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By: Donald Kennedy: Where Science and Policy Converge | sci-stuff.org

Donald Kennedy: Where Science and Policy Converge | sci-stuff.org — Sun, 21 Dec 2008 23:06:10 +0000

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By: Donald Kennedy: Where Science and Policy Converge | sci-stuff.org

Donald Kennedy: Where Science and Policy Converge | sci-stuff.org — Sun, 21 Dec 2008 23:06:10 +0000

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By: Greenest U

Greenest U — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 23:52:35 +0000

UC San Diego is building the largest energy storage project for permanent load shifting on a university campus. It will be funded with fuel cell incentives just approved by the California Public Utilities Commission. Power created by the university’s 2.8 MW biogas fuel cell will be stored and used during peak demand. Check it out at http://greenestuniversity.blogspot.com

By: Chris Leyerle

Chris Leyerle — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 22:21:43 +0000

Combining offshore wind with wave is exactly what is proposed by the Grays Harbor Ocean Energy Company which recently filed 7 FERC applications on the OCS for wave platforms. Wind woud be added to the same platforms later under MMS jurisdiction.

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Stanford University reports a confidence-boost for renewables — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 08:33:21 +0000

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By: Carol Overland

Carol Overland — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 04:14:36 +0000

THIS is the kind of thinking we need. There’s one of these hydrokinetic flow-of-the-river approved by FERC for Hastings, MN, near my hometown of Red Wing, and a much smaller one planned for the Indian River Power Plant cooling tower inlet in Delaware (problem with that is that they’d then use that to argue that they should not convert to dry/zero liquid discharge, like biogas as support for factory farms, eeeeeuw, complications). Delaware just approved what is likely to be the first offshore wind project in US, and with the proximity to the wave demonstration project, it shouldn’t take much to get the two together. To provide dispatchability, after first some SERIOUS conservation, we need to combine intermittent sources, and voila, we’re covered. Thanks for this post and lnks.