Originally published on Planetsave. At the United Nations’ upcoming COP 19 event in Warsaw, the REN Alliance is scheduled to “introduce the theme of a 100% renewable energy future, and introduce case studies on how to attain this vision.” The side event is supposed to touch on technical integration of renewable … [continued]
Originally published on Mosaic. By Aven Satre-Meloy.
Personally, I wouldn’t put my money on hydrogen for transportation fuel. I’d put my money on battery-electric vehicles. But numerous companies, researchers, and governments are still putting a lot into hydrogen fuel cell vehicles, and no one knows for sure what the future holds. Iceland has also been a clear … [continued]
There has been a slight adjustment in PlanetSolar’s “DeepWater” expedition itinerary. The sun isn’t cooperating as much as the ship’s captain Gérard d’Aboville anticipated, so he and the scientific committee have decided to concentrate on the ocean eddies located between Boston and St. John’s, Canada. An additional stopover has been added at Halifax, … [continued]
This article first appeared on 1sun4all. MS Tûranor PlanetSolar, the world’s largest solar-powered boat, with her crew and scientists onboard, arrived in Boston to continue her 2013 “PlanetSolar DeepWater” expedition. Education days are planned for the stopover in Boston. The Gulf Stream tracking will continue as her next voyage takes her to the … [continued]
Planetsolar, the world’s largest solar-powered boat, arrived safely in New York on June 17, 2013. She has been transformed into a scientific platform as part of the “PlanetSolar DeepWater” expedition, and has joined by a team of researchers from the University of Geneva (UNIGE), led by Professor Martin Beniston, climatologist and … [continued]
The World Bank just announced they are creating a new fund for international geothermal development. Their goal is to raise $500 million for new geothermal projects in a variety of countries. This initiative was spoken about at the Iceland Geothermal Conference in Iceland by Managing Director Sri Mulyani Indrawati. “Geothermal … [continued]
The Iceland Geothermal Conference will be taking place between the 5th and 8th of March 2013, with over 300 participants from 24 countries. The keynote speaker will be Dr. Jeffery Tester, a Professor of Sustainable Energy Systems in the School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at Cornell University. He is … [continued]
A derailed 2009 project in search of improved geothermal resources has been found to have uncovered a new way to harness energy from volcanic magma itself, according to a paper just published at Geology: Origin of a rhyolite that intruded a geothermal well while drilling at the Krafla volcano, Iceland by Wilfred Elders, a professor emeritus of geology in the Department of Earth Sciences at the University of California, Riverside.
