Carnegie Corporation based in Fremantle Western Australia has developed the CETO II wave power device. Their unique system involves pumping a working fluid to land to drive a conventional pelten wheel hydro turbine. The high pressure fluid operates in the same way that a conventional hydro dams water falling would act. The technology was developed by the inventor in the mid 70s but received most of its commercial development since 2006. There is enough wave resource available close to population centres to supply more than half of Australia's current average annual energy demand. Greg Allen is the Chief Operating Officer and joins the Beyond Zero team to discuss his companies renewable power play.
Beyond Zero talks to Ove Hoegh-Guldberg about the Great Barrier Reef
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.
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 just as atmospheric Carbon Dioxide began to rise noticeably. When colourful Coral Reefs go white, most other reef creatures depart, and so do the tourists.
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.
A Clean Energy and Jobs Bill has been introduced to the US Senate. At present, K C Golden tells us that it is 'pretty robust', with provision for 'truing up to the science as we go'.
WARNING: AUDIO QUALITY IS LACKING ON THIS INTERVIEW -- ANOTHER ATTEMPT WILL BE MADE TO INTERVIEW DEEPAK in 2010. Deepak Gadhia has a built a solar empire around small to large scale cooking systems, now deployed in 1000s of sites around India and abroad.From his small family sized single pot systems to the world’s biggest solar cooking system at Mount Abu in Rajasthan that cooks 30,000 meals per day, Deepak is now installing systems for small scale cooking through to industrial steam applications for the textile industry and hospitals as well as solar air conditioning and solar crematoriums. He is also now building a 100MW solar electric plant in Gujarat thanks to a German style Feed-in Tariff being implemented in that state.
Invented by Wolfgang over 25 years ago 1000s of Scheffler dishes are now installed at 100s of locations around the world. Wolfgang Scheffler has made his dish designs and associated intellectual property available for free to create a solar world.
AYCC's 'Youth Decide' was an opportunity for Youth of Australia aged 12-29 to vote for their future, with over 90 percent of respondents wanting climate targets for the year 2020 in excess of 40 percent reductions. Dr Richard Dennis talks about the tricks, obfuscations and blatant protectionism inherint in the proposed legislation for our nation's Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme.
Solar power, working up to an unprecedented 1100 degrees Celsius, will bring higher efficiency and lower storage costs. Even better, higher temperatures can drive combustion in reverse, making atmosphere-friendly liquid fuels direct from atmospheric Carbon Dioxide, according to Nathan Siegel, of the Solar Technologies Department of the Sandia National Research Laboratories.
Beyond Zero's Eva, Melissa and Matt talk to Dave Turner a dedicated former engineer and researcher at Solar Systems. Solar Systems is a leading Australian company that has gone into administartion and was developing Concentrating Photovoltaic technology for large scale centralised power plants. They had just been going through the final stages of a cost down process and production automation. Without serious Australian support including feed-in tariffs and/or loan guarantees the sun may never shine on one of Australia's contributions to the global solar revolution.
Taking more solar electricity from commercial rooftops and doing it cheaper. Rick Russell tells how Soliant Energy are planning to do just that, using concentrating photovoltaic technology that tracks the sun.
Blair Poleze, CEO of 350.org tells of its many fun/serious activities.
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 year 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.
Paul Gipe, author of 'Wind Energy Basics' talks to Scott Bilby about how the Canadian province of Ontario plans to close all its coal power plants by 2014, how people in Vermont wanting to own their own energy sources pushed politicians into instituting feed-in tariffs, and much more. And a warning for Australians: Beware FITINOS - Feed-in Tariffs in Name Only!
A new study claims that there is 16 to 20 times more wind power avaiability in the USA than is needed to generate all the electricity used, says Michael Goggin of the American Wind Energy Association.
Doerte Laing from the German Aerospace Centre DLR explains the advantages of Concrete Thermal Storage for Solar Power Plant operations upto 500 degrees C. Laing says this technology is now ready for a full commercial scale demonstration.
In Spain, they don't just talk, but have lots of green technologies to show: Solar, and Transport, too, Matthew reports.
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