http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=580&e=1&u=/nm/20040531/bs_nm/markets_oil_dc
In about 5 years the Al Queda militants will claim victory over oil.
They will claim the divinity of their cause because companies worldwide will have hastened a move to clean fuel with less dependence on oil by that time.
Be assured that Al Queda and the philosophy they twist will have had nothing at all to do with any beneficial change.
There is sure to be a lot of back slapping in those camps though.
This is always the way half-wits treat hindsight or a fortunate turn of events; as if they own providence and have somehow pushed it along with wrong-headed words and deeds. Suddenly an unexpected outcome is included among the greatest of justifications for the 'cause'.
If it happens that as oil dependency declines and Al Queda gets bigger and somehow rises in your esteem know that you have been duped. And if you catch someone dreaming that it is so -- that Al Queda should somehow be credited with erasing the brown cloud over the world? Don't bother to martyr them. Don't give an inch. Don't honor the thought with more than the silent derision it deserves.
Monday, May 31, 2004
Sunday, May 30, 2004
energy economy to fall in step with mobile phone and cable subscription
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE -- please forward to appropriate media
Wednesday, May 05, 2004
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MIT Technology Review: Mismatch Boosts Solar Efficiency
http://www.technologyreview.com/articles/rnb_042704.asp?trk=nl
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The time for an inverter program and fast track electricity generating contracts to individuals has come says an energy research partnership in small town Ontario.
Solar developments have been known about for some time, but until now an article that concisely explained it other than in research abstracts hasn't been seen reviewed by a technical journal.
Our inverter program will serve decentralization very well in conjunction with federal and provincial efficiency incentives and fast track contract agreements.
These efforts, however, are largely undermined by concentrated ownership models that create a bureaucracy inhibiting individual partnership in the energy economy.
"Go big or go home does not apply in the 100 year charette proposals the federal government and sustainability experts have been trying to put forward," said Mr. Pozza, principal researcher with the Energy Transition Partnership, a small energy research brain trust in small town Ontario.
"We see the future of power as simple as paying a network fee to both produce and access power," said Mr. Pozza.
He went on to say his organization had identified key areas that could help communities retain their rural economies and keep urban sprawl from gobbling up arable land.
"Part of it has to do with the distribution of dependency," he said. "In the large scale model central ownership can reach only so far to the margins with an infrastructure that spokes out from a generating station. It gets pretty complex, but it really boils down to the degree of separation you have to where power is produced. Something I like to call 'energy convergence close to the margins'."
Mr. Pozza said under a decentralized model medium sized electricity generators and distribution managers (depending on the local mix of ownership) also become hubs that store energy on site from intermittent generating sources by network connected customer/generators.
"When generation reaches a saturation point of about 30 per cent of all buildings in a community we see the beginning to an end of an energy
economy that spawns a multitude of subscription agreements while energy convergence continues into mobility fuels," he said.
Mr. Pozza said he wanted to make it clear that energy convergence with respect to mobility fuels would follow the same history as the mobile phone and cable television markets.
"As mobility fuels increase their electrical potential," he said, "it will be concentrated ownership that will begin a regulatory wrangle intended to break a deadlock. And it will be consumers that will have to pay the price for it in feature rich energy services that don't serve the core principals of a public utility."
"In decentralized ethanol and direct current production we see urban sprawl halted, saving arable land by making local people locally dependent," he said.
With appropriate crops to make ethanol and stimulating local economies these efforts a widespread decentralization will avoid many of the difficulties associated with thinking locally and acting globally," Mr. Pozza said. This global approach to local agriculture and energy production creates a concentration of another kind," he said. "On pesticides, herbicides and, increasingly, on fertilizers to prevent soil depletion there can be no more dangerous effort than to bind food and fuel so centrally.
We believe that the sliding scale of energy input to energy output where the relationship between fertilization and crop quality is concerned is where the rubber meets the road.
Mr. Pozza joked that next his research firm would be making recommendations that would see building code altered all across Canada to invoke sustainability within a renewable energy economy model.
