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G3nergy sustainable and eNergy
G3nergy, es un blog dedicado al sector energetico en America del Norte. Tiene el fin de tratar divertidamente la actualidad de la energia y la sostenibilidad, con debate y reflexion sobre los intereses energeticos de la region.

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CALIFORNIA: The biggest solar farm of teh World is planned in AMERICA
2007-07-10 14:27:00
A San Francisco company said Friday it plans to build the world's largest solar power farm near Fresno, California . The 80-megawatt farm is to occupy as much as 640 acres (260 hectares) and upon completion in 2011 will be 17 times the size of the largest U.S. solar farm, said Cleantech America LLC, a privately held 2-year-old company. The farm will also be about seven times the size of the world's biggest plant and double the largest planned farm, both in Germany. Bill Barnes, CEO of Cleantech, said the scale of the Kings River Conservation District Community Choice Solar Farm will change renewable energy and make California the global leader for huge solar projects and replace Germany as the solar energy hub of the world. "We're pretty confident that solar farms on this scale are going to have an industry-changing impact," Barnes said by telephone on Friday. "We think it's the wave of the future. This scale of project, I think, creates ...
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EUROPA: La energía para el futuro, eL Hidrógeno [VIDEO]
2007-07-09 19:08:00
El HIDROGENO, es el elemento químico de número atómico 1 y símbolo H. A temperatura ambiente se lo encuentra como hidrógeno diatómico, un gas inflamable, incoloro e inodoro, y es el elemento químico más ligero y más abundante del Universo, estando las estrellas formadas mayormente por este elemento en estado de plasma durante la mayor parte de sus ciclos.Aparece además en multitud de sustancias como, por ejemplo, el agua y los compuestos orgánicos, y es capaz de reaccionar con la mayoría de los elementos, es el elemento más abundante en la naturaleza.El núcleo del isótopo más abundante está formado por un solo protón. Además existen otros dos isótopos: el deuterio (tiene un neutrón) y el tritio (tiene dos neutrones).Via: WikipediaLos combustibles fosiles se usan, actualmente, para cubrir casi todas las necesidades energéticas. Pero es necesario encontrar una alternativa.El hidrógeno puede ser la respuesta siempre y cuando se logre producirlo de una manera limpia y respetuosa con el ...
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ASIA: Winter Olympics Site Stirs Concern Among Environmentalists
2007-07-09 10:47:00
The choice of Sochi, a Russian Black Sea resort town, to host the 2014 Winter Olympics is worrying European environmentalists who believe that politics trumped environmental concerns. Sochi is thought to have spent 60 million euros ($80 million) to have won the bid to become the first Russian location to host the Winter Olympics. Russia will spend another 9 billion euros to build the needed infrastructure and sports facilities. Russia launched wild celebrations after the International Olympic Committee's (IOC) decision was announced in Guatemala Wednesday.Building something from nothingBut now reality has set in. Sochi organizers acknowledge they have a massive task ahead of them to turn the impoverished resort town into an Olympic hub in seven years. The road from Sochi's seashore to the mountains is narrow and runs through an economically depressed area of small farms. By 2014 it will have a high-tech train line, new roads, ice arenas, sporting venues and everything else neede...
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CANADA: TIENE EL PRIMER REGLAMENTO AMBIENTAL EN EL MUNDO
2007-07-08 12:48:00
Para detener la emisión de gases de efecto invernadero en Canadá, el gobierno de ese país creó el primer reglamento ambiental en el mundo que establece los límites para el control de estos gases y otros contaminantes atmosféricos, destacó la doctora Milena Sejnoha, directora de Política de Tecnología Energética del Ministerio de Recursos Naturales de Canadá.Con la aplicación de dicho reglamento ambiental se calcula reducir las emisiones de gases de efecto invernadero 20 por ciento para 2020.Canadá es pionero en reglamentar emisión de gases, Sejnoha señaló que para 2020 se reducirían emisiones en un 20% En su participación en el ciclo de conferencias ?Café Orgánico?, que organiza la Unidad Azcapotzalco de la Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana (UAM), Sejnoha explicó que la aplicación de las normas será gradual y la disminución de las emisiones será del dos por ciento anual, para no afectar sectores económicos y dar tiempo a empresarios de introducir tecnolo...
