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Alternative energy technology in Israel
Innovation in Israel March 2008Wellesley , USA
David Waimann& Guy Kol
6 categories
1. Clean power stations – hydro, wind, solar, geothermal, nuclear?, 2. Bio-fuels- cellulose, algae, new seeds, processes3. Vehicle power- electric battery, hybrid, fuel cell, microturbine.4. Waste-to-energy. gasification, pyrolysis, biomass.5. Energy efficient processes/building.6. Making existing technologies cleaner and more efficient.
1. Clean power stations
SolarSize of market $billions 2007
2015
Photovoltaics 10 25
Solar water heating 0.6 3
Solar thermal 0.5 45
Concentrator PV 0 ?
Some commercial and development initiatives
1. Solaroll – roll to roll manufacture of amorphous PV.2. Faiman - Very large concentrator dish.3. Luz2 – high temp. carnot for large scale4. TOU- Millenium- Hybrid systems combining PV, water and space heating.5. Solel- thermal concentrators.6. Dov Raviv- Fresnel arrays7. Puredrop- Concentrators PV.8. Gordon- Feiermann – mini-concentrators - Solfocus9. Technion solar tower.10. DISP – small PV concentrators11. SRS – split spectrum system12. IAI- MLM solar satellite arrays.13. Zenith – Concentrators.14. MLM concentrators.15. Chromagen/ Nimrodi/Rand – solar thermal
Solar Water
Power stations
Special applications
Industrial + CHP
BIPV
DIY & Rooftop Portable &
consumer
Satellite space
Residential grid
connect
SHS
solar applications
Examples of Israeli solar technologies
Solar Home Systems module
3G Solar’s PV module
2. Biofuels
0 20 40 60 80 100 120 140 160 180 200
The problem Tonnes of oil per The problem Tonnes of oil per HectareHectare
Corn 0.15
Rape Seed 1
Palm 5
Open Raceway Algae 15
Algae photo-bioreactor 100
Category 2 - Biofuels
Algae technologies
Algae sequestration of carbon dioxideAlgae to biodiesel
Application 3Application 3
3. Vehicle Power
Project Better Place
Electroturbine -technology
Flex-fuelFlex-fuel• Bio-diesel• Hydrogen• Petrol• CNG• …
Novel microturbineNovel microturbine
Advanced Advanced driving motorsdriving motors
power trainpower train
Battery pack
The killer combinationSolar energy ( mostly thermal) with EV
- providing clean electricity for home, industry, and vehicle use.
Costs in 2012 in cents per kWh.
Nuclear ( including disposal) 11
Solar thermal 12
Coal scrubbed SOx - 6
Coal with CO2 scrubbed 9
Cost of switching to solar and scrubbed coal… ?
Why bother with anything else?