This Year In Clean Energy - What A Ride


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energy-what-a-ride


The year 2009 started off with a bang for the clean energy industries --
encompassing energy efficiency, renewable energy, clean distributed generation
-- for manufacturers, project developers, installers -- the whole family of
industries. President Obama assumed office in January '09 and by February the
Stimulus Bill (ARRA) was signed into law, extending the portfolio of clean
energy tax credits, but also setting in motion billions of dollars of loan
guarantees and grants.

President Obama has made clean technology and cleantech jobs a centerpiece of
his Administration, and I attended one public meeting during the first week of
December where Secretary of Interior Salazaar, VA Governor Kaine (also head of
the Democratic National Committee), and Cathy Zoi, USDOE Assistant Secretary
EE/RE, all waxed eloquently on why fast adoption and scale-up of clean
technologies are essential in order to create jobs, supplant energy imports and
reduce emissions.

Congressional leadership has driven both energy and climate legislation; and
even allowing a temporary installation of two U.S.-made wind turbines (one by
Mariah Power and the other by Southwest Windpower) to remain at the base of the
U.S. Capitol on the grounds of the U.S. botanical gardens — clearly symbolic of
the commitment to clean energy technologies.

While two long and complicated climate bills were introduced in both Houses of
Congress, climate legislation has been stalled up to the International Climate
meeting in Copenhagen. From Denmark, Dr. Ann Braudis of the Maryknoll Office for
Global Concerns, wrote,  "I think the most important thing that has happened is
the deep seeing that we are truly engaged in systems change that involves the
entire planet. The Climate Change work of the UNFCCC is an important, if
limited, manifestation of the shift. The danger may be that as humans we are not
yet skilled in addressing our issues in an interconnected way."

Yes, this is the critical salient issue — we all should be aware that the carbon
we seek to monetize impacts the strongest lobbies on the planet — petroleum,
coal, electric utilities and transportation (vehicles, airlines, etc.) — hence
the disconnect. And note, these are the very same groups financing the skeptics
that tamper with public opinion.

But the tampering of public opinion notwithstanding, the Environmental
Protection Agency (EPA) in December announced that it intends to name carbon and
other greenhouse gas emissions "harmful," which is the first step in exercising
regulation of greenhouse gases under the auspices of the Clean Air Act. And
President Obama is engaging with other world leaders, most importantly working
with our sister country mega greenhouse gas emitters — Brazil, China, India and
Russia — to see if there can be a step taken towards some kind of meaningful
near-future legally-binding agreement.

Even though some of the headline news this year showed multinational companies
closing their U.S. plants (GE Solar in Delaware and BP Solar in Maryland) and
wholly US-owned PV manufacturers such as UniSolar shedding employees in
Michigan, clean energy industries are growing.

According to Energy Efficiency Markets Newsletter, "To say 2009 was a banner
year for the energy efficiency industry is an understatement. Under Obama's
watch, the federal government has channeled $20 billion in stimulus dollars to
energy efficiency and now promises more from bailout funds returned by banks."

Yes, overall the cleantech industries are booming and have surmounted the global
mega-economic meltdown. According to research firm DisplaySearch's Quarterly PV
Cell Capacity Database & Trends Report for Q3 2009 solar cell manufacturing
capacity is expected to grow 56% in 2009 to 17 gigawatts (GW) and ramped
capacity, which was only 2.3 GW in 2005, is forecast to grow at a compound
annual rate of 49% to more than 42 GW in 2013. Between January 2008 and July
2009, approximately 11.4 GW of new solar cell capacity was installed in
facilities around the world. Most of these were previous investment commitments,
and that is the reason that capacity is continuing to grow 56% in 2009 despite
falling demand.

Emerging Energy Research (EER) released a new study analyzing global geothermal
markets — Global Geothermal Markets & Strategies, 2009-2020 — which is available
for download on EER's website.  The report says that the U.S. — the world's
leading geothermal market — has a pipeline of more than 4,400 MW of confirmed
projects and is poised to more than double existing capacity over the next five
years.  Further, the global geothermal pipeline now exceeds 9,000 MW of projects
under development — which, if executed to completion, will nearly double the
installed global geothermal capacity of 10,500 MW built up over the past 30
years. Currently, there are over 215 commercial geothermal projects operating in
24 countries. (Editor's note: for more on geothermal power, check out This Year
in Geothermal, last week's column by Karl Galwell and Leslie Blodgett.)

As of May 2009, eighty countries around the world are using wind power on a
commercial basis. At the end of 2008, worldwide nameplate capacity of
wind-powered generators was 121.2 gigawatts (GW), which is about 1.5% of
worldwide electricity usage and is growing rapidly, having doubled in the three
years between 2005 and 2008. Total capacity at the end of 2008 reached 25,170 MW
with an annual growth rate of 49.6% and more than 85,000 U.S. jobs in wind.

SBI estimated in its new report, "The Wind Power Market: Turbine Components &
Subcomponents and Demand in the U.S. and the World," that the total wind energy
market in the U.S. is valued at $151.3 billion.  Frost and Sullivan reported,
"due to the strong growth and placement of wind turbine orders in 2008 and the
lead time between placing the orders and shipping them out to customers, the top
line for wind turbine manufacturers in 2009 has been relatively unaffected."

Berkeley Lab's July 2009 wind study concluded a slower year was expected in
2009, in large part due to the global recession.  The lab said that projections
among industry prognosticators ranged from 4,400 MW to 6,800 MW of wind likely
to be installed in the U.S. in 2009. "After a slower 2009, most predictions show
market resurgence in 2010 and continuing for the immediate future," it
concluded.

Today, more than 25 countries are involved in developing relevant conversion
technologies for harnessing ocean renewable resources for electricity generation
and/or other purposes, such as desalination, heating for aquaculture and other
uses. More than $2 billion will be invested to build commercial
river-hydrokinetic and ocean energy power facilities by 2015 with another $2
billion going towards research and development globally over the next six years.

According to Renewables Global Status 2009 Update, edited by Eric Martinot of
REN21, "Biomass power generation (and cogeneration) continued to increase at
both large and small scales, with an estimated 2 GW of power capacity added in
2008, bringing existing biomass power capacity to about 52 GW.  The Energy
Information Administration stated that in 2009, "Generation from biomass, both
dedicated and co-firing, [will] grow from 39 billion kilowatt-hours in 2007 (0.9
percent of the total) to 46.1 billion kilowatt-hours."

The immediate future looks bullish. Sklar's choice for the two best clean energy
reports in 2009 are as follows:

    1. The Institute for Local Self reliance's "States Energy Self Reliance
Report," which said that "all 36 states with either renewable energy goals or
renewable energy mandates could meet them by relying on in-state renewable
fuels.  Sixty-four percent could be self-sufficient in electricity from in-state
renewables; another 14 percent could generate 75 percent of their electricity
from homegrown fuels."  The report also said that "the nation may be able to
achieve a significant degree of energy independence by harnessing the most
decentralized of all renewable resources: solar energy. More than 40 states plus
the DC could generate 25 percent of their electricity just with rooftop PV." In
fact, these data may be conservative. The report does not, for example, estimate
the potential for ground photovoltaic arrays — although it does estimate the
amount of land needed in each state to be self-sufficient relying on solar —
even though common sense suggests that this should dwarf the rooftop potential.

    2. The philanthropic arm of search giant, Google, in 2009 released a plan to
move the U.S. to a clean-energy future, entitled, The Google vision. In 2030,
electricity will be generated not from coal or oil but from wind, solar and
geothermal power. Energy demand will be two-thirds what it is now, thanks to
stringent energy-efficiency measures. Ninety percent of new vehicle sales will
be plug-in hybrids. Carbon dioxide emissions will be down 48 percent. Getting
there will cost $4.4 trillion, according to the Google  plan — but will recoup
$5.4 trillion in savings. The Clean Energy 2030 plan would require ambitious
national policies, a huge boost to renewables, increased transmission capacity,
a smart electricity grid and much higher fuel-efficiency standards for vehicles.

So the big news is that in 2009 the world maintained investment in renewable
energy. According to "Advanced Materials and Devices for Renewable Energy" from
BCC Research, the global market for advanced materials and devices for renewable
energy is estimated to be worth $11.6 billion in 2009 and is expected to
increase to $16.9 billion in 2014.

So for those of you disheartened by global climate political machinations abroad
and inside the beltway of Washington politics, don't despair!  The inevitable
march of clean energy and water technologies is unstoppable. I know sometimes it
seems like water torture and there are challenges ahead, but cleantech has just
begun to scale at unimaginable proportions. I can't wait for 2010!

The decycling of digestate



Nature's inheritance.



The natural/geologic processes of our planet have never shown any lack
of ability in regard to the production of remarkable results. Amongst
their great many outstanding achievements they have extracted carbon
dioxide from the atmosphere, caused carbon to enter and remain within
anaerobic environments and enabled this carbon to enter states of
fossilisation - but here's a thought - if nature used to
be able to do all this in the past, maybe she's still got what it takes
to do the same kind of thing today.



There is no doubt about nature's potential to do the job. All she needs
is the opportunity to get it done - or, to be more specific, all she
needs a suitable quantity of carbon based material that gets buried in a
suitable way.



Going to waste.



The extent to which carbon based materials go to waste is staggering -
let us count the ways: there's the sewage, the food waste, the animal
waste, the waste paper, the other forms of naturally produced organic
waste and, to make mention of a curious side issue, a wide range
synthetically produced carbon based waste materials as well. There's a
phenomenal load of rubbish to be dealt with and it all needs to be dealt
with in appropriate ways.



The challenge of digestion.



There are, however, complications associated with a simple burial of
waste as a whole range of microbes will typically get buried along with
it. These microbes will continue consume everything they can and for as
long as they are able. One way to stop them is through the use of an
anaerobic environment and yet, even when the oxygen runs out, a
remaining content of hydrogen will enable methanogenic microbes to
continue to hydrate carbon and generate methane.



Methane is a notably destructive substance. It is an extremely potent
"greenhouse gas" that, over the time period of 100 years, would have 25
times the impact on the global temperature as an equivalent initial
quantity of carbon dioxide and, if that wasn't enough, it also seems to
have it in for itself. It possesses the remarkable ability to oxidise
without burning to an extent in which atmospheric methane only takes
about seven years for half its carbon content to get initiated into the
more dauntingly resilient dioxide community. Never-the-less, from our
point of view it is much better for methane to burn out than to fade
away. The great thing is that it burns really well, better than any
other carbon based fuel.



Controlled digestion.



The best way that methane can be controlled is through the application
of anaerobic digestion technologies. They work in a wonderfully simple
way. Waste materials are injected into the top of a large sealed drum,
microbial digestion does what it does best in the middle, relatively
solid digestate material is squeezed out at the bottom and natural
bubbles rise up all around.



The main complication is the simultaneous production of a small but
significant quantity of Hydrogen Sulphide (otherwise variously known as:
Sulphur Hydride; Sulphurated Hydrogen; Hydrosulphuric Acid; Sewer Gas;
Stink Damp; Rotten Egg Gas; Brimstone or H2S). Hydrogen sulphide may
easily be regarded as a smelly cousin of water and, as sulphur and
oxygen both possess the ability to bond with other atoms at non typical
angles, hydrogen sulphide and water can be considered to share some of
the same eccentricities. The big difference, however, is that hydrogen
sulphide is quite obnoxious and, mainly for the sake of the machinery
within which natural gas may pass, is excluded on a routine basis.



