Advanced Electric Grids for Efficient Energy Transmission

Advanced technology global electrical grids may be more promising for renewables energy. With current transmission lines, even if costs per kilowatt-hour of PV arrays and turbines declined drastically and production rates were increased to millions per year like mass-produced automobiles, the grids of the United States and the world could not handle the load management demands. Power must flow where needed, when needed. Existing grids are hub-andspoke networks designed for central power plants tens to hundreds of kilometers from users. These need to be re-engineered into ‘‘smart grids’’––a global Internet and superhighway system for electricity. (more…)

Nuclear Power And World Electricity Generation

Sir Arthur Eddington’s general address on subatomic energy at the 1930 World Power Conference in Berlin stirred the imagination of every scientist and engineer present. The challenge was clear: find a practical means of accessing, controlling, and using the enormous energy locked in the atom as predicted by Einstein’s remarkable mass–energy relation, E=mc2. On December 2, 1942, Enrico Fermi transformed Eddington’s visionary challenge into reality by producing the world’s first controlled, self-sustaining nuclear reactor, Chicago Pile 1. Six decades later, nuclear energy now produces 16% of the world’s electrical power. (more…)

Fossil Fuel Energy Conservation versus Replacement

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As a reaction to these historical perspectives, the building industry has witnessed a certain rise in design responses to regional climatic conditions, as part of a powerful efficiency and energy conservation push since the 1970s. More recently, the zero green house gas emsission and office building has become a design concept as part of strategies to introduce urban renewable energy as an increasing contributor to managing urban energy supplies. (more…)

Defining Clean Energy - Global Clean Energy Program

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In this article, the terms clean energy is being used to take on a broad definition of the issue of new energy. Other possibilities, such as renewable energy or alternative energy sources are determined and usually do not include certain key sectors such as energy efficiency and clean fossil fuels, among others, that are dealing within this article. (more…)

A Nuclear Plant in Austria Will Become A Solar Power Station

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Austria - Greenpeace was invited by the Austrian authorities to fly the flag in a nuclear power plant. Zwentendorf nuclear plant was never implemented and has been off since the 70s. Today it became a new solar power station. Our banner read: “Energy Revolution = Solution to Climate Change”. (more…)

Renewable Energy Sources from Economic and Environmental Perspectives

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Renewable energy sources cannot run out and causes so little damage to the environment that its use does not need to be restricted. No energy system based on mineral resources is renewable because, one day, the mineral deposits will be used up. This is true for fossil fuels and uranium. The debate about when a particular mineral resource will run out is irrelevant in this context. Renewable energy sources are replenished continuously.

Renewable energy sources—solar, wind, biomass (under specific conditions), and tides—are based directly or indirectly on solar energy. Hydroelectric power is not necessarily a renewable energy source because large-scale projects can cause ecological damage and irreversible consequences. Geothermal energy heat is renewable but must be used cautiously to guard against irreversible ecological effects. (more…)