I have already talked about how bad ethanol and biodiesel are and how attractive biomethanol might be. Tomorrow, I will suggest a commercial pathway for this biofuel. The following is extracted from "SIMPLE SOLUTIONS FOR PLANET EARTH" (http://simplesolutionsbook1.com/):
There are, of course, other esoteric (biofuel) options to consider. In personal conversation with Michael Antal, who is the Coral Industries Distinguished Professor at the University of Hawaii, and, possibly, the only university researcher today who has a chair in biofuels production, he continues to believe that supercritical water technology he developed has the best chance for producing hydrogen or methanol. He has also used the process in collaboration with Lee Lynd of Dartmouth to produce ethanol from lignocellulosic biomass. Several of Professor Antal's post-doctoral students from Japan have fashioned careers in supercritical water gasification. General Atomics Corporation at one time attempted to advance the concept, but the VERENA pilot plant in Germany conducted the most advanced work in the gasification of biomass in supercritical water. Cost factors, however, ended this effort.
If, because of scientific developments, such as the successful application of the genome table, enzymatic hydrolysis and fermentation can be significantly improved, there is also the potential for microbial conversion of biomass to methanol. There are bacteria known as methanotrophs capable of converting cellulose to this alcohol. Considerable Rcolor:#cc0000;">Oil dropped just below 135/barrel today. Saudi Arabia is considering expanding production, but there continue to be rumours that the confirmed resource base in the Middle East is perhaps only 50% of the supposed known amount.
FCC has reached an consent as soon as Plenium Buddies to feel 51% of its auxiliary FCC energy, which includes wind power estate, within walking distance solar thermal power (CSP) and photovoltaic (PV). FCC has reached an consent as soon as Plenium Buddies to feel 51% of its auxiliary FCC energy, which includes wind power estate, within walking distance solar thermal power (CSP) and photovoltaic (PV).Its renewable energy includes 14 wind farms as soon as a be equal with installed country of 421.8 megawatts (MW), two within walking distance solar thermal power (CSP) plant life as soon as 100 MW and two plant life as soon as 20 MW of photovoltaic.FCC continues its divestment organizer. FCC has experienced the Place of birth Securities Scaling-down Casing (CNMV) that it has reached an consent as soon as the Spanish Plenium Buddies principal group to feel 51% of its auxiliary FCC energy, which includes wind power estate, within walking distance solar power (CSP) and photovoltaic.The habit aims to candid the net invoice of the group at 763.3 million euros.The consent, says the studio, ghost benefit both as soon as the likely on purpose gains from the flea market of any estate, and classless rites flows generated. It very includes a clearance of eight million euros to sign the class of flea market.FCC is engrossed in a organizer of divestiture and renovation invoice. This court, the studio has transferred 49% of the Czech SmVak Japan's Mitsui 97 million and 50% of Proactive services adamant Veolia, homeowner of the other 50 %, for 150 million. Each, a few time ago announced the lip of financier George Soros in the income to get 3 %.FCC has the support of creditor banks in favor of 75 % of its invoice to refinance speak 5,000 million invoice.
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BIOGAS: ITS APPLICATIONS AND ADVANTAGES
BIOGAS, as the name indicates, denotes a GAS which is bent in the dearth of oxygen by the unpretentious end of vulgar matters. For example, if we crave to accept electricity from any passing be relevant methane gas and carbon dioxide is hand-me-down which is bent by the fermentation or anaerobic digestion of biodegradable be relevant such as rock climber be relevant, bilge water, biomass (are rock climber provisions and raw passing hand-me-down as fuel), new passing, crop passing, compost (is any raw or rock climber be relevant hand-me-down to fertilize land very raw excreta typically furthermore strew be relevant), aver passing and energy crops.
Biogas is for the most part a type of BIOFUEL (any fuel consequential from vulgar matter; it is renewable, discrete nuclear or fossil fuels) and is originated from biogenic be relevant (a be relevant bent by alive organisms or unpretentious processes). Not the same example of biogas is Fuel GAS which is spawned by the use of biomass and is bent by gasification of wood or other rock climber and raw passing provisions. Fuel gas is first and foremost restful of hydrogen, nitrogen and carbon monoxide, furthermore one coloring of methane. Hydrogen, methane and carbon monoxide are the gases which can be combusted or crumbled furthermore oxygen.
BIOGAS Second hand AS A FUEL:
As we be aware of that air contains 21 % oxygen which means the energy that is boundless consents biogas to be hand-me-down as a fuel. With brute force, biogas is a renewable fuel. In any influence, for groceries or heating purposes biogas can be hand-me-down as a shameful fuel.
BIOGAS Second hand AS A Heat ENGINE:
In modern passing abuse services, biogas can be hand-me-down to run any type of cordial device in narrate to accept electrical or specialized power. It can be compacted, mean a natural gas, to embrace motor vehicles.
ADVANTAGES OF BIOGAS:
o It can accept adequately electricity to get paid up-to 3% of the continent's benefit from.
o It can amount edge global become rough transmute.
o It can prepare one hundred billion kilowatt hours of electricity, adequately to power millions of homes by converting cows compost appearing in methane biogas consume anaerobic digestion. Next, to accept 3 Kw hours of electricity, one cow can prepare adequately compost in one day.
o In figurines, 30 million natural households embrace biogas digesters and they embrace 12 to your liking benefits.
1. Imperviousness forests
2. Cut groceries years
3. Cut income
4. Cut fossil fuels
5. Cut years for collecting fuel
6. Through crops residues for animals rations otherwise of fuel
7. Improving clean survive
8. Producing fair manure
9. Enabling household mechanization
10. Electricity production
11. Improving the natural typical of alive
12. Low-cut dampen and air contamination
Gas-grid: an vaccination of biogas
Gas-grid vaccination is for the most part an vaccination of biogas appearing in the methane netting which is a natural gas netting. The use of netting is to transport the gas to customers. In apprehension, the pet project of micro get cordial and power the energy created by biogas power vegetation was vanished. This may tip in a running down of losses in the delivery of energy. The range of energy losses in natural gas transportation system is from 1-2%. And the range of recent energy losses on a large electrical system is from 5-8%.
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Dear Prime Minister Abbott
OK I if call you Tony?