Digestate.



At present farmers will may typically pay something like the costs to
get the digestate from a processing plant and onto their fields upon
which it can then act as a medium grade fertiliser within an obviously
aerobic environment and I have assumed that, from this point, the entire
carbon content of the digestate will eventually end up being returned
into the atmosphere. It's not a great deal of carbon but it all adds up.
Digestate materials are assessed to contain a modest 4.5%–9% carbon
content while crude oil, at a different extreme, will typically boast a
carbon content of something in the region of 95%. This means that
anything up to 21 units of digestate would need to be decycled in order
to to counteract the carbon print of a single unit of crude oil.



Plastics.



Carbon can also be found (at widely noted levels of abundance) within
various forms of plastic. The current practice within anaerobic systems
is for the plastic materials to raked out of the mix. An alternative,
depending on the extent of the environmental effects that various
plastics may exhibit within various environments, would be to leave
certain and perhaps all forms of non styrofoam plastic in a deposition
mix. Instead of raking them out they might be chopped up. The small
remaining pieces of plastic would be unable to trap significant
quantities of natural gas and would be able to take yet more carbon out
of the equation.



Sedfill.



The next question relates to where to put all the waste.



Landfill might always be used but I'd like to present the more
controversial suggestion of digestate materials being buried at sea.



An immediate mechanical question may be raised in relation to ways in
which the digestate materials might be encouraged to sink. Digestate
materials, like all forms of biological matter, will likely have
something like the equivalent density as water and yet would need to
sink within bodies of water that would typically possess a heavy salty
content. A bit of ballast may be easily added. For instance, if
anaerobic digesters might be built in locations downhill from major
population centres in near proximity to navigable stretches of water
then it may be possible to add aquatic sediments directly into the
digestate mix. Sediments might even be added at a suitable stage of the
digestion process should that be possible or into the digestate product
at a later stage but, if this were to happen, a further dose of natural
gas might need to be released at a later stage.



The containers of digestate, weighed down by any suitably dense
substance, could then be shipped or otherwise floated out to sea to
locations in which they might then be caused to descend down to the sea
floor.



One potentially ideal situation for the deposition of the digestate
materials might involve the anchoring of a suitably equipped container
ship above a deposition site. This ship would then be able to act as a
base for the direction of a remote controlled vehicle on the sea floor
whose main purpose would be to dig trenches into which the digestate
might be accommodated. Containers of digestate materials could then be
guided into place either through the movement of a suitably sized loop
of cable that could be attached both to the remote controlled vehicle
and to both ends of the ship. An alternate method of container
deposition could involve the use of forms of submersible equipment that
might guide individual containers of digestate on their way. These
submersible guides could be simply equipped with ballast tank capable of
being variously be filled with water or air, fins to permit a controlled
path of descent and accent, a sensor to monitor the location of the
remote controlled vehicle below and its designated docking station above
and a programmed ability not to crash into anything on the way. As long
as the trench digging remote controlled vehicle was able to let the
submersible guides know where it was then if, for instance, the ROV
might be digging its way in an easterly direction then the submersible
guide would simply aim to deposit its cargo at a safe distance to the
west. The trench digging remote controlled vehicle might also be
directed in such a way in which it may additionally be able to cover
over previously dug sections of trench. All it would need would be the
capacity to deposit the excavated sedimentary materials on just one of
its sides and also be able to cut its path on a spirally bound course or
simply to go up and down like a farmer might in plowing a field. The
remote controlled vehicle would be able to cover its tracks by either
method.



However, dependant on the assessed experience that digestate type medium
grade fertilisers may have on the sea bed and similarly dependant on the
assessed need to reduce quantities of carbon dioxide entering the
atmosphere and, of course, dependent on cost, it may decided that other
means may also be used for the deposition of digestate onto the sea bed.
Any boat that had spare capacity when heading out to sea would have a
potential capability to take some digestate with it and, amongst others,
there are plenty of fishing vessel and oil tankers that might do the
job. The people operating these vessels are often brave souls performing
lonely jobs but, all the same, it may be time for them to give something
back.



Thermostasis.



It may be conceived that the decycling process described may be able to
provide some relief from the severity of the carbon crisis and perhaps
there may be more. Depending on both the potential implication or the
decycling method and manner in which the energy industries choose to
operate, it may perhaps be possible for the deposition rate of digestate
carbon through decycling activities to surpass the extraction rate of
fossilised carbon. If that could happen then the result would be this -
a control of the climate would be in our hands.



Within this eventuality a target carbon content for the atmosphere would
need to be chosen and yet it may be conceived that different people may
have different preferences with regard to their ideal temperature for
the earth. Obviously we are currently a very long way from having any
form of control of the climate and yet I would still like to say this.
Perhaps an atmospheric carbon content similar to the carbon content of
the atmosphere in the 1960s may present an initially suitable target.



Cooler climates present a range of advantages with regard to the welfare
of a wide variety of current forms of terrestrial life. There is,
however, a bigger picture. Warmer temperatures may, at some stage,
present us with possibilities for the preparation of our planet for its
longer term capacity to support life. The problem is that the arctic
regions of our planet contain huge quantities of our old friend methane
saturates a variety of materials such as peat in regions such as those
towards the poles. Its a time bomb. When the ice finally melts, which -
due to the fact that the sun seems to be slowly yet relentlessly heating
up - it will, the carbon will naturally end up being released into the
atmosphere. There will be advantages for all our futures if situations
can be orchestrated within which the carbon might be dealt.



The high temperature climate would, however, be quite literally awash
with disadvantages. A higher temperature atmosphere would have greater
ability to hold on to an occasionally high level of water content. Water
vapour presents problems in two significant ways. It has a greater
reflective potential than any of the other abundant form of "steamhouse
gas" and yet the water vapour content of the atmosphere has an
unsettling potential to "change like the weather". Global warming, on
its own, might not have been so bad. It actually sounds quite nice. Its
the related concept of global poaching, its potentially erratic weather
and its oppressively muggy skies that may represent a broader indication
of the phenomena.



Generational inheritance.



It should also be noted that the decycling process has its limitations.
For instance, it has a limited ability to affect the fuel crisis. Fossil
and nuclear fuels are finite in nature and need to be protected for the
future. The wind, however, cannot be overfarmed, wood can always be
burnt and geothermal, solar, wave and perhaps other water driven sources
of energy can be tapped without limit.



It is especially at Christmas that parents may desire to give their
children the earth. With a continued application of effort it may
actually be possible to do just that.



Merry Christmas.





A version of this text receiving intermittent updates is posted on the
Attempts at Survival website at attempts.org.uk/decycling



[Non-text portions of this message have been removed]

G'Day All,

FYI

Season's Greetings,
Chuck



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Wow indigenous building methods are better than western ideas.  Sit in a
colonial period or after building anywhere in the world with the power off and
you get the clue.  My favored poorly designed structures are houses of worship. 
Way to keep them in thier seats in summer periods.  By failing to incorperate
natural thermal chimney ventilation and making folks marinate in thier sunday
best clothes.  Another "design flaw" i question is above grade structures in
huricane alley that recieved mother natures brand of demo recently.

Good travels
Poet

--- In tomorrow-energy@yahoogroups.com, "tallex2002" <altenergynetwork@...>
wrote:
>
> Green technology — it's older than you think
>
> In Yemen, 800-year-old houses provide all the comfort of a modern,
cutting-edge structure
>
> http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/global-green/091210/green-yemen-houses
>
>
> SANA'A, Yemen — The Old City of Sana'a looks a little like a gingerbread
house, delicately frosted on Christmas Eve, and then rediscovered months later
in a cabinet above the radiator.
>
> This ancient, walled city is a dilapidated rabbit warren of medieval towers
intricately adorned with alabaster crescents. Centuries of rain, sun, coups and
civil war have taken their toll on its 800-year-old buildings. But despite their
age and dilapidation — it's shocking that any of these structures are still
standing at all — the buildings feature some impressive green technology.
>
> "It seems to me the architects in the past were much more clever than us,"
said Abdullah Zeid Ayssa, who overseas the government's preservation efforts in
the Old City of Sana'a, the whole of which is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. "Our
modern architecture doesn't care much about the sustainability of the materials,
or the climate [a building] will exist in."
>
> Roughly 6,000 "tower houses" — narrow, four to five-story structures built
side-by-side, like Brooklyn brownstones — still stand in Old Sana'a today.
Nearly all of them were built by hand using locally quarried stones, hand-mixed
plaster and a naturally waterproof insulating material, qudad, made of volcanic
cinders and lime.
> Sana'a Old City in Yemen at night
> The Old City of Sana'a is listed as a UNESCO World Heritage site.
> (Paul Stephens/GlobalPost)
>
> Both the materials and the centuries-old building techniques help maintain a
constant temperature inside the homes, eliminating the need for air-conditioning
and central heating — a key factor in the poorest nation in the Arab world,
where millions of people live without electricity, and power outages in the
major cities occur on a daily basis.
>
> "If your house is made of cement, it's cold inside, but if you live in an old
house, it's much warmer," said Taha Ahmed, who has lived in a 100-year-old tower
house his whole life, and have never used either a heater or air-conditioning.
"It is insulated by clay walls, so it's quiet and warm all winter."
>
> Ayssa, who studied architecture at Texas A&M University, said the comfortable
interior temperature is largely due to the buildings' "passive solar"
technologies, and naturally efficient "thermal mass."
>
> "Basically, that means [the tower houses] soak up the heat of the sun during
the day, and release it gradually at night, so it creates a perfect environment
year around," said Pamela Jerome, a professor of historic preservation at
Columbia University's Graduate School of Architecture who has worked extensively
Yemen. "It's not a fancy technology, but it works."
>
> Despite the soaring and plummeting temperatures of a desert city situated at
more than 7,000 feet, the internal temperature of Sana'a tower houses rarely
fluctuates more than a few degrees, according to Ayssa's doctoral research.
>

G'Day All,

When we have people in the environmental movement, who have been talking about
peak oil for decades, what can we believe?  Yet, Chevron just opened a new oil
field in the Gulf of Mexico that is believed to be able to provide 10% of the US
needs.  With increased demand for oil in India and China, there are few if any
experts, who believe that there is enough oil to supply the expanding market
forever, but no honest person can predict if or when the real demand will exceed
the supply.  When this happens what will China do?

Exaggeration and fear mongering, by people selling movies, selling books, and
trying to create political issues, have caused many people to distrust the
warnings from scientists, who are seeing potential risks in certain human
activities, while having no personal reason to exaggerate or confuse.  Yet,
science is full of politicians, who demand conformity with their mainstream
theories.  Ridicule rather than polite debate is a terrible abuse of power by
certain scientists.  We can put Climate Gate next to the public response of
certain scientists to Cold Fusion, as an example of the imperfect actions of
scientists, who are also human beings, some driven more by emotion than by
logic.

For those people with strong religious beliefs, did God Almighty design a world
that man can so easily destroy?

Several years ago, we were being asked to decide where to build large terminals
to allow refrigerated tankers to unload liquefied natural gas.  Today, new
methods of recovery have created a surplus of natural gas in the US that is now
expected to meet our needs for over a hundred years.  If you were a rich
investor, would you put your money into sustainable energy technology, such as
fuel cells, also known as water batteries?

