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tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36909717925000803812016-07-27T05:50:16.849-07:00Green ExploredLindsay Leveen Winner Of 2013 First Prize National Newspaper Association Serious firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-3690971792500080381.post-55786602923281912342016-06-17T16:48:00.001-07:002016-06-17T16:51:48.597-07:00THERANOS AND BLOOM SCAMS

Lindsay Leveenhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com://www.greenexplored.com/2016/06/theranos-and-bloom-scams.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3690971792500080381.post-66816179562186420472016-06-15T18:05:00.001-07:002016-06-15T18:05:44.620-07:00Bloom Disaster – Enough is Enough

This Op Ed was written by Lacey Lafferty a GOP candidate for the 2016 election of Governor of Delaware

Bloom Energy promised Delaware to deliver affordable electricity and bring 900 new high tech jobs to our state. Bloom Energy broke its promise. Bloom fails every month to meet its obligations under the agreement with the state. This is the worst deal ever in the state of Delaware and an environmental disaster. As one Delaware Senator states, "We were sold a bad bill of goods."

Delaware rate payers and work place employers are punished month-by-month by excessive electric bills. Over 130 million dollars has wrongly been taken from Delawareans. Much of it goes to the pockets of the richest 1% of the 1%. They are the venture capitalist owners of Bloom Energy. Delaware families and workers are the victims. This has to end. Our money, taken under false pretenses and by broken promises, must be returned to the people of Delaware.

Bloom promised long–term efficiency, its "miles-per-gallon" was wrong and they knew it.

Bloom generates extremely hazardous chemical waste in our protected coastal zone. They failed to honestly disclose it when negotiating with Delaware authorities and they knew it.

Bloom's energy cost premium far exceeds costs stated when negotiating with Delaware authorities and they knew it.

Bloom's promise of 900 jobs has never been kept; not for as much as one month.

Bloom negotiated in "my opinion" in bad faith.

Bloom misrepresented its product, its costs, its availability and reliability, its hazardous waste, and its benefits to the rate payers in Delaware.

Bloom Energy's business in Delaware does not represent any new and exciting technology. Its business is based on intentional deception, insider dealings and guaranteed revenues no different than the days of the "robber barons" of the timber, coal or railroad industries a hundred years ago. It is always honest working families who make the few insiders rich. It was wrong a hundred years ago and it's still wrong today.

All of the above are more enough reason to find Bloom in breach of contract. As your Governor I believe in all sources of reliable energy. I will stand with Delaware families; stand up to the venture capitalists and their crony friends. I promise to do everything I can by hiring the best attorneys to void Bloom's 21 year contract at the cost of 700 million dollars, claw back the $130 million Bloom took from Delaware and return it to Delaware families. Enough is enough of our government's disastrous decisions and wasteful spending.

Warm regards and God Bless,

Lacey Lafferty

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Lindsay Leveenhttp://email@example.com://www.greenexplored.com/2016/06/bloom-disaster-enough-is-enough.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3690971792500080381.post-22122103812789356522016-06-11T09:43:00.001-07:002016-06-11T12:33:53.975-07:00KIOR and the DOE

I now have the terms under which the DOE would have loaned KIOR money. The DOE had read the Shaw Report and was aware that KIOR had little chance of succeeding in their Alchemy. Therefore the DOE imposed strict requirements and would only loan KIOR a small fraction of the Billion Dollars KIOR wanted.<o:p></o:p>

Of course these real terms were unacceptable to Khosla and KIOR and the company pretended they voluntarily dropped out of the loan application and they went on to raise money in their IPO that ended up being a disaster to investors. KIOR also hyped the arrival of Con D Rice as a board member to support the IPO and the subsequent boondoggle that they were a "reality" to replace vast amounts of fossil fuels through use of their white mystery catalyst that converted pine trees to diesel.<o:p></o:p>

The state of Mississippi still has their fraud suit against Khosla and the other folks who hyped the thermodynamic lie. Shareholders have their lawsuits. The SEC has their investigations. And Obama has Khosla involved in building his Billion Dollar Presidential Library.<o:p></o:p>

The lesson learned from the KIOR caper is that the Shaw Group did a good job pointing out that KIOR was likely to fail and the DOE prevented another Billion Dollars going down the drain to a contributor to the President and the Democrat Party. Con D also learned a lesson that she looks like a fool and not quite Kosher for having insider traded shares in KIOR for a profit while she was a director on the company's board and while she was an advisor to Khosla the man who has now been shown to be a thermodynamic idiot with his myriad failures at Cello, Range, KIOR, Gevo, LS 9, Calera, and others.<o:p></o:p>

I learned that the staff at the DOE is willing to help a citizen get information under the Freedom of Information Act and that the DOE prevented another Solyndra from happening even though Vinod Khosla had the ear of President Obama. The outcome of the lawsuits against Khosla et. al. is still unknown but Vinnie did learn that the second law of thermodynamics applies to him as well as that he cannot prevent surfers from reaching Martin's Beach on the California coast. Let's hope President #45 helps science in America become great again and that thermodynamic imposters like Khosla never become energy gurus again.<o:p></o:p>
Lindsay Leveenhttp://email@example.com://www.greenexplored.com/2016/06/kior-and-doe.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3690971792500080381.post-77079877589099296672016-05-14T08:15:00.002-07:002016-05-14T08:20:59.184-07:00Statistics and Biased Interpretation Thereof

This week Secretary of Energy Moniz tweeted that US CO2 emissions are way down using the chart shown above. I looked at the chart and came to the conclusion that it is true that CO2 emissions are reduced from a decade ago, but and a big but during the three years Ernie Moniz has been secretary of energy emissions have not gone down at all. Therefore Dr. Moniz was simply pointing out his own incompetence by publicizing the chart.<o:p></o:p>

When I pointed this out to friends who are so left they can never be right, they complained that I dislike Moniz. When I pointed this out to right wing nuts who deny global warming, they agreed Moniz was ineffective and went further that he should be impeached for wasting tens of billions of dollars. The interpretation of data is subject to the bias of the beholder.<o:p></o:p>

I then tested the hypothesis on what right wing nuts would say about the success of solar energy. These climate change deniers who make Stevie Wonder have twenty twenty vision present charts the show massive growth in the gigawatt hours of solar generation and then disqualify this as still only contributing 0.9% of all the electrons in the grid. Left wing nuts looking at the same data came to the conclusion that in a decade all fossil fuel fired power generation station will be shut. Of course I concluded that PV is highly successful and will play a very useful niche role that will grow to approximately 10% in power generation.<o:p></o:p>

People are highly biased and the data are interpreted to reinforce the bias. Honest interpretation of data requires impartiality and actually not looking at only the mean of the data but the variance within the data set. I know a professor of decisions sciences at Stanford named Sam Savage who wrote a textbook titled The Flaw of Averages. Sam says "plans based on average assumptions are wrong on average."<o:p></o:p>

http://flawofaverages.com/<o:p></o:p>

Over 40 years ago I wrote a master thesis on business decisions using statistical distributions. The results of my research were then used in gold mining and the decisions under great uncertainty to invest large amounts of capital in a gold mine. That is why I look at all data presented to me critically and make more profound interpretations of what the data tell. I must admit though when Ernie Moniz presents any data I just laugh as I know this guy is the living embodiment of Alfred E. Neuman and is a joke of an energy secretary.<o:p></o:p>

