Green future

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T-Tech in future

Green Job and Eco factor

Source: http://climatelab.org/Green_Collar_Jobs?action=edit

In the US in 2006, renewable energy and energy efficiency technologies generated 8.5 million new jobs, nearly $970 billion in revenue, and more than $100 billion in industry profits. ⁴  In 2007, U.S. Rep. Hilda Solis (D-CA) and U.S. Rep. John Tierney (D-MA) introduced the Green jobs Act of 2007 and President Bush signed it into law. This Act authorizes $125 million for workforce training programs targeted at veterans, displaced workers, at-risk youth, and families in extreme poverty.

Twenty-two different sectors of the U.S. economy currently provide workers with green collar 
jobs (Pinderhughes, 2006). These sectors include:

1.       Bicycle repair and bike delivery services

2.      Mechanic jobs, production jobs, and gas-station jobs
related to bio-diesel, vegetable oil and other alternative fuels

3.      Energy retrofits to increase energy efficiency and conservation

4.      Food production using organic and/or sustainably grown agricultural products

5.       Furniture making from environmentally certified and recycled wood

6.      Green building

7.       Green waste composting on a large scale

8.      Hauling and reuse of construction materials, demolition materials, and debris (C&D)

9.      Hazardous materials clean up

10.   Green (sustainable) landscaping

11.    Manufacturing jobs related to greening technologies (i.e. solar panels, bike cargo systems, green waste bins, etc.)

12.   Materials reuse and production from recycled and non-toxic materials

13.   Non-toxic household cleaning in residential and commercial buildings

14.   Parks and open space maintenance and expansion

15.    Printing with non-toxic inks, dyes, and recycled papers

16.   Public transit jobs

17.    Recycling

18.   Solar installation and maintenance

19.   Tree cutting and pruning

20.  Peri-urban and urban agriculture

21.   Water retrofits to increase water efficiency and conservation

22.  Whole home performance (i.e: HVAC, attic insulation, weatherization, etc.)

Eco Factor: Solar power plants could generate 9000TWh of energy within four decades.

The International Energy Agency has figured out a dazzling future for solar power. The agency has released two roadmaps for photovoltaic technology and concentrating solar power, which can generate up to 9000 terawatt hours of energy, approximately 25 percent of the global demand, by 2050.

This amount of renewable energy will be able to cut carbon dioxide emissions by almost 6 billion metric tons per year by 2050. Concentrating solar power, which focuses solar radiations onto a small area to generate electricity, will be used in bright and sunny areas and will be dominated by regions such as North America, North Africa and India. Currently the technology is responsible for just 0.1 percent of electricity generation around the world.

Photovoltaic technology is currently dominated by Germany, Spain, Japan and the U.S., who generate more than 1GW of power from installed PVs. However, countries such as China and India are catching up fast.

Via: LA Times

The Age of Energy - The Green Economy

The Telegraph and Shell have joined forces to deliver a series on the green economy. The series will focus on particular aspects crucial to building a low-carbon economy, including business, politics, transport, international relations, market forces and the individual. The Age of Energy will feature contributions from politicians, business people, academics and green experts, plus an interactive poll and the chance to attend a Green Economy Debate at The Telegraph in central London.

 Further reading: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sponsored/earth/the-age-of-energy/?utm_source=tmg&utm_medium=wgt_shell&utm_campaign=sponsored&WT.ac=8649878

green energy industry

Source: www.hotnews.ro 、Romanian newspapers
Date: March 28th, 2011

Iberdrola Renovables SA (IBR), a major player in renewable energy industry,  began building a wind park in Romania, the first of about 50 the Spanish company plans there in a complex that would rank as the world’s largest installation of generators harnessing the wind.

In 2009, Romania was producing only 14 megawatts of wind power, but by 2010, there were added 450 megawatts.

The Mihai Viteazu (near Black Sea) facility is to be built with Gamesa technology (comprising forty 2 MW wind turbines) and will be commissioned by year-end. This facility of 80-megawatt marks phase one in the construction of the Dobrogea (near Black Sea) wind Complex, the most ambitious renewable energy project in the world to date and is set to enter service by year-end, Iberdrola Renovables said.

