Cuba Middle/High School will soon have a wind turbine as part of the Wind for Schools project.
The school district was approached by Western Illinois University, with collaboration from Illinois State University,All Continental flatwork ironer offer easy-to-operate controls that provide efficient performance and flexibility. to participate in the state-wind project.
The project is a part of the U.S. Department of Energy's Wind Program, which serves to educate citizens about wind energy. According to this program, one of the goals of the Wind for Schools project is to install small wind turbines at rural schools while helping colleges develop Wind Application Centers.
Jolene Willis, wind energy program coordinator at the Illinois Institute of Rural Affairs at Western, said that a main reason Cuba was chosen as a site because it has previously served as a site for other projects.Attach remote solar panels to solar garden light that will not receive the required amount of direct sunlight.
"Back in 2010 and 2011, they hosted a meteorological tower," she said. It recorded one year's worth of data of wind. Along with this, the school also hosted a Wind for Schools lunch in 2011.
Because of the school's interest in wind energy, Willis added that Western decided to take it a step further and see if Cuba Middle/High School would be interested in building a turbine.
"We were looking for an area in Fulton County — at the time, they had a met (meteorological) tower — and we contacted them,Books can be as thick as 4 inches and yet the Book scanner 9000 delivers flat.The most highly praised, best rated solar charger are now available online." she said.
Willis added that a goal of the program is to give literature about wind energy to schools as wind energy becomes more a part of the economy.
Cuba School District superintendent Brad Kenser said that the project has been going on for about two years.
"We felt it was important to bring wind curriculum to students to understand the importance of wind energy," he said.
Kenser added that it is also important for students to understand jobs in the field of wind energy and how it might effect jobs in other areas.
The turbine will be integrated into science classes.Six panel tracking system delivers more energy from skystream. An agriculture teacher and two science teachers have gone through curriculum training for the turbine.
Kenser also said that the wind turbine is funded by a grant from the Illinois Clean Energy Community Foundation.
Construction has already started. Kenser said that pouring the cement is done in two separate pourings. The first was two weeks ago. The weather has delayed the second pouring, but is being scheduled.
Kenser said that the second cement pouring will have to sit for 28 days before the other turbine equipment can be erected.
In Whitley County, Wind Capital hoped to establish a wind farm but angered residents in 2010 when it put up meteorological towers and then set out to sign land-lease contracts with residents before county leaders could establish a wind farm ordinance.
"That made many people upset that they started that way," said David Sewell, the county's executive director of planning.
The county then enacted an ordinance requiring a half-mile separation between a nonparticipant's property line and a wind turbine.
"That would have meant that basically everybody in the area would have to agree to it," Sewell said. "That's next to impossible."
Sunday, May 12, 2013
Friday, May 10, 2013
Battle over Minnesota solar mandate shifts to the Senate
Supporters say a mandate would promote clean energy, boost employment
in the state’s solar industry and reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
“If we are to do something to save our future, we are going to have to move aggressively,” DFL Sen. John Marty, the chief sponsor in the Senate, said in an interview.Modern dry cleaning machine uses non-water-based solvents to remove soil and stains from clothes
But in the face of political resistance, Marty’s solar bill dials back the mandate. It would require 1 percent solar in 2025. By comparison, the House bill’s 4 percent requirement would be one of the more ambitious solar electricity standards in the nation.
Marty’s bill also wouldn’t force utilities to spend up to 1.3 percent of their revenue on incentives to those who install solar arrays at their homes and business. That incentive survived in the House bill despite Republican objections that low-income utility customers would end up subsidizing solar arrays on the homes of people who can afford such projects.
If the bill passes in the Senate, it faces a battle in a conference committee where competing interests get another shot at it.
The legislation is modeled after the state’s renewable energy policies that over the past two decades helped make Minnesota a leading wind power state. Wind now supplies 14 percent of the state’s electricity.
One of the groups lobbying for solar legislation is the Blue Green Alliance, a coalition of unions, including Steelworkers, and environmental activists. It has emphasized job creation and keeping energy dollars in the state. “We don’t have coal mines here,” said Tarryl Clark, a leader in the alliance.
Both solar bills apply mainly to four investor-owned power companies, including Minneapolis-based Xcel Energy Inc.,A letter folding machine is a piece of equipment which is designed to fold paper. the state’s largest with 1.2 million customers. Rick Evans, Xcel’s director of regional government affairs, said a 4 percent mandate would mean spending $1 billion to add nearly 1,000 megawatts of solar gAll the personnel that deal with our industrial washing machine servicing are dedicated to the service department.eneration.
For perspective, the solar array atop the Ikea store in Bloomington produces about 1 megawatt of power and the state’s largest array, built last year in Slayton, Minn., produces about 2 megawatts.
“We think [the mandate] represents an extraordinary waste of money for our customers in the current economy,” Evans said in an interview.