Lindsay Leveenhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com://www.greenexplored.com/2016/05/statistics-and-biased-interpretation.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3690971792500080381.post-11519401004792025782016-05-07T10:03:00.001-07:002016-05-07T10:03:21.023-07:00Saudi Oil Minster Al Naimi Fired

You all may wonder who Al Naimi is? He was the Oil Minister of Saudi Arabia for a couple of decades.<o:p></o:p>

He was fired today<o:p></o:p>

http://www.wsj.com/articles/saudi-arabias-powerful-oil-minister-ali-al-naimi-is-fired-1462632035<o:p></o:p>

I am quite happy this thug who fleeced the world of trillions of dollars for the past score years is gone.<o:p></o:p>

There are three Als I do not care for, and Naimi was Al number three. Of course Al number One is the hypocrite and former presidential candidate that was chadded up in 2000. Al number 2 is Jazeera that saw it US business BLOOMERANG. Now all we are waiting for is Al number One to go away.<o:p></o:p>

The best chance of the getting Gore to shut up and disappear is the hidden hazardous waste from his Bloom Boxes at Apple in Maiden NC. Latest news on that is that the EPA and the NC State DNER are telling Apple they are a LARGE generator of hazmat. LARGE generators are ones that generate over 2,200 pounds a month of hazardous material.<o:p></o:p>

This past week was not good for Apple and their stock is near its 52 week low. As news filters out that Apple has hundreds of tons a year of hazardous filtered sulfur and benzene waste in Maiden, Apple will have to demand that Al Gore (their board member profited from BLOOMDOGGLE ENERGY via his relationship with Kleiner Perkins) leave the company .<o:p></o:p>

Two out of three Als are now gone and the third BIG AL will soon be going going gone. The DONALD will be the GOP candidate and he has already got the Oil Minister of Saudi Arabia fired. Both he and HILLARY have promised to JAIL powerful executives. Big AL you are all fired up.<o:p></o:p>

Lindsay Leveenhttp://email@example.com://www.greenexplored.com/2016/05/saudi-oil-minster-al-naimi-fired.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3690971792500080381.post-72972350096265739752016-04-30T10:02:00.002-07:002016-04-30T10:02:37.949-07:00Earth Day Gone and Probably Forgotten

My last blog had the beautiful Earth Day Rainbow. Just like the rainbow Earth Day is over and life continues in the same old way.<o:p></o:p>

The primaries are exciting and it looks like the Donald will take on Hillary. Hillary has promised to jail executives who are very powerful and Donald will build a wall. Seeing will be believing in either case. My guess is neither will jail Al Gore for his crimes against nature and humanity in the BLOOMDOGGLE , and the operatives of the complex are very happy the Bernie is not going to be president.<o:p></o:p>

What does this mean for Green Energy? Actually not very much! The US is essentially irrelevant in green space. We failed in solar, we failed in cellulosic fuels, we failed in thermodynamics, and we certainly failed in honesty.<o:p></o:p>

Latest on the BLOOMDOGGLE is that Apple and Bloom sell electrons to Duke Power in Maiden NC. The Bloom Boxes do not really power the data center. The data center is powered by dirty cheap power from Duke Energy and expensive pretend green energy from the Bloom Boxes is sold to Duke Energy who in turn rip off other ratepayers. <o:p></o:p>

Duke and Kleiner Perkins are tight. Co-investors in a business called Spruce Financing and Duke also is propping up Aquion batteries which is one of the last standing Kleiner greentech companies.<o:p></o:p>

https://www.technologyreview.com/s/600962/new-grid-storage-technology-helps-integrate-renewables/<o:p></o:p>

https://sprucefinance.com/about<o:p></o:p>

OK we know that Duke, Apple, Bloom, and Kleiner are in bed together. The real question here is who knows there is hazardous solid waste that is not permitted and ends up being transported across state lines to Texas for "treatment". Bloom knew years ago they had the hazardous waste. I told Kleiner Perkins years ago they have the hazardous waste. I told Apple over a year ago they have the hazardous waste, and I told Duke yesterday they have the hazardous waste. It will be interesting if these four powerful corporations can evade Hillary's promise to have them fail and to jail their executives. I know thermodynamics and that tells me by statistical analysis there is as much chance of this happening as Kasich being the nominee for the GOP out of Cleveland.<o:p></o:p>

What I do know is the 50 Bloom Coffins in Maiden NC are in the bottom right corner of the photo next to the substation and each time an electron is dispatched into Duke's grid for sale at high price to a ratepayer in NC, more unpermitted hidden hazardous waste is generated and Al Gore and cronies make money while the poor are schlonged. I love Trumpie and his campaign words. But I actually think my invention of the words BLOOMDOGGLE and BLOOMERANG should be included in the Oxford Dictionary before some of crude Yiddish words become part of everyday language. BLOOMDOGGLE and BLOOMERANG are such elegant and refined words even though perpetrators of the eco-crimes associated with the words are so vile.<o:p></o:p>
Lindsay Leveenhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com://www.greenexplored.com/2016/04/earth-day-gone-and-probably-forgotten.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3690971792500080381.post-30986231825112636382016-04-23T09:33:00.004-07:002016-04-23T11:13:59.147-07:00Earth Day Rainbow

Late yesterday afternoon it rained here in the San Francisco Bay Area. This is a fairly uncommon event for this time of the year. We had a pretty wet winter and reservoirs from the Golden Gate up north are full thanks to the El Nino. <o:p></o:p>

Yesterday was Earth Day and the planet added another 100 million metric tons of CO2 to the atmosphere. Mother Nature wanted to remind the Green Machine that there is still some hope to slow down this madness. That is why I believe when I looked out the window over the lagoon I saw the photo of the rainbow that is above.<o:p></o:p>

Israel Kamakawiwo'ole (Bruddah Iz) added this verse from A Wonderful World to his Somewhere Over The Rainbow:<o:p></o:p>

Well I see trees of green and red roses too,
I'll watch them bloom for me and you
And I think to myself
What a wonderful world<o:p></o:p>

The photo shows the green tree on the left that my daughter climbed as a kid. She is long grown up now. The lagoon is the place she learned to swim. I remember fondly the times she was a child in our care. The photo was taken from the dining table where we were celebrating Passover Seder. Yes Earth Day and Passover coincided yesterday.<o:p></o:p>

Passover is the celebration of Freedom. Bruddah Iz also dreamed of sovereignty for Native Hawaiians. Maybe the Rainbow was a message from Bruddah Iz or maybe it was just a fluke that rain and sunshine happened to occur in the right spot at the right moment? Either way I know that Louis Armstrong who is noted for A Wonderful World was an African American who became part of a Jewish family.<o:p></o:p>

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israel_Kamakawiwo%CA%BBole<o:p></o:p>

http://www.bnaibrith.org/magazine-articles/satchmo-and-the-karnofskys-louie-armstrongs-deep-jewish-connection<o:p></o:p>

So maybe it was Satchmo who sent us that rainbow to tell us Happy Passover? For sure the message of the rainbow is that we have a wonderful world and it is high time to deploy real science and real engineering solutions to reduce and end emissions and pollution. We need a Budding Red Rose Solution not a Wilted Bloom Box Greenwash. Mostly we need much more brotherhood and a lot less anti-Semitism, racism, stupidity, greed, lies, greenwashing, corruption, and hatred.<o:p></o:p>