Around five years ago, I read in Science News that a group of researchers had
concluded that we are not going into an ice age.  Another group of scientists
continues to say that global warming could change the Atlantic Ocean currents,
triggering a sudden and catastrophic ice age across the US, Northern Europe, and
the UK.  Something like this is thought by some to have killed off the
Mastodons, several of whom were found in Siberia, instantly frozen to death,
with food in their mouths.  What ever triggered this sudden freezing was long
before man began burning coal and oil to power machinery, but what degree of
change was needed to trigger this environmental response?

What we are all facing is a vast array of complicated and interactive forces
that may or may not threaten the continued existence of life on this planet.  If
we guess right, we may continue to enjoy a high standard of living, with ample
surpluses to be shared with less fortunate people around the world.  If we guess
wrong, our children and grand children may face mass starvation and wars, as
people fight over limited resources.

Some how as a nation of immigrants, we have worked through great difficulties in
the past, over coming our difficulties and differences, which proves that we
have a good chance of working through the newer challenges that lie ahead.

For those with strong religious beliefs, please pray for us, and the rest, just
wish us good luck. Smile!

Season's Greetings,
Chuck




________________________________
From: Loran Stringer <loranstringer@...>
To: PutNeighborhoodsFirstInSunnyvale@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Sat, December 19, 2009 12:37:30 PM
Subject: Re: [PNFS] High Speed


Luc:
You are getting close to the edge of acceptability. Issues, not calling names.
If you think Pat is myopic. Site his  ophthalmologist. I do not believe your
(non) references.
Larry




________________________________
From: Luc H <4luc@sbcglobal. net>
To: PutNeighborhoodsFir stInSunnyvale@ yahoogroups. com
Sent: Fri, December 18, 2009 6:28:15 PM
Subject: Re: [PNFS] High Speed


Pat

You have a myopic view of where and how the real big money is used. Cap and
trade, carbon credits and all these new schemes, are global taxation scams. Man
made or Anthropomorphic Global Warming is a scam just like Global Cooling was.
How about the Oil Crisis of the 70's? Scam. The California Energy crisis, scam.
I could go on for days, but you get the gist. How about ClimateGate?

Why is it, that opposing scientist are never invited to these climate change
conferences?  And why do they get ejected from these confereces if they speak
out?

Co2 is a beneficial gas, ask any greenhouse grower.

Explain how man is creating simultaneous planetary climate change in the solar
system?

Just because research comes from NAS doesn't mean it 100% accurate. NAS is
government funded, politics and funding does steer the science. If research
doesn't fit the agenda, grant money is lost. Request grant money to study how
termites add to global warming, you will get money. Request grant money to study
the beneficial effects of Co2 on food production, you will not get money.

On electric cars you are partially right. The California Air Resource Board
(CARB) in the 90's mandated that 2% Zero Emission Vehicles (ZEV) be sold by
major auto manufactures by 1998. GM, Ford, Chrysler, Nissan  Toyota, Honda and
Mazda complied but then sued CARB. The mandate was dropped in favor of a
Hydrogen car of the future. The Nickel-metal hydride (NiMH) was developed by
Stanford Ovshinsky, in 1994 GM acquired controlling interest of the patent
rights, later Texaco and then Chevron. Chevron sued Toyota to stop NiMH
production and won. Toyota Rav4 EV's are running with their original NiMH
battery packs, some are over 8 years old and still running strong.

Research how Standard Oil (John D Rockefeller) , GM and Firestone, bought up
municipal electric rail-lines with a dummy corporation and dismantled them, in
favor of petrolium powered GM buses with Firestone tires.

It's no coincidence that the UN building is on Rockefeller donated land.

Too much information and too little time to teach you, you must research this
stuff on your own.

Luc





________________________________
From: Patrick Grant <sunnyvale_trails@ yahoo.com>
To: 4luc@sbcglobal. net; putneighborhoodsfir stinsunnyvale@ yahoogroups. com
Sent: Thu, December 17, 2009 11:12:50 PM
Subject: Re: [PNFS] High Speed

Luk,
You said it, check where the money is comming from, big oil and coal.  Even
Chevron killed the very good Toyota Rav Electric car.  Sorry, all the big US
money is on spreading non science garbage.   Just read any major science (
nature, etc) or look at National Academy of Sciences museum in DC, (has online
section).      It's as you say look at the big money who really benefits with
spreading lies.
Cheers
Pat

On Thu Dec 17th, 2009 9:32 PM PST Luc H wrote:

>Larry
>
>I would say the same for you.
>
>Prove that man caused global warming. Explain how man is creating planetary
climate change in the solar system.
>
>I'm sure your science education included the Sun, or did they not cover that in
the Maldives.
>
>I'm
>not a Scientist or a Proctologist, but I do know when someone is trying
>to screw me. Use your common sense and ask yourself if this makes
>sense.
>
>Who is and who will benefit/profit from all this Co2
>and Global Warming legislation nonsense? Follow the money and the truth
>will be found.
>
>Luc
>
>
>
>
>
>____________ _________ _________ __
>From: Loran Stringer <loranstringer@ yahoo.com>
>To: Luc H <4luc@sbcglobal. net>; PutNeighborhoodsFir stInSunnyvale@
yahoogroups. com
>Sent: Thu, December 17, 2009 2:09:02 PM
>Subject: Re: [PNFS] High Speed
>
>
>Luc: Move to the Maldives. Where did you get your earth sciences education?
Please establish your credentials as to being qualified to comment on global
warming. Please quote only primary sources from refereed journals. Do not quote
Fox dis-news.
>Larry
>
>
>




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G'Day All,

As more and more people are being priced out of the real estate market, both by
restrictive lending policies and by the shortage of buildable land in areas
where there are still jobs, I have no great worry that the traditional
centralized power generation system will not survive and continue to profit. 
Renters are not likely to install renewable energy systems, when there
is no legal way to force the owner to pay for the systems, once the
tenant moves on.  How many of you would give your landlord a small $21,000.00
solar panel system?  Just getting back our cleaning deposits is a big struggle
for now.

Many homes lack sufficient sun lit roof space to be able to install enough
panels to supply the large amount of energy consumed by full size vehicles.

In California, a law was repealed that would have allowed a person to force a
neighbor to cut trees that were blocking the sun from shining on a potential
solar panel location.  The tree owners won.  In addition, many times the trees
provide shading that reduces the need for air conditioning.

No technology currently exists to allow for the cost effective storage of
electricity from either solar or even wind power at the single home level.  The
government continues to subsidize the development and installation of energy
storage systems, but none are currently marketable without big government
subsidies.  It seems to be unlikely that this political reality will change in
the near future.

Regards,
Chuck




________________________________
From: Robert Moore <rlmcbc@...>
To: CleanTech_Org@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Sat, December 19, 2009 11:04:56 AM
Subject: Re: [CleanTech_Org] Re: Feed-in Tariff & Off-Peak EV charging


if EV users could get a tax break for the solar system to charge their EV and
run their house the utility companies would go out of business make the fight
about energy independence and we all will win

--- On Thu, 12/17/09, Rollin Shultz <rollinshultz@ yahoo.com> wrote:


>From: Rollin Shultz <rollinshultz@ yahoo.com>
>Subject: Re: [CleanTech_Org] Re: Feed-in Tariff & Off-Peak EV charging
>To: CleanTech_Org@ yahoogroups. com
>Date: Thursday, December 17, 2009, 7:55 PM
>
>
>>
>
>
>
>  >
>
>
>>
>
>This corruption could be stopped with term limits and an end to lobbying
accompanied by full audits of all legislators every 2 years.
> Rollin Shultz
>Mechanical designer
>Change Analyst
>Programmer
>Farmer
>Furniture Maker
>Carpenter
>Electrician
>Plumber
>Allentown, Pa 18104
>
>
>
>Motto: Ask for help when needed, help others when asked, and remember where you
came from.
>
>
>
>
>
>
________________________________
  From: Solar <solar@symmetryco. com>
>To: solar@symmetryco. com; "CleanTech_Org@ yahoogroups. com" <CleanTech_Org@
yahoogroups. com>
>Sent: Wed, December 16, 2009 11:34:45 PM
>Subject: [CleanTech_Org] Re: Feed-in Tariff & Off-Peak EV charging
>
>There is a report about PG&G will give their customers choices to plug
>in their EVs at nights to enjoy a lower off-peak rate.
>This became possible by installing the $220 smart meter.  (The report
>didn't say who is paying for the $220)
>
>However under Edison, users will not have the choice.  They had announced
>this long time ago. Because they know they had California's State
>government & state assembly in their pockets!
>And private owner's excessive power
> generation
> from RE system will
>not get paid.
>
>When you read my postings about Smart Grid/meter, please remember some
>of the negative things only happening under Edison.  Without the choice
>of a separate bill for EV charging or an off-peak hours rate, Edison's
>users are simply sitting ducks to switch from one fat cat to another.
>Energy companies is not Garfield!  They are fat because they overly
>charging user.  The benefit of switching to electricity over gasoline
>will be cloudy because of Edison.
>
>On Wed, 16 Dec 2009 18:20:19 -0800, Solar <solar@symmetryco. com> wrote:
>
>>
>> European Charging plug
>> ============ ========= ===
>>
>> http://green. autoblog. com/2009/ 05/20/the- european- standard- charging-
plug-for- cars-is-selected -after-m/
>>
>> "The
> plug works both for single phase 230-Volt
> connections, the vast
>> majority of European outlets, as well as three-phasing up to 63 amps and
>> 400 Volts, which results in a much shorter recharging time. It includes
>> not only a connector, but also communication interfaces. A "plug
>> present" contact, for example, turns on the immobilizer and a "Pilot
>> Control" contact facilitates the exchange of data between the vehicle
>> and charging station."
>>
>> American Charging plug
>> ============ ========= ====
>> http://green. autoblog. com/2009/ 04/21/sae- 2009-sae- j1772-plug- standard-
could-be- finalized- by-this-fal/
>>
>> http://green. autoblog. com/2009/ 04/20/automakers -and-utilities-
reach-agreement- on-plug-standard /
>>
>>
>> "The connector is designed for single phase electrical systems with up
>> to 240 V and 70 A such as those used in North American and
> Japan. The
>
>> round 43 mm diameter connector has five pins and will support
>> communication over power lines, to identify the vehicle and control
>> charging. The connector is designed to withstand up to 10,000
>> connection/disconne ction cycles and exposure to all kinds of elements.
>> The supporting manufacturers have committed to using the new plug
>> including GM for the Volt and its derivatives. Tesla has even committed
>> to changing over to the standard plug and retrofitting existing
>> vehicles. "
>>
>>
>> ==>If you read through the postings at these pages, you will find many
>> different voices!
>>    It is a mess, nobody in the government seems to face the facts the
>> EV era is really coming.
>>    All they know is moving their lips but not driving EV or adding RE
>> system to
> their houses
>>
>> ==>One posting did mention screw all these different plugs, why not use
>> wi-fi charging.
>>    Using the drive way or garage floor, it will charge up the battery
>> without worry about
>>    what kind of outlets you have in your garages or what kind of plugs
>> in your next new EV
>>
>> ==>Most people is thinking about EV chargers for their garage.  Forgot
>> about the cost increase.
>>    Adding one EV could double your electric bill and pushing to higher
>> tier.
>>    Convert entire family fleet to EV?  Your electric bill will go out
>> of control, because you
>>    have to drive!
>>    Consumer groups must organize, need to get the power companies to
>> agree on a separate
>>    electric bill for EV
> charging.  So you can pay both bills at base
>> rate, not being penalized
>>    for switching to EV.  Of course, electricity price is only 1/11 of
>> the gasoline price at
>>    it's highest peak.  So they will probably find a way to tax you, a
>> new EV tax to compensate
>>    the loss on fuel tax.  Those attorneys inside the government will
>> get driver to pay one way
>>    or the other!
>>
>> ==>Or it is time to add a RE to charge your EV, you need charge from
>> clean energy source.
>>    Not from Coal or Nuclear energy!
>
>
>
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G'Day All,

FYI

Regards,
Chuck



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G'Day All,

There are more questions than answers in many of the energy related issues that
we all face.

