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MonteQuest
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 Posted: Mon Mar 26, 2007 12:12 am Post subject: Re: Energy Infrastructure Progress Report |
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Gee, a year and a half and not much progress.
You'd a thought that the technofixers would have flooded this thread.
I guess we will have to wait until complacency turns to panic.
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| Posted: Mon Mar 26, 2007 12:52 pm Post subject: Re: Energy Infrastructure Progress Report |
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Lets not forget the EPR nuke plant being built in Finland....and yes this is under construction right now! Unfortunately there are construction delays. here's mock up pic of what it will look like when completed:
I assume the EPR reactor is the half dome in the pic while the other 2 are the older ones currently in use now.
A bit of info about the EPR:
1) 3rd generation nuke design
2) passive safety
3) possibility for extended life == 60 years
4) large reactor == 1600 Mwe
IMHO there's nothing "amazing" about this new technology. It's an improvement obviously but certainly not a great leap forward. It's primary advantage is economies of scale....kinda like if you bought a gallon of milk you'd pay less per quantity then if you bought a half pint.  |
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IslandCrow
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| Posted: Thu Mar 29, 2007 2:28 am Post subject: Re: Energy Infrastructure Progress Report |
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BBC News: World's most powerful solar plant
| Quote: | Portugal has inaugurated what it says is the world's most powerful solar power plant.
The array of electricity-generating solar panels covers about 60 hectares (150 acres)..... enough energy to supply 8,000 homes.....
The 11-megawatt plant has 52,000 photovoltaic modules, which will produce 20 gigawatt hours of power each year....
Portugal is developing wind, solar and wave power projects as part of a plan to invest $10bn (£5bn) in renewable energy over the next five years.
Prime Minister Jose Socrates has said he wants 45% of Portugal's power consumption to come from renewable energy by 2010. |
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MonteQuest
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| Posted: Sat Mar 31, 2007 3:03 pm Post subject: Re: Energy Infrastructure Progress Report |
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Remember:
| Quote: | | Let us use this thread to post reports on actual facilities and infrastructure being built, not planned or under consideration, but where the ground has actually been broken and construction has started. |
In other words, reality.
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Tanada
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| Posted: Sun Apr 01, 2007 8:36 pm Post subject: Re: Energy Infrastructure Progress Report |
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USEC American Centerfuge prototypes have completed testing and the first cascade will begin operating in mid 2007. The first production units for the lead cascade are being installed in March and April 2007 and will be tested extensively before actually receiving any Uranium for processing.
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USEC is now working towards beginning commercial plant operations in late 2009 and having approximately 11,500 machines deployed in 2012, which would provide about 3.8 million SWU capacity, based on our current estimates of machine output and plant availability. |
USEC update
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Ferretlover
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| Posted: Thu Jun 21, 2007 1:05 pm Post subject: Re: Energy Infrastructure Progress Report |
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For reference:
Energy Maps of US US Dept of the Interior found at: http://www.msnbc.com/modules/eoe/energy.asp
Maps re: nuclear, electrical, wind, solar, geothermal, biomass, natural gas, oil, hydroelectric and coal. |
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aliendroid
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| Posted: Sat Nov 03, 2007 2:16 am Post subject: Re: Energy Infrastructure Progress Report |
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| Texas has 3300 MW of wind power online and 1200 MW under construction right now. Texas plans to have about 25,000 MW of wind power as soon as possible. |
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kmann
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Tanada
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| Posted: Sun Nov 04, 2007 6:30 am Post subject: Re: Energy Infrastructure Progress Report |
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Michigan wind farm update.
Baycity times
| Baycity Times wrote: | BAD AXE - Michigan's Thumb may be sprouting more windmills - 25,000 acres' worth.
That's almost eight times the space allotted to 32 windmills on the state's first commercial wind farm, which has sprouted up near Elkton in recent months.
The latest project is being run by DTE Energy, a Detroit-based utility that serves the Thumb, mostly with coal-fired power, and operates a plant in Harbor Beach.
Andy Sommers, a real estate agent in Bad Axe, said he and others in Huron County seem to like the windmills that have already gone up near Elkton at the Harvest Wind Farm, owned by John Deere Wind Energy.
''I don't find them unattractive at all,'' Sommers said. ''They're rather majestic looking.''
Sommers sees windmills as an economic opportunity for the Thumb.
DTE generates just 1 percent of its power from renewable sources now, including landfill gas and three windmills at Laker Elementary School near Pigeon.
The company wants to increase its renewable portfolio, Singer said, in anticipation of state regulations and due to the need for more power in Michigan.
Besides the 25,000 acres under consideration, DTE has already signed an agreement to buy energy from a wind farm east of Cadillac. The company also has proposed to build a new reactor at its Fermi nuclear plant in Monroe County.
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aliendroid
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| Posted: Sun Nov 25, 2007 10:52 pm Post subject: Re: Energy Infrastructure Progress Report |
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| aliendroid wrote: | | Texas has 3300 MW of wind power online and 1200 MW under construction right now. Texas plans to have about 25,000 MW of wind power as soon as possible. |
That information was end of 2nd quarter, now at end of 3rd quarter report texas has 3980 MW of wind power online and 1350 MW under construction.
The USA has 5700 MW of wind power capacity under construction at this time. |
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| Posted: Sun Jan 20, 2008 5:57 am Post subject: Re: Energy Infrastructure Progress Report |
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To: aliendroid
link please
Two 5MW windmills have been installed off the coast of Scotland for the Beatrice Wind Farm project
This is what a 5M windmill looks like:
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| Posted: Sun Feb 10, 2008 4:56 am Post subject: Re: Energy Infrastructure Progress Report |
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France: Flamanville Nuclear Power Plant
The site currently has 2 PWR reactors that came into service in 1986 and 1987. However there is an EPR (European Pressurized Reactor) under construction there. This will be the 2nd EPR reactor. The first was in Finland which is still under construction.
timeline:
December 6, 2007 First concrete was poured
In 2012 the facility will be commissioned
picture of completed project
The EPR reactor is the one on the bottom of the pic |
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| Posted: Tue Jun 17, 2008 6:05 pm Post subject: Re: Energy Infrastructure Progress Report |
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woah this thread is dead.
I guess everybody would rather talk about pie-in-the-sky projects rather than what's happening "on the ground".
yes this is currently under construction!
Sanmen Nuclear Power Plant
Reactor type AP1000
Reactors planned 4 (4,400 MW)
The plant will be notable as the first implementation of the AP1000 reactor developed by Westinghouse. |
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