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Sindssyge Tattoo Produkter WPEkspert Wordpress Viden Thu, 08 Mar 2012 09:34:46 +0100 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Newspakistanpk/~3/S9ZNBeYW9mY/ Fossil fuel has been in use since the medieval era when troops used it to lit the fire balls to bombard enemy?s territories. Since the world entered the 20th century, this fossil fuel has been in demand for a number of purposes and has been the bull?s eye of criticism on global warming. However, a US-based food company called Tyson Foods has found an alternative to the fossil oil. Although this is not the first time that the world has seen an alternative energy source as Europe has been taking increasing interest in canola-based diesel for automobile. What Tyson and its strategic partner in this one-of-a-kind project, Syntroleum?manufacturer of synthetic fuels?have come up with is process of recycling waste materials rather than consuming natural resources. Both companies run a joint venture called Dynamic Fuels that transforms the animal waste material into efficient and environment friendly diesel and jet fuel. The waste material that these companies use is called Pink slime that is basically a collection of remaining of the beef and chicken meshed up to make an ingredient in food products like burgers and pizzas. Recently, a documentary, Food, Inc. showed the malpractices of food companies that collect these remaining up from the slaughter house floors and then turn them into Pink Slime. Since the roll out of the aforementioned documentary, public and celebrity chefs have criticized food companies with the likes of McDonald?s for using Pink Slime. Tyson came up with the idea reusing the beef and chicken remains in 2011 and with the help of Syntroleum, set up a manufacturing plant in Louisiana. Since the inauguration, the plant has been providing this fuel to a number of customers including railways, air carriers and the US Air Force. In addition to being a recycled product, this new fuel is more efficient than traditional diesel and jet fuel and is more environment-friendly. Usman Khalid NewsPakistan.pk Tue, 21 Feb 2012 15:01:50 +0100 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Newspakistanpk/~3/yPoXg7loCVs/ The diesel they make is what?s known as a ?drop-in? fuel ? meaning you can use it as a direct substitute for regular diesel. Plus, it?s higher quality, with cetane levels as high as 88. Cetane is the equivalent of octane in gasoline; the higher cetane, the more evenly and more powerfully the fuel combusts. The average diesel has a cetane level of less than 50. The fuel also has a lower freezing point than regular diesel, making it idea for cold climates. And because the animal fat doesn?t start out with the impurities as fossil petroleum, the diesel has ultra low particulates, making it good for underground mining or anywhere air pollution is a problem. Moreover, makes good jet fuel as well. Syntroleum has had its synthetic jet fuels certified for use by the Air Force, and last November Dynamic Fuels announced a deal to provide the juice to Alaska Airlines. The shortcoming of this new venture is the price one has to pay for being friendly to the environment. Syntroleum reports that it is still losing money on the venture ? turning a profit will require expanding the scale and convincing buyers to pay a premium for a better fuel. In time, the Geismar plant could produce as much as 75 million gallons per year. With all the beef and chicken Americans eat, the U.S. likely qualifies as the Saudi Arabia of animal oils. Yet it?s hard to envision this drop-in fuel ever being more than a drop in the bucket. The U.S. burns through 58 billion gallons of diesel each year. Usman Khalid NewsPakistan.pk Tue, 21 Feb 2012 15:01:44 +0100 http://tcktcktck.org/2012/02/partner-spotlight-steve-sawyer-secretary-general-global-wind-energy-council/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=partner-spotlight-steve-sawyer-secretary-general-global-wind-energy-council Every two weeks the TckTckTck team proudly recognizes one of the 325+ partner organizations making up our global climate movement. This time, we are shining the spotlight on a non-GCCA member who is doing important work towards achieving a fossil free energy future. We are pleased to share an interview with Steve Sawyer, Secretary-General of the Global Wind Energy Council. We caught up with Steve immediately after his return from the World Future Energy Summit in Abu Dhabi. Read his candid thoughts on renewable investment, the pervasiveness of fossil fuel lobbying and the meaningful ways people can help influence energy policy in their cities and countries. TCK: Over the past few years a growing trend of investment in renewable energy has outstripped investment in fossil fuels. Unfortunately, we do not see that translating through to our energy mix as consumers. What more can citizens do to ensure their Governments and energy suppliers