In the course of evolving solutions, interim solutions may be part of the path
to final solutions.  One simple example is the fueling of internal combustion
engines with hydrogen that provides some reduction in pollution, but more
importantly, creates a market for hydrogen fuel in advance of the mass
production of fuel cell vehicles.

Another example is increased sales of electric cars, that currently are charged
off of a national power grid that is estimated to get 50% of its energy from
coal.  Mining and burning of coal is horribly more environmentally damaging than
the burning of oil, but we hope to see a transition to electricity produced from
sustainable sources such as wind, solar, and geothermal.

Picking a single reason for change and exaggerating the reality of that reason
with the hope of frighting people tends to fail, when the truth finally leaks
out.

Dr. Nate Lewis of CalTech speaks of reducing risks.  I have attended one of his
talks, and I find it to be very thought provoking.  I suggest that you follow
the below link:
http://online.itp.ucsb.edu/online/colloq/lewis1/

Regards,
Chuck




________________________________
From: Timothy <flytcher@...>
To: CleanTech_Org@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Fri, December 18, 2009 8:42:49 PM
Subject: Re: [CleanTech_Org] Copenhagen - Climate Change - A more economical
answer to Global Warming reduction ?


Starts with a lie..
there have been volcanic eruptions that have put out in a single eruption more
co2 then all that man has ever produced... and they will happen again. First off
I'd ask them to prove their statement that man is the sole cause. then I'd look
at who was behind it and what they have to gain.

I just got this little note from another group:

"What can the emission trade promote? What is possible to finance by the
emission trade?

Can the emission trade care for electric scooters instead of gasoline scooters?
No, this is not possible at 20.-EUR per ton CO2!

Can the emission trade care for electric cars instead of gasoline cars? No, this
is not possible at 20.-EUR per ton CO2!

But maybe You are the owner of an old long time written off lignit power plant,
in this case, the emission trade will support You to built a new high efficient
lignit power plant. This will be written off 2050.

960 million EUR furtherance for a new 500 MW lignit power plant. Unbelievable,
but the numbers do not lie.

The emission trade creates complete wrong profitabilities and is so destructive
for the climate. Old structures are reinforced for decades.

The necessary change to a new energy system is so not accelerated, but
prevented."

I tend to agree more with the later then the Copenhagen group... what do you
think?
all the co2 taxes and triads is just a scam to take from the poor and keep it...
now what does this have to do with clean technology?

--- On Thu, 12/17/09, ferrand <ferrand@care4free. net> wrote:

> From: ferrand <ferrand@care4free. net>
> Subject: [CleanTech_Org] Copenhagen - Climate Change - A more economical
answer to Global Warming reduction ?
> To: alternatepower@ yahoogroups. com
> Date: Thursday, December 17, 2009, 10:01 PM
> Is this the real and more economical
> answer to countering Climate Change
> ? See http://fixtheclimate.com/
> regards
> Ferrand
>
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Stimulus puts U.S. renewable energy generation on track to double by 2012


http://kansascity.bizjournals.com/kansascity/stories/2009/12/21/daily2.html

Because of investments made through the economic stimulus bill, the United
States is on track to double renewable energy generation by 2012, according to a
report by Vice President Joe Biden.

The nation also will double its capacity to manufacture wind turbines, solar
panels and other clean energy components in three years, according to the
report.

President Obama said the report "confirms that as a result of the steps we've
taken, a major transformation of our economy is well under way."

The stimulus bill's $16 billion investment in alternative vehicle technologies
will result in the opening of three new electric vehicle plants and 30 new
battery plants during the next six years, according to Biden's report.

That includes a $665 million advanced-battery plant being built in Michigan by
the former Lee's Summit-based Kokam America Inc. Kokam was bought last month by
a joint venture formed with The Dow Chemical Co. (NYSE: DOW), making it Dow
Kokam LLC. The Michigan plant received a $161 million grant from the U.S.
Department of Energy's allotment of stimulus money.

Smith Electric Vehicles U.S. Corp., which has set up its U.S. operations in
Kansas City, won a $10 million grant to help produce electric vans, pickups and
the company's Newton medium-duty trucks.

The number of smart meters, which allow consumers to monitor and regulate energy
use, will triple by 2013 to 26 million.

Last month, Kansas City Power & Light Co. was awarded $24 million in federal
stimulus money for a smart grid demonstration project.

Nearly 1 million homes will be made more energy-efficient through
stimulus-financed retrofits, the report said.

By 2015, there will be five commercial-scale power plants that will sequester
carbon, thanks to stimulus money and existing loan guarantee authority. Plus,
the federal government is investing $400 million in advanced research in wind,
solar and geothermal technologies.

Obama, however, said "there's a lot more that we can do." He wants Congress to
pass legislation that would provide temporary rebates for people who retrofit
their homes for energy efficiency.

Speaking Dec. 15 at a Home Depot in Alexandria, Va., Obama said these incentives
would provide the upfront money to make investments that would pay for
themselves within a few years.

Plus, it would help boost the economy because of the ripple effect of those
investments, he said.

Kent Hoover is bureau chief for American City Business Journals.

I believe you are in error. The theory is that the CO2 will come from
natural degradation so combustion, gasification, etc is CO2 neutral

Neal Van Milligen
Bioten Power and Energy Group
cavm@...


In a message dated 12/21/2009 2:43:29 P.M. Central Standard Time,
d.olivier@... writes:

People  aren't. By calling wood C-neutral they’re relying on a forest  being
replanted to reabsorb it between now and maybe  2100.

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In a message dated 12/21/2009 12:38:01 P.M. Central Standard Time,
d.olivier@... writes:

How did we get into the  situation in which the biomass supposed emissions
now give credit for CO2  which may be absorbed in period 2050-2100 (by the
replacement tree which is  hopefully planted to replace the one cut down and
burned)?

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Round the clock renewables


http://sabres.nhl.com/club/news.htm?id=510374


With new oil development contracts awarded, Iraq's oil production could reach 12
million barrels per day in six years, according to the country's oil minister.
Iraq would then rival its southern neighbor, Saudi Arabia, as the global leader
in daily crude output.

The global impact of the additional supply could be astounding or nothing. If
global demand for oil increases only slightly and supply from other nations
stays much the same as now, oil prices could drop dramatically as the world
enters another cheap oil bubble like that in the 1990's. Low prices at the pump
would boost global economies. The U.S. would flourish in Obama's second term or
Palin's first.

Alternatively, global demand for oil could skyrocket in the next few years, with
China and India demanding ever more on a daily basis, at the same time as output
from producers, such as Iran and Venezuela, continues to fall. If this second
scenario comes true, Iraq's new oil riches will result in only a small bump in
the history of oil production. Iraq will just make up for what others no longer
provide.

The story line will probably end up somewhere in between.

Iraq's oil poses yet another hurdle for nations hoping to put a lid on global
warming. Oil companies will lobby hard to keep their wealth alive, where
governments, organizations and individuals will be working hard to keep people
from dying.

Yet even in the face of such powerful interests, concerned parties can continue
in force to do as they have been for years: work to get global warming emissions
from power plants under control and eliminated. To do that, the world will have
to sequester carbon, go nuclear, be far more energy efficient and/or develop
renewables that are competitive with coal in price as well as utilization.
Renewables will need to be available 24/7. Now, only hydroelectric, biomass, and
methane gas operations are round-the-clock providers of green electricity. Wind
and solar – the darlings of the clean electricity movement – are only available
for part of the day, of course.

In the U.S., the proposed Tres Amigas superconducting electricity hub planned
for New Mexico, will help channel renewable power from where it's not being put
to work to places where it's needed nationwide. Tres Amigas (Three Friends,
named for the three major national power grids) is in the paperwork stage at
this point.

The another option is to turn intermittent renewables – often used for peaking
power capacity – into baseload power. Turning peak power into baseload power
means adding energy storage capacity. Coal is stored energy. Wind, solar, ocean,
tidal current as well as off-peak unsold energy from all sources need to have
the ability to be stored and released as needed.

The Obama Administration is spot-on including energy storage as part of its
smart grid energy component of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act
(ARRA), aka the stimulus package.

Soon after American Electric Power (AEP) won $75 million in economic stimulus
funding from the U.S. Department of Energy for its Ohio's gridSMART
Demonstration Project, the utility awarded S&C Electric Company of Chicago a
contract to provide a first of its kind Community Energy Storage System,
sodium-sulfur battery-based system. Aside from being able to store any renewable
power generated within certain AEP circuits, the system will be able to provide
back-up power during outages as well as support plug-in electric car deployment.
The system could also eventually support "second life" possibilities for the
reuse of batteries that can no longer function as electric vehicle batteries,
but can still function well as stationary energy storage.

Another winner in Department of Energy in funding for smart grid energy storage
demonstration projects is a partnership of Premium Power and utilities National
Grid and Sacramento Municipal Utility District (SMUD), along with teammate
Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC). The group was awarded
$7.32 million to run a three-year project that incorporates the fleet control
engineering, manufacturing and installation of seven 500-kilowatt/6-hour energy
storage systems. The project will use Premium Power's proprietary Zinc-Flow (R)
technology. The Zinc-Flow technology is a flowing electrolyte energy storage
system based on zinc bromide chemistry. Premium Power's product is modular and
can be used in any application from residential homes to utility scale
applications.

The systems will be installed in Sacramento, California, Everett, Massachusetts,
and Syracuse, New York beginning in the third quarter of 2010.

In the distribution of stimulus funds to the state of Wisconsin's State Energy
Program– American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (SEP-ARRA) Clean Energy Business
Loan Program, ZBB Energy has been awarded a $1.3 million loan to ramp up
production of its zinc rechargeable energy storage system. The funds will be
used to expand and modernize the company's production facilities to increase its
manufacturing capacity and create up to 175 new full-time positions.

Like Premier Power's similar technology, the Zinc Energy Storage Systems (ZESS)
can be used to store renewable power and can be scaled with multiple units to
store power from the grid. The zinc bromide ZESS systems can also be used in
homes or commercial buildings for onsite energy storage or become part of a
distributed energy storage network.

The need for energy storage is also global.

In Japan, U.S. lithium-battery maker EnerDel is supplying batteries to a project
linking a smarter grid, electric vehicles and renewable energies. It will be the
first time that EVs, stationary grid storage, solar power and rapid charging
infrastructure are combined in a real-world operating environment.

