[Biofuel] Financing completed for 100MW Kingston, Ont., solar project
http://www.canadianmanufacturing.com/financing/financing-completed-100mw-kingston-ont-solar-project-139320/?utm_source=CTECHutm_medium=emailutm_campaign=CTECH-EN07302014e=30sslyW42vwv682rM2vx Financing completed for 100MW Kingston, Ont., solar project Samsung, infrastructure investment firm Connor, Clark Lunn providing financing for massive solar project TORONTO—Samsung Renewable Energy, Inc. has partnered with infrastructure investment firm Connor, Clark Lunn (CCL) to provide equity funding for a proposed 100-megawatt solar project in eastern Ontario. According to CCL, it signed a deal with Samsung to fund the massive solar project in Kingston, Ont., marking the two firms’ second large solar project financed together. A similar partnership was formed to finance the 100-megawatt solar portion of the Grand Renewable project, a 250-megawatt wind and solar energy project in Haldimand County, Ont., along the shores of Lake Erie. Construction of the massive project started with the installation of 67 Ontario-made wind turbines. Siemens Canada Ltd. won the contract to manufacture the 49-metre blades at its facility in Tillsonburg, Ont., while CS Wind Corp. won the contract to build the towers at its Windsor, Ont., plant. All steel for the project was sourced from Essar Steel Algoma in Sault Ste. Marie, Ont. The Kingston solar project will follow a similar made-in-Ontario approach, according to CCL, with solar modules and inverter houses manufactured in London and Guelph, Ont., by Canadian Solar Solutions Inc. and inverters made in Toronto by SMA Canada Inc. Canadian Solar Solutions will also act as the engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contractor for the project, according to CCL. Construction is expected to launch “soon,” with completion expected by late 2015. ___ Sustainablelorgbiofuel mailing list Sustainablelorgbiofuel@lists.sustainablelists.org http://lists.eruditium.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sustainablelorgbiofuel
Re: [Biofuel] Ethanol Compatibility
Robert, Thanks for the reply. Mechanics is not my strong point. David Blume explains the steps required to convert engines with carburetors to run on ethanol (Alcohol Can Be A Gas pp364-374) but once converted the engine will run well on ethanol but not on gasoline. -Original Message- From: robert and benita rabello rabe...@shaw.ca Sent: 7/29/2014 9:01 PM To: sustainablelorgbiofuel@lists.sustainablelists.org sustainablelorgbiofuel@lists.sustainablelists.org Subject: Re: [Biofuel] Ethanol Compatibility On 7/29/2014 2:55 PM, Thomas Kelly wrote: Will a phantom system and/or Megasquirt adjust on the fly to varying ethanol concentrations? (E0 through E100) No, I don't believe so. That's where the factory flex fuel system really shines. Robert Luis Rabello Adventure for Your Mind http://www.newadventure.ca Ceremonies and Celebrations video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PV3k-s_sg1Q Meet the People video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=txsCdh1hZ6c Crisis video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mZedNEXhTn4 The Long Journey video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vy4muxaksgk This communication may be unlawfully collected and stored by the National Security Agency (NSA) in secret. The parties to this email do not consent to the retrieving or storing of this communication and any related metadata, as well as printing, copying, re-transmitting, disseminating, or otherwise using it. If you believe you have received this communication in error, please delete it immediately. - No virus found in this message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 2014.0.4716 / Virus Database: 3986/7945 - Release Date: 07/29/14 ___ Sustainablelorgbiofuel mailing list Sustainablelorgbiofuel@lists.sustainablelists.org http://lists.eruditium.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sustainablelorgbiofuel ___ Sustainablelorgbiofuel mailing list Sustainablelorgbiofuel@lists.sustainablelists.org http://lists.eruditium.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sustainablelorgbiofuel
[Biofuel] NRDC Report Guides Buying Sustainable Biofuels | Domestic Fuel