Other investor-owned utilities affected by the solar bill are Minnesota Power, based in Duluth, and Otter Tail Power Co., based in Fergus Falls, and Interstate Power & Light, a unit of Madison, Wis.-based Alliant Energy that serves southern Minnesota.
Current energy mandates
Minnesota’s existing energy policy requires all utilities except Xcel to get 25 percent of their power from wind and other renewable sources in 2025. Xcel’s mandate is 30 percent in 2020. The House bill would boost the overall renewable requirement to 40 percent in 2030 for investor-owned utilities. The Senate bill makes no change in the current percentages.
The solar mandate would be on top of those percentages, and would have three steps in the House bill — 0.5 percent in 2016, 2 percent in 2020 and 4 percent in 2025. Other states with such policies include New Jersey, with a 4.1 percent solar mandate, and Arizona at 4.5 percent solar mandate.
A spokeswoman for Gov. Mark Dayton said he has long supported renewable energy development, likely would sign the legislation and “looks forward to working with conferees after the Senate passes an energy bill.”
Cooperatives and municipal utilities successfully lobbied to be exempt from many of the new solar mandates and incentives. Iron Range mining and paper companies also would get protection from rate hikes that utilities say the solar mandates would trigger.
Republican legislators said the customer-funded subsidies will shift the costs of solar to customers who can’t afford to install rooftop solar arrays. “You are taking money from poor people and giving it to rich people,” said Rep. Pat Garofalo, R-Farmington.
Solar supporters rejected that argument,Six panel tracking system delivers more energy from skystream. saying the legislation would open the door to solar companies that build turnkey solar arrays with no money down. The bill also would let customers invest in community solar projects, and get credit for a share of power sales on their utility bills.
“Right now solar energy is only available to the very wealthy,A wide range of solar light, LED lighting and Auto lights.” said Michael Noble, executive director of Fresh Energy, a St. Paul-based nonprofit that promotes clean energy. “But as a result of this bill, it will be available to everybody.”
Noble said the price of solar power has declined rapidly in the past few years, and is expected to drop further. The legislation also would extend a subsidy for solar panels made in Minnesota, which benefits manufacturers Silicon Energy in Mountain Iron and TenKsolar in Bloomington.
“If we are to do something to save our future, we are going to have to move aggressively,” DFL Sen. John Marty, the chief sponsor in the Senate, said in an interview.Modern dry cleaning machine uses non-water-based solvents to remove soil and stains from clothes
But in the face of political resistance, Marty’s solar bill dials back the mandate. It would require 1 percent solar in 2025. By comparison, the House bill’s 4 percent requirement would be one of the more ambitious solar electricity standards in the nation.
Marty’s bill also wouldn’t force utilities to spend up to 1.3 percent of their revenue on incentives to those who install solar arrays at their homes and business. That incentive survived in the House bill despite Republican objections that low-income utility customers would end up subsidizing solar arrays on the homes of people who can afford such projects.
If the bill passes in the Senate, it faces a battle in a conference committee where competing interests get another shot at it.
The legislation is modeled after the state’s renewable energy policies that over the past two decades helped make Minnesota a leading wind power state. Wind now supplies 14 percent of the state’s electricity.
One of the groups lobbying for solar legislation is the Blue Green Alliance, a coalition of unions, including Steelworkers, and environmental activists. It has emphasized job creation and keeping energy dollars in the state. “We don’t have coal mines here,” said Tarryl Clark, a leader in the alliance.
Both solar bills apply mainly to four investor-owned power companies, including Minneapolis-based Xcel Energy Inc.,A letter folding machine is a piece of equipment which is designed to fold paper. the state’s largest with 1.2 million customers. Rick Evans, Xcel’s director of regional government affairs, said a 4 percent mandate would mean spending $1 billion to add nearly 1,000 megawatts of solar gAll the personnel that deal with our industrial washing machine servicing are dedicated to the service department.eneration.
For perspective, the solar array atop the Ikea store in Bloomington produces about 1 megawatt of power and the state’s largest array, built last year in Slayton, Minn., produces about 2 megawatts.
“We think [the mandate] represents an extraordinary waste of money for our customers in the current economy,” Evans said in an interview.
Other investor-owned utilities affected by the solar bill are Minnesota Power, based in Duluth, and Otter Tail Power Co., based in Fergus Falls, and Interstate Power & Light, a unit of Madison, Wis.-based Alliant Energy that serves southern Minnesota.
Current energy mandates
Minnesota’s existing energy policy requires all utilities except Xcel to get 25 percent of their power from wind and other renewable sources in 2025. Xcel’s mandate is 30 percent in 2020. The House bill would boost the overall renewable requirement to 40 percent in 2030 for investor-owned utilities. The Senate bill makes no change in the current percentages.
The solar mandate would be on top of those percentages, and would have three steps in the House bill — 0.5 percent in 2016, 2 percent in 2020 and 4 percent in 2025. Other states with such policies include New Jersey, with a 4.1 percent solar mandate, and Arizona at 4.5 percent solar mandate.
