Tag: climate & environment

Solar Power

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Traders and individuals secure energy revolution, grid expansion against rising electricity prices with an own PV system from FRANKFURT, July 2013 and long term rising prices for oil and gas will increase further the power in Germany. Even according to conservative estimates, the price of electricity could be in 2030 at over 40 cents per kilowatt hour (kWh). Against this background, it is economically sensible to take the own power into their own hands and to receive as little power as possible from the public network for businesses and private individuals. In particular, its own solar plant brings sustainable security of supply over decades industrial and private consumers. Through our own power production they can ensure today that their electricity costs will be in 2020 or 2030 are still in current prices per kWh”, says Axel Berger, field Director photovoltaics at the Saint-Gobain building distribution Germany GmbH (SGBDD). With this economic investment for the future “to the plant owner in the long term regardless of electricity price rises.” Electricity costs currently produces a PV plant in the industrial area the stream at a usual depreciation period of 20 years for the average about 12 cents per kWh.. The current prices of energy suppliers by 20 cents are today (net). Thus a reduction of eight cents per kWh is due to the investment in a solar system.

The higher the base load share, so the high energy demand on the day or the week, more of the own solar electricity can a company even use. “The current surplus on strong sunny days is fed still in power and in accordance with the renewable energy Act” (EEG) settled. “As a general rule, that power consumption, load profile so the temporal distribution and the size of the photovoltaic system must be well co-ordinated”, Berger stressed. Increase efficiency in the meantime power storage even once dramatically increase the efficiency of a solar plant.

Green Heart

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The sympathy levels for green content rise. More and more Germans discover its green heart. Will they change their daily habits? More and more people in Germany discover its green heart”. The values of sympathy for the Greens are rising rapidly. See Baden-Wurttemberg. That is why it is not long before a dilemma is visible. The long overdue paradigm shift to renewable energy has come in the heart is the individual but be able to the necessary changes in behaviour? A handful of German wants to seem that to himself.

37500 m, a stunning experiment must pass the test of practice. No connection to the public power grid. No connection to water and sewage. No air conditioning in temperatures of 40 degrees in summer and close to freezing in the winter. No roads. No phone lines. No cable connection. Ecotopia on Ithaca is the proof: this is.

Quality of life increasing even. And it is real, measurable, and takes place here and now. There is no shortage of role models for the venture. The initiator of Ecotopia on Ithaca, Rolf Brunner, alternative life GmbH was a pioneer of the alternative movement they made after the upheavals of 1968 in the 70s Ernst with new models of life even before thirty years as the founding Managing Director of Sarakiniko. The vast majority of the projects have failed. The main reason: this movement knew what she n i c h t wanted. That is not enough. If you learn something from it this can then: wherever you go, you take yourself. And the challenge is in the realistic assessment of the feasibility and primarily in the insight that man is a creature of habit and routine changes need to be done actively. The technical possibilities for island solutions”so self-sufficiency profit are tremendously grown over the last thirty years. No connection to the public power grid? No problem. The Sun and the wind are an economically viable solution. Water management without public utilities? Harvest the rain. Intelligent spreichern and consume / recycle. Separate Festival and liquid. Drip irrigation. Selection of plants. There are sophisticated individual solutions for each point. You must integrate only. “But in principle no toilet paper in the toilet” has some difficulties to change his habit. Only in a small group, the resulting dynamic effects can be effectively processed. Ecotopia on Ithaca is therefore consistent in the size of the group. There will not be more than nine shares. So, this is not a model for mankind. The owners have no sense of mission. There are no do-gooders. You want to start with and the preservation of the landscape ensure the purchase z.B.durch. Starry nights without light pollution are winning. Stunning silence. Healthy life. Community. Receiving a landscape as it is time there since Odysseus and feel this preservation to secure. Rolf Brunner

Oil Spills On Water Surfaces Eliminate

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The different oil-binding tissue type SPC are suitable for the application in all waters, quickly to eliminate small and large oil spills of the leakage on small lakes up to large oil spills into the sea macro has IDENT a variety of different oil binding fleece to absorb oils, mineral oils or oils and narrow locks, suction veil etc.. For industrial and marine use, macro has oil binding cloths in the program (SPC100, SPC200, SPC300) IDENT. You trap the oil and mineral oil based fluids. The cloths have an improved interface and less fluff and are very durable. The cloths are very easy to use, whether on land or water. The binding oil cloths in three versions are available: heavy duty for high adsorption capacity, medium and light design for applications with lower requirements. There the towels in dimensions 30 x 30 cm, 41 x 51 cm or 84 x 100 cm.

to record and limits of oil spills on water the SPC oil adsorption barriers, SPC810, SPC816, SPC510 are suitable. You are water repellent and at the same time absorb oil and mineral oil based fluids. The locks have a unlimited buoyancy, even after they have taken up much oil. Metal clips and rings permit easy connection he locks. The oil booms are coated with a rugged outer hose. The locks are available in a length of 3 or 5 meters and a diameter of 13 or 20 cm. The oil binding SPC standard roller SPC150 and SPC152 are available for industrial or marine application. You trap the oil and mineral oil based fluids.

This product consists of a strong, very durable material, as well as an exceptional surface finish for higher abrasion resistance. The roles are ideal for covering large areas for a quick away of spilled, leaking or dripping Liquids on water. The roles in a width of 48 or 96 cm and a total length of 44 metres are available.