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DIY Solar Tracking System Inspired by NASA (Parker Solar Probe)

In this video I demonstrate a simple autonomous solar tracking system that can be used with solar panels or parabolic mirrors to improve their performance in producing renewable energy. For this system I use two 10rpm, 6v geared electric motors, and four 5v, 0.6w solar panels connected in a configuration that allows the motors to constantly move the panels into shade (purchasing links for these items below). The cost of the electronics was about $10, and could easily be scaled up or down as necessary for a variety of solar applications.

Michael Strizki's Fantastic Solar Hydrogen Home

In 2006, Mike took his home off of the electrical power grid. Ever since, he has been generating his own electricity. All of Mike's electrical power comes from solar energy. He usually generates 160 percent more energy than he needs to power his home. Mike isn't likely to sell his power to the grid. Instead, Mike uses the excess electrical power to make hydrogen, which he stores in tanks, to run his car on. Mike has proven that it is possible for you to power your home and car from solar power.

Caribbean Walks the Talk on Clean Energy Policy

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, Jan 28 (IPS) - Despite having an abundance of wind and sunshine, Caribbean countries have found that going green is requiring significant shifts in policy, and most importantly, significant financing.
But despite these challenges, they are not daunted. Barbados, for instance, which spends an estimated 400 million dollars annually on fossil fuel imports, has announced plans for a wind, gas and solar energy programme that requires almost one billion dollars in investments.

Plans for the area include a 680 million dollar waste to energy plant; a leachate treatment plant costing about 31.9 million dollars; a landfill gas to energy project to cost 9.4 million dollars; a solar project costing 120 million dollars; and a wind to energy facility projected to cost 24 million dollars, said Environment Minister Dr. Denis Lowe.
The climate change financial adviser at the Barbados-based Caribbean Development Bank (CDB), Selwin Hart, said the region premiere financial institution has identified the promotion of renewable energy and increased energy efficiency as a strategic priority.
The bank is in the process of developing an energy sector strategy and policy which will be finalised in 2014, he told IPS.But we are not waiting until that policy is finalised for us to make the necessary interventions within borrowing member countries giving the priority and urgency attached to making these investments, Hart noted.We will be supporting the policy and regulatory reforms that are necessary to ensure the deployment of renewable energy and energy efficiency technology.
Citing the regionâ is a vulnerability to the negative effects of climate changeâ, Hart said the Caribbean must be in a position to secure some of the financing needed to help it cope, adapt and reduce vulnerabilities to the serious fall-out from the phenomenon.We are extremely vulnerable when it comes to the consequences of climate change and we must do everything to receive our fair share of the resources being made available,he said.
Hart told IPS global investments in renewable energy and energy efficiency have quadrupled over the last decade and now stand at 244 billion dollars a year.
The cost of renewables, and using solar, as an example, have fallen significantly and are now for the most part cost competitive with traditional sources of energy,” he said.
The International Energy Agency (IEA) in its World Energy Outlook 2013 conservatively estimated that by 2035, renewables will surpass coal as the main fuel for power generation.
In 2012, another Caribbean country, Belize, which currently generates 63 percent of its electricity from renewable energy sources, announced plans for a National Energy Policy and a Sustainable Energy Strategy.
We have ambitious targets. We have set ourselves to change from fossil fuel to renewable energy and at the same time decrease our energy intensity, Energy Minister Joy Grant told IPS.
We are pursuing all types of renewable energy hydro, bio energy, solar, ocean, thermal and wind and waste-to-energy,Grant added.
But like all other small developing countries, Grant said Belize is efforts in renewable energy were constrained by the high cost of renewable technologies; the lack of domestic capacity; inappropriate frameworks to incentivise the private sector to invest in renewable energy; and small population size.
Dominica is Energy Minister Rayburn Blackmore said that 30 percent of his country is energy consumption comes from hydro, and last year it spent 51.6 million dollars to import fuel for energy generation.
The consumer pays over 30 percent of that in what is being called fuel surcharge. The consumer pays an average of 1.17 dollars per kilowatt hour, he told IPS.
From our standpoint in Dominica, we believe as a government and as a people that we must do something, once and for all, he said.
Blackmore said Dominica was now moving into geothermal production with the hope of cutting the price of electricity to the consumer by 40 percent in the first instance when a 15MW power plant now being constructed is rolled out.Our ultimate goal of geothermal production we will also be contributing to the global effort to combat climate change, he said.
The programme manager for Energy at the Guyana-based Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Secretariat, Joseph Williams, agreed that the cost of energy is just too prohibitive to achieve the economic growth and poverty reduction needed in the region.
When one looks at the problems currently faced by the Caribbean it is important to note that the cost of electricity is two to three times that of other countries in the Latin American and Caribbean region, Williams said, adding that this â represents a tremendous drag, not only on the ordinary household but on businesses and commercial activity within our region.
Opposition legislator Gaston Browne told IPS Antigua and Barbuda presently has the highest cost of electricity in the Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS), exclusive of taxes, even though it uses cheaper heavy fuel.We also have the worst ratio of fossil fuel generation versus renewables in the OECS, he said.Browne wants to see a diversification into renewable energy with a view of having 25 percent renewable energy within five years.He told IPS his Antigua Labour Party would modernise the Antigua Public Utilities Authority into a more efficient entity, thereby reducing the burden that unreasonably high cost of energy imposes on industry, commerce and residential consumers when compared to Antigua OECS neighbours.
In August 2013, Antigua began the installation of solar-powered lights in the east of the island.
A government statement said the lights were intended to serve as a practical demonstration of the use of the nationâ renewable energy resources.
The CARICOM Energy Programme was established in April 2008 within the Directorate of Trade and Economic Integration to provide greater focus on energy matters in CARICOM towards development of the energy sector in the region.
Williams said the Caribbean is on the right track, putting in place a CARICOM Energy Policy and establishing targets for renewable energy in the electricity sector, while a number of the countries have advanced the whole question of policy at the national level.

