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		<title>Un chorro de links sobre la situación ambiental en Guatemala</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Apr 2010 02:09:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Gracias a la Prensa Libre por sacar a la luz la situación pésima en la cual el país se encuentra: El país está en riesgo por daño ecológico, señala informe oficial El Gobierno pide perdón a la Tierra por los daños ambientales Falso perdón Presidente Colom anuncia plan para recuperar el parque Laguna del Tigre [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=quetsollife.org&amp;blog=11156798&amp;post=324&amp;subd=quetsolblog&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong>Gracias a la Prensa Libre por sacar a la luz la situación pésima en la cual el país se encuentra:</strong></p>
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<li><a href="http://prensalibre.com/noticias/Pais-riesgo-dano-ecologico_0_248975115.html" target="_blank">El país está en riesgo por daño ecológico, señala informe oficial</a></li>
<li><a href="http://prensalibre.com/noticias/Ambiente-refleja-severo-deterioro_0_248375364.html" target="_blank">El Gobierno pide perdón a la Tierra por los daños ambientales</a></li>
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<li><a href="http://prensalibre.com/noticias/politica/Colom-anuncia-recuperar-Laguna-Tigre_0_247775352.html" target="_blank">Presidente Colom anuncia plan para recuperar el parque Laguna del Tigre</a></li>
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		<title>Campesinos exigen respeto a la Tierra y rechazan actividad minera</title>
		<link>http://quetsollife.org/2010/04/24/campesinos-exigen-respeto-a-la-tierra-y-rechazan-actividad-minera/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Apr 2010 01:45:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Por medio de la Prensa Libre: &#8220;Unas ocho mil personas participaron en la caminata, que comenzó con una concentración en El Obelisco, a donde llegaron desde los municipios vecinos. Después de las 8 horas enfilaron hacia la Embajada de Canadá, en la diagonal 6, zona 10, para entregar un memorial en contra de la compañía [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=quetsollife.org&amp;blog=11156798&amp;post=322&amp;subd=quetsolblog&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://prensalibre.com/noticias/Campesinos-marchan-defensa-Tierra_0_248375383.html" target="_blank">Por medio de la Prensa Libre:</a></p>
<p>&#8220;Unas ocho mil personas participaron en la caminata, que comenzó con una concentración en El Obelisco, a donde llegaron desde los municipios vecinos.</p>
<p><strong>Después de las 8 horas enfilaron hacia la Embajada de Canadá, en la diagonal 6, zona 10, para entregar un memorial en contra de la compañía minera Goldcorp, que explota oro y plata en San Marcos, que en su opinión contamina las fuentes de agua.</strong></p>
<p>Luego se dirigieron hacia la Embajada de Estados Unidos, donde el jefe de la delegación, Stephen McFarland, salió al encuentro de los manifestantes en un gesto de cortesía, pero los dirigentes alzaron la voz para reprocharle que no necesitaban hablar con él para demandar que esa nación &#8220;deje de ejercer prácticas de intromisión en el país&#8221;.</p>
<p>Pero el diplomático siguió caminando hacia el final de la columna donde el grupo agradeció su presencia y el diplomático les expresó que los Estados Unidos respeta la libertad de expresión y de asociación y que trata de escuchar a sus críticos y no solo a quienes lo apoyan. Agregó: Estamos trabajando arduamente con otros socios para proteger el ambiente</p>
<p><strong>Poco después, en la misión diplomática de España, reclamaron por que la concesionaria Unión Fenosa, S.A. brinde un servicio de calidad y no imponga precios injustos en los 17 departamentos donde presta servicio.</strong></p>
<p><strong>A continuación, la columna siguió hasta el centro capitalino, donde demandó ante la Corte de Constitucionalidad (CC) el respeto a la consulta popular sobre proyectos mineros -que en todos los municipios donde se han celebrado desde 2005 han sido contrarios a esa actividad-, de la manera como lo establece el convenio 169 de la Organización Internacional del Trabajo.</strong></p>
<p><strong>La jornada terminó en la Plaza de la Constitución, donde los manifestantes demandaron al Gobierno acciones a favor de los campesinos, como el acceso a la tierra y el apoyo para producir, y reiteraron su rechazo a las actividades de hidroeléctricas y mineras.</strong></p>
