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Bill,
That's a great post about methane capture. A link would be great!
My only question is cost to capture - that is, on a small scale how much energy is required by the vacuum/compression process.
Here's just the model I've been speaking of:
Clean Hydrogen -
http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2009/05/06/hydrogen-electrolyzer.html
Oh please! What dribble Sen Cornyn writes. Notice that Clean Coal and Nuc are primary to the zero-toxin solutions.
Clearly this guy is on the Big Energy payroll. But then again, look at the state he is from. Every time we've had a Texan in the Wh...
Ken,
You have a point on "penalization" BUT if penalization were implemented correctly it would put a price on the environment which in turn would result in an incentive.
This "economic condition" as you call it is a result of greed, and much of...
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- Are you interested in becoming an organizer in your area?
- Yes
- Tell us about your experience with alternative energy:
- I'm a chemist and while not directly in the energy industry I fully understand the technologies from a scientific level.
- What excites you about this campaign?
- Finally the public is making a unified stand and are open to being educated on the alternatives - it's a shame that it took price to make this happen.
- What do you want to do to help?
- I have an idea for a national competition to help mainstream solutions that would support our direction toward free clean energy - please contact me if you have interest.
In addition, I take every opportunity to educate those (who are open to change) to understand what our options truly are and what we should be asking for.
Points such as:
True clean energy solutions have no inherent supply costs because their sources (the sun, the wind, the sea, the rivers) are totally free of cost. They also offer more physical jobs as some produce more energy than their dirt counterparts at a lower cost of total ownership (even after capital costs.)
Clean energy systems don't create targets for mass destruction because if you hit one, knock it down or blow it up it simply fails without a devastating wake of destruction left behind AND because they are distributed (more systems per unit of energy produced) they lend themselves to delivering a more stable energy supply in the event of malicious play. By that I mean, if one should become a target, and is taken down, it will only take out a small fraction of what would have been taken down if say a nuc, oil, coal, or gas plant were hit.
And as a final thought - hydrogen does happen to be the perfect fuel. Regardless of the propaganda you've heard. Hydrogen is clean and safe. The best part, once you have a source of electricity (and water of course,) hydrogen can be made anywhere - yes, even at home. (So don't believe anyone when they tell you that Hydrogen is difficult to transport in bulk (that's big energy thinking), because the fact is, you shouldn't have to transport it in bulk, you transport the electricity via the grid then make Hydrogen on location.
Imagine this - you own a wind generator (hopefully Mr. Pickens makes this the norm) and you have (or drill) a water well. So, as they say in Las Vegas - BINGO! you have the ability to produce Hydrogen for free!
All the above said, wind energy is a start, then we must change the way think about powered transportation and push for Hydrogen powered vehicles that we can refuel at home.
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No time or patience for pork barreling
This post was motivated by reading another PickMember blog talking about the ERA bill, which I am not familiar with, but here are my comments.
IMHO – The American people should be speaking out on anything buried in any initiative that is not 100% renewable and (in my personal opinion) 100% zero carbon and zero toxin.
We don’t need coal liquefication processes, or the support of nuclear. Nuclear especially is just creating a new problem. Has anyone read the news about the backup of nuclear wast… Continue
IMHO – The American people should be speaking out on anything buried in any initiative that is not 100% renewable and (in my personal opinion) 100% zero carbon and zero toxin.
We don’t need coal liquefication processes, or the support of nuclear. Nuclear especially is just creating a new problem. Has anyone read the news about the backup of nuclear wast… Continue
Posted on September 26, 2008 at 6:16am — 1 Comment
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- At 1:12pm on May 5, 2009,
Robert Schultz said… - OK, that's what I thought...hydrogen combustion returns water to atmosphere. I know natural gas is a petro-chemical, but domestic NG for 18 wheelers, etc. is better than importing oil from OPEC, until technology can be developed for freight transport. Why not more railroad transport with alternative fuel sources?
Here's an interesting article about a study done by Mark Z. Jacobson, a professor of civil and environmental engineering at Stanford.
http://esciencenews.com/articles/2008/12/10/wind.water.and.sun.beat.biofuels.nuclear.and.coal.clean.energy.stanford.researcher.says
Energy and vehicle options, from best to worst, according to Jacobson's calculations:
Best to worst electric power sources:
1. Wind power 2. concentrated solar power (CSP) 3. geothermal power 4. tidal power 5. solar photovoltaics (PV) 6. wave power 7. hydroelectric power 8. a tie between nuclear power and coal with carbon capture and sequestration (CCS).
