A $10,000 grant was awarded to American Samoa Power Authority to perform an independent analysis of the sustainability of its proposed copra (coconut) oil project to establish feasibility and define operating parameters for biodiesel production and consumption. A second component of the analysis will develop predesign recommendations for a standalone electric transmission and distribution system to accommodate the high penetration of intermittent renewable resources.

Owing to acute energy crisis that most developing countries including India are facing today, the interest in alternative energy sources has increased manifolds in the recent past. Wind being a non-polluting and nontoxic energy source, will go a long way in solving our energy requirements. Wind energy can be utilized to windmills, which in turn drive a generator to produce electricity. Wind can also be used for water pumping.

There is a lot of oil about. A lot left in the ground and a lot being produced. Amidst the contention, it is easy to overlook that Peak Oil is called Peak Oil because this is when we will never be more awash in the black stuff.
The abundant availability of oil buoys skepticism.
"What oil shortage?", doubters ask, with some justification.
Peak Oil is in part a symbolic marker. Like reaching the year 2000, the Queen passing her 50th jubilee or getting half way through a glass of beer. Notable, and in the case of the beer regrettable. However, Peak Oil will likely pass without undue trouble.

The Drake Landing Solar Community (DLSC) is a master planned neighbourhood in the Town of Okotoks, Alberta, Canada that has successfully integrated Canadian energy efficient technologies with a renewable, unlimited energy source - the sun.

The system is unprecedented in the World, fulfilling ninety percent of each home’s space heating requirements from solar energy and resulting in less dependency on limited fossil fuels.

Algae to fuel methods (presented by David James)

On the heels of 694 recently approved renewable energy projects in the province, Ontario Solar Academy (OSA) has established itself a new 8,000 square foot facility in Vaughan, a city just north of Toronto.  The move allows OSA to run three times as many training classes every month - an expansion deemed increasingly necessary due to capacity constraints and renewed interest in green careers across the province.

FOIZ AHAMED, JOINT SECRETARY OWER DIVISION MNISTRY OF POWER, ENERGY AND MINERAL RESOURCES BANGLADES

1.0 Energy Security

Energy Security can be described as "the uninterrupted physical availability at a price which is affordable, while respecting environment concerns”. Energy security may also be defined as “the availability of usable energy supplies, at the point of final consumption, in sufficient quantity and timeliness so that, given due regard for encouraging energy efficiency, the economic and social development of the country is not materially constrained.”

Algae are tiny biological factories that use photosynthesis to transform carbon dioxide and sunlight into energy so efficiently that they can double their weight several times a day.

As part of the photosynthesis process algae produce oil and can generate 15 times more oil per acre than other plants used for biofuels, such as corn and switchgrass. Algae can grow in salt water, freshwater or even contaminated water, at sea or in ponds, and on land not suitable for food production.

Fusion/Fission Hybrids, Accelerator Driven Systems and Low Conversion Ratio Critical Fast Reactors.
This paper compares different types of TRU burners, sub-critical (as Accelerator Driven Systems and Fusion Fission Hybrids) but also critical, low conversion ratio, fast reactors. To make a significant comparison, it is specified for which objective and within which strategy these systems can be envisaged. Beside intrinsic cost parameters, the associated fuel cycle issues can prove to be crucial for their deployment.