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I have written three White Papers on the Solar-Hydrogen Economy for the 'Net (www.hydrogennow.org, www.energypulse.net) and presented a Plenary lecture at the 2007 solar conference in San Diego. I have been in the solar business for eight years. As CEO of Eco-Engineers, we are planning a 400 MWe 24/7 solar-hydrogen power plant for southern California.
What excites you about this campaign?
This campaign represents a focul point for the grass-roots effort to change to the solar-economy.
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Hello,
I just wanted to take a minute of your time to let you know that a residential solar revolution HAS STARTED that will change the way you think about solar.
Please visit; www.powur.com/homeenergy1
To View Our Mission, and then click the back arrow to Become an Ecopreneur.
Please – this is not a sales pitch, but an opportunity to get involved in the greening of America. So if you have friends or relatives in the Anaheim area, please take the time to let them know of this message.
I guess I missed the announcement, and I can't find the article. Perhaps I processed it as just so much more marketing hype? I dunno.
But except for the occasional DIY guy, the selling price of parts is a mostly meaningless statistic isn't it? I mean the generators we use cost less than a nickel a Watt you can to to the GE, or Westinghouse or Marathon site and see that for yourself. Inverters for PV are 15 times more expensive ~ $0.75/Watt. The big issue is still installation. it can double the cost of the hardware for most PV jobs, we keep it below 10% of the total cost.
Is that the cell price, the module price, or the *installed* price? We quote installed prices (excluding permitting, local taxes, & fees), but I showed years ago that even if the solar cells were 'free" the install cost on a conventional PV system is in excess of $4/Watt.
And what is worse, is that when the CIGS folks started bragging about the $1/Watt threshold they neglected to mention that the diminished efficiency of the panels requires a bigger solar field. The installed cost of PV somehow never managed to drop below $6/Watt.
REYNOLDS, Are you still cherping? Glad you have plenty money and don't need tax credits, subsidies in your hydrogen fuel cell cars. I wish you good luck, but don't ask for gov't support. Go out into the free market and if you have a better auto let the free market determine this. Not have congress mandate cars that nobody wants and need subsidies, tax credits, etc. Support clean coal as the most assured and inexpensive way to capture CO2 and sequester. I gave you several technical references, so go read them and acquire this critical knowledge of the facts. Don't lock into something that is probably a pipe dream. Go with proven technology. Poston
REYNOLDS, Go for it, but stay with the free market. Don't ask for subsidies, tax credits, federal mandates, etc just get your H2 fuel cells competitive with and cheaper than say nat gas. There is no political support for small cars, alternate energy when gasoline is likely to fall to $1. Even the most liberal members of congress will not vote against fossil fuels when they are the cheapest thing going. They all want to get reelected. So lets concentrate our efforts on the doable--CCS! Carbon sequestration. POSTON
REYNOLDS, EVERYTHING YOU STATE HAS BEEN PROVED WRONG IN THE LAST 30 DAYS. OIL LESS THAN $40/BO, NAT GAS $5.70/MCF. DOES THIS SEEM LIKE WE ARE RUNNING OUT OF FOSSIL FUELS. NOBODY WILL BUY H2 FUEL CELL OR ANY OTHER EXOTIC AT THESE PRICES, GETTING AN EDUCATION--AYE!!! POSTON
Dr Hans Kruger, Hans you need to update your information and knowledge about Carbon Capture & Storage (CCS). Read Jly '08 issue of The Journal of Petroleum Technology, published by the Soc of Petr Engineers monthly, Pgs 86-94. You will see that the industry is already using this technology to clean coal from CO2 emissions. Use this proven technology on the 1,500 concentrated sources of CO2 and we are well below Koyoto standards in less than 10 yrs. No need to build cars that no body wants. Let the free market work. Poston
REYNOLDS, Age and experience has value in the current situation we find the USA in. Importing 70% of crude oil needs. Al Gore, inventor of internet, deciding that CO2 is a pollutiant. You have all your hope on a new liberal congress passing laws with Obama anxious to sign that will turn an already sick economy upside down. I have been around long enough to know that Robt Byrd, arguably the most liberal senator will not vote against coal. Ditto same for liberal senators from O & G producing states. When they see there is a way to clean up coal they will jump on this, especially since it is proven. I direct you to the Jly '08 issue of the Journal of Petr Tech, Pgs 86-93 where three articles on CCS document how advanced the fossil fuel insustry is in CCS. You need to update your knowledge and not lockin to a pipe dream. Poston
REYNOLDS, Just get a copy of the news reel shot of the Hindenberg and watch it. You seem to think that elemental H2 is not highly explosive. H2 is the most difficult gas to contain, has a wide range of explosive concentrations and is very dangerous. Heat of combustion for H2 is not as high for H2 as say methane or gasoline, but this will not protect you when flames are all around you--your clothing and flesh will quickly get engulfed in flame. Now you seem to be totally wrong about nat gas availibility. We import gas from W Canada (primarily PG & E) to the tune of about 15% of our total annual demand of 20 tcf. Nat gas is not economically moved by anything other than a pipeline. This is why ConocoPhillips is heading a group to build a nat gas pipeline from Prudoe Bay to Cushing, Okl. Sarah Palin pushed this through.