EnerDel's batteries will be installed in a small fleet of electrified Mazdas and
well as wired into a charging station for those vehicles. Grid as well as solar
power from an array atop a retail store will be used to recharge the charging
station batteries. The solar system and onsite battery storage combined with
rapid charging will allow the use of direct current (DC) throughout the system,
sharply reducing the amount of time needed to charge the vehicles, according to
EnerDel. The solar/battery charging station also allows users to recharge
without drawing power from the grid, a significant advantage at peak load times.

At the end of life as useful vehicle batteries, the batteries will be given a
second life as storage for solar-generated electricity. The vehicles will be
used in a car-share program.

Now, the growth of green power in the U.S. is being driven by a combination of
state renewable energy mandates as well as an internal desire by utility
companies to go green. For utilities, renewable energy may also be becoming a
preferred choice over fossil and even nuclear power. After all, renewables can
help the company image but also renewables can be added incrementally. A few
megawatts, a solar project or an additional wind turbine, can be added as needed
very quickly in a matter of months instead of taking years to build a big new
power plant. In short, renewables are easier and quicker to deploy.

Perhaps someday soon power from grid-connected renewables will be distributed
throughout the country or renewable power will be stored and used as needed, or
perhaps a combination of the two. If this happens renewables will be like coal,
round-the-clock power but without the emissions.

"Personal" solar energy will help meet world's energy needs, professor says

http://solar.coolerplanet.com/News/19521929-%22personal%22-solar-energy-will-hel\
p-meet-world%27s-energy-needs,-professor-says.aspx

Personal-scale solar energy is essential to meeting the world's energy demands
in the next century, Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor Daniel
Nocera said in the latest issue of Inorganic Chemistry.

Nocera envisions a catalyst that could split water molecules into hydrogen and
oxygen; the hydrogen, in turn, would be used to generate electricity in a fuel
cell. The process is not dissimilar to photosynthesis, the series of reactions
by which plants generate energy.

Electricity demand will double by mid-century and triple by 2100, Nocera
anticipates, necessitating new energy-generation technologies. Personal solar
power could meet the world's energy needs in a sustainable manner, he suggests.

"Point-of-use solar energy will put individuals … on a more level playing
field," he said.

Nocera was lauded by Time magazine as one of its 2009 Time 100, a list of the
world's 100 most influential people. In an interview with the magazine, he
suggested that, by mid-century, global energy needs could be met by splitting a
minute amount of water.

And the technology Nocera developed is being refined by a company called Sun
Catalytix, which was one of 37 firms to receive a grant from the Department of
Energy's ARPA-E program. Only 1 percent of companies that applied were given a
grant, the DOE says.

Copenhagen Endgame: Will the World Get a Good Foundation For Progress or a
Greenwash?

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/alex-pasternack/copenhagen-endgame-will-t_b_396656\
.html

From Treehugger

Temperatures are rising in the Bella Center, expectations are weak, and anger is
stewing, as the clock winds down toward some kind of climate agreement. The
conference-shaking finance pledge today seemed to put pressure back on China to
commit to transparency, helped further fracture the developing nations bloc, and
paved the way for a late-night meeting among G-20 leaders.

For now, they and the rest of the heads of state are at a dinner hosted by the
Queen. They were joined by two protesters from Greenpeace, who unrolled a banner
that read, "Politicians Talk Leaders Act." That sentiment was echoed widely by
developing nations today -- along with the acknowledgement that the world would
have to settle for  a mediocre framework for moving forward. Indeed, as a leaked
UN report details, the current proposals on the table would raise temperatures
more than 3 degrees, one degree over the limit this conference was intended to
achieve.

Back-patting tomorrow is almost assured. So is finger-pointing, in the direction
of those who blocked a good deal (hint: it's not the developing countries or
China). Around the world, petitions are flying in the hopes that after an
all-nighter of talks, Obama and others will sign a good-faith foundation, one
that the world can use to make a climate deal next time around, and not a
greenwash.

Green Light for REDD
The REDD system for using developed nation offsets to reduce deforestation in
developing countries will likely be enshrined in an agreement tomorrow. Though
financing was being worked out -- with the United States pledging $1 billion as
part of a $3.5 billion scheme -- there are concerns, including that protection
in one forest won't lead to tree-cutting in others nearby.

China Softens Tone -- Maybe?
Meanwhile the US arrived in force -- basically all the heavy political climate
hitters, minus Obama -- and they came out strong with the old American refrain:
that China make its carbon cuts internationally-binding, allowing those cuts to
be measured, reported and verified. When Japan joined the US's 100 billion fund
promise with its own hefty financial pledge ($11 billion), the pressure only
ratcheted up.

That pressure may have led to a more conciliatory tone by China. The Chinese
vice foreign minister He Yafei spoke this afternoon, delivering a message from
Premier Wen Jiabao, to the effect that while China would not agree to
internationally-binding cuts, it would "be willing to enhance and improve the
ways of national communication," and implement "international exchanges."
Whatever that means beyond current US-China agreements forged by Obama and Hu
last month in Beijing wasn't explained, per typical Beijing vagueness. But, He
said, "the purpose of course is to enhance transparency." He added, "We are also
willing to have explnations and clarifications if need be."

But despite the warm talk of sincerity and commitment, China remained focused on
protecting its sacred "national sovereignty." If the US and China can tackle
both that interest and America's concerns about accountability, they could walk
away with a provisional agreement that allows for details to be sorted out
later.

"To increase mutual trust is extremely important," said Wen, via foreign
minister He. "We should not go for suspicion or confrontation. We should go for
cooperation."

Other Questions
The developed world financing offer -- cash for China's developing nation
brethren (China says it doesn't need climate aid) in exchange for China's
accountability -- was only the biggest of a number of concerns today. Will the
major emitters commit to bigger cuts (US, they're all looking at you), will the
agreement establish a limit for the expected global temperature rise, and how
will any coming deal be made legally-binding?

NGOs Frustrated But Unified
If some are sanguine that Copenhagen will end up with a formal agreement, hope
and certainly contentment are nowhere to be found. Protests have raged for the
past two days, marked as much by the frustrations over a shabby deal as by the
aggression of the Danish police. And NGOs are fuming over being blocked from the
conference in its critical last two days.

Anger and resentment aside, right now one of the best legacies of Copenhagen may
lie in talks happening around the conference amongst civil society. Never have
so many young people come together from around the world to discuss climate
change, and never have they been more coordinated.

They've accused world leaders of putting words over action, but the words these
NGOs are now exchanging in late-night meetings will be essential to keeping the
pressure on tomorrow, and renewing much-needed energy around the climate change
fight.

And Now
To be sure, the sight of leaders, youth, civil society groups and media from 120
nations coming together to talk about and rally against climate change, in a
forum charged with more political and social significance than any in recent
memory, is an achievement alone.

But any agreement will be a serious compromise, and a major disappointment given
what might have been achieved. When the text emerges on Friday evening, the
world -- and especially the groups that have worked so hard to make Copenhagen
such a crucial event -- will be charged with sorting out what it means, and
figure out how to turn the agreement and its failings into real progress next
year.

They'll need to be fast, and they're determined to be. Time is not only running
out on Copenhagen, but on a chance to make the systemic changes that will save
the planet.

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G'Day All,

While this may be a time of the year that is slow for hiring, many companies are
interviewing people, who will be hired after the first of the year, when next
years budgets kick in.  If you are looking for work, don't slack off in the
holidays.

Season's Greetings,
Chuck



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The Green Rush Is On In China

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=121512377

A new gold rush in China is actually a green rush — an urgent drive to develop
green technologies. One group of Western companies, the Cleantech Initiative,
suggests China's market for renewable energy could eventually be worth as much
as $500 billion to $1 trillion a year.

Now, Obama administration officials are warning that the U.S. could risk losing
the race in green technologies.

"The future of sustainable energy is here." The words are emblazoned on a wall
at the world's largest nongovernmental solar research center. It was built by an
American company, Applied Materials, in the central Chinese city of Xian.

The longer we in the United States wait, the farther ahead China will be, and it
will be harder for us to catch up.



The cost of solar panels has dropped dramatically — 30 percent in the past year
alone. One major reason is the "China price," or the competitive advantages
offered by Chinese manufacturing, with its cheap labor and economies of scale.
China is now the world's biggest producer of photovoltaic solar panels, making
about 40 percent of all panels, according to the China Daily, mostly for export.

At Applied Materials' $250 million research center in Xian, Elizabeth Mayo, a
process engineer from Santa Clara, Calif., is working with local staff testing
solar panels in the Sunfab panel reliability test lab. This simulates extreme
weather conditions, and the company boasts that it is the world's only
laboratory capable of testing 61-square-feet solar panels.

Mayo is impressed by the facilities in Xian. "We don't have facilities like this
in the U.S. We don't have anything of this magnitude," Mayo says.

Catrina Ren, an enthusiastic English-speaking engineer, beams while showing a
visitor another facility at the research center: vast empty hangars waiting for
new pilot lines for crystalline silicon, and thin film solar technology to be
installed. "I'm very proud I have chance to work here," she says. "This is most
advantaged tech center in world. I graduated from university only two years ago.
I'm very proud."

And Applied Materials is no doubt overjoyed to have Catrina and her former
classmates on staff. Costs in China are much cheaper than in the U.S. An
engineering graduate in Xian earns one-tenth of her American counterparts.

And the biggest draw is the eternal lure of China's fabled market. Gang Zhou,
general manager of Applied Materials Xian facility, says the company has decided
to put its money where its customer base is.

"China is No. 1 producer of solar panels. That's where our market is. The China
new R&D center, that's where we validate a lot of R&D work that is being carried
out in U.S. and in Europe," he says.


While the Xian lab is testing, it is notable that the cutting-edge innovation is
still taking place in the U.S. and Europe because of Chinese problems, according
to Charlie McElwee, an energy and environment lawyer in Shanghai.

"There are still issues with respect to protecting your intellectual property in
China. Those kinds of things where you discover the next big thing probably will
still be done in the U.S. for a while, simply because it's easier to protect
your IP there," says McElwee. "Companies are coming to do clean tech for the
same reason they came 25 years ago to make shoes, T-shirts. It's simply cheaper
to make things in China.

"The future of clean-tech manufacturing is in China," he emphasizes. "The jury
is still out on whether the future of clean-tech innovation is in China."

Meanwhile, American green technology companies are flocking to China: First
Solar is building the world's largest solar plant in Inner Mongolia, while Duke
Energy is sharing solar, clean coal and smart-grid technology.

Officials in the Obama administration are beginning to sound worried.

"The longer we in the United States wait, the farther ahead China will be, and
it will be harder for us to catch up," Commerce Secretary Gary Locke warned
recently. "If we don't get our act together, we're going to be watching the
capital, the businesses and the good-paying jobs end up someplace else. And 10
to 15 years from now, we're going to be saying, 'How did Shanghai become the
Silicon Valley of clean energy?' "

One answer can be found in another cavernous warehouse outside Shanghai. Local
green technology entrepreneur Shi Jun is developing a homegrown pollution-free
method for creating polysilicon, which is used in solar cells.


While it is still early days in China for the solar energy industry — there is
no feed-in tariff or government subsidy for buying solar power — Beijing
recently announced it would be spending $3 billion on its Golden Sun initiative.

