Green Energy News | Publications

Released in 2008

--- Active Power White Papers (registration with company required)

Containerized Power and Cooling Systems – Modular Power and Cooling Utility in a Box - Driving Efficiencies through Rapidly Deployed and Right-Sized Power and Cooling.

Thermal and Compressed Air Storage Technology (TACAS) – Thermal and Compressed Air Storage (TACAS) Technology for Three-Phase UPS Applications

Flywheel Operation – Operation and Performance of a Flywheel-Based Uninterruptible Power Supply (UPS) System

Flywheel Operation – Theory of Operation: Low Speed Flywheel

Flywheels for Mission Critical Applications – 15 Seconds versus 15 Minutes: Designing for High Availability

Flywheels for Mission Critical Applications – Integrated Flywheel Uninterrupitble Power Supply (UPS) Systems for Industrial Applications

Flywheels for Mission Critical Applications – Data Center Thermal Runaway

Others – Disposal of Lead Acid Batteries

Active Power supplies battery-free energy storage systems.

http://www.activepower.com/whitepapers

--- Ambio – Climate Change to Affect Nitrogen and Carbon Runoff in Norwegian Aquatic Ecosystems – Among the varied effects of projected climate change, one will be altered runoff chemistry, which in turn will impact aquatic ecosystems downstream.
http://www.allenpress.com/pdf/ambi-37-01-23_2..8.pdf

--- American Lung Association – Road to a Cleaner Future. Concludes that $142 billion in human health and global warming reduction benefits would result from converting the entire California motor vehicle fleet from gasoline vehicles to zero-emission vehicle (ZEV) technologies (including fuel cells) in the 2010-2030 timeframe.
http://www.californialung.org/downloads/RoadToACleanerFuture20080320.pdf

--- American Wind Energy Association (AWEA) and the Solar Energy Research and Education Foundation (SEREF) -- Economic Impacts of the Tax Credit Expiration. PV and Wind federal tax credit expiration could result in ~$19 billion of lost investment and ~116,000 of lost employment opportunity. http://www.awea.org/newsroom/pdf/Tax_Credit_Impact.pdf

--- European Environment Agency (EEA) -- Six Success Stories on Improving Environmental Performance of Road Transport in Europe http://reports.eea.europa.eu/technical_report_2008_2/en

--- European Wind Energy Association (EWEA) – Pure Power - Wind Energy Scenarios up to 2030 – Outlines the road towards large-scale wind energy in three development scenarios for 2010, 2020 and 2030. http://www.ewea.org/fileadmin/ewea_documents/documents/
publications/reports/purepower.pdf

--- H2Gen Innovations, Dr. C.E. (Sandy) Thomas, President – Comparison of Transportation Options in a Carbon-Constrained World: Hydrogen, Plug-in Hybrids and Biofuels. Concludes that fuel cells and hydrogen fuel are the only motor vehicle technology option that will respond effectively to global warming during this century. http://www.fuelcells.org/thomasstudy.pdf

--- German Wind Energy Association (BWE) - Wind Energy Market, the Wind Experience International platform for the wind energy industry and technology http://www.wind-energy-market.com

--- Institute for Local Self-Reliance (ILSR) -- Driving Our Way to Energy Independence -- Report offers a silver bullet for high gas prices. http://www.newrules.org

--- Institute for Local Self-Reliance (ILSR) – Broadening Wind Energy Ownership by Changing Federal Incentives – A typical 2 megawatt wind turbine provides enough electricity for around 600 average American homes. So why is it nearly impossible for those same 600 households to pool their resources and own a wind turbine? http://www.newrules.org/de/ptc-wind-ownership.pdf

--- Institute for Local Self-Reliance (ILSR) – Concentrating Solar and Decentralized Power: Government Incentives Hinder Local Ownership. Report explores the economics of solar PV and concentrating solar and shows how local ownership is hindered unless government solar incentives change. http://www.newrules.org

--- Irish American Climate Project – Changing Shades of Green – Ireland's Green Landscape Threatened by Climate Change http://www.irishclimate.org

--- National Research Council FreedomCAR and Fuel Partnership Report. The report concludes that development of fuel cells and supporting hydrogen infrastructure would provide the most efficient and least polluting means to power personal transportation vehicles, but that significant improvements in durability and cost are needed to enable the mass production and sale of vehicles.
http://www8.nationalacademies.org/onpinews/newsitem.aspx?RecordID=12113

--- National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) -- BAE/Orion Hybrid Electric Buses at New York City Transit: A Generational Comparison. The report compares the Gen II hybrids with similar first-generation (Gen I) hybrid-electric transit buses that have been in service at NYCT for more than three years. http://www.eere.energy.gov/vehiclesandfuels/avta/pdfs/heavy/bae-orion_he_buses.pdf

--- Oak Ridge National Laboratory – Analysis of the Transition to Hydrogen Fuel Cell Vehicles and the Potential Hydrogen Energy Infrastructure Requirements. Identifies Los Angeles and New York City as two ideal urban centers where a transition to hydrogen as a motor fuel will take shape.
http://cta.ornl.gov/cta/Publications/Reports/ORNL_TM_2008_30.pdf

--- Securing America's Future Energy (SAFE) – A Different Type of Price Spike – A new threat to the American economy: the confluence of high oil prices, an increasing trade deficit, and a sinking dollar. http://www.secureenergy.org/files/files/760_Research%20Paper.pdf

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