http://domesticfuel.com/2014/07/29/nrdc-report-guides-buying-sustainable-biofuels/ NRDC Report Guides Buying Sustainable Biofuels Posted on July 29, 2014 by Joanna Schroeder A new report from the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) looks at how federal agencies and other large commercial customers can buy sustainably produced biofuels and avoid those linked to things such as defined by NRDC as major deforestation, destroyed wildlife habitat and fouled waterways. The report “Biofuel Sustainability Performance Guidelines,” was commissioned by NRDC and authored by LMI as was written in response to large fuel consumers begin to pivot toward more plant-based fuel options to boost their “green” credentials and sustainability efforts while reducing their use of fossil fuels. The report is intended to help guide fuel buyers such as federal, state and municipal bulk fuel procurement officers, contractors and suppliers, and corporate sustainability officers. “Biofuels can be a clean alternative to dirty fossil fuels, but they’re not all created equal,” said Brian Siu, senior energy policy analyst at NRDC. “Some biofuels are produced in ways that endanger precious land, wildlife and the environment. As the U.S. government and large business expand their use of biofuels, they should ensure they come from sustainable sources, and relying on the best certification systems can help them make these smart choices.” According to NRDC, many large fuel buyers are beginning to understand the risks of poorly sourced biofuels, but are unable to determine whether their biofuels are produced sustainably. Third-party certification systems can provide this service, but vary significantly in stringency and protectiveness. The non-profit said a sound certification system should check each stage for impacts on water quality, soil, biodiversity, air quality, land use, and waste. It also should check for the social impacts on economic issues, human rights, food security, and workforce safety. Study lead Jeremey Alcorn, senior consultant with LMI, said of the report, “NRDC offered LMI an exciting opportunity to apply our practical analytical experience to analyze established and emerging biomaterial and biofuel sustainability certification standards, and we believe that this report will fill a critical need by informing bulk biofuel procurements and enabling a better understanding of the utility of different certification programs in achieving enhanced sustainability performance.” To help stakeholders, NRDC’s report examined seven leading programs that certify biofuel production practices for sustainability. The Roundtable on Sustainable Biomaterials ranked best. RSB ranked best for helping to ensure economic, environmental and social sustainability of biofuels production practices in places such as the United States, Indonesia, South America and Asia. == http://www.nrdc.org/energy/biofuels-sustainability-certification.asp Sustainability Certification for Biofuels Careless development of biofuels can have negative impacts on land, water, and wildlife. Such development can also tarnish fuel purchasers' admirable efforts to improve their environmental performance. Biofuel sustainability certification systems provide third-party verification that biofuel feedstocks are grown and converted into fuel in a sustainable manner, but not all certification systems are equal -- some are more environmentally protective than others. Effective certification systems cover the entire biofuel life cycle and provide comprehensive economic, social, and environmental coverage. More from the Authors Debbie Hammel Author Debbie Hammel Publications Enviva’s Wood Pellet Mill in Ahoskie, North Carolina Threatens Endangered Ecosystems and Wildlife Recent Blog Posts New maps show South's largest wood pellet exporter Enviva has some of our most valuable forests in its crosshairs European Union sustainability criteria for biomass energy fail to protect the climate or our forests Brian Siu Author Brian Siu Recent Blog Posts Certifiably Sustainable: New Report Shows how Large Biofuel Users can Reduce Risk and Help the Environment The House Defense Bill: New Attacks, Tired Reasons Read More Fact Sheet (PDF) fact sheet Report (PDF) report Poorly developed biofuels pose severe environmental risks. Procurement officials and risk managers should use only the most stringent and protective certification standards available. Yet assessing how different certification systems rank across the product life cycle is a complex undertaking. That is why NRDC evaluated the performances of several of the major sustainability systems. The report looks at systems developed by the Roundtable on Sustainable Biomaterials (RSB), the Council on Sustainable Biomass Production (CSBP), the
[Biofuel] Waves Sweep Across Section of Arctic Ocean for First Time Due to Global Warming
