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An economy developed on energy from thermal coal generators is in process of moving to renewables, the main source being electricity directly generated from solar energy, supplemented by energy generated via pumped-hydro which uses surplus solar to lift water into a high reservoir where it is energy stored (effectively functioning as a battery) ready to generate electricity on demand.
A wind turbine, or alternatively referred to as a wind energy converter, is a device that converts the wind's kinetic energy into electrical energy. Wind turbines are manufactured in a wide range of vertical and horizontal axis. Click on image for best view and to see the pump jacks.
These are near St. Jo, Texas.
Future generations will probably look back on the Petroleum Age with a certain amount of disbelief: "They burned it? All those lovely organic molecules, and they just burned it?" (Ken Deffeyes, oil geologist)
Landscapes with a long tele lens it's not my comfort zone. Keeping an heavy 300mm steady under strong wind it's not an easy job, even with a solid tripod and a trigger releaser. Under the circumstances, however, it was the best solution I found for an uninteresting foreground that made my wide angle useless.
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Solar Impulse, the solar aircraft built in Switzerland to circle the globe, took off in the early morning on May 2nd this year at Moffett Federal Airfield at NASA Ames in Mountain View, California. I got an invite to witness this historic journey around the world.
Founders and pilots Bertrand Piccard and André Borschberg first addressed the press. André climbed into the cockpit for this leg to Phoenix, Arizona. The flight took 16 hours. I had a big tripod with me and could blend in with the press to get a prime spot for takeoff. Preparations were long, but the actual takeoff happened very quiet and sudden. I took this shot at the time of take-off at 5am in the morning.
Bertrand and André want us to use more clean energies. In their word, they want to push the transition to renewable energy resources. Very inspiring!
The aircraft has a wingspan bigger than a Boeing 747, but weights just 2 tons instead of 400 tons. To preserve weight and aerodynamics, this aircraft has no landing gears on the side. People hold the aircraft level on long poles until it gains enough speed. More info on this historic flight at www.solarimpulse.com
I processed a balanced HDR photo from a RAW exposure, and desaturated the image.
-- © Peter Thoeny, CC BY-NC-SA 4.0, HDR, 1 RAW exposure, NEX-6, _DSC6477_hdr1bal1e
A series of four photos. A composition of a photovoltaic panel and a young oak tree. The same tree, the same panel, just different seasons. Here you can see the spring season, the Resurrection period.
Explore, 25 de Gener de 2009, #185
Trobada Flickr en Benitatxell i Xàbia. 2 de Gener de 2009
Davant la tragèdia que estem vivint en aquests dies amb l'incendi del Puig Campana, m'apetia posar una foto amb un aire més positiu.
Ante la tragedia que estamos viviendo estos dias con el incendio del Puig Campana, me apetecia poner una foto con un aire más positivo
Havia estat tot el dia fent mal temps, plovent, fent vent. Per la vesprada semblava que la tempesta havia amainat un poc, i vam decidir baixar a la platja de ponent a fer fotos a la posta de sol, ja que el cel estava encara espectacular. Només hi vam arribar i vam desenfundar els equips, el cel va començar a tancar-se, i de sobte, un vent huracanat i una forta pluja va començar a descarregar. Vam tindre el temps just de recollir els bàrtuls, agafar els xiquets i arrancar a córrer. Va ser emocionant.
Estuvo todo el día haciendo mal tiempo, lloviendo y con mucho viento. Por la tarde parecía que el temporal había amainado un poco, y decidimos bajar a la playa de poniente a hacer fotos de la puesta de sol, ya que el cielo estaba aún espectacular. Nada más llegar y desenfundar los equipos, el cielo empezó a cerrarse, y de repente, un viento huracanado y una fuerte lluvia que empezó a caer. Tuvimos el tiempo justo de recoger los bártulos, coger a los niños y empezar a correr. Fue emocionante.
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From water to salt Salt pan workers work from 8.00 Am to 2.00 PM with an hour break in the hot sun the photo that i clicked at around noon. This photo showing the salt crystals produced over many days of their hard work.One can see the sweat on back on the man , women wearing cloth head cover. White salt Crystals Blue bright sky background and salt pan on sides - photo with diagonal Framing. The Marakkanam salt pans are the third largest producer of salt in India.No work during monsoon days
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Solar Impulse, the solar aircraft built in Switzerland circled the globe. One stop was at Moffett Federal Airfield at NASA Ames in Mountain View, California earlier this year in May. I got an invite to witness this historic flight.
