Archive for renewable energy
The MIT Energy Initiative: Sustainable Energy and Terawatt-Scale Photovoltaics
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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.
Duration : 1:10:30
National Renewable Energy Laboratory
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After the oil crisis of the 1970s, Congress authorized the creation of a government laboratory tasked with solving the puzzle of how to save energy using renewable resources. Three decades later, more than 1,100 scientists and engineers continue their search at the National renewable energy Laboratory in Colorado.
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Duration : 0:6:20
Renewable Energy-Magnetic Power-Amplified Electricity
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DESCRIPTION AND WORKING PRINCIPLES OF: THE LEA ELECTRICITY PRODUCING DEVICE.
In order to gain an understanding of the operation of a LEA (Lutec Electricity Amplifier) it must be understood that there are actually three separate and completely individual events occurring in the one machine. Each of the three is equally important because without one of them operating in a completely synchronistical manner with the others, the end result would not achieve the efficiency levels required.
Each of the three events should first be viewed in isolation and then when they are drawn together as they are in the LEA, an understanding of the operating principles will become clear.
The First Event is a Pulsed DC Motor.
The Second Event is an AC generator.
The Third Event is the result of the impact of the Second on the First.
http://www.lutec.com.au/how.htm
http://www.evergreenltd.com.hk/
http://www.techeblog.com/index.php/tech-gadget/xogen-tap-water-as-fuel
http://www.fuelcelltoday.com/
http://fuel-efficient-vehicles.org/tesla-flying-machine/Tesla-Flying-Stove-motor.php
http://fuel-efficient-vehicles.org/FEV-hydrogen-generator-build-one.php
http://freeenergynews.com/Directory/Inventors/BillMuller/index.html
http://youtube.com/watch?v=SwRBeV6-hlk&feature=related
http://pesn.com/ThisWeekinFreeEnergy/archive/2004.htm
http://pesn.com/ThisWeekinFreeEnergy/archive/2004.htm
Duration : 0:1:33
Renewable Energy Solution of the Month – Wind
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That there is power in the wind is not a new discovery, man has been using it for thousands of years.
What most people don’t realize is how much experimentation has been going on in this century.
There is no shortage of energy…
20% wind by 2030
http://www1.eere.energy.gov/windandhydro/wind_2030.html
Shifting to Renewable by 2030
http://news.stanford.edu/news/2009/october19/jacobson-energy-study-102009.html
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=a-path-to-sustainable-energy-by-2030
China takes lead in Wind Development
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=trHcmFeO3mY
Oil spill animation
http://blog.al.com/live/2010/05/animation_gulf_of_mexico_oil_s.html
Wind History part1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lTN9FGwqsOY
Wind History part 2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GxxTncSJ6LM
National Academy – Bird and Environmental impacts
http://books.nap.edu/openbook.php?record_id=11935&page=72Pumped storage plants in the US
http://www.industcards.com/ps-usa.htm
Wind lowers electricity prices in Europe
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601109&sid=aGDZMpv5Y9Vo&pos=13#
reuters _ “Loss of Wind” event
http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSN2749522920080228
Why the Texas event raises no concern about wind
http://www.energypulse.net/centers/article/article_display.cfm?a_id=1701
ERCOT study of “loss of wind” event
http://interchange.puc.state.tx.us/WebApp/Interchange/Documents/27706_114_577769.PDF
Denmark: Best for Doing Business_2 years in a row
http://www.forbes.com/lists/2009/6/bizcountries09-best-countries-for-business_Denmark_CHI001.html
New York Times – a Sea of Untapped Energy
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/02/nyregion/02about.html
Nordpool implements negative price
http://www.nordpoolspot.com/Market_Information/Exchange-information/No162009-Nord-Pool-Spot-implements-negative-price-floor-in-Elspot-from-October-2009-/
Denmark: Happiest people in the world
http://www.visitdenmark.com/usa/en-us/menu/turist/nyheder/nyheder/danes-happiest-people-in-the-world.htm
Duration : 0:9:57
Daniel Kammen – Renewable Energy and Economies of Scale
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Complete video at: http://fora.tv/fora/showthread.php?t=204
Daniel Kammen, Director of the Renewable and Appropriate Energy Laboratory at the University of California, Berkeley explains why renewable energy may take less time to see widespread incorporation than its critics have argued.
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Cody’s Books presents a panel featuring Mother Jones publisher Jay Harris, author Jeff Goodell, former Sierra club president Adam Werbach, director of the UC Berkeley Renewable and Appropriate Technology Energy Lab Daniel Kammen and Natural Resources Defense Council staff scientist Audrey Chang. They discuss American’s reliance on coal, and debate what type of energy is best for our future: solar, wind — or even nuclear? — Cody’s Books
Duration : 0:6:38
Renewable Energy
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http://www.citizen.org A film by R.J. Somerville, a student in the Digital Media Department of FIDM.
Duration : 0:3:13
Renewable Energy and the Economy
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April 1, 2009 – Dan Arvizu, director of the Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory, discusses the current state of renewable energy technology and implementation in the U.S., as well as potential advancements in the near future. The Energy Seminar meets during the academic year on Wednesdays, 4:15 to 5:15 p.m. For a listing of upcoming Energy Seminar talks, please visit the events listing at the Woods Institute for the Environment website.
Stanford University
http://www.stanford.edu
Woods Institute for the Environment at Stanford
http://woods.stanford.edu
National renewable energy Laboratory
http://www.nrel.gov/
Stanford University Channel on YouTube:
http://www.youtube.com/stanford
Duration : 0:59:35
‘Oil doomed after BP Gulf spill, clean energy is future’
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The US is experiencing a fundamental shift in the economy and is literally handing over the mantle of economic leadership to China, believes Chief Market Economist Michael Norman, of John Thomas Financial. He also said that the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico will definitely speed up the process towards cleaner fuels, alternative energy and renewable sources of energy.
Duration : 0:10:17
Plug-in Hybrids: Renewable Energy Solution of the Month
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This video inaugurates a new series, that will augment, but not replace, “Climate Denial Crock of the Week”.
Many people seem to think dealing with climate change will bring poverty and limit human development.
The truth may be exactly the opposite. Moving to a world of where we aren’t fighting each other over the last few drops of oil, where energy is free, will mean a better life, with greater opportunities even for an expanding population. If we make the right decisions, we could be on the verge of the most prosperous period in human history.
Climate Denial Crocks will be back soon to tweak trolls
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http://www.ferc.gov/about/com-mem/wellinghoff/5-24-07-technical-analy-wellinghoff.pdf
http://www.environmentamerica.org/uploads/4c/30/4c306e9db2ff693a9fbb1facf291ed9e/AME-Plug-In-Cars.pdf
http://www.udel.edu/V2G/
http://www.udel.edu/PR/UDaily/2008/nov/car112807.html
http://newenergynews.blogspot.com/2010/01/advantages-of-plugging-in.html
http://climateprogress.org/2010/01/10/2010s-triumphs-challenges-for-plug-in-vehicles/
Duration : 0:9:45
Law 270.7 – Lecture 1 – Introduction to Renewable Energy Options
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and Potential, and Electric Systems; Federal, State, and Local Efforts to Promote renewable energy (PURPA, EPAct 1992, and EPAct 2005, EISA 2007) – August 20, 2008
The basic concepts underlying the economic regulation of energy. In addition, discussion, of three federal acts that form reference points for our national conversation about renewable energy.
Duration : 1:15:15