move towards a more renewable and sustainable energy mix? STEVE SAWYER: There are two answers to that question. On one hand, you do see a dramatic increase in the renewable content of your energy mix if you live in Germany, Denmark, Sweden, Spain, and a number of other European countries, India and even a little bit in China. Renewable energy?s share of the global electricity supply was 19% in 2010 (including hydro), and wind power is now well over 2% of the global total. Denmark gets about 24% of its electricity from wind, and Spain got well over a third of its electricity from renewables last year. But on the other hand, that the share would grow even faster if we had real political commitment and more consistent support to renewables in the United States, Canada, Japan and a number of other countries. And it would grow even faster if governments were serious about reducing emissions and mandating the use of the energy efficiency technology policies and practices that are available to us today, usually at zero or negative net cost; or if governments stopped subsidizing fossil fuels to the tune of more than 500 billion per year. What can citizens do? Pay attention to where the candidates get their money and to energy legislation pending in your national parliament. Let your views be known to your representatives. Support clean energy legislation, and support organizations which promote renewable energy, such as the newly launched global standard for wind energy, WindMade http://www.windmade.org. Support organisations which campaign to get rid of fossil fuel subsidies, such as Oil Change International http://priceofoil.org/. Start a campaign to get your municipal government to purchase renewable energy; the same for your employer. Investigate the options for a community owned wind farm in your area; install solar pv and/or hot water heating in your own home (Did you know that China has more than twice as much (70%) solar hot water as the rest of the world combined?). Buy a hybrid?better yet, get rid of your car and use a hybrid or electric car-share when you need to. It?s a very long list?none of it terribly glamorous, but all of it useful and important. TCK: We hear a lot about the power of fossil fuel companies and how much money they spend on worldwide lobbying. Do you have any real-life stories you could share that give an insight into how pervasive their power really is? And again, what action can citizens take in response to it? STEVE SAWYER: I often characterize the fossil fuel lobby as the most powerful vested interest in the history of the world. I think it?s right. During the 90s, there were was an ongoing effort by the fossil fuel industries  (well chronicled in Jeremy Leggett?s book The Carbon War) to avert any real action on climate change, and their ongoing efforts to undermine the climate science are well documented at http://www.exxonsecrets.org Two current relevant examples: Two years ago, an unknown Spanish author from a university in Madrid produced a study (in English) supposedly demonstrating that Spanish support for renewable energy was costing the economy and that each job created in the renewable sector cost more jobs in the ?real? economy. The study was intellectually ridiculous in and of itself, and a little digging showed how it had in fact been funded by fossil fuel interests, which is well documented at http://switchboard.nrdc.org/blogs/paltman/credit_for_trying_spanish_stud.html President Obama came away from the G-20 summit in Toronto all fired up about cutting subsidies to the fossil fuel industry as a result of discussions there (see http://www.oecd.org/document/57/0,3746,en_2649_37465_45233017_1_1_1_37465,00.html). There was a short-lived push to get some legislation going and reduce some of the more ridiculous of the taxpayer subsidies. Then the fossil industry fought back, both publicly and privately. Haven?t heard anything since? TCK: You recently participated in the World Future Energy Summit in Abu Dhabi. Given the urgency to tackle climate change and the lack of momentum at the global political talks, do you feel a greater sense of urgency and a sense of 'getting to work' from some of the Governments and companies that were at the summit? Do you think we will see many more announcements like this (http://www.renewableenergyfocus.com/view/23413/scotland-and-masdar-sign-clean-and-renewable-energy-deal/) in the coming months? STEVE SAWYER: There are many governments who are serious about renewable energy?for climate reasons, but also to create price stability, insulate their economies from the volatility of international commodity markets, clean up air pollution, reduce water usage, etc. Many European governments, India, China, Korea, Brazil and now even South Africa and Australia. Who?s missing from this list? The US, Canada, Japan and Russia are the big ones. And of course most of the OPEC countries. In terms of the Scottish initiative, this is a long term, ongoing effort by the