Wei L
Global Citizen; Volunteer; Social Entrepreneur; Creative Thinker & Strategic Partner; CEO; Bridge & Matchmaker
Promising & clean alternative energy ?
Alternative energy is a term used for some energy source that is an alternative to using fossil fuels. - Wikipedia
Thank you for sharing !
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If you know companies that make money [or potentially can make money] over the alternative energy, would you please to share with us ? Many thanks !
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Jon, a company called cratech.com might be a solution for 'mountains and rolling hills of green grass covering years of trash'.
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Mary, thanks for sharing the interesting FART TAX news, pretty entertaining. It reminds me that the cratech.com uses animal manure as one of their numerous organic wastes.
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Bryan C W
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Hydro, Solar and Wind come to mind as well as wave action and geo-thermal.
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Bryon is right. All of what he said produces an advantage to curb the need for fossil fuels. The problem: Cost effectiveness, and education. My 2 cents how can you go wrong with free energy? Yes the beginning cost is that COSTLY, BUT with time there will become those even plains and better returns with interest.
Shane Wyatt McCartney
Kevin W
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Kevin W suggests this expert on this topic:
Mr. Andrzej Tonderski is focusing on Bio-energy research and development in Potland and with a global perspective. Currently, he is organizing an international conference on this topic.
As Bryan, mentioned, Hydro, Solar and Wind are coming up in mind firstly..
Wave Action and Geo-thermal are following....
We are really trying our best on two wheels:
1. Saving energy consumption;
2. Find out alternatives...
Come on, Mates,... we are waiting for the great answers and your crazy ideas are also welcomed..
The warming problem put our world into trouble as well.. is there anyway to absord the "heat", which has driven our world to warm and try to cool dawn our world to a proper situation.... haha... just differentiate this from Solar Energy... is there any possibility?
Thanks.....
John B
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Construct two portals to alternate universes that exist with a different energy potentials than our own (one greater and one less). Regulate the energy flow between the three universes to keep a balance in this universe (to prevent any potential side effects). As the energy flows between the three universes, we can tap its power to run anything with any level of energy requirements in this universe.
Mary L
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Happy Cows - methane gas seems to be a wave of the future! May as well bottle it! There's plenty of it!
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Clarification added June 10, 2008:
Check out this link to the FART tax in New Zealand... :-)
No fooling...just read it...
Jon B
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Our local Waste Management landfill has created mountains and rolling hills of green grass covering years of trash. I could never figure out why they didn't plop a couple of big generators on top to utilize all the methane gas.
For that matter, it'd be a great place to plant wind farms and solar collectors. It's just a big space that no one can build on - they ought to do something with it.
Bryan is right. I would also add hydrogen cells once the kinks are worked out. Also, grassroots solutions like vegetable oil. I'm not sure it would have long range applicability or that I would even want it to, but it is a good short range, small scale alternative. What about good old steam power?
Joseph G
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Below are links to a couple of interesting ones, Nanosolar (solar energy) and AlgaeLink (biodiesel - a carbon based fuel but not a "fossil" fuel so depending on your definition of "clean" it may or may not be a "clean" alternative energy).
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T Boone Pickens is investing $10 Billion in a Texas wind farm, so he obviously sees big money in clean energy. Farmers/ranchers can continue to use their land even though the huge towers are on their land. As others mentioned, geothermal and ethanal from non-corn feedstock seem like excellent choices. Large-scale development of solar power may become more viable with new technology, especially if the planned solar tower in Australia is a success.
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John ジョン S. R
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Good day Wei,
The AWEA is worth checking out.
Moreover, in 2005, Fed Ex began powering their Oakland, California facility with solar.
Regards,
John S. Rajeski
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John D
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IDEA #1:
Highly Efficient Electrolysis of water to produce hydrogen fuel.
The hydrogen can then be used as fuel. Simply substituting gasoline with hydrogen in a modified ICE (internal combustion engine) will dramatically reduce pollution and provide higher horsepower than using gasoline or propane.
I realize that it takes electric power for electrolysis. Therefore, the source of that electricity should be from a clean source such as Wind or Solar or Nuclear.
For the long term, however, standard ICE automobiles need to go away. Hybrids, pure electric, or fuel cell are better in the long run. (See 2nd IDEA which follows)
See first link provided. (I have additional ideas to potentially increase efficiency to 90% or higher).
IDEA #2:
Ultra-Capacitor Plus Battery = New Hybrid
Toyota has been working on this for several years, and they won an endurance race with their technology recently.
Ultra-capacitors are highly condensed plates, able to store huge amounts of electrical power that can be used for high surge requirements to assist the battery-banked powered automobile. This would reduce the need for massive battery current capacity (thus reducing vehicle weight because of smaller batteries) and still allow for acceleration when needed.
Note: Many do not realize that the capacitive + battery storage power technology was first proposed by Nikola Tesla nearly 90 years ago. Unfortunately, no one took him seriously.
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Currently, there is no single global alternate energy source. It all depends what sources all available in your geographical area. Pakistan, for example, has multiple sources including hydro, solar, wind, sea current but all in different geographical areas. Combined, they can provide power to the whole nation. Even today, hydro (the cleanest) is the major source of energy in Pakistan while other sources are being tapped into.
Varun K
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Wei,
There are many power producers, both independent and government owned that generate using alternative means. The company I work for does - we are primarily hydro, but also have wind and energy from waste in addition to landfill gas capture.
Companies make lots of money from this and will stand to make more as the price of fossil fuesl continues to rise.
Two Swedish companies offering their expertise in biogas production and usage (electricity and/or vehicle fuel) are growing rapidly. Check out Swedish Biogas and Scandinavian Biogas.
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Anthony F
Conceptual development visionary
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Check out biomimickry creators of energy production systems created from actions we se in nature, (Hydro Tasmainia, the surface wave generator snake like in scandinavia, tidal generation, ect) there are companys making profit from most of these applications presently.
Anthony Foo