<p>Entre tanto, la marcha generó atascos a lo largo del recorrido, lo que obligó a la Policía Municipal de Tránsito (PMT) a cortar el paso en diversas calles y avenidas.&#8221;</p>
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		<title>Panajachel regula manejo de desechos para proteger Lago de Atitlán</title>
		<link>http://quetsollife.org/2010/04/24/panajachel-regula-manejo-de-desechos-para-proteger-lago-de-atitlan/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Apr 2010 01:32:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Por medio de la Prensa Libre: Mantener limpio y en orden Panajachel será una &#8220;responsabilidad compartida&#8221; de vecinos, empresarios y las autoridades, según el Reglamento de Servicio Público de Limpieza, Recolección de Basura y Sanidad de ese municipio de Sololá, como parte de las medidas para mitigar los daños al Lago de Atitlán. El reglamento, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=quetsollife.org&amp;blog=11156798&amp;post=319&amp;subd=quetsolblog&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://prensalibre.com/noticias/Limpieza-Panajachel-tarea_0_248975211.html" target="_blank">Por medio de la Prensa Libre:</a></p>
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<h3><span style="font-weight:normal;">Mantener limpio y en orden Panajachel será una &#8220;responsabilidad compartida&#8221; de vecinos, empresarios y las autoridades, según el Reglamento de Servicio Público de Limpieza, Recolección de Basura y Sanidad de ese municipio de Sololá, como parte de las medidas para mitigar los daños al Lago de Atitlán.</span></h3>
<p>El reglamento, publicado este viernes establece los procedimientos para mantener el ornato en los domicilios, comercios y la vía pública.</p>
<p>En el caso de la vía pública, incluyendo la playa del lago, todos los vecinos, comerciantes y empresarios deberán limpiarla &#8220;diariamente&#8221;, mientras la municipalidad se encargará de recoger los desechos.</p>
<p>En el hogar, los vecinos están obligados a limpiar el frente de sus casas, y la basura domiciliar deberá guardarse en bolsas especiales para ese fin y deberá sacarse hasta en el momento en que el camión municipal pase por ella, servicio por el que pagarán entre Q6 y Q50.</p>
<p>Los hospedajes, hoteles, restaurantes, centros comerciales, edificios de apartamentos etc, están obligados a clasificar la basura y depositarla en recipientes apropiados y pagarán entre Q25 y Q1 mil por la extracción de los desechos. Lo mismo aplica para las industrias, que deberán desembolsar entre Q2 mil y Q5 mil por el servicio.</p>
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		<title>Humberto Ríos Labrada, científico Cubano, gana el Premio Goldman Abmiental</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Apr 2010 01:22:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Del artículo en el sitio del Premio Goldman Ambiental: Humberto Ríos Labrada, científico e investigador en biodiversidad, trabajó con agricultores para ampliar la diversidad de los cultivos y desarrollar sistemas agrícolas de bajos insumos, alentando el cambio en la agricultura cubana: de la químico-dependencia a la sostenibilidad. Como coordinador del Programa de Innovación Agraria Local [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=quetsollife.org&amp;blog=11156798&amp;post=316&amp;subd=quetsolblog&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://www.goldmanprize.org/sites/goldmanprize.org/files/2010/Rios_Spanish.pdf" target="_blank">Del artículo en el sitio del Premio Goldman Ambiental:</a></p>
<blockquote><p>Humberto Ríos Labrada, científico e investigador en biodiversidad, trabajó con agricultores para ampliar la diversidad de los cultivos y desarrollar sistemas agrícolas de bajos insumos, alentando el cambio en la agricultura cubana: de la químico-dependencia a la sostenibilidad.</p>
<p>Como coordinador del Programa de Innovación Agraria Local (PIAL) del Instituto Nacional de Ciencias Agrícolas, Ríos ahora dedica su tiempo al desarrollo del sector de agricultura sostenible en Cuba y ha participado en México en proyectos similares de biodiversidad dirigidos por campesinos Frecuentemente usa su talento musical para promover la biodiversidad, con canciones que celebran la agricultura sostenible. Recientemente, el gobierno pidió a los cubanos aumentar la producción de alimentos en todo el país para revitalizar la economía del país. Ríos ve en esto una oportunidad para expandir aún más el trabajo que realiza.</p></blockquote>
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<p><a href="http://www.goldmanprize.org/2010/islands" target="_blank">Se puede leer el artículo en inglés aquí</a></p>