"Yeah," he said. "Next, I'm going to tell every provincial government official I can get my hands on that municipal bylaws should prohibit grid style developments because the roof alignment of homes in such development doesn't promote energy efficiency. I haven't got a hope in hell."
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For more information please contact Tim Pozza of The Energy Transition Partnership.
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tim
Sustainability Northumberland
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ecoNorth/
http://www.ontario-sea.org/
Northumberland County Freecycle Network
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/northumberlandFreecycle/
-- see also --
http://www.freecycle.org/
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/OttawaFreecycle/
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Wednesday, May 05, 2004
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MIT Technology Review: Mismatch Boosts Solar Efficiency
http://www.technologyreview.com/articles/rnb_042704.asp?trk=nl
********************************************************************
The time for an inverter program and fast track electricity generating contracts to individuals has come says an energy research partnership in small town Ontario.
Solar developments have been known about for some time, but until now an article that concisely explained it other than in research abstracts hasn't been seen reviewed by a technical journal.
Our inverter program will serve decentralization very well in conjunction with federal and provincial efficiency incentives and fast track contract agreements.
These efforts, however, are largely undermined by concentrated ownership models that create a bureaucracy inhibiting individual partnership in the energy economy.
"Go big or go home does not apply in the 100 year charette proposals the federal government and sustainability experts have been trying to put forward," said Mr. Pozza, principal researcher with the Energy Transition Partnership, a small energy research brain trust in small town Ontario.
"We see the future of power as simple as paying a network fee to both produce and access power," said Mr. Pozza.
He went on to say his organization had identified key areas that could help communities retain their rural economies and keep urban sprawl from gobbling up arable land.
"Part of it has to do with the distribution of dependency," he said. "In the large scale model central ownership can reach only so far to the margins with an infrastructure that spokes out from a generating station. It gets pretty complex, but it really boils down to the degree of separation you have to where power is produced. Something I like to call 'energy convergence close to the margins'."
Mr. Pozza said under a decentralized model medium sized electricity generators and distribution managers (depending on the local mix of ownership) also become hubs that store energy on site from intermittent generating sources by network connected customer/generators.
"When generation reaches a saturation point of about 30 per cent of all buildings in a community we see the beginning to an end of an energy
economy that spawns a multitude of subscription agreements while energy convergence continues into mobility fuels," he said.
Mr. Pozza said he wanted to make it clear that energy convergence with respect to mobility fuels would follow the same history as the mobile phone and cable television markets.
"As mobility fuels increase their electrical potential," he said, "it will be concentrated ownership that will begin a regulatory wrangle intended to break a deadlock. And it will be consumers that will have to pay the price for it in feature rich energy services that don't serve the core principals of a public utility."
"In decentralized ethanol and direct current production we see urban sprawl halted, saving arable land by making local people locally dependent," he said.
With appropriate crops to make ethanol and stimulating local economies these efforts a widespread decentralization will avoid many of the difficulties associated with thinking locally and acting globally," Mr. Pozza said. This global approach to local agriculture and energy production creates a concentration of another kind," he said. "On pesticides, herbicides and, increasingly, on fertilizers to prevent soil depletion there can be no more dangerous effort than to bind food and fuel so centrally.
We believe that the sliding scale of energy input to energy output where the relationship between fertilization and crop quality is concerned is where the rubber meets the road.
Mr. Pozza joked that next his research firm would be making recommendations that would see building code altered all across Canada to invoke sustainability within a renewable energy economy model.
"Yeah," he said. "Next, I'm going to tell every provincial government official I can get my hands on that municipal bylaws should prohibit grid style developments because the roof alignment of homes in such development doesn't promote energy efficiency. I haven't got a hope in hell."
- 30 -
For more information please contact Tim Pozza of The Energy Transition Partnership.