This large-scale project will entail the start-up of as many as 50 wind farms with combined capacity of up to 1,500 MW. The company plans to build these facilities gradually between 2011 and 2017.

The output generated by this vast wind complex will enable the company to generate enough power in Romania to supply around one million households, the equivalent of the population of the capital city Bucharest, while also curbing annual CO2 emissions by 1.25 million tonnes.

IBERDROLA RENOVABLES has already signed an off-take agreement with the Romanian electricity network operator (Transeléctrica) setting the terms for connecting  the planned 1,500 MW of new capacity to the national grid, including the agreement for the grid connection of phase one. This agreement covers the largest volume of grid-connected wind power in Europe to date.

IBERDROLA RENOVABLES is pursuing all its initiatives in Romania with local company Eolica Dobrogea SRL (owned by the Swiss engineering group NEK Umwelttechnik AG and the Romanian companies C-Tech Srl and Rokura SRL). This company, which is at the forefront of the Romanian renewables industry, has been entrusted with the development tasks – planning and obtaining the construction permits – while IBERDROLA RENOVABLES is responsible for constructing and operating the wind farms.

IBERDROLA RENOVABLES, with operations in 23 countries, built more renewable capacity in 2010 than any other utility in the world, bringing 1,780 MW on stream. This has helped strengthen the company’s status as the global leader in renewable energy by capacity (12,532 MW at year-end 2010) and output (25,500 GWh produced last year).

The company opened an office in Bucharest in 2009 with a view to further reinforcing its presence in Eastern Europe, where it already has operating wind farms in Poland (161 MW) and Hungary (158 MW) and is backing other developments in Estonia and Bulgaria, making IBERDROLA RENOVABLES the leading wind power player in the region.

Romanian Foreign Investors Council believe that renewable energy could attract investment of at least five billion Euros in Romania in the coming years.

Maya - The collapses

The Maya civilization was one of the greatest Mesoamerican civilizations, but at some point in time, they simply disappeared. What happened to them?


Theories of the Classic Maya Collapse
The Classic Maya Collapse, as the collapse of the Maya civilization is dubbed among experts, has not been fully explained; and so several theories are being put forth by experts to try and explain the reason why the great Maya civilization shattered from prominence.

Social Theories
Social theories being put forth by experts include foreign invasion, but this is widely disputed as the process was so complex that it is impossible for a single military defeat to cause the collapse of a civilization. This theory is fueled by the amount of Teotihuacan influences in the Maya region, but opponents of this theory argue that the two civilizations had been in contact since at the Early Classic Period.

Another social theory being put forth is a revolution among the lower classes. Proponents of this theory hypothesized that, at the peak of the civilization, the lower class may have been overloaded with work and revolted. Evidences of temple burning and throne destruction are used as support for this theory. However, people not subscribing to this line of thought point to several flaws, like no revolts were ever documented by the Maya. They also argue that throughout its existence, the Mayas had a stable government, and so, one political problem could not have brought the downfall of the civilization.


Environmental Theories
There are several environmental theories that relate to the collapse of the Maya civilization. These include catastrophic events such as natural disasters. Mayanists dispute this theory, as there have been no evidence of a past volcanic eruption being discovered in the archaeological records left behind by the Mayas. According to Dr. Richardson Gill, volcanic eruptions may have been a way of cooling the climate in the Mayan region after a drought since droughts have been accurately documented by the Spanish in the Mayan region. However, no archaeological evidence existed to support the volcanic eruption theory.

Further reading: http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/ancient/cultures/maya_01.shtml

Tsunami - Thailand 2004

After watching this documentary movie, the first word appears in my mind is “shock”. Tsunami, a natural disaster for the humanity, was happened in Khao Lak, Thailand in 2004. This movie showed that humans had no chance to stop it and slow it down. The reason is our knowledge is limited, our equipment is not enough to defend the destruction from tsunami or an earthquake.

