Wind industry says investment plans held up by limited access to grid
Published: 23 October 2008 09:55 Author: Alexandra Wynne
www.nce.co.uk
Wind industry leaders gathering in London yesterday called for access to the national grid to be improved to allow £50bn of private infrastructure investment to be spent over the next 10 years.
Energy minister Mike O’Brien told British [...]
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Wind industry says investment plans held up by limited access to grid ¦ NCE, 23 oct 2008
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‘Oil from algae’ promises climate friendly fuel ¦ guardian.co.uk, July 31 2008
Posted in bioenergy, tagged algae, biofuels on October 31, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
‘Oil from algae’ promises climate friendly fuel
Alok Jha, green technology correspondent guardian.co.uk, Thursday July 31 2008 12.09 BST
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2008/jul/31/biofuels.travelandtransport
New start … the company’s website promoting green crude made from algae
A liquid fuel made from plants that is chemically identical to crude oil but which does not contribute to climate change when it is burned or, unlike [...]
Renewables role for oil industry ¦ BBC news, Wednesday, 29 October 2008
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged business, environment on October 31, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
By Steven McKenzie
Highlands and Islands reporter, BBC Scotland news website
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/highlands_and_islands/7689213.stm
The oil and gas industry has experience of working in harsh environments
The oil and gas industry is to be encouraged to play a bigger role in the development of marine power.
Scottish Renewables said the industry had the skills needed to help Scotland achieve the [...]
THAWT energy harvester | the Engineer
Posted in stream, tidal and currents, tagged Thawt, tidal and currents on October 28, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Originally Published: 17 September 2008 08:40 AM
Source: The Engineer
Successful tests of a new type of tidal turbine have boosted hopes that a full-size prototype can undergo sea trials in 2011. Its developers believe the transverse horizontal axis water turbine (THAWT) could harvest energy from tidal flows more efficiently and at a lower cost than [...]
Second generation tidal turbines promise cheaper power | the guardian
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged stream, Thawt, tidal and currents on October 28, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Alok Jha, green technology correspondent guardian.co.uk, Thursday September 04 2008 17.07 BST
Harnessing the vast energy of the UK’s coastal tides could become much simpler and cheaper with a new design for the next generation of underwater turbines. The device, unveiled by a team of engineers from Oxford University, re-thinks the way power is generated [...]
Off-grid data centre powered by tidal energy planned for Scotland | Environment | guardian.co.uk
Posted in stream, tidal and currents, tagged tidal and currents, UK on October 28, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Off-grid data centre powered by tidal energy planned for ScotlandMorgan Stanley scheme sidesteps major barrier to renewables – the long wait for connection to the national gridTricia Holly Davis guardian.co.uk, Thursday October 16 2008 12.00 BST Article historyA plan to build a large, off-grid computer data centre in Scotland, powered directly by tidal energy, is [...]
New wave power generation: harnessing the sea’s energy | Technology | The Guardian
Posted in floating, wave, tagged UK, wave on October 28, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
New wave power generationAn experiment to harness the sea's energy could be helping to produce power within five years, according to its supportersMichael Pollitt The Guardian, Thursday August 7 2008 Article history
Computer simulation of how the Anaconda would look at sea
Professor John Chaplin of the University of Southampton likes solving fundamental fluid mechanics problems. [...]
UN says investment in in clean technologies and natural resources will rebuild world economy | Environment | guardian.co.uk
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged business on October 28, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
UN: Rebuild global economy through green investmentTerry Macalister guardian.co.uk, Wednesday October 22 2008 13.00 BST Article historyThe United Nations today called for a refocusing of the world's economy towards investments in clean technologies and natural infrastructures such as forests in a Green New Deal that could revive the stumbling global economy, combat climate change, and [...]
Where the winds blow | Environment | The Observer
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Where the winds blowJohn Vidal The Observer, Sunday October 19 2008 Article historyIf Britain is to generate a third of its electricity from wind power, many upland areas will be blanketed in wind farms, but people in the lowlands may be shocked to find giant pylons carrying 400,000 volts across favourite areas of the countryside.
Bringing [...]
UK announces world largest algal biofuel project – guardian.co.uk; oct 22nd, 2008
Posted in bioenergy, tagged biofuels on October 28, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The world's biggest publicly funded project to make transport fuels from algae will be launched today by a government agency which develops low-carbon technologies.
The Carbon Trust will today announce a project to make algal biofuels a commercial reality by 2020. The plan could see up to £26m spent on developing the technology and infrastructure to [...]