--
tim
Sustainability Northumberland
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ecoNorth/
http://www.ontario-sea.org/
Northumberland County Freecycle Network
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/northumberlandFreecycle/
-- see also --
http://www.freecycle.org/
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/OttawaFreecycle/
-- subscribe with blank email to --
ecoNorth-subscribe@yahoogroups.com
northumberlandFreecycle-subscribe@yahoogroups.com
social justice in technology adoption will cost more as compressed hydrogen from electrolysis shuts out fuel producers
Yes, we are still waiting on the decision with respect to onboard fuel processing.
However, the debate will rage until roughly 2009 at which point ethanol production will have ramped up within North America making it easy for the red herring developments to be dropped so that you will know where to put your money in the stock market. Otherwise, hold onto your hard earned bucks until your individual investments in automaking and fuel begin to dry up. Then you'll know who the winners have been slated to be.
Smart money is on a hybrid liquid ethanol tank alongside a compressed hydrogen tank and intelligent feed laws that would allow for the massive development of solar electric within the developed world.
But in order to envision this you would have to subtract the interest that fuel producers have in remaining part of the mix and the enormous importance government tax revenues from mobility fuel have on the economy.
You would also have to make people who don't already own cars and solar panels pay through the nose for electricity because of the huge demand personal home electrolysers would have on the grid should compressed hydrogen tanks become the norm. As a result consumers will have to pay extra for a compressed hydrogen tank in the future because it would only be these consumers who would be able to choose an off grid solution by purchasing solar electric panels as an investment in a family's future fuel needs. Enlightened feed laws won't happen until government is sure it can secure revenue from the sale of mobility fuels. This will take a very long time, especially in Canada where municipal budgets will soon be tied to mobility fuel taxes. Fuel companies, as a result, will never allow themselves to die. Along with that, enabling technologies will be sujugated to high broad-based taxes, regulatory barriers, and open hostility.
Good luck people of earth. You will need it. Iceland should be your home, but you wouldn't know what to do with it as you fight over the spoils. *wink
I'm going back to my home planet where we eat pancakes every morning smothered in maple syrup surrounded by lean sausages and accompanied by endless rounds of strong Columbian coffee and Florida fresh squeezed orange juice.
Have fun on earth while you are able. Do come visit me sometime.
Scientific American Frontiers
http://www.pbs.org/saf/1403/video/watchonline.htm
However, the debate will rage until roughly 2009 at which point ethanol production will have ramped up within North America making it easy for the red herring developments to be dropped so that you will know where to put your money in the stock market. Otherwise, hold onto your hard earned bucks until your individual investments in automaking and fuel begin to dry up. Then you'll know who the winners have been slated to be.
Smart money is on a hybrid liquid ethanol tank alongside a compressed hydrogen tank and intelligent feed laws that would allow for the massive development of solar electric within the developed world.
But in order to envision this you would have to subtract the interest that fuel producers have in remaining part of the mix and the enormous importance government tax revenues from mobility fuel have on the economy.
You would also have to make people who don't already own cars and solar panels pay through the nose for electricity because of the huge demand personal home electrolysers would have on the grid should compressed hydrogen tanks become the norm. As a result consumers will have to pay extra for a compressed hydrogen tank in the future because it would only be these consumers who would be able to choose an off grid solution by purchasing solar electric panels as an investment in a family's future fuel needs. Enlightened feed laws won't happen until government is sure it can secure revenue from the sale of mobility fuels. This will take a very long time, especially in Canada where municipal budgets will soon be tied to mobility fuel taxes. Fuel companies, as a result, will never allow themselves to die. Along with that, enabling technologies will be sujugated to high broad-based taxes, regulatory barriers, and open hostility.
Good luck people of earth. You will need it. Iceland should be your home, but you wouldn't know what to do with it as you fight over the spoils. *wink
I'm going back to my home planet where we eat pancakes every morning smothered in maple syrup surrounded by lean sausages and accompanied by endless rounds of strong Columbian coffee and Florida fresh squeezed orange juice.
Have fun on earth while you are able. Do come visit me sometime.
Scientific American Frontiers
http://www.pbs.org/saf/1403/video/watchonline.htm
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