Posts Tagged ‘environment’
Solar-powered car fair
Santiago hosted the first ever solar-powered car fair ahead of the Atacama Solar Challenge.
Participant Gonzalo Pacheco saying: “Solar energy is an alternative. Obviously, the cost of the car is pretty high, but the niche is growing and there are investigations and everything so that in the future it can be used in a more efficient way.”
Minister of Energy and mining, Laurence Golborne saying: “Those who today participate in this fair, who today step up to this challenge, who– like the provost said– are learning today in the race to get a better vehicle, they are the people who will be the leaders that the country needs in development of renewable energy sources for the future.”
Duration : 0:2:21
BREAKING NEWS BP OIL SPILL UPDATE live video BP ACCIDENTLY BLOWS SOMETHING ON THE BOP part 5
there are 4-5 videos please watch all of them to understand what happened…. they are attempting to cut something off of the BOP and drop the saw…. the recover the saw… start to cut again…. something happens to make the operator of the ROV panic and escape the area… then something blows!!! What in the world just happened????
Duration : 0:7:54
Earth Report – Back from the Brink
The Aral Sea is notoriously regarded as the worlds worst man-made environmental disaster. This vast inland sea has halved in depth and lost 90 percent of its volume. Once thriving fishing ports are 50 kilometres from the sea and ships lie stranded in the salty desert. With World Bank help, the Kazakh government has built a massive 12-kilometre dam. Now water is returning to one half of the sea – but beyond the dam the other half remains dried up desert.
Duration : 0:3:13
Green Living Project at Chewonki
Watch a short video about how Chewonki incorporates sustainability into all that it does. This video features Don Hudson, Peter Arnold, an organic farm, and our 400-acre campus in Wiscasset.
Duration : 0:7:35
History And Uses Of Wind Power As An Energy Alternative / Documentary Video
Wind As An Energy Alternative / Educational video. Department of Energy. Produce by the Solar Energy Research Institute. Wind: An Energy Alternative. This program looks at the history and uses of wind power, used for centuries by humans to move boats, pump water and grind grain including discussions on efficiency, problems in the urban environment, experimental systems and windmill use across the United States. Producer: Department of Energy. Creative Commons license: Public Domain.
Surprisingly good short film about wind energy. What makes it valuable is the interviews with Marcellus Jacobs (a builder of wind turbines in the 1930s) and Ted Finch (whose efforts got the concept of net metering legally acceptable in the US). It’s interesting to note that one of the people listed in the credits, Paul Gipe, is still active in the industry. He’s now a leading author on the subject. His website is http://www.wind-works.org
Duration : 0:12:17
Making Wind Power A Reality
Juan de Bedout, a scientist at General Electric’s Global Research Center discusses wind power at a recent energy briefing at the Technology Center.
Duration : 0:3:57
SOLAR HOT WATER 2 DIY USING BLACK WATER HOSE SOLAR WATER HEATER SUN POWER
Part 2 of a 2 part series showing how to install a cheap cost effective solar hot water heater. http://greenpowerscience.com/
Duration : 0:6:17
China’s Green Beat – Wind Power in China
http://www.chinasgreenbeat.com
Wind Power in China
中国的风力发电
Duration : 0:5:23
Plug-In Wind Power!
Featured in Popular Science alongside GE and Google on products that they see as game changers: http://www.popsci.com/entertainment-amp-gaming/article/2009-04/presidential-power
Fast Company Magazine has this to say about the Jellyfish:
http://www.fastcompany.com/blog/anya-kamenetz/green-day/google-checks-out-pc-renewable-energy
Jellyfish Wind Power Concept:
What if you could plug renewable wind energy into the wall just like a blender or a toaster? Instead of using power, a wind appliance actually generates it!
For more details visit:
http://www.clariantechnologies.com/
Smart-Grid Enabled:
With onboard Wi-Fi/WiMAX the Jellyfish is also smart-grid enabled. Today, wind and solar-powered homes are operated as autonomous points within the local electrical grid. However, they are an overlooked, yet important electrical power resource. If instead, each were harnessed collectively and tied interactively with the local utility grid as a Point-to-Grid (P2G) power generator, or even regulator, considerable economic, environmental and system reliability benefits are possible. By itself, each of these power sources is indeed small in its impact on the power system. In the aggregate, however, the economic value of P2G power is significant, more than enough to offset the initial cost of installing the required control hardware and integrating these systems with the local utility grid. Equally important, the necessary regulatory and energy distribution infrastructure, and hardware components to enable a number of different types of P2G-based systems are already in place today. The convergence of existing distributed electric power and Wi-Fi/WiMAX technologies creates an emerging market opportunity for technology and service providers to enable and accelerate the introduction of various types of P2G-enabled power generation.
Duration : 0:0:54
Solar Sailor – Solar Powered Ferries
Hong Kong waters will soon be home to four new solar-powered hybrid ferries being built by a local shipyard using a design and expertise provided by an Australian company called Solar Sailor. The vessels are being purchased by the Hong Kong Jockey Club as part of a HK$350 million (US$45 million) drive to make the city more environmentally conscious, but are also seen as a way to help the world chart a course toward a future where green technology makes good business sense.
Duration : 0:4:12