FrackAction.com. Not So Fast, Natural Gas: Why Accelerating Risky Drilling Threatens America’s Water. Some energy analysts are predicting that natural gas will be the fuel of the future if advances in drilling technology allow drillers to tap into domestic shale rock formations on a large scale.
But because of the impacts that the technology can have on water, natural gas could become our next energy disaster. Although the industry argues that fracking is safe, there have been numerous documented cases of water contamination near drilling sites. Fracking Cattle. By Ulla Kjarval [Ulla Kjarval is a photographer, food blogger and grass-fed beef advocate who blogs at Goldilocks Finds Manhattan.
Her family operates Spring Lake Farm in Delaware County, New York -mb.] The battle over gas drilling has made its way to upstate New York and many farmers, especially those that rely on grasslands, are alarmed at the possible impact fracking – the relatively new technology for gas drilling – could have on their livelihoods.
Dick Cheney’s 2005 Energy Policy Act, with its “Halliburton Exemption” significantly deregulated fracking, making it exempt from the Safe Drinking Water Act, the Clean Water Act and the Clear Air Act. Bill Gross on new energy. Tidal Power - Generating electricity from tidal currents. 04Nov.
Ocean Tidal Power. You have many options for using renewable energy at home, including solar panels and small wind turbines.
Solar panels are the most popular form of renewable energy today. You can use them to generate heat, electricity, and indoor and outdoor light. If you live on at least one acre of land with an ample wind resource, you can generate your own electricity using a small wind electric system. 250 MW Tidal Power Plant to come up in India. Clean Power Published on January 16th, 2011 | by Mridul Chadha The Indian state of Gujarat has cleared plans for the installation of India’s first commercial tidal power plant.
The proposal to build a tidal power plant with an initial capacity of 50 MW was made by London-based marine energy developer Atlantis Resources Corporation. Energy for the Future - Bourne Energy. Mapping US Tidal Power Potential. When I was young, I lived just a couple minutes from the ocean, and during the summer I went to the beach almost every day.
Sometimes there was nothing more than a few yards of rocky shoreline exposed. Solar Or Wind Power? Why Not Both? - A massive solar sail could supply the electricity needs of the entire planet. - The technology harvests the power in solar wind. - Getting all that electricity back to Earth, however, would be a challenge.
Solar and wind power have long been two of the main contenders in the race to find the next big renewable energy resource. Renewable Energy: How to Harness the Sun, Wind and Water. Natural Resources Canada's CanmetENERGY is the Canadian leader in clean energy research and technology development.
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(click to enlarge) These look pretty cool. And apparently they are getting quite popular in San Diego. New sewage gas station in OC may be world's first. FOUNTAIN VALLEY, Calif.
(KABC) -- The Orange County Sanitation District and UC Irvine's National Fuel Cell Research Center opened a hydrogen fuel station in Fountain Valley on Tuesday where methane gas from sewage will be converted to hydrogen to power cars and the station itself. According to UC Irvine, the production process may be the only one of its kind in the world. Sewage gas clean enough to use in your home - SignOnSanDiego.com. Daniel Cusson, of Xebec Adsorption Inc., of Canada, uses a monitoring device to display the methane concentration of gas after it was cleaned and purified at this new biomethane recovery and purification system at Escondido's Hale Avenue Resource Recovery Facility. . — Charlie Neuman / U-T. Technology: Say It with Sewage Gas. The medieval alchemists who tried to turn base metals into gold had the right idea, but they may have set their sights too low. Using modern techniques, scientists at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory have accomplished an even more amazing transformation: they have turned sewage gas into diamonds.
Diamonds, the crystalline form of carbon, are usually formed when organic solids are subjected to intense heat and pressures. First households using 'sewage' gas - UK, Local & National. 05 October 2010 The use of human waste to generate "biogas" and then feed the green fuel into the gas grid is part of efforts to cut the greenhouse gas emissions from heating and cooking in homes. Suddenly, Garbage and Sewage Gas Is a Hot Commodity. Methane, a natural gaseous byproduct of both rotting garbage in landfills and raw sewage, is increasingly regarded as being valuable. Instead of allowing methane to float up into the atmosphere, waste companies are increasingly harnessing it for use as heating gas and as a means to produce electricity [San Francisco Chronicle blog].
It seems to be an alternative energy whose time has come: Methane landfill projects are already online in almost every state, and San Antonio has just signed on to become the first city to harvest methane from its sewage treatment facility. Harvesting methane serves a two-fold purpose: If it is not captured, the E.P.A. says, landfill methane becomes a greenhouse gas at least 20 times more potent than carbon dioxide, the principal greenhouse gas, when it rises into the atmosphere. The agency estimates that landfills account for 25 percent of all methane releases linked to human activity. Sewage works to provide gas for 200 homes in Oxfordshire - Business News, Business. Ultimately, the Didcot sewage works could produce enough low-carbon gas to supply 200 local homes, thanks to the joint venture between Thames Water, British Gas and Scotia Gas Network.
Thames Water already produce some £15m-worth of electricity each year by burning gas made from the 2.8 billion litres of sewage produced by the company’s 14 million customers. To turn feed the gas directly into the grid for use by consumers is simply “the logical next step”, according to Martin Baggs, the Thames Water chief executive. The gas is produced by warming up “sludge” – the solid part of the sewage – for anaerobic digestion by bacteria, which breaks down any biodegradable material and produces biogas. Biodiesel from Algae Oil - Oilgae - Information, News, Links for Algal Fuel, Alga Bio-diesel, Biofuels, Algae Biofuel, Energy - oilgae.com.
Pond-Powered Biofuels: Turning Algae into America's New Energy. Green energy from algae. (PhysOrg.com) -- Visitors to this year’s UK Royal Society Summer Exhibition will have a chance to discover how scientists from the University of Cambridge are studying ways to harness algae as a renewable energy source. Part of the Cambridge team - which includes plant scientists, biochemists, mathematicians, and chemical engineers - is developing a biophotovoltaic device to produce green electricity by tapping into the ability of algae to harness solar energy. Biofuel From Algae Could Compete With Oil, Report Says - Eco-nomics - Stories from the Mother Nature Network. Algae as Fuel. Using Algae to Clean Wastewater, Make Fuel. A wastewater treatment plant might seem like the last place to find a fuel for the future, but a team of researchers has done just that. Researchers at Rochester Institute of Technology are using algae grown in wastewater to produce biodiesel.
They say the process is “doubly green” because the algae consume pathogens in the water even as they can be used to produce biofuel. The process holds some appeal over conventional feedstocks like corn because algae is easy to grow, doesn’t require vast tracts of land to raise and uses photosynthesis to convert sunlight into energy. “Algae—as a renewable feedstock—grow a lot quicker than crops of corn or soybeans,” researcher Eric Lannan said in a statement.
Solar Power System For Home. Home Power Magazine: Solar. Solar power systems: Energy Matters - Australia. Solar energy is the cleanest and greenest source of renewable energy generated electricity available to help power your home, business or community building - and nowadays the cheapest too! Ocean Energy. Capturing the Ocean’s Energy by Jon R. Luoma. 01 Dec 2008: Report by jon r. luoma Way back in Napoleonic Paris, a Monsieur Girard had a novel idea about energy: power from the sea. In 1799, Girard obtained a patent for a machine he and his son had designed to mechanically capture the energy in ocean waves. 16 Hydroelectric, Wave and Tidal Power Designs. (Images via: OceanWorld, CNN, HIE and Geekologie) The Power of Wave Energy. 70% of the earth is covered in it and it offers great potential for energy generation.