http://www.truth-out.org/buzzflash/commentary/waves-sweep-across-section-of-arctic-ocean-for-first-time-due-to-global-warming [Well, that's going to have some unpleasant implications for housing in coastal Arctic communities. And in the Canadian Arctic, almost all of the communities are coastal. Waves will speed coastline erosion, already accelerating due to permafrost melt. Time to start moving inland, or make sure your house floats.] MARK KARLIN, EDITOR OF BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT As the corporation-backed and religious fundamentalist climate-change deniers continue to receive widespread mainstream media credibility, signs of global warming continue to sweep across the earth. However, science has a way of having facts on its side, so it is no surprise that the formerly frozen Arctic Ocean is now experiencing high-wave activity. According to the Daily Digest News, Waves as high as 29 feet [were recently] recorded in a normally waveless Beaufort Sea. (The Beaufort Sea is a section of the Arctic Ocean.): When most people think of the Arctic, they usually imagine things like polar bears and Santa Claus. What they don’t picture are waves the size of a one-story house, because most of the Arctic Ocean is typically frozen and you can’t have big waves in frozen water. Well, tell that to the scientists from the University of Washington and the Naval Research Laboratory, who recently published their 2012 observation of big waves in the Arctic’s Beaufort Sea: During peak times, the waves averaged around 16 feet high. The highest single wave was measured at 29 feet. Researchers fear that the waves, enabled after decades of expanding ice retreat thanks to global warming, will even further accelerate the ice breaking process in the Arctic region. “The observations reported here are the only known wave measurements in the central Beaufort Sea,” they wrote in the report, “because until recently the region remained ice covered throughout the summer and there were no waves to measure.” The study referred to by the Daily Digest News concludes: This suggests that further reductions in seasonal ice cover in the future will result in larger waves, which in turn provide a mechanism to break up sea ice and accelerate ice retreat. Awhile back, BuzzFlash at Truthout wrote a commentary based on a New York Times article. The Times wrote that oil, natural gas and extraction industries were looking to capitalize on global warming by exploiting fossil fuel and mineral deposits made more accessible by an Arctic Ocean no longer frozen year round. On November 30, 2012, Buzzflash posted a column noting a New York Times article entitled, Race Is On as Ice Melt Reveals Arctic Treasures.” As BuzzFlash noted then: The stakes are high, involving military build-ups, the wooing of previously ignored nations by superpowers, and the battle over extraction rights. But, according to the NYT, experts say boundary disputes are likely to be rapidly resolved through negotiation, so that everyone can get on with the business of making money. Yes, global warming is leading to a whole new profitability frontier: as islands are threatened with extinction due to rising waters, hurricanes and tornadoes run amuck, and temperatures become increasingly volatile, the vulture capitalists see dollar signs not calamitous ruin Sovereign nations, acting on behalf of business interests, are, as noted earlier, circling the carcasses exposed by a rapacious industrial appetite. The new report on the Beaufort Sea region of the Arctic Ocean notes that the emergence of waves can itself cause further erosion of the Arctic ice shelf. The Daily Digest News offers this analysis: To create waves, you need plenty of open water in addition to high winds. There were no waves observed earlier, because in the past the ice just didn’t retreat far enough, even in the heat of summer... Now, things are different. “In recent years, the seasonal ice retreat has expanded dramatically, leaving much of the Beaufort Sea ice free at the end of the summer,” they [the scientists] wrote. Though no one is sure of anything just yet, the shocking observations don’t paint a rosy future. The compounding effects of sea swells combined with global warming could have unseen consequences for all who inhabit the Arctic, both human and otherwise. As BuzzFlash noted in 2012, the battle against global warming is going to continue to require an uprising on behalf of the planet. That is because the fossil fuel and extraction (along with other profiteering) industries are actually rooting on behalf of negative climate change. ___ Sustainablelorgbiofuel mailing list Sustainablelorgbiofuel@lists.sustainablelists.org http://lists.eruditium.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sustainablelorgbiofuel
[Biofuel] Does NASA's Data Show Doomsday for New York City?
