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Monday, 15 February 2010 |
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Wind energy is the fastest growing energy sector in United States and many companies are putting in great efforts to build a renewable energy economy. At the end of 2009, the installed capacity of wind power in the United States was just over 35,000 megawatts, making it the world leader ahead of Germany, and wind power accounts for about 1.2% of the electricity generated in the United States. Texas, with 9,410 MW of capacity, has the most wind power capacity of any U.S. state, followed by Iowa with 3,053 MW. The Roscoe Wind Farm (780 MW) in Texas is the world's largest wind farm.
Meaning of the video below is to show different points of view on process of building wind farms in west Texas. As always, some people look at this wind farms as a world changing features and others believe that installed wind turbines will be abandoned if government reduces subsidies for that type of renewable energy source and then they will have fields full of unused windmills.
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Monday, 25 February 2008 |
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Countries of European Union (EU) have set ambitious goal to increase share of renewable energy sources from 8.5% to 20% in the overall energy consumption in EU by year 2020. This renewable energy increase is necessary contribution to the global fight against climate change and big step towards better control over energy dependence which is also very important goal for EU countries. Better control over energy dependence is necessary because rising oil prices and unstable political and economical situation in Ukraine which can lead to shortage in natural gas supplies from Russia. This EU initiative in renewable energy field is providing over 350.000 jobs with annual turnover around €30 billion, and that makes European Union world leader in the use and deployment of technologies for exploitation of renewable energy sources. European Union is not concentrating on some specific renewable energy source, so there are a lot of various renewable energy technologies included into this project. Some of most promising renewable energy technologies are listed below in this article (from video).
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Thursday, 11 October 2007 |
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The Sun is by far the largest energy source in the solar system. Amount of the solar energy that is every minute reaching Earth is enough to satisfy annual energetic needs of the mankind at the current stage of development. Despite its huge potential, only small percentage of energetic needs is covered with the use of solar energy. This is partially because of the slow development of current technologies that are using solar energy, although the main reason lies in the current price of the system that is used for exploiting the solar energy. |
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Monday, 30 July 2007 |
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Technical design of nuclear power stations can be roughly divided on the generations of nuclear power stations. First generation was developed in last century, more precisely in 50’s and 60’s and this type of power stations is no longer in use, because these were early prototypes. Nuclear power stations of second generation began with their construction in 70’s and large majority of today’s nuclear power stations was built on principles of this second generation. First third generation’s nuclear reactor was built in Japan and began with work in 1996. This reactor is example of the third generation’s early design and in this moment building of the power stations that will please the standards of third generation’s new improved design has also begun. This improved design is also called III+ generation of reactors. First III+ reactor should be finished and set to work in year 2009 in Finland, on island Olkiluoto. Momentarily, in conceptual phase are designs of nuclear installments of forth and fifth generation, but their use should not start before year 2030. |
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Tuesday, 24 July 2007 |
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Ocean thermal energy conversion (OTEC) is the method of generating electrical energy which uses difference in temperature that exists between shallow and deep waters of the oceans. Sun continuously warms oceans' surfaces which cover about 70% of the Earth's surface and in this process considerable temperature difference is creating itself, between surface and deep waters and can be used for generating enormous quantities of electrical energy with advantage that it doesn't pollute environment nor exhaust dangerous greenhouse gases. Warm surface waters and cold deep waters are the result of ocean streams which are heating the water in parts of the ocean near the equator, and cooling water in areas near North Pole and this cold water streams on ocean's bottom towards equator. |
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