Developments
Energy
"miracle"
to go commercial
Bill
Gates believes the most important innovation required to avoid climate
change will be a way of producing electricity that is cheaper than coal
and that emits no greenhouse gases.
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“We do not do miracles”, says Managing Director, Dr Louis Arnoux. “We
simply do rigorous science, solid engineering and robust market
intelligence. It has been hard work over the last 11 years, often in
precarious conditions. However, we now have a solution thatdelivers on
what Bill Gates and increasingly many others call for in the wake of the
failed Copenhagen Climate Change Summit,” Dr Arnoux says. |
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Read the full press release
http://www.indranet.co.nz/news/ also see
Info
News
Tree Huggers
Scoop
NZ
Stuff.co.nz |
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Two Items Putting EMPHASIS on DISTRIBUTED POWER GENERATION
Distributed energy is a term that describes technologies and systems
which provide local generation of electrical power (distributed generation),
energy efficiency and management of when and how energy is used (demand
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February 2010 LAUNCH OF BLOOM ENERGY
Source
- The Bloom Box is a mini power plant based on fuel cell
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4 March 2010 Ceramic Fuel Cells
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INDUSTRY NEWS
CSIRO predicts huge market for Distributed Generation
The Australian Government research organisation, CSIRO, has released a detailed
study of the value proposition for distributed energy in Australia.
The study estimates the value of wide-scale uptake of distributed energy in
Australia could be worth as much as A$130 billion in today's money by 2050.
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Distributed - What does it mean in this context? Instead of producing and/or managing the supply
of goods or services from a central point or base (such as a central power
station, a central factory, a central telecom exchange) distributed systems
produce them locally, closer to end-users or even on customer premises.
Distributed system make intense use of networks, in particular the Internet,
to manage their operations and achieve high levels of efficiency and
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IndraNet Technologies Prospectus
has been released on 22 February 2010
- CLOSES 30 March 2010.
This provides details of developments
which will enable “green”
energy, more affordable than fossil fuel generated electricity…
Through its revolutionary new
nGen
Systems technology, which when networked with
IndraNet Minder will form new
Intelligent Power Networks IPN's (next generation of Smart Grids)
IndraNet
Prospectus Click Here |
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Patents for IndraNet Mesh
Networking Technology
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IndraNet
have Patents
in following countries:
Australia, India, Israel, Indonesia, Mexico, North Korea,
South Korea, Malaysia, New Zealand, Norway, Ukraine, South
Africa, Singapore, Turkey, United States of America, Vietnam,
Eurasia the Russian Federation including Turkmenistan, Belarus,
Tajikistan, Russia, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Armenia
and Moldova.
Patents Pending
in: Brazil,
Canada,
Hong Kong, Israel, Japan and Sri
Lanka, European Patent
Office (Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech
Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland,
Ireland, Israel, Italy, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg,
Macedonia, Malta, Monaco, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, San Marino,
Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, United Kingdom)
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IndraNet has successfully
completed testing program,
achieving stability of the FraMe test mesh network in
Christchurch, New Zealand.
NEWS -
IndraNet has successfully completed testing program, achieving
stability of the
FraMe test mesh network in Christchurch, New
Zealand.
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with over 1 Mb/s and up to 3 Mb/s symmetrical
bandwidth,
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very low latencies,
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guaranteed bandwidth,
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highly scalable,
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multiplicity of independent parallel uses,
and
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highly secure.
When they began, 11 years ago, there were about a
dozen teams world-wide working in this domain. Most have fallen
by the way side after several hundred million dollars of
expenditure. IndraNet have achieved success with less than $20
million of funding. Their technology is globally patented. They
are now working to expand capacity to over 5 Mb/s based on new
hardware.
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| Development and integration of the FraMe Network in Christchurch, New
Zealand |
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| Minders being made ready
for installation |
Aerial being
adjusted
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Australia's Cap and Trade Plans Crash and Burn
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 Australia
the nation with the highest per capita emissions in the developed world won't
see legislation to reign in greenhouse gases anytime soon.Sounds sorta familiar, doesn't it--coal interests getting in
the way of major legislation to fight climate change? Coal is huge in
Australia--the country is the 4th largest producer of the stuff in the world,
and is the source of 85% of its electricity. So it doesn't come as much of a
surprise that coal interests succeeded in obstructing the passage of a carbon
trading scheme.
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Former Holden Chief's Grim
Warning
Buy an LPG car now or get used to walking. That's
the warning you would have heard issued on Radio Australia yesterday.
Not by some greenie or "Peak Oil" nut. No, this prediction comes, amazingly
enough, from
former advanced engineering chief at
General Motors Holden, Professor Laurie Spark. He's
the latest industry insider that's joined the argument we've been making for the
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Australia is about to face an energy crunch that will dwarf the oil
crises of the 1970s. |
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Professor Sparke says when the global economic downturn is over, demand for oil
is going to far
outstrip supply and prices will go through the roof. "As
soon as the countries that use large amounts of oil for their industry - China,
India, Japan, USA - recover, demand will exceed supply," he said. "There are signs already that the economy in China is starting to pick up and
Japan's picking up, and already this year we've seen the price of oil double
from January to July. So my expectation is within the next five years, we're
going to have trouble." Some think
trouble could come much sooner.
The issue is deceptively simple. Australia's
reliance on foreign oil will increase two thirds by 2015. But the amount
of foreign oil on the market is projected to shrink by 25% within three
years. That's critical. But it's not the core of the problem |
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What really keeps us awake at night is
the fact that Canberra has no policy
in place to deal with what's about to happen. How will this crisis unfold? |
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New
Zealand is in a similar position where the Government has no policy for the
coming peak oil and end of cheap oil.
In a collapsing post-oil world, what
chance would there be for our re-supply oil tankers making it past Papua
New Guinea or even Tasmania? A sharp reassessment of the true cost of
oil would hurt us anyway. Nowhere is harder to reach by ship or plane,
so an era of permanently higher fuel prices could devastate our tourist
industry, cripple our food exports.
Read Full article from The Press, Christchurch,
NZ - 11 July, 2009
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According to IndraNet Technologies Annual
Report 2009 quote the following:-
"Last year, we reported on
the benefits of working with the
Open Source Community to allow us to concentrate on our core technology concerns and
expertise. We also reported how some of our work had been published, in
particular how to select transmission data rates optimised automatically for use
in a Wireless Metropolitan Area network. The code we
contributed as part of that has now been accepted as being a core part of the
Wireless support of the Linux kernel and is now as a result being used worldwide
as a default methodology for this. The benefits of this to IndraNet
are quite many and varied due to the co-operative nature of this area of
endeavour." |
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