AB 560 needs to pass:
Assembly Bill 560 would increase the cap on "net metering," which gives solar customers credit on their electric bill for surplus power they transfer to the utility. Currently, a utility is not obligated to sign net-metering contracts once solar power equals 2.5 percent of its peak electricity demand, a level PG&E is approaching. AB 560 would quadruple that cap, to 10 percent.
http://www.mercurynews.com/ci_12620166?source%253Dmost_emailed.26978592730A3B8C7F471EACE0DA4EF2.html
Please spread the word and take action by calling your Representative - requesting the bill be passed. Thanks!
Jacqueline,
Thanks for bringing to our attention the negative reports about the site earth4energy we do not know them but to be safe are taking the videos out.
Michael and Melissa
Hey;
Noticed your question to Boone about an outed member still hounding members e-mail.
Have you sent your request to the plan hdqrtrs?
Bottom right of every screen you'll see report an issue. click and send the plan administrators things of this nature. Also look up Pat Jack as he to works with ning op systems he should be able to assist.
Keep me posted.
Tom
Jacqueline: Yes, John Jackson (Newghas) has sent me a draft of a business plan that I revised and forwarded to the Foundation. The new company has been formed called Hyco Fuels (Hydrogen Company). It will be funded by the Foundation early next year.
Jacqueline: You seem to be technically inclined. However, the electric car still depends on "dirty coal" for electricity. As an ex-nuclear engineer, nuclear power is also not cost effective as well as radiation contamination, etc.
Ford, GM both need to restructure to the fuel-cell hydrogen car. My company is building 100 hydrogen stations in S. Calif. in 2009.
Ford Escort - 100 mpg : http://www.switched.com/2007/09/25/ford-developing-100mpg-escort-hy...
Ford Fiesta - 65 mpg (made in UK) currently sold in Europe - can't be sold in US????
http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/08_37/b4099060491065.h...
It's hard to discuss bail-outs with this information - and for the fact that the big "3" met with congress today. (Each flying in on their private leer jet - and when asked if they were willing to fly home on domestic airlines - the recording posted that not one of them raised their hand to volunteer - to save taxpayers money....)
in 1993 former Press Clinton gave the auto industry $1 billion to build hybrid and electric vehicels. When the oil man took ofice they crushed them to build gas guzzlers. Now every one wants hybrids and they are 10 years behind honda and toyota. They did this to themselves.$25 billion is to make hybrid and low emisions cars. After that it is unknown what if anything they will get but every one is saying it will have many srtings attached. Iour Icegroup or in my page I forget which. I posted an article electric companies are willing to help by ordering thousand of hybrids for there fleets. They espect to save thousands per car on fuel cost.
http://www.google.com/search?q=de+palma+inventor&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a
Research: DePalma
DePalma's death: http://www.panacea-bocaf.org/brucedepalma.htm
(In his own words: http://depalma.pair.com/Absurdity/Absurdity07/ProblemOfFreeEnergy.html)
!!!!!!!!!!
http://www.metacafe.com/watch/yt-8oS2iUFvdTE/the_first_women_barefoot_solar_engineers_of_the_world/
!!!!!!!!!!
This is a powerful message!!!!!
Welcome Jacqueline
Welcome To Green Jobs Now. Tell your friends looking for a Green Job
to upload their resume FREE at: www.green-jobs-now.com This is also good for you.
Melissa
coordinator@green-jobs-now.com
"Jacq", I hate to say, some tired old line about your perspective on this, but when these kind of problems present themselves, "GO BACK TO SCHOOL"!
If the "off the shelf" / "remove from box and bolt on" systems that the banking structure will allow advertised on the open market won't do it for you, look into some the more definition objective / unadvertised, unprofitable if sold to retail customers, systems that can do the job.
As an example:
One of the highest priced components on a wind system is the phase match inverter (to convert generated electricity to line acceptable format). The actually generators don't -necessarily- have to cost that much, and moderate efficiency deep cell batteries can take up the slack/surge, to reduce the size (and cost) of said inverter.
This means, that you can have 10 - 2HP [1 HP = 1KW for all intent] (peak wind speed) generators feeding a bank of storage batteries, with any excess being diverted into heat (for water), and only require 2 HP worth of inverter (to match the capacity of the wire and transformer into the property), and still supply all the energy necessary for your home without spending anywhere near the price of what -most of- the commercial suppliers say you need. More than that, these components can be added as money becomes available, starting with a single 2HP wind generator (possibly made yourself) and DC storage, to a audio amp type AC conversion circuit, separate from the line voltage.