Founders and pilots Bertrand Piccard and André Borschberg first addressed the press. André climbed into the cockpit for this leg to Phoenix, Arizona. The flight took 16 hours. I had a big tripod with me and could blend in with the press to get a prime spot for takeoff. Preparations were long, but the actual takeoff happened very quietly and suddenly. I took this shot shortly before take-off at 5am in the morning.
Bertrand and André want us to use more clean energies. In their word, they want to push the transition to renewable energy resources. Very inspiring!
The aircraft has a wingspan bigger than a Boeing 747, but weights just 2 tons instead of 400 tons. To preserve weight and aerodynamics, this aircraft has no landing gears on the side. People hold the aircraft level on long poles until it gains enough speed. More info on this historic flight at www.solarimpulse.com
I processed a balanced HDR photo from a RAW exposure, carefully pulled the curves, and desaturated the image.
-- © Peter Thoeny, CC BY-NC-SA 4.0, HDR, 1 RAW exposure, NEX-6, _DSC6450_hdr1bal1g
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The Broken Hill Solar Plant Viewing Platform Art and Design Competition was produced in partnership with the Broken Hill Art Exchange and AGL for the 2017 Desert Equinox 'Sun & Earth', as a prelude to the Broken Hill Biennale of Art.
The viewing platform, opened in 2018, is called 'Earth and Sky', designed by Timothy Bauer. The competition winning design was the brainchild of an architect, recognised Birrel Scholar and award recipient in a number of design competitions.
Timothy Bauer has a passion for creating environmentally sensitive buildings with strong, innovative, and dynamic deisngs that connect people to places, and his winning design for this viewing platform - which is based on the concept of earth and sky - is no exception.
The structure represents the earth as Broken Hill's heritage as a rich mining community, and the sky as the possibility of an enlightened future. The dynamic facade produces and ever-changing interplay of light and shadow as a poetic notion of sunlight. As the viewer moves up the ramped pathway, a multitude of perspective offer a connection with the red earth and boundless sky surrounding the vast expanse of the solar installation.
Broken Hill's Solar Plant uses thin film photovoltaic module panels, commonly referred to as "PV modules". They are made out of advanced cadmium telluride. When the sun shines on them, they convert sunlight into electricity, which is then fed into the electrical grid. The electricity produced has no air emissions, no waste production, and no water use. The Broken Hill Solar Plant is connected to the National Electricity Market (NEM) which is managed by the Australian Energy Market Operator (AEMO).
One of the largest determinates of the power output is whether the sun is shining directly at the face of the solar panels, or at an angle to them. When the sun shines directly onto the face of the panels, its output will be at its maximum, but when it is hitting the panels at an angle, the output is reduced. Typically, this means that the output of the Power Station ramps up as the sun rises over the day, hits peak output at midday, and falls gradually back to zero as the sun lowers in the sky over the rest of the day.
Source: AGL, & Broken Hill Art Exchange,
A series of four photos. A composition of a photovoltaic panel and a young oak tree. The same tree, the same panel, just different seasons. Here you can see the autumn, the time to save some energy and get ready for hibernation.
Solar panels on the roof a old timber-framed farmhouse near Petershagen in East-Westphalia (Germany)
Today's plans are off the rails. It doesn't matter. This has been fun — so far — I'm near my ancestral home and tomorrow there's a promise of a visit to Isambard Kingdom Brunel's Royal Albert Bridge.
Before steam drove the industrial revolution, before the Stockton and Darlington Railway, before Brunel's Great Western Railway and of course before electricity, the motive force at Wheal Martyn came from gravity.
It rains in Cornwall. I'm standing in it beneath a New Zealand-made umbrella. I buy my wet weather gear from New Zealand because, like Cornwall, New Zealand has real weather. With all that water and near enough to the same gravity we have everywhere, converting that gravitational potential energy made possible by the heat of solar energy pushing water up hill make a lot of sense. Someone figured out that by letting the water fall, its potential energy converted to kinetic energy could be conserved and used to spin a wheel. Here at Wheal Martyn the rotation of waterwheels is translated into reciprocal motion to do work in various pumps. Here's one they prepared earlier, with motion blur from the wheel's spin.
Almost 50 years before Brunel's birth John Smeaton was fiddling about with waterwheel efficiency and derived an empirical formula with the intent of building a better machine. I can't say that his formula was applied here, on this wheel, at Wheal Martyn. Equally I cannot say that it was not, after all, his works included bits and pieces in both nearby Devon and Cornwall.
