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- RSID: MFSK32 @ 1499.2 Hz
- Welcome to program 77 of Shortwave Radiogram.
- I'm Kim Andrew Elliott in Arlington, Virginia USA.
- Here is the lineup for today's program, in MFSK modes as noted:
- 1:31 MFSK32: Program preview (now)
- 3:03 Latin American electric buses*
- 8:39 MFSK64: Algae harnessed for clean water, power*
- 13:53 This week's images*
- 23:45 MFSK32: Closing announcements
- 24:41 Message (voice and text) from Tecsun Radios Australia*
- * with images(s)
- Please send reception reports to radiogram@verizon.net
- And visit http://swradiogram.net
- Twitter: @SWRadiogram
- From Deutsche Welle:
- Latin America grows fond of electric buses
- Cities such as Santiago de Chile and Cali in Colombia have
- started using electric buses. Others like San Jose, Costa
- Rica, and Panama City are in the middle of pilot projects to
- make transportation cleaner.
- Diana Carolina Piñeros
- 4 December 2018
- A new fleet of 200 buses in Chile's capital, known as Third
- Millennium (Tercer Milenio), is to replace the current
- transportation system that was launched in 2007.
- "We've said all along that a civilized nation needs a
- high-quality transport system that is safe, clean and
- sustainable," Chilean President Sebastian Pinera said while
- presenting the new buses in October.
- "Our project aims to replace the notorious Transantiago."
- The new Santiago fleet includes 490 diesel buses with the Euro 6
- emission standard, the strictest one in place so far.
- In Colombia, 125 electric buses were ordered for the city of
- Cali. It is the first bus fleet of this type in the whole
- country. In May 2019, 26 of them will start operating. The new
- buses will complement the MIO transport system (Masivo Integrado
- de Occidente).
- The buses, which have eight battery packs, will have a maximum
- range of 240 kilometers (149 miles). According to MetroCali, the
- city's transport system, the buses have "regenerative" brakes,
- helping to recharge the batteries while breaking.
- "We're kicking off the process of modernization that our system
- must undergo in the coming years to make bus fleets comply with
- zero-emissions policies," said MetroCali President Nicolas
- Orejuela.
- Pilot projects
- In 2019, Costa Rica is to start a pilot project involving three
- electric buses that will commute between different cities. At the
- end of 2017, the country approved comprehensive electric
- transportation legislation and incentives to promote greener
- transportation.
- Argentina for its part is about to implement its own one-year
- pilot project involving eight electric buses. The city of Buenos
- Aires launched a clean mobility plan (Plan de Movilidad Limpia)
- to reduce harmful emissions.
- In August 2018, Panama City started running electric bus tests in
- the old city center. People can use the service free of charge
- for six months.
- "If the current fleet of buses and taxis in 22 Latin American
- cities were replaced with electric vehicles right away, the
- region could save almost $64 billion (€65.2 billion) in fuel by
- 2030, emit 300 million tons of carbon dioxide less and save
- 36,500 people from premature death," a study by the International
- Automobile Federation (FIA) pointed out.
- Latin America and the Caribbean "account for some 10 percent of
- global emissions of greenhouse gases and are among the regions
- with the greatest decarbonization potential," United Nations
- researchers added.
- https://www.dw.com/en/latin-america-grows-fond-of-electric-buses/a-46554019
- Image: A new electric bus in Cali, Colombia ...
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- Shortwave Radiogram now changes to MFSK64 ...
- RSID: MFSK64 @ 1499.2 Hzi
- This is Shortwave Radiogram in MFSK64
- Please send your reception report to radiogram@verizon.net
- VOA NEWS
- Algae Harnessed to Make Clean Water, Clean Power
- Steve Baragona
- 3 December 2018
- BALTIMORE - "Nature sometimes isn't pretty," said University of
- Maryland environmental scientist Peter May, grabbing a clump of
- slimy green-brown gunk.
- That gunk lines the bottom of what's called an algal turf
- scrubber at the Port of Baltimore. The meter-wide, shallow
- channel runs the length of a football field alongside one of the
- port's giant parking lots.
