New Members
Sashin
– Major: Atmospheric Science
– Nickname: Sun chips, favorite Cheddar flavor
“Reverend” John
- Nickname: Reverend John: Apparently you can get registered online and officially marry
- Greg’s friend
Roee
- Major: PolySci/History Major
- Nickname: “Roeseff”
News
- FEED is official
- The desired domain (energy.ucla.edu ) probably won’t be given
o Possible other domain names: http://www.sustain.ucla.edu/feed
- We are planning to make a large school event in mid May.
o Publicize our new Journal
o Bring keynotes speakers
o Show a short film
o Student Presentations
Group Discussion
Science
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o AVEC provides electricity service to 53 small, native villages in rural Alaska Award 2007 Cooperative Wind
o Turbine: North Wind 100/20 Wind Turbine
o Ideal for extreme cold conditions
o Perfect for remote locations that are off-grid
o R&D 100 award in 2000
o Powers up to 25% of electrical power need in local villages
o ~1 MW power
- The Japanese have been able to capture energy
from sound waves. East
Japan Railway Company To Harness Subway Ticket Gates as Energy Source
- Wind to Hydrogren
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subway system in
- uses wind from wind draft
- generates energy
- http://www.skywindpower.com/ww/index.htm
- Off land wind power
o Flying electric generator (kite or ballon)
o Achieve higher efficiency from winds from higher altitudes
o Land base 30% efficiency
o Balloon 40-50%
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Flying Electric Generator
o Kite
o Tethered electric cable altitude 15000 ft
o Aluminum cable: Not so great as conductor but light weight
o GPS computer optimizes location
o Costs? --> this will depend on the development
o Brian W Robert power density is 20kWh : 100X more than land base solar panel
- Wind Power on Tall buildings
o AeroEnvironment has designed several models to utilize wind blowing over a building
Economics
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Wind has little competition compared to
- 20 states requiring minimum level of wind power
- Fed gives takes breaks and subsidizes
- Investors (Foreign) Wind Farms
- Profit to be competed away.
- By 2030, there will be half million jobs in green industries
- This is an evolving new class of jobs
- More prestigious job than blue color job, current construction workers are looking for new opportunites
Social
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Cap Wind Project
o Passes important hurdle
o Wealthy people find it aesthetically unpleasing however majority of Mass like the idea.
o 130
wind turbines off an upscale
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Article published at a later time documents different
opinion on the
- In her article, 84% people would rather have
Political
- One must be cautious of statistics, 30% of people don’t live in Cap Cod
- Clinton and Obama, both have proposed money towards employee training to become skilled in green energy
Development
- Wind should be used in regional areas
o winds
are stronger in certain areas of the
o Mid
West in
- Takes a lot of infrastructure to build
- Dearth of transmission lines
- Takes 18 months to build a turbine
- 5-10 years to build infrastructure to send power to major cities
Environmental
- Canyon birds
- Birds, coat it with a color
Announcements
E3
- Class in spring
- ELSP 1 unit class (Not a big commitment)
- Student run Weds 3-5
- Documentary systems
Agenda
Lets talk about Journal next Week