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Mitt Romney’s Views on Conventional and Alternative Energy

LMerker — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 04:48:44 +0000

Mitt Romney has an excellent chance of becoming our next president. He won the primary in New Hampshire today.

His website contains a lot of excellent information about him and his views. For his views on conventional and alternative energy, please visit mittromney.com/jobs/energy .

United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change in Durban, South Africa Concludes

eblock — Mon, 12 Dec 2011 17:09:12 +0000

Dec 12, 2011 – The international United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change in Durban concluded after generating mostly hot air! The expression we hear many times with the politicians with regard to fixing the economy is that they are kicking the can down the road. The 1997 Kyoto Protocol is being extended for several years instead of being replaced. The terms of any replacement agreement will be negotiated in the future. There was agreement to develop a fund, the Green Climate Fund, for poor countries, but the details will be decided in the future. Please leave your comments here.

EPA Revises Air Pollution Rule

eblock — Tue, 25 Oct 2011 16:05:23 +0000

Oct 25, 2011 – The USA EPA is proposing to ease air pollution rules from the regulations it issued in July 2011. The regulations mainly affects coal-fired power plants. Please leave your comments here.

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eblock — Fri, 02 Sep 2011 20:37:35 +0000

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Happy Earth Day: Get Involved with Green Energy

eblock — Fri, 22 Apr 2011 13:23:37 +0000

Apr 22, 2011 – Happy Earth Day! Get involved with Green Energy by subscribing to GreenEnergyForEarth.com and writing posts and comments here. List your events, list and search for green energy jobs, list and search for green energy business opportunities. If it is related to green energy, place it or find it at http://www.GreenEnergyForEarth.com.

German Firms Move Toward Postnuclear Economy

eblock — Thu, 14 Apr 2011 11:08:50 +0000

Apr 14, 2011 – The New York Times reports on the ongoing move to green energy in Germany that is accelerating since the Japanese nuclear plant damage. Nuclear energy supplies 22.3 % of Germany’s electricity while coal provides 42 %, natural gas 13.6 % and renewable energies 16.5 %, according to the German Environment Ministry. There is a strong political divide that is affecting Angela Merkel’s party. Follow the link above to read the whole story & then leave your comments here about Germany and other countries efforts in the move to alternative energy.

New Nuclear Power Plants in United States

LMerker — Mon, 28 Mar 2011 01:05:05 +0000

The following video from CNN compares nuclear power to solar power, wind energy, natural gas and clean coal. It mentions that new nuclear power plants will be built and one is currently under construction in Bay City, Texas.

Advertising: Earthjustice & Wind Turbines

eblock — Sat, 16 Oct 2010 19:09:46 +0000

Oct 16. 2010 – Pictures of wind turbines seem to be in every ad, even if it is not on TV or on the web where you can see movement. Solar panels get much less coverage in advertising. Earthjustice.org claims to “using the courts to stop the construction of dirty coal plants and encourage carbon-free energy.” Their tag line is “Because the earth needs a good lawyer.” What did Shakespeare say about lawyers? Please leave your comments here.

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eblock — Tue, 28 Sep 2010 14:01:16 +0000

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Siemens to supply technology for new IGCC project in the U.S.

eblock — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 15:46:13 +0000

Jul 19, 2010 – Siemens Energy has been awarded a Front End Engineering Design (FEED) contract by Summit Texas Clean Energy LLC to provide coal gasification and power block technology for the Texas Clean Energy Project (TCEP). The new polygeneration IGCC project will use coal as its feedstock. With a gross capacity of 400 megawatt (MW), the plant will also produce urea for the U.S. fertilizer market. With a carbon capture rate of 90%, the plant will have one of the highest carbon capture rates of any IGCC plant in the world. The CO2 will be used for enhanced oil recovery in the West Texas area. Siemens will be working with Fluor Corporation and Linde during the project’s FEED. This project received a USD 350 million award under the U.S. Department of Energy’s Clean Coal Power Initiative (CCPI) – Round 3 to demonstrate the commercial integration of large-scale IGCC with CO2 capture and geologic storage.

The Texas Clean Energy Project will be located in Penwell, near Odessa, Texas. Siemens will deliver the gasification island technology, which will include two SFG-500 gasifiers. The power block will be based on an SGT6-5000F gas turbine modified to operate on high H2 syngas, which will allow the plant to have a very high carbon capture rate of about three million tons/year. The power block will also include a Siemens SST-900RH steam turbine, air-cooled generators and SPPA-T3000 controls.

“Summit and Siemens have a long and successful working relationship that provides a strong foundation for this world-class IGCC project. We greatly value Summit’s confidence in the Siemens power generation and gasification technologies as the best choice for its IGCC project,” said Michael Suess, CEO of the Fossil Power Generation Division of Siemens Energy. “We have made great innovations and investments in clean coal technology over the past few years, and we are excited to now be on the forefront of today’s deployment of clean coal technology.”

“We are pleased to be moving forward with Siemens on this breakthrough fossil energy project,” said Donald Hodel, Chairman of Summit Power Group and former U.S. Secretary of Energy. “Our nearly 20-year working relationship with Siemens has enabled us together to find a way to use the world’s vast coal reserves in the cleanest manner possible, providing future generations with a higher degree of energy security in an environmentally sound fashion. We both look forward to working with the U.S. Department of Energy and our other technology partners to accomplish these important goals.”

IGCC technology is part of Siemens’ Environmental Portfolio. In fiscal 2009, revenue from the Portfolio totaled about EUR23 billion, making Siemens the world’s largest supplier of ecofriendly technologies. In the same period, the company’s products and solutions enabled customers to reduce their CO2 emissions by 210 million tons. This amount equals the combined annual CO2 emissions of New York, Tokyo, London and Berlin.