- "Actually, it's always pretty," May corrected himself. Even the
- gunk. Because that gunk is removing pollution from the Chesapeake
- Bay. Plus, May's colleagues are turning it into clean, renewable
- electricity.
- The Chesapeake needs the help.
- Algal feast
- Like many waterways around the world, the bay is polluted with
- excess nutrients from farm fertilizer runoff, city wastewater and
- other sources. Algae feast on those nutrients, triggering massive
- growth that chokes out other aquatic life. Last summer, algal
- growth left an average of 4.6 cubic kilometers of the bay without
- oxygen.
- A third of the pollution reaching the bay literally falls out of
- the sky.
- Fossil fuels burned in power plants, cars and elsewhere create
- nitrogen oxide air pollution, which ultimately ends up in the
- bay, either attached to airborne particles or dissolved in
- rainwater.
- Forests would soak up that pollution. But like many urban areas,
- the Port of Baltimore has a pavement problem. There's not a tree
- to be found at the entire 230-hectare Dundalk Marine Terminal,
- where the algae scrubber is located.
- So regulators require the port to remove as much pollution from
- the bay as its parking lots allow in. That's where the algal turf
- scrubber comes in.
- Putting algae to work
- The scrubber is like "a controlled algal bloom on land," May
- said, "which puts the algae to work pulling nutrients out of the
- water."
- The city of Durham, N.C., is planning to build another scrubber
- to clean up a local reservoir. A pilot study found it would cost
- about half as much as typical pollution control measures, such as
- constructed wetlands, and much less than retrofitting existing
- systems. Others are up and running in Florida.
- The algal turf scrubber creates one big challenge, May said.
- "What do we do with that algae? You have to have an end use or
- else you're going to pile that algae up very quickly," he said.
- It's high in protein and omega-3 fatty acids. It's been turned
- into animal feed. It can be fermented into biofuels. Some of
- May's colleagues have used it to launch a fertilizer business.
- But here at the Port of Baltimore, they're turning it into
- electricity.
- Digesting for power
- May works with University of Maryland colleague Stephanie
- Lansing, an expert in a process called anaerobic digestion. It's
- not much different from our own digestion.
- "You have bacteria in your gut that break down food. We're doing
- that same process in an anaerobic digester," Lansing said. "We're
- breaking down the material, and we're producing energy in the
- process."
- In this case, the microbes digesting the algae produce methane
- biogas. The biogas runs a fuel cell.
- "The fuel cell is actually a very efficient way to use the
- energy," she said. This small, pilot system produces a modest
- amount of electricity.
- "You can use it to charge batteries. You can use it for lights.
- You can use it for fans," she added.
- https://www.voanews.com/a/algae-harnessed-to-make-clean-water-clean-power/4682374.html
- See also
- https://enst.umd.edu/research/research-centers/algal-ecotechnology-center
- Image: Screenshot from University of Maryland video ...
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- This is Shortwave Radiogram in MFSK64
- Please send your reception report to radiogram@verizon.net
- This week's images ...
- During December, Comet Wirtanen may be visible to the naked eye,
- but smaller than this telecopic view. From cbsn.ws/2QIOThc ...
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- This image of asteroid Bennu, from a distance of 80 km, was taken
- by the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft on 3 December. From
- go.nasa.gov/2QfFwGk ...
- Sending Pic:295x280;
- The engine of the Soyuz-FG rocket launching three new crew
- members to the International Space Station, 3 December. From
- bit.ly/2AX95lz ...
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- Holiday lights at the Wellfields Botanical Gardens in Elkhart,
- Indiana. From bit.ly/2AUKcXS. See also bit.ly/2RCq4kj ...
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- Our painting of the week is a detail from St. Nicholas (circa
- 1837) by Robert Walter Weir. From s.si.edu/2UnW3Xb ...
- Sending Pic:210x173C;
- Shortwave Radiogram now returns to MFSK32 ...
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- I'm Kim Elliott. Please join us for the next Shortwave
- Radiogram.
- Next, a message from Tecsun Radios Australia ...
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