RenewableEnergyWorld.com's Top 10 Most Commented Articles of 2012

Renewable Energy World Editors
December 27, 2012 | 2 Comments

The Most Commented Article of 2012:

Massachusetts Finalizes Strict Regulations on Biomass Plants

by Meg Cichon, Associate Editor, RenewableEnergyWorld.com

The Massachusetts Department of Energy Resources (DOER) finalized the Massachusetts Renewable Portfolio Standard Class I regulations for biomass eligibility yesterday after more than two years of evaluation and heated debate.

The final standards require all woody biomass plants to generate power at minimum 50 percent efficiency to receive one half of a renewable energy credit (REC), and 60 percent efficiency to receive one full REC. Previously plants were required to operate at 25 percent efficiency. All plants must also achieve a 50 percent reduction in lifecycle emissions over 20 years.

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Anumakonda Jagadeesh
December 28, 2012

Excellent collection of Articles on Renewable Energy published in 2012.
Dr.A.Jagadeesh Nellore(AP),India
E-mail: anumakonda.jagadeesh@gmail.com

Harold Helsley
December 28, 2012

Meeting the World's Energy Challenge …

There is a solution to the 'energy need' for the world and the US without generating green house gases or nuclear fission radioactive problems.

It is RF Accelerator Driven Heavy Ion Fusion(HIF) as developed in the late 1970's at Argonne National Lab under the Department of Defense (DOD).

You never heard of it, ... right, few people have, ... as HIF was set aside by the US DOD (& DOE).

Fusion was first suggested as a potential power source in the late 1920's. The first fusion reaction on earth was demonstrated in 1952. Then shown potentially doable in a small size, in 1976-9, at Argonne National Lab and Hughes Lab. Since then it has been endorsed for 35 years by the scientific community "as the conservative way to go" to develop fusion as an energy generation source … but never funded, as it was and is still BIG (expensive, prolific and "benign"). In 1980, the world did not need a BIG new carbon fee source of energy, as it does now. Fusion was put on the shelf or attached to research projects to see if it could be done in small (MW-GW) size. Fusion cannot be done small and be economical. Data suggests that fusion can produce 5 to 7 cents kWh electricity, $3.20 per/gal fuel, and $0.002 per gallon for potable water, all needed today and at a very reasonable unit price.

RF accelerator driven fusion should be our showcase national energy project, but this process seems to be totally unknown. It does not have the support of the US Department of Energy and thus is unknown to politicians.

Politicians need to understand that RF accelerator driven fusion is a viable option for the replacement of fossil fuel for energy generation, NOW.

RF accelerator driven fusion is a technique that has been endorsed by leading scientists throughout the world for the past 35 years and it is time it was implemented.

Visit www.fusionpowercorporation.com & Goggle Tech Talk "Heavy Ion Fusion" and YouTube "StarPower for Tomorrow"

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