A spokeswoman for Gov. Mark Dayton said he has long supported renewable energy development, likely would sign the legislation and “looks forward to working with conferees after the Senate passes an energy bill.”
Cooperatives and municipal utilities successfully lobbied to be exempt from many of the new solar mandates and incentives. Iron Range mining and paper companies also would get protection from rate hikes that utilities say the solar mandates would trigger.
Republican legislators said the customer-funded subsidies will shift the costs of solar to customers who can’t afford to install rooftop solar arrays. “You are taking money from poor people and giving it to rich people,” said Rep. Pat Garofalo, R-Farmington.
Solar supporters rejected that argument,Six panel tracking system delivers more energy from skystream. saying the legislation would open the door to solar companies that build turnkey solar arrays with no money down. The bill also would let customers invest in community solar projects, and get credit for a share of power sales on their utility bills.
“Right now solar energy is only available to the very wealthy,A wide range of solar light, LED lighting and Auto lights.” said Michael Noble, executive director of Fresh Energy, a St. Paul-based nonprofit that promotes clean energy. “But as a result of this bill, it will be available to everybody.”
Noble said the price of solar power has declined rapidly in the past few years, and is expected to drop further. The legislation also would extend a subsidy for solar panels made in Minnesota, which benefits manufacturers Silicon Energy in Mountain Iron and TenKsolar in Bloomington.
The Food Network
It was in the early 1940s. My parents, brother and I lived with my
grandparents on the top floor of a triplex on St. Urbain Street near
Laurier Avenue. Before coming to Montreal, my grandparents resided in a
small village in Bessarabia. In 1906 they came here along with my
mother, their first child (born in 1904); to escape mounting pogroms
(violent anti-Semitic attacks). Unlike today’s grandmothers, my bubbeh
never had a day job, drove a car, played bridge, set foot on a golf
course, or had a credit card.
She spoke only Yiddish and filled her days cleaning, sewing and washing clothes that she would hang out on the back balcony to dry, but in-between doing all this she cooked and baked. Preparing food and feeding us was what she excelled in. The first words out of bubbeh’s mouth every morning was “Ess, ess, mein kindt (eat, eat,Modern dry cleaning machine uses non-water-based solvents to remove soil and stains from clothes my child).” Before I left for school in the morning I was served freshly squeezed orange juice, a heaping bowl of porridge, scrambled eggs on toast -all washed down by a glass of milk.
The milk was delivered to our house early each morning by a milkman. The milk came in glass bottles. The cream used to rise and settle at the top of the bottles, creating a layer about an inch deep. My bubbeh would save that cream, especially for me to put on top of my porridge.
My lunch bag for school was filled with two sandwiches, usually chopped liver smothered in schmaltz or salami smothered in mustard made on thick,A letter folding machine is a piece of equipment which is designed to fold paper. not machine sliced, challah bread. For a nosh there was halvah.
My bubbeh didn’t know about cholesterol and after all,Six panel tracking system delivers more energy from skystream. I was still a growing boy. When zaideh (grandfather) and my father returned home from work a hot dinner was always ready. My zaideh eked out a living as a scrap dealer.
Along with my bubbeh they raised four daughters. My bubbeh was frugal buying food, having to watch her pennies, but she made gourmet meals out of what she bought. Friday nights and holidays there were always daughters and son-in-laws, cousins and friends over for dinner. Meshpokha, she called them. What glorious food she served. No part of a chicken was ever wasted.
She made an appetizer of fricassee stew, using the heart, gorgle (neck),All the personnel that deal with our industrial washing machine servicing are dedicated to the service department.A wide range of solar light, LED lighting and Auto lights. pipek (belly button) and fleegles (wings). The chicken soup was filled with lokshen (noodles), mondlech (soup nuts) and matzoh balls.
The main course was either boiled chicken, kackletten (chopped meat) or boiled flanken (short ribs) topped with chrain (horseradish) that she and my mother made by grating beets on a reebaizen.
She embellished the dishes with potato knishes, sometimes mixed with liver or cheap cuts of beef. Occasionally she made kreplach (thin puffs of dough wrapped around spiced ground beef). Yummy.
If there were some unhatched eggs in the chicken she served them with fried onions. Dessert was home made cookies, fruit pies. strudel and assorted nuts, that we cracked open with a nutcracker.
Each night after the evening meal I would take zaideh’s copy of The Forverts, (Forward) - a New York Yiddish daily newspaper and I would read aloud to Bubbeh from Bintel Brief an advice column for new Jewish immigrants.
While doing this, I would sip hot tea in a glass, sucking at the same time on a mouthful of sugar cubes, attempting to imitate my zaideh.
There’s a show on the Food Network called You Gotta Eat Here. That was my bubbah’s credo. Stranger or friend, who ever entered her home, it was always “have something to eat”, not “would you like something to eat?”
