Dr Fred Morse is a veteran of the solar industry. He started out in solar assessing the viability of the resource for Nixon, helped save the industry when a report by the NRC at the time was trying to close down the US Department of Energy Solar programs and he now is pushing forward with Abengoa's Solana plant and the industry in general as head of the CSP division Solar Energy Industries Association. Dr Morse speaks to Matthew
Beyond Zero talks to Chris Huntington, Senior Vice President Business Development at SkyFuel, developers of innovative solar thermal technology for large scale transition from coal and fossil fuels to a solar future. Skyfuel uses reflectech polymer films developed by the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL)
Walt Musial from US Department of Energy's National Renewable Energy Laboratories tells the story of Wind Energy in the USA, from the 'Wind Rush' of the 1980s, challenges of scaling up, to proposals for huge offshore, floating, wind turbines.
Beyond Zero's Matthew Wright and Scott Biliby talk to Dr Thomas Mancini, CSP Program Manager, Sandia National Laboratories. Tom has a long history in the solar programs having worked at Sandia since the 1980s Tom talks about Solar Thermal Power Towers, Molten Salt Storage, the US DOE Solar programs and the hopeful serious commercialisation of Solar Thermal power in the USA this year.
Randolph Toom has a background in the automotive industry and with his partners at heat2power has developed a heat engine he believes is superior to other waste heat recovery options. In addition due to the temperatures he is able to run his heat engines at they may offer a much cheaper option to stirling engines for extracting direct electricity in applications such as paraboloidal dishes. The engines are designed
Wind power can easily replace 40% of Coal, Oil, Gas and Nuclear for electricity generation in the UK. Wind expert David Milborrow shares his 30 years of experience in grid integration and penetration of wind resources and all variability associated with electricity grid supply and demand. David Millborrow in conversation with Matthew Wright of Beyond Zero Emissions.
Zafer Ure is a refrigeration engineer by training and has leapt up a notch to lead the world on the use of Phase Change Materials (PCM) for Domestic and Industrial applications.
Masdar is noted for their Masdar city project to create a high performance zero emissions city. In this interview we talk about one of their main projects and that is testing and scaling solar beam down towers for comercial deployment in the United Arab Emirates. The towers are from the work of Tokyo Institute of Technology and are pre commercial at this stage but hold a lot of pr
The University of New South Wales (UNSW) has dominated the development of standard photovoltaics cells since the mid 1980s and Professor Martin Green has been at the head of the UNSW efforts since the late 1970s. From BP buying into the UNSW's photovoltaic technology in the 80s to the UNSW's recent relationship with Suntech, the UNSW has been at the forefront of photovoltaic development and commecialisation globally.
Based in Fremantle, Western Australia, Carnegie Corporation has developed the CETO II wave power device that produces zero emissions energy. Their unique system involves pumping a working fluid from the ocean floor to drive a conventional 
Beyond Zero talks to Ove Hoegh-Guldberg about Australia's Great Barrier Reef.
Right up with world trends, Australian Heinz Dahl, of Next Gen Wind, tells how Australian and New Zealand manufacturers are talking of huge, 10 Megawatt, Wind Turbines; Wind Turbines for cyclone-prone areas; floating Wind Turbines, and more.
Christine Milne, Australian Greens Senator, compares the Labor Party Climate Change Hypocrites (do almost nothing) with the Liberal Party Deniers (do worse than nothing), and compares them with Britain, where the Conservative Party has 'leapfrogged' the Labor Party in ambitious Climate Change policy, and in the polls.
Mass coral bleaching on the Australian Great Barrier Reef began as atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations began to rise noticeably. When water temperatures rise, coral bleaching can occur causing many reef species, and tourists, to depart!
A large installation of 750 Megawatts of 'Sun Catcher' Solar Dishes in 'Imperial Valley', USA, will employ at least 4400 during manufacturing and construction, and 150 in operation.
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