It has taken some time but we are making progress, he told IPS.

Ford C-MAX Solar Energi Concept CES @ Las Vegas, Jan. 7-10,

Ford Motor Company announced today the C-MAX Solar Energi Concept, a first-of-its-kind sun-powered vehicle with the potential to deliver the best of what a plug-in hybrid offers -- without depending on the electric grid for fuel.
Instead of powering its battery from an electrical outlet, Ford C-MAX Solar Energi Concept harnesses the power of the sun by using a special concentrator that acts like a magnifying glass, directing intense rays to solar panels on the vehicle roof.

To start with, yes, the hunch you’d get from the name (Ford C-Max Solar Energi Concept) is correct — this is a concept plug-in electric car that includes solar cells. In particular, it includes SunPower’s X21 solar cells on 1.5 square meters, for a power capacity of 300-350 watts. But that’s not all. The car also includes a solar concentrator and sun-tracking technology that together allow for more electricity generation from the highly efficient X21 solar cells. “Similar in concept to a magnifying glass, the patent-pending system tracks the sun as it moves from east to west, drawing enough power from the sun through the concentrator each day to equal a four-hour battery charge (8 kWh),” Ford writes.

“The result is a concept vehicle that takes a day’s worth of sunlight to deliver the same performance as the conventional C-MAX Energi plug-in hybrid, which draws its power from the electrical grid. The C-MAX Energi gets a combined best MPGe in its class, with EPA-estimated 108 city/92 highway/100 combined MPGe. By using renewable power, the C-MAX Solar Energi Concept is estimated to reduce the annual greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) from a typical owner by four metric tons.”

The result is a concept vehicle that takes a day’s worth of sunlight to deliver the same performance as the conventional C-MAX Energi plug-in hybrid, which draws its power from the electric grid. Ford C-MAX Energi gets a combined best miles per gallon equivalent in its class, with EPA-estimated 108 MPGe city and 92 MPGe highway, for a combined 100 MPGe. By using renewable power, Ford C-MAX Solar Energi Concept is estimated to reduce the annual greenhouse gas emissions a typical owner would produce by four metric tons.

The C-MAX Solar Energi Concept debuts as Ford caps a record year of electrified vehicle sales.
Ford expects to sell 85,000 hybrids, plug-in hybrids and all-electric vehicles for 2013 – the first full year its six new electrified vehicles were available in dealer showrooms.
C-MAX Energi is Ford’s plug-in sales leader, with sales of more than 6,300 through November. Ford sold more plug-in vehicles in October and November than both Toyota and Tesla, and it outsold Toyota through the first 11 months of 2013. Plug-in hybrids continue to grow in sales as more customers discover the benefits of using electricity to extend their driving range.
C-MAX Hybrid over the last year has been a key driver in helping Ford sell more hybrids than any other automaker in the United States, second only to Toyota. C-MAX Hybrid continues to bring new customers to the Ford brand, with a conquest rate of 64 percent and drawing nearly half of its sales from import brands. Conquest rates are even higher in key hybrid growth markets like San Francisco, Los Angeles and Washington, D.C.