Scottish government, and getting the UAE to invest in some of these projects is good business for both sides. MASDAR is investing in renewable energies in a number of countries besides Scotland, especially in Africa, Asia and Latin America, as is the European Investment Bank, the Asian Development Bank and a number of private utilities from Europe, China and India. So yes, there will be many more announcements like this. TCK: What are the projections for wind energy over the coming years? Who are the countries to look out for in terms of those taking big strides to increase their share of energy from wind? STEVE SAWYER: Our short term forecast (which will be updated in just a few weeks) has wind energy more than doubling its total capacity in the five year period from 2011-2015. With nearly 200GW of installed capacity in 2010, we expect that to grow to more than 450 GW by 2015, and to reach somewhere between 800 and 1000 GW by the end of 2020, which will be somewhere between 8 and 11% of total global electricity supply, depending upon how demand develops. China is the global leader in wind power now, followed by the United States, Germany, Spain and India. The big growth markets in the coming years we would expect to continue to be China and India. The US and Canada both have huge potential, but government support is weak to non-existent, and more importantly, inconsistent. European growth is dictated by their overall climate and energy framework, and we expect growth there to be modest and steady. The new growth markets are led by Brazil and Mexico, and we expect South Africa to follow suit now that they have finally started approving projects. Other potential large growth markets include South Korea, Egypt, Morocco, Viet Nam, Mongolia, Pakistan, Chile, Argentina, the Philippines and Sri Lanka, and smaller yet still significant markets are developing in Uruguay, Peru, Costa Rica, Honduras, Kenya, Tanzania, Ethiopia, Namibia and a few other sub-Saharan African countries, Thailand and Taiwan TCK: In his US State of the Union speech on 25 January, Barack Obama called on American's to "double-down on a clean energy industry that never has been more promising." In 2012, will the clean energy industry live up to its promise? STEVE SAWYER: I wish that what President Obama or Secretary Chu said made a difference. What matters for the wind industry is whether or not Congress passes an extension of the Production Tax Credit early in 2012. If they don?t then I?m afraid that more wind industry jobs and installations will move out of the US and into some of the countries that I mentioned above. Globally, the renewable energy industry is booming, with more than 260 billion in investment last year, and more than 1 trillion overall since 2004. How much of that will happen in the United States is largely up to the Congress. If they don?t act, the investment will go elsewhere. Heather Libby TckTckTck Fri, 03 Feb 2012 01:58:37 +0100 http://tcktcktck.org/2012/02/whats-the-real-purpose-behind-canadas-northern-gateway-pipeline/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=whats-the-real-purpose-behind-canadas-northern-gateway-pipeline The latest chapter in Canada's quest to become a full-blown oil superpower unfolded this month in a village gym on the British Columbia coast. Here, several hundred people gathered for hearings on whether a pipeline should be laid from the Alberta oil sands to the Pacific in order to deliver oil to Asia, chiefly energy-hungry China. The stakes are particularly high for the village of Kitamaat and its neighbors, because the pipeline would terminate here and a port would be built to handle 220 tankers a year and 525,000 barrels of oil a day. But the planned Northern Gateway Pipeline is just one aspect of an epic battle over Canada's oil ambitions ? a battle that already has a supporting role in the U.S. presidential election, and which will help to shape North America's future energy relationship with China. It actually is a tale of two pipelines ? the one that is supposed to end at Kitamaat Village, and another that would have gone from Alberta to the Texas coast but was blocked by the Obama administration citing environmental grounds. Read more: Huffington Post >>  TckTckTck TckTckTck Thu, 02 Feb 2012 16:15:32 +0100 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Newspakistanpk/~3/3sDKXaXOxSQ/ Perhaps life in this era is impossible without fossil fuels or we deliberately have made it so. Whatever the matter, this scenario is awful. To run the wheel of life, we are forced to consume fuels. We are forced to consume be it Rs. 100 per litter, Rs. 150 per litter or even Rs. 200 per litter. We can cut down our dining table but cannot do away without fuels. How bullshit this is! The nature has created us as free human beings, but we have got entrapped in the tangled web of our desires—the desires to lead comfortable lives. Are we leading comfortable lives? Not at all. We can never lead even as long as