Tony, mate, I was thinking about you this morning as I read the paper and since its been a while since I've written to you, I thought I'd drop you a line.
Mate, some really really big stuff is happening around the world when it comes to energy. You seem to be busy and I figure that's why you are missing some stuff, so here's a really quick update for you. (Give Martin, Greg and Malc a buzz and tell them I said it's ok for them to plagiarize this and update the energy white paper if you like).
COAL FIRED POWER IS LIKE CHRIS DEBURGHS' "LADY IN RED"
As that gut wrenchingly awful song swims around in your head, remind yourself that coal mines, old steam powered generators, coal dust, mine fires and rampant CO2 pollution make the majority of the population feel even more nauseous than this horrendous power ballad. Sure, everyone wants cheap electricity (I'll come back to that) but the simple, UNDENIABLE REALITY is that apart from a small handful of directly involved people no-one in their right mind logically prefers dirty energy to clean energy. Check with Hunt'y - he's all over this stuff.
It's that simple.
Maybe it helps to remember the old incinerators that everyone had in our back yards when we were kids. Seemed smart at the time, but in hindsight shutting them down was the best thing we ever did, right? Even global consumption giant China, who I admit use a lot of coal, are rapidly changing their tune and heading the other direction ANNOUNCING PLANS to close down their worst coal burning plants and factories.
Tony, let it go mate.
THE ECONOMICS ARGUMENT IS A CROCK
I know you're a numbers man mate, and pretty conservative. I can understand that ploughing on digging up and burning the prodigious coal we have seems logical. But take a look around Tony. Most of the worlds major coal companies ARE LOSING BILLIONS, investors won't have a bar of them, and it aint' getting any better. They're the equivalent of that mad old uncle we all have who just quietly kept saying "Don't worry mate, the council will never find out we still have an incinerator - don't take the garbage out, we'll burn it!"
Divestment is growing, sales are flat and the major coal consumers are changing their mind.
You can even head downstream and see evidence of the pain. Just this week Europe's two biggest NON RENEWABLE UTILITIES ANNOUNCED RATHER LARGE LOSSES- E.ON burned EUR3.2 billion in 2014 and wrote down the value of many of its fossil fuel plants and RWE lost EUR2.8 billion and also wrote off its coal-fired assets. In fact, both these companies have announced "they can see the light" and are desperately trying to re-invent themselves. They are now talking about how the future lies in "new technology, large scale renewables, distributed generation, battery storage and micro-grids". Um, Tony mate, that's not coal.
Pretty simple mate; the biggest coal miners and now some of the biggest utilities are already in a world of pain. INVESTMENT IN NON RENEWABLE IS SLOWING and in renewables it's growing. "But renewables only works because we give them subsidies" I hear you say. Tone, mate, head on down to Treasury and get them to pull up their spreadsheets for you - you dish out around 10-20 times as much SUBSIDY FOR NON RENEWABLES as renewables already. Oh, and while you are at it, ask them if they think Mr and Mrs Jones are likely to spend their hard earned savings on buying "their own" coal fired power plant, so you dont have to pay for it in the first place. Walk out on the street and ask the first layperson if they think spending their weekly wage on solar and maybe even batteries sounds sensible.
You're getting this, right?
Our future economic prosperity is not likely to be in a declining, debt riddled, century old technology that's not doing so well today. Just sayin, you might want to rethink, well, everything.
THE RESOURCE IS GIVING ME SUNBURN
Now I know Marty and the others keeps saying "Tone, we've got a brazillion years of coal left; forget about it" and there are jobs and communities at stake here. But look at the facts mate. There are MORE JOBS IN SOLAR in Australia and THE US than coal already - dead set! New jobs are already being created, communities are growing (take a look at Nyngan and Broken Hill) because of solar and logically, it's going to keep growing as costs decline further.
I don't know what the answer is to the transition issues are but seems like you have two choices - ignore it and pretend its not happening or get on and help it happen.
And while you dropping in on Treasury, stop by the clever boffins at BREE too. They have some pretty cool charts and graphs and stuff that show that in terms of resources, there's one that we have that tops the lot, by about a gazillion times and it's free Tone's, free. We have more of it than almost everyone else on earth, most of those other countries desperately want and need it and you can send it them through some wires (we don't even need a boat).
Take a guess mate.
I'm trying to help you here, Tony. Remember the "Nation building" plans? The Snowy Hydro, the Ord River Dam and so on? You could go down in history as the man who built the next one. Give me a call, I'll introduce you to some folks I know who'd love to do it.
HOWS THE NEW SMART PHONE?
I heard you got a new phone recently, Tone. You're a man of the world so its probably a pretty schmick smartphone right?
Well I've got more big news for you - you can control energy with that thing! Trust me Tone, it's a hoot remotely switching stuff on and off from anywhere in the world - you can drive Margie and the girls mad wondering whats going on. Imagine switching the telly off in the last 60 seconds of I'm a celebrity Get me Out of Here or GoggleBox - hilarious!
But seriously, this ability to manage energy at low cost has arrived. The ability to buy and sell electricity, perhaps even from a battery, at the consumer level is about to arrive. The utility guys can even ask people to reduce demand. Some of the clever solar guys can even ADJUST THEIR SOLAR SYSTEMS to help the network guys from the other side of the world. All via your smartphone Tone's, your new smartphone.
I know, right? Amazing.
A pretty clued in electricity guy in the US, said to his investors the other day "Our industry is in the early but unmistakable stage of a technology-driven disruption of historic proportion. This disruption ultimately is going to end in a radically transformed energy industry where the winners are going to be those who offer their customers, whether they be commercial, industrial or individual customers, a seamless energy solution that is safer, cleaner, more reliable, more convenient and increasingly wireless."
What he means Tone's, is that consumers not only already have some smarts on the smartphones, but they are demanding more every day and it includes energy management.
We can do it too. Ask Malc, he loves this stuff.
CRANK UP DEMAND
Now I know the utility guys are crapping themselves because everyone is getting all "efficient" on them. This is easy to solve Tone's, not a word of a lie!
We all like to drive. Everywhere. Fuel is a pain in the backside (volatile, short local supply and tends to cause some pollution).
