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Riggs Eckelberry of Origin Oil discusses his company’s technology solution for producing fuels from algae. Ben Lack Give me a brief history about OriginOil. Riggs Eckelberry OriginOil was launched in 2007. My background was in the high-tech industry for many years, but early on in the 1990s, my brother Nicholas and I wanted to do…
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3rd April 2012: Fleming Gulf will be organizing Heavy Oil & Oil Sands Summit on 26-27 September in Manama, Bahrain under the patronage of His Excellency Dr. Abdul-Hussain Bin Ali Mirza, Minister of Energy & Chairman of National Oil & Gas Authority, Bahrain. His Excellency Dr. Abdul-Hussain Bin Ali Mirza will be personally coming and…
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So much of what’s discussed in offices these days – and forever really – focuses on this: What’s best for the company? How do we increase profits? That’s totally understandable, given that a primary responsibility of any for-profit enterprise is to benefit its owners and investors. Still, as individuals, and I would argue, as…
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Apple has just confirmed that they are building a 4.8 MW fuel cell farm for their data center in Maiden, North Carolina. 24 units of Bloom’s Energy Servers will be added to their existing 20 MW solar farm, which together will power the data center where information from iCloud and the voice-recognition software Siri is…
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The electric industry is good at building things. That’s how it solves problems. Is there a threat of blackouts? Develop a new natural gas-fired plant. Worried about climate change? Build wind and solar power. Does electricity cost too much? Install a transmission line to import cheaper power. But build-to-solve represents only half of the equation…
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The future of energy and the Smart Grid is dependent on smarter buildings that use disruptive technologies such as energy storage and building automation to be more efficient. Demand on our power grid continues to rise. Last summer, the East Coast experienced a massive heat wave that set record high temperatures in multiple states and…
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Business Intelligence is not a new concept to utilities, as the analysis of data is as entrenched in every utility as the concept of providing safe, reliable and affordable power. However, the unique challenge facing utilities today is that there is exponentially more data, from more advanced sources, and dispersed to many more functional…
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Manny Oliver, Director of the Small Business Innovation Research & Small Business Technology Transfer Programs for the Department of Energy, discusses the objectives of these programs and how companies can apply for funding. Full transcript: Ben Lack: What does the SBIR do and how can businesses get funding from your program? Manny Oliver: Small businesses submit…
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GE’s Turbines Surpass 2 Million Fired Hours on Low Carbon-Intensity Fuels GE’s fleet of 47 heavy duty gas turbines operating on low British thermal unit (BTU) fuels has accumulated more than 2 million fired hours. Low BTU have significantly less heating values than natural gas. Examples include syngas, steel mill gases and dilute natural gas, which are…