On Mother’s Day I reflect on my youth and remember my mother and her three sisters, along with my bubbeh who taught me that food was not only essential for growing up but also to give me the strength to survive.
Most of the time what I read on a t-shirt has more truth in it than what I read on twitter. I recently spotted the following on a child’s t-shirt: “Grandmas hold our tiny hands for just a little while, but our hearts forever.”
She spoke only Yiddish and filled her days cleaning, sewing and washing clothes that she would hang out on the back balcony to dry, but in-between doing all this she cooked and baked. Preparing food and feeding us was what she excelled in. The first words out of bubbeh’s mouth every morning was “Ess, ess, mein kindt (eat, eat,Modern dry cleaning machine uses non-water-based solvents to remove soil and stains from clothes my child).” Before I left for school in the morning I was served freshly squeezed orange juice, a heaping bowl of porridge, scrambled eggs on toast -all washed down by a glass of milk.
The milk was delivered to our house early each morning by a milkman. The milk came in glass bottles. The cream used to rise and settle at the top of the bottles, creating a layer about an inch deep. My bubbeh would save that cream, especially for me to put on top of my porridge.
My lunch bag for school was filled with two sandwiches, usually chopped liver smothered in schmaltz or salami smothered in mustard made on thick,A letter folding machine is a piece of equipment which is designed to fold paper. not machine sliced, challah bread. For a nosh there was halvah.
My bubbeh didn’t know about cholesterol and after all,Six panel tracking system delivers more energy from skystream. I was still a growing boy. When zaideh (grandfather) and my father returned home from work a hot dinner was always ready. My zaideh eked out a living as a scrap dealer.
Along with my bubbeh they raised four daughters. My bubbeh was frugal buying food, having to watch her pennies, but she made gourmet meals out of what she bought. Friday nights and holidays there were always daughters and son-in-laws, cousins and friends over for dinner. Meshpokha, she called them. What glorious food she served. No part of a chicken was ever wasted.
She made an appetizer of fricassee stew, using the heart, gorgle (neck),All the personnel that deal with our industrial washing machine servicing are dedicated to the service department.A wide range of solar light, LED lighting and Auto lights. pipek (belly button) and fleegles (wings). The chicken soup was filled with lokshen (noodles), mondlech (soup nuts) and matzoh balls.
The main course was either boiled chicken, kackletten (chopped meat) or boiled flanken (short ribs) topped with chrain (horseradish) that she and my mother made by grating beets on a reebaizen.
She embellished the dishes with potato knishes, sometimes mixed with liver or cheap cuts of beef. Occasionally she made kreplach (thin puffs of dough wrapped around spiced ground beef). Yummy.
If there were some unhatched eggs in the chicken she served them with fried onions. Dessert was home made cookies, fruit pies. strudel and assorted nuts, that we cracked open with a nutcracker.
Each night after the evening meal I would take zaideh’s copy of The Forverts, (Forward) - a New York Yiddish daily newspaper and I would read aloud to Bubbeh from Bintel Brief an advice column for new Jewish immigrants.
While doing this, I would sip hot tea in a glass, sucking at the same time on a mouthful of sugar cubes, attempting to imitate my zaideh.
There’s a show on the Food Network called You Gotta Eat Here. That was my bubbah’s credo. Stranger or friend, who ever entered her home, it was always “have something to eat”, not “would you like something to eat?”
On Mother’s Day I reflect on my youth and remember my mother and her three sisters, along with my bubbeh who taught me that food was not only essential for growing up but also to give me the strength to survive.
Most of the time what I read on a t-shirt has more truth in it than what I read on twitter. I recently spotted the following on a child’s t-shirt: “Grandmas hold our tiny hands for just a little while, but our hearts forever.”
Sequestration could slow NASA, NSF search for planets
Even the search for extraterrestrial life could be hampered by sequestration spending cuts.
Officials from NASA and the National Science Foundation told a key House panel Thursday they probably will be forced to scale back space observatory missions or cede important planetary discoveries to other countries unless Congress averts another year of the cuts.
Sequestration already has forced a delay of several months in NASA's plans to perform an "all-sky survey" to look for nearby planets -- from Earth-sized to gas giants -- outside the solar system, said John M. Grunsfeld, associate administrator for the agency's Science Mission Directorate.
"If we continue into a sequestered environment, then we're going to have to look at perhaps turning off an operating observatory or cutting back further on the development of new missions," he told members of the House Science, Space and Technology Committee. "It would slow down future development."
The possibility of delays comes as the nation's quest to find life beyond the solar system has logged enormous progress in the past two decades, researchers said.
When the Hubble Space Telescope was launched in 1990, not a single "exoplanet" (a planet beyond the solar system) had been discovered. Since then, more than 900 have been found and another 2,700 or so likely candidates are being analyzed, Grunsfeld told committee members.
