The Reference Library

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Categories:

Batteries    Biofuels    Coal-to-liquids    Cogeneration    Conservation    Demand-side management    Energy (general)    Fuel cells    Vehicles    Waste (utilization)    Wind

This is a collection of links and other info for reference on energy matters.  Sources cited in Ergosphere postings will (or ought to be) listed here.  Submissions by mail, please.

Batteries

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Biofuels

Corn stover collection project
Grass biofuel pellets
PowerPoint presentation on bio-ethanol (1.3 billion tons/year of waste biomass for fuel, p. 29)
Detailed presentation on biofuels (ethanol yield figures for woody biomass in table 2-3)

Coal-to-liquids

Detailed analysis of the merits of direct vs. indirect coal liquefaction. Includes:

• Plant efficiencies for DCL and ICL systems.
• Greenhouse gas and other emissions from different fuel cycles.
• Heavy-metal scavenging from ICL syngas.

Cogeneration

Climate Energy LLC, developer of domestic cogen systems.
Primary Energy, developing industrial cogen systems.

Conservation

General:

(tba)

Tax incentives:

Simply Insulate:  Tax info made easy.  Major information for existing homes, data for new homes not present (the site claims that IRS regulations are not available yet).

Tax Incentives Assistance Project:  Runs the gamut from new and existing residential to business to vehicles.

Department of Energy:  the horse's mouth.

Demand-side management

University of Delaware Vehicle-to-grid page.

Energy (general)

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Fuel cells

Direct Carbon Fuel Cells:
    John Cooper presentation
    DCFC workshop presentations

Zinc-air fuel cells:
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Vehicles

Vehicle efficiency table (source)

University of Delaware Vehicle-to-grid page.

Waste (utilization)

Changing World Technology

• Conversion efficiencies

Wind

AWEA press release on 2005 wind installations
NREL National Wind Technology Center
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