nakedjaybird

The 'Green' Side of Natural Gas

JERRYDD - YOU'VE GOT TO USE THE SOLAR POWER THAT GET'S RID OF THE STEAM CYCLE AND ALL THE MOVING PARTS = THAT'S WHY PV WINS OUT - NO MAINTENACE OF THE MOVING PARTS AND NOT CAPEX FOR THE ALL SPINNERS, HX, ETC.

jUST plain ole silent running and no dockside time for refueling, motor/pump maint or tube plugging (something any submariner understands!). Worst enviornmental hazard is cooling the desert (or rooftops) and rattlesnake bites (assuming the Obama environmentalists protect the rattlers from roughback spitting snuce chewers).

The 'Green' Side of Natural Gas

Come on guys. The base-load coal plants are operational, paid for, profitable, connected to mines in many cases, and will be used until not permitted to, or they wear out; an asset to use (milk, til it's a dead dog).

NG is the favored alternative for the new peaking generating capacity.

Solar and wind should be the preferred alternative for new peaking capacity instead of NG, and when it's done that is should be used to replace base-load coal ASAP. NG should not be promoted over solar and wind for right thinking folks (so happens, a lot of greedy folks own the gas and want to use it now, instead of maybe never; IT'S EVENTUALLY GOING TO GONE, PERIOD. IT'S FOSSIL (GET IT??).

Hydro and nuc will continue. Pumped hydro will come to be, in many dry canyons in the SW and NW. And some compressed gas storage (along with some giant capacitors etc., for regulation purposes).

The 'Green' Side of Natural Gas

And throw natural gas exploration, drilling, transportation, etc.,etc, in with the rest of the fossils ...........


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Yes; go Wal-Mart. As big boxers put their roofs to work they will show the power generation world what alternative power can do.

As soon as the power generators no longer "worry" about sunk costs and idled capacity in all their fossil plants, they too will gladly go for the
- no moving parts,
- corrosion-free
- low to non-existant maintenace,
- nearly regulatory- free,
- basically no-personnel risk (coal mining to nuclear waste if we were to include nuc)
- and finally, basically, enviornmentally clean, throughout (sans some sand and Si processing).

Theirs not a power generator around that would not give up mining, processing, regs, water-wall repairs, bag houses, slag, generating system maintenance (and radiation workers, regs, NRC, etc., etc.,) FOR SOME SILENT, CLEAN, SIMPLE, UNCOMPLICATED POWER GENERATION.

The US Mission should be to teach the rest of the world all this instead of trying to sell them the stuff we already make to then have them go down the same yellow brick road we have, AND THEN UNDO IT!!!!

I'm all for solar on huts in hinderland - (and Wal-Mart rooftops!)..

Pickens: World’s Biggest Wind Farm No Longer on Drawing Board

NERFER - DUH!!!!! Generation cost is the fuel cost, the energy cost, not the cap ex. So it's near zero. Duh!!!!

Pickens: World’s Biggest Wind Farm No Longer on Drawing Board

Someone should check to see how many counties in the US DO NOT already have transmission lines running across them already - starting with all the counties that ALREADY DO HAVE hydro, coal, nuclear, and nat gas power generation plants; linking up dispersed wind and solar farms won't be much of an addition. The talk is big. T&D and generators need some "valid" reasons to continue to raise rates........DUH!!!!!!

Hey, convert the gas and coal plants to wind and solar and all the transmission stuff is already there.......DUH AGAIN!

And the generation cost will be almost ZERO...... HAT TRICK DUH!!!!!

Making Natural Gas Transportation a Reality

Sorry Fitz - I'd still rather have Steven Chu leading the way than you and your NG mantra for transportation.

All we need for an effective short term and long term reduction of 5-7 million barrels/day in oil consumption is to permanently implement the equibalent responses to the 1973 Oil Embargo:

1) for people (and some goods) movement: car-pooling, van-pooling, busses and transit systems for the folks within beltways; teleconferening, elimination of marketing jaunts; minimizing use of private planes and maximize full commerical flights; High speed trains; more rails (100% electric); install electrified ferries within interstate right of ways (local intra and express interstate).

2) for cargo and goods movement: put it on the steel wheeled rails and barges and get it off the rubber tired interstates.

3) electrify every end use.

4) install AMAP solar and wind.

So come on, next embargo; teach the folks a second time. Only keep the fixes in place and/or improve on them for permancey.

Open Letter to Boone Pickens

Mediapro - thks for expressing some wisdom.

I had completely forgotten about the SS cap at $100k since I stopped contributing and started getting the benefit, taxed or not.

The cap should be removed. No limit to SS contributions,

And it should be applied to all sources of income, bonus payments, parachutes, retention contracts, any payments in lieu of cash be they options, stock, warrants, or even perks, land, goods, property, etc.,

And then, they should apply the tax to capital gains above $20,000/yr be they from stock et,al, coins, stamps, antiques, art, autos, etc.

And then beef up the audit staff and/or build more jails.

Open Letter to Boone Pickens

Oh yes, and by then I still will not have read Hef's book.

Open Letter to Boone Pickens

Boohoo, boohoo, boohoo.....but what about after year 100?...boohoo,boohoo, boohoo.......then use coal for the next 200 years after that,....boohoo, boohoo, boohoo,......... and then?????......... then the flood,........... boooooooohoooooooooo,....

Open Letter to Boone Pickens

PS - and help us to not continue to ignore your wind, and most importantly, your sun (sic and no sic).

Open Letter to Boone Pickens

Dear god - please flood the earth again so we can replenish our oil, coal and gas natural (sic) resources. forgive us in how we mismanaged what you gave us the first time.

earthman.

What Does Obama's Cabinet Have in Store for Alternative Energy?

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What Does Obama's Cabinet Have in Store for Alternative Energy?

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What Does Obama's Cabinet Have in Store for Alternative Energy?

PS: here's the energy chart:


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What Does Obama's Cabinet Have in Store for Alternative Energy?

PS: Hopefully my aforemetntioned Figure appears here:


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