Wind and Solar Power in the West
Posted by admin on Nov 26, 2010
November 3, 2010 – Debra Lew, leader of the Western Wind and Solar Integration Study at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory, discusses how the electricity distribution infrastructure of the western United States can adapt to major shifts in energy generation toward wind and solar sources as well as the unique challenges that separate the West from the other energy distribution networks in the United States.
Stanford University
http://www.stanford.edu/
Electric Infrastructure Systems Research at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory
http://www.nrel.gov/eis/erbsi_center.html
Stanford Energy Seminar
http://energyseminar.stanford.edu/
Stanford University Channel on YouTube
http://www.youtube.com/stanford
Duration : 1:0:31
What do you think about these Amazing facts about Israel?
Posted by admin on Nov 26, 2010
I always find the antisemitic statements on R+S interesting and wondered if the authors could even identify Israel on a globe. I found these facts interesting and wondered how fellow contributors would view them.
Israel is the 100th smallest country, and has about 1/1000th of the world’s population. It is only 62 years old,
Only 62 years old, 7 million people strong (less than Virginia), and smaller in size than New Jersey, surrounded by enemies, under constant threat and possessing almost no natural resources, and yet…
* Relative to its population, Israel is the largest immigrant-absorbing nation on earth. It has absorbed 350% of its population in 60 years.
* Israel is the only country in history to have revived an unspoken language.
* Since the founding of the state, Israel has more Nobel Prices per capita than any other country. It has more laureates in real numbers than China, Mexico and Spain.
* Israel has the 8th longest life expectancy (80.7 years), longer than the UK, US, and Germany
* Israeli films were nominated three years in a row for the Academy Award’s Best Foreign Film
Environment
* Israel is the only country that entered the 21st century with a net gain in its number of trees, even more remarkable — in an area that’s mainly desert.
* Over 90% of Israeli homes use solar energy for hot water, the highest percentage in the world.
* Israel will be the first country to host a national electric car network.
* Israel is ranked in the top five Cleantech countries of the world, and operates the world’s largest desalinization plant.
* Israeli companies are producing the largest solar energy production facility in the world.
Science & Technology
* Israel leads the world in the number of scientists and technicians in the workforce, 63% more than the U.S. It also has the most physicians and engineers per capita.
* Israel’s scientific research institutions are ranked 3rd in the world.
* Israel is ranked 2nd in space sciences.
* Israel produces the 3rd most scientific papers per capita, and the most in stem cell science.
* More Israeli patents are registered in the United States than from Russia, India and China combined (combined population 2.5 billion). It leads the world in patents for medical equipment.
* Israeli companies invented the drip irrigation system, discovered the world’s most used drug for multiple sclerosis, designed the Pentium NMX Chip technology and the Pentium 4 and Centrium microprocessors, created Instant Messenger (ICQ), and Israeli cows produce more milk per cow than any other in the world!
Business
* Israel has the 3rd highest rate of entrepreneurship among women in the world.
* Israel has attracted the most venture capital investment per capita in the world, 30 times more than Europe
* Israel has more NASDAQ-listed companies than any country besides the US — more than all of Europe, India, China and Japan combined.
* In proportion to its population, Israel has the largest number of startup companies in the world. In absolute numbers, Israel has more startups than any country other than the U.S
http://www.aish.com/jw/id/90725314.html
Yep, all true. In many ways it is a powerful success story.
However, it has been a the expense of most of its non-Jewish population, who have been living as refugees since 1948/9, and under occupation since 1967/73.
The ultimate success story will be one that allows these refugees to return home and be full citizens. As Israel is essentially a Jewish state, albeit often very secular in character, it must become more secular so as to allow the Christian and Muslim population to feel at home in their own land. There are a range of ideas for doing so, including the oft-touted two-state solution, or a state of cantons, and the route to that won’t be an easy one.
In many ways it is a Rhodesia with powerful friends. Many of the same successes could be attributed to Rhodesia, but it was still run by a minority, at least at the partial expense of most of the people. Rhodesia ultimately failed as it lacked international support and could not withstand the pressure of its opponents. Holding out against change as long as possible meant a sensible compromise was not achieved, and the ruthless dictator who took over the new Zimbabwe was able to run the country into the ground.
Israel has the USA, a superpower friend. It is under no real pressure to make the sort of compromises necessary to resolve the situation, and is still expanding into Palestinian land. The vast bulk of Palestinian refugees still own land in what is now Israel, but it will not even permit them to return, let alone recognise their property rights (including Ottoman and British Mandate title deeds). In many cases the old villages have been destroyed and redeveloped. This enforced exile is in contravention of international laws and the same UN resolutions that granted Israel recognition as a state.