Let's get a score update in this Brunel and Telford battle:
Smeaton — 4
Brunel — 2
Telford — 0
The black squares are parts in a photovoltaic system (solar cells) that produces electricity and yet you have enough light for the plants inside the greenhouse. The solar cells in the roof can convert more energy when the sun is high in the sky, the solar cells in the wall convert more when the sun is low. In cloudy conditions they convert less. Building-integrated photovoltaics (BIPV) will increasingly influence our built environment, roofs, walls, windows and so on.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Building-integrated_photovoltaics
One of the buildings at the ETC Solar Park in Katrineholm.
etcsolpark.se (website in Swedish)
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Puente de Blackfriars, Londres
Londres inauguró hace unos meses el mayor puente solar del mundo, que cuenta con 4.400 paneles fotovoltaicos.
Situado en la estación de Blackfriars, esos 4.400 paneles producen energía suficiente para calentar cerca de 80.000 tazas de té al día, un cálculo peculiar pero que da idea de lo que hay detrás de esta obra. En concreto, las placas solares, que ocupan una superficie de 6.000 m2, aportan la mitad de la energía que la estación londinense necesita. Además permitirán reducir la emisión de CO2 en 511 toneladas por año, lo que equivale a 89.000 viajes en coche en una ciudad donde el 22 por ciento de las emisiones de carbono proceden del transporte.
La estructura, anexa al puente victoriano de 1885, ha sido la base sobre la que se ha construido la nueva estación de Blackfriars, y estoy seguro que convertirá al puente en un nuevo icono de la ciudad, visible desde varios kilómetros a lo largo del río Támesis.
He aquí un TimeLapse video que resume la construcción del puente.
Blackfriars Bridge, London
London opened a few months ago the largest solar bridge in the world, with 4,400 photovoltaic panels.
Located on Blackfriars station, these 4,400 panels produce enough to heat about 80,000 cups of tea a day, a peculiar energy calculation but gives idea what's behind this work. Specifically, the solar panels, covering an area of 6,000 m2, provide half of the energy needed by the London station. Also allow you to reduce the emission of CO2 at 511 tons per year, equivalent to 89,000 car trips in a city where 22 percent of carbon emissions come from transport.
The structure, annexed to the 1885 Victorian bridge, has been the foundation on which is built the new Blackfriars Station, and we're sure it become a new icon of the city, visible for miles along the River Thames.
You can see here a TimeLapse video summarizing the bridge .
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PJM CAPACITY NEWS:
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) approved new capacity performance requirements this month. This marks the largest change to PJM’s capacity market its design in 2006. The ruling allows for little exceptions for resources that fail to perform during the few hours of “emergency conditions” that are determined each year. However, this does give generators the ability to charge more for capacity even though they are not improving the grids reliability. In other words, generators will gain more revenue even if they do nothing during emergency conditions.
The ruling comes on the heals of the extremely cold winter of 2013-2014. During that winter, 22% of the PJM’s capacity failed in a single day causing millions in uplift payments. The PJM is bracing for the worst, expecting coal plant retirements over the next few years will create further reliability issues.
ISO-NE CAPACITY NEWS:
The New England Independent System Operator is reporting that the growing market for renewable energy is helping to keep the average cost of electricity down. It is currently expecting 2,400 MW of solar generation to be available by 2024. That coupled with more than 800 MW of wind being utilized as of the end of last year has helped to keep cost low.
However, according to the ISO, traditional generation is being forced to charge higher capacity costs to make up for the lost revenue due to renewables. The more that solar and wind generation becomes available the more financial pressure is put on coal and nuclear.
THE RUB:
The balance of energy demand with energy supply is one of the most important objectives of an energy system. Capacity markets are designed to ensure that there are enough electricity capacity resources to serve customers on the hottest and coldest days of the year.
The news outlined above regarding 2 of the major capacity markets in the U.S. is a mixed bag. Despite new rules for one and additional resources for the other, customers can expect more of the same.
Higher prices.
This is my entry for RogueOlympics 2021 Round 8, with the topic "Upside Down". The RogueOlympics are a build contest by the RogueBricks Community, with each week featuring a new topic and a part limit of just 101 pieces (which my entry reaches exactly).
I really struggled with the topic this time, but I ultimately settled on the idea of two mirrored versions of a scene and turned to the topic of environmental considerations again. It is a depiction of the reality of energy production and its idealized mirror image up in the sky, symbolizing humanity's striving for cleaner energy and a more sustainable life, a goal that is not yet reached by actual reality (if it ever will be). This way it's also a fitting model for Earth Day, albeit 3 days late.
I myself had at first rather lofty aspirations with the model, trying to build a whole cityscape and maybe putting the mirror image into a lake's reflection rather than the sky. But in reality I quickly turned those aspiations down, concentrating on energy alone. This more focused topic also makes it a neat parable for the "Energiewende" specifically.