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		<title>¡Feliz Día de la Tierra!</title>
		<link>http://quetsollife.org/2010/04/22/%c2%a1feliz-dia-de-la-tierra/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Apr 2010 18:16:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Disfruten de estos links para conscientizarse acerca de la situación que vivimos hoy, y entonces salgan a caminar por un bosque o meditar bajo un arbol Este planeta nos ha alimentado física y espiritualmente, y le debemos todo a nuestra Pachamama! El equipo de Quetsol estamos abrumados por la belleza de esta Tierra, su flora, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=quetsollife.org&amp;blog=11156798&amp;post=297&amp;subd=quetsolblog&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Disfruten de estos links para conscientizarse acerca de la situación que vivimos hoy, y entonces salgan a caminar por un bosque o meditar bajo un arbol <img src='http://s0.wp.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':-)' class='wp-smiley' />  Este planeta nos ha alimentado física y espiritualmente, y le debemos todo a nuestra Pachamama! El equipo de Quetsol estamos abrumados por la belleza de esta Tierra, su flora, fauna, y sociedades humanas. Creemos que sí podemos volver a vivir en armonía con ella, y que nosotros todos tratemos de amarla y cuidarla cada vez más.</p>
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<p><a href="http://cmpcc.org/" target="_blank">http://cmpcc.org/</a></p>
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<p><a href="http://www.saviaguate.org/" target="_blank">http://www.saviaguate.org/</a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.un.org/esa/socdev/unpfii/es/" target="_blank">http://www.un.org/esa/socdev/unpfii/es/</a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.gvepinternational.org/news/193/" target="_blank">http://www.gvepinternational.org/news/193/</a></p>
<p><a href="http://welectricity.com/" target="_blank">http://welectricity.com/</a></p>
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		<title>Planeta Tierra&#8230;o Pandora?</title>
		<link>http://quetsollife.org/2010/04/21/planeta-tierra-o-pandora/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Apr 2010 20:35:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hace dos semanas el director Canadiense James Cameron, quien dirigió Avatar, fue invitado por un par de organizaciones ambientales de los EEUU a ir a Brasil para conocer a los caciques de las tribus Kayapó, Juruna, Xipia, y Xikrin y prestarles su carisma en su lucha en contra de la represa hidroeléctrica Belo Monte. Este [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=quetsollife.org&amp;blog=11156798&amp;post=286&amp;subd=quetsolblog&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hace dos semanas el director Canadiense James Cameron, quien dirigió Avatar, fue invitado por un par de organizaciones ambientales de los EEUU a ir a Brasil para conocer a los caciques de las tribus Kayapó, Juruna, Xipia, y Xikrin y prestarles su carisma en su lucha en contra de la represa hidroeléctrica Belo Monte. <a href="http://es.mongabay.com/news/2010/es0401-hance_cameron.html" target="_blank">Este artículo de Mongabay.com</a> da una breve reseña de la gira de Sr. Cameron en Brasil y la amenaza de la represa:</p>
<blockquote><p><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,verdana;font-size:x-small;"><span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:x-small;">Esta semana Cameron ha viajado a Brasil para una visita de tres dias a la zona del rio Xingú llamada Volta Grande, para conocer a la gente y la selva que se verán afectadas por la contrucción de la Presa Hidroeléctrica Belo Monte. La presa, criticada desde hace mucho por ambientalistas y grupos pro-derechos indígenas, destruirá 500 kilómetros cuadrados de selva virgen y provocará el desplazamiento de unas 12.000 personas.</span></span></p>
<p>&#8220;Para la gente que vive en las riberas del rio, tal y como han hecho durante miles de años, el daño producido (por la presa) destruirá su modo de vida,&#8221; dijo Cameron en una conferencia de presa después de su viaje, según la agencia EFE. Pidió a la administración de Lula en Brasil que reconsidere su decisión de construir la presa.</p>
<p>&#8220;Cuando los buenos líderes se aplican para solucionar un problema, siempre se encuentra otra solución,&#8221; añadió Cameron.</p>
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<p style="text-align:left;">Y aquí el director y una de las protagonistas de Avatar, Sigourney Weaver, nos dan inspiración para este Día de la Tierra:</p>