Peace and Chag Sameach
Lindsay Leveenhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com://www.greenexplored.com/2016/04/earth-day-rainbow.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3690971792500080381.post-40343317324632817462016-04-17T16:09:00.000-07:002016-04-17T16:39:28.371-07:00Peet's Versus Starbucks On The Tiburon Peninsula

Foe almost 20 years on a daily basis I have bought a Venti Soy No Foam Latte from the Starbucks at Strawberry Village. My wife drinks this as her source of protein as well as caffeine for the day. The drink was great for 19 years and 8 months and has become terrible for only the past 4 months. I asked the folks at Starbucks if they had changed their supplier of Soy Milk? No they have not. Did they change their coffee? No they have not. <o:p></o:p>

I do know that some rookie Baristas have a hard time with Soy as it has a propensity to foam and gets burned if the temperature is too hot. I had the barista check the temperature of the steamed soy milk to see if that had changed? No it had not. I simply was bewildered until I realized the espresso machines at the Strawberry Starbucks' store are very old and are approaching ten years since the store was remodeled. <o:p></o:p>

I then found out the machines are hundreds of thousands of shots overdue for replacement. My source is a Starbucks worker. I then found out the machines significantly dilute the soy milk during the steaming process due to water condensing. To test if the espresso machines at Strawberry Village are the fault, I started buying the daily Venti No Foam Soy Latte at the Starbucks store on East Blithedale. The drink returned to its former glory of being tasty and not watered down. I therefore had found the reason why for 4 months I had bought over 120 horrible tasting drinks and spent well over $500 for the trick of Starbucks selling me water milk not 100% soy milk.<o:p></o:p>

As I am a Starbucks gold card holder since 2008, I called the customer service number. I spoke with a supervisor about a week ago. I was promised that within 3 days the region manager would call me. Of course I have not received a call and of course Starbucks hopes I just go away. As part of my experiment in the pursuit of good tasting coffee, I started taste testing the 20 ounce soy no foam latte at Peet's in the Cove. It is a wonderful drink. I also found out that Peet's gives customers three shots of expresso in this size drink not the two shots in the Starbucks' Venti. Pete's also uses straight up soy milk not vanilla impregnated soy milk.<o:p></o:p>

I have to say Peet's beats Starbucks by a mile for this particular drink in this size. The only Starbucks store that I now occasionally buy the Venti no foam soy latte at is the one on Blythedale. Also by saving the two extra miles each way I have a lower carbon footprint by frequenting Peet's. I have probably bought 7,000 Venti no foam soy lattes at Starbucks,and If I last another 20 years I may match this number at Peet's. The way I feel about Starbucks is they shorted me by 7,000 shots and sold me watered down soy. I am pretty miffed about Starbucks and may soon have to go after them with the same vigor that I have gone after Bloom Energy. Let's see if the region manager calls me.<o:p></o:p>
Lindsay Leveenhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com://www.greenexplored.com/2016/04/peets-versus-starbucks-on-tiburon.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3690971792500080381.post-52100832358277891622016-04-12T07:29:00.002-07:002016-04-12T09:07:07.890-07:00Kaiser Bloom and Greenwashing

An Email to the VP for Sustainability for Kaiser

Ms. Gerwig

I know that Kaiser has tried to be green. Sadly you have been hoodwinked by Bloom Energy and the 4.3 megawatts of power generation at 7 Kaiser sites are anything but green, they are GANGRENE.

NBC copied did report on Greenwashing by Bloom Energy and Ms. Gerwig on behalf of Kaiser chose to defend Bloom in the first of four reports by NBC.

http://www.nbcbayarea.com/<wbr></wbr>news/local/Is-Bloom-Energy-<wbr></wbr>Greenwashing-the-Public-<wbr></wbr>279813752.html

I now have conclusive evidence that Bloom Boxes generate hazardous solid waste that is hauled to an EPA licensed hazmat site in Texas. Kaiser is therefore a generators of many tons of undocumented hazardous waste from their Bloom Boxes.

I have copied the CPUC as Kaiser benefitted from many dollars of SGIP funds from the Bloom Boxes. Also copied is my Congressman as there was a lot of federal incentive for these Dirty Boxes.

Attached is a letter from the head of the US EPA Philadelphia office to the Delaware Cabinet Secretary for the environment stating EPA position that the waste is hazardous and should be handled accordingly.

Below is my Blog on the waste and Bloom's Twinkie Defense.

http://www.greenexplored.com/<wbr></wbr>2016/03/bloom-energys-twinkie-<wbr></wbr>bagel-defense.html

Also attached is a recent article I wrote.

Ms. Gerwig please contact me as I am now writing a piece on how Kaiser is a part of the Bloomdoggle.

Thanks

Lindsay Leveen The Green Machine
Lindsay Leveenhttp://email@example.com://www.greenexplored.com/2016/04/kaiser-bloom-and-greenwashing.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3690971792500080381.post-75652934387161689652016-04-09T11:26:00.003-07:002016-04-09T11:26:26.570-07:00Green Is Good

Often I spend my time exposing Gangrene folks who Greenwash. That is the job of the Thermonator but on Greenexplored dot com I will now mainly focus on Green that is Good. The LED blog is an example of how green tech that is really green can make a real difference. <o:p></o:p>

So what else is really green and making a difference. My friend Ronni in Australia who started and runs Oz Harvest is really doing a bang up job making sure food does not end up in a garbage dump.<o:p></o:p>

http://www.ozharvest.org/<o:p></o:p>

Ronni and her organization have made sure that 45 million meals end up in people's mouths and not in some garbage dump. Six years back when Ronni started Oz Harvest she was one of the few in the world to do this on an industrial scale. She and I went to high school together many years ago and we linked again on Facebook. Every year or so I help the team at Oz Harvest calculate their negative carbon footprint.<o:p></o:p>

Yes they prevent methane forming from food decomposing in garbage dumps. As methane is more of a greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide that we breathe out after digesting food, using food for meals instead of waste means a negative carbon footprint in the enterprise of donating food that otherwise would have been wasted. The negative carbon footprint holds even after netting out emissions for food refrigeration, reheating, and delivery.<o:p></o:p>

Oz Harvest is a world leader in their field and many other organizations in many other countries are now following Oz Harvest's lead.<o:p></o:p>

Here is an article on the BBC from a couple days ago that reveals interesting global statistics on food waste.<o:p></o:p>

http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-35988093<o:p></o:p>

Who said Australians simply were beach bums? When it comes to preventing food waste the Ozzies are world class. Ronni even got to meet royalty when Camila and Charles popped in for tea and scones.<o:p></o:p>

http://www.hortidaily.com/article/22201/British-Royal-family-pays-visit-to-OzHarvest-HQ<o:p></o:p>

I do hope to visit Australia one day soon and also pay a visit to Oz Harvest and see my old high school chum Ronni.<o:p></o:p>
Lindsay Leveenhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com://www.greenexplored.com/2016/04/green-is-good.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3690971792500080381.post-88648864750607193382016-04-02T07:54:00.000-07:002016-04-02T07:54:33.287-07:00Tesla Model 3

There was lots of Hoopla and Excitement this week about the reveal of the Tesla Model 3. The Green Machine's opinion is that this is one wonderfully engineered car. No doubt that this car sets the standard for what can be done with a vehicle powered by lithium ion batteries. <o:p></o:p>