Anyway, most of the efficiency, for a residential system, will be in climate control. I would suggest that you invest in insulation / solar deflection (in the south) and water heat collection and storage to start, until we can actually get the "Free trade for CLEAN energy", (@ $.05/KWH), to encourage people to build the systems for people like you in an environment that they can actually make a profit in doing so ... so they will do so...
Not to knock Mr. Picken's vision, or anything, but I don't particularly think it focuses too well on one of the reasons we got here in the first place. Big corporate machinery is a requirement, and has some definite advantages, but it doesn't allow the small business person to develop, explore, improve (this -very- required part of our existence) ,and profit, if regulations won't even let them on the playing field.
If free trade for CLEAN energy, were available ($.05/KWH @ 20 HP = $1,500/month), then I suspect -as one example- that a lot of farmers would put up multiple 5 HP wind generation systems on freeway light sized poles (that would be able to be lowered to the ground for servicing) as opposed to the 10 story "Clipper Ships" that require much more time and delay to install in limited locations, for the benefit (monetarily) of a very few people.
Another example: this same mentality of "top down" control built up a whole lot of "Mc Mansions" that are now of inflated value .They could be very valuable assets, with just a couple of rooms' conversions. Let me explain; The LP gas utility increases production of thawing methane resources to capture the gas before it can escape to the atmosphere. It sells the gas to the home owner who can turn the gas into heat and electricity for the home, (plus 2 HP constant extra), using a auto engine equipped with an extra catalytic converter that turns the carbon dioxide into calcium carbonate (this is effective for this range of engine conversion size to 40(?) HP constant). for a check from the utility company of $150 each month (about the cost of the LP gas bill, plus that much more for the pocket). -No changes required to utility infrastructure, and the utility doesn't have to build, man, or maintain the energy generation source; they become a _more profitable_ broker.-
If larger generation capacity is wanted, (20 HP for $1,500 return), a larger monthly connection fee is billed the location, for the upgrade in the wire, equipment, and transformer size, and the LP gas bill would be about $750, with a balance of $700 for profit each month. Any windmills or solar would result in reducing the LP gas bill, making small farms more secure in growing food/energy crops instead of some of the crap they now -have to- sell.
Once that is done, 20 HP energy generation (that results in $1,500 / month in return) will allow banks to be comfortable in lending the money for the solar-home / car-convertors (whatever) that do this. With a car payment of $300, and a mortgage payment of $800 (possibly distributed automatically), that still leaves $300 for taxes, and insurance, and food. All this without being any burden on the State.The figures are ballpark, but I would expect the banks to adjust the levels to provide a better level of food / personal income for the kind of return this represents.
More than that; correct type of homes built / upgraded get more jobs, in the local area. Energy costs for manufacturing and transportation go down -and remain low-. Labor benefits improve for workers, because they don't need a job , absolutely, right away, and small business will have more money to move around.
Stable, objective based economics, free home, security, transportation, food, and insurance,... and all a person has to do is sign a paper (and maybe get a vasectomy in the dangerously over populated parts of the world).
The last video posted talks about a magnetic generator.
Here's the video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=efCelx7qe_M&NR=1
An article on the inventors:http://www.rexresearch.com/christie/christie.htm *** but notice it was written in 2001 - surprising how slow this invention is being developed, if it is, indeed, capable of being a self-sufficient generator?
Want to be inspired look at this video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fXru5GhB3Uk
Solar energy breakthrough - "plastic power"...I posted it here also - makes one want to call Kanarka up and ask when residential products will be ready.
What I like about Kanarka & Nanosolar - is they are based in USA so any investment into buying their products reinvests in our country.
David Epps wrote:The difference in price of gasoline and "made in America natural gas" as of june 1, 2008 was $872M per day.. since June 1, 2008 when the Pelosi and the Democrats started dragging their feet on "Drill Here, Drill Now", 154 new Hospitals @ $450M each could have been built in the US not in some foreign country! Remember $700 billion per year is handed overseas - think what we could do for our own economy, if we kept that amount circulating within our our country????
My latest video added - "the next generation of cheap solar" - with a Palo Alto, CA company - http://www.nanosolar.com/ is focusing on "CIGSS". Imagine windows being part of the solar power system?
