jamesnach

Obama's Energy Bill: A Recipe for Economic Destruction

Footnotes are probably the most hilarious part of this nonsense

Mi favourite is #3:
"Deregulation did not cause the financial crisis. Two things: First the crisis also swept through Europe, despite the fact that its financial sector is heavily regulated"

Hey, Mr. Jackson, have you ever heard about "financial markets" and "globalisation"?

Even if you are an anti-government hardliner, you shouldn't be allowed to be so or ignorant...

Obama's Energy Bill: A Recipe for Economic Destruction

www.nytimes.com/2009/0...

Li-ion Battery Manufacturers: The Bleeding Edge of Energy Storage Technology

Dear Mr. Petersen,

week after week you keep posting the same articles.
You just add some tables here and there, and - et voilà - here you have the "new" blog.

And you keep posting the same wrong figures about li-ion batteries costs. It's such a nonsense.

Today, not tomorrow, not in three years, not in ten years, today, some leading european car makers - people who build millions of cars per year are buying and testing li-ion batteries (battery packs, not cells) at 500 USD/kWh.
And these batteries work well, as you will see very soon.

So, you are free to keep posting the same old stuff.
But it's just wrong stuff.

Li-ion Batteries: A Speculative Field of Dreams

Mr. Petersen, I got your point: you don't want your government to waste the money in an unproven technology. fine.

But I personally think that most of your other points are deeply wrong: if US companies are not able to deliver proper and reliable batteries, it doesn't mean that competitive li-ion bateries are not possible.
I don't think you know so much about the battery companies of Korea and - guess? - China.
I have been personally there, evaluating the technologies and the companies, been interviewing potential customers who actually road-tested the batteries, and I can tell you one thing: out there there are a bunch skilled chinese and korean companies that today can produce reliable and competitive batteries. they have the technology, and they're scaling up.
and lots of pe's and vc's are there to invest.

the world is much bigger than us (and japan)

Does Anyone Care About Alternative Energy Anymore?

Probably the most arrogant and stupid blog I have ever read on this site.

Just limiting the comments to the first paragraphs (I have much better things to do than replying to such a nonsense), dear author, to inform you that the "over-subsidized renewables" are much less subsidized than fossil fuels.
Actually, what happens is that of the 300 B$ that every year are spent on subsidies to energy, only 33 B$ are related to renewables and - guess - about 180 B$ are spent for fossil fuels.

unfccc.int/files/coope...

first get the facts, second start writing.