International Journal of Environmental Science and Development, Vol. 3, No. 4, August 2012
Reza Dashtpour and Sarim N. Al-Zubaidy
Abstract—It is well known (click here) water scarcity and global warming are the two most important concerns of the 21st century. Fresh water resources are limited and while desalination can potentially provide unlimited supply of fresh water produced from infinite oceans, high energy consumption and associated environmental impacts are major drawbacks. This paper presents a practical scheme for providing freshwater by utilizing hydrostatic pressure in conjunction with wave energy. While in a typical seawater reverse osmosis plant, 3 to 10 kWh of electric energy is required to produce one cubic meter of freshwater, in the proposed approach, since only the product water needs to be pumped to the surface the specific energy consumption can be reduced to 2.46 kWh...
Don't get me wrong, I love solar oil generated steam. But, it may not always apply to all areas of the country.
Reza Dashtpour and Sarim N. Al-Zubaidy
Abstract—It is well known (click here) water scarcity and global warming are the two most important concerns of the 21st century. Fresh water resources are limited and while desalination can potentially provide unlimited supply of fresh water produced from infinite oceans, high energy consumption and associated environmental impacts are major drawbacks. This paper presents a practical scheme for providing freshwater by utilizing hydrostatic pressure in conjunction with wave energy. While in a typical seawater reverse osmosis plant, 3 to 10 kWh of electric energy is required to produce one cubic meter of freshwater, in the proposed approach, since only the product water needs to be pumped to the surface the specific energy consumption can be reduced to 2.46 kWh...
Don't get me wrong, I love solar oil generated steam. But, it may not always apply to all areas of the country.
The drawback of desalination (click here) is the enormous amount of energy it takes to turn saltwater into freshwater. A potential solution has launched in the dry heat of California’s Central Valley, where a pilot project is using solar energy to operate a new kind of desal system.
In San Joaquin Valley’s Panoche water and drainage district, where the experimental solar desalination project is based, the water is brackish—less salty than the ocean but still too salty to be easily used for agriculture. Plants that can handle brackish water, such as pistachios and wheatgrass, dot the landscape, watered by reclaimed runoff. Salts from the soils accumulate every time the water is reused, and eventually the water becomes too salty to be usable.
That’s where the new technology comes in. The salty stuff can now be turned into freshwater by a row of curved mirrors that bend the sun’s rays, focusing it on long tubes containing mineral oil. The heat from the oil generates steam, which separates water from the minerals and salts. Because heat can be held in a thermal storage unit, the system can also run at night or when the sun isn’t shining....
You ready for this? Solar Oil Generated Steam is so incredible even the petroleum industry is using it for it's fracking operations.
...O'Donnell (click here) says the pilot plant unveiled at a site operated by Berry Petroleum, California's biggest independent oil producer, is intended to provide a rapid test of the system's performance and operating costs. Its 40-meter-long string of mirrors and collectors will provide about one million BTUs of steam per hour....
But, more than fracking, the petroleum industry is focusing on the steam used in the production of Canadian Crud, aka Bitumen mixture, coming from solar energy to bring down the CARBON FOOTPRINT of their garbage. Is that sick or what?
Talk about a double standard.
...Spain's Abengoa Solar, which has already built plants supplying solar steam to a California potato chip factory, a federal prison in Colorado, and a groundwater treatment operation in Arizona, says oil fields are a potential market for its industrial steam systems. Stanford University petroleum engineer Tony Kovscek, an expert in heavy oil recovery and an unpaid advisor to GlassPoint, says he is excited by how easy it is to integrate GlassPoint's system with oil fields burning natural gas. "There's a pretty significant carbon footprint associated with these more viscous oils, and GlassPoint has created the potential to reduce that carbon footprint fairly significantly," says Kovscek....
I have stated repeatedly, the energy for the future is LOCAL. Local energy cuts down on the inefficiency of transmission lines.
So, the beauty of this solar oil generated steam for the bitumen mixture states solar works for the petroleum industry, but, not the American consumer. I don't think so.
Ever see that GE commercial where there is a little girl talking about her mom's work? She says "...energy from the moon." Unsure what that is all about? When does the high tide and low tide occur the strongest?
...Tides are created (click here) because the Earth and the moon are attracted to each other, just like magnets are attracted to each other. The moon tries to pull at anything on the Earth to bring it closer. But, the Earth is able to hold onto everything except the water. Since the water is always moving, the Earth cannot hold onto it, and the moon is able to pull at it. Each day, there are two high tides and two low tides. The ocean is constantly moving from high tide to low tide, and then back to high tide. There is about 12 hours and 25 minutes between the two high tides....
Yeah, that is what that is all about. GE leaving no stone unturned.
...O'Donnell (click here) says the pilot plant unveiled at a site operated by Berry Petroleum, California's biggest independent oil producer, is intended to provide a rapid test of the system's performance and operating costs. Its 40-meter-long string of mirrors and collectors will provide about one million BTUs of steam per hour....
But, more than fracking, the petroleum industry is focusing on the steam used in the production of Canadian Crud, aka Bitumen mixture, coming from solar energy to bring down the CARBON FOOTPRINT of their garbage. Is that sick or what?
Talk about a double standard.
...Spain's Abengoa Solar, which has already built plants supplying solar steam to a California potato chip factory, a federal prison in Colorado, and a groundwater treatment operation in Arizona, says oil fields are a potential market for its industrial steam systems. Stanford University petroleum engineer Tony Kovscek, an expert in heavy oil recovery and an unpaid advisor to GlassPoint, says he is excited by how easy it is to integrate GlassPoint's system with oil fields burning natural gas. "There's a pretty significant carbon footprint associated with these more viscous oils, and GlassPoint has created the potential to reduce that carbon footprint fairly significantly," says Kovscek....
I have stated repeatedly, the energy for the future is LOCAL. Local energy cuts down on the inefficiency of transmission lines.
So, the beauty of this solar oil generated steam for the bitumen mixture states solar works for the petroleum industry, but, not the American consumer. I don't think so.
Ever see that GE commercial where there is a little girl talking about her mom's work? She says "...energy from the moon." Unsure what that is all about? When does the high tide and low tide occur the strongest?
...Tides are created (click here) because the Earth and the moon are attracted to each other, just like magnets are attracted to each other. The moon tries to pull at anything on the Earth to bring it closer. But, the Earth is able to hold onto everything except the water. Since the water is always moving, the Earth cannot hold onto it, and the moon is able to pull at it. Each day, there are two high tides and two low tides. The ocean is constantly moving from high tide to low tide, and then back to high tide. There is about 12 hours and 25 minutes between the two high tides....
Yeah, that is what that is all about. GE leaving no stone unturned.