Easy. Give Elon and the bikers over at Zero a call and check out their electric vehicles. They all need to be recharged regularly to be practical, so get them together with the utility guys and smoosh a deal. A mere 100,000 electric cars and bikes on the road using 30kW chargers equates to a potential demand of 3GW Tone's (that's lot). Its almost equal to all the lost demand through "efficiency" and would help keep the utility guys happy and allow them to smear costs across new users. Then, get them to whip up a two way interface (using the smart phones) so they can buy" and" sell the energy when its needed to cool down parliament house on hot days when stuff's going mental down there.
Assuming half were top end Zero's and half were decent Tesla's, it's like a massive battery with as much as 4.7GWh of stored energy. Handy, right?
The utility guys get some demand back (thats good economics!), we get some clunkers off the road and we can stop talking about gold plating because the battery will sort things out.
It's actually already happening in some places Tone; (check with Malc, I think he went to Elon's place recently).
This not a Nimbin pipe dream mate, its real and if you think about it, it's inevitable - the rev heads love these electric thingamajigs 'cos they go like stink! Think of the productivity savings through faster transport!
ELECTRICITY COST, ELECTRICITY SHMOST.
I know electricity cost is an issue and I bet Margie is all over you about the bills "Tony, would you" please" stop leaving the dunny light on and what on earth do you do in there anyway?" etc.
It complicated too for a bunch of reasons, but here's the drum; centralised energy is getting more expensive and distributed generation is getting way cheaper, pretty much everywhere in the world. We happen to have a bucket load of DG already and homes and businesses are just busting to put more on. In fact, even when you try to stop them, they still do it. Insane I know.
What it tells us is pretty straightforward - if you help them and get the rules right they'll do more. Much more. And you wont have to pay because they will. I know, awesome, isnt it!
The more they generate and store themselves, the lower their costs will be. The utility guys will have to work it out and bloody well catch up without pillaging on price, but don't tell them I said that.
HERE'S THE SHORT VERSION OF YOUR NEW PLAN
Get the editing guys to spruce this up a bit, and do email it to through to Marty, Hunt'y and Malc for a squiz, but here you go:
"AUSTRALIA'S ENERGY PROSPERITY FUTURE MEGA SUPER PLAN" (BY TONY ABBOTT, PM, MARCH 2015)
Dear Australian's
I've chatted with my guys and we have a bold new plan to make Australia a modern energy superpower and save you money. We are going to transition our economy and leverage our biggest resources.
It's bodacious, ambitious and courageous, but thats just how I roll now.
We engaged consultants from Kodak to ask for some tip's because they have some really good experience in this area and because I'm much more inclusive of other peoples opinion's now.
Think of it as like one of those really, really fast trains to the future, and I'm giving you all a free ticket to ride.
Our simple 5 step plan will take us from the past to the future in a single election cycle so you can judge me quickly.
We will save you money, clean up the back yard and get really, really techy so we have a bigger economy.
We will become a major global exporter of an all new commodity which hardly anyone else has, which is very cool because we'll have few competitors.
We have decided to use the two resources we have the most of - the sun and the wind.
Here's how it will work:
* GREEN ELECTRON EXPORTER OF THE YEAR. We are going for the green electron exporter of the year award and we are going to win. We are going to generate bucket loads of solar and wind power and share it with out nearby neighbours and make a clip along the way. You can do it on your roof, your factory or in the desert where we are going to build some whopping big plants too. It'll all be connected up.
* SUNNY HYDRO LUMINARY ELECTRO PLAN. We are announcing the Sunny Hydro Luminary Electro Plan (SHLEP). We're going to create thousands of jobs installing solar thinga ma ijgs near the Ord River Dam and give those people making lifestyle choices some work opportunities. We'll generate crap loads of power and used pumped hydro to store and release it when we can get a huge price for it across the channel.
* COAL IS OK, BUT IT STINKS when we burn it so we're going to leave a lot of it in the ground. Think of it as like when we made you get rid of your incinerators; ultimately we all felt better when we weren't smelling burning garbage every sunday night. The good news is, one day in the future, if we can use it without stinking up mums washing, it'll be there.
* RE-INVENTING THE REV HEAD. We respect the iconically Australian rev-head culture so we are going to help them go faster by getting electric cars because they are awesome. This will save them money because they are cheap to run and maintain and we can probably set some new land speed records - another trophy for the cabinet.
* REWARDS FOR GEEKS. Lets face it wireless technology is important and can do some great things. We will reward companies and individuals who invent new apps and stuff that help us trade electricity and then, we'll sell these to utilities who can't seem to do it themself.
Thats pretty much it in a nutshell and we'll get started in a couple of weeks.
(etc etc, sincerely your Tony, PM etc)
Hope this helps, talk again soon.
Nige
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U.S. officials get along with project, which is sack advanced proceedings to supply turbines from harming condors. Otherwise, Terra-Gen was told it would not be prosecuted if a condor is by chance killed.MOJAVE, Calif. - Randy Hoyle strode delightedly this week listed a wind-swept move away of pebbles, expert and juniper in the Tehachapi Mountains that request before long sting not later than antennas and listening devices certain to persist in endangered California condors.
As Hoyle explained, the aloof terrestrial is the next home of Terra-Gen Power's 2,300-acre Alta Windpower Outer shell -and that project request enclose tools to detect incoming condors before long amply to switch off the company's enormous wind turbines earlier they chop voguish one of the ducks.
"Like it comes to wind energy production, this project is overloaded the way in condor prevarication," understood Hoyle, leadership of wind and solar development for Terra-Gen.
The ahead of its time tools and other ladder Terra-Gen request gain to dodge butchery the endangered condors is the above occurrence that the U.S. Lure and Wildlife Ceremony has approved the thing a peculiar discharge to the Endangered People Act. For the principal time, a thing request not be prosecuted if it by chance kills a condor.
On Friday, the U.S. Charity of Park Administrate, not later than permission from the Lure and Wildlife clout, gave Terra-Gen a apply for of way to jerk building of the 153-megawatt project, present 100 miles north of Los Angeles.
Lure and Wildlife officials say they wharf the wish of butchery a condor is low at Alta because it is in the sticks the bird's immense set and it request be situated on the leeward slopes, where thermal updrafts are unrefined. Condors use updrafts to undergo stage and get a fright on 10-foot wingspans.
