Biofuels have been around as long as cars have.

A biofuel is a fuel that contains energy from geologically recent carbon fixation. These fuels are produced from living organisms.

Generating Electricity from Wing Waves.

Wind turbines, like windmills, are mounted on a tower to capture the most energy. At 100 feet (30 meters) or more aboveground, they can take advantage of the faster and less turbulent wind.

Producing electricity from solar energy.

Solar energy is a free, inexhaustible resource, yet harnessing it is a relatively new idea. The ability to use solar power for heat was the first discovery.

Turbines catch the wind's energy with their propeller-like blades.

A blade acts much like an airplane wing. When the wind blows, a pocket of low-pressure air forms on the downwind side of the blade.

Solar energy may have had great potential

Solar technology advanced to roughly its present design in 1908 when William J. Bailey of the Carnegie Steel Company invented a collector with an insulated box and copper coils.

We have been harnessing the wind's energy for hundreds of years.

For utility-scale sources of wind energy, a large number of wind turbines are usually built close together to form awind plant.

Biofuels are produced from living organisms.

In order to be considered a biofuel the fuel must contain over 80 percent renewable materials.

Geothermal energy is the heat from the Earth.

Resources of geothermal energy range from the shallow ground to hot water and hot rock found a few miles beneath the Earth's surface, and down even deeper to the extremely high temperatures of molten rock called magma.

Geothermal heat pumps can tap into this resource to heat and cool buildings.

A geothermal heat pump system consists of a heat pump, an air delivery system (ductwork), and a heat exchanger-a system of pipes buried in the shallow ground near the building.

In the future, civilization will be forced to research and develop alternative energy sources.

Possession of surplus energy is, of course, a requisite for any kind of civilization, for if man possesses merely the energy of his own muscles, he must expend all his strength - mental and physical - to obtain the bare necessities of life.

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Friday, May 30, 2014

Ikea Grabs New Wind Energy Project In Poland Operations To Be Energy Independent In Poland By End Of 2015

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Ikea Grabs New Wind Energy Project In Poland Operations To Be Energy Independent In Poland By End Of 2015
The IKEA Group is continuing to make progress on its path to receiving 100% of its energy needs via renewable energy sources by the year 2020, as the recent announcement that it had acquired a new wind energy project in Poland demonstrates.

The specifics of the deal haven't been publicly revealed, but the newly acquired project is apparently in/near the village of Wroblew. The firm has already committed to acquire two more wind farms in the cities of Gizalki and Lubartow as well - which will, according to the company, make it "energy independent" by the end of the year.

Energy independent in this case doesn't actually mean that it doesn't receive electricity from the grid, simply that it produces more electricity than is used by its operations.

A recent press statement concerning the acquisition read: "Poland now joins IKEA Group operations in Sweden and the USA as being on-track for energy independence. This is part of the IKEA Group goal to become energy independent globally by 2020."

With the new investments, IKEA is set to own 6 wind projects in Poland by the end of the year - altogether producing roughly ~473 gigawatt-hours (GWh) of electricity a year.

A spokesperson for IKEA commented: "The three new wind farms will produce an estimated annual total of 339 GWh of energy. In 2011 IKEA bought three wind farms in Podkarpacie region (in Ryman'ow, Bukowsko and Leki Dukielskie), which produce a total of approximately 134 GWh of energy annually."

When taken altogether that's enough energy to provide for the needs of roughly 225,000 homes in Poland.

The wind projects will reportedly be backed up by biomass boilers at the company's factories in the country - providing for intermittency.

"We want to have a positive impact on the planet and sustainability is an integral part of our business strategy," stated Evelyn Higler, chief executive of IKEA Retail Poland, in the recent press statement. "Our new wind farm investments will make IKEA Group energy independent in Poland, meaning we produce as much renewable energy as all the energy we use in our stores, shopping centres, factories, distribution centres and offices in the country."

The company now owns and operates 314 wind turbines around the world, as well as ~700,000 solar panels - pretty substantial numbers considering the shift to renewables began somewhat recently.

Source: IKEA Group

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