Biomasud, development of biomass energy

Yesterday we present in Erenovable project HIBRELEC, carried out the CIEMAT. Now you want to comment on other associated project: BIOMASUD. The full title of this undertaking is "BIOMASUD: mechanisms of recovery and sustainability of solid biomass in the SUDOE space market".
The purpose of this undertaking is the final launch of biomass as a sustainable energy model.


Funding for the project are almost EUR 1 million, and have been provided by the programme of Territorial cooperation in the European southwest area (interreg iv-sudoe). Implementation of Biomasud will be held in different stages which searches for:

analyze the quality and sustainability of the use of solid biomass, particularly pellets and astillasestablecer parameters defining the qualities of of producto.potenciar the development of solid biomass according to the possibilities of each country in particular.aportar sustainability to energy model based on biomass.


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The solar energy and the development of rural communities in India

The solar goes beyond of megaprojects, also offers the promise of decentralized supply, and therefore put the power of production in the hands of those who have traditionally been out of the equation. Because this is happening with solar in the India. Many rural communities in economic disadvantage are giving for ones with the power grid and turning toward the Sun as energysource.

The Mission Solar India is a very positive purpose to install 20 GW of solar energy in the next decade. And while there was some murmurs of discontent which claimed that the program was anti-pobres and anti-democratic, nowadays that is changing the lives of many people in rural areas.

There are those who believe that it could generate a technological and economic revolution not unlike what happened with the popularization of mobile phones, since people - tired of waiting years for a landline - turned en masse by the mobile. The time will show if indeed - hopefully, something similar happens with solar at India.




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Significant progress in the development of custom systems for energy

The news comes from Boston, where an important research undertaken by Dr. Daniel Nocera, the MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), team has presented us. The result of their studies us closer to an era in which dominate the Custom energy systems on which the houses private and small shops will produce its own energy for heating, cooling, and load your car battery.

Discovery focuses on the development of a new and powerful catalyst that has simplified greatly efficiency and viability of the Energy systems custom. Your application could allow in the future that the houses and shops are independent companies of electricity and petrol stations.The Group of researchers from the Dr. Nocera aims to develop these individual energy units that can be produced, distributed and installed at a low cost.

The biggest obstacle in this project is that the existing fuel cells and solar cells must be improved, but trust that in the short term this can be achieved. Custom energy System based on solar roofs that produce the energy to supply housing and the vehicle family.

The surplus of energy produced in this way is accumulated in a "electrolizador", a device that divides the ordinary water into its two components: hydrogen and oxygen. During the night, solar energy is supplanted by that occurs with collected a fuel cell that produces electricity from hydrogen and oxygen.

This System promises abastacer entirely of energy housing 24 hours, day and night.But there are certain parts of this system which was not available: as it is the electrolyzer catalyst to produce oxygen.And this is precisely what developed MIT team. Catalyst license was granted to Sun Catalytix, who expect to develop highly efficient versions of the electrolyzer adaptable to small businesses and households within two years.

 

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