Tesla revealed that over 190,000 people had made their $1,000 reservation for the car at an average price of $42,000 each. Sadly for many of these folks they won't be getting the $7,500 tax credit unless the Feds change the law. The law as presently written is that only the first 200,000 electric vehicles of any one manufacturer qualify for the $7,500 credit. I am sure that Elon must have his lobbyists working on changing the law.<o:p></o:p>

The car has an EPA range of approximately 200 miles. The frame and body of the Model 3 are made of steel not aluminum like the Model S. This was done to lower cost but adds to the mass of the car. My guess is the car will weigh around 4,500 pounds and will have 55 to 60 kilowatt hours of batteries. These specifications have not been revealed.<o:p></o:p>

In 2013 Dr. Chu who was Secretary of Energy wrote a paper that the cost of lithium ion battery packs including all controls and thermal management was approximately $650 per kwh. Folks are claiming the Model S battery pack will cost Tesla only $100 per kwh when the car starts selling in late 2017. My educated guess is that the cost of the battery pack at the end of 2017 will still be $350 to $400 per kwh and that each pack will cost around $20,000 to $24,000. This leaves approximately $18,000 to $22,000 for the rest of the vehicle.<o:p></o:p>

You all may ask why I do not believe the $100 per kwh is possible? This is because the cost of raw materials for the batteries will experience price increases. Cobalt, lithium, graphite, copper, etc. will see inflation. What will be very likely is that he Model 3 will be the last car that folks ever buy. The batteries might well last 5,000 cycles for a lifetime of a million miles. I actually think this is the real selling point of the car. A car that lasts a lifetime!<o:p></o:p>

The styling of the car is superb and Tesla has established their brand as the highest quality most sought out vehicle. No other brand of vehicles comes close to Tesla for customer appeal and satisfaction. I still think that the Toyota Prius should outsell the Model 3. Time will tell how successful the Model 3 becomes and how much profit Tesla makes. I have to hand it to the team at Tesla they sure know how to create excitement.<o:p></o:p>
Lindsay Leveenhttp://email@example.com://www.greenexplored.com/2016/04/tesla-model-3.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3690971792500080381.post-66628119823691486252016-04-01T13:01:00.000-07:002016-04-01T14:18:53.837-07:00NBC Further Exposes Bloom Energy Bloomdoggle

This link is the fourth in a series by NBC Bay Area Investigates that exposes the Greenwashing by Bloom Energy<o:p></o:p>

http://www.nbcbayarea.com/investigations/State-Regulators-Consider-Decision-to-End-Big-Benefits-for-Fuel-Cells-374152691.html<o:p></o:p>

New data I have obtained from Delaware show for the 9 months June 2015 through February 2016 CO2 emissions from the Bloom Coffins are 896.12 pounds per megawatt-hour. Bloom permitted only 773 pounds per mwh. In these 9 months Bloom emitted an extra 10,419 tons of CO2 over and above than they claimed they would. This is like Al Gore driving 3,000 cars 15,000 miles a year. I only wish Al would go 45 million miles away and that would get him halfway to the Sun that he created when he was not busy inventing the internet. Albert Gore is no Albert Camus he is more like Albert Tochus.<o:p></o:p>

The Bloom is Wilting.<o:p></o:p>

Lindsay Leveenhttp://email@example.com://www.greenexplored.com/2016/04/nbc-further-exposes-bloom-energy.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3690971792500080381.post-14868611056762192702016-03-26T08:03:00.001-07:002016-03-26T10:59:34.707-07:00Bloom Energy's Twinkie (Bagel) Defense

I asked the US EPA to investigate the Bloom Energy Bloomdoggle in Delaware and the rest of the country regarding the hazardous waste they send for treatment to an EPA licensed facility in Texas.<o:p></o:p>

I now have a letter from the head of the EPA in the Philadelphia region to the cabinet secretary of the environment (DNREC) in the state government of Delaware. The letter exposes the following:<o:p></o:p>

Bloom and DNREC claimed the tightly sealed strong metallic containers holding the hazardous waste were simply part of the manufacturing processing unit (MPU) and even when they were disconnected, placed in a truck, transported thousands of miles, and delivered to the Hazmat site in Texas these containers still functioned as part of the Bloom Coffins (MPUs) placed in the protected coastal zone of Delaware. <o:p></o:p>

Bloom hired one of the most expensive seasoned lawyers in the country to come up with the Twinkie in a sealed canister defense (a BS defense). She is Michele B. Coresh of Morrison Foerster. Her link is below. This 70 year old super lawyer lives in a $7 million penthouse in San Francisco on Green Street no less.<o:p></o:p>

http://www.mofo.com/people/c/corash-michele-b<o:p></o:p>

The B in her name is for Beigel so we will call the Twinkie defense the Bagel defense. The spelling of bagels is also beigels . This all comes from Polish where Bagels were first invented. Forget that the bagel is in the shape of a zero and that the defense amounted to one big zero let's see what the EPA told the head of DNREC.<o:p></o:p>

In polite language on September 8, 2015 <o:p></o:p>

"EPA has determined that Bloom Energy's Desulf Units do not fall in the MPU exemption and your June 3, 2015 conclusion is based upon an interpretation that is less stringent than the federal program and inconsistent with how the exemption has been implemented nationally."<o:p></o:p>

"EPA has determined once the Bloom Energy Desulf Units are disconnected from the facility's fuel cell module, the MPU is no longer applicable and the spent filter material within each disconnected Deslph Unit is a solid waste that is subject to DRGHW Sec 262.11."<o:p></o:p>

"EPA looks forward to discussing the issue with you and your staff in order to identify steps that Bloom is in compliance with the hazardous waste regulations and the waste is properly managed."<o:p></o:p>

In plain language EPA did not buy the Bagel Twinkie defense that Bloom's very high priced lawyer Ms. Michele Beigel Corash used. The EPA took the Big O out of Corash and what you have is a CRASH when her defense Bloomeranged and bit Bloomdoogle in the Behind.<o:p></o:p>
Lindsay Leveenhttp://email@example.com://www.greenexplored.com/2016/03/bloom-energys-twinkie-bagel-defense.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3690971792500080381.post-89559214489691951642016-03-11T08:11:00.001-08:002016-03-11T08:11:29.096-08:00A Danish Bloomdoggle

The Danes are being ripped off just like Americans by a HUGE greenwashed project <o:p></o:p>

https://fuelcellsworks.com/news/air-liquide-is-leading-the-largest-power-to-hydrogen-project-in-europe/<o:p></o:p>

Electricity generated from wind will be used to electrolyze water to produce hydrogen that will be used in vehicles and also used for grid backup. One megawatt of electrolysis for $16 million, CRAZY! The Danes could have stored the wind generated electricity in lithium ion batteries in a project that cost one tenth as much and the round trip efficiency of the battery project would be 90% or greater while the Rube Greenberg hydrogen project has a round trip efficiency of approximately 25%. That is to say 75% of the energy is lost in the Leaky Air project while only 10% of the energy would be lost in the battery storage project.<o:p></o:p>

In Denmark surnames end in SEN<o:p></o:p>

http://www.mydanishroots.com/surnames-meaning-and-origin/the-100-most-common-surnames-in-denmark.html

