Super Bowl Going Green!

Hey everybody it seems that the NFL this season will be going green next weekend with the onset of Super Bowl . The NFL Environmental Program now in its 18th year previously have developed projects each year to address solid waste, food waste, material reuse, the needs for books and sports equipment for children in need and the overall climate change impact of Super Bowl events. The company Green Mountain, will cooperate with the committee and help the reduce the load of electricity the Super Bowl will put on the  grid. 


The 15,000 MWH of electricity needed for the Super Bowl will be provided by wind farms in North Dakota (to Indianapolis, Indiana!)

Win Power Anyone?

Mitsubishi will be UNVEILING a massive 7 GW offshore turbine that will be used in the UK in 2013. This is hugely impressive for the wind industry because most have nameplate capacities at 2-3 MW nowadays. Will this mean a continued exponential rise for the industry over the past 5 years? Guess we'll just have to wait and see...

World's Largest Hydraulic Power Plant to be Built at 40 GW... and then some.

IN this ARTICLE, it explains the agreement between South Africa and the DRC agreeing to build, what would be world's largest hydro power plant in the world when it's completed in 2025, at 40 GW (that is more than twice what Three Gorges is). Expensive though at $80 billion.


AND THEN, HERE, is an article  reporting on the decision by courts to allow construction of a large 11 GW in Brazil that will be built in that country. 


The 40 GW power plant presented is absolutly massive to wrap your head around. It is more than twice what the current world's largest power plant which is the 18.3 GW plant at Three Gorges Damn.

However, as shown in the second article problems and sacrifices that have to be made by citizens with the massive 40,000 person displement that will occur with the construction of the damn in Brazil.


DO the good of many out weight the good of the few, or is this something that people will have to swallow to allow for cleaner energy production needs in the future.?

Peak Oil Evidence

One of the most sobering aspects of nonrenewable resources is that essentially they will run out sooner or later. They are a finite resource. How will that effect us in this lifetime? The fact is actually that it will affect us in this present lifetime. The resources will not 'run out' per se, but what will affect everyone is 'peak oil'. Peak oil  is the point in time when the maximum rate of global petroleum extraction is reached, after which the rate of production enters terminal decline. This relates to global extraction which some researchers in the oil and sciences industries have estimated are happening from either currently or within the next 5-15 years.

The article from the Energy Information Agency that I found on Tuesday, September 21st, 2011, portrays interesting information regarding United Kingdom oil and natural gas production as well as consumption from 2000- 2010. The paths cross around 2004 with natural gas, and 2005 for oil. 

RENOVATIONS

Hi,

This post is a continuation of what it has been created for. This profile and therefore blog of information and ideas previously recorded and express was created for a class I had taken for a politics class called Public Opinion. Now I am not in this class.

I have been accepted into the Renewable Energy major at Illinois State University and will continue the blog in the same purpose but as a recreational perspective. This will not jeopordize the material however since I stay heavily involved in the current events of the material and will resume posting this material on my blog along wiht ideas, critique, evidence, etcetera. 

TDR

Changing gears

Hi, this is Tom. The blogs previous to this were for the purpose of presenting public opinion on renewable energy for a class in college. Everything ensuing will be off the record for that class but will continue use for renewable energy discussion.

Final Topic Presentation

This Tuesday December 7th, 2010, we will all be giving a speech about our topic lasting for around 5 minutes and highlight a specific issue I found interesting about the research I have conducted over the past several months. While trying to decide what was most important to talk about I couldn't settle on any specific attribute about renewable energy. Then I thought, "Well, what is the most interesting thing I have learned about the topic in general?" To that question I would have to say that it would have to be the divide among citizens and voters regarding their stances on renewable energy. I didn't realize there was so much of a partisanship perspective that is involved in this technology. In an article I found, 38% of PEOPLE believe that the Democratic party would do a better job at dealing with the nation's energy problems, as oppose to 28% of the people who believed the Republicans would do a better job.

In another poll done showed evidence that in terms of the overall goal for our countries answer for energy issues, 52% of Republicans OVER 28% of Democrats, believe that the top priority to keep energy prices low, which may come at a cost to the environment.  While when asked about the top priority should be to protect the environment at all costs, 41% of Republicans agreed with this and 68% of Democrats endorsed this statement. 

These are just a few of the examples I have come across as to the divide among political parties about the energy issue.