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A Winning Political Platform

A ‘New Sustainable Economy’ is a Winning Political Platform in the USA, says K C Golden of Climate Solutions.
Climate Solutions works to overcome ‘The Confidence Gap’: politicians are not yet confident that there are votes in renewable energy.

Climate Solutions, Seattle
Campaigns and ideas on Greenhouse Gas Abatement
K C Golden on You Tube
A framework for curing US fossil fuel dependence

# 2009-07-03 by bze |
Categories: Climate Change | Peak Oil | Politics | Renewable Energy
Tags: Climate-Solutions | Confidence-Gap | K-C-Golden | Votes-In-Renewable-Energy | Winning-Political-Platform

Electricity from strong winds in New Zealand

New Zealand is the ‘Saudi Arabia’ of wind! (Just ask anyone who has been to Wellington.)
Windflow Technology makes wind turbines with torque limiting gearboxes, synchronous generators, and just two ‘teetering’ blades, to suit windy sites. And they are made in New Zealand.
Geoff Henderson tells lots more to Matthew and Scott.

Windflow Technology
All about the Windflow 500, technical papers and all
Radio 3CR Melbourne
Community Radio Station broadcasting 'Beyond Zero Emissions'
Wikipedia 'Wind Turbine Design'
Detailed information about Wind Turbine Design

# 2009-06-26 by bze |
Categories: Wind Power | Renewable Energy | Science and Solutions Show
Tags: Geoff-Henderson | Torque-limiting-gearbox | Windflow-Technology | strong-winds | wind-power

Starpoint Solar plans Gigawatt Solar power with Hydrogen Storage

Atmosphere friendly electricity, day and night, from Solar installations as powerful as 20th Century Coal plants, but with Parabolic Dishes, Stirling Engines, and Hydrogen Energy Storage.

Don Murray, President and Chief Technology Officer of Starpoint Solar talks big with Matthew Wright and Scott Bilby.

Starpoint Solar
Starpoint Solar's website
Starpoint Solar summary presentation
Low cost Parabolic Dishes, Stirling Engines, and Hydrogen Storage to deliver Gigawatt power
Beyond Zero Emissions
For information on solutions to global warming

# 2009-06-12 by bze |
Categories: Solar | Renewable Energy | Science and Solutions Show | Climate Change
Tags: Don-Murray | Hydrogen-Storage | Parabolic-Dishes | Solar-Power | Starpoint-Solar | Stirling-Engines

24 Hour solar power from Torresol

Power from the Sun all night a reality? Santiago Arius, Chief Infrastructure Officer of Torresol (‘Sun Tower’ in Spanish) tells how. A first of its kind commercial ‘Power Tower’ under construction will supply electricity 24 hours a day in summer. ‘Trough’ and ‘Power Tower’ designs compared, prospects for larger stations, info on finance and more from Abu Dhabi.

Torresol Energy
Torresol is a Concentrating Solar Power (CSP) company formed from an alliance between SENER and MASDAR.
Wikipedia
Wikipedia: 'Gemasolar' or 'Solar Tres', first commercial Power Tower
Beyond Zero Emissions
For information on solutions to global warming

# 2009-06-05 by bze |
Categories: Solar | Renewable Energy | Politics | Science and Solutions Show
Tags: 24-hour-solar | Power-tower | Solar-power-finance | Torresol

Climate, Community, Politics, Bushfires, and the Emergency Rally

Underestimated climate change threatens unexpectedly intense fires and endangers firefighters. Feed-in tarriffs versus Minerals Council of Australia. Society, Economy and Environment.
Anne O’Brien of Climate Action Canberra; Climate Action Newtown; and Peter Marshall of the United Firefighters tell us about the situation.
Be part of the Solution: Climate Emergency Rally 13 June 2009.

# 2009-06-01 by bze |
Categories: Community Show | Climate Change | Community action | Politics
Tags: Climate-Emergency-Rally | Minerals-Council-of-Australia | Underestimated-Cl;imate-Change