One MILLION Cancers predicted from Fukushima according to Arnie Gundersen.
Arnie Gundersen (again) says they should just cement the Fukushima plant and have workers return in about 100 years - to protect workers.
Reactor # 2 finally has a new thermometer after major Fails in the existing thermometers.
I had to reupload that AlJazerra video from yesterday. Hardly anyone watched it and it was a Major blow to the Nuclear Industry. (I guess the puppet presidential debates had the public distracted)...
http://enenews.com/ and the headlines
Latest Headlines:
Boat seen floating outside boundary of giant sinkhole (VIDEO)
Watch: New area nearby giant sinkhole saturated with water (VIDEO)
*Just In* Coast Guard: 4-mile stretch of oil has appeared near BP's Macondo well in Gulf
Victims of suspected radiological spraying in St. Louis suffer thyroid, other cancers — Helicopters covered children in powder — "Oh my God, if they did that there's no telling what else they're hiding"
Highest Yet: Pressure from cavern below giant sinkhole near 1,000 psi — Trying to extract 'hydrocarbon material' from well
Oil reported at BP's Macondo Well in Gulf could be coming from "fissures or cracks in sea floor" — NOAA covering up?
Gov't held secret meetings about human health impacts from Fukushima crisis
Asahi: Cesium levels spike in Fukushima primates — Radioactivity much higher in 2012 than in June 2011
Tokyo getting 5 times more radioactive fallout than prefectures closer to Fukushima
NHK: "Underground spring-water" a concern in Fukushima fallout study — Drone helicopter now measuring radiation around plant (VIDEOS)
Radio: "Every few days sinkhole gets bigger and gas bubbles spread out" — "My big fear is significant groundwater and aquifer contamination" for that area of Louisiana (AUDIO)
Top US Nuclear Official: Technologies don't exist yet to clean up Fukushima site... very difficult to overstate difficulty (VIDEO)
Nuclear Whistleblower: I was asked to leave my church — It's been a living hell (VIDEO)
Mother Tells Official: "Lick that soil! Please lick it! Children lick the soil — Please take the soil in your hand and lick it" after being told it doesn't need to be removed from Fukushima school (VIDEO)
Gundersen: Fill Fukushima reactors with cement and come back in 100 years — It's too radioactive (VIDEO)
Intelligence agency pressured researchers to withhold info on spread of Fukushima radiation
Radio: 1 million cancers coming from Fukushima? "We're seeing that already... Enormous increase in cancer precursor" (VIDEO)
Gundersen: They think "biological fouling" is causing temperature increase at Unit No. 1, organisms growing in pipes (VIDEO)
Legal Expert: They applied for permits to dispose of radioactive and other waste in cavern below giant sinkhole... and the material is leaking out (AUDIO)
White smoke coming out from Fukushima Daiichi radioactive waste storage facility
Radio: Geologists predict entire 3-mile-wide salt dome below sinkhole may collapse — "This is a really an ongoing disaster, it's going to continue to get worse" (AUDIO)
Mother/Farmer: We found 75% of Fukushima contaminated with high levels of radioactivity — This should be declared a 'radiation control area' (VIDEO)
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http://www3.nhk.or.jp/daily/english/2...
Bonus article below!
'Hundreds of problems' at EU nuclear plants - Hundreds of problems have been found at European nuclear plants that would cost 25bn euros (£20bn) to fix, says a leaked draft report. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europ...
http://youtu.be/5u6_92VVgYk
FAIR USE NOTICE: These pages/video may contain copyrighted (© ) material the use of which has not always been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. Such material is made available to advance understanding of ecological, POLITICAL, HUMAN RIGHTS, economic, DEMOCRACY, scientific, MORAL, ETHICAL, and SOCIAL JUSTICE ISSUES, etc. It is believed that this constitutes a 'fair use' of any such copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the US Copyright Law. In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. Section 107, this material is distributed without profit to those who have expressed a prior general interest in receiving similar information
New Giant active fault blamed on March 11, 2011 tsunami.
The newly appointed Nuclear Regulatory Authority (NRA) said there needs to be an inspection of the Ohma plant for faults under that plant under construction. By the way, that plant they just resumed construction on is the first of it's kind to use reprocessed spent fuel as it's fuel source.
One MILLION Cancers predicted from Fukushima according to Arnie Gundersen.
Arnie Gundersen (again) says they should just cement the Fukushima plant and have workers return in about 100 years - to protect workers.
Reactor # 2 finally has a new thermometer after major Fails in the existing thermometers.
I had to reupload that AlJazerra video from yesterday. Hardly anyone watched it and it was a Major blow to the Nuclear Industry. (I guess the puppet presidential debates had the public distracted)...
http://enenews.com/ and the headlines
Latest Headlines:
Boat seen floating outside boundary of giant sinkhole (VIDEO)
Watch: New area nearby giant sinkhole saturated with water (VIDEO)
*Just In* Coast Guard: 4-mile stretch of oil has appeared near BP's Macondo well in Gulf
Victims of suspected radiological spraying in St. Louis suffer thyroid, other cancers — Helicopters covered children in powder — "Oh my God, if they did that there's no telling what else they're hiding"
Highest Yet: Pressure from cavern below giant sinkhole near 1,000 psi — Trying to extract 'hydrocarbon material' from well
Oil reported at BP's Macondo Well in Gulf could be coming from "fissures or cracks in sea floor" — NOAA covering up?
Gov't held secret meetings about human health impacts from Fukushima crisis
Asahi: Cesium levels spike in Fukushima primates — Radioactivity much higher in 2012 than in June 2011
Tokyo getting 5 times more radioactive fallout than prefectures closer to Fukushima
NHK: "Underground spring-water" a concern in Fukushima fallout study — Drone helicopter now measuring radiation around plant (VIDEOS)
Radio: "Every few days sinkhole gets bigger and gas bubbles spread out" — "My big fear is significant groundwater and aquifer contamination" for that area of Louisiana (AUDIO)
Top US Nuclear Official: Technologies don't exist yet to clean up Fukushima site... very difficult to overstate difficulty (VIDEO)
Nuclear Whistleblower: I was asked to leave my church — It's been a living hell (VIDEO)
Mother Tells Official: "Lick that soil! Please lick it! Children lick the soil — Please take the soil in your hand and lick it" after being told it doesn't need to be removed from Fukushima school (VIDEO)
Gundersen: Fill Fukushima reactors with cement and come back in 100 years — It's too radioactive (VIDEO)
Intelligence agency pressured researchers to withhold info on spread of Fukushima radiation
Radio: 1 million cancers coming from Fukushima? "We're seeing that already... Enormous increase in cancer precursor" (VIDEO)
Gundersen: They think "biological fouling" is causing temperature increase at Unit No. 1, organisms growing in pipes (VIDEO)
Legal Expert: They applied for permits to dispose of radioactive and other waste in cavern below giant sinkhole... and the material is leaking out (AUDIO)
White smoke coming out from Fukushima Daiichi radioactive waste storage facility
Radio: Geologists predict entire 3-mile-wide salt dome below sinkhole may collapse — "This is a really an ongoing disaster, it's going to continue to get worse" (AUDIO)
Mother/Farmer: We found 75% of Fukushima contaminated with high levels of radioactivity — This should be declared a 'radiation control area' (VIDEO)
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