Where can I find Eco Tech in Mobay?

http://jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20110326/news/news5.html

And, anyone have the name and address of the local solar engineer that was posted a few months ago?

i think he is my facebook friend, we might have went school together. i will link him and send him here

Thanks.

Hello Turey, check out www.go-greenjamaica.com and you can fill out the form on the home page for a prompt response.

Thanks RJ.

I also found this Caribbean Green Directory listing <http://energy.sourceguides.com/businesses/byp/wrp/bygeo/byc/jamaica/jamaica.shtm l>.

It list Go-GreenJamaica on there but may also have some other resources.

turey...I assume that you have probably gotten your Contact on Eco-Tec already.
This is the poop we have on file and if it turns out to be different, let me know will ya?

ECO-TEC
Freeport Commercial Centre
Unit N. P.O. Box 63. Fairview Shopping Centre
Fontana, Bogue, Montego Bay, St. James
Jamaica W.I.

Tel. (876)953-6808
Fax. (876)953-6807
Or via e-mail @ support@go2ecotec.com

Over the years, I have associated Eco-tec with going after the BIG issues of Renewable Energy, and not shy when it came to confronting political and policy matters.

One its founders, Maikel Oerbekke, code-named the "Dutchman", strongly supported a "green" European-cultivated agenda: including climate change (carbon credits etc), energy development funding, incentives for alternative energy (tax credits...), conservation (audits, lighting...), net metering & feed-in tariffs.
Oerbekke served on the board of the Jamaica Solar Energy Association along with Damian Lyn, president of reputedly the largest installer of Renewable Energy systems on the Island, Alternative Power Sources to lobby the government and the electrical utility regulators to adopt some far reaching measures to advance renewable energy independence for our Rock.

Eco-Tecs prominent client list suggests, perhaps, that their services might be geared towards frying bigger fish, and that a smaller residential solar PV/wind turbine installation could be more suitable to a firm that is concentrating in that market.

I don't know what Oerbekke's relationship is with the current Eco-tec...maybe he has moved on to "greener pastures".
www.jamaicaobserver.com/141923_Going--Dutch--on-renewable-energy

www.go2ecotec.com/2007/

I see that RJ got you the Green Lantan Energy (Lititz near Junction) contact , which was referenced in a past TB.Net posting as a new, ambitious start-up company promoting solar/wind installations closeby to TB. Their web site is developing as a quite succinct teaching tool.

I am wondering if RJ is Rory Sinclair, Green Lantan's sales manager, seen in the VIDEO embedded on the LINK. He happens to be a Munro College old boy, which may garner him some good will and initial trust round these parts. He drew some early inspiration from the wind turbine that was operating while he was in attendance at Munro.

Rory has related that he plans to install a demo-shop to showcase hybrid solar PV/wind turbine & components at his home/headquarters where potential clients will be able to drop-in to receive a hands-on explanation of Green Lantan's systems while hopefully providing superb pricing, discounts & payback incentives.

QUOTE: "We entered this industry with one goal and that's to become a trusted household name in energy worldwide, and like anyone else we have to start somewhere, sometime."--Rory Sinclair (Green Lantan)

Good Luck with that!

What other reliable sources/companies are located on the island. I'm asking for the purpose of constructing a home, and using solar energy as an alternative to electricity. House is currently in the final stages of construction. Thanks. Neptune

I'll check Eco Tec when I go to MoBay Zed. Thanks Nicole.

A directory of green resources is needed. Organic farmers, advisors and markets, alternative energy supplies and advisors, recyclers, green architects, plant nurseries etc.

April Fooling Around?: 100 Percent Renewable Energy Possible By 2030

Pipe-dream or Reality...What Happens With Finite Resources... When the Last Drop of Oil is Consumed... Liquefied Natural Gas is a Luxury Fuel Harder to Frack (hydraulically with toxic chemicals) Out of the Ground Near Drinking Water Sources...The Last of Abundant Coal (with the best carbon-sequestering technology) is being hoarded and protected by anxious nation states...when radioactive dead zones around Chernobyl-like sites scares us witless and "natural" disasters, nuclear waste and terrorism concerns raise the real price of "non-polluting" nuclear energy plants into the stratosphere.
Watch Germany and the rise of Green parties and environmental lobbies pushing hard for truly clean "renewables" after they examine what was considered an unthinkable EVENT that befell the technologically savvy Japanese at the Fukushima nuclear plant.