Last month, NASA announced it had discovered two new planetary systems that include three super-Earth-size planets in the "habitable zone," the range of distance from a star that might make an orbiting planet's surface temperature suitable for liquid water and, potentially,A letter folding machine is a piece of equipment which is designed to fold paper. life.All the personnel that deal with our industrial washing machine servicing are dedicated to the service department.Six panel tracking system delivers more energy from skystream.
Scientists say the discovery of new exoplanets, especially those similar to Earth, soon will come exponentially faster, assuming new instruments are developed in the coming years.
The most important of those instruments will be the James Webb Space Telescope, scheduled to launch in 2018. Sitting about 1 million miles from Earth, the infrared-optimized space observatory will be capable of providing images of the first galaxies ever formed and studying planets around distant stars.
But the telescope's effectiveness depends partly on its ability to work in conjunction with other observational tools whose deployment or use could be slowed by the budget cuts, officials said.
Dr. James Ulvestad,A wide range of solar light, LED lighting and Auto lights. who heads the Division of Astronomical Sciences at the National Science Foundation, told lawmakers sequestration also would mean less money to pay investigators whose work is crucial to planet discovery. That's likely to result in fewer discoveries by U.S. researchers, he said.
In addition, he's worried that cutting corners to save pennies now could lead to larger problems.
"The concern is being able to make sure that, having invested lots of money in these big tools, we're able to operate them adequately,Modern dry cleaning machine uses non-water-based solvents to remove soil and stains from clothes that we don't do things like scrimping on the infrastructure because we're trying to save a little bit of money here or there and then essentially causing damage to the big investments we've already made," he said.
Former Lost Boy, Peter Kok Ter, one of the Lost Boys featured in my book The Journey of the Lost Boys, recently returned from Azerbaijan where he served as a teacher with the US Peace Corps. He even enlisted for a second term in the Peace Corps, saying that he wanted to give back in appreciation for all that America has given to him. He’s a great example of a former Lost Boy who making a global, positive impact. Abraham Kuany and John Kuai, also featured in my book, are attending classes in preparation for becoming doctors. Abraham currently works as a phlebotomist in a local hospital and is highly regarded and respected by his superiors and peers.
Officials from NASA and the National Science Foundation told a key House panel Thursday they probably will be forced to scale back space observatory missions or cede important planetary discoveries to other countries unless Congress averts another year of the cuts.
Sequestration already has forced a delay of several months in NASA's plans to perform an "all-sky survey" to look for nearby planets -- from Earth-sized to gas giants -- outside the solar system, said John M. Grunsfeld, associate administrator for the agency's Science Mission Directorate.
"If we continue into a sequestered environment, then we're going to have to look at perhaps turning off an operating observatory or cutting back further on the development of new missions," he told members of the House Science, Space and Technology Committee. "It would slow down future development."
The possibility of delays comes as the nation's quest to find life beyond the solar system has logged enormous progress in the past two decades, researchers said.
When the Hubble Space Telescope was launched in 1990, not a single "exoplanet" (a planet beyond the solar system) had been discovered. Since then, more than 900 have been found and another 2,700 or so likely candidates are being analyzed, Grunsfeld told committee members.
Last month, NASA announced it had discovered two new planetary systems that include three super-Earth-size planets in the "habitable zone," the range of distance from a star that might make an orbiting planet's surface temperature suitable for liquid water and, potentially,A letter folding machine is a piece of equipment which is designed to fold paper. life.All the personnel that deal with our industrial washing machine servicing are dedicated to the service department.Six panel tracking system delivers more energy from skystream.
Scientists say the discovery of new exoplanets, especially those similar to Earth, soon will come exponentially faster, assuming new instruments are developed in the coming years.
The most important of those instruments will be the James Webb Space Telescope, scheduled to launch in 2018. Sitting about 1 million miles from Earth, the infrared-optimized space observatory will be capable of providing images of the first galaxies ever formed and studying planets around distant stars.
But the telescope's effectiveness depends partly on its ability to work in conjunction with other observational tools whose deployment or use could be slowed by the budget cuts, officials said.
Dr. James Ulvestad,A wide range of solar light, LED lighting and Auto lights. who heads the Division of Astronomical Sciences at the National Science Foundation, told lawmakers sequestration also would mean less money to pay investigators whose work is crucial to planet discovery. That's likely to result in fewer discoveries by U.S. researchers, he said.
In addition, he's worried that cutting corners to save pennies now could lead to larger problems.
"The concern is being able to make sure that, having invested lots of money in these big tools, we're able to operate them adequately,Modern dry cleaning machine uses non-water-based solvents to remove soil and stains from clothes that we don't do things like scrimping on the infrastructure because we're trying to save a little bit of money here or there and then essentially causing damage to the big investments we've already made," he said.