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		<title>Semana de acción en Guatemala para el medio ambiente</title>
		<link>http://quetsollife.org/2010/04/21/semana-de-accion-en-guatemala-para-el-medio-ambiente/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Apr 2010 01:38:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Este jueves, 22 de abril 2010, es el día internacional de la Tierra. Como mencionó la opinión en La Prensa Libre este sábado pasado, esta linda Guatemala ha sido lastimada y dañada por el descuido de sus habitantes y también por los intereses de compañías privadas que se enriquecen de las industrias extractivas de minería [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=quetsollife.org&amp;blog=11156798&amp;post=280&amp;subd=quetsolblog&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Este jueves, 22 de abril 2010, es el día internacional de la Tierra. <a href="http://www.prensalibre.com/opinion/Dia-Tierra_0_245375477.html">Como mencionó la opinión en La Prensa Libre este sábado pasado</a>, esta linda Guatemala ha sido lastimada y dañada por el descuido de sus habitantes y también por los intereses de compañías privadas que se enriquecen de las industrias extractivas de minería y petróleo. Nosotros todos tenemos la responsabilidad de hacernos conscientes de la situación en la cual nos encontramos y de allí tratar de mejorar nuestras relaciones con el planeta que nos da aliento y vida. Por todo el mundo y por todo Guatemala, ciudádanos están organizando eventos para toda la semana en los cuales harán limpiezas de las calles, plantarán árboles, y manifestarán para los gobiernos y la compañías responsabilizarse por el medio ambiente.</p>
<p>Aquí en Guateamala habrá varias celebraciones y manifestaciones para enfrentar los múltiples problemas ambientales del país. Nosotros, el equipo de Quetsol, estaremos apoyando a <a href="http://www.lagoatitlan.org/" target="_blank">Amigos del Lago</a> a hacer una limpieza de basura en las calles de San Lucas Tolimán este sábado, 24 de abril 2010. Aun si usted no tiene la posibilidad de dejar su trabajo o transportarse hasta un lugar donde haya un evento para celebrar el día de la tierra, lo puede celebrar usted mismo por meditar tan sólo unos minutos en la riqueza infinita que le ha dado este planeta y cómo usted lo puede cuidar y enriquecer para mostrarle su gratitud.</p>
<p>Otras organizaciones de interés para el día de la Tierra en Guatemala:</p>
<p><a href="http://lagoatitlan2010.blogspot.com/">Expedición Atitlán</a> &#8211; <a href="http://www.prensalibre.com/opinion/Expedicion-Atitlan_0_242975724.html">Expedición Atitlán 2010</a></p>
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<p><a href="http://www.todosporellago.com/">http://www.todosporellago.com/</a></p>
<p><a href="http://saviaguate.org/">http://saviaguate.org/</a></p>
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		<title>Sunday solar roundup</title>
		<link>http://quetsollife.org/2010/04/18/sunday-solar-roundup/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Apr 2010 18:50:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Things to check out on this sunny Sunday: 1. Solar Power in Paradise: 2. The Economist&#8217;s &#8220;Growing Pains&#8221; &#8211; On Solar Growth Solar energy is popular because it is clean and abundant. The problem is that it remains expensive. According to recent calculations by the International Energy Agency, power from photovoltaic systems (solar cells) costs $200-600 a megawatt-hour, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=quetsollife.org&amp;blog=11156798&amp;post=276&amp;subd=quetsolblog&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Things to check out on this sunny Sunday:</p>
<p>1. Solar Power in Paradise:</p>
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<p>2. The Economist&#8217;s <a href="http://www.economist.com/business-finance/displaystory.cfm?story_id=15911021">&#8220;Growing Pains&#8221;</a> &#8211; On Solar Growth</p>
<blockquote><p>Solar energy is popular because it is clean and abundant. The problem is that it remains expensive. According to recent calculations by the International Energy Agency, power from photovoltaic systems (solar cells) costs $200-600 a megawatt-hour, depending on the efficiency of the installation and the discount rate applied to future output. That compares with $50-70 per MWh for onshore wind power in America, by the IEA’s reckoning, and even lower prices for power from fossil fuels, unless taxes on greenhouse-gas emissions are included. The costs of solar are dropping; in some sunny places it may, in a few years, be possible to get solar electricity as cheaply from a set of panels as from the grid, and later on for solar to compete with conventional ways of putting electricity into the grid. But for the moment there would be no significant market for solar cells were it not for government subsidies.</p>