Review of the Core and South Park-Whale wars

Whale wars is a good example of the scene:

-Manipulating the fishermen through propaganda.

-The Japanese government covered it up and acting against the rest of the world.

-Japanese government created the laws it is “Killing dolphin and whale are legal”.

-The world against that and judged it is wrong while 80 percent of the world kill chickens and others animals to satisfied their stomachs no mercy.

 -The reason behinds this action is pest control or culture or political activities???

What ever it is it doesn’t matter when it is very brightly that once again, human take an advantage on wild animals without any good reason in this situation. Who can say that the human is right or wrong? Have no one but the answer is still waiting for us in the near future.

How long can we continuous slaughtering wild animals?

  How many kind of wild animals was extinct? Having a lot of researchers and scientists all over the world try to find the answer but no one success. Why? Because we are human, we don’t even care about anything or anyone but ourself. Maybe have someone opposites my opinion but I believe this is the trust. We are human, we “eat” the world, we are a high level of living thing, self-awareness and intelligent. We are the one who control the world and earn the advantages of nature.
 Firstly, we take the land in over the world, build houses, villages,cities….We stayed and lived group by group, clan by clan and developed. When we were strong enough, we went to hunt. We killed wild animals for food resource. It was nothing wrong. It was natural. We followed natural instinct and we did what the nature do.
Then we were changed. We got more and more stronger and increase in quantity, we discovered the mainland, the sea, the ocean and the sky. We were not simply human anymore. We become barbarians or butchers. We killed each others in the wars. Lot of people was died for no reason. But it was not enough. We need something more “interesting” and “exciting” in our life. We used our time for killing, hunting, burning and eating everything we can as much as possible. We are moving on the river of the time where we cannot stop or come back. We shouted:” We do what we need to do and we do what others do! We do what we think its right and we are the right!” It based on our own humanity culture tradition and history.
How can we judge what kind of animals are guilty or innocent? How can we said the Earth belong to us? It is un-logic and ethnocentrism. We destroyed the forest and we got El Nino, we build factories and polluted environment, especially the air and the water source. The result is we got glass-house effect and the earthquake as well as tsunami. What is the lesson that we got? NOTHING. Human just keep moving to the future. Some of them aware that the world is going down, slowly but it must be happened. They try to prevent the destruction and minimize the damage of the disaster. They try to recycling, reusing and reducing but what is that for if they do it alone? Somewhere else in the world people still killing wild animals, destroy the environment without any regret.

Why we should study geography ?

What is the geography?

Why only have humanity on the Earth but not on the others planets?

How human lifestyles involve to the nature or the status of human environment in the modern life?

When a destruction of the geographical force affects to human community or physical environment?

This will be explained and revealed by learning geography.

Geography is the study of our motherland – Earth – its environment, features, inhabitant and phenomena. It is based on the spatial (space) and the temporal (place) of events or the distribution of features, phenomena and the characteristics of humanity environment. It is divided to two main areas: physical geography and human geography. Lithosphere (land), hydrosphere (water) and atmosphere (air) are three elements in physical geography. Human geography also examines the human environment in three parts: population, urbanization and globalization. In general, geography is a giant-multi modules in natural-science its based on place and time interactions divided into two categories: Human geography and Physical geography.

What is the reason to choose geography? Firstly, human lives on Earth. The Earth affects to humanity and animals through nature environment. It impacts us directly and strongly every time everywhere in the world. What ever we do for the Earth, it will pay the same thing back to us, no more no less at all. That why awareness of the advantages and disadvantages of our action for nature and prevent impacts of disasters are emergency problems to society.

Secondly, analysis data and management the status of hazards and industrialization is also an important mission of geography. It must have the positive and negative impacts in every factor of all events. Identify and research on the correctly interpret data is helping us to prevent destruction of disasters in minimum and understand the world better. Furthermore, we should recognize that geography is reflected from four paradigms in our life: political, social, economic and cultural factors. Each of paradigms connects directly to our life and development of nation. So that studying geography is not just study about the Earth but also about the human activities as well as global issues.