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BRASIL: Brazilian biofuel beckons Europe [video]
2007-07-07 10:25:00
Brussels sees Brazil as a key player in the fight against global warming. With the tenth largest economy in the world, Brazil is home to most of the Amazon rainforest. It is a major producer of biofuels. President Lula da Silva is due at a conference in Brussels this Thursday where the main goal will be to foster consumption and production of fuel made from crops. EU leaders agreed in March to boost the role of biofuels, with a clear deadline.Christian Bergsmuller is a member of the EU delegation in Brazil: "If the EU (has) that ambitious agenda of moving to about 20% of renewable energy by 2020 - which is very ambitious - we know that we have to import from other parts of the world, and Brazil will certainly have a stake in our energy mix in the future."In the future, if trade and investment end up predominantly bilateral, this risks complicating business dealings further afield. Brazil is the EU's main trading partner in Latin America but broader interests cannot be ignored.Analy...
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BRASIL: The Brazilian ethanol 'slaves' freed in raid on plantation
2007-07-06 07:17:00
More than 1,000 "enslaved" workers have been released from a sugar cane plantation in the Amazon following a raid that has highlighted the dark side of the current ethanol boom. Brazilian authorities said that the workers in the northern state of Para were being forced to work 14-hour days in horrendous conditions cutting cane for ethanol production. Police said the raid was Brazil's biggest to date against debt slavery, a practice reminiscent of indentured labour where poor workers are lured to remote rural areas, then pushed into debt to plantation owners who charge exorbitant prices for everything from food to transportation. The plantation's owner, Para Pastoril e Agricola SA, one of the biggest ethanol producers in Brazil, denied the charges yesterday. Brazil has become the poster boy for ethanol production as its massive sugar cane plantations have fuelled a wholesale switch from petrol to biofuels. Rising international demand h...
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EUROPE: Biofuels to buy farm prices in next decade: OECD/FAO
2007-07-06 01:06:00
The rapid growth of the world's biofuel industry is likely to keep farm commodity prices at high levels in the next decade as it will boost demand for grains, oilseeds, and sugar, a major study said on Wednesday. The study, co-written by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) and the United Nations ' Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), said biofuels would have a major impact on the agriculture sector between 2007 and 2016. "Bioenergies have become a key factor in the functioning of agriculture markets," Loek Boonekamp, a senior OECD official, told reporters after the release of the study. "In the medium term we believe that they could lead to prices on international markets rising quite considerably, at higher levels than what we had predicted in former outlooks and above the average of the last 10 years," he added. Boonekamp said that farm prices, mainly grains, would likely rise by 20 to 50 percent over the next decade. He added that although the lo...
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RENEWABLE: Suecia y EEUU firman acuerdo de cooperación en energía renovable
2007-07-01 02:57:00
Suecia y Estados Unidos firmaron un acuerdo para financiar de manera conjunta proyectos encaminados a desarrollar tecnologías de energía renovable, informó hoy Radio Suecia. El gobierno sueco señaló que destinará cerca de 18 millones de dólares USA al programa, incluyendo un proyecto con el fabricante de camiones Volvo y con su subsidiaria en Estados Unidos, Mack Trucks. El acuerdo fue firmado el jueves en Estocolmo por el ministro de Energía de Suecia, Maud Olofsson, y por el secretario de Energía adjunto de Estados Unidos, Alexander Karsner. Como parte del programa, los dos gobiernos y Volvo acordaron financiar de manera conjunta un proyecto de 9 millones de dólares concebido para desarrollar camiones que utilicen combustibles alternativos. Los acuerdos fueron discutidos por el presidente George W. Bush de Estados Unidos y por el primer ministro de Suecia, Frederick Reinfeldt, durante un encuentro realizado en mayo en la Casa Blanca, informó la rad...
