EnviroEnergy

By looking at the environment as a series of interconnected systems, Holistic Management is changing how we think about soil, climate and carbon mitigation through grasslands restoration. Using low tech and ecologically viable methods, tens of millions of acres of degraded soils around the world are being restored to healthy, biodiverse ecosystems by modifying grazing patterns on fragile land. By accessing degraded lands for selective livestock grazing, Holistic Management is also helping to sequester carbon, hold water, and create sustainable economies for local farmers.

Using large amounts of organic based waste, primarily landfill-bound waste wood from commercial construction sites, Ze-Gen has developed a closed loop, single step gasification system that turns carbon based wastes into synthetic gas products, or syngas. This syngas is a mixture of carbon monoxide and hydrogen gas, easily converted to diesel fuel. Syngas is an ideal, cleaner burning replacement for fossil fuels in conventional combined heat & power units and power generation systems.

The world’s largest wind turbine is now the Enercon E-126. This turbine has a rotor diameter of 126 meters (413 feet). The E-126 is a more sophisticated version of the E-112, formerly the world’s largest wind turbine and rated at 6 megawatts. This new turbine is officially rated at 6 megawatts too, but will most likely produce 7+ megawatts (or 20 million kilowatt hours per year). That’s enough to power about 5,000 households of four in Europe. A quick US calculation would be 938 kwh per home per month, enough 1776 American homes on one wind turbine.

Using the intense, year round sun of the Mojave desert, Brightsource Energy has developed the largest solar array in the United States. The Ivanpah Solar Power Complex will be located in Ivanpah, approximately 50 miles northwest of Needles, California, and about five miles from the California-Nevada border. The complex will be a 5-square mile facility (3900 acres) within the 25,000-square mile Mojave Desert and will generate enough electricity to power 140,000 homes and reduce carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions by more than 500,000 tons per year.