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Brazilians Switch to Gas as Ethanol Prices Climb: A Dark Sign of Things to Come?

Author - GAS or GASOLINE - is there a difference???

Lockheed Sees 290MW Solar Project It Was to Build Cancelled

PS - let me make it easy for you:

www.duke-energy.com/nc...

Lockheed Sees 290MW Solar Project It Was to Build Cancelled

manyao5 and searcher - you may want to take a look at what Duke Power is doing!!

Until Recently, Few Knew About the U.S. Solar Import Tariff

China, if it is able and smart enough reverse the trend, will not permit the same mistakes in energy and industrial poluition by using the obsolete technologies the US (and the world) has used for years and wants to sell them (so China can then try to work it's way out from under that just as the rest of the world is doing today). They need to put in place the smart stuff today, first time, rather than replace the other stuff next time (yes I know they are already in trouble, but such a short distance down the path they are going to go - now's the time for the shift). They are still close enough to the starting line to delay, pause, MAKE REAL INVESTMENT AND INNOVATIVE ADVANCES NOW!!! SHOW THE WORLD!!!!!!.

Lockheed Sees 290MW Solar Project It Was to Build Cancelled

Again - If I were a betting man, which I gues I am, I would place my bets on no-moving-parts SOLAR PV any day, vis-a-vis all the moving parts of solar thermal electricity. No way would I want to carry all the junk from present day power generation being pumps, motors, turbines, generators, etc., with all their maintenance issues - when simple, sweet, silent, forever solar PV can make electricity for free as well. A DUH! for anything solar thermal that is not a panel or two of natural circulation for home hot water or swimming pools, basically.

Report: Chinese Solar Capacity Could Jump to 1GW or More by 2011

ferd - what some and hopefully many more energy industry folks well tend to do is like new car buyers: they tire of maintaining the old and cheap, alreadey paid-for...... When enough of them taste the beauty of in-essense maintenance-free solar PV they will opt to dabble more and more in lieu of welding water walls, erosion/corosion of piping systems and bag house stuff (not to mention all the coal mining ops and reclamation) and as for the nuc guys, they too would like to eliminate the annual refueling, steam gererator replacements, radiation dose, spent fuel storage (not to mention the reprocessing and waste issues). So, sweet, simple, clean and forever is very attractive. Some non-financial benefits will sway penetration - and, elimination of some tiring financial burdens of the coal and nuc economy make for a double whammy. So, standard economics shift a little.

A123 Increases IPO Price Range

John - Amen on the L1, VW's diesel hybrid, where a 2 person payload of 300+ pounds approaches 25% of curb gross weight (moving only 3 lbs of vehicle for each pound of people instead of 6+lbs of vehicle for most other EV's).

Why Is Congress Agnostic About Natural Gas?

PS - to be clear: CO2 reduction will be an unintended consequence of the real solution(s), just as CO2 creation became an unintended consequence previously.

Now let's talk about REAL PROGESS WITH REAL POLIICY to get us there.

First policy: leave ALL the fossil energy where it is; stored forever, if need be, to the best of our ability.

Second policy: implement existing and develop and execute as many as possible (AMAP) alternatives as soon as possible (ASAP) in both POWER GENERATION and TRANSPORTATION the Electricfy America and Alternatives themes.

If you want to know how to do that, go into the achives and read my earlier published comments in SA about the less than 10 point plan.

Or, watch China.

Why Is Congress Agnostic About Natural Gas?

Fitz - first off; CO2 reduction is certainly not the first and foremost goal to attract REAL investors, entrapraneuers, independent thinkers, etc. That is nothing more than more wish-washy liberal driven mish-mash.

So let's start again....................

Why Is Congress Agnostic About Natural Gas?

Jack and AO, et.al. - many of the same arguments can be made by the cleaner coal guys and the electrify America crowd.

We can use our coal; we can use our gas. In the end, both are irreplaceably GONE! Both gone, in what 100-300 years at current consumption??

For the past 30 years we have been practicing the policy of using someone else's oil; that worked. But we didn't solve our real problems; or develop the alternative solutions to when the wells went dry. Or did we?

We could still electrify the rails and the interstate hiways using current technology. And we could produce biofuels for the airplanes and many road machines. And we have many ways to produce more electricity, sans additional coal and nat gas capacity.

What we need are some clearheaded, CLEAN, policy makers; some not concerned about the bribers and punishers (what bread butterer's become when they stop buttering your bread!). Sounds like we need some INDEPENDENTS - if there are any such things in existence.

The best independents I've even known are the entrepreneurs that had a good idea and the backing to strike forth with a concept and product that made sense and money - that worked when all the policy makers did not exist or get in the way of PROGRESS. Sort of like a Ford, Westinghouse, or Bell, or.........where's the current free and clear thinker, unencumbered.......??

Are We Headed for a Green World or Business-as-Usual?

paulsjj - where were you when the US went from a manufacturing country to a services country???

Are We Headed for a Green World or Business-as-Usual?

Me thinks some "group" may or may not have recognized that some resources are consumed and gone forever, some are more or less recycled forever, and then there are the tweeners.

However, take gold. Some may have learned that taking it from the ground was good. Selling it was even better. And then, maybe realized it was going to be gone forever (in someone else's pocket), so accumulated all they could with the price FIXED (ie, CAPPED) at $35 an ounce. Having accumulated his pile, he then released the cap. That's business (if you can get away with it). The gold basically didn't disappear: it was in reserve, or recycled.

Then came oil, coal, and gas - some thought it was good to take it from the ground, use it, and even sell it. That was good business until there was no more of it in reserve or any long lasting accumulated pile. Goshes!!!

Chinese Rare Earth Rationing Shouldn't Sink Wind Power Sector

dAVEMART and engstudent - many types of ROADBLOCKS protect innovative technologies for many selfish, greedy reasons UNTIL THE COMPETITION DRIVEN BY SOME MORE-SELFISH, AGGRESSIVE, ENTRAPANEUR DRIVES AROUND THE ROADBLOCKS - then the catch-up games begin. Just watch......or, of course, I could be wrong. You know, the never-wear-out windshield wiper material never made it to the marketplace - it would have ruined the existing wiper-replacement market. Good business practice? Yup! As long as you can do it. Now when the raw materials become scare.......wallo, the game may change. We found a synthetic replacement for RUBBER tires in the 40's.

Neodymium?? It's already a replacement for the previous scarce motor metal! Does it have a NEXT??? Maybe. Or, is the better alternative to not use Neodumium at all????? Wisdom, suggests the latter. However, greed rules, until it can't; and then of course, it does again. That being when the wiser choice becomes a good business decision again.

Sort of a David and Goliath story. Place your bets accordingly, but with caution: this is just business! So you guys may be right.

Chinese Rare Earth Rationing Shouldn't Sink Wind Power Sector

PS - here's the WheelTug demo video site:

youtube.com/watch?v=0C...

YouTube - WheelTug Demonstration--Taxi without engines
2 min 29 sec - May 20, 2007 -

WheelTug's demo in the Arizona desert. This electric motor fits in the nosegear and lets airplanes move on the runway without turning on ...

youtube.com/watch?v=0C...

Chinese Rare Earth Rationing Shouldn't Sink Wind Power Sector

PS - and if you don't believe the Chorus Motor works, go watch the Hybrid Plane demonstration video of Wheel-Tug moving a fully loaded Boeing 657 both forward and backwards while taxing about the Phoenix tarmac. Boeing was part of the demo team. Delta is the Wheel-Tug implementer partner.