<p>Given that there are subsidies of various sorts in various places, some of which have been very generous, there is a market, and a fast-growing one. According to Bloomberg New Energy Finance, a research firm, there will be demand for 10.5 gigawatts of new photovoltaic-energy systems in 2010, up from just 1.7GW in 2006. The consistent engine of growth over those four years has been Germany’s feed-in tariffs, a guaranteed price for solar power that makes every panel installed in the country a profitable investment, at the expense of electricity consumers. For a fair part of that time, global supply was only just keeping up with demand, and prices for solar modules—the assemblies of cells that you might put on a roof, in a field or on a patch of desert—stayed fairly stable.</p>
<p>&#8230;The utility market also serves to highlight the flaws and expense of solar power. A typical utility-scale installation produces power at only a fifth of its maximum capacity, thanks to clouds, night-time, dirty panels and so on. To replace a one-gigawatt coal plant running at 70% of capacity with solar panels would require about half of the 6GW installed worldwide last year.</p>
<p>This is one of the arguments for looking instead at another solar technology, solar thermal, which uses mirrors to concentrate heat, produce steam and thus drive turbines. Efficient solar-thermal plants can in principle be built on the same sort of scale as gas-fired power stations, a few hundred megawatts at a time. Such big plants are harder to finance than small photovoltaic installations, and require more planning permissions and infrastructure, such as transmission lines. But they produce a lot of power. Brightsource Energy, based in California, recently received government loan guarantees for a project in the Mojave desert which, if completed, could deliver more power than all the photovoltaic cells installed in America last year.</p></blockquote>
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		<title>Monday Reading: Krugman on &#8220;Building a Green Economy&#8221; &#8211; Bloomberg responds, &#8220;The Green Economy is HERE!&#8221;</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last Sunday&#8217;s New York Times Magazine featured &#8220;Building a Green Economy&#8221; by Paul Krugman which offers a strong review of the current scientific and economic debate over global climate change and how to mitigate anthropogenic sources of atmospheric contamination.  The economic focus runs through the progenitor of the concept of economic externalities, Arthur Cecil Pigou, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=quetsollife.org&amp;blog=11156798&amp;post=273&amp;subd=quetsolblog&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Last Sunday&#8217;s New York Times Magazine featured <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/11/magazine/11Economy-t.html?pagewanted=1" target="_blank">&#8220;Building a Green Economy&#8221;</a> by Paul Krugman which offers a strong review of the current scientific and economic debate over global climate change and how to mitigate anthropogenic sources of atmospheric contamination.  The economic focus runs through the progenitor of the concept of economic externalities, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Pigou" target="_blank">Arthur Cecil Pigou</a>, for whom the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pigovian_tax" target="_blank">Pigovian Tax</a> is named. Krugman goes on to invoke the work of renowned modern economists <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Weitzman" target="_blank">Martin Weitzman</a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicholas_Stern" target="_blank">Nicholas Stern</a> (author of the 2006 <a href="http://www.hm-treasury.gov.uk/sternreview_index.htm" target="_blank">&#8220;Stern Review on the Economics of Climate Change&#8221;</a>) in making his own argument for aggressive policy alternatives in the short term as opposed to a gradual &#8220;climate-policy ramp&#8221; which would apply a lower price to carbon emissions under a national or supranational regulatory scheme.</p>
