>Date: Sun, 20 May 2001 23:27:11 -0500 >Subject: ENERGIES... week of 5/13/01 >From: "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >X-Priority: 3 >To: undisclosed-recipients:; > >ENERGIES... week of May 13, 2001, Special Extended Edition > > THANK YOU, MR. PRESIDENT. Thank you for starting a much needed >national discussion on energy. Thank you for calling our energy >situation a crisis. Americans work best in a crisis mode. > Now you will hear how Americans feel about land they will never see. >Now you will hear how Americans feel about air and water pollution - and >the potential for increasing both. Now you will hear how Americans feel >about their contribution to global warming - and the potential for >contributing more. Now you will hear from our friends beyond our borders >how they feel about more pollution and more greenhouse gases coming from >our shores. > But, of course, you will also hear from Americans defending the >status quo - those unwilling to take on the challenges of, or perhaps >uncomfortable with change. > During the next few months you and Congress must make some important >decisions. Those decisions may have little immediate impact, but almost >certainly will have an impact on people decades and probably centuries >from now. Please let those important decisions be in the best interest >of those not yet born. > Yes, thank you for opening this necessary and belated debate. Sooner >or later this had to happen. > (For your copy of the proposed National Energy Policy download the >PDF file(s) at http://www.whitehouse.gov/energy/ .) > > NEW URBAN MOBILITY. Visionary entrepreneur Dr. Donald E. Panoz has >created a new company to find ways to make clean and efficient personal >transportation work in harmony with mass transit. > The new company - eMotion Mobility - is based on a study done for >Dr. Panoz by the Southern Coalition for Advanced Transportation (SCAT) >which showed that a market would exist in the near future for electric >vehicles equipped with advanced communications devices that could tied >with transit systems. > Panoz will build eMotion on the success he already has had in >developing high-tech automobiles. The Panoz organization comprises more >than 30 companies some of which are involved in automotive technologies, >racing cars, and through his son Danny, the exotic hand-built Panoz >Roadsters. Panoz also developed a hybrid electric racing car for the >1998 LeMans - the Panoz Q9. John Wilson, former President and CEO of >SCAT has been recruited to head eMotion. > Dr. Panoz' entrepreneurial success came from his development of time >release technologies for pharmaceuticals. Watch this space for further >news from eMotion. Visit SCAT at http://www.advtrans.org/. > > TOOLS TO TRANSPORTATION. After five years of producing cordless >electric yard tools, PowerQwest is now offering a scooter in its >Eco-electric (tm) product line. > Wicked Wave (tm) is the first of three electric rides to be offered >this year by the company. The stand-up electric scooter has a 24 volt >electric system and belt drive. Wicked Wave is now being sold through >Sears stores for $299. Visit PowerQwest at http://www.powerqwest.com/ . > > CONCENTRATED SOLAR. When we think of holographic images we might >think of the three-dimensional image applied to some credit cards. But >holographic images can also be used to direct and focus light onto a >solar cell. That is what TerraSun is doing. > In a way to cut the cost of solar and include photovoltaic (PV) >power in building integrated solar systems, TerraSun is utilizing >holographic optics to concentrate light onto a commonly produced >crystalline silicon solar cell. Cost is reduced because far fewer cells >are needed for a module. The area of a complete panel module that could >be used in place of a skylight, for example, would be 75 percent >transparent and 25 percent PV cell. > For now the company is working to build production capability and >specific products are not yet announced. Efficiency and power output >figures could be expected at that time. Visit TerraSun at >http://www.terrasun.com/ . > > CANADA: SOLAR HOT WATER. Natural Resources Canada (NRCan) and the >Technology Early Action Measure (TEAM) component of the Climate Change >Action Fund has invested more than $600,000 towards the >commercialization of a low-cost and efficient solar hot water heater >developed by EnerWorks. Additional funds for the $ 2.6 million project >will come from private sources, and the first 100 systems will be >installed in the next few months. > According to NRCan, water heating can account for 20 percent of a >home's energy needs and can produce up to two tons of greenhouse gases >per house per year. A solar hot water system would cut that figure in >half. > NRCan has also invested $475,000 in a 200-kilowatt solar-simulator >lamp - the largest in the world - to be installed at its National Solar >Test Facility (NSTF). The Facility is used to test solar equipment in >varying climatic conditions in an environmental chamber under accurate >simulated solar light. > Visit TEAM and the Climate Change Action Fund at >http://www.climatechange.gc.ca/ , EnerWorks at http://www.enerworks.com/ > > AUSTRALIA: GREENHOUSE GAS-TO-ENERGY. Under the more than $200 >million Australian Greenhouse Gas Abatement Program (GGAP), methane gas >from two Australian coal mining operations will be captured and used to >generate power. With nearly $6 million, Energy Developments Limited will >install 4 methane fueled gas turbines at Anglo Coal Holding's German >Creek Mine in central Queensland and Envirogen will use almost $7 >million to install 20 reciprocating generators at mines in New South >Wales and in Queensland. > Methane from coal mines represents 4 percent of all greenhouse gases >from Australia. Electricity, carbon dioxide and other emissions will >displace the methane normally released into the >atmosphere at these mining operations. Visit the GGAP at >http://www.greenhouse.gov.au/ . > > BETTER THAN EXPECTED. Future Energy Resources Corporation (FERCO) >reports that the performance of its SilvaGas (tm) >biomass-waste-to-energy process is more efficient than originally >projected. Gasifier output, turning waste wood and crop residues into >combustible gas, is operating in excess of 175 percent of its original >design. More than 450 tons of forestry and agricultural byproducts can >be gasified per day as opposed to 250 tons as originally thought >capable. > Further, the heating value of the product gas has proven to be >constant regardless of the moisture content of the feedstock. The >constant heating value allows SilvaGas to be used as a substitute for >natural gas. Visit FERCO at http://www.future-energy.com/ . > > WORLD WIND WATCH. In the US, FPL Energy has announced it will build, >own and operate a 110 megawatt wind project in Kansas. Power from the >170 turbine facility will be sold to UtiliCorp United. The as yet >unnamed wind farm should be complete by the end of this year. FPL has >nearly 1000 megawatts of installed wind capacity and plans to have an >additional 870 megawatts operating by year's end. > Also in the US, VOLT Inc. has purchased an unspecified wind farm in >the Altamont Pass near San Francisco. The older farm has more than 1100 >95 kilowatt turbines that the company considers non-operational. VOLT >plans to replace the turbines with 900 kilowatt units. As it stands now >the wind farm is zoned for 114 megawatts. > Visit FPL at http://www.fplenergy.com/ . > > CORRECTION. An error in last week's ENERGIES. The full text of the >UK Parliament's study on ocean energy can be found at >http://www.parliament.the-stationery-office.co.uk/pa/cm200001/cmselect/c >mstech/291/29102.htm . > > NEW! NEW! NEW!... at the Green Energy News website... > >-- Metallic Power Ships First Zinc/Air Fuel Cells For Field Testing >-- Professor's Solar Home Is First To Feed Into Local Power Grid >-- Bush-Cheney Energy Plan Misses the Mark on Energy Efficiency >-- U.S. Energy Strategy Underscores Strategic Potential of Hydrogen >-- National Energy Plan Favors Combined Heat and Power >but Lacks Specifics Interconnection Standards and Net Metering Absent >-- $40,000 Awarded to Eleven Energy Systems by WisconSUN (TM) > > Visit Green Energy News on the Web at http://www.nrglink.com/ . For >free ENERGIES subscription contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] Copyright >Green Energy News Inc. 5/19/01 vol.6 no.7
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