27th October 2010

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Commercial Scale CETO Unveiled

Wave Energy developer Carnegie Wave Energy Limited (ASX:CWE) unveiled a key component of its commercial scale CETO 3 unit in Perth today. Once deployed, Carnegie’s CETO 3 will be the first commercial wave energy unit operating in Australia.

Carnegie’s Managing Director, Dr Michael Ottaviano, revealed the CETO CETO unit’s buoyant actuator (BA) at Henderson south of Perth. The CETO 3 BA is a key component of the complete CETO commercial scale system that will begin its onshore and offshore test program within weeks.
Carnegie’s CETO technology is capable of generating zero-emission power and desalinated freshwater. CETO 3 is Australia’s first commercial scale wave energy unit and the buoyant actuator is the CETO technology’s energy collection system.

The successful completion of the CETO 3 testing process will allow Carnegie to proceed with its first grid-connected commercial wave power project and deliver Carnegie its first revenues from power sales. This will then be followed by the roll out of CETO projects at the most prospective sites internationally and in Australia.
Dr Ottaviano said, “The increased attention being paid to wave power internationally combined with the increasing global demand for clean energy and freshwater makes our team’s efforts here off Perth timely.
The first step in the CETO 3 test program is the individual component testing that ensures that each component has met its design specification. This is followed by component assembly and system integration tests onshore, and then finally offshore deployment and operational testing off Garden Island.

Every aspect of Carnegie’s CETO 3 program has a high level of novelty from the detailed system design to its manufacture and deployment. Even ensuring that the CETO 3 unit is designed not just to operate well but that it is easy to deploy and retrieve is important and is something that we will likely test. We are confident that CETO 3 will perform as expected.”

The Western Australian Government is supporting Carnegie’s Perth Wave Energy project with a Government grant of $12.5 million.

TED ideas worth spreading

Innovating to zero! Bill Gates on TED.com

At TED2010, Bill Gates unveils his vision for the world's energy future, describing the need for "miracles" to avoid planetary catastrophe and explaining why he's backing a dramatically different type of nuclear reactor. The necessary goal? Zero carbon emissions globally by 2050.

Jamie Oliver engaged in the the process of sustainability

Quote, "I wish for everyone to help create a strong, sustainable movement to educate every child about food inspire families to cook again and empower people everywhere to fight obesity."
Jamie Oliver

This is our future.

Could we adopt this across the whole planet. This is true sustainability

Willie Smits long ago abandoned the customary role of the microbiologist. After working in the Indonesian rainforest for three decades (and marrying a tribal queen), he has taken it upon himself to regrow the delicate ecosystems ravaged by ruthless forestry, and invent a hi-tech system for harvesting sustainable ethanol from sugar palms (without even cutting down the plant, or "harvesting its organs," as he puts it).

Indonesia is now the world's third-largest emitter of greenhouse gasses and the largest producer of palm oil, a dubious substance that ends up as ethanol and cheap food additives. Smits' alternative not only produces sustainable ethanol, but dries food, pumps out clean energy and water, and offers satellite telecommunications to local farmers.

From: Tree Hugger a Discovery Company

The future of public transport

This an email sent to me from Kjell Dahlström after I made enquiries about the pod car that is been developed in Sewden. Kjell is the driving force behind the pod car.

A full story will be published in the About Poeple newsletter out mid February 2010

Dear Ian,
I hope you have found www.podcar.org. It is the homepage of Institute for Sustainable Transportation IST and "Kompass", municipalities which want to develop podcar systems within their realm.

These organisations have developed in Sweden but have made the leap to USA and the international scene. The international conferences have been arranged for 3 years in a row now and the whole business is very promising with the orders frpm Masdar in Abu Dahbi, Heathrow in London and Suncheon on the southern tip of Korea. In Sweden the government is preparing for a pioneering project track in one of our 100.000 inh. towns outside Stockholm or Uppsala.

Close to your e-mail I got a new contact from Moscow, Sergey Prokhorenko, with a PhD from Australia in Economics and on-going work there. He has developed "Sky-Taxi" which is estimated by Jerry Schneider in Seattle, USA, being a very promising concept.
So you see, this is now a global network of interest and concern, not to mention Nice, France, Sao Paolo, Brazil, and New Delhi, India, projects!

Resistance shown comes mainly from vested interests in other modes of transportation. I could write100 pages on these types of reactions but it isn´t worth the time to do it.

Costs for podcar systems are initially calculated to 10 million USD per kilometer as an international average, including cars, stops, parking and maintenance facilities. I launched the concept of a General Transport System, GTS, in my state agency SIKA 2006. In 2008
we made a full study on business and social economies of such a system and it prooves to be profitable. Other research institutions, in UK, the Netherlands and USA have found the same results.

Many of my colleages present PRT or podcars as public transport. In GTS we consider podcars to be a cross-over between ordinary cars and public transit in all its forms. This creates a much more dynamic
approach to the need of new concepts for the future of transportation. See our film Bubbles and Beams on my page or on You Tube. Reflect on the details of what you see and you can grasp the potential!