Evaluation of renewable and alternative technologies (draft staff report)

Technical Report · Mon Sep 01 04:00:00 EDT 1980

OSTI ID:6587358

Alternative energy technologies which have the most promise for California in the near-term discussed are: geothermal, wind, small scale hydro, cogeneration, biomass, solar ponds, and photovoltaics. Part One discusses fuels and feedstock production from agricultural and forestry residues, feedlot and cannery wastes, municipal solid waste, and energy farming; also biomass fuel use by direct combustion to produce electricity or process heat through steam generation, use of residential and commercial woodburning for space and water heating, conversion of biomass through gasification, fermentation of wastes to methane, and fermentation of plant materials to ethanol. Part Two discusses solar ponds for thermal applications and photovoltaics for electricity conversion of sunlight. Part Three discusses dispersed energy conversion technologies - cogeneration, wind conversion, small hydroelectric systems, and geothermal production of electricity and heat for industrial and community heat applications. (MCW)

• Research Organization: California Energy Commission, Sacramento (USA). Development Div.
• OSTI ID: 6587358
• Report Number(s): P-500-80-012
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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DEUS
ENERGY
ENERGY RECOVERY
ENERGY SOURCES
ENERGY SYSTEMS
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ETHANOL
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RESOURCE POTENTIAL
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STEAM GENERATION
USA
WASTES
WESTERN REGION
WIND POWER
WOOD