we keep prostrating before our longings. So what is the use of all what we are doing? Did the man of Stone Age have vehicles to travel and industries to produce commodities? Of course, he did not have. He had nothing of what we have, but one thing he had in abundance was happiness and tranquillity. We have everything but the peace of mind is missing. We are worried about getting our vehicle tanks filled with fuel, we are worried about the rising prices of the petroleum products and we suffer a lot while waiting for our turns in long queues outside the filling stations. What is all this? Just suffering. Simpler is better. How beautiful this proverb is! We can have profuse leisure and pleasure if we opt to lead simple lives. We can bank on bicycles instead of vehicles, we can eat bread instead of burger, we can write letters instead of phone calls, we can perform Nikhas instead of grand marriage ceremonies and we can sleep in the shadow of a cool tree instead of air-conditioned rooms. But, believe me, we cannot do all this. Why? Because we have egos, we have self-esteems and we have social statuses. How nonsense this stuff is! How silly it seems that we are denying to live for the sake of others. Our egos are dearer to us than our egos. Unless we learn to sacrifice our egos, the fuel prices will keep hiking and we shall keep suffering. There is no other way out. I am sure that most of the readers of this article will consider me as mad and orthodox. But what I have said is quite a complete reality. It will remain so whether we accept or not. Sharjeel Ahmad NewsPakistan.pk Wed, 01 Feb 2012 14:00:34 +0100 http://tcktcktck.org/2012/01/bill-mckibben-us-chamber-of-commerce-is-burning-americas-future/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=bill-mckibben-us-chamber-of-commerce-is-burning-americas-future At the turn of the last century, Time magazine published a list of what it considered to be the 100 worst ideas of the 20th century. It included Prohibition, leisure suits, the Titanic, cold fusion. You get the idea. I know it?s early, but assuming such a list is composed again at the end of this century, I have a nomination. It was an idea proposed in a speech last week. Thomas Donohue was speaking. Not just speaking; the head of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce was giving his annual ?state of American business? address, in the 100th year of the chamber?s operation, from the chamber?s Hall of Flags in its office just across Lafayette Park from the White House. He began with the usual boilerplate, attacking ?regulations, mandates and higher taxes.? But then he turned to energy and what he called a ?game-changer? for the nation and ?the next big thing.? Not solar power, not wind power. He was talking about coal, and gas, and oil. In fact, he was very specific. ?We have 1.4 trillion barrels of oil, enough to last at least 200 years. We have 2.7 quadrillion cubic feet of natural gas, enough to last 120 years. We have 486 billion tons of coal, enough to last more than 450 years ? and we need to use more of this strategic resource cleanly and wisely here at home while selling it around the world.? OK, he?s detailed down to the last drop his plan for the future, which is basically: Burn ?em if you got ?em. So let?s figure out what that would mean. Read more: The Chippewa Herald >> TckTckTck TckTckTck Thu, 26 Jan 2012 20:18:13 +0100 http://tcktcktck.org/2012/01/world-governments-spend-500b-on-fossil-fuel-subsidies-66b-on-renewables/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=world-governments-spend-500b-on-fossil-fuel-subsidies-66b-on-renewables The world's governments are shelling out a combined $1.4 billion per day to further destabilize the earth's climate. Worldwide, direct fossil fuel subsidies added up to roughly $500 billion in 2010, in contrast to just $66 billion for renewable energy. Not only do fossil fuel subsidies dwarf those for renewables today, but a long legacy of governments propping up oil, coal, and natural gas has resulted in a very uneven energy playing field. Out of the $500 billion in fossil fuel subsidies, $100 billion supports production and $400 billion supports consumption (ie., keeping gas prices low).  The oil industry receives $193 billion of that, while natural gas gets $91 billion and coal gets $3 billion.  $122 billion is spent subsidizing the use of fossil fuel-generated electricity. We distort reality when we omit the health and environmental costs associated with burning fossil fuels from their prices. When governments actually subsidize their use, they take the distortion even further. Read more: Sustainable Business >> TckTckTck TckTckTck Thu, 26 Jan 2012 02:38:51 +0100 http://ekob.dk/ur/kob-fossil-ur-517-fossil/ Køb Fossil Ur Nr.517 Fra Fossil - armbåndsur i rustfrit stål fra fossil. uret har timer, minutter, sekundvisning og stopur. båndbredde 18 cm. selve urets bredde 4 cm. vandtæt til 10 atm. 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