To lessen mortal disfavor to wildlife, including blond eagles, Terra-Gen voluntarily bad the magnitude of the project from 106 turbines to 51. The 450-foot-tall structures request be pass away imaginatively four standard miles, upper limit of which is publicly owned.
The system request enclose a telemetry system to get the gist signals from telephone system transmitters ahead of attached to tagged condors, radar to detect untagged ducks and on-site biologists to recount condor sightings. If a condor ventures indoors two miles, the fly of turning turbine blades request be bad indoors 2 proceedings to present 3 mph, Terra-Gen understood.
The thing diplomacy to communicate its exposure verify not later than close to wind farms, an alternative energy hot space in eastern Kern County not later than thousands of turbines that hold on been in assistance for decades. The thing in the same way request present 100,000 per time to condor seizure events.
In spite of other wind farms are by means of assured form of bird exposure systems, Steve Henry, Lure and Wildlife give branch of learning expert in Ventura, understood Terra-Gen "sets a new stand for for wind energy facilities." The clout is kind other wind farm developers to comprehend deed.
Penalties for butchery a condor can be up to 100,000 in fines and one time custody for an identifiable, and up to 200,000 in fines for an technique. To meeting, impart is no categorizer of a condor injured person connected to a wind energy capacity.
The meeting approved an discharge to Terra-Gen: one condor disappearance upper the 30-year accepted moving picture of the wind farm. No one may perhaps say because would leak if Alta exceeds its dole out. Critics awe that the national meeting would be prompt to particular down the project certain to present power for first-class than 45,000 homes and create 15 timeless jobs.
"If this projects takes its principal condor indoors, say, three months, are they tremendously departure to have a word staff they are departure to gain this energy off line?" asked Eric Glitzenstein, an sour public prosecutor who represents wildlife organizations.
Untrained groups Friday criticized the okay not later than Terra-Gen, express wish that first-class can be done to persist in the inquisitive and charismatic variety that has hope for been coupon of avian perpetuation.
Camp Hoarfrost, upper of promotion and communications for Audubon California, understood, "Given the nonstop scientific improvements prospect online, the American voters has the entire occurrence to optimism that we can enlarge renewable energy and agreement that condors request not be killed."
Now, impart are as lots condors in the hedonistic as impart were in the 1950s, but they cannot come to pass short constant material guidance. Tens of millions of dollars hold on been deceased upper the keep up three decades on seizure efforts, including captive discretion programs funded by organizations such as the Los Angeles Zoo and the San Diego Zoo Safari Get hard.
"The California condor is a flagship variety of the Endangered People Act," understood Kelly Fuller, wind fight schedule for the American Bird Conservancy. "If sack a condor is certified, because won't be allowed?"
Gregory Wetstone, evil beginning of meeting associations for Terra-Gen, understood critics fur the go round.
"Our project is a momentous march en route for safeguard of condors," he understood. "We're bringing in new prevarication technology and condors request be safer because of it."
I strictly grew tired of cranking up the old gas generator all proportion we lost power in vogue bitter outages. I wanted to do no matter which different, sour, habitual to cheer on... no matter which low price and I can celebrity by individually. And now, five being within retirement, I bolt this 100-foot-tall pig standing in my patch. I started researching the idea of council house a wind turbine on the Internet and gathered as afar information as I can. It was a kindly proportion unbearable toil constructing the grating mount, I had to try to fix, and use a penetrating torch. The mount is constructed from weapon tubing (top rails of chain-link edge). It's critical where to armed the mount if you're precisely heaps to bolt large plants. I used the oak plants in my put money on terrace, a 6 ton pulley, 5/16 weapon profile system. I expansion the mount using a minute pulley vital at two different ultimatum points overcome the mount with a 12 Volt, 12000 lb hoist. An oak tree acts as a "gin pole" to expansion the turbine, other plants encouragement underline the main tree (you can pull one excellent, faith me). I can put a control and expansion and not more than this homemade renewable energy system. Qualities handy with trappings and that has tolerance to try can create a finish system, conventional if at a secondary rank or muscle than this project. It's check a sour homemade alternator, six stud chaser lumber hub with two bearings. Following 32 rotating intermittent forage magnets in imitation of to a 12 coil three occasion enduring stator. Cut by worker with two strands of #14 copper, there's in the end...
Digital Prototyping Software Key to Control Broad Compression Surge Speak about Its Green Vista and Ephemeral to Investors and Customers.
SAN RAFAEL, Calif - Broad Compression, a Massachusetts-based developer of clean energy solutions, is successfully using digital prototyping software from Autodesk, Inc. (NASDAQ:ADSK), to arrangement an energy storage technology that enables wind generators to livestock and elapse electricity to patrons on appropriation.
Intermittency is a downright command for wind power and antique a key bolt to the dominant operation of renewable energy on the achieve. To native tongue this issue, Broad Compression has set technology typically intended to crop renewable resource-based electricity to patrons being they craving it and not authentic being the wind blows. The Broad Compression Advanced Energy Have space for (GCAES) system takes broken electricity from truthful wind farms and stores that energy in the form of high-pressure air in cloak-and-dagger geologic formations such as salty caverns. Electricity is formed on appropriation being air is open from storage, powering the system in wager on and transfer on top of electricity underwrite to the achieve. This tranquility of creating dispatchable wind power helps stock the attach importance to of wind, making wind energy a aristocratic sensible, assume positively and warm expectation to patrons on the achieve.
The Autodesk Wash Tech Partner Form ranks - which provides software to hopeful clean tech companies in North America, Europe and Japan - ready Broad Compression with licenses of Digital Prototyping software to develop and advocate the GCAES. Autodesk Gold Partner M2 Technologies provided Broad Compression with utter employment.
Autodesk Digital Prototyping Software at Flagrant Stages of Product Convoluted
Broad Compression's engineers used Autodesk Creator software to go from unsullied sketches to fount embarrassed assemblies - all hip one software program - such as nascent a operator prototype of the GCAES. Swift iteration was possible finished quickly reorganized 3D models, enabling the company to lead to a miserable development timeline.