*** downside is they are sold out for the next 12 months.
Here are others using the CIGSS technology:
Konarka Technologies,
DayStar Technologies
Johanna of South Africa
Problem is they are not catering to residential - only commercial.
Any one know of a company taking on the residential CIGSS business? Please post any information here. Thanks...
Summary - the current "grid" is not capable of "receiving" additional energy created. It's up to the utility companies to find adequate ways to "receive" additional energy - or each household will find its way "off the grid" - and one less paying customer... Hmmm, a catch-22 in the makes!
If the utility companies can not find the way to be compatible with independent alternative energy makers - they will face the reality, that we will find ways to sell our excessive energies to local communities - potentially making monopoly utility companies obsolete.... (They definitely don't want the common person to understand that concept...)
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Assembly Bill 560 would increase the cap on "net metering," which gives solar customers credit on their electric bill for surplus power they transfer to the utility. Currently, a utility is not obligated to sign net-metering contracts once solar power equals 2.5 percent of its peak electricity demand, a level PG&E is approaching. AB 560 would quadruple that cap, to 10 percent.
http://www.mercurynews.com/ci_12620166?source%253Dmost_emailed.26978592730A3B8C7F471EACE0DA4EF2.html
Please spread the word and take action by calling your Representative - requesting the bill be passed. Thanks!
Here is the proper address for the "Boone Cam" recap of the last 6 months journey:
http://www.pickensplan.com/boonecam/2008/12/30/pickens-plan-victory-in-your-hands/
Hope you can help with a few petitions, too. WE CAN DO THIS. THERE IS NO INFLUENCE WITHOUT NUMBERS!
Best and Happiest,
Kim
Thanks for bringing to our attention the negative reports about the site earth4energy we do not know them but to be safe are taking the videos out.
Michael and Melissa
Noticed your question to Boone about an outed member still hounding members e-mail.
Have you sent your request to the plan hdqrtrs?
Bottom right of every screen you'll see report an issue. click and send the plan administrators things of this nature. Also look up Pat Jack as he to works with ning op systems he should be able to assist.
Keep me posted.
Tom
Ford, GM both need to restructure to the fuel-cell hydrogen car. My company is building 100 hydrogen stations in S. Calif. in 2009.
Ford Fiesta - 65 mpg (made in UK) currently sold in Europe - can't be sold in US????
http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/08_37/b4099060491065.h...
It's hard to discuss bail-outs with this information - and for the fact that the big "3" met with congress today. (Each flying in on their private leer jet - and when asked if they were willing to fly home on domestic airlines - the recording posted that not one of them raised their hand to volunteer - to save taxpayers money....)
Research: DePalma
DePalma's death: http://www.panacea-bocaf.org/brucedepalma.htm
(In his own words: http://depalma.pair.com/Absurdity/Absurdity07/ProblemOfFreeEnergy.html)
http://www.metacafe.com/watch/yt-8oS2iUFvdTE/the_first_women_barefoot_solar_engineers_of_the_world/
!!!!!!!!!!
This is a powerful message!!!!!
Welcome To Green Jobs Now. Tell your friends looking for a Green Job
to upload their resume FREE at: www.green-jobs-now.com This is also good for you.
Melissa
coordinator@green-jobs-now.com
If the "off the shelf" / "remove from box and bolt on" systems that the banking structure will allow advertised on the open market won't do it for you, look into some the more definition objective / unadvertised, unprofitable if sold to retail customers, systems that can do the job.
As an example:
One of the highest priced components on a wind system is the phase match inverter (to convert generated electricity to line acceptable format). The actually generators don't -necessarily- have to cost that much, and moderate efficiency deep cell batteries can take up the slack/surge, to reduce the size (and cost) of said inverter.
This means, that you can have 10 - 2HP [1 HP = 1KW for all intent] (peak wind speed) generators feeding a bank of storage batteries, with any excess being diverted into heat (for water), and only require 2 HP worth of inverter (to match the capacity of the wire and transformer into the property), and still supply all the energy necessary for your home without spending anywhere near the price of what -most of- the commercial suppliers say you need. More than that, these components can be added as money becomes available, starting with a single 2HP wind generator (possibly made yourself) and DC storage, to a audio amp type AC conversion circuit, separate from the line voltage.