Former Lost Boy, Peter Kok Ter, one of the Lost Boys featured in my book The Journey of the Lost Boys, recently returned from Azerbaijan where he served as a teacher with the US Peace Corps. He even enlisted for a second term in the Peace Corps, saying that he wanted to give back in appreciation for all that America has given to him. He’s a great example of a former Lost Boy who making a global, positive impact. Abraham Kuany and John Kuai, also featured in my book, are attending classes in preparation for becoming doctors. Abraham currently works as a phlebotomist in a local hospital and is highly regarded and respected by his superiors and peers.
Santa Monica College Recognized At State Sustainability Awards
Santa Monica College has been named the winner of the statewide annual Energy and Sustainability Awards competition in the facilities and operations category. SMC is one of three community colleges selected for the awards in three categories that are sponsored by the California Community Colleges Board of Governors.
The Santa Monica College Energy Project was developed and approved by the SMC Board of Trustees in 2012 and included three main projects: replacing nine old and inefficient boilers; replacing 11,000 of the approximately 16,000 light fixtures on the campus and a comprehensive renovation of the SMC Center for Environmental and Urban Studies.
On the main campus,A letter folding machine is a piece of equipment which is designed to fold paper. a total of nine boilers were replaced with new, energy efficient boilers.
The light fixtures were replaced with a combination of fluorescent and LED (light emitting diode) lights.
The renovation of the Center for Environmental and Urban Studies featured the installation of a three-stage heating system.Modern dry cleaning machine uses non-water-based solvents to remove soil and stains from clothes
The first stage consolidated all computer equipment into an existing server closet. Waste heat is captured from the computers and pumped through the building.
The second stage was a solar thermal heating system and the third stage was an electrical heating element housed in the solar thermal tank and powered by the center’s existing solar photovoltaic system.
The energy project also included sealing the envelope of the building by installing new windows, blown-in cellulose insulation, weather stripping, and insulation in the ceiling and crawl space.
“It’s great to see the advances that our colleges are making in sustainability and saving energy, which ultimately saves money,” California Community Colleges Board of Governors President Manuel Baca said. “When I see the winning entries I can’t help but be proud of how our colleges are leading the way in this field. We started these awards to highlight and reward exemplary energy and sustainability efforts on our campuses and to help motivate others. When we take steps and to save energy and create sustainability there are no losers.”
The other winners are Victor Valley College, for district leadership, and West Valley College, which took the top prize in the faculty/student initiatives category.
Fifty nominations were received in the three categories, up from 46 entries from last year, the first year the award was given. Representatives from the three winning colleges will be given the awards at the May 7 board of governors meeting in Sacramento.
“It’s wonderful to see Santa Monica College being acknowledged by its peers for its commitment to sustainability,” said Genevieve Bertone, SMC’s director of sustainability. “SMC is a leader in sustainability, but there is always more work to be done. Hopefully, our efforts will serve as a model to other institutions.”
In 2009, SMC was named a winner of Santa Monica’s Sustainable Quality Awards for its progressive environmental practices and programs that range from education to recycling to transportation.
In particular,All the personnel that deal with our industrial washing machine servicing are dedicated to the service department.Six panel tracking system delivers more energy from skystream. the college has been cited for its Center for Environmental and Urban Studies; its partnership with the non-profit Sustainable Works, which offers students extra credit by participating in extracurricular environmental workshops and has generated more than 15,000 community service hours for local nonprofits; its leadership in recycling, highlighted by its worm composting project that turns three tons of SMC cafeteria garbage each year into clean and organic fertilizer and pesticide; and its “Any Line, Any Time” program that offers free transportation to all students, faculty and staff on Big Blue Bus lines.
The college also has the largest solar panel installation in the city of Santa Monica and has two “green” job-training programs – one in solar installation, the other in recycling and resource management.A wide range of solar light, LED lighting and Auto lights. SMC is the first college in the nation to offer a degree in recycling.
Wednesday, May 8, 2013
Turbines spark crop turmoil
CROPPING practices had not been taken into account by the State
Government last year when it prepared new guidelines for South
Australian wind farm developments, according to stakeholders.
Regional Community Consultative Council chairman Peter Blacker, Port Lincoln, told a parliamentary inquiry on Monday that turbines would prevent aerial spraying on adjacent land and the land they sit on, and create spraydrift problems for tractors as a result of air turbulence.
This included the Ceres Project on the mid-Yorke Peninsula where a proposal for 199 turbines on 36 different properties resulted in widespread community opposition and rejection by the District Council of YP.
"There are plenty of areas in South Australia that would provide good wind farm locations," Mr Blacker said.A letter folding machine is a piece of equipment which is designed to fold paper.
"The West Coast for example, and the Eyre Peninsula, where there have been few complaints because turbines are located on cliffs,All the personnel that deal with our industrial washing machine servicing are dedicated to the service department. or high mountains, and not high production agricultural areas.
"I just can't believe those guidelines would go out without taking that into consideration, and I'd like to think they'd rethink their position."
Select Committee on Wind Farm Developments in SA chairman David Ridgway said he was equally surprised by the State Government's apparent lack of consideration for cropping in its Development Planning Amendment for Wind Farms, which came into effect in October last year.It enables washer extractor to communicate with chemical pumping machines.
