Zero Carbon Wind Energy Corp.

Zero Carbon has access rights to the new Sterling Accelerator Turbine (SAT), a design which promises to be 200%-300% more capital efficient than current generation turbines, making wind power the world's most cost competitive energy source.  Potentially heralding a quantum leap forward for the economics of harnessing clean renewable energy.

Smaller overall accelerator turbine swept area with smaller diameter, higher efficiency blades will typically make at least twice the power of a conventional turbine.
 

Net energy payback of the total energy used in the Accelerator turbine materials and its construction is only around 3-6 months!

The entire world is in need to better develop use of nature's gifts, as we will always have the wind and the sun, however we will NOT always have oil and gas.

 

We need 100% renewable energy by 2020" a statement made at the European Wind Energy Conference recently, and indeed we can now have 100% renewable energy at a cheaper price than fossil fuels.

 

The rapid development in wind power design is staggering and outstanding, however we believe, we are at the very forefront. Simply put, we have designed a turbine, that is: THREE times more powerful; HALF the cost; and HALF of the size of anything produced today !

 

It will operate in lower & higher wind speeds, outside the limitations of present day three-blade wind turbines.  It's simplicity makes it the way of the future, saving taxpayers millions of millions of euros/pounds/dollars, yet advancing our mutual goal, of producing plentiful natural carbon free energy for the whole world.

 

These new accelerator turbines will operate very effectively at lower ambient wind speeds by accelerating ambient wind speed by at least 250% into new smaller high-speed turbine blades.  Thus we can now open new geographic slower-speed areas to wind turbine use, such as the class 3, Great Lakes Area of the US, (only 14-17mph average wind speed).  As well as significantly lower the cost of producing electricity from wind resources everywhere.

Finally enough free clean wind power can be captured at a much lower capital cost to solve the entire worlds energy supply problems, bolster most countries clean energy security and meet climate-change emissions-reductions goals.

Zero Carbon proposes to transform the entire world's energy systems by building very-large  clean lower-cost accelerated-wind energy power plants around the world.

Zero Carbon is proposing nations and states conduct a "sustained and orderly build-out" of renewable accelerated wind energy capacity. As a result entire nations could get all of their required electricity from green power by 2040, providing complete green energy security for future generations and at a cheaper price than fossil fuels.

See the video on the new 200-300% more capital efficient wind Accelerating Turbine  HD Version 95mb.     Smaller version 20mb, mp4

Also on YouTube at; http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EBlbnt7HGT4

We would like to develop large projects in the world's slower wind speed regions.  Why, because we can speed up the ambient wind to make it more powerful.  Why do we do this?  Because raw wind power density increases rapidly with wind speed;  The power per square foot at 10 mph is 7 pounds, at 25 mph 43 pounds, at 50 mph 172 pounds, at 100 mph 688 pounds. So the faster the wind acting on turbine blades, the more power it produces.

The Urgent Need

World's energy use projected to increase 49 percent by 2035

The world needs to move at least 5,000GW of coal fired power stations to lower-cost, renewable energy over the next decade. 

The power generation industry will be hit harder than anyone from cap-and-trade climate legislation as it is a major carbon producer. There are concerns there will not be enough renewables available to power generators at reasonable costs.

An even greater demand for renewable clean power is going to come from the migration to a worldwide electric car fleet over the next 20 years .

The electric car is going to be only as environmentally clean as it's electrical power source.

Wind is One of the Cleanest Renewables;

When we look to other ways of making alternative energy, we often fail to realize that it takes four gallons of water to refine one gallon of bio-fuel.  It takes 2,500 gallons of water to grow enough corn to make one gallon of ethanol.

Wind power uses no precious water.  While wind energy costs are dropping, costs for competing power technologies – coal, nuclear and gas - are going up.

There is no possibility of the wind ever running out and Cartels find it difficult to control the wind.

Sterling Patent "Grid Parity Accelerator Turbine" will make forever wind power as cheap as Hydro Power.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Using Next-Generation Accelerator-Turbines will deliver superior financial returns than conventional 3 blade wind turbines.