I guess Rube Greenberg would be known as Rube Greenbergsen for this greenwashed project.<o:p></o:p>
Lindsay Leveenhttp://email@example.com://www.greenexplored.com/2016/03/a-danish-bloomdoggle.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3690971792500080381.post-25886497685522142532016-03-05T09:29:00.001-08:002016-03-05T09:31:43.043-08:00Headlamps and MPGs

Headlamps and MPGs<o:p></o:p>

While driving on the Golden Gate Bridge this week, I remarked to my wife that all cars now have unique Headlamps and that this only came about 30 years ago. Before that headlamps were either round or square and mounted flush with the grills of the vehicles at 90 degrees to the road. The old round and square headlamps caused air flow to be interrupted and increased the coefficient of drag of the vehicle.<o:p></o:p>

The photo below of a 1980 Honda Accord shows this<o:p></o:p>

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By 1985 Honda was hiding the headlamps in a retractable housing<o:p></o:p>

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Then came the molded plastic headlamps in 1990 and the beginning of more aerodynamic fronts to vehicles<o:p></o:p>

 Now that we have reached 2016 the fronts are far more aerodynamic and streamlined<o:p></o:p>

Folks back in the 1930s also produced streamlined vehilces. The Tatra pictured below is one such vehicle. Read up on it in the wiki link as well<o:p></o:p>

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tatra_77<o:p></o:p>

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The poor Tatra tried to make the most out of the old round Headlamps. Interestingly the Tatra had a coefficient of drag of 0.24. The Hummer H2 which is like moving a brick through air has a coefficient of drag of 0.57. The amount of power needed to break through air at the same speed is directly proportional to the coefficient of drag. If 24 BHP were needed to break through the air for the Tatra at speed X then 57 BHP would be needed for the Hummer to break through the air at speed X.<o:p></o:p>

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automobile_drag_coefficient<o:p></o:p>

The Tatra of eighty years ago had the same coefficient of drag as the Tesla Model S.<o:p></o:p>

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If Tatra had the opportunity to use headlights from 2016 rather than what was available eighty years ago the Tatra not the Tesla would be the talk of the town and Hand Ledwinka not Elon Musk would be on every Greenies' lips. Interesting the first three letters in Ledwinka are LED and we are now moving rapidly to adopting LED headlamps for vehicles.<o:p></o:p>

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By my estimate the 800 million vehicles on the roads of planet earth that have molded headlamps save 25 gallons each a year compared to if they had the old fashioned flat round or square headlamps. Each gallon of gasoline emits approximately 25 pounds of CO2 (well to wheels). Therefore molded headlamps save 500 billion pounds of CO2 emissions per year or 250 million short tons a year of CO2 emissions. This is approximately equal to the amount of CO2 that 1.4 billion humans breathe out. I love the style of the new headlamps and there should be a headlamp exhibit at the Museum of Modern Art.<o:p></o:p>
Lindsay Leveenhttp://email@example.com://www.greenexplored.com/2016/03/headlamps-and-mpgs.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3690971792500080381.post-73900426744690174612016-03-01T13:38:00.003-08:002016-03-01T13:39:49.584-08:00Bloom Waste in DelawareCalculation to get the 1,185.6 tons of waste per year sent from the pristine protected coastal zone of Delaware to the EPA licensed hazmat site in Texas

Lindsay Leveenhttp://email@example.com://www.greenexplored.com/2016/03/bloom-waste-in-delaware.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3690971792500080381.post-41542808075450377982016-02-28T09:30:00.000-08:002016-02-28T10:25:50.487-08:00Low Oil Prices and Suez Canal

I came upon a very interesting article in CNBC linked below<o:p></o:p>

http://www.cnbc.com/2016/02/26/cargo-ships-could-save-thousands-by-skipping-the-suez-canal.html<o:p></o:p>

In essence because oil prices are so low ships are avoiding using the Suez and Panama canals and going the extra miles around the Cape of Good Hope and Cape Horn to save paying the toll on using the canals. Shipping charter rates are so darn low that wasting the extra time for the far longer journey and paying the extra fuel is far less than paying the toll to the Egyptians or the Panamanians.<o:p></o:p>

Of course the solution is to lower the toll to use the Suez or Panama Canals to levels such that it is more economical to use the canals rather than making the far longer voyages. There have been over 100 voyages that went the longer routes and each voyage emitted an extra 6,500 metric tons of CO2. This is equivalent to adding 100,000 cars to the road. Also bunker C fuel for ship engines is full of sulfur and these ships spew acid rain forming gases of SOx and NOx.<o:p></o:p>

Eventually the price of oil will increase and hopefully very shortly the Egyptians and Panamanians will lower the tolls on their Canals. Sadly for Egypt and Panama they each spent many billions of dollars expanding their canals thinking China would expand at a fast pace and shipping would boom for a long time to come. These are two very poor countries and revenues from their canals are a large part of their economies.<o:p></o:p>

Perhaps Al Gore can go on a speaking series on cruise ships that would have used the canals but now go the longer routes. Folks can then listen to him for five or six extra days explaining how green he is and why low oil prices are bad for the world. If I was aboard a ship with Al Gore I would go over bored (get the pun)<o:p></o:p>
Lindsay Leveenhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com://www.greenexplored.com/2016/02/low-oil-prices-and-suez-canal.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3690971792500080381.post-82792742881101112302016-02-21T12:09:00.001-08:002016-02-22T07:29:53.541-08:00Why Fuel Cells Are Not Green

In 2003 I wrote my book on sustainability and energy titled Hydrogen Hope or Hype?<o:p></o:p>

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B0070YIZWY<o:p></o:p>

Much of the book dealt with Fuel Cells. The book was also a rebuttal to the hype of the "Hydrogen Economy". After the billions of dollars spent on fuel cells, we now know what I knew back in 2003 that fuel cells are mainly hype. We also now know that there are large quantities of solid wastes with benzene, toluene, sulfides, and other nasty chemicals from fuel cells that use natural gas as their fuel source. Fuel cells that use hydrogen produced by others from natural gas simply transfer the generation of such toxic solid waste to the manufacturer of the hydrogen.<o:p></o:p>

The reason why there are large quantities of solid wastes from fuel cells using natural gas as a fuel is due to sulfur poisoning of the catalysts on the fuel cell stack. In particular solid oxide fuel cells such as Bloom Energy are susceptible to the sulfur poisoning. These solid oxide fuel cells can only tolerate sulfur content in the parts per billion. Pipeline natural gas has sulfur content in the parts per million. Hence the sulfur removal systems in fuel cells use vast quantities of desiccant filtering material to trap the sulfur in the pipeline natural gas. This has been admitted to by Bloom, a company that is now estimated to generate approximately 4,000 tons a year of solid waste in the USA that is treated at an EPA licensed hazmat site in Texas.