Anyway, most of the efficiency, for a residential system, will be in climate control. I would suggest that you invest in insulation / solar deflection (in the south) and water heat collection and storage to start, until we can actually get the "Free trade for CLEAN energy", (@ $.05/KWH), to encourage people to build the systems for people like you in an environment that they can actually make a profit in doing so ... so they will do so...
If free trade for CLEAN energy, were available ($.05/KWH @ 20 HP = $1,500/month), then I suspect -as one example- that a lot of farmers would put up multiple 5 HP wind generation systems on freeway light sized poles (that would be able to be lowered to the ground for servicing) as opposed to the 10 story "Clipper Ships" that require much more time and delay to install in limited locations, for the benefit (monetarily) of a very few people.
Another example: this same mentality of "top down" control built up a whole lot of "Mc Mansions" that are now of inflated value .They could be very valuable assets, with just a couple of rooms' conversions. Let me explain; The LP gas utility increases production of thawing methane resources to capture the gas before it can escape to the atmosphere. It sells the gas to the home owner who can turn the gas into heat and electricity for the home, (plus 2 HP constant extra), using a auto engine equipped with an extra catalytic converter that turns the carbon dioxide into calcium carbonate (this is effective for this range of engine conversion size to 40(?) HP constant). for a check from the utility company of $150 each month (about the cost of the LP gas bill, plus that much more for the pocket). -No changes required to utility infrastructure, and the utility doesn't have to build, man, or maintain the energy generation source; they become a _more profitable_ broker.-
If larger generation capacity is wanted, (20 HP for $1,500 return), a larger monthly connection fee is billed the location, for the upgrade in the wire, equipment, and transformer size, and the LP gas bill would be about $750, with a balance of $700 for profit each month. Any windmills or solar would result in reducing the LP gas bill, making small farms more secure in growing food/energy crops instead of some of the crap they now -have to- sell.
Once that is done, 20 HP energy generation (that results in $1,500 / month in return) will allow banks to be comfortable in lending the money for the solar-home / car-convertors (whatever) that do this. With a car payment of $300, and a mortgage payment of $800 (possibly distributed automatically), that still leaves $300 for taxes, and insurance, and food. All this without being any burden on the State.The figures are ballpark, but I would expect the banks to adjust the levels to provide a better level of food / personal income for the kind of return this represents.
More than that; correct type of homes built / upgraded get more jobs, in the local area. Energy costs for manufacturing and transportation go down -and remain low-. Labor benefits improve for workers, because they don't need a job , absolutely, right away, and small business will have more money to move around.
Stable, objective based economics, free home, security, transportation, food, and insurance,... and all a person has to do is sign a paper (and maybe get a vasectomy in the dangerously over populated parts of the world).
Here's the video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=efCelx7qe_M&NR=1
An article on the inventors:http://www.rexresearch.com/christie/christie.htm *** but notice it was written in 2001 - surprising how slow this invention is being developed, if it is, indeed, capable of being a self-sufficient generator?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fXru5GhB3Uk
Solar energy breakthrough - "plastic power"...I posted it here also - makes one want to call Kanarka up and ask when residential products will be ready.
What I like about Kanarka & Nanosolar - is they are based in USA so any investment into buying their products reinvests in our country.
David Epps wrote:The difference in price of gasoline and "made in America natural gas" as of june 1, 2008 was $872M per day.. since June 1, 2008 when the Pelosi and the Democrats started dragging their feet on "Drill Here, Drill Now", 154 new Hospitals @ $450M each could have been built in the US not in some foreign country! Remember $700 billion per year is handed overseas - think what we could do for our own economy, if we kept that amount circulating within our our country????
*** downside is they are sold out for the next 12 months.
Here are others using the CIGSS technology:
Konarka Technologies,
DayStar Technologies
Johanna of South Africa
Problem is they are not catering to residential - only commercial.
Any one know of a company taking on the residential CIGSS business? Please post any information here. Thanks...
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/27/business/27grid.html?_r=1&oref=slogin
Summary - the current "grid" is not capable of "receiving" additional energy created. It's up to the utility companies to find adequate ways to "receive" additional energy - or each household will find its way "off the grid" - and one less paying customer... Hmmm, a catch-22 in the makes!
If the utility companies can not find the way to be compatible with independent alternative energy makers - they will face the reality, that we will find ways to sell our excessive energies to local communities - potentially making monopoly utility companies obsolete.... (They definitely don't want the common person to understand that concept...)
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