The program will cover half the cost of installation and power transmission
costs for 275 new solar power stations. The plan is designed to boost the bottom
lines of Chinese solar power manufacturers, while also reaching the ambitious
target of producing 2 gigawatts of installed solar capacity by 2011.

Shi Jun, for one, believes China will take the world's No. 1 spot for installed
solar capacity in just three years.

American companies are ahead technologically, he admits, but they face other
disadvantages.

Companies are coming to do clean tech for the same reason they came 25 years ago
to make shoes, T-shirts. It's simply cheaper to make things in China.

- Charlie McElwee, an energy and environment lawyer in Shanghai.

"In the States, they have many good technologies," says Shi Jun. "President
Obama has some policies, but until now I cannot see the real impact on
companies. Also, I think the cost is a really big problem for the USA
factories."

He is delighted by China's new target of increasing energy efficiency by at
least 40 percent by the year 2020. He estimates that China will need 10 million
tons of polysilicon to make enough solar cells to hit that target, 600 times its
current output.

His goal is that his company, Propower, will produce half of China's polysilicon
within 10 years.

Multiply that ambition by all of China's green technology entrepreneurs — and
bear in mind that solar energy is just third on China's clean-tech list, after
nuclear and wind power. That's the magnitude of the challenges ahead for China's
competitors.

(claverton)


I am of the opinion that not enough attention is being paid to
"ultrasound" - below 20 db - although the report says it is no problem,
I am not so sure. The report does say that at high sound levels at low
frequencies ultrasound can be dangerous.
The Victorians knew this, Rudyard Kipling wrote a "science fiction"
story where ultrasound and intense light was used for crowd control.
regards
Ferrand

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G'Day All,

While I am not familiar with the specs on this vehicle, higher pressure tanks
are tested a much higher pressures than they are used.  I know that oxygen tanks
can smash through concrete walls powered by the thrust of the escaping gas.  I
hope that these tanks are designed to rupture in a way that the gas escapes,
without turning the tanks into projectiles.

A second concern with air cars, since these tanks are so strong, is that the
tanks be located such that they are pushed under the vehicle in a collision, as
are the engines in front engine vehicles, rather than being pushed through the
passenger compartment.  Most designs locate these tanks under the vehicle where
they actually add strength, reducing the crushing of the passenger compartment.

Tata Motors mounts their tank sideways, where the rear seat would be located on
a larger vehicle.  A major rear end collision would probably result in the
passengers being crushed between the tank and the front of the vehicle.

Interestingly, The Smart car has top crash test ratings from the Insurance
Institute for Highway Safety, which tells us that with good restraints and air
bags all around that a small car maybe safer than appearances suggest.

Regards,
Chuck




________________________________
From: Richard W. Zeren <Richard@...>
To: CSix Eco <CSIX_SV_EcoGreenGroup_SIG@yahoogroups.com>; Steve Owen Scheiderer
<steve.owen@...>
Sent: Mon, December 14, 2009 1:18:10 PM
Subject: Re: [CSIX_SV_EcoGreenGroup_SIG] A Car that Runs on Air


Actually very interesting. If this can be commercialized, I see at least a few
significant markets. I hope the developers are looking to partner with an
automotive manufacturer. They can get the manufacturing cost down, and provide
the distribution channels to reach the market.

I do wonder about how much pressure the tanks have to withstand in an
accident—there will be accidents.
--
Regards,
    Dick Zeren



________________________________
From: Steve Owen Scheiderer <steve.owen@verizon. net>
Reply-To: CSix Eco <CSIX_SV_EcoGreenGro up_SIG@yahoogrou ps.com>
Date: Sun, 13 Dec 2009 17:59:23 -0800
To: CSix Eco <CSIX_SV_EcoGreenGro up_SIG@yahoogrou ps.com>
Conversation: [CSIX_SV_EcoGreenGr oup_SIG] A Car that Runs on Air
Subject: RE: [CSIX_SV_EcoGreenGr oup_SIG] A Car that Runs on Air



Dick, good analysis. Still, pretty cool though, eh?


Sincerely,

Steve Owen Scheiderer


From: CSIX_SV_EcoGreenGro up_SIG@yahoogrou ps.com [mailto:CSIX_ SV_EcoGreenGroup
_SIG@yahoogroups .com] On Behalf Of Richard W. Zeren
Sent: Saturday, December 12, 2009 7:47 PM
To: CSix Eco
Subject: Re: [CSIX_SV_EcoGreenGr oup_SIG] A Car that Runs on Air



Not pollution free, unless the air compressor is run on a pollution-free
“engine.” Most air compressors use electricity, fueled by polluting fuels
for a long time to come.

BUT, in this case the compressor is a perfect fit to small solar and wind, in
that the compressed air tank can be filled when the sun shines in the day and
the wind blows at night—it’s the necessary storage for intermittent sources!
The tanks in the car can be charged from the compressed air tank in your
garage—unless the pressure is so high that they need to be in a bunker ;-).

Getting this certified for road use means ensuring the tanks can survive a crash
without exploding, but that is doable.

Off course, the idiotic suggestion at the end that the car can compress its own
air “forever” shows a fundamental lack of understanding of physics,
friction, entropy and reality.
--
Regards,
    Dick Zeren


From: soscheiderer <steve.owen@verizon. net>
Reply-To: CSix Eco <CSIX_SV_EcoGreenGro up_SIG@yahoogrou ps.com>
Date: Fri, 11 Dec 2009 20:11:57 -0000
To: CSix Eco <CSIX_SV_EcoGreenGro up_SIG@yahoogrou ps.com>
Subject: [CSIX_SV_EcoGreenGr oup_SIG] A Car that Runs on Air


Sorry I missed everyone yesterday, but I was thinking of you! This is pretty
cool!!

http://www.flixxy. com/zero- pollution- automobile. htm

Sincerely, Steve Owen Scheiderer



PS: Feel free to use Steve.Owen@verizon. net or TechSpert@verizon. net to
contact me.

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Obama Clean-energy Investments Creating Jobs, Biden Report Says

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601103&sid=afq8aGAbTiOw


  Dec. 15 (Bloomberg) -- President Barack Obama's clean- energy initiatives will
help create more than 700,000 jobs and allow the U.S. to double its
renewable-power generation in three years, according to a report by Vice
President Joe Biden.

Biden, in a memo on administration efforts to shift to a clean-energy economy,
said projects in the $787 billion economic stimulus package are contributing to
"unprecedented growth" in renewable energy, such as wind and solar, and
improving manufacturing for new clean-energy technology.

"The recovery act is not only about rescue and relief, it's about reinvestment,"
Jared Bernstein, Biden's chief economic adviser, said on a conference call with
reporters. He called Biden's report a "comprehensive assessment" of the
administration's clean-energy efforts.

Government investments in transportation will help spur the development of
plug-in hybrid and electric vehicles, including three new electric-vehicle
plants, the first in the U.S., the report said.

The memo said the administration also will provide loan guarantees to two
companies for construction of three to four new nuclear reactors "by the end of
our first two years in office."

Investments of $23 billion in renewable generation and advanced energy
manufacturing included in the recovery plan will likely create 253,000 jobs and
leverage more than $43 billion in additional investment that may support another
469,000 jobs, the Biden report said.

The administration is "solidly on track" to met its goal of saving or creating
3.5 million jobs under the stimulus plan, Bernstein said. The U.S. has lost
about 7.2 million jobs since the recession began in December 2007.

The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office said last month the stimulus package
had generated between 600,000 and 1.6 million jobs so far.

The stimulus package approved by Congress and signed by Obama in February
included about $80 billion for clean-energy programs designed in part to spur
the growth of so-called green jobs. Republicans say the U.S. jobs data are
evidence Obama's stimulus plan is failing to create jobs.

The unemployment rate last month was 10 percent, down from a 26-year high of
10.2 percent in October.

G'Day All,

FYI

Regards,
Chuck



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Multi-billion dollar investment spurs US transition to smart energy grid

http://www.engineerlive.com/Energy-Solutions/Measurement_Control/Multi-billion_d\
ollar_investment_spurs_US_transition_to_smart_energy_grid/22274/



A US$3.4b (EUR2.32b) investment in the US smart energy grid is expected to
generate tens of thousands of jobs, save energy and empower all electricity
users to cut their bills. Sean Ottewell reports.

Speaking at Florida Power and Light's (FPL) DeSoto Next Generation Solar Energy
Centre on 27 October, president Barack Obama announced the largest single energy
grid modernisation investment in US history. It will be used to fund a broad
range of technologies that will spur the nation's transition to a smarter,
stronger, more efficient and reliable electric system. The end result will
promote energy-saving choices for consumers, increase efficiency, and foster the
growth of renewable energy sources such as wind and solar. The US$3.4b(EUR2.32b)
in grant awards are part of the American Reinvestment and Recovery Act, and will
be matched by industry funding for a total public-private investment worth over
US$8b(EUR5.5b). Applicants state that the projects will create tens of thousands
of jobs, and consumers in 49 states will benefit from these investments in a
stronger, more reliable grid.

An analysis by the Electric Power Research Institute estimates that the
implementation of smart grid technologies could reduce electricity use by more
than four percent by 2030. That would mean a savings of US$20.4b (EUR14b) for
businesses and consumers around the country, and US$1.6b (EUR1.1b) for Florida
alone - or US$56 (EUR32) in utility savings for every man, woman and child in
the state.

One hundred private companies, utilities, manufacturers, cities and other
partners received their smart grid investment grants on 27 October, including
FPL which will use its US$200m (EUR136.5M) in funding to install over 2.5
million smart meters and other technologies that will cut energy costs for its
customers. These awards represent the largest group of Recovery Act awards ever
made in a single day and the largest batch of Recovery Act clean energy grant
awards to date in the US.

Also among the announcements are:

- US$1b (EUR0.68B) towards empowering consumers to save energy and cut utility
bills. According to the US Department of Energy (DOE), these investments will
create the infrastructure and expand access to smart meters and customer systems
so that consumers will be able to access dynamic pricing information and have
the ability to save money by programming smart appliances and equipment to run
when rates are lowest. This will help reduce energy bills for everyone by
helping drive down peak demand and limiting the need for stand-by power plants -
the most expensive power generation there is.

- US$400m (EUR273m) to improve efficiency of electricity distribution and
transmission. The administration is funding several grid modernisation projects
across the country that will significantly reduce the amount of power that is
wasted from the time it is produced at a power plant to the time it gets to
houses. By deploying digital monitoring devices and increasing grid automation,
these awards will increase the efficiency, reliability and security of the
system, and will help link up renewable energy resources with the electric grid.
The DOE says that this will make it easier for a wind farm in Montana to
instantaneously pick up the slack when the wind stops blowing in Missouri or a
cloud rolls over a solar array in Arizona.

- US$2b (EUR1.4b) to help with integrating and cross-cutting across the
different smart components of a smart grid. Much like electronic banking, the
smart grid is not the sum total of its components but how those components work
together. The Administration is funding a range of projects that will
incorporate these various components into one system or cut across various
project areas - including smart meters, smart thermostats and appliances,
syncrophasors, automated substations, plug in hybrid electric vehicles and
renewable energy sources.

- US$25m (EUR17m) towards building a smart grid manufacturing industry. These
investments will help expand the manufacturing base of companies that can
produce the smart meters, smart appliances, synchrophasors, smart transformers,
and other components for smart grid systems in the US and around the world -
representing a significant and growing export opportunity for the country and
new jobs for American workers.