Simply stated fuel cells are not green unless the hydrogen is produced via electrolysis of water using wind or solar power. If one has invested in a PV or wind farm it is also wasteful to convert the electricity to hydrogen as the electricity is already a useful form of powering vehicles, homes, offices, schools, or industry.<o:p></o:p>

I have written several blogs on why the fuel cell bus program at AC Transit is an expensive Rube Goldberg that I termed as a Rube Greenberg. Fuel cells are still very expensive and they simply are a Betamax technology in a world that needs rapid greening. I suggest you all read my book linked above as thermodynamics is identical in 2016 as it was in 2003 when I wrote the book. As for not eating red meat, it is probably better to eat green veggies.<o:p></o:p>
Lindsay Leveenhttp://email@example.com://www.greenexplored.com/2016/02/why-fuel-cells-are-not-green.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3690971792500080381.post-24620225757882946992016-02-17T08:46:00.001-08:002016-02-17T08:46:58.883-08:00Great Article from NPR on Electricity

It is not often that I simply link to a single article and say that is my full blog. This article from National Public Radio (NPR) linked below is well worth reading.

http://www.npr.org/2016/02/17/466033966/from-the-ashes-of-some-coal-plants-new-energy-rises

Lindsay Leveenhttp://email@example.com://www.greenexplored.com/2016/02/great-article-from-npr-on-electricity.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3690971792500080381.post-56803074718697207392016-02-11T15:39:00.000-08:002016-02-12T12:20:59.550-08:00Why Bloom Screwed Unicat

We have heard of screwing the pooch but now we have a case of screwing the cat in what was once part of a monogamous relationship. Unicat was Bloom's vendor to treat the waste in those sealed metal canisters. Unicat invested heavily in facilities in Texas and hired people and was looking forward to treating the thousands of tons of hazardous waste that Bloomdoggle Energy surreptitiously creates. How do we know this? Well Unicat just sued Bloom for breach of contract.<o:p></o:p>

http://setexasrecord.com/stories/510661979-texas-business-alleges-breach-of-contract-by-bloom-energy<o:p></o:p>

My guess is as follows:<o:p></o:p>

Unicat was contracted to recover the copper that is in the sealed metal canisters together with all that sulfur and benzene waste. When copper prices were high (unlike today when they are in the tank or in the canister so to speak) it paid Bloom to have Unicat recover the copper. Now that copper is trading at $2 per pound it makes no sense for Bloom to pay Unicat to recover the copper. Bloom probably now simply disposes of all the contents in the sealed metal container at a hazmat site. There is also the possibility that Bloom might be "treating" the hazardous waste outside of the US to save some money. I have no evidence they are doing this but given this corrupt firm's history of lying to gain fake permits and not paying Mexican welders it hired minimum wages, anything is possible.<o:p></o:p>

Even if Bloom is still using a US based EPA licensed hazmat site that they allegedly screwed the cat is pretty evident from the filing in the lawsuit. Unicat is well known and is a market leader for sulfur removal systems in natural gas.<o:p></o:p>

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http://www.unicatcatalyst.com/sulfur-removal.html<o:p></o:p>

 The letter I have from Bloom to the Connecticut Siting Board and this Unicat Lawsuit now pretty much gives us the full story of the solid waste with sulfur and benzene that Bloom and their cronies in government (DE, NJ, CA, UT, NC, NY etc.) and the private sector (clients like Apple, EBay, Google, Walmart, Target, Coca Cola, Morgan Stanley, AT&T etc.) have hidden from us.<o:p></o:p>

Bloom is the largest ecofraud since Love Canal and we have to recover the over $1 billion of taxpayer and ratepayer money that was given to Bloom in their pretense of generating cleaner and better electrons. Bloom generates dirty, unreliable, and very expensive electrons. I have informed Bernie and Donald about the Bloomdoggle. Donald said this is HUGE. Bernie said what do you expect from a billionaire like Doerr, corrupt banks like Morgan Stanley and Credit Suisse, and the idiot without good judgement Colin Powell who took us into the war in Iraq. <o:p></o:p>

Screwing the pooch was invented at Yale University during the early days of the Mercury space program<o:p></o:p>

http://english.stackexchange.com/questions/142312/origin-of-screw-the-pooch<o:p></o:p>

Screwing the Unicat was invented by KR Sridhar the CEO of Bloom who told us nonsense that he invented the Bloom Box from work he had done at NASA for living on Mars. <o:p></o:p>

Mars – Mercury – Dogs – Cats it all comes down to one thing. Greed !!<o:p></o:p>
Lindsay Leveenhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com://www.greenexplored.com/2016/02/why-bloom-screwed-unicat.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3690971792500080381.post-45574770543526129412016-02-04T15:19:00.001-08:002016-02-05T09:20:21.999-08:00POTUS Proposes Fee on Oil

The President of the United States has proposed $10 per barrel fee on oil used in the United States. Mr. Obama made the announcement on February 4. I agree there should be a fee on oil and that $10 per barrel is not as large a fee as I would have proposed but is a correct policy. The proposed fee is only approximately 24 cents a gallon as there are 42 gallons in a barrel.<o:p></o:p>

What always worries me is that the revenue collected from the fee will simply be wasted. The US Department of Energy is notorious for funding bad projects and wasting money. The waste goes back through 40 years and has happened whether the Republicans or the Democrats held the presidency. This is why I refer to the Department of Energy as the Department of Entropy.<o:p></o:p>

Using the $10 per barrel fee, I estimate that $60 billion a year of revenues could flow to the US government. The Green Machine could make good science happen with this type of funding. No silly projects like Solyndra, Ivanpah or Bloom Energy would get a cent from a department of energy that I would run.<o:p></o:p>

I would give any new buyer of a standard hybrid a tax credit equal to the difference in the price of the hybrid versus the price of a similar sized non hybrid vehicle. I would give folks who carpool, vanpool, or take public transport a subsidy of $50 a month. For those taking public transport the $50 would be used to lower the cost of a monthly pass on any registered transit or bus agency. Even if 20 million people became capoooligans , vanpooligans, or public transitooligans this would only cost $12 billion of the $60 billion the fee would raise.<o:p></o:p>

With regard to alternate energy technologies not a cent would be given to Cellulosic Ethanol. This technology simply does not work. The US Department of Energy promised us 4.25 billion gallons of Cellulosic Ethanol for the year 2016. After billions dollars of waste we will be lucky to produce 15 million gallons. The best alternate fuel for vehicles is Ethane, a technology I have successfully shown to lower CO2 emissions per mile by over 30% compared with gasoline using the same vehicle, on the same route, at the same speed, with the same driver, in the same traffic. No other fuel comes anywhere close.<o:p></o:p>

We can convert a standard car or light truck to run on ethane for less than $5,000. If I was the secretary of energy I would convert 5 million vehicles to run on ethane and spend $25 billion of the fee on this. The US now flares (burns) and wastes so much ethane that 10 million vehicles could be powered by this low carbon fuel. Petrochemical companies in Europe and Asia want our ethane to make more plastics. Sending them our ethane borders on eco criminality as the Ethane is such a wonder low cost vehicle fuel with high octane (107), good range, low carbon, low oxides of nitrogen, low carbon monoxide, and negligible hydrocarbons out of the tailpipe. Yes the Green Machine is gung ho for ethane. BY comparison the US DOE has wasted several billion dollars to get only 400,000 plugin vehicles on the road in six years. If I had this money I promise to have 5 million vehicles using ethane on road within five years of launch.<o:p></o:p>

It will be interesting to watch where the POTUS's proposed fee on oil winds up? Sadly it will most likely become a football in the 2016 election, and I probably won't get $25 billion to make a real dent in the CO2 emissions of vehicles using real science and the laws of thermodynamics. Had I won the big Powerball lottery I could have self-funded the Ethane business. Instead I have a worthless ticket stub and just a good idea of how to use C2H6. Yes Ethane has six hydrogen atoms and only two carbon atoms. Add an oxygen atom to ethane and voila you have ethanol. Ethane is Vodka without the O. The Green Machine is a Billionaire without a Billion green backs.<o:p></o:p>
Lindsay Leveenhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com://www.greenexplored.com/2016/02/potus-proposes-fee-on-oil.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3690971792500080381.post-51817538573825076452016-01-30T10:59:00.000-08:002016-01-30T10:59:32.691-08:00Good news for Green Energy

