How New York Buildings Can Meet Carbon Standards With ‘Good’ Kilowatts
What the heck are good kilowatts? Turns out that these are nothing but power from good, clean renewable energy sources. Hmmm…
What the heck are good kilowatts? Turns out that these are nothing but power from good, clean renewable energy sources. Hmmm…
Innovations in thermal energy storage is seeing significant action. And here’s one from Toshiba & Marubeni. A pilot project that these two Japanese giants have developed uses materials such as crushed stone, bricks, molten salt, concrete, and ceramics to store the heat and appears that it can store heat at temperatures above 700 C. That’s interesting!
This detailed analysis in Energy Monitor analyzes an important domain within energy storage – thermal storage. While storage brings to mind batteries (electrochemical storage) most of the time, there are many other energy storage avenues – mechanical storage (think hydroelectric power plants and pumped storage, or even flywheels), chemical storage (power can be converted to hydrogen which can then act […]
The food sector is a large contributor to greenhouse gas emissions. And its emissions will only grow as the global population expands, especially from the southern hemisphere. While a number of avenues are being tried out to reduce emissions during cultivation – and rightly so, as a majority of emissions are from this phase – the post harvest portion of […]
Conventional power plants – coal, natural gas, hydroelectric – are large, centralized structures with heavy machineries and equipment. These are hardly stuff that one can expect to be stolen – can you imagine someone trying to lift off a 10,000 ton boiler from a coal power plant! Renewable energy power plants – especially solar power plants – are quite the […]
Napier grass, also called Elephant grass and Uganda grass, is a species of perennial tropical grass, a native of the African grasslands. As it has low water and nutrient requirements, it can be grown in many areas with ease. It has been used as a fodder crop for silage in many tropical and subtropical countries. But all these still do […]