When these projects are fully implemented, the DOE expects the combined effects
to create tens of thousands of jobs across the country, including high-paying
career opportunities for smart meter manufacturing workers and technicians, IT
system designers and cyber security specialists, data entry clerks and more.

The investment will also make the grid more reliable, reducing the power outages
estimated to cost US consumers US$150 (EUR102.3) b/y.

In terms of equipment, more than 850 sensors - phasor measurement units - will
be needed to cover the whole country's grid and make it possible for operators
to better control conditions and prevent minor disturbances in the electrical
system from cascading into local or regional power outages or blackouts. In
addition, more than 200000 smart transformers will be installed. These will make
it possible for power companies to replace units before they fail thus saving
money and reducing power outages. Also 700 automated substations, representing
about five percent of the nation's total, will be needed and these will make it
possible for power companies to respond faster and more effectively to restore
service when bad weather knocks down power lines or causes electricity
disruptions. Finally, the installation of more than one million in-home
displays, 170000 smart thermostats and 175000 other load control devices to
enable consumers to reduce their energy use. Funding will also help expand the
market for smart washers, dryers, and dishwashers, so that American consumers
can further control their energy use and lower their electricity bills.

The DOE expects that the net result of this will be a reduction in peak
electricity demand by more than 1400MW, which is the equivalent of several
larger power plants and can save ratepayers more than US$1.5b (EUR1b) in capital
costs and help lower utility bills. Since peak electricity is the most expensive
energy - and requires the use of standby power generation plants - the economic
and environmental savings for even a small reduction are significant. In fact,
points out the DOE, some of the power plants for meeting peak demand operate for
only a few hundred hours a year, which means the power they generate can be 5-10
times more expensive than the average price per kilowatt hour paid by most.

Luke Clemente, general manager of GE Energy Services' smart grid business, said:
"The holistic smart grid solutions receiving funding deliver synergistic
reliability, efficiency and clean-energy technologies across the electrical
network.

As a result, consumers will have the power to manage and control their energy
use, and we can add more clean energy sources to the generation mix-all while
creating thousands of high value, non-transferable, green-collar jobs. This
approach tracks closely with GE's smart grid vision that has been honed by
decades of research and a century of real-world experience focused on
continually improving how power is generated, delivered and consumed."

Just three days after the announcement by Obama, GE said that AEP Ohio is to
purchase 110000 of its smart meters as part of the company's gridSMART
demonstration project in northeast central Ohio. These meters will give
consumers the information to make informed choices about when and how they use
electricity - enabling them to lower their electric bills without sacrificing
lifestyle.

Green and Prosperous? Denmark Leads the Way

http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2009/12/14/gre\
en_and_prosperous_denmark_leads_the_way/


WHEN PRESIDENT OBAMA joins the Copenhagen climate summit Friday, he will very
likely sidestep congressional inaction on new energy legislation, committing our
nation to a 17 percent reduction in greenhouse gas emissions by 2020. On his
return, Denmark's vibrant economy and leadership in the battle against climate
change should inspire him as he coaxes a recalcitrant Congress to adopt
meaningful new measures to combat global warming.


Denmark awoke to the perils of foreign oil dependence when the 1973 Arab embargo
delivered a body blow to its energy security. Oil - virtually all of it imported
- met a staggering 90 percent of the country's energy needs at the time.
Denmark's political leadership responded by setting the nation on a path toward
energy independence, with dramatic and lasting results.

New homes in Denmark today are twice as energy-efficient as their pre-embargo
counterparts. Waste heat from local power plants is used to heat Denmark's
houses and offices, boosting the energy efficiency of those plants from 40 to 90
percent. And with taxes on new cars and motor fuel among the highest in Europe,
alternatives to automobile travel have flourished. In Copenhagen, a third of
commuters travel by bike, their trips made safe and convenient by an extensive
network of well-marked bike lanes.

All this energy-saving doesn't seem to interfere with Danish productivity. To
the contrary: Danes use less than half as much energy per capita as the average
American, yet their gross national income per capita surpasses our own by a
resounding 24 percent.

One area where Danes have truly excelled is in their pioneering commitment to
wind energy. Starting in 1979, the Danish parliament voted to underwrite 30
percent of the initial cost of wind farms. A decade later these upfront
subsidies were dropped, but the country continued to boost the technology by
guaranteeing a subsidized rate for wind-generated electricity while mandating
that utilities incorporate wind into their portfolios.

Today Denmark draws 20 percent of its electricity from wind energy, and the
country's wind industry employs about 26,000 people - nearly 1 percent of the
workforce. Politicians across the political spectrum share pride in Denmark's
wind energy. Per Jorgensen, a parliamentarian with the Conservative People's
Party, trumpets his party's advocacy for government-subsidized wind energy.
Along with local jobs, he notes wind technology's contribution to Danish exports
- 7.2 percent of the total in 2008.

Parliament member Anne Grete Holmsgaard of the Socialist People's Party agrees.
She cites her party's target of freeing Denmark from fossil fuels for electric
power by 2035, and from fossil fuels for all uses by 2050.

Policy analysts and utility executives join Danish politicians in expecting wind
to provide fully half of the country's electricity within a decade or two. To
reach this goal, a country whose Vikings once ventured seaward to plunder
foreign lands now looks to its surrounding seas - the North Sea and the Baltic -
as the next energy frontier. Already the world's front-runner in per capita
offshore wind power, Denmark is now commissioning new offshore projects at a
breathtaking pace.

To ride out the inevitable fluctuations in wind-generated electricity, Denmark
relies on a nimble Northern European power market, with grid interconnections
extending throughout Scandinavia and down into Germany. When turbines are
spinning out more power than Danish consumers need, electricity is marketed
abroad. When winds are low, power from abroad - including Norway's superabundant
hydroelectricity - flows in to meet local demand.

The Danes are also coming up with ways to balance out their electricity needs at
home. The country's largest power company, state-owned Dong Energy, is
developing a nationwide network of plug-in electric cars in collaboration with a
Silicon Valley startup, Better Place. Cars in this network, to be introduced as
early as 2011, will emit no pollutants on the road and will tap into clean,
wind-generated power to recharge during low-demand nighttime hours when the
winds continue to blow.

Denmark's thriving economy and energy entrepreneurship should give our Congress
hope as it charts America's energy future. The 21st century's energy
opportunities are just too good to miss.

Philip Warburg, an environmental lawyer, is writing a book about wind energy.

G'Day All,

Thank you Loran.

Progress is critical in maintaining a reasonable quality of life for the
generations to come.

While in most civilized countries, people are having smaller families, fewer
people are dying of war and disease.  The numbers of the suffering and dying are
still tragically high, but there has been improvement.

In the early 1900's, comments were published that while automobiles were noisy
and smelled bad that at least they didn't leave piles of manure to rot and
produce flies.  Cars don't crap on the sidewalk!

Today, we need to move on, developing and implementing new forms of power
production, distribution, and storage.  While change should be carefully
managed, we must continue to grow or decay will over take our civilization,
bringing doom on our children and grand children.

Regards,
Chuck




________________________________
From: Loran Stringer <loranstringer@...>
To: heritagegarden <heritagegarden@...>; Lorraine May
<misfire-897@...>
Cc: PutNeighborhoodsFirstInSunnyvale@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Mon, December 14, 2009 11:42:29 AM
Subject: Re: [PNFS] a new study on power lines


This seems to be a reasonable article and is not designed to cause panic. I
wouldn't still like to see primary references, but I am a nit picker.
Incidental the referenced video about smart grid is informative, but full of
historical mistakes. I trained as an electrical engineer at UC Berkley and am
the sun of a pioneer electrician. The title picture is not of power lines,but of
19th century telephone or telegraph lines.
Edison did not design (or have designed) our current power transmission and
distribution system. Edison used DC power and did not believe that AC was
useful. Edison's system was limited to distribution over small areas. A power
station covering, perhaps a square mile was practical. Would you like power
plants at El Camino and Wolfe, El Camino and Lawrence, Homestead and Wolfe, and
Homestead and Lawrence? My spacing may be a little off, but not much. Nicoli
Tesla developed AC transmission and distribution which can practically cover
more than a million square miles. Smart Grid will ultimately save energy and
money for society, but will be very expensive to implement. Think using air
conditioning at night and saving the "cool" to be used during the day. If the
utilities price by cost of power, a kWh would be a couple of dollars during the
day and maybe 5 cents at night.Think buying a large ice maker to run at night
and open its door during the day. One of
  the reasons that peak power is so expensive is that peaking generators are only
used a few hours a year.
I hope I haven't bored you all too much with technical details.
Larry




________________________________
From: heritagegarden <heritagegarden@ yahoo.com>
To: Lorraine May <misfire-897@ comcast.net>
Cc: PutNeighborhoodsFir stInSunnyvale@ yahoogroups. com
Sent: Sun, December 13, 2009 9:47:23 PM
Subject: [PNFS] a new study on power lines


Lorraine:

In your last email, you mentioned leukemia and power lines. There is a new study
that just came out on this subject. Discovery channel had a new! s articl
e about it.
Jane

http://news. discovery. com/earth/ power-lines- contaminants- pcb.html


Pollutants Cluster Under Power Lines
The electromagnetic fields generated by power lines can trap cancer-causing
PCBs, but the levels may not be significant.
By Michael Reilly | Thu Dec 10, 2009 06:20 AM ET

High voltage power lines can trap cancer-causing pollutants in their electric
fields.
AP Photo/Charlie Riedel

High voltage power lines in Sweden trap cancer-causing pollutants in their
electric fields, according to a new study, potentially raising health risks for
people who live beneath them.
It's a decades-old question: does living near power lines make people sick? For
the most part, studies have shown little beyond a weak up-tick in leukemia among
children who live near electrical lines. Laboratory animals exposed to
electrical and magnetic fields have shown no effect whatsoever.
Case closed, it would seem. But what if electrical fields corral air pollution,
concentrating it in a small area? Scientists have wondered whether toxins like
polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) and other compounds might gather under power
lines in this way.
Researchers at the University of Kalmar in Sweden have now shown for the first
time that this phenomenon is real. They took samples from pine needles at
several sites directly beneath a 400 kilovolt power line in southern Sweden, and
at distances up to several miles away.
Trees growing directly beneath the lines had about double the amount of PCBs on
their needles as those plants that were some distance away, the researchers
found. The elevated levels were still below anything that would be considered
hazardous, but it raises the possibility that other air pollutants may get
trapped in the electric field as well.

WATCH VIDEO: The smart grid may make our home appliances smarter.
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"We didn't measure anything except PCBs," study leader Tomas Oberg said. "But we
could have looked at dioxins or polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs); there's
no reason they wouldn't behave the same way."
The increased pollutant concentrations are likely the result of the electric
field causing microscopic dust particles laced with pollutants to become
charged. That charge makes them more likely to stick to nearby surfaces.
The study was published in the journal Atmospheric Environment.
It's an intriguing finding, but Oberg cautioned that it is far too soon to draw
conclusions about any potential health risks.
"You cannot extrapolate this to human health risks," he said. "But there is
definitely a significant increase in deposition of semi-volatile organic
compounds here."
John Moulder of the Medical College of Wisconsin in Milwaukee isn't impressed.
"While I can't dismiss it, I can't get very excited about it either," Moulder
said of possible health risks. "First, I'd want to go and check to see if there
is any evidence that children with leukemia have higher body burdens of PCBs. If
it turns out that they do, I might get a lot more excited about it."