"The reality is,Modern dry cleaning machine uses non-water-based solvents to remove soil and stains from clothes every other wind farm is in windswept grazing areas, or up on the top of ridges where farmers don't actually crop," he said.
"The Ceres Project is the first of its kind in a high value cropping area." The DPA removes the right of appeal for third parties situated more than two kilometres from a turbine.
Mr Ridgway says concerns about air turbulence and spray drift should have been addressed. He said it was "alarming" because off-target spraying created issues of liability, particularly in the case of herbicides and pesticides.
"If I'm spraying on my property and it drifts onto your property, then I'm liable," he said. "But if I'm spraying and doing everything right, and the turbulence of the turbines drifts it somewhere else, then how do you prove it?
"Wind farms are all about the location and putting them where they have minimal impact.Six panel tracking system delivers more energy from skystream."
Greens MLC and committee member Mark Parnell said he wanted real evidence that turbines in agricultural areas created problems for neighbouring farmers.
"I imagine that there probably is some impact, but when I say evidence, I don't want to hear people say 'we can't aerially spray within 500 metres of a turbine', only to find out they never aerially sprayed anyway," he said.
"Rather than look at hypothetical concerns, let's look at real concerns on the ground."
Mr Parnell pointed to claims made that firefighting would be hindered on the YP as a result of the Ceres Project, only to have the Country Fire Service later tell the committee that it was not concerned.
A spokesperson for the Department of Planning, Transport and Infrastructure said the Ceres proposal was under consideration by the Independent Development Assessment Commission and did not expect a decision until "later this year".
Regional Community Consultative Council chairman Peter Blacker, Port Lincoln, told a parliamentary inquiry on Monday that turbines would prevent aerial spraying on adjacent land and the land they sit on, and create spraydrift problems for tractors as a result of air turbulence.
This included the Ceres Project on the mid-Yorke Peninsula where a proposal for 199 turbines on 36 different properties resulted in widespread community opposition and rejection by the District Council of YP.
"There are plenty of areas in South Australia that would provide good wind farm locations," Mr Blacker said.A letter folding machine is a piece of equipment which is designed to fold paper.
"The West Coast for example, and the Eyre Peninsula, where there have been few complaints because turbines are located on cliffs,All the personnel that deal with our industrial washing machine servicing are dedicated to the service department. or high mountains, and not high production agricultural areas.
"I just can't believe those guidelines would go out without taking that into consideration, and I'd like to think they'd rethink their position."
Select Committee on Wind Farm Developments in SA chairman David Ridgway said he was equally surprised by the State Government's apparent lack of consideration for cropping in its Development Planning Amendment for Wind Farms, which came into effect in October last year.It enables washer extractor to communicate with chemical pumping machines.
"The reality is,Modern dry cleaning machine uses non-water-based solvents to remove soil and stains from clothes every other wind farm is in windswept grazing areas, or up on the top of ridges where farmers don't actually crop," he said.
"The Ceres Project is the first of its kind in a high value cropping area." The DPA removes the right of appeal for third parties situated more than two kilometres from a turbine.
Mr Ridgway says concerns about air turbulence and spray drift should have been addressed. He said it was "alarming" because off-target spraying created issues of liability, particularly in the case of herbicides and pesticides.
"If I'm spraying on my property and it drifts onto your property, then I'm liable," he said. "But if I'm spraying and doing everything right, and the turbulence of the turbines drifts it somewhere else, then how do you prove it?
"Wind farms are all about the location and putting them where they have minimal impact.Six panel tracking system delivers more energy from skystream."
Greens MLC and committee member Mark Parnell said he wanted real evidence that turbines in agricultural areas created problems for neighbouring farmers.
"I imagine that there probably is some impact, but when I say evidence, I don't want to hear people say 'we can't aerially spray within 500 metres of a turbine', only to find out they never aerially sprayed anyway," he said.
"Rather than look at hypothetical concerns, let's look at real concerns on the ground."
Mr Parnell pointed to claims made that firefighting would be hindered on the YP as a result of the Ceres Project, only to have the Country Fire Service later tell the committee that it was not concerned.
A spokesperson for the Department of Planning, Transport and Infrastructure said the Ceres proposal was under consideration by the Independent Development Assessment Commission and did not expect a decision until "later this year".
Campaigners fear open season on wind farms
CAMPAIGNERS behind a heavily supported petition on wind turbines have
accused the Scottish Government of failing to protect the area in new
guidelines.
New national planning framework proposals outline 43 areas across Scotland that should be shielded from wind turbine developments, with nowhere in Aberdeenshire or Moray included.
Paul Scrivin and Jim Bayne, who were part of a delegation which presented the petition with 1,740 signatures to Aberdeenshire Council calling for a minimum distance to be defined between a turbine development and the nearest home, are concerned the area is not included.