PSC hears presentations on solar, wind energy – The State

Solar and wind energy boosters gained attention Tuesday from an influential state board that could help decide whether alternate forms of energy expand in South Carolina, a state historically reluctant to embrace non-traditional power sources.

The S.C. Public Service Commission spent more than two hours listening to presentations and asking about the expansion of solar and wind in the Palmetto State – and when the session ended, members said they were impressed with what they heard.
“I’m sure it’s going to be extremely helpful to each of us,” PSC chairman O’Neal Hamilton said after the meeting in Columbia.
Commissioners took no action, but asked dozens of questions that could help guide them as alternative energy issues increasingly come up.

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Green Energy in Romania

PROJECT OVERVIEW

Green Energy in Romania

Wind power - General aspects

Renewables are our scale of time wasted continuous nature. They have the sunshine origin, the core gravitational interactions Earth and the Moon and the Sun with the oceans.

There renewable wind, solar, hydro, geothermal and biomass coming from.

Wind energy is also called wind energy. This name comes from mythology, from Eol, being wind god. Wind energy has been used by humans for a long time. From ancient times boats and ships traveled from wind. Later people built windmills with which grinds grain for food. Now, after many years, people have built some special devices that capture wind energy and convert it into electricity.

Earth wind energy potential

Source wind available is evaluated on a global scale to 57,000 TWh per year. The contribution of offshore wind energy (offshore) is estimated at 25,000 to 30,000 TWh per year and is limited to locations not exceeding 50 m depth global production electricity in 2000 was 15,000 TWh (which corresponds to a primary energy consumption of 40,000 TWh), resulting in a yield of thermo-mechanical cycles of 30-40%. Theoretically, home wind energy can meet the electricity needs plan world. At the same time, the main drawback of this source of energy is the wind instability. In periods of frost, as in hot weather, where the energy demand is fierce, the wind effect is practically nonexistent, which has resulted in the development of wind turbines, the attachment of other renewable energy systems characterized by a better balance in operation, or electrical energy storage systems. But must be taken in calculationsI, for electrical energy storage systems for large-capacity high cost price of these systems, which are now in development.

Europe has only about 10% of the available wind potential in the world but has about three quarters of the installed power in 2002. It has produced 50 TWh wind power home in 2002, world production of 70 TWh.

Technical wind potential available in Europe for over 5,000 TWh per year.

What will global consumption d's energy future? We can be sure that electricity consumption will increase worldwide. International Energy Agency foresees an increase to nearly 5.8 million megawatts until 2020 from 3.3 million in 2000. However, reserves mondessential fossil fuels - the main source for electricity generation - will run starting in 2020 until 2060, according to the best estimates of the oil industry. How will we replace electricity demand?

The best answer would be green energy, renewable.

It is one of the oldest sources of clean energy. She began to be widely used only in 70-80 years, when the U.S. has adopted several programs designed to encourage her recovery. In California, the end of 1984, already 8469 wind turbine operation. The total capacity of these units is approximately 550 MW. They are built in windy places, grouped in so-called wind farms. Wind turbines can be used to electricity production individually or in groups called wind farms. Wind farms, which are now fully automated, providing, for example, 1% of California's electricity, that is needed for 280 000 homes.

Approximately 80% of wind energy Now the world is produced in California, but wind power is about spreading in the American Midwest in Europe - particularly in Belgium and the Netherlands - but also in other regions. Annual turnover for wind applications in the EU was in 2003 of 6.9 billion euros, as specified in the international conference "Clean Energy - funding and support in Central and Eastern Europe" held in the Hungarian capital. In terms of installed capacity growth, strengthens Europe position in the wind energy market in Europe grew at 39 percent per year from 1998 to 2003. Energy thus produced is equivalent to that obtained by burning 20 million tons of coal in a conventional power generation. In the Czech Republic, for example, the share of wind energy increased from 3.8% in 2000 to 8% in 2010 from 0.2% in Estonia and 5.1% in Hungary from 0.7% to 3 , 6% in Poland from 1.6% to 7.5%. However, according to the International Energy Agency, in Romania there are "delays in developing and implementing programs on the use of wind energy." European documents out but show a good adaptation of Romania to the EU requirements regarding renewable electricity by hydro power plants.

