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Wednesday 30 October 2019
Monday 28 October 2019
DATA THAT MATTERS
We can’t accomplish something if we’re unaware of what our goals are. Climate change is being caused especially by the extravagant release of greenhouse gases (GHG) our planet isn’t able to absorb. So here are some quick data for thought.
37,1bn tonnes of Co2 – the amount of GHG released in 2018
415,26 parts per million (ppm) – CO2 concentration in the atmosphere in 2018. The highest in recorded history. Ever
The 4 greater carbon dioxide emitters are China (27% or 9.6GtCO2/year), the US (15%), EU28 (10%) and India (7%) –
The highest CO2 emissions per capita are in the U.S.- 16.2tonnes CO2/person in 2017 (compared to 5,99 in the UK or 1,58 in India)
The greatest share of global fossil CO2 emissions in 2017 came from coal (40%) followed by oil (35%)
25% of carbon emissions are used for heating and electricity
14% of carbon emissions come from transportation, 72% of which come from road transportation
2.1tCO2e/person by 2050 – global individual emissions per capita to keep Earth’s temperature below 2ÂșC
Sunday 27 October 2019
Saturday 26 October 2019
Thursday 24 October 2019
24 OCTOBER - ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY
The last British Airways Concorde flight takes off on October 24, 2003, from New York's JKF Airport to return to London's Heathrow Airport.
File Photo by Ezio Petersen/UPI | License Photo - Link
Wednesday 23 October 2019
Tuesday 22 October 2019
ORBITAL MARINE
Interreg France (Channel) England Programme has approved the biggest ever Interreg project that will prove to be game-changing for the European tidal stream energy sector.
Bringing together 19 organisations including Orbital, the Tidal Stream Industry Energiser Project, known as TIGER, is an ambitious €46.8m project, of which €28m (69%) comes from the European Regional Development Fund via the Interreg France (Channel) England Programme.- link
AIRBUS ZEPHYR BUSTED
A state-of-the-art drone owned by one of the world’s biggest aeronautical companies has crashed in the remote Kimberley for the second time this year, after it lost control during a test flight.
The Airbus Zephyr pseudo-satellite, while being launched from Wyndham Airport on September 28, encountered “clear turbulence” during the ascent, causing the aircraft to depart from controlled flight.
An Airbus spokesperson said the company have informed the relevant authorities and initiated an investigation. There was no damage to people or property and the aircraft was recovered.
It is understood the drone also crashed at take-off earlier this year when the craft was expected to start a secretive, one-month flight mission on April 1. - link
PEOPLE WHO STOMP
People trying to seem important will act as if their schedule is so full that they can’t really spend any time with you.
Monday 21 October 2019
WASTE TO JET FUEL
A consortium including British Airways and Shell is hoping to build Europe’s first waste-to-jet-fuel plant at Immingham in North East Lincolnshire.
According to BA, the proposed plant on the Humber Estuary will convert more than half a million tonnes of household and commercial waste into sustainable jet fuel each year.
The airline claims that using the fuel will reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 70 per cent compared with the fossil fuel equivalent, as well as cutting particulates from engine exhausts by up to 90 per cent and sulphur dioxides almost entirely. - Link
Sunday 20 October 2019
SSE SEAGREEN
SSE Renewables, the project development arm of the British utility SSE, has selected turbine supplier MHI Vestas for its 1.1-gigawatt Seagreen project off the east coast of Scotland.
Seagreen was one of the winning projects in the U.K.’s most recent contracts for difference (CFD) auction. The project secured a 15-year contract with a guaranteed price of £41.61/megawatt hour ($53.41) covering 484 megawatts of its total capacity of 1,075 megawatts. SSE plans to build out the remainder of the capacity as well. - Link
Saturday 19 October 2019
Thursday 17 October 2019
Wednesday 16 October 2019
MINESTO DG500 UPDATE
CEO Dr Martin Edlund gives an update on the recently resumed operations with Minesto's DG500 system off the coast of Wales.
Tuesday 15 October 2019
Monday 14 October 2019
EOWDC - EU FUNDING 40,000,000 EUROS
The European Offshore Wind Deployment Centre (EOWDC) is Scotland’s largest offshore wind test and demonstration facility which has been developed by Vattenfall-owned Aberdeen Offshore Wind Farm Limited and is supported by AREG. - Link
Sunday 13 October 2019
TOYOTA MIRAI
When Toyota designed its hydrogen-powered Mirai fuel-cell car five years ago, its R&D team focused the majority of their efforts and the lions share of its budget on the tech side of the project. And as a result, the car’s exterior styling was far from pretty, focusing more on function than on form.
Now the car might have been a watershed moment, billed as the world’s first-ever fuel-cell production car, but it had aesthetic issues. In its second iteration, however it’d seem as though Toyota’s designers have been given a new design directive—make the new Mirai a looker. - Link
Saturday 12 October 2019
WHERE THERE'S MUCK
The global waste management market size is expected to reach $484.9 billion by 2025 from $303.6 billion in 2017, growing at a CAGR of 6.0% from 2018 to 2025.
Waste management is the collection, transportation, and disposable of garbage, sewage, and other waste products. It involves treatment of solid waste and disposal of products and substances in a safe and efficient manner. - Link
Friday 11 October 2019
ORKNEY SURF 'N' TURF
Surf 'n' Turf uses electricity made from tidal energy and from wind energy as the input to an electrolyser on Eday, owned by the European Marine Energy Centre.