Many are concerned that lower oil prices will slow down the push to renewable energy. The green machine believes that lower fuel costs will actually be temporary and will in fact boost the eventual deployment of greener vehicles and power generation.<o:p></o:p>

One might ask why the Green Machine who uses thermodynamics as his guiding principles is optimistic that good will come of these low commodity prices. With very low prices for steel, copper, aluminum, silver, glass, nickel, cobalt, polysilicon, and other raw materials that are used for the manufacture of new efficient vehicles, PV power stations, wind turbines, batteries, etc. more of these greener systems will be deployed around the globe.<o:p></o:p>

The Green Machine is happy to see that China is embracing small electric vehicles and Europe is moving away from diesel vehicles to hybrids. Younger people around the world are not that interested in even owning a vehicle. Younger people are not interested in living in suburbia and the conspicuous waste of resources. Car sharing will become a norm, car ownership may in fact drop quite considerably. <o:p></o:p>

OPEC knows the world has gone through a sea change and they are now dumping oil on the market in a desperate attempt to continue their domination of the global energy market. That OPEC is forgoing hundreds of billions of dollars in this futile attempt to turn back the clock is actually good for the world. The money that otherwise would have ended up in corrupt hands is actually being spent on greener infrastructure in countries from India to Chile. Money is being freed up for many infrastructure projects as global interest rates are diving.<o:p></o:p>

The Collapse of oil prices and the resulting drop in global stock markets also means central banks will lower rather than raise interest rates. This will not spur oil consumption but will spur investment is more energy efficient infrastructure. 30 years ago a strike in the coal or steel industry would cripple an economy like the US or the UK. Now those industries are actually meaningless. OPEC in 30 years will be meaningless.<o:p></o:p>

The largest arrow in our quiver to green up the world is reduced consumption of fossil fuels and other mined or farmed resources via efficiency and the elimination of waste. In 30 years I predict we will be using less oil, gas, and coal even with a population of 9 billion people. In 30 years we will be using a quarter less plastics, steel, aluminum, glass, and cement on a global basis. In 30 years folks will look back on the mid years of the second decade of the twenty first century and remark how the world woke up to a greener way of living. In 2045 I will be 92 years old and will be very happy to see that I forecasted correctly.<o:p></o:p>
Lindsay Leveenhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com://www.greenexplored.com/2016/01/good-news-for-green-energy.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3690971792500080381.post-51506497344018165792016-01-04T19:04:00.000-08:002016-01-04T19:04:12.171-08:00China Cement

One thing that China produces a lot of is cement. Bill Gates opined in June of 2014 that in the three years 2011 to 2013 China produced more cement than the USA produced in the entire 20th century.<o:p></o:p>

https://www.gatesnotes.com/About-Bill-Gates/Concrete-in-China<o:p></o:p>

But the growth in cement production in China is over and 2015 will see approximately a 5% reduction versus 2014.<o:p></o:p>

http://www.industrialinfo.com/news/abstract.jsp?newsitemID=248920<o:p></o:p>

Steel production is also hitting the skids in China. In fact industrial production in China is headed south. The last time industrial output was growing was in February 2015<o:p></o:p>

http://www.tradingeconomics.com/china/manufacturing-pmi<o:p></o:p>

From a green point of view this is wonderful. From an economic point of view this is a disaster. Australia, South Africa, Brazil, Chile and other countries that are the quarries of raw material for China are sucking wind. <o:p></o:p>

China will dump their steel in other global markets. Cement is often too expensive to transport too far but I bet that China will dump cement on world markets. The Pakistanis have been dumping cement in South Africa. The Chinese are dumping the wheel barrows that carry the cement.<o:p></o:p>

http://www.bdlive.co.za/business/trade/2015/03/06/provisional-anti-dumping-duties-imposed-on-chinese-wheelbarrow-imports<o:p></o:p>

Folks the world is headed into a dumping tailspin and the WTO will be pretty busy with dumping cases. As for my prediction on China it is quite simple. For the next two decades, I doubt China will use as much steel or as much cement in a year as they did in 2013. China will be dumping excess steel and cement on world markets for quite some time to come.<o:p></o:p>
Lindsay Leveenhttp://email@example.com://www.greenexplored.com/2016/01/china-cement.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3690971792500080381.post-56006250081447789732015-12-31T09:43:00.000-08:002016-01-03T12:22:44.439-08:00Sasol Versus Tesla

Sasol is the South African company that converts coal to gasoline and diesel. Its stock is traded on the NYSE as SSL. Its market cap is $17 billion and its book value is $15 billion. It is suffering now that oil prices are low and that coal to gasoline/diesel is a large CO2 emitter. Gasoline from Sasol has twice the carbon footprint well to wheels than gasoline from crude oil.<o:p></o:p>

Elon Musk also comes from South Africa and he is the great Green Hope of the future based on his company Tesla. TSLA trades on the NASDAQ and has a market cap of almost $32 billion which is nearly twice as valuable as Sasol. TSLA's book value is only $1.3 billion and less than one tenth that of Sasol.<o:p></o:p>

Investors in the stock market base their valuations by discounting future cash flows they expect the companies to enjoy. Investors are euphoric and irrationally exuberant about TSLA and are pessimistic and disdainful of Sasol's future. I think TSLA is overvalued and Sasol is undervalued as markets are not 100% rational. Sasol also has a chemicals business and has positions in North America in shale and petrochemicals. <o:p></o:p>

My guess of the market caps at the end of 2016 for SSL and TSLA are as follows: SSL will equal $22 billion and TSLA will equal $25 billion. I estimated these values on my prognostication of oil prices at the end of 2016 being at least $50 a barrel and that Tesla will see stiff competition in the EV market from other auto companies.<o:p></o:p>

Interestingly 9 years ago when Alan Greenspan as Chairman of the Fed opined that the US was running out of natural gas, Coal was King and Elon Musk was an unknown. For sure in 9 years' time Wall Street will have a new guru and it won't be Elon Musk. In 9 years' time the laws of thermodynamics will still hold 100% true and 2014 will be the bicentennial anniversary of Carnot's law that Carnot understood was back in 1824. Carnot will always be remembered for pointing out that entropy happens to 100% of the people 100% of the time. Musk will be remembered for producing cars for the 1%. In my view of the world as The Thermonator Carnot's market cap is worth 100 times Musk. <o:p></o:p>

Sadly most people have never heard of Carnot. People have heard of the Car Dash Ians and most people are simply oblivious of science and want the cheap entertainment of fools.<o:p></o:p>
Lindsay Leveenhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com://www.greenexplored.com/2015/12/sasol-versus-tesla.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3690971792500080381.post-13794676451381334312015-12-30T09:58:00.001-08:002015-12-30T09:58:23.936-08:00Happy New Year

2015 is just about gone. It was a pretty sad year for the world. But I will focus on what we achieved in the year.<o:p></o:p>

Natural gas was a green spot on the planet. Yes CH4 not Gore lowered carbon emissions by reducing coal use substantially in the USA and marginally in China. Solar PV of the silicon variety again did a decent job as did wind power. These two are the best options for renewable energy. Concentrated solar and bio fuels were a total bust as was CIGS in PV.<o:p></o:p>