The article "Evaluation of Global Wind Power" by Cristina L. Archer and Mark Z. Jacobson (Stanford University) is the result of a study funded by NASA and completed recently. Wind resource map was made by tracking the 8000 measurement points around the world, including Romania. 13% of points on the Earth's wind map are included in Class 3 (winds of 6.9-7.5 m / s) and only a few were placed in larger classes. Romania lies in the resources of up to 5.9 m / s, like most other areas, but with a potentially important enough to support a policy to promote wind systems.

EU policy on renewable energy resources

The main aim of the European Commission's energy policy is to develop regeneration energy, especially electricity produced from wind, water, solar and biomass. European Commission justifies this by stating a few reasons, namely:

The resulting energy plays an important role in reducing emissions of carbon dioxide (CO2) - a major objective of the European Commission;

Development of energy exchange increases support industry.

Also help improve energy security by reducing dependence exchange energy sources Community import.

Renewal energy sources are expected to be more economical compared to competitive energy sources, estimating within medium to long term.

Community needs to help replace energy sources is obvious. Some technologies, especially wind energy, And hydropower on a smaller scale, energygia biomass şand applications solartermale are viable and economically competitive.

Other, especially photovoltaic energy (Consisting of silicon panels that generate electricity based on solar) depend only on the volume produced and the cererea economy.

The most important features of the action plan can be considered aspects such as measuring the internal market within fiscal Community renewal policies have changed in the production and distribution of energy renewable proposals to strengthen cooperation between Member States.

An important chapter of the Action Plan is to reduce renewable campaign.

Types renewable resources

Wind energy

Photovoltaics

The heating and solar cooling

Hydropower

Of all renewable energy I stopped the wind.

Wind energy - from air currents to electricity

Wind farms operate on the principle aerodynamic force. Wind hits the propeller blades creates a strong pressure, positive and negative above the blade underneath it. This pressure difference generates a rising force that modern wind plants use to produce motion, and therefore electricity.

Winds force index 3, which normally fight in the North Sea, the southern tip of South America, the Australian island of Tasmania and northern U.S. Great Lakes region and in other regions are particularly suitable for wind turbines. There remains only man to exploit the power of these drafts. Measurements made in 8000 American researchers showed locations that we could meet world energy needs using only wind power - provided you use it more efficiently.

In February 2005, the world's largest wind farm became operational in Brunsbüttel, Germany. Giant "REpower 5M" high of 183 meters, has a rotor diameter of 126 meters, which sweeps each rotation area twice larger than a football field. Panel can generate up to 5 megawatts of electricity, which is enough to supply about 4,500 homes - an achievement unparalleled in worldwide.

However, regions that can build large wind turbines are relatively few. As a result, there is great hope now to build offshore wind farms. Worldwide, several plants were created offshore wind, for example in Denmark, Sweden, Holland, Germany and England.

That offshore energy obtained is about 50% higher due to, among other things, that the surface in contact with water, the wind is almost zero friction. From a technical standpoint, however, offshore wind farms are considerably more expensive than on land, because they have to withstand strong waves, storms and ice. Therefore, costs are 60% higher than for the same sized wind farms on land. In addition, offshore wind turbines produce low frequency sound waves, which can remove the fish, birds and marine mammals.

The idea of ​​flying wind seems descended from science fiction. They would have two rotors and would produce power at the height of 5,000 meters, where strong winds and regular.

Flying wind power is supported by a cable that would transmit electricity on earth.

It lifted into the air like a kite and would remain stable once would be up in the air. However, still not sure if this kind of airborne wind farm will be built again.

Remain so in the most cost-effective idea, that of using onshore wind, but in regions bordering the Black Sea

Wind energy potential in Romania

Need use alternative resources in Romania

The oil crisis of the 70s warned the industrialized states, security of supply became a vital issue for them. Expensive programs were initiated for construction of cEntre nuclear and large subsidies were allocated for alternative energy.

Planned interventions of those States have not shown but the results so that only ten years later, responsibility for investment in the energy sector began to be shifted to the private sector. Enthusiasm identify new sources of energy then decreased significantly, extremely high investment costs, but also because they were identified new oil fields.