--- On Mon, 12/14/09, Lorraine May <misfire-897@ comcast.net> wrote:


>From: Lorraine May <misfire-897@
> comcast.net>
>Subject: Re: [PNFS] PG&E's SmartMeter
>To: "Loran Stringer" <loranstringer@ yahoo.com>
>Cc: "heritagegarden" <heritagegarden@ yahoo.com>, PutNeighborhoodsFir
stInSunnyvale@ yahoogroups. com, "Luc H" <4luc@sbcglobal. net>
>Date: Monday, December 14, 2009, 2:00 AM
>
>
>
>There is growing concern about electrical pollution levels from super efficient
appliances, including plasma tvs, microwaves, etc. Leukemia levels are higher in
areas around areas that have the huge power lines running thru them
(EMFs)..There is an article in Prevention Magazine this mont (although it lacks
a lot of hard science evidence.) But it does specifically note that cell phones
pose the worst risk.
>
>
>Not sure about smartmeters though..I went to the website. I don't
> know much about this website yet.
>
>
>Lorraine




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G'Day All,

I continue to see the flawed argument that electrical power is inherently dirty,
as 50% is presently produced by coal plants, when figured on a national basis.

While I am a general supporter of hydrogen vehicle fuel, made from renewable
energy, for a variety of reasons, I see great merit in the storage of energy in
other forms, such as batteries or compressed air.  Hydrogen technology continues
to be too expensive for the general public to buy.

Both wind power and photovoltaics are not able to continuously produce power as
needed.  Coal and oil fired plants can produce power anytime of the day or
night.  Without methods of storing and delivering energy, where needed and when
needed, we are left with little choice but to continue our dependence on coal
and oil.  As we use up the supplies of oil and natural gas, we will be left with
coal.

There are very well known safety standards for high pressure air tanks that have
been around for a long time.  As long as we avoid the vermin from Beijing that
put melamine in the pet food, we can safely buy and operate compressed air
vehicles.  Unfortunately, the Chinese government has shown us the horror of
capitalism without any moral constraints.

Regards,
Chuck



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From: Richard W. Zeren <Richard@...>
To: CSix Eco <CSIX_SV_EcoGreenGroup_SIG@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Sat, December 12, 2009 7:46:43 PM
Subject: Re: [CSIX_SV_EcoGreenGroup_SIG] A Car that Runs on Air


Not pollution free, unless the air compressor is run on a pollution-free
“engine.” Most air compressors use electricity, fueled by polluting fuels
for a long time to come.

BUT, in this case the compressor is a perfect fit to small solar and wind, in
that the compressed air tank can be filled when the sun shines in the day and
the wind blows at night—it’s the necessary storage for intermittent sources!
The tanks in the car can be charged from the compressed air tank in your
garage—unless the pressure is so high that they need to be in a bunker ;-).

Getting this certified for road use means ensuring the tanks can survive a crash
without exploding, but that is doable.

Off course, the idiotic suggestion at the end that the car can compress its own
air “forever” shows a fundamental lack of understanding of physics,
friction, entropy and reality.
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Regards,
    Dick Zeren



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From: soscheiderer <steve.owen@verizon. net>
Reply-To: CSix Eco <CSIX_SV_EcoGreenGro up_SIG@yahoogrou ps.com>
Date: Fri, 11 Dec 2009 20:11:57 -0000
To: CSix Eco <CSIX_SV_EcoGreenGro up_SIG@yahoogrou ps.com>
Subject: [CSIX_SV_EcoGreenGr oup_SIG] A Car that Runs on Air


Sorry I missed everyone yesterday, but I was thinking of you! This is pretty
cool!!

http://www.flixxy. com/zero- pollution- automobile. htm

Sincerely, Steve Owen Scheiderer



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Green technology — it's older than you think

In Yemen, 800-year-old houses provide all the comfort of a modern, cutting-edge
structure

http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/global-green/091210/green-yemen-houses


SANA'A, Yemen — The Old City of Sana'a looks a little like a gingerbread house,
delicately frosted on Christmas Eve, and then rediscovered months later in a
cabinet above the radiator.

This ancient, walled city is a dilapidated rabbit warren of medieval towers
intricately adorned with alabaster crescents. Centuries of rain, sun, coups and
civil war have taken their toll on its 800-year-old buildings. But despite their
age and dilapidation — it's shocking that any of these structures are still
standing at all — the buildings feature some impressive green technology.

"It seems to me the architects in the past were much more clever than us," said
Abdullah Zeid Ayssa, who overseas the government's preservation efforts in the
Old City of Sana'a, the whole of which is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. "Our
modern architecture doesn't care much about the sustainability of the materials,
or the climate [a building] will exist in."

Roughly 6,000 "tower houses" — narrow, four to five-story structures built
side-by-side, like Brooklyn brownstones — still stand in Old Sana'a today.
Nearly all of them were built by hand using locally quarried stones, hand-mixed
plaster and a naturally waterproof insulating material, qudad, made of volcanic
cinders and lime.
Sana'a Old City in Yemen at night
The Old City of Sana'a is listed as a UNESCO World Heritage site.
(Paul Stephens/GlobalPost)

Both the materials and the centuries-old building techniques help maintain a
constant temperature inside the homes, eliminating the need for air-conditioning
and central heating — a key factor in the poorest nation in the Arab world,
where millions of people live without electricity, and power outages in the
major cities occur on a daily basis.

"If your house is made of cement, it's cold inside, but if you live in an old
house, it's much warmer," said Taha Ahmed, who has lived in a 100-year-old tower
house his whole life, and have never used either a heater or air-conditioning.
"It is insulated by clay walls, so it's quiet and warm all winter."

Ayssa, who studied architecture at Texas A&M University, said the comfortable
interior temperature is largely due to the buildings' "passive solar"
technologies, and naturally efficient "thermal mass."

"Basically, that means [the tower houses] soak up the heat of the sun during the
day, and release it gradually at night, so it creates a perfect environment year
around," said Pamela Jerome, a professor of historic preservation at Columbia
University's Graduate School of Architecture who has worked extensively Yemen.
"It's not a fancy technology, but it works."

Despite the soaring and plummeting temperatures of a desert city situated at
more than 7,000 feet, the internal temperature of Sana'a tower houses rarely
fluctuates more than a few degrees, according to Ayssa's doctoral research.

WWF report: Green energy technology set to become an industrial mammoth


http://www.fleshandstone.net/healthandsciencenews/1706.html


Green energy technology is on target to become the third biggest industrial
sector worldwide before 2020 according to the report, which was published today.

Today's release of the World Wildlife Fund's (WWF) report, "Clean Economy,
Living Planet - Building Strong Clean Energy Technology Industries,"  comes just
as the Copenhagen conference on climate issues is grappling with how best to
coordinate future efforts to resolve negative climate-related phenomena.

If the report's conclusions prove to be correct, the green energy sector will
come in just behind the automobile and electronics sectors.

Worldwide sales of clean technology using solar power, wind power, biocarburants
(biofuels) and energy-saving technologies reached $630 billion in 2007, placing
them higher than pharmaceutical sales. Clean technology sales are expected to
increase to $1600 billion by 2020.

Using an International Energy Agency (IEA) scenario which aims to reduce CO˛
emissions to 450 ppm (parts per million), the growth rate for green energy
technology is predicted to go up by 15 percent each year and 5 percent for
energy efficient technology. These figures could go higher still if Copenhagen
results in a decisive and fully implemented agreement.

The report states that in terms of absolute financial value, Germany, the United
States and Japan are the current leaders in the green technology market, closely
followed by China, whose market share is predicted to rise rapidly.

Using percentage of GDP (Gross Domestic Product  – the market value of all goods
and services produced by a given country) criteria, Denmark comes out on top.
Denmark is the recognized world leader in the windmill and insulation material
markets. Brazil is second, thanks to its sales of bioethanol, and Germany, which
is becoming a major player in the field of solar energy, comes in third.

The study concludes with a review of mechanisms which could further improve the
development of green energy technologies.

Salazar says U.S. on cusp of renewable revolution

http://www.marketwatch.com/story/salazar-says-us-on-cusp-of-renewable-revolution\
-2009-12-10?reflink=MW_news_stmp


COPENHAGEN (MarketWatch) -- U.S. Secretary of Interior Ken Salazar told
reporters Thursday in Copenhagen that the United States stands on the cusp of a
renewable-energy revolution and that clean-energy legislation will trigger
massive new investment in the sector.

"On renewable energy the truth speaks for itself," said Salazar. "America's vast
deserts, plains and oceans have been largely unexplored for their vast
renewable-energy potential."

"[The] possibilities are immense. The National Renewable Energy Lab estimates
the wind potential off the East Coast of the U.S., in the Atlantic Ocean, to be
1,000 gigawatts -- greater than our national electricity demand." Read related
story on GE wind farm.

Large-scale renewable energy projects are a hot topic in Copenhagen and concrete
political initiatives that arise out of the climate summit in Denmark could
further galvanize investors' interest in the renewable-energy sector, though the
industry has run into difficulty this year as the declining price of oil makes
alternatives less desirable.


Salazar noted that the U.S. has set aside a thousand square miles in 24 separate
areas within the U.S. which are currently being evaluated for their solar
potential and that $40 million has been invested already to "facilitate the
rapid, responsible move to large-scale production of renewables on public
lands."

More than 5,300 new megawatts of new energy capacity is expected to be ready for
construction by the end of next year, 2010, enough to power almost 1.6 million
homes and create over 48,000 jobs.

Most of this solar energy would come from the Southwest and would be equivalent
to 15 coal-fired plants, each of them generating 350 megawatts.

However one of the current technological constraints associated with this
potential new capacity is how to move it -- so-called transmission -- from where
it is produced to where it is consumed.

Much of the solar energy produced in the Southwest, for example, would be
destined to the cities dotted along the Eastern seaboard.

The briefing came as a number of U.S. environmental advisors, negotiators and
Cabinet-level secretaries have begun to arrive in Copenhagen to prepare the
ground for next week's much-anticipated arrival of President Barack Obama.

On Wednesday Todd Stern, head of the U.S. climate delegation to Copenhagen, told
reporters that while "there is no question that we have -- the United States has
-- the largest historical emissions of greenhouse gases" it is also true that
"virtually all the emissions going forward -- nearly of all of it -- is going to
come from developing countries."

Stern said the U.S. wouldn't pay China to reduce emissions.

Separately, speaking in his daily press conference on Thursday, U.N. Executive
Secretary Yvo de Boer told reporters that the current state of negotiations in
Copenhagen "was a little like moving into a new house, you don't' know where all
the rooms are, you've forgotten in which box you've put the electric cooker,
there are no curtains up on the bedroom walls and you need some time to get
comfortable."

Earlier in the week the climate summit got off to a rocky start after a series
of secret, unofficial proposals -- the so-called Danish text -- believed to have
been drawn up by Danish, U.S. and British delegates -- threatened to sideline
the involvement of developing nations, a coalition of nations who are seen as
crucial to a successful outcome in Copenhagen.

The body known as the G77, which is the developing nations' voice within the
U.N., reacted furiously to the leaked document.