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JimBullis 06/25/2010 04:17 PM Report
Bill Gates recommended the book by Prof. David MacKay, which is available at (key page comes up first): http://www.inference.phy.cam.ac.uk/withouthotair/c2/page_27.shtml
Prof. MacKay is Chief Advisor to UK DOE and Climate, so misguidance by him is important to all of us. The key page linked above shows his method of converting forms of energy which is fundamentally wrong, and makes all the conclusions of his book with respect to electric vehicles wrong by a factor of about three. I rely on his predecessors at Cambridge, particularly Lord Kelvin, to straighten this out.
Since Bill Gates is guiding our innovation process, and he relies on MacKay for his guidance, it is particularly important that this get fixed.
JimBullis 06/25/2010 03:24 PM Report
Getting all we can from wind is fine, and the only realistic way to store it is with hydro systems. It does not even have to be pumped in many cases; it can simply be stored by turning off hydro when the wind blows. And this is easy to do. But the electric car bandwagon rolls on so it is more politic to talk about storing energy in car batteries.
Notice that Charley Rose's question about focusing on the demand side was ignored.
And Bill Gates calls for 80% reduction in CO2 emissions stands unanswered. His prescribed innovation funding would be nice, but what Gates might not know is that funding never comes without guidance from the source of the money. And that guidance is almost always wrong, especially if real innovation is needed.
Even where we might think the proper motivation is offered, for example with the Automotive Xprize competition, we end up with guidelines that enforce pre-conceived and wrong notions about energy. That aside, there has been some progress, some of it due to independent thinking before the Xprize existed. But notable among the Auto Xprize are the Aptera efforts (www.aptera.com) and the Edison2 efforts (www.edison2.com) If these and similar efforts can help shape the taste of the motoring public, there is some real possibility that very meaningful progress will come on the demand side.
robdverity 06/18/2010 09:48 PM Report
Why do I appear to be the only one astounded by the force, size and endless persistence of the oil spill. If the endless wells all around the world have similar force, volume and quantity associated with them, is so-called peak oil a scam to keep oil artificially high? Does such volume suggest oil replenishes itself at depth? Seismic activity, grinding tectonic plates converting heat and vegetation, dinosauers(?) etc into hydrocarbons and oil? Volcanos and earth quakes have consistently been active nonstop. CO cleanup may be THE problem, not the real price if the supply was really known and knowable.
JMM 06/18/2010 05:30 PM Report
REMant, I hardly ever see geothermal mentioned in the media, but while checking on the MidWest tornadoes, I see that the University of Kansas was given $4 million (from the US Dept of Energy, KU, U of OK, and Sierra Geothermal) for geothermal research. Geothermal is recommended to heat/cool individual houses and buildings, but the major geothermal drilling in California, to produce electricity, reportedly sets off small earthquakes.
I would love to see a conversation on what is known now about geothermal, solar, and water current energies. What effects can we expect when they are taken to a mass-usage level? Would hydrogen cars that "emit something like water" be good for drought areas but create "Blade Runner" conditions in coastal areas? Are wind turbines safe for bees, birds, and bats? Would tapping into the ocean currents confuse fish and interfere with spawning seasons? What kind of radiation levels would electric car batteries produce? I would love to see a conversation about this!
REMant 06/18/2010 03:43 PM Report
No doubt wind is not a panacea, but it is certainly of more value than a lot of other, hare-brained ideas. Most of these alternatives depend for their success on the development of storage, but geothermal does not and I haven't heard much about it recently. We can tho do a lot to reduce the use of cheaper fuels by reducing the credit creation that sustains it, as I mentioned the other day, and work to rebuild our engineering capacity and middle class. It's the poor and the rich who tend to exploit resources.