After 50 years of the first major oil crisis, the world finds again that is vulnerable to energy security. Oil was coming to an end, considers specialists, but the renewable energy is still far from their be present, given that the EU is increasingly dependent on imported energy. Meanwhile, a new challenge emerged to the world: pollution. Under pressure from commitments made in the Kyoto Protocol, the debate on "green energy" took a special scale. European Directive 2001/77 states that "the promotion of electricity from renewable resources, energy single market, aims to increase the share of renewable energy sources (RES). Directive makes a number of incentives and facilities for those investing in RES. Strategies are followed by deeds only now, when oil announcing a new global energy crisis possible.

After the European model, the will, the needed, and Romania has drafted a strategy on "green energy".

Considerations on wind energy in Romania

Wind energy in Romania, they identified five areas of wind, depending on environmental and land and geographical conditions, taking into account the energy potential resource of its kind at an average height of 50 meters and above. From the results of measurements made that Romania is part of a temperate continental climate with high energy potential, especially in littoral and coastal area (mild climate) and alpine areas with plateaus and mountain peaks (severe climate). Based on the evaluation and interpretation of data recorded that, in Romania, the wind energy potential is most favorable on the Black Sea coast, in the mountains and plateaus of Moldova and Dobrogea. Also favorable sites were identified in regions with relatively good wind potential, if they are to exploitation of the effect of flow over hilltops, the effect of air currents sewage etc. Preliminary assessment on the Black Sea coast, including the offshore wind potential harnessed shows that short and medium term is high, the possibilities of obtaining a quantity of energy thousands of GWh / year. Although wind energy world is in an advanced stage of technological maturity, we can say that in Romania the share of wind energy in the energy balance in the short term, is below the real possibilities of economic recovery.

I propose the foundation upon which I start, pay special attention to promoting Its green energyin Romania - energy source of the fastest growing world - a clean technology, modern and efficient in the future.

In the Project "GREEN ENERGY IN ROMANIA", Company that wish to establish dumnevoastră supported plans to develop the largest Wind energy projectsWith sCopulation to produce electricity. We identified areas with adequate land, located in a region with high wind potential in south eastern Romania.

This Wind energy projects will consist initially of a number of 1000 MW wind turbines (Incluzand full service on-site installation), with potential for development in the future, a WIND POWER INDUSTRIAL PARK.

 I  identified for this project, taking account internal and external electricity market, the following arguments :

Worldwide interest to develop methods aimed at producing energyOther than conventional, using renewable energy (Caused by increased interestdramatic growth in oil prices following the oil crises of many of the world in recent decades);

Many benefits wind energy: significant reduction of pollution (atmosphere produces no emissions that cause acid raine or greenhouse - talk about a clean source of energy) fuel, produces no radioactive waste, there are many areas with high wind potential, renewable energy technologies one of the lowest cost currently available, Etc.

A great technical potential wind energy development in Romania - The country with the highest wind potential in the region, yet untapped, with a wide range of existing applications;

Promotion electricity produced from renewable energy sources domestic and foreign power - a long-term target Romanian government.

Given the objectives listed below, ask your support for this project, which will increase the percentage of Absorption of EU funds, will lead to job creation, economic development zone, agricultural facilities and reducing electricity bill any inhabitant of the country.

Through the project they want to grow, we hope to achieve the following OBJECTIVES:

• To promote the benefits of wind energy solutions and to integrate in the national energy;

•  To create aInvestment Portun BCnwithin a wind energy projects in order to develop wind energy resource exploitation, yet exploited to implement their development prospect in the national energy and consequently create new jobs (3,000 jobs total)

•  Harnessing electricity from renewable energy sources PrudRabil (wind);

• The project, by its magnitude, will bring European capital for developing SC Transelectrica SA

• The project will provide electricity at a lower price than in the market in the present moment,

• The project will ensure the development of Romanian agriculture, by supplying electricity at preferential prices to all farmers interested

• As a result of project implementation will be developed adjacent areas, which I expected to be at least two villages in Dobrogea

•  Seeking and developing an amusement park to complete the tourist circuit. Amusement park will serve both employees and tourists who want to visit the wind farm.

•  Marketing services for wind turbines, Sales and After sales support for companies interested in using "green energy" for their own needs.