We do not import LNG because it costs too much. Check with T Boone on the hugh proven reserves of nat gas. Burning nat gas reduces CO2 emissions by 80%+ compared to coal, so you should support nat gas now!! Essentially all nat gas is domestically produced here in U.S.. The price of nat gas at the well head was $14/MCF earlier this year and is now $6.2/MCF. Does this seem like we are running out or have a supply problem with nat gas? You want congress rather than the free market to decide which fuels we use, which cars are mfg by Detroit, spend money on "New Tech" and thereby invent new fuel cells, batteries, etc to reduce CO2 emissions. It is doubtful that this approach will ever get there. Congress will never vote to wipe out the coal business or the oil and nat gas production business. They will however support a CO2 capture and sequestration scheme that uses proven tech and can reach our goal in less than 10 yrs. Check the Jour of Petr Tech monthly issues have several articles on CCS. This will give you up to date facts on CCS. You will learn how advanced CCS really is. Poston
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I just wanted to take a minute of your time to let you know that a residential solar revolution HAS STARTED that will change the way you think about solar.
Please visit;
www.powur.com/homeenergy1
To View Our Mission, and then click the back arrow to Become an Ecopreneur.
Also visit;
www.jointhesolution.com/homeenergy1
To see what we offer our customers.
Please – this is not a sales pitch, but an opportunity to get involved in the greening of America. So if you have friends or relatives in the Anaheim area, please take the time to let them know of this message.
Thank You for your time.
I guess I missed the announcement, and I can't find the article. Perhaps I processed it as just so much more marketing hype? I dunno.
But except for the occasional DIY guy, the selling price of parts is a mostly meaningless statistic isn't it? I mean the generators we use cost less than a nickel a Watt you can to to the GE, or Westinghouse or Marathon site and see that for yourself. Inverters for PV are 15 times more expensive ~ $0.75/Watt. The big issue is still installation. it can double the cost of the hardware for most PV jobs, we keep it below 10% of the total cost.
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Is that the cell price, the module price, or the *installed* price? We quote installed prices (excluding permitting, local taxes, & fees), but I showed years ago that even if the solar cells were 'free" the install cost on a conventional PV system is in excess of $4/Watt.
And what is worse, is that when the CIGS folks started bragging about the $1/Watt threshold they neglected to mention that the diminished efficiency of the panels requires a bigger solar field. The installed cost of PV somehow never managed to drop below $6/Watt.
The Light is Green!
I am looking to get information on wind speed every 5 minutes or less in any city of US.
Can you suggest me where to get such info.
I am doing my research on wind speed prediction and need those kind of info to construct my model.
Thanks you for your help
We do not import LNG because it costs too much. Check with T Boone on the hugh proven reserves of nat gas. Burning nat gas reduces CO2 emissions by 80%+ compared to coal, so you should support nat gas now!! Essentially all nat gas is domestically produced here in U.S.. The price of nat gas at the well head was $14/MCF earlier this year and is now $6.2/MCF. Does this seem like we are running out or have a supply problem with nat gas? You want congress rather than the free market to decide which fuels we use, which cars are mfg by Detroit, spend money on "New Tech" and thereby invent new fuel cells, batteries, etc to reduce CO2 emissions. It is doubtful that this approach will ever get there. Congress will never vote to wipe out the coal business or the oil and nat gas production business. They will however support a CO2 capture and sequestration scheme that uses proven tech and can reach our goal in less than 10 yrs. Check the Jour of Petr Tech monthly issues have several articles on CCS. This will give you up to date facts on CCS. You will learn how advanced CCS really is. Poston
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