Free Green Tech » News http://blog.freegreentech.org From freedom comes sustainability - Green Tech The Open Source way - Green Life Innovators Thu, 05 Jan 2012 23:12:28 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 The world’s first osmotic power plant prototype opened in Norway http://blog.freegreentech.org/2009/12/14/the-worlds-first-osmotic-power-plant-prototype-opened-in-norway/ http://blog.freegreentech.org/2009/12/14/the-worlds-first-osmotic-power-plant-prototype-opened-in-norway/#comments Mon, 14 Dec 2009 00:13:48 +0000 webmaster http://blog.green-life-innovators.org/?p=606 The world’s first prototype of a power plant that utilizes osmosis to produce electric power was recently opened in Norway, by the state owned power company Statkraft. It is indeed a prototype, in the sense that it produces a rather limited amount of electric power, but a full scale plant is planned to be [...]]]>

The world’s first prototype of a power plant that utilizes osmosis to produce electric power was recently opened in Norway, by the state owned power company Statkraft. It is indeed a prototype, in the sense that it produces a rather limited amount of electric power, but a full scale plant is planned to be in place during the year 2015

You can see videos about it here

www.youtube.com/watch?v=JYhvR1CO99I

..here..

www.youtube.com/watch?v=BtI068ppuUs

..and here..

www.youtube.com/watch?v=YZV86xqELNc

And read more about in on Statkraft’s own pageFurther reading:

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]]> http://blog.freegreentech.org/2009/12/14/the-worlds-first-osmotic-power-plant-prototype-opened-in-norway/feed/ 0 Save the wood burning stove for rainy days http://blog.freegreentech.org/2009/06/18/save-the-wood-burning-stove-for-rainy-days/ http://blog.freegreentech.org/2009/06/18/save-the-wood-burning-stove-for-rainy-days/#comments Thu, 18 Jun 2009 10:34:29 +0000 webmaster http://blog.green-life-innovators.org/?p=282 Today CNN has an article about Dean Still and the Aprovecho Research Center, who have won a $65,000 eco award for a cleaner wood burning stove. From the picture in the article it looks like the stove is based on the rocket stove principle.

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Today CNN has an article about Dean Still and the Aprovecho Research Center, who have won a $65,000 eco award for a cleaner wood burning stove. From the picture in the article it looks like the stove is based on the rocket stove principle.

Such a stove will undoubtedly, reduce indoor air pollution from cooking over an open fire, a big health problem in developing countries.. But may I still suggest that they save the stove for rainy days. In places with a lot of sunshine a simple solar cooker will be the best device for cooking on the days when the weather is nice, since it requires no firewood or fuel at all.

You could also combine the solar cooker and the stove with a, so called, heat retention cooker. A heat retention cooker is also called a hay basket. Most of the people who ever were boy or girl scouts have probably used one.

Links
Teaching 3D cooking in the Philippines
Aprovecho Research Center
Wikipedia article on rocket stoves
Integrated solar cooking

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