The tidal energy comes from the EMEC site where turbine manufacturers test their devices in the strong tides of the Falls of Warness. EMEC can host up to eight turbines out at sea. The largest currently deployed is rated at 2MW. As tidal turbine designs continue to advance, EMEC is keen to find ways to harness the energy, even if the electricity grid cannot accept all the power.
The wind energy comes from the community-owned turbine managed by Eday Renewable Energy Ltd to raise funds for the benefit of all the islanders. Commissioned in 2012, the 900kW turbine has at least 20 years of operation left. It benefits from a supremely windy location, but the remoteness does at times limit the amount of power it is allowed to send to the grid.
Both energy sources can therefore experience curtailment, when they could generate more electricity were it not for the weakness of the electricity grid. That's when the EMEC electrolyser can step in. Making hydrogen will consume some of the excess power, allowing it to be stored for later use on demand. - Link
Thursday 10 October 2019
(IAN) AD UK
Food waste (not including my fish pie) collected by the majority of the commercial waste management companies in Oxfordshire and Berkshire goes to AD (Anaerobic Digestion) in: -
Wallingford (Design Power Output 2.4 MWe) - (Severn Trent Green Power)
Cassington (Design Power Output 2.1 MWe) - (Severn Trent Green Power)
Basingstoke (Design Power Output - 1.2 MWe) - (Herriard Bio Power).
The food is ‘digested’ for an average of 85 days in large concrete stomachs (Severn Trent example) with the methane being withdrawn throughout the process and fed into generators which covert it into electricity which is fed onto the National Grid (Methane is generated by the decomposition of organic matter). 1 tonne of food generates approx. 390 kWh of electricity.
(Methane produces 21 times as much warming as CO2 and accounts for 20% of the 'enhanced greenhouse effect'. Food waste discarded into landfill allows the methane to be liberated into the atmosphere.)
The ‘digestate’ (the remaining liquid phase) is rich in N,P,K, (nitrogen, phosphorus, potassium) and has Soil Association certification for land injection on farmland as a soil improver within seven miles of the AD facility thus keeping vehicle emissions to an absolute minimum. Nitrogen added to soil in a liquid state is far quicker absorbed and therefore available for use sooner than when supplied in a solid (fertilizer).
Anaerobic digestion does not accept compostable packaging or cutlery due to the material’s inability to biodegrade over the optimal AD digester retention time. As part of the scope under the PAS 110 standard/specification for digestate from AD facilities, no individual man-made element within the final digestate may be larger than 2mm.
So where are all of these wonderful treatment plants - link
Picture - a bowl of the best fish pie created on planet Earth (by me) more like this (fish pie) - link
CURITIBA - FOOD FOR WASTE
The city of Curitiba, in southern Brazil, is famous among urban planners for its innovation and rational development, with a reputation for being highly livable and very sustainable.
It was one of the first cities to market itself as “green” in a 1980s advertising campaign.
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Wednesday 9 October 2019
Tuesday 8 October 2019
ORKNEY - TOO CLEAN, TOO SOON
The islands currently generate around 120 percent of their electricity needs but rather than being rewarded for this energy surplus, the current set-up sees the islands penalised for creating too much clean power. Link
Sunday 6 October 2019
THE CARDIFF MARATHON FFS
Dear BBC television
Please would you show the Cardiff Half Marathon live for two and a half hours. I bet that's a letter they never received - what a waste of BBC resources showing this guff; the only people remotely interested in the boring yawn Cardiff Half Marathon are in it. Link
Thursday 3 October 2019
FUSION IS ALWAYS 30 YEARS AWAY
The UK Government has announced £220m over the next four years towards the design of a commercially viable fusion power station.
Known as the Spherical Tokamak for Energy Production (STEP), it will be based on “spherical” tokamak technology that is currently being pioneered at the UK’s Culham Centre for Fusion Energy (CCFE). The design effort – led by the CCFE – will involve over 300 people and be complete in 2024. - Link
DOGGER BANK
The wind farm touted to be the biggest in the world upon completion, Dogger Bank Wind Farms, will also be equipped with the world’s largest wind turbines, thanks to the order by development partners Equinor and SSE Renewables.
Dogger Bank Wind Farms, located 130 kilometres of the coast of Yorkshire, England, is made up of three projects with a total capacity of 3.6GW, the equivalent consumption of 4,3 million homes per year. - link
BAY OF FUNDY
Two tidal energy companies are joining forces to develop technology to harness the Bay of Fundy's powerful tides.
Sustainable Marine Energy and Minas Tidal LP will use a technology that includes turbines on a floating platform — instead of on the ocean floor — with the hope of eventually delivering nine megawatts of tidal energy to Nova Scotia's electricity grid. Link
Wednesday 2 October 2019
BIFFA FINED £350K
A London court has fined a United Kingdom waste management company 350,000 pounds ($431,000) for attempting to export contaminated household waste to China.
Wood Green Crown Court ordered Biffa Waste Services to pay the fine and an additional 249,912 pounds in legal fees for the infraction that occurred in 2015. Link
Tuesday 1 October 2019
U.S. PALM OIL IMPORTS
Used in about half of the products on supermarket shelves, palm oil imports to the U.S. have jumped 485% in the last decade - Link
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