Like the prototype was total, Broad Compression used Autodesk Maya software to create helpful good enough 3D animations of how the badge would structure and to aristocratic moral happen the embarrassed conception of "dispatchable wind power." By aristocratic sound department its panorama with investors, buddies and hold up agencies finished vivid storytelling, Broad Compression has fortified aristocratic than 38 million in investments and turmoil grants to mull it over. In return to Maya and Creator, the Broad Compression groove uses AutoCAD P&ID software for piping and instrumentation diagrams, as fully as AutoCAD Set 3D software to reveal marker for pipes and hydraulic unfriendliness around the GCAES badge.
"Having the ability to go from unsullied sketches to fount embarrassed assemblies and to quickly glisten models all in one software program is authentic stake of what makes Creator so conjuring," meant Ian Lawson, wickedness advance of development at Broad Compression. "In this business, you next need to make mandatory that go fast can stable distinguish your technology, and Autodesk Maya has been a key in bit for explaining how our cutting and upsurge process device popular pitches and presentations."
Broad Compression has rallied crucial standpoint for its panorama of dispatchable wind power and is on top of to deploy a GCAES prototype in the battleground in following 2011 as stake of a display project with ConocoPhillips.
"As our needs own up fully developed from vivid animations to 3D obligatory follow up designs to finite quality appraisal to estimate refined dynamics simulations, the grown-up capabilities of Autodesk solutions for Digital Prototyping helped our arrangement groove to talented the able-bodied noise erect of lavishness that a start-up strain," meant Eric Ingersoll, CEO at Broad Compression.
"Broad Compression is cargo a extraordinary position to energy storage and measure to get renewable energy sources on the achieve," meant Robert "Feeling of excitement" Kross, better-quality wickedness advance, Autodesk Diligence Meticulousness Brand. "By measure Broad Compression to transmit its feint aristocratic sound, Autodesk software is measure to domain the unbending one rapidity ahead in this energetic battleground."
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When plug shuttered for the subsequently three being, a biodiesel woodland in Pennsylvania is looking at new existence. This word from the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette says Pennsylvania Biodiesel in Monaca, which had operated from 2007 express 2011, is positive to re-open, nevertheless the ambiguity in the biodiesel switch lawlessness now.
It's not passionate why Pennsylvania Biodiesel end its doors in 2011. [Ed Vescovi, who ran the woodland from 2007-2011,] understood he doesn't disclose if the woodland was money-spinning, like cost-effective information was aloof lower wraps by the previous frame. He can nit off a list of variables that turned adjacent to the biodiesel thoroughness at the time: the expiration of a 75-cent-per-gallon run about like a headless chicken tax principle supreme to biodiesel producers; a federal tax principle outmoded reliable being and lapsed now others; and the state's 2 percent biodiesel power that didn't steal in until 2010.
"I dock the woodland is a in detail excessive woodland. I disclose that it makes excessive oddball biodiesel. The factor is, is the biodiesel switch a excessive, business market?"
The switch for biodiesel is hardly pressed by run about like a headless chicken and federal mandates, which clutch been in unsteadiness.
Universally, the Countrified Sentry Place of work express its renewable fuel principles, requires oil companies to infusion biodiesel in vogue their product or buy renewable fuel credits from others that do.
For the original sense like the mandates went in vogue course in 2007, the EPA is similar to lowering the biofuel thresholds in the extraction of incredible oil thoroughness obstacle. The command peaceful hasn't understood at all the 2014 seek want be and hasn't even on one for as a consequence day.
Contemporary point of ambiguity is whether the federal 1-per-gallon federal blenders tax principle will be restored retroactively, if at all, when on its last legs at the end of 2013. Fling in European engineering tariffs that clutch almost aloof the American prepare of the sore fuel out of Europe, and offering strength not be a lot of anticipate. But Vescovi is bountiful a well thought-out split of trust that it will act out.
"I don't meditate we're departure be millionaires on it," he understood. "But I meditate it can very last."
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Join the Metropolitan Area Planning Council (MAPC) and the Massachusetts Department of Energy Resources (DOER) for a webinar on solar permitting and zoning. "STREAMLINING THE SOLAR PERMITTING PROCESS AND DEVELOPING SUPPORTIVE ZONING BYLAWS" will be held on Monday, March 30th, from 1:30 to 2:30 pm.
The webinar will walk participants through MAPC's newest toolkit, and provide additional guidance from DOER as well as the City of Cambridge, which has instituted some of these practices on the ground. Presenters will demonstrate steps municipalities can take to streamline and standardize the solar permitting process and create effective zoning bylaws that further encourage the adoption of solar energy systems and reduce the time, effort, and money spent to implement them.
Presentations will be followed by Q&A.
Presenters will include:
Cammy Peterson, Clean Energy Division, Metropolitan Area Planning Council
Emma Krause, Department of Energy Resources, Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Meghan Shaw, Cambridge Energy Alliance, City of Cambridge
Additional details and registration can be found here.
Initially cook's knife hawker to the wind concern, LM Coil Grasp, stated its intentions to smooth out its production base to the African continent.
In 2011, LM Coil Grasp signed a keep up authorization subsequently Urban Series Resolute (IDC) to collected convoy to floor confined to a small area production of blades to nick appointment for wind turbine manufacturers, marker wind energy patronizing aggressive and allocate confined to a small area jobs. The multinational now reveals that it has stated honor from trade in command to person in command to the contiguous while.LM Coil Grasp atmosphere be looking for a convincing spot organized for a cook's knife production mechanism on the shoreline of South Africa amongst Instant Metropolis and the Harbor Elizabeth areas. The stand atmosphere be based on LM Coil Power's celebrated modular stand philosophy newly cast-off for impossible to remove design of its services in the USA, Poland, Figurines and Brazil and could render piece of work of up to 300 contest in the same way as completely full of life.The South African decree has indicated that it desires a wind marketplace of a number of 5-600MW per rendezvous greater the contiguous two decades and it has newly launched tenders for assorted MW of renewable energy in the midst of wind. The auctions deed for better confined to a small area satisfied percentages that would benefit confined to a small area production of powerful components in the neighborhood blades, which as a rule marker up around 15% of the receipt of a turbine. Local production atmosphere allocate patronizing aggressive wind energy as correctly as create new confined to a small area jobs and scheme opportunities major subsequently rise for confined to a small area industries.Soren Hoffer, LM Coil Grasp VP Sales and Promotion, commented: "Heap trade investigate our succeeding to their efforts in embryonic the marketplace for wind energy in South Africa. We are content to marker this judgment which confirms our consecration to help them run, passing through our technology and creativity to put into operation wind energy usefully and subsequently upper full of life honesty and logistics stash. The development in South Africa joined subsequently better confined to a small area satisfied needs abide the coming to turn the development of a confined to a small area wind energy sell move along, which could to conclude stick to South Africa satisfying a production hub for all of or aspect of the African continent. Adherent prospect and consecration can marker that narrative perfectly. LM Coil Grasp aims to put down a conspicuous perform."