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UNITED KINGDOM: Fruit could make 'powerful fuel'
2007-06-23 22:09:00
The fuel, made from fructose, contains far more energy than ethanol, the scientists write in the journal Nature.Separately, a British report on biofuels says all types of waste products, including plastic bags, can be used to make biodiesel fuel.Critics of biofuels made from food crops say they drive up prices.In both the European Union and the United States, politicians have heartily embraced biofuels as a way of reducing emissions of carbon dioxide and dependency on imported oil.'Waste' fuelCritics say that the current biofuels - both diesel made from palm oil and ethanol made from corn - encourage farmers to switch land to fuel production, driving up the price of food in the process.Now scientists at the University of Wisconsin-Madison say that a simple sugar called fructose can be converted into a fuel that has many advantages over ethanol. It is called dimethylfuran - it can store 40% more energy than ethanol, and does not evaporate as easily.The scientists say that fructose ...
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TECH: What Killed Micro Fuel Cells? What is Next?
2007-06-18 08:15:00
About four or five years ago, micro fuel cells were quite a hot topic in cleantech. They were going to power our laptops, cell phones, PDAs, blackberries, hand held multimedia devices, etc. The story ran like this: The digital age and increasing customer demand for more power hungry features like bandwidth, multimedia, et al on mobile devices like laptops, PDAs and cellphones mean the increase in power requirements are outstripping the pace of technology of lithium ion battery - therefore the only solutions will be micro fuel cells. And since battery manufacturers are a plodding, unimaginative lot, silicon valley and smart scientists can build a company to leapfrog them. We saw major players like Motorola (MOT), Toshiba (TOSBF), Intel (INTC), and others taking a look, and startups like Smart Fuel Cells, Medis (MDTL) and MTI Micro seeking to make their name on a fuel cell the size of a credit card (or thereabouts) . Today, still no micro fuel cell powered devices are on the marke...
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EFICIENCIA: Los visitantes de SIMA Futura conocen la eficiencia energética
2007-06-17 14:30:00
REMICA, líder en eficiencia energética ha estado presente un año más en el certamen SIMA Futura, celebrado dentro del Salón Inmobiliario de Madrid del 29 de mayo al 2 de junio, reforzando su presencia mediante la instalación real de su solución GICA. REMICA, compañía especializada en la instalación y mantenimiento de sistemas de calefacción, climatización, agua caliente sanitaria y energía solar, presenta GICA, su revolucionario sistema de Gestión Individual de Calefacción y Agua Caliente Sanitaria. En la edición de 2007 REMICA, ha contado con un amplio stand de 50 m2, duplicando su espacio respecto a ediciones anteriores, ya que en la presente ha mostrado in situ los beneficios de la eficiencia energética. Alta Eficiencia Energética a costes de mercado GICA es sinónimo de eficiencia energética, ya que minimiza notablemente el impacto medioambiental de los edificios. Esta tecnología da cumplimiento a lo establecido en el Código Técnico de la Edificación (CTE) en cuanto a l...
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WIND ENERGY: Oil tycoon plans major wind farm
2007-06-15 13:40:00
Billionaire T. Boone Pickens is planning to cash in on the wind energy boom by building the world's largest wind farm in West Texas . The oil tycoon wants to install large wind turbines in parts of four Panhandle counties in a project that would produce up to 4,000 megawatts of electricity, Pickens spokesman Mike Boswell said Wednesday. If Pickens' company, Mesa Power LP, does build the wind farm it would be the largest in the world, American Wind Energy Association spokeswoman Susan Williams Sloan said. It would generate more than five times the 735 megawatts produced at the present largest wind farm near Abilene. One megawatt is enough to power 250 homes in Texas, Sloan said. Pickens' proposal, which would cost as much as $6 billion, would fall just short of nearly doubling what Texas had at the end of 2006, when wind power totaled about 2,700 megawatts, she said. Not all planned wind projects in Texas become reality, though. Earlier this week, a developer w...