<p>All of this heated academic debate comes in the face of market action to make the green economy tangible. <a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=newsarchive&amp;sid=aE_omdVsUFBI" target="_blank">A recent article from Bloomberg</a> announced some impressive statistics on the maturing of the global renewable energy game, including the following:</p>
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<li>31% increase in global investment in renewable energy technology in 1Q2010 over 1Q2009</li>
<li>Total yearly venture capital and asset finance of $175-200 billion for renewable energy in 2010</li>
<li>Installed wind power capacity to grow 21% per year through 2014, global installed capacity in 2014 expected to reach 409 gigawatts</li>
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<p>Anthropogenic CO2 emissions must be stabilized and reduced through implementation of policy incentives, technological innovation, and altruistic behavioral modification; this is the course that human civilization must take, and sooner rather than later, if we are to leave our progeny a planet worth inhabiting.</p>
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		<title>World&#8217;s largest solar powered desalination plant to be built in Saudi Arabia</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Thanks to this article from MIT&#8217;s Technology Review, we have become aware of the world&#8217;s most recent attempt at energy/water alchemy: the Al-Khafji concentrated solar photovoltaic desalination plant being engineed by the King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology. Saudi Arabia is engaged in an epic game of chicken with dwindling groundwater sources and currently [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=quetsollife.org&amp;blog=11156798&amp;post=260&amp;subd=quetsolblog&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://www.technologyreview.com/energy/25010/page1/" target="_blank">Thanks to this article from MIT&#8217;s Technology Review</a>, we have become aware of the world&#8217;s most recent attempt at energy/water alchemy: the Al-Khafji concentrated solar photovoltaic desalination plant being engineed by the <a href="http://www.kacst.edu.sa/en/Pages/default.aspx" target="_blank">King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology</a>. Saudi Arabia is engaged in an epic game of chicken with dwindling groundwater sources and currently has the world&#8217;s largest installed capacity for water desalination. The articles <a href="http://canada.theoildrum.com/pdf/theoildrum_3520.pdf" target="_blank">&#8220;Peak Water in Saudi Arabia&#8221;</a> by Ugo Bardi, and <a href="http://www.idrc.ca/en/ev-93954-201-1-DO_TOPIC.html" target="_blank">&#8220;Water Demand Management in Saudi Arabia&#8221;</a> by Walid A. Abderrahman give a good overview of the nation&#8217;s profligate use of ground water resources for subsidized agriculture, as well as the recovery/production curve of water for underground aquifers and current desalination plants. As the Technology Review article notes, the primary goal of the new solar powered plant is to reduce the cost of desalination in the long run:</p>
<blockquote><p>The plant will use a new kind of concentrated solar photovoltaic (PV) technology and new water-filtration technology, which KACST developed with IBM. When completed at the end of 2012, the plant will produce 30,000 cubic meters of desalinated water per day to meet the needs of 100,000 people.</p>
<p>KACST&#8217;s main goal is to reduce the cost of desalinating water. Half of the operating cost of a desalination plant currently comes from energy use, and most current plants run on fossil fuels. Depending on the price of fuel, producing a cubic meter now takes between 40 and 90 cents.</p>
<p>Reducing cost isn&#8217;t the only reason that people have dreamed of coupling <a href="http://www.technologyreview.com/energy/17862/" target="_blank">renewable</a> energy with desalination for decades, says Lisa Henthorne, a director at the <a href="http://www.idadesal.org/default.aspx" target="_blank">International Desalination Association</a>. &#8220;Anything we can do to lower this cost over time or reduce the greenhouse gas emissions associated with that power is a good thing,&#8221; Henthorne says. &#8220;This is truly a demonstration in order to work out the bugs, to see if the technologies can work well together.&#8221;</p>