Best to worst vehicle options:
1. Wind-BEVs (battery electric vehicles) 2. wind-HFCVs (hydrogen fuel cell vehicles) 3.CSP-BEVs 4. geothermal-BEVs 5. tidal-BEVs 6. solar PV-BEVs 7. Wave-BEVs 8.hydroelectric-BEVs 9. a tie between nuclear-BEVs and coal-CCS-BEVs 11. corn-E85 12.cellulosic-E85.
Hydrogen fuel cell vehicles were examined only when powered by wind energy, but they could be combined with other electric power sources. Although HFCVs require about three times more energy than do BEVs (BEVs are very efficient), HFCVs are still very clean and more efficient than pure gasoline, and wind-HFCVs still resulted in the second-highest overall ranking. HFCVs have an advantage in that they can be refueled faster than can BEVs (although BEV charging is getting faster). Thus, HFCVs may be useful for long trips (more than 250 miles) while BEVs more useful for trips less than 250 miles. An ideal combination may be a BEV-HFCV hybrid.
- At 8:48am on May 4, 2009,
Robert Schultz said…
- Jennifer,
I completely agree with you about clean energy sources, no coal and no nukes. I do have one concern about hydrogen as a fuel source. How will increased use of water to create hydrogen affect our water supply?
I know with both CNG and H2 we will need to have careful handling of fuel cells and adequate ventilation of work areas. I made a pretty good mess of my 8th grade science class with HCl, Zinc, and a flask with a 1-hole stopper, fortunately no one was hurt, but boy was my teacher mad!
- At 12:08pm on November 10, 2008,
Lou De Frog said… - Problem with wind is that it does not blow all the time so we need a back up. If that back up system in the PP burns NG we will have to leave our cars home that day.
- At 7:50am on November 10, 2008,
Bill Tucker said… - Jennifer,
Please stop by the Energy party group discussions. I think you will find a centerist view point very refreshing.
http://push.pickensplan.com/group/energyparty/forum/topic/show?id=2187034%3ATopic%3A1447447
- At 7:44pm on October 10, 2008,
Eric Beeler said… - Jennifer your formally invited!
Do you like contacting your public officals? Do you like making making a difference?
If both questions have a "Yes" for an answer then your our perfect member!
The action committee is very simmilar to www.action.pickensplan.com however our job is to do that in a much larger scale! An action committee member will have responsibilities that include: scheduling a conference with their senators/congressman, talking to major companies on switching to natural gas vehicles, and even talking to families about becoming 'green' and signing the petition.
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- At 8:26am on September 26, 2008,
Jennifer said… - Yes, you are right, and I guess retrofitting today's engines for CNG are not that big a deal as far as a retool. All I'm saying is that it must (MUST) be seen a short term patch with electrics being pushed very hard!
Let's face it. Japan beat us big time on this. Their hybrids are completely ready for the switch (batteries for fuel cells) and we're no were near them on this. In fact, the hybrid technology being boosted about by GM in their current line of SUVs (Tahoo and Escalade) is an insult to the intelligence of the American consumer. But, it’s being done because of pork barrel efforts whereby GM gets a credit for delivering such a monster.
I’m sorry, I just get so frustrated because I know the solutions are there, they’ve been there for years and yet business continues to lobby against then dance around solutions that really work.
- At 7:17am on September 26, 2008,
Dr, Randall S. Currie said… - I have known since I was a freshman in highschool 35 years ago.
that hydrogen as a storage media for wind energy was a good idea. We were electroplating in class when my medical doctor came for carrer day. He was asking our teacher for ideas on how to store energy from his windmill.
With that said I still think we will need compressed natural gas for decade or two to transision to this model. Most folks just have no grasp of the HUGE number of BTU we consume. NO one sorse will do it all. Do you read the national GEO. graphic?
they had a nice article several months(maybe a year???) showing the slice of our energy pie needed conservation and all NON oil methods. It will take all methods to get us there.
I do agree 100% with your long term goal. But we will need some bandaids to get us there.
- At 11:31am on September 25, 2008,
Dr, Randall S. Currie said…
- What branch of chemistry do you work in?
- At 10:06pm on September 17, 2008,
German Angel said…
- At 11:35am on September 16, 2008,
Anthony Sanudo said… - Hi Jennifer! Just wanted to stop by and personally welcome you to Pickens plan! I'm glad to see you taking initiative towards the need for more renewable energy policies and awareness! Please feel free to stay in touch and share you thoughts! Thanks!
-Anthony
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