Friday, April 16, 2010

Home Made Rat Playgrounds

wind power in Nicaragua - A Success Story of DC

A windmill in Nicaragua - which is really a sensation. The relatively small with 225 KW power plant in the Pacific coastal city of León is surrounded by a high fence to keep unauthorized persons away. Because the interest in the building that was built with Austrian support is great.
wind turbine Leon ,

impetus for the project was the HTL Braunau , with a technical school, the Instituto La Salle in León in a school partnership might. It was not easy for the Upper Austrian students to finance a wind power plant for about 8,000 kilometers away, friends. A cost-effective solution was found in a used wind turbine. This was purchased with funding from the Austrian Development Cooperation, ADC, transported and erected on site.

30,000 kilowatt hours of electricity supplies, the wind turbine, Type "Vestas V 27" annually to the Technical Institute "La Salle" in the Nicaraguan city of Leon was. In 2004 the wind power plant in operation. A technical team of the Institute IPLS (Instituto Politécnico La Salle) care and waiting before the system place.
The HTL Braunau and O.ö. company wind Simonsfeld support and advice via remote diagnostics, financed schools Nicaraguan technicians in Austria and help in obtaining spare parts. and installed wind power plant as part of a cooperation HTL Braunau with the wind Simon Field, the Upper Austrian Provincial Government, and the ADA, Austrian Development Agency.

The system was adapted in Germany after some years, for use in Nicaragua, shipped and reinstalled. Since then the machine wind power for the Technical Institute. With the proceeds of the sale of the electricity grid-connected system of school operations is supported. More than 900 students currently attending this institution in the increasingly renewable energy sources are subject.
The Technical Institute is an important driving force for sustainable development in Nicaragua - not only on energy.
is now the wind power in Nicaragua continues to rise. An already-realized project at Rivas, in southern Nicaragua is to be expanded to include 11 wind turbines with 40 MW installed capacity. Electricity production from currently operating systems meet the equivalent needs of 320,000 households.

Bites On A Dog's Stomach

Nicaragua is 800 megawatts of electricity from wind energy to produce

A year ago, Nicaragua has opened its first commercial wind farm Amayo in Rivas, Nicaragua to the south, with a capacity of 40 megawatts of electric energy. You currently supplies 5% of the energy needed by Nicaragua. At full load it will produce 7-9%. The second phase of the Amoyo wind farms should be completed by mid-2010 with additional 11 wind turbines generating 2.1 megawatts each, so that then a total of 23 turbines will be available.

Parque Eolico, Amayo (Photo: Holcim)
Three other wind energy projects are in various stages of planning and development. The nicaraguense-Venezuelan joint-venture company ALBA NISA has received a license to determine the wind potential of a further wind farm in Rivas with 40 windmills, each of which will generate 2 megawatts Elektizität. Since

300 megawatts of Nicaragua's domestic electricity needs are already provided (by serious energy shortages during the two years before Ortega's government came to power), is likely to increase electricity generation wait until the completion of his SIEPAC, a project to link the countries from Panama to Guatemala with transmission lines to a regional transmission network. Studies have shown that Nicaragua has the potential to generate 800 megawatts of electric wind energy.

It is estimated that the electricity needs of the region over the next 10 years from the current 7,000 megawatts to 12,000 - will reach 14.000 MW. Nicaragua is seen as the country in the region that has the greatest potential for wind power generation.
(Radio La Primerisma)

Wednesday, April 14, 2010

Family Feud For Baby Showers

Austria los shortened by all industrial (OECD) countries, the DCA means the most radical

The scandalous anyway modest resources for development cooperation will be used by the Ministry of Finance, also see the standard , reduced even further.

Since we must really thank sincerely the Christian Social People's Party Finance Minister Josef Pröll and the authorities responsible for development cooperation Foreign Minister Michael Spindelegger. The SPÖ Chancellor Faymann is perhaps still a word to the International Solidarity remember - I'm not skeptical.

Protest!
love people in Austria - picks up the phone, writing e-mails, letters, etc. etc. In any case, protested against this, as men to say here in Managua, Barbaridad.

It may not be true that the Republic of Austria, one of the richest countries in the world, is still stealing from the more measly responsibility.


(OECD statistics)

Paul Kat, Managua 14/04/2010

addresses: Dr. Michael
Spindelegger
Federal Ministry for European and International Affairs, Minoritenplatz 8, 1014 Vienna
Telephone: 0501150 - 3350
E-mail: michael.spindelegger @ bmeia.gv.at

Dipl.-Ing. Josef Pröll
for Finance
Rear Zollamtsstraße 2b,
1030 Vienna Phone: 01/51433-500000,
E-mail: josef.proell @ bmf.gv.at

Faymann
Chancellery
Ballhaus Platz 2, 1014 Vienna
Tel: +43 1 531 15-0 bka.gv.at
werner.faymann @

Tuesday, April 6, 2010

Adjacent Angle In Real Life

cooperation Casa de 3 Mundos - Nicasol

from left to right:: E-mail librarian, construction manager, Lucia Jarquin (NICASOL), Dieter Stadler (C3M)

B an a working visit to one of the most important cultural centers of Central America, the Casa de los Mundos 3 in Granada, was a collaboration that will further the local municipal library " Rincon de Cuentos in Malacatoya agreed at Granada.

The Foundation Casa de los Tres Mundos is a culture and development institution for the promotion of cultural projects with a social focus in Nicaragua and Central America. It is based in Granada. financed addition to the artistic and musical children's and youth training and coordinates the foundation of an integrated rural development project in Malacatoya.

In Malacatoya in Barrio Los Angeles, an example of a village development project led by the Director of the Casa de los 3 was Mundos, the Austrian Dieter Stadler and the residents of Malacatoya developed. side including houses, roads, water supply, schools, health posts, police stations, etc., a small children's library was built, with a focus promoting reading for children and young people.
The " Rincon de Cuentos " is housed in a small house and is specially designed for children and young people set up. The visitors and readers rate is about 35 people a day. addition be in charge of the surrounding schools of the librarian - in particular to strengthen the interest in reading and enhanced. The few books and reading games are of excellent quality - but only in small numbers

. The program " Book for Life " will work Nicasol and Casa de los 3 Mundos in Malacatoya / Los Angeles now in the future - also to include better equipment this local library to . reach

Photos: Paul Kat (1), C3M-Tina (3)