Nick the Greek Socrates

This Week in Renewable Energy

COMMENTS TO: THE PROCLAIMER (A significant contributor to Seeking Alpha blog)

O.K. The Proclaimer. You are reading between the lines; clever. Seeking Alpha? You are ON. It is a lot more involved than just a quest for a max-out by brainstorming and reengineering the Laws of Physics and Thermodynamics and Hydraulics, to arrive at "Zero Point Energy", not limited to the DOE dream of a Novel “Energy Storage” by a magic, fostering “Near-Zero O&M, as well as aiming to deliver power to the grid at less than 6 cents/kWh. As to a process, cheaper than all fossil fuels, stand alone, as well as any renewable, not limited to uranium as a fuel, YES, there is; a Super Hybrid Facility, comprised of multi-components, scavenging each other produced energy’s residual, being equal to produced energy, fostered by the Recovered (virtually free) Energy Components, that can produce electric power at less than 4 cents/kWh. No other fossil fuel can do that. Also, YES there is a process that can beat by a mile the O&M of the SWRO (Seawater Desalination by Reverse Osmosis), again “scavenged (free) recovered sources”, both in BTU, Heat Rate, Condensation Capacity’s Factor, et al, all the way of producing crop’s irrigation water, that is there times cheaper.
However, that is only a part thereof of what I am talking about. I am going to quiz you, and welcome your interrogatory in return. (YES, I am one of these Socrates brain child 65 years of age, aiming to deliver Super Alpha and I will, together with out team and participants).
Q. Is the wholesale price, on the open market, for tomatoes over $1/lbs?
Q. Can a Super Hybrid Facility, fully integrated and in synergy with crops (tomatoes) production facility, utilizing far more advanced than organic and hydroponic process, deliver 50 lbs/square feet of tomatoes (6-cuts/year), at O&M cost of less than 15%, (EBITDA at 67%)?
Q. Is the maximum/minimum Market Price Referent for wholesale electric power at over $92/mWh and as low as $42/mWh, respectively?
Q. Is the maximum/minim wholesale rate for the process water (potable at another rate) commodity at $1,880/acre-feet and as low as $330/acre-feet, respectively?
Q. Can just 500 hectares of tomato super-greenhouses (latest inventions, a lot more protected by other means than by a Patent Pending), integrated and in synergy with a Super Hybrid Facility, yields $570 million/year in revenue, at O&M cost of less than $85 million/year, having a total development cost of less than $100 million (you need over 1,000MWe coal-fired power plant to generate such revenue, however at O&M cost of over $300 million, [cost of coal, transportation, sequestration, et al myriads and at a development costs of not less than $500 million] )?
Q. Where is the lowest farm labor cost, say $11/day, to grow, produce and deliver tomato to the US Markets?
Q. Do you think that above COMPLEX can be develop for 3-times less than any fossil fuel/SWRO plants?
Q. Which Regulatory in which country will kiss your ass to bring them all of herein above (Exuberant Tax Revenue for them, on their platform’s standards)?
Q. Why, even the GE’ CEO, said “It is a Hell to get anything done in US, so we’ll do it elsewhere”?
Q. Do you think that above processes are not environmentally friendly?
Q. Do you think that above is not in the process of being implemented and without any participation by any of Seeking Alpha folks, nor from any one, not limited to “Zero-Gov-Subsidy”?
Until the next round, if any, Respectfully, Nick the Greek Socrates.

Environmentalism May Face Major Setback in 2009

COMMENTS TO: THE PROCLAIMER (A significant contributor to Seeking Alpha blog)

O.K. The Proclaimer. You are reading between the lines; clever. Seeking Alpha? You are ON. It is a lot more involved than just a quest for a max-out by brainstorming and reengineering the Laws of Physics and Thermodynamics and Hydraulics, to arrive at "Zero Point Energy", not limited to the DOE dream of a Novel “Energy Storage” by a magic, fostering “Near-Zero O&M, as well as aiming to deliver power to the grid at less than 6 cents/kWh. As to a process, cheaper than all fossil fuels, stand alone, as well as any renewable, not limited to uranium as a fuel, YES, there is; a Super Hybrid Facility, comprised of multi-components, scavenging each other produced energy’s residual, being equal to produced energy, fostered by the Recovered (virtually free) Energy Components, that can produce electric power at less than 4 cents/kWh. No other fossil fuel can do that. Also, YES there is a process that can beat by a mile the O&M of the SWRO (Seawater Desalination by Reverse Osmosis), again “scavenged (free) recovered sources”, both in BTU, Heat Rate, Condensation Capacity’s Factor, et al, all the way of producing crop’s irrigation water, that is there times cheaper.
However, that is only a part thereof of what I am talking about. I am going to quiz you, and welcome your interrogatory in return. (YES, I am one of these Socrates brain child 65 years of age, aiming to deliver Super Alpha and I will, together with out team and participants).
Q. Is the wholesale price, on the open market, for tomatoes over $1/lbs?
Q. Can a Super Hybrid Facility, fully integrated and in synergy with crops (tomatoes) production facility, utilizing far more advanced than organic and hydroponic process, deliver 50 lbs/square feet of tomatoes (6-cuts/year), at O&M cost of less than 15%, (EBITDA at 67%)?
Q. Is the maximum/minimum Market Price Referent for wholesale electric power at over $92/mWh and as low as $42/mWh, respectively?
Q. Is the maximum/minim wholesale rate for the process water (potable at another rate) commodity at $1,880/acre-feet and as low as $330/acre-feet, respectively?
Q. Can just 500 hectares of tomato super-greenhouses (latest inventions, a lot more protected by other means than by a Patent Pending), integrated and in synergy with a Super Hybrid Facility, yields $570 million/year in revenue, at O&M cost of less than $85 million/year, having a total development cost of less than $100 million (you need over 1,000MWe coal-fired power plant to generate such revenue, however at O&M cost of over $300 million, [cost of coal, transportation, sequestration, et al myriads and at a development costs of not less than $500 million] )?
Q. Where is the lowest farm labor cost, say $11/day, to grow, produce and deliver tomato to the US Markets?
Q. Do you think that above COMPLEX can be develop for 3-times less than any fossil fuel/SWRO plants?
Q. Which Regulatory in which country will kiss your ass to bring them all of herein above (Exuberant Tax Revenue for them, on their platform’s standards)?
Q. Why, even the GE’ CEO, said “It is a Hell to get anything done in US, so we’ll do it elsewhere”?
Q. Do you think that above processes are not environmentally friendly?
Q. Do you think that above is not in the process of being implemented and without any participation by any of Seeking Alpha folks, nor from any one, not limited to “Zero-Gov-Subsidy”?
Until the next round, if any, Respectfully, Nick the Greek Socrates.

Cleantech: The Sixth Industrial Revolution

All already rusted:
1771 The Industrial Revolution
1829 The Age of Steam and Railways
1875 The Age of Steel, Electricity and Heavy Engineering
1908 The Age of Oil, the Automobile and Mass Production
1971 Age of Information and Telecommunications
2003 Age of Cleantech and Biotech

2009 The Age of the Science Hybrid Revolution
(All integrated and in synergy components: renewable energy-15%; storage energy-10%; recovered (free) energy-35%, and the cleanest of all natural gas-fired component-40%).
Stand alone component will not survive, whether is coal, or fossil fuel or nuclear. (The Science Hybrid Energy are already here, ready to be commercialized, like it or not)