Marlon Brando, Michael Jackson, the World Bank, Carnegie Wave...

Marlon Brando, Michael Jackson, the World Bank, Carnegie Wave Energy????

I suppose back when this was discussed, everyone would have been all excited.

Marlon and Michael are both dead and I suspect the proposal has ended up the same way.

"The atoll of Marlon Brando will become carbon free

Marlon Brando had chosen as his heavenly retreat the atoll of Tetiaroa, north of Tahiti, in French Polynesia. A little luxury retreat and who had a minimum energy needs. But now in Tetiaroa is building a eco-resort carbon free 6 stars that will use 100% renewable energy.

Brando bought Tetiaroa for his daughter in 1965, after the filming of "The Mutiny on the Bounty" and lived on the island until 1990, refusing to build a resort because the costs were too high. The American actor granted the use life of a small island of the atoll, Onetahi, Michael Jackson. In 2005, Brando's heirs sold the atoll to Richard Bailey, a real estate promoter of Tahiti who kicked off the construction of the luxury resort. The project is to transform the Marlon Brando's island in an example of clean energy of the future for all of Polynesia and the entire Oceania with a mix of solar photovoltaic, wave energy, desalination and biofuels from coconut oil.
In the luxurious eco-resort carbon free which will occupy the atoll of Brando it is also provided an air conditioning system for saltwater use cold water about 5 degrees Celsius pumped to 1 km below the surface of the Pacific Ocean, a flow battery as backup, and a renewable-powered desalination technology based on Australia's Carnegie Wave energy.

It would seem unlikely the utopia of paradise for the rich (as Marlon Brando dreamed of a personal paradise for stay away from the demons of a world that he liked the most), but behind there are no people like Dan Kammen, chief of technical specialists in renewable energy and energy saving and efficiency of the World Bank, who in an interview with Climate Spectator said "the islands and remote communities, especially in developing countries, are proving to be an excellent test case on how to achieve results 100% clean energy. The high price of fossil fuels in these countries allows the technology to be available soon, and many do not have other options. Reach 10 and 20% of renewable energy has shown very feasible, but as you get to 80, 90, 100% of which is really no need to fulfill the integration agreement? What we are seeing in many island communities and in many isolated places, which are not islands but they seem islands seen from an energetic perspective, it is that with a good management system, integrating efficiency and renewable, are finding ways to backup their clean generation; these lessons can be transferred in rich and poor countries around the world. "
The World Bank manages an energy balance with a budget of between 5 and 5.5 billion for renewable energy with no carbon emissions and Kammen takes care of evaluation and support of projects in different countries considering also the fastest-growing areas : lending policy to help countries to evaluate everything from feed-in tariffs, auction schemes, economic and environmental benefits of 'interconnection with neighboring countries.

The World Bank has invested heavily in transmission lines to connect the hydropower produced Ethiopia and Kenya Energie wind and geothermal, in the perspective of a regional energy market. There were similar investments in Turkey, to connect the energy produced by wind to metropolitan areas, but also to export wind power both in Europe and in Syria. Kammen says that the World Bank's commitment is to "Finding transmission projects that really facilitate the green market" in developing countries.

The islands are very important to this policy because "Today, in a number of situations, renewable sources have cost equal to or lower than the competing fossil fuels -says Kammen on Climate Spectator In many island systems, where the price of diesel is very high , renewable energies are already the lowest cost, but not always easily accessible, and therefore may need to get some funding to make them work, even if they can prove suffered an advantageous cost. There are a number of situations where they have a low cost wind resources and all work for the solar integrated large-climbed, but must pass the utility problems in the past have not thought of them. And so this is one area where, even for competitive costs, it is necessary that the utility will come forward, you need to push full throttle on the market. Which is part of what we do. And then there are, of course, some places where renewables are in fact even more expensive, and just mind in developed countries around the world are trying to find the optimal use of scarce resources to encourage them, the opening of markets is an another piece of what we do. "

According to Kammen, the Marlon Brando pointing island energy self-sufficiency with a mix of wave energy, biomass and solar coconut "It 'a very interesting example, because in the process of sustainable community development for the island, including choices for eco-tourism, they really addressed many of the problems that countries are only just sinking, to get to their goal, because from the very beginning was 100% renewable. We look at what we thought earlier on "expensive" cost curve: Get to 10 and 20% of renewable energy has proved very feasible. " Small islands may be the most suitable places to experience how to get to 100%."

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