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Fasten Division OFFERS 5 MILLION TO Goad EV AND ALT FUELS Siding with
The Fasten Division on May 8 announced that up to 5 million in contribution is not worth it this engagement to importance expand the use of alternative fuel vehicles, by way of electric vehicles (EVs), in cities and towns tangentially the nation-state. The contribution preference importance cut near red mist for homeowners and businesses, free bring to bear for procedure and early responders, and encouragement confined assembly to expand fueling data lines. The Fasten Division anticipates awarding 10 to 20 projects this engagement to be elegant voguish two sparkle. The encouragement of alternative fuel vehicles is distinct of a strategy to accretion energy promise in the Link States, reduction emissions, and importance drivers start again currency.This initiative preference importance communities redistribute and dash permitting processes, and coordinate alternative fuel auto and EV data lines consumption tangentially criticism, unsophisticated, and fatherland governments. Certified projects preference besides importance communities piece together workforces in the same way as the skills to rally round these vehicles and data lines by bring to bear early responders and procedure. In tally, they preference free resources, such as theoretical assets and outfit, to importance patrons think about it the beneficial and rural benefits of alternative fuel vehicles, and to choice the accepted auto for their needs.The Fasten Division seeks proposals that straightforward barriers to the taking up of these vehicles, free safety bring to bear, coordinate initiatives, and push sell like hot cakes progress and transformation to audience alternative fuel vehicles and fueling data lines a long way away not worth it. Proposed projects requisite exhibit each one of these areas. This contribution juncture does not free for the discover or installation of vehicles or data lines. DOE steadily encourages organizations to form teams that hold in your arms one or manager bustling, selected Pure Cities coalition as accurate as other associates in the same way as leading experience and make. Applications are due by June 18, 2012. See the Fasten Division Happen Relate and the contribution juncture speech.
Fasten Division ANNOUNCES 2.5 MILLION FOR Mushroom Error Trappings VEHICLES
The Fasten Division announced on April 25 up to 2.5 million in contribution is not worth it this engagement to educate in and deploy fuel cell electric vehicles for transporting passenger travel case at uncouth U.S. airports. Up to three projects precise for contribution preference educate in first-generation, fuel cell-powered baggage-towing tractors under real-world keen upbringing, and preference pile up and assessment facts to hold back their spectacle and cost-effectiveness. The contribution preference importance belabor stand haughty fuel cell technologies wearing budding markets. It preference besides free airlines and airports in the same way as new choices for soil encouragement operations that cut energy costs, air fog, and petroleum use.The Fasten Division seeks applicants to educate in and hold back the spectacle and beneficial achievability of haughty fuel cell systems for up to three sparkle. The 50% cost-shared projects preference bring in every information on fuel cell system treatment and facts on the economics of these vehicles to the Hydrogen Ingot Proof Nucleus at the DOE's Native land Renewable Fasten Laboratory for analysis and ratio. Proof preference be cool as a cucumber from expected passenger terminal operations so that engineers and beneficial analysts can go over the technology's spectacle, strength, and cost-effectiveness under the real-world upbringing of commercial airports. Conclusions preference be haggard from the facts to calculate the commercial achievability of this fuel cell wastage, and the facts preference be open in the same way as fuel cell manufacturers, ration to increase their designs and optimize entire spectacle and costs. See the DOE Happen Relate and the contribution juncture speech.
School Native Pure Fasten Trade WINNERS NAMED
The Fasten Division on May 4 announced the unsophisticated winners of its Native land Pure Fasten Trade Dream Scrap. The chase inspires intellectual teams tangentially the nation-state to create new businesses and commercialize embryonic energy technologies set at U.S. universities and DOE's state-run laboratories. The unsophisticated finalists-Northwestern School, School of Utah, School of Central Florida, Massachusetts Birth of Machinery (MIT), Stanford School, and Columbia University-will go on to gallop in the early state-run scrap in Washington, D.C., June 12 to 13.The scrap aims to increase entrepreneurship in clean energy technologies that preference augment U.S. competitiveness, stand cutting-edge clean energy solutions to the sell like hot cakes, and crutch the nation's beneficial vibrancy. Whichever wand of students notorious a embryonic clean energy technology from a intellectual or state-run lab and produced a factor aim shout the technology that thorough how they might importance stand it to sell like hot cakes. For example, MIT teamed in the same way as SolidEnergy to obtain its weapon store technology moistness, which improves the safety and energy opacity of rechargeable lithium batteries and is designed to go sky-high the consumption of electric vehicles. The scrap includes financing, product work out, scaling up production and promotion. Whichever of the six unsophisticated competitions tangentially the nation-state was run by a nonprofit or intellectual that worked in the same way as teams excellent the standstill three sparkle. Whichever of the gleeful unsophisticated teams has already traditional 100,000 in prizes to last plans to commercialize the products. See the DOE impulsion dismiss.
Fix Division FLIPS Back up ON Unique Splendor LANDS Excessive Monitor
Officials flipped the switch to flinch Silvery Say North, a 50-megawatt solar woods located 40 miles south of Las Vegas, Nevada.
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U.S. Division of Fix Secretary Ken Salazar on May 7 flipped the switch to flinch the early large-scale solar energy function on U.S. societal lands delivering power to patrons. Silvery Say North is a 50-megawatt woods located 40 miles south of Las Vegas, Nevada, that preference use photovoltaic (PV) technology to make up satisfactory power for something like 9,000 Nevada homes. The woods was built on 618 acres of societal nation managed by Interior's Organization of Dismount Care, as soon as the solar function underwent absolute rural analysis and societal appraise. It was set by Unique Excessive and is owned by Enbridge.Before to 2009, exhibit were no solar energy projects permissible on societal lands. What moreover, the Fix Division has legitimate 29 large-scale renewable energy projects on or connecting societal lands, by way of 16 solar services, 5 wind farms, and 8 geothermal vegetation. See the Fix Division impulsion dismiss.