Mr Scrivin told the Banffshire Journal: "The proposals are notable for their absence of any reference to individuals or the rural community. These are the people who are most affected by the turbines."
The purpose of our petition was to protect them from having a turbine virtually on their doorstep by seeking a reasonable minimum distance between any turbine and the nearest dwelling.
What we need are strict rules on the minimum distance from dwellings to protect the health and wellbeing of residents.
"The latest draft proposals are no more than smoke and mirrors.Modern dry cleaning machine uses non-water-based solvents to remove soil and stains from clothes Most of the proposed protected areas such as the national parks are already protected."
Scottish National Heritage (SNH) has published a new map showing the main areas of wild land in Scotland which should be protected. The majority are in the Highlands and Islands, including Torridon, the Monadhliath Mountains, Cape Wrath and the Cuillins. The designations total approximately 20 per cent of Scotland's land mass.
Wild land is an incredibly valuable asset for Scotland,All the personnel that deal with our industrial washing machine servicing are dedicated to the service department. making an important contribution to our tourism industry because images of wild places also help support Scotland's worldwide reputation as a beautiful and impressive country,Six panel tracking system delivers more energy from skystream." said Andrew Bachell, SNH director of operations.
"Our new map will enable planners and developers to take account of wild land, particularly in planning future wind farm and any other large scale developments."
Mr Bayne's concerns included that the message the map gave to wind turbine developers was that Aberdeenshire and Moray were open season for them.
He added: "The fact that there are no protected areas in Aberdeenshire indicates that the Scottish Government either thinks there are no places in Aberdeenshire worth protecting; it does not understand or care about the impact of close turbines on individuals and rural communities; or they think that with having so many SNP politicians and councillors in Aberdeenshire they can do what they like here."
Inevitably, the government will commission a poll to show that most people support its proposals.It enables washer extractor to communicate with chemical pumping machines.
"However, as the critical densities are in the cities of Glasgow, Edinburgh, Dundee and Aberdeen, you don't need an expensive poll to tell you the answer.A letter folding machine is a piece of equipment which is designed to fold paper. Perhaps the question should be: 'Would you like a turbine at the bottom of your garden?'"
Industry body Scottish Renewables has dismissed claims that it would lead to "open season" and said there were other protection measures in place to guard against the unsuitable siting of turbines.
New national planning framework proposals outline 43 areas across Scotland that should be shielded from wind turbine developments, with nowhere in Aberdeenshire or Moray included.
Paul Scrivin and Jim Bayne, who were part of a delegation which presented the petition with 1,740 signatures to Aberdeenshire Council calling for a minimum distance to be defined between a turbine development and the nearest home, are concerned the area is not included.
Mr Scrivin told the Banffshire Journal: "The proposals are notable for their absence of any reference to individuals or the rural community. These are the people who are most affected by the turbines."
The purpose of our petition was to protect them from having a turbine virtually on their doorstep by seeking a reasonable minimum distance between any turbine and the nearest dwelling.
What we need are strict rules on the minimum distance from dwellings to protect the health and wellbeing of residents.
"The latest draft proposals are no more than smoke and mirrors.Modern dry cleaning machine uses non-water-based solvents to remove soil and stains from clothes Most of the proposed protected areas such as the national parks are already protected."
Scottish National Heritage (SNH) has published a new map showing the main areas of wild land in Scotland which should be protected. The majority are in the Highlands and Islands, including Torridon, the Monadhliath Mountains, Cape Wrath and the Cuillins. The designations total approximately 20 per cent of Scotland's land mass.
Wild land is an incredibly valuable asset for Scotland,All the personnel that deal with our industrial washing machine servicing are dedicated to the service department. making an important contribution to our tourism industry because images of wild places also help support Scotland's worldwide reputation as a beautiful and impressive country,Six panel tracking system delivers more energy from skystream." said Andrew Bachell, SNH director of operations.
"Our new map will enable planners and developers to take account of wild land, particularly in planning future wind farm and any other large scale developments."
Mr Bayne's concerns included that the message the map gave to wind turbine developers was that Aberdeenshire and Moray were open season for them.
He added: "The fact that there are no protected areas in Aberdeenshire indicates that the Scottish Government either thinks there are no places in Aberdeenshire worth protecting; it does not understand or care about the impact of close turbines on individuals and rural communities; or they think that with having so many SNP politicians and councillors in Aberdeenshire they can do what they like here."
Inevitably, the government will commission a poll to show that most people support its proposals.It enables washer extractor to communicate with chemical pumping machines.
"However, as the critical densities are in the cities of Glasgow, Edinburgh, Dundee and Aberdeen, you don't need an expensive poll to tell you the answer.A letter folding machine is a piece of equipment which is designed to fold paper. Perhaps the question should be: 'Would you like a turbine at the bottom of your garden?'"
Industry body Scottish Renewables has dismissed claims that it would lead to "open season" and said there were other protection measures in place to guard against the unsuitable siting of turbines.
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