If we look at what is happening in the energy field, here in Jamaica, as a planning outgrowth of the National Development Plan (Vision 2030), you will find in most of the discussions that LNG (liquefied natural gas...a carbon) and nuclear are firmly on the table and being sold as "cleaner" sources of electrical energy. We say fat chance.. who would finance it or insure it, especially after it has been confirmed that this Rock is similarly seismically situated as the quake which devastated Haiti.

Someone might be rueing the loss of a finder's fee or investment opportunities if some 10-year window for bringing small nuclear plants on line are not met!

What about the future and when is the future and to which generation?

Because we don't think about future generations, they will never forget us. ~Henrik Tikkanen

I have no doubt that we will be successful in harnessing the sun's energy.... If sunbeams were weapons of war, we would have had solar energy centuries ago. ~Sir George Porter

We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children. ~Native American Proverb


Scientific American: A Forum Discussion:

New research has shown that it is possible and affordable for the world to achieve 100 percent renewable energy by 2030, if there is the political will to strive for this goal.

Achieving 100 percent renewable energy would mean the building of about four million 5 MW wind turbines, 1.7 billion 3 kW roof-mounted solar photovoltaic systems, and around 90,000 300 MW solar power plants.

Mark Delucchi, one of the authors of the report, which was published in the Journal Energy Policy, said the researchers had aimed to show enough renewable energy is available and could be harnessed to meet demand indefinitely by 2030.
Delucchi and colleague Mark Jacobson left all fossil fuel sources of energy out of their calculations and concentrated only on wind, solar, waves and geothermal sources.

Fossil fuels currently provide over 80 percent of the world’s energy supply.

They also left out biomass, currently the most widely used renewable energy source, because of concerns about pollution and land-use issues. Their calculations also left out nuclear power generation, which currently supplies around six percent of the world’s electricity.

To make their vision possible, a great deal of building would need to occur.!!!...No Fooling!

The wind turbines needed, for example, are two to three times the capacity of most of today’s wind turbines, but 5 MW offshore turbines were built in Germany in 2006, and China built its first in 2010.
The solar power plants needed would be a mix of photovoltaic panel plants and concentrated solar plants that concentrate solar energy to boil water to drive generators. At present only a few dozen such utility-scale solar plants exist.
Energy would also be obtained from photovoltaic panels mounted on most homes and buildings.

Jacobson said the major challenge would be in the interconnection of variable supplies such as wind and solar to enable the different renewable sources to work together to match supply with demands.
The more consistent renewable sources of wave and tidal power and geothermal systems would supply less of the energy but their consistency would make the whole system more reliable.

The pair say all the major resources needed are available, with the only material bottleneck being supplies of rare earth materials such as neodymium, which is often used in the manufacture of magnets. This bottleneck could be overcome if mining were increased by a factor of five and if recycling were introduced, or if technologies avoiding rare earth were developed... but the political bottlenecks may be insurmountable.
(Summary: Lin Edwards @ PhysOrg.com)

www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=a-path-to-sustainable-energy-by-2030
(It is useful to follow the arguments at the end of the article among a variety of scientific/engineering interests...whether proponents or detractors)

SPAIN: Concentrated Solar Power Tower:
www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/02/15/concentrated-solar-power-_n_822895.html

Jamaica: Energy Future (Pt 2): Gleaner/February 20, 2011)
Energy Diversification Strategy:

Jamaica's National Development Plan (Vision 2030)
Goal 3 will be to: "create a modern, efficient, diversified and environmentally sustainable energy sector providing affordable and accessible energy supplies with long-term energy security that contributes to international competitiveness throughout all the productive sectors of the Jamaican economy." In reviewing the long-term energy-supply mix diversification, the Vision 2030 foresees that Jamaica's energy options may also include nuclear energy.

It is noteworthy that Jamaica is seriously considering long term use of nuclear energy to advance its energy diversity strategy.
As a matter of fact, a JIS news report is positioning nuclear as a "safe renewable alternative" selling it as a renewable "non-polluting" energy source.

With the rising cost of fossil fuels (fuels generated from oil deposits in the ground) the world has been experimenting with alternate or renewable energy sources and, in about a year or so, Jamaica could have its first radiation laws, as the Bureau of Standards makes substantial progress in that direction...

