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1 st Annual Southeast Student Renewable Energy Conference April 2-4, 2004

1 st Annual Southeast Student Renewable Energy Conference April 2-4, 2004. Meghan West April 12 th , 2004.

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1 st Annual Southeast Student Renewable Energy Conference April 2-4, 2004

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  1. 1st Annual Southeast Student Renewable Energy ConferenceApril 2-4, 2004 Meghan West April 12th, 2004

  2. The Southeast Student Renewable Energy Conference (SSREC) is a collaborative effort to bring together students interested in promoting renewable energy on their campus and provide them with all the tools to do just that.   • Hosted by Duke and UNC • More than 200 students from 44 schools in 14 states • Next year it will be at UT Knoxville

  3. What Other students are doing • Renewable Energy Policy: What is the Federal Government Doing to encourage renewable energy in the Southeast? • Energy and Environmental Justice in the South East • Working With the Media • Fundraising and Grant Writing • The Price of Electricity: Adding up the Hidden Costs of Energy Production • Josh Tickell: Veggie Van • How do you buy renewable energy? • Energy Effective and Efficient Transit Solutions • The Next Step in the Student Clean Energy Movement • ASC: Grants and Internships • Brent Blackwelder: Friends of the Earth

  4. Government Encouragement • Map with links for each state http://www.dsireusa.org/ • Reasons to offer incentives • Innovation • Commercialization of renewable technology • Solving environmental problems • Market equalization

  5. Bio-diesel Fuel • Rudolf Diesel • How a diesel engine works • Originally ran on peanut oil

  6. VeggieVan • Joshua Tickell • From Sarasota Florida to San Fransisco California • Two year trip • Ran only on used French fry oil

  7. B20: 20% biodiesel 80% diesel • Blends can be between 20-50% biodiesel and 80-50% No. 2 diesel • Blends reduce the cost impact of biodiesel while retaining some of the emissions reduction • The cold flow and solvency problems noted with B100 are less of a concern when blends are used • Soybean oil-based biodiesel will form crystals at about 0C and biodiesel from greases and animal fats can form crystals at 20C or even higher.

  8. 100 g soybean oil + 21.7 g methanol  100.4 g biodiesel + 10.9 g methanol+10.4 g glycerol   Triglyceride + Methanol Mixture of fatty esters + Glycerol

  9. Effect of Bio-diesel Blend Level on CO2 Emissions

  10. Comparison of Net CO2 Life Cycle Emissions

  11. So Now What? • Germany and France • Where it's produced in the United States • Where you can by it

  12. Vanuatu Island

  13. Vanuatu Islands "For every ton of diesel fuel that we can offset, we can put back some $200 into the local economy. And at those prices, people could earn a very good living cutting copra," said Tony Deamer. • Diesel fuel accounts for 10% of their imports • $9 million dollars • Now the use biodiesel made from coconut oil • They are now looking at exporting biodiesel

  14. Other Examples • Everett Naval Station • Biodiesel airplane fuel development at Baylor University • Harvard University • Biodiesel trucks used in Yellowstone Park

  15. Networking

  16. Associated Colleges of the South

  17. ACS Student Development and Engagement Grants • Environmental Career Planning • Student Leadership and Engagement Program • Parrtnership Grants • Circuit Rider Program

  18. Student Internships • Taylor Pack, Courtney Groom, and Jennifer Turner • ASC director of Environmental Programs • Elizabeth MacNabb • emacnabb@centre.edu • Helen Downes • downesh@wlu.edu

  19. ACS Environmental Programs • Faculty Fellows • John Greene jgreene@trinity.edu • Physical plant • Jennifer Mathews jmathews@trinity.edu • Anthropology

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