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CLIMATE CHANGE: China presenta su propio plan contra el cambio climático!
2007-06-14 08:43:00
China, segundo contaminador del planeta por detrás de EEUU, ha presentado su primer plan para luchar contra el cambio climático, que no fija compromisos concretos de reducción de las emisiones de CO2 aunque se compromete a controlarlas. ?China no considera aceptable que se impongan a los países en desarrollo compromisos en reducción de emisiones, pero se fija la meta de reducir el consumo energético un 20% en 2010, lo que disminuirá su emisión de gases de efecto invernadero?, dijo Ma Kai, presidente del máximo organismo planificador del país. El esperado plan de la Comisión Nacional de Desarrollo y Reforma, que recoge objetivos ya anunciados y delinea medidas para lograrlos, se presentó dos días antes de la Cumbre del G8 en Alemania, a la que asistirá el presidente Hu Jintao y que abordará el cambio climático como asunto principal. Ma reconoció que China desplazará a EEUU como principal emisor de CO2 del mundo (en 2008, según la Agencia Internacional de la Energía) aunque, dijo, el ...
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THE AMERICAS: OEA aprueba Declaración sobre energía para desarrollo
2007-06-14 08:36:00
Los cancilleres de las Américas afinaban ayer la ?Declaración de Panamá? sobre energía para el desarrollo sostenible, en el último día de la 37 Asamblea General de la OEA, tras el choque entre Estados Unidos y Venezuela por el cese de la licencia de una televisora venezolana.Después de dos días de debate sobre este tema la 37 Asamblea General de la OEA subrayó que "la gobernabilidad democrática, las instituciones democráticas sólidas, el estado de derecho y el respeto de los derechos humanos y libertades fundamentales son elementos esenciales para alcanzar las metas de los Estados miembros y de la región en materia de energía y desarrollo sostenible, el combate a la exclusión social y el avance del bien publico".Los 34 cancilleres de las Américas expresaron la necesidad de reducir la vulnerabilidad de los países ante las fluctuaciones en los precios y la oferta de la energía; incrementar la cooperación e integración energéticas; y, tomando en cuenta los desafíos presentados por el ...
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AMERICA: Sops key to solar growth in U.S.
2007-06-13 12:25:00
The potential of solar energy to help solve many of America `s energy woes is real, but its success hinges on establishing long-term incentives, industry advocates say. 'The only risk posed by solar is not going forward rapidly,' Michael Splinter, chief executive officer of Silicon Valley-based Applied Materials, said this week at a briefing sponsored by the New America Foundation on the potential for the technology to meet global energy demand. Solar is a viable way to meet much of U.S. and world energy needs -- and to reduce carbon emissions, Splinter said. Solar represents one-tenth of 1 percent of the 5,000 gigawatts of electricity produced globally each year, Splinter said. The global solar industry is a $15 billion market expected to grow to $50 billion by 2010, he said. So far, most of Allied Material`s business is overseas, particularly Germany, where the industry is further developed in part because there are strong incentives both for consumers and industry to use sola...
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TECH: The space solar power
2007-06-12 15:22:00
The Pentagon's National Security Space Office (NSSO) may begin a study in the near future on the possibility of using satellites to collect solar energy for use on Earth, according to Defense Department officials.The officials said the study does not mean that the military plans to demonstrate or deploy a space-based solar power constellation. However, as the Pentagon looks at a variety of alternative energy sources, this could be one possible method of supplying energy to troops in bases or on the battlefield, they said.The military's work in this area also could aid development of a system that could provide energy to non-military users as well, according to Lt. Col. Michael Hornitschek, chief of rated force policy on the Air Force staff at the Pentagon.Hornitschek, who has been exploring the concept of space-based solar power in his spare time, recently briefed the NSSO on the concept of space-based solar power, and stimulated interest in conducting a formal study, according t...
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