Options for renewable energy include solar, wind, hydro, thermal and nuclear. A close assessment of these alternatives, however, gives varying cost benefit results. For example, wind power remains an expensive alternative to produce; solar, though experiencing some re-invigoration, is too expensive to produce in large quantifiable amounts; and changes in nuclear technology is making it worth looking at as an attractive alternative.

Dr Raymond Wright (consultant at the Petroleum Corporation of Jamaica) who literally wrote the book (Jamaica's Energy) advocating renewable energy for the Island is influencing the nu-clear debate.

He contends that using nuclear energy as an alternative to fossil fuel, currently being used as the primary source of producing electricity in Jamaica, would reduce the cost of producing electricity to mere United States cents per kilowatt hour (the international standard for cost measurement of electricity), making it cheaper than the current cost of electricity production in Jamaica.
"The real problem for Jamaica is that, if we are to move forward, energy is the engine of everybody's economic growth and our effort must be to reduce the cost of electricity, as fast as possible.
"The question that has bothered us for years is nuclear waste, and that is not as important as it was some years ago. Nuclear waste can be collected properly under arrangements with other countries and disposed of in a proper fashion. The concern is primarily twofold, the danger of an accident and the fear of it becoming a tool for terrorism.
Small nuclear technology (example, the Pebble Bed reactor which uses small helium balls) is nothing new... as there are submarines, warships and large aircraft carriers that employ nuclear technology for their energy needs.
(Reference: (www) jis.gov.jm/news/107 (nuclear-energy-a-safe-renewable-alternative)

[Environmentalists have long been fond of saying that the sun is the only safe nuclear reactor, situated as it is some ninety-three million miles away.] ~Stephanie Mills, In Praise of Nature


To achieve its objectives, the Energy Policy has established seven goals which, among others, include:

"Jamaica's energy supply is secure and sufficient to support long-term economic and social development and environmental sustainability.

"Under this goal, Jamaica will reduce the percentage of petroleum in the country's energy-supply mix from the current 95 per cent. Diversification priorities for the short, medium, and long term will be based on cost, efficiency, environmental considerations and appropriate technologies. This will protect the country from disruptions in oil supply and price volatility. Components in the more diversified energy-source mix will include both indigenous and foreign options such as natural gas, coal, petcoke, nuclear sources as well as renewable energy sources ... .

"Develop the institutional capacity and regulatory framework to explore the establishment of small nuclear-power generation plants in the event that nuclear-power generation proves feasible for Caribbean Small Island Developing States (SIDS)."

Alternative Energy Gains...
www.jamaicaobserver.com/business/Alternative-energy-gains-more-appeal-as-oil-pri ces-soar_8533017

I for one hope we never see nuclear energy in or anywhere near Jamaica. I shudder to think of possible seepage from the caustic soup stored by bauxite companies just off the Mandeville bypass. Where would we store spent fuel from the reactors? No way Jose!
Jamaica has so much sunlight and water that it is inconceivable to even think of nuclear. Not to mention the abundance of sugar cane etc for ethanol.

ital...second that emotion!
Union of Concerned Scientists Examining the Notion of Nuclear Energy as a "Clean Economically Viable Source"...Disasters Foretold

USA: "In other words," said Ellen Vancko, UCS's nuclear energy and climate change project manager, "if the government had purchased power on the open market and given it away free, it would have been less costly than subsidizing nuclear power plant construction and operation."...

The good news is we do not need new nuclear reactors. The United States could meet projected electricity demand over the next 20 years and cut power-plant carbon emissions by 84 percent without them, according to a 2009 UCS report. How? By phasing out coal, significantly improving energy efficiency, and dramatically increasing our reliance on clean, renewable energy sources, including wind, solar, geothermal and bioenergy.

www.huffingtonpost.com/elliott-negin/the-tale-of-nuclear-disas_b_844635.html

Pragmatism Influencing Energy Debates:

www.nytimes.com/2011/04/04/business/energy-environment/04green.html?src=recg

'The Pearl': Shell-Shaped Solar House Is A Beachside Retreat (PICTURES)

www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/04/09/the-pearl-shell-shaped-solar-house_n_847076.ht ml#s262900

Studies Say Natural Gas Has Its Own Environmental Problems:

www.nytimes.com/2011/04/12/business/energy-environment/12gas.html?_r=1

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