Technology:
¶ Adding solar and wind power to the grid will improve grid stability, according to a study at the Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization. [Utility Products]
¶ Green Fuels, a manufacturer of biodiesel processors, is introducing a new model for small organizations, designed to make 750 gallons per day. [PR.com]
Japan:
¶ Arnie Gundersen, in Japan for a symposium, is sticking by his earliest estimates of one million additional cancer deaths from the Fukushima Disaster. [The Japan Times]
US:
¶ More seismic testing will be done along the coast of California, to determine whether how vulnerable the nuclear plants there are to earthquake and tsunami. Both the Diablo Canyon and San Onofre plants are being studied. [Bay Area Indymedia]
¶ More and more commercial and community renewable power systems are being installed, the following being just the examples in today’s news:
… Apples new 100 acre solar farms can be seen in aerial photographs. They will produce 84,000,000 kWh of electricity per year. [Greener Ideal]
… A number of systems are going in around Chattanooga. (It is difficult to follow the numbers for capacity in this article, as it covers a large number of systems, with output measured in different ways.) [Equites.com]
… Walmart is expanding a solar array at an Arizona distribution center to 5.3 megawatts. [Power Engineering]
¶ Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. (MHI) and Southern Company, a major U.S. electric utility, have a joint venture that has begun underground injection of carbon dioxide (CO2) recovered from emissions from a coal-fired power generation plant in Alabama. Five hundred metric tons of CO2 will be injected underground, for sequestration in a saline formation at a depth of 3,000-3,400 meters in the Citronelle Dome geologic structure. [Utility Products]
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