With strength comes callous arrogance, and that breeds hatred and ruthless terrorism amongst the dispossessed. Terrorism is used as a reason to not let refugees return, rather than recognising it as a direct symptom of the dispossession.
If Palestinian refugees can be refused return, then that would also apply to Bosnians, Georgians, Western Saharans, Darfuris, etc, and one of the major principles by which we aspire to have a civilised world would go out the window. Ethnic cleansers like Radovan Karadzic could claim their methods were legitimate, and the results should remain. It would be ironic that a country that was founded in the shadow of the Holocaust was primarily responsible for enabling genocidalists to succeed.
So while it’s a major success in some ways, it is a complete disaster in others. A proper solution is very much needed. In the meantime, we cannot admire one shiny side of the coin without recognising the less shiny other side.
Power4Home – Home Solar and Wind Electricity Power. Residential Energy Generating
Posted by admin on Nov 25, 2010
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Inventor From Minnesota Swears Under Oath
He’s Not Cheating The Electric Companies — He’s Simply Generating His Own Power At Will!
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Duration : 0:1:9
Power4Home – Home Solar and Wind Electricity Power. Residential Energy Generating
Posted by admin on Nov 24, 2010
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Inventor From Minnesota Swears Under Oath
He’s Not Cheating The Electric Companies — He’s Simply Generating His Own Power At Will!
Join The Home Energy Revolution And The Thousands Of People
Who’ve Already Started Powering Their Homes With Power4Home
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The secrets to building high power, high efficiency solar panels and wind generators
for less than $200 and slash your electricity bill by 80% or eliminate it entirely!
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start saving and help the Environment!
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Duration : 0:1:9
ENFINITY SOLAR POWER ENERGY company profile UK
Posted by admin on Nov 23, 2010
Enfinity is an international company focused on renewable energy from solar and wind energy. Enfinity specializes in the development, implementation, management and structuring of the financing needed to implement projects, such as contacting their customers to date: Investors, manufacturers and wholesalers of electricity, industrial, commercial and agricultural Installers.
Duration : 0:5:7
Solar Power West Coast / East Coast
Posted by admin on Nov 23, 2010
Solar Power Professionals how it’s really done.
Duration : 0:3:8
Wind turbine/solar panel=hybrid system
Posted by admin on Nov 23, 2010
my hybrid system compromising of an ametek 30v wind turbine with home made hardwood blades, a excellent and powerfull 12v 600 watts future energy motor that i sell on my site, and a 40, 50 and 140 watt 12v solar panels, its enough for most items in the house, visit the site for more info:
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Duration : 0:3:53
SOLAR POWER ENERGY – WHAT CAN IT DO FOR YOU?
Posted by admin on Nov 23, 2010
Solar energy is basically the energy that can be collected from the light, heat and radiation that can be taken from the sun, it is a common knowledge to all of us and to be taken advantage for other power use. Since it is mostly available, we can most of the time collect from it for our own personal use. The utilization of solar power not only helps us reduce our power consumption but also brings down the utility bills.
Most general system of changing sunlight into electricity is with the use of photovoltaic (PV) cells, which also recognized as solar cells. In areas where there is a huge amount of sunlight, active solar power is becoming common to homeowners and businesses today.
This technology to make more competent cells has been advancing to the next generation where we can obtain more power at a much cheaper price.
Passive solar technology is another choice that you can make use of solar power. This is a no cost process and usually do not need the proper position of your home to take lead of the sun exposure and create thermal mass to take up the sun’s heat.
Solar water heater is another technology to make use of solar energy. They produce warm water by taking in the sun’s heat. This can be a handy way to slice your gas and electricity expenses into half.
Homeowners and small to big time businesses have provided the added savings they can make use by these options. Since solar power energy is growing faster than any other divisions that significantly make power a practical alternative to most homes.
If you’re concerned in having an active or passive solar technology to your home, you might want to evaluate the total amount of sunlight that you can receive from your home and how you can make use of it in changing seasons like summer and winter to maximize your venture. The use of solar technology can be a great resource to help reduce environmental damage and an easy way to save money in the long run.
Solar Power
Posted by admin on Nov 23, 2010
Harish Hande, Managing Director, SELCO Solar Light India talks to Surabhi Agarwal about the disconnect between the policies being framed in the this content at the centre and what is happening at the groundlevel.
Duration : 0:3:52
Battery Bank
Posted by admin on Nov 23, 2010
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Duration : 0:8:42