 

With our patent wind power technology the capital cost is ¼ to 1/3rd that of a nuclear, coal or conventional wind plant…. And the fuel is free and forever.

Background information;

See; European Wind Power Report; OCEANS OF OPPORTUNITY OFFSHORE WIND REPORT .

The global oil industry is pulling what’s left of the conventional oil out of the early-discovered super-giant oil-fields and taking the gas too. When it comes to Peak Oil,  we’re already on the far side of the peak.

China expects to import TWICE as much oil as the United States within the next 15 years. Its rate of oil demand growth is already double the percentage demand growth worldwide.

Electric vehicles will have to be a large part of the oil-scarce energy future. The oil price is now over $80 and headed into a zone that destroys industrial economies, particularly the credit-based consumption economy in the U.S. The need to switch to indigenous renewable energy is becoming more urgent by the day.

SOLAR IS TOO EXPENSIVE; 

Solar just can't scale up at any sort of reasonable price;  Greentech Media reports that China currently has a solar capacity of a mere 140 megawatts but could reach a measly 1,400 megawatts by 2012. That is tiny.  Wind is more promising; there are already about 20,000 MW of installed wind capacity in China right now. That number will double to 40,000 MW by 2011... and it'll grow 875% to 195,000 MW by 2020.

Less and less political will exists to stick foist high-cost energy such as solar on hapless consumers. Solar can cost four times as much as conventional  electricity sources.  The cost of large-scale concentrated solar electricity (CST) is running about 50 to 70 cents a kilowatt hour. CST is not an economically viable power option for most of the world today.

"If a thousand people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing."   Chinese proverb

If China continues to make renewable energy investments, wind energy may be able to supply up to 50 percent of its electricity needs by 2030, according to a study by the Global World Energy Council.

The UK is launching a £100 billion ($161 billion) green power program when the government awards development contracts to build offshore wind farms, targeting about one third of UK’s energy coming from wind power by 2020, as it makes plans to cut emissions, reports Times Online.

The US is thinking about offshore wind but the current high costs make developments reliant on already overstretched consumers paying more money for less electricity.

The Massachusetts Cape Wind project will burden consumers with much higher electricity prices of over 20 cents/kW, due to the very high cost of conventional wind turbines proposed.

In New Jersey business face similar power cost increases;  "...NJ business interests expressed worry that the costs associated with building wind farms, projected as high as $7 billion over the next two decades, could raise the electric bills of commercial, industrial and residential customers in a state already burdened with some of the highest utility rates in the nation.   The primary obstacle of high end-user electricity price can be overcome with the advent of accelerating wind turbine technology.

Fossil fuel subsidies top $550bn and they are going away.

 

New:   IEA renewable Energy Roadmap Report Nov 2009

 

UK Report indicates potential for a massive 406 GW of wind power potential.

Water and Energy Production

A coal-fired power plant needs 520 gallons of water to produce one megawatt-hour of electricity. Add a carbon capture — which will soon be required on all plants — and the water requirement doubles to nearly 1,000 gallons per megawatt-hour.

We still get 50% of our electricity — in the terawatt-hour range — from coal, so you can imagine how much water those plants are consuming.
But that's just the beginning...

Oil shale extraction uses five barrels of water to get one barrel of oil.

Nuclear plants suck up more than 33 million gallons of water each day for cooling.

And it takes 2 billion gallons of water every day to refine just 800 million gallons of petroleum products.

Clean energy isn't immune either, though it is much more sustainable. Solar requires 30 gallons per megawatt-hour;

Wind has the lowest water usage; it requires just one gallon per megawatt-hour.

The U.S. Department of Energy has just released new estimates of the nation's wind energy potential. It's three times what the agency had estimated before.  Now, the department says the nation -- not counting Hawaii and Alaska -- could produce 37 million gigawatt hours of wind power annually. That nearly ten times the total power generated in the U.S. in 2009, which was four million gigawatt hours.

 

This is a huge clean energy business opportunity.  It’s estimated the world is going to be spending $45 trillion dollars in the next 45 years on clean energy plant.