http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/25283-does-nasa%E2%80%99s-data-show-doomsday-for-new-york-city Does NASA's Data Show Doomsday for New York City? Wednesday, 30 July 2014 15:54 By The Daily Take Team, The Thom Hartmann Program | Op-Ed If we don't do something quick to stop global warming, some of the biggest cities in America could go the way of Atlantis in just a matter of decades. Sam Carana over at Arctic News has taken the time to analyze the latest data from NASA, and what's he's projecting from that data is startling. Sam suggests that global sea levels may rise rapidly over the next few decades; so rapidly, in fact, that we could see more than 2.5 meters of sea level rise by 2040, which is just 26 years from now. And because, as Sam Carana points out, sea levels now look like they're going to rise exponentially - on a curve - as opposed to on a straight line, they will continue to rise even faster after 2040. To put this in perspective, here's a picture of what the New York City metropolitan area would like with just 1.8 meters (around 6 feet) of sea level rise. As you can see, large parts of lower Manhattan and New Jersey would be underwater. Six feet of sea level rise would also be a disaster for New York's neighbor to the north, Boston, submerging the entire central part of that city. Miami, Florida, meanwhile, would basically turn into a giant swamp with many of its most famous neighborhoods drenched in sea water. Of course, if we don't take action against global warming soon, the possibility that some of America's most famous cities could turn into manmade coral reefs will be the least of our worries. There's a very real debate going on right now in the scientific community about whether or not industrial civilization, or even humanity itself, can survive the next couple of centuries if global climate change keeps on its current pace. Which makes it all the more frustrating and outrageous that many of our elected representatives either don't care that our planet is in danger or are so in bed with the fossil fuel industry that they use their positions as senators or congressmen to spew ridiculous conspiracy theories about climate science. Just yesterday, for example, Republican Oklahoma Senator Jim Inhofe said in a speech that global warming was a hoax used by the White House to push through an environmentalist agenda. Luckily for us (and the planet) not everyone thinks the way Senator Inhofe does. Today, Maryland Congressman Chris Van Hollen, a Democrat, introduced a bill that would go a long way towards creating sensible climate policy. The basic outline of Van Hollen's bill, the so-called Healthy Climate and Family Security Act of 2014, is pretty simple. It would place a total cap on all carbon emission that would grow to 80 percent of 2005 levels by 2050. At same time, it would require fossil fuel companies to buy permits for every single ton of carbon they sell on the U.S. market. 100 percent of the money made from selling these permits would then be redistributed to We the People in the form of a quarterly dividend. Sounds pretty cool, right? But wait, it gets better! The real genius in this plan is that average Americans would get more money from the dividends program as the emissions cap increased. In other words, you and I would get richer as the planet got healthier! As University of Massachusetts economist James K. Boyce wrote in a New York Times editorial about Van Hollen's bill. The number of permits initially would be capped at the level of our 2005 carbon dioxide emissions. This cap would gradually ratchet down to 80 percent below that level by 2050 As the cap tightened, prices of fossil fuels would rise faster than quantity would fall, so total revenues would rise. The tighter the cap, the bigger the dividend. Voters not only would want to keep the policy in place for the duration of the clean energy transition, they would want to strengthen it. In a sane world, Republicans would be all over Chris Van Hollen's bill. After all, it's basically a way to take money that would normally go straight to the federal government and give it back to everyday hardworking Americans. Unfortunately, we don't live in a sane world. We live in a world dominated by a fossil fuel industry that owns half of Washington and pretty much the entire Republican Party. So, in all likelihood, Congressman Van Hollen's plan won't even make it out of committee. But that doesn't mean we should give up the fight. If anything, Van Hollen's cap-and-dividend bill shows us how simple it is to make global warming policy work for both the planet and the people. At the same time, it also shows that cutting carbon is a net positive for the environment and the economy. If the data is right - and all signs do point to it being right - global warming is happening a lot quicker than we originally thought. That's why