<p>While the new concentrated PV technology might generate affordable electricity, solar power still costs more than fossil fuels in many parts of the world. But even with those high costs, using it to power desalination makes sense, Henthorne says. &#8220;You&#8217;re not doing it because it&#8217;s the cheaper thing to do right now, but it would be the cheapest thing down the road.&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p>Whether the plant will live up to its expectations is anyone&#8217;s guess. While it is a noble idea, the Al-Khafji plant may be the latest in a long string of expensive failures, as noted in <a href="http://www.theoildrum.com/node/5155" target="_blank">&#8220;Desalination &#8211; Energy Down the Drain&#8221;</a> by Debbie Cook:</p>
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<blockquote><p>The story of desalinated water has been largely one of unkept promises. Tampa Bay is a typical case. In 1999 Tampa Bay Water received a binding <a href="http://www.pacinst.org/reports/desalination/appendix_C.pdf" target="_blank">commitment</a> for water at $557/AF.  By 2004 costs were updated to $827. By 2008, after a month of operation, it was <a href="http://www.prnewswire.com/mnr/tampabaywater/31679/docs/31679-addl_release.pdf" target="_blank">estimated</a> the wholesale cost to be $1100/AF. Even if this were an inclusive accounting, there are two factors that work in Tampa’s favor: the salinity of the source water and their electricity rate. Both are critical to calculating water costs.</p>
<p>In 2003, Water International estimated that 44% of the cost of desalination was the energy component. But whose energy costs were they using, Florida or California? Or maybe Saudi Arabia? In 2002, Oil and Gas Journal ran a story on desalination facilities in Saudi Arabia. They reported construction costs of 30 facilities at $20 billion, $4 billion for operations and maintenance, and water at $1356/AF. While there are differences between the thermal process used in Saudi Arabia and the reverse osmosis projects in the U.S., the cost of natural gas in Saudi Arabia at that time was 75¢/Mcf—a fraction of what we pay in the U.S.</p>
<p>California’s checkered history with ocean desalination is equally unhelpful. Of those projects that have operated, the following costs have been <a href="http://www.coastal.ca.gov/desalrpt/dchap2.html" target="_blank">reported</a>:</p>
<ul>
<li>Gaviota Oil and Gas Processing Plant:  $4000/AF</li>
<li>Santa Catalina Island (built and operated by Southern California Edison):  $2000/AF</li>
<li>U.S. Navy, San Nicolas Island:  $6000/AF</li>
<li>PG&amp;E Diablo Canyon Power Plant:  $2000</li>
<li>City of Moro Bay:  $1,750/AF</li>
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<p>The City of Santa Barbara built a plant in the 1990s but never operated it.  The <a href="http://www.swhydro.arizona.edu/archive/V2_N3/feature5.pdf" target="_blank">Yuma Desalting Plant</a> may be the biggest white elephant in the world. At the time it was built in the late 1980’s, it was the world’s largest reverse osmosis plant capable of desalting 72 million gallons per day. The $245 million project was constructed to comply with the 1944 treaty with Mexico to reduce salinity of Colorado River water from 2900 ppm to 115 ppm. The estimated cost of operations and management was $24 &#8211; $29 million per year. I’m told it has never operated except for tests.</p>
<p>This paltry record coupled with a lack of transparency in the industry keeps everyone guessing. It is difficult to challenge the wildly optimistic numbers that are perpetually paraded out at public meetings and in the press. Environmental documents can sometimes fill in a few blanks. The Huntington Beach EIR states that the Poseidon project will require 5476 kWh/AF. If Poseidon were paying a Florida rate of 4.5¢/kWh the cost of electricity alone would be $246/AF. If they paid what the average Californian pays (which includes bond repayment for the 2001 energy crisis)—12¢/kWh—their electricity costs alone would be $657/AF. Poseidon stated at one of the Task Force meetings that it was planning on electricity at 6¢/kWh—a rate that is not available to any industrial user in the state. With those kinds of savings they could perhaps purchase enough lobbying to get special dispensation.</p></blockquote>
<p>As Debbie ends her article, &#8220;We are rapidly approaching the time when we will not have enough money to throw at our problems. We may be there now or we may be able to squeak out a few more stranded assets before our future catches up with our present. I’m betting on business as usual.&#8221;</p>
<p>For more on solar powered water desalination check out<a href="http://anz.theoildrum.com/pdf/theoildrum_3926.pdf" target="_blank"> &#8220;Solving Our Water Problems &#8211; Desalination Using Solar Thermal Power&#8221;</a> by Big Gav via The Oil Drum.</p>
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