July 23, 2010 – Vol.15 No.18
COOL OFF WITH COOL ROOFS.
by Bruce Mulliken, Green Energy News
The walls of my red brick house are hot to the touch in the record-breaking heat of the summer of 2010. I could probably fry an egg on my home’s gray slate tile roof. (If there was a nice frying pan flat spot, of course.)
Just a few months ago when warm moist air from the south met with cold air from the north, that same tired 60-year old roof held a 4-foot drift of record-breaking snow. The roof was damaged later by ice, and it leaked below.
Halfway through the year the planet is now on track to be the hottest yet in modern times.
The planet’s getting warmer because too much energy in sunlight is being trapped by heat reflective gases that man has put there in his foolish assumption that the thin layer of air we live in could somehow absorb those gases without complaint.
We need to find ways to artificially reflect more sunlight back into space.
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Tuesday, July 27, 2010
Tuesday, June 29, 2010
Wind Professionals Trust AWEA
Wind resource professionals trust the AWEA Wind Resource & Project Energy Assessment Workshop to deliver compelling and advanced resource assessment information. And no other event offers such superior networking with a resource assessment focus.
Wind experts share their knowledge of the industry’s evolving needs, and describe state-of-the-art techniques and technologies that use wind assessment data to make wind energy projects possible. The first day’s educational program will dig into the remaining challenges of what has become the consistently applied and traditional wind assessment and energy analysis. On day two, the focus shifts from the traditional challenges and explores “new frontiers” including operational assessment, advances in modeling techniques, and remote sensing. Each day finishes with unparalleled networking and relationship-building.
NOTE : This workshop is technical in nature. If you are new to the wind resource assessment community, consider attending the pre-conference seminar on Monday, September 13: Resource Assessment 101.
Attend this workshop and:
Learn best practices in commonly-used wind resource assessment methods, and their corresponding uncertainties
Explore the extension of annual energy assessment methods to the temporal realm of monthly, hourly, and the projected volatility of energy, hour by hour
Discover methods under development to reconcile projected energy from actual energy generated, whether due to natural wind variability or a need for improved analytical methods
Learn the latest industry benchmarks on project availability
Understand how remote sensing and advanced computation modeling are moving from interesting technologies to tools actually being used in project assessments and accepted by financiers
Who should attend?
Wind Assessors
Meteorologists
Project Developers/Owners
Consultants
Academics/Non-Profits
Turbine Manufacturers
Those needing insight into the detailed nature of wind energy analysis
AWEA member companies that attended past AWEA Wind Resource & Project Energy Assessment Workshops:
Iberdrola Renewables USA
RES Americas Inc.
Horizon Wind Energy
Acciona Energy North America
DNV Renewables
AWS Truewind, LLC
WindLogics
Garrad Hassan
NextEra Energy
NRG
enXco
FOR REGISTRATION INFORMATION, GO TO: www.awea.org/events/wra10/
Wind resource professionals trust the AWEA Wind Resource & Project Energy Assessment Workshop to deliver compelling and advanced resource assessment information. And no other event offers such superior networking with a resource assessment focus.
Wind experts share their knowledge of the industry’s evolving needs, and describe state-of-the-art techniques and technologies that use wind assessment data to make wind energy projects possible. The first day’s educational program will dig into the remaining challenges of what has become the consistently applied and traditional wind assessment and energy analysis. On day two, the focus shifts from the traditional challenges and explores “new frontiers” including operational assessment, advances in modeling techniques, and remote sensing. Each day finishes with unparalleled networking and relationship-building.
NOTE : This workshop is technical in nature. If you are new to the wind resource assessment community, consider attending the pre-conference seminar on Monday, September 13: Resource Assessment 101.
Attend this workshop and:
Learn best practices in commonly-used wind resource assessment methods, and their corresponding uncertainties
Explore the extension of annual energy assessment methods to the temporal realm of monthly, hourly, and the projected volatility of energy, hour by hour
Discover methods under development to reconcile projected energy from actual energy generated, whether due to natural wind variability or a need for improved analytical methods
Learn the latest industry benchmarks on project availability
Understand how remote sensing and advanced computation modeling are moving from interesting technologies to tools actually being used in project assessments and accepted by financiers
Who should attend?
Wind Assessors
Meteorologists
Project Developers/Owners
Consultants
Academics/Non-Profits
Turbine Manufacturers
Those needing insight into the detailed nature of wind energy analysis
AWEA member companies that attended past AWEA Wind Resource & Project Energy Assessment Workshops:
Iberdrola Renewables USA
RES Americas Inc.
Horizon Wind Energy
Acciona Energy North America
DNV Renewables
AWS Truewind, LLC
WindLogics
Garrad Hassan
NextEra Energy
NRG
enXco
FOR REGISTRATION INFORMATION, GO TO: www.awea.org/events/wra10/
Wind Energy, Not Too Complicated!
Our thanks to Yonatan Frimer for this video. It depicts the simple process of harnessing the energy which is all around us.
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