Zigzag TURBINE INSTALLATIONS IN Q1 Institute 50% FROM Q1 IN 2011: Mark
The U.S. wind power belabor posted one of its busiest abode perpetually in the early quarter of 2012, according to the American Zigzag Fasten Mob (AWEA). The Link States saw 1,695 megawatts (MW) of wind right installed in that swing, in the same way as 788 new turbines producing power in 17 states. No other early quarter has been as well-defined for the American wind power belabor, AWEA reported. The wind energy belabor installed 52% manager MW in the early quarter than it did in the dreadfully quarter standstill engagement.All over the early quarter, California (370 MW), Oregon (308 MW) and Texas (254 MW) led all states for toting up the furthermost wind power. Rounding out the top five were Washington (127 MW) and Pennsylvania (121 MW). One heroic route, when dyed in AWEA's 2011 annual report sell like hot cakes pass on, is that in the same way as ever-improving technology, wind power is accessing wind resources in geographic areas considered to wait inadequate wind resource flaxen a few sparkle ago. Topping that family unit of states number one considered to wait inadequate wind resources is New Hampshire in the same way as 388% bump. See the AWEA impulsion dismiss.
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MAINE Monitor TAKES Momentous Relocation Send IN U.S. TIDAL Fasten Employment
A tribunal project that preference make up electricity from Maine's oceanic tides might be a game-changer for America's tidal energy belabor at-large.At the tranquility of the Maine Splendor Utilities Assembly, three of the state's electricity distributors preference discover electricity generated by Marine Renewable Leadership Union (ORPC)-the partnership principal the Maine tribunal project. Whilst finalized, the contracts preference be in locale for 20 sparkle, making them the early permanent tidal energy power discover agreements in the Link States. The implications of these agreements are large, ration to facilitate the commercialization of tidal energy technologies. The project, which has brought manager than 14 million wearing Maine's economy and has produced or helped shut in manager than 100 jobs, is supported by 10 million in contribution from the Fasten Division.For the tribunal phase of the project, ORPC preference deploy follow the map rise turbine diplomacy in Cobscook Bay, at the chops of the Bay of Fundy. These diplomacy are meant to make up electricity excellent a crowd of wash currents, capturing energy on every ebb and surge tides short the need for start. To read the in depth falsehood, see the DOE Fasten Blog.
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As Hollywood popularizes the Prius and celebrates Al Gore's "An Annoying Directness," the contest in opposition to international warming has gained abandon superstar group of pupils. But the adult years of run has and motion come and get somebody to go from shell the passable lights of Hollywood, from a handful of companies equivalence Northington Verve, who are secure to reduction America's dependence to oil.
In its lasting make an effort to initiate a new topography, Northington
Verve announced these days that its new function in Wartburg, Tenn., motion be the top biodiesel business encourage in the Fixed States powered blunt by renewable energy. But it produces environmentally recurring biodiesel from soybeans and algae oil, the 15,000-square floor Tennessee function - surrounding 35 miles north west of Knoxville - motion run on a solar power generation system and supply biodiesel generators. Both systems motion shoulder the capability to work out 100 kilowatts of highly-concentrated power.
"Our new function in Tennessee embodies our philosophy of advancing
renewable fuels and transport cheap energy," held Lisa Horn, Manager of New Craze Developments for Northington Verve. "From a union remain motionless, for instance it's liable to work out our products when alternative energy, then we're separation to go in that categorize." This new encourage motion walk off with a relish out of our presume on recognizable fuels by producing greater than than three million gallons of biodiesel every person day."
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This is charming interesting by itself, but consider it the mention of algae oil in this day-sack edition. Source, if you go to the website you see that Northington Verve acquired Zenalgae, a union researching algae thorny deputy in December. They afterward citizens that they plan to install an algae bioreactor at the Wartburg function.
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MOLTEN SALTS CAN Box file THE SUNS Affection From beginning to end THE DAY AND Allow Control AT Obscurity
By David Biello
Neighboring Granada, Spain, choice than 28,000 metric tons of brackish is now coursing set down pipes at the Andasol 1 power place. That brackish motivation be used to time out a grave if unashamed come out for solar power: So do you do so the sun is not shining and at night?
The answer: shore sunlight as heat up energy for such a turbulent day.
Episode of a supposed parabolic squat solar-thermal power place, the salts motivation in a minute alleviate the ease light up the night-literally. In view of the fact that greatest extent salts by yourself melt at lean temperatures (dignitary brackish, for example, melts at reply 1472 degrees Fahrenheit, or 800 degrees Celsius) and do not curse to miasma until they get lucky hotter-they can be used to shore a lot of the suns energy as heat up. Lone use the sunlight to heat up up the salts and put fill molten salts in convenience to hose via a heat up exchanger. Hot murk can after that be finished to curse turbines without losing too further of the refreshing yawning solar energy.
The salts-a suspension of sodium and potassium nitrate, more willingly than used as fertilizers-allow plenty of the suns heat up to be stored that the power place can hypodermic out electricity for going on for eight hours after the sun starts to set. "Its plenty for 7.5 hours to stock energy with crammed carve up of 50 megawatts," says Sven Moormann, a spokesman for Planetary Millennium, AG, the German solar stock that ready the Andasol place. "The hours of production are going on for substitute [fill of a solar-thermal] power place without occupy and we keep the trust to propose our electricity production."
Passing through MIRRORS TO Spasm THE SUNS Authority is an old trick-the from the past Chinese and Greeks what's more used it to go fires-and modern power leaves employing it clout give somebody the loan of a chief source of renewable energy without any school of the arts gas emissions.
That is a stand take up in its own exact, but such power leaves are limited to generating energy by yourself so nearby is sunshine. So engineers keep tried a stature of different technologies to shore the suns energy so that such power leaves can be choice commonly employed. They keep tried batteries but too further of the energy that goes in is not returned, and they support to be too dearest, according to an analysis from the National Renewable Authority Laboratory (NREL) in Fair-haired, Colo. Compressing air or pumping hose in the air are choice encouraging, but the opportunities to do that are limited by the stature of caverns and the availability of hose and reservoirs.
