Contribute to the Movenergy Campaign Crowdfunding Palm oil mills are in an enviable position to harness enormous amounts of renewable energy with high efficiency, the potential which remains largely unrealised, palm oil expert Krishna Moorthy says. An abundance of renewable energy can be utilised optimally within the palm oil mill to supply heat energy for industries and excess electricity generated for rural electrification or the grid. A typical 60 tonnes per hour palm oil mill will be easily able to export 5 MW electricity to…

  For many people contemplating producing their own electricity supply by micro-generation, part of the attraction is the possibility of exporting any surplus to the national grid. The National Grid Confusingly, exporting electricity to the grid does not actually involve selling it to the National Grid itself – one of the largest utilities in the world, which owns the high-voltage transmission system in England and Wales and operates the system across Britain. Instead, supplying the grid with surplus power requires you to sell it to…

Because we are convinced that biomass is an important part of a renewable energy mix, we were looking for a small scale, decentralized power generation system for people who life off the grid or want to net meter back to the grid. Decentralized facilities have a lower carbon footprint for harvesting and transportation of biomass fuel, compared to the large scale centralized facilities. With rapidly rising costs for hydro, it also could be a lucrative sideline for farmers or light industrial businesses. It is the most competitive renewable energy you can get compared to PV, Wind or other renewable energy sources.…

NASA   See full coverage In the West, sustainability often means a better light bulb, or a new lithium-ion battery in an electric car, or a smarter way of powering all the appliances we’ve long since grown dependent on. The fate of global sustainability, however, is ultimately tied to the billion-plus people worldwide who still have no electricity at all. In the coming decades, we have to figure out how to rein in energy use as a planet – while ramping up alternative sources of…

FUEL SOURCES: Fuel, Methane, Landfills Gas, Oil/Gas, Syngas, Waste Oil, Natural Gas, Gasogene, Mazout, Biomass Gasifier, Fuel+Water Overview The GEK TOTTI ( Gasifier Experimenter’s Kit, Tower of Total Thermal Integration ) is the gasifier system at the heart of the Power Pallet. This document will introduce the major subsystems of the GEK TOTTI gasifier in the sequence that starts from the feedstock hopper, proceeding through the drying bucket and reactor, and ends with the gas filter. Notes about nomenclature and terms The following are some…