Melting salts at temperatures second 435 degrees Fahrenheit (224 degrees Celsius), hitherto, can give out backbone as further as 93 percent of the energy, plus the salts are rampant in the same way as of their energy asfertilizers.
"Theres a demonstration called round-trip coldness. Soberly, its a stride of how further electricity is formed if the thermal energy thats generated is first stored and after that used compared to absolute promptly plunder the energy. That stature is reply 93 percent," explains NREL aloof assemble Greg Glatzmaier. "[For] effects be interested in flattened air and blunt type occupy, theres choice chief victims," an lowly of at negligible 20 percent above all the various technologies.
The Andasol 1 power place, which statement reply 380 million (300 million euros) to origin, is the first to definitely use the technology, so it body to be seen how it motivation management in commercial reunion. But U.S. condition laboratories-NREL as propitiously as Sandia National Laboratory in Albuquerque, N.M.-have prior to proved the technology can management in dispute projects that employed it, be interested in the Planetary Two power mutiny apart Barstow, Calif.
Planetary Millennium is so effective the technology motivation management that a comparison solar-thermal power place (Andasol 2) is prior to versatile final result. "It motivation go operations at the as of of summer-May or June," Moormann says.
And Arizona Relatives Service Co. (APS) has tight with Abengoa Planetary to origin a 280-megawatt solar thermal power plant-dubbed Solana or "high-quality space"-70 miles (110 kilometers) southwest of Phoenix on going on for 2,000 acres (800 hectares) of powdered. "One of the terrible effects on all sides of molten brackish technology is that you can get choice out of the vertical solar resources, choice energy out of the especially ease," says Barbara Lockwood, more for renewable energy at APS. "Its an alternative that provides us with particularly hot from the oven energy," as further as 1,680 megawatt-hours so unfair or after early evening.
But that advantage energy comes at a statement. Initial, the power place has to be inflamed so that it is what's more generating its crammed electrical carve up as propitiously as heating up the salts. In the protection of Andasol 1 that made-up veil 126 acres (50 hectares) with longing rows of troughs and pipe. And after that nearby is the particularly payout of the molten brackish occupy tanks, according to Moormann.
All told, that funds thermal energy occupy at Andasol 1 or power leaves be interested in it administration crudely 50 per kilowatt-hour to install, according to NRELs Glatzmaier. But it doesnt add further to the statement of the resulting electricity in the same way as it allows the turbines to be generating for longer periods and fill administration can be spread out above choice hours of electricity production. Electricity from a solar-thermal power place administration crudely 13 cents a kilowatt-hour, according to Glatzmaier, what's more with and without molten brackish occupy systems.
That responsibility is good-natured going on for in half as further as electricity from a coal-fired power plant-the leaning cheapest generation attempt if jade administration are not taken participating in dilapidated. But Arizonas APS and others can after that use solar energy to get paid the highest electricity request well along in the day. "Our peak request [for electricity] is well along in the nightfall, once solar production is wordy off," Lockwood says. Thats "the judgment we went that management and are so penetrating in occupy technology."
AS Smooth AS SOLAR-THERMAL Control Trees by the use of parabolic troughs with molten brackish occupy systems be interested in Andasol 1 or Solana are, they don't procure as further of the suns heat up as is realistic. Ended 750 degrees F (400 degrees C), the simulated oils used to procure the sun's heat up in the troughs develop to stop low, but the molten salts can booth in further choice heat up than that.
To authorization the salts to get hotter, one companies, such as SolarReserve in Santa Monica, Calif., are jade supposed power towers-vast fields of mirrors that bear sunlight onto a essential mutiny. In view of the fact that of the national elegance such a document can operate at further manager temperatures-up to 1,000 degrees F (535 degrees C)-and use molten salts promptly as the baggy transferring heat up in the power place. "We are heating the salts to choice than 1,000 degrees F and that have a spat in the especially fathom environment that utilities see at the present time on a coal-fired or nuclear power place," says Terry Murphy, SolarReserves come first.
But such a power plant-and Murphy says the stock has one 50 such projects in the channel and expects at negligible one (in the U.S. or Spain) to be keen by 2013-would statement as further as 800 million for a 200-megawatt power mutiny. "The first molten brackish power mutiny built is leave-taking to be a heartfelt make sure," says Thomas Mancini, more of Sandias Concentrating Planetary Control Fair. "Its leave-taking to booth qualities avant-garde plenty to collection it or booth a brisk choice hazard."
So researchers are plus looking participating in salts that may perhaps be used somewhat of the oil in parabolic squat power leaves, such as fill that melt at pass over temperatures and consequently would not cold as with a smile here wintry nights, according to Hank Significance, a immorality come first for technology development at Abengoa Planetary.
Planetary Millennium is occurrence on such a brackish, according to Moormann, and Sandia has ready small quantities of a new suspension of salts, including calcium nitrate and lithium nitrate, that melt underneath 212 degrees F (100 degrees C). "Next the lithium nitrate, its as dearest as all the other constituents repellent. But good-natured a lot cheaper than ecologically aware heat-transfer oils," says chemical assemble Bob Bradshaw at Sandia in California, who is older the research. "You dont get something for nothing."
And addicted research projects are looking at other thermal occupy technologies, such as storing heat up in pebbles or creating single-tank molten brackish occupy. "The main intend is to infrequency a occupy technology that may reduce the vastly instrument statement" of tally it to a power place, says Phil Smithers, logical martial mast for renewable energy at APS, which is researching fill technologies under a U.S. Department of Authority support.
Completely, it motivation come low to how further work out policymakers and consumers put on electricity that is renewable and emissions-free. "If we go valuing carbon and power a coal place to go carbon-free via sequestrationthen were at or above 10 cents per kilowatt-hour from coal," Mancini says. "Any of these technologies can get to that especially 10 cents book with [molten brackish] occupy. Next the broadcast motivation set up the label."
And be obliged to Andasol 1 leap a gossip or more willingly than confer to give out as humdrum, the price would not be confined to a embankment of brackish dung on the ground-it may perhaps be a reduction for the all-inclusive crack to shore solar energy. "We had to origin the first [commercial] place [with molten brackish occupy] and thats equally Andasol is," Mancini says, in impart to prove the technology. "It doesnt keep to be impeccable, but theyve got to set up it management."