On the demand side LEDs did their wonders and more efficient ICE vehicles also hit the road. Low gasoline prices moderated the improvement in the CAFÉ average but it is trending up and low gasoline prices are not permanent. The move to using pad computers and smart phones and away from desktops and even laptops also continued and these smaller devices use far less energy. Data centers now operate at far higher temperatures and have cut energy use significantly even though the quantity of data circling the planet expanded exponentially.<o:p></o:p>

http://www.businessinsider.com/mind-blowing-growth-and-power-of-big-data-2015-6<o:p></o:p>

Paper use decreased again and fewer trees are becoming newsprint and paper for printers. That folks now read the news on a pad or smart phone has done the world a very good deed. Toilet paper production certainly increased because of population explosion and increased disposable income. We know entropy always increases and "shift happens". Not the F in shift.<o:p></o:p>

http://www.pulpapernews.com/2015/07/production-of-paper-and-board-decreased-in-europe-in-2014<o:p></o:p>

http://www.risiinfo.com/pulp-paper/news/FINANCIAL-ANALYSTS-Tissue-production-rises-driven-by-overseas-shipments-RBC.html<o:p></o:p>

The biggest problem facing the planet is water. Worldwide use of fresh water is increasing and rainfall is not. Fresh water has been supplied by solar power since plants first stepped on the earth, but now more and more desalination plants that use grid power are springing up. Get the pun "springing up". I intend to become more knowledgeable on water and will then opine further on H2O in 2016. <o:p></o:p>

I wish you all a happy new year and let's hope 2016 is safer, greener, and healthier than 2015.<o:p></o:p>
Lindsay Leveenhttp://email@example.com://www.greenexplored.com/2015/12/happy-new-year.html


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Square Enix Plans Final Fantasy VII "Compilation"?
Although goodness knows what it's meant to compile, exactly.
Adding a bit more fuel to speculation regarding Square Enix's campaign of Final Fantasy VII revival, the publisher lately trademarked an interesting title and logo that might be related to that campaign. Discovered in Quiter's latest survey of the Japanese patent and trademark office database is the title Compilation of Final Fantasy VII, applied for on June 1.
Whether this "compilation" might refer to that game or some package deal of the lot naturally isn't clear. We'll update if any harder details of the project arise, however.
Recently, Japanese magazine V-Jump teased the prospect of a third Final Fantasy VII spinoff, focusing on the supporting character Vincent Valentine, to go along with the DVD movie Advent Children and the cellular phone game Before Crisis. Character designer Tetsuya Nomura also lately mentioned the prospect of a third revival project, in some other similarly unconventional medium.
Whether this "compilation" might refer to that game or some package deal of the lot naturally isn't clear. We'll update if any harder details of the project arise, however.
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Comments (11)
anything + Final Fantasy = My money spentPosted: Aug 23, 2004 12:00AM PST by ChuckQuizmo
As soon as you slap that VII at the end of the title you know what ever is coming our way will be quality. I doubt Square Enix would ever want to deal with the many mobs that could be the result of anything less...there just not enough rioting gear in the world...
Posted: Aug 22, 2004 12:00AM PST by bluesquall
What would be great is a remake with a new engine and a graphical upgrade, I'd easily drop 50 bills on it.
sounds good, kind of. . .Posted: Aug 10, 2004 12:00AM PST by clank81
don't get me wrong, i love final fantasy VII. and, of course, i would do anything in my power to get this set, or anything else. it's just, the cell phone part. i mean, no one is gonna enjoy it on a small screen, and, for those who can't get a phone that suits the game's requirements? what then? they'd feel as left out as i do from sudeki, and doa ultimate on the xbox! so, i bet others agree with me on this: if you're gonna make one of the most anticipated sequels, or prequels to a game of that popularity, or power, do it right, on the playstation!! if anyone agrees with me, and kinda wants to talk more about this, feel free to send me a message. i wonder if i make a good editor. . .
My Say...Posted: Aug 07, 2004 12:00AM PST by sevenswords
Square has alot of good games, but for every good or great game there's a not so good game. All that I'm tring to say is that I hope Square knows what there doing by releasing 3 new FF7 side projects. Of corse everyone that I know that liked FF7 will buy anything that has anything to do with the title, it doesen't mean that it will be a good product. Square almost went under when they put to much money into a movie called "the spirits within", and if they put to much into these projects and they screw-up any little thing that could offend fans they could risk bankruptcy again.I mean lets face it, we as FF fans are just as critical as comicbook fans, and LOTR fans, So what's keeping us from being outraged if/or when they screw up?????
what i think and hopePosted: Aug 05, 2004 12:00AM PST by slavezero182
i think and i hope that square makes a remake to FF7 just like capcom did with its RE1 for the gamecube. I really hope that they do not take a great game like FF7 and kill it or just port it over.
new spin on thingsPosted: Aug 02, 2004 12:00AM PST by pilgrim_grey
i think that if square wants to do a spinn off of an already released game than they should give it a new spin. For example in ff7 it would be hell-a-fun if we could play as the badguys, and maybe win. how cool would it be to be sephiroth, and hunt down all those who oppose shinra....
as long as they don't stopPosted: Aug 01, 2004 12:00AM PST by Icorus
No I do not mind a ff7-2 or even VIII-2, I always like to find out what happened to the "family" after the events just like ff x2, I didn't know really what would happen to spira till i played x2 and found out what happened such as yuna not leader, lulu having a baby so on. so I support it, and remember as long as they don't stop everything is fine ;)
Never one for an FF sequalPosted: Aug 01, 2004 12:00AM PST by DamionOWA
I never really liked the idea of a sequel to an FF game. That is what kept FF fresh, is that you only went through it once. The same characters and plot were never re-hashed or reprised. FF X-2 is a prime example of why I hate this. But hey, for a filler bonus character, Square made Vincent so cool. He had so much actual uniqueness about him, he deserves a bit more gameplay. And Advent Children is a must-watch in my opinion.
Capitalizing on a Good ThingPosted: Jul 30, 2004 12:00AM PST by Misato_Anami
As far as it goes, so far only Before Crisis and Advent Children are really what we know about. As for a third project, if that happens. Great! I mean bring it on. But stop there. I love VII and Square finally got the idea to capitalize on the game everyone loves. They teased us with rumors, and now its the real thing. Like I've said in my blog, "Advent Children and the Sweet Sweet Wait" they're so smart. They're even being good about leaks and such. Giving us bits and pieces... As long as the third project is the last part of the Final Fantasy Compilation - thats fine. I mean, they're smart, but don't get carried away. Soon, it might turn into the Lara Croft of the Final Fantasy series... overplayed, overviewed and drug out way too much. And yes, they are still working on games other than the revival project. They're not so dumb as to solely rely on just this. :).
Meh.....Posted: Jul 30, 2004 12:00AM PST by supergoldzero
Square should really just concentrate on makinjg new original games then trying to 'revive' old ones ~_~.

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- Oklahoma City, OK Exercise Specialist
Identifies risk factors and designs specialized strength and conditioning programs for patients. Teaches patients on the proper exercise techniques. Educates patient and family members on proper techniques for transitioning hospital-based fitness program to a safe and effective home exercise program. May require a bachelor's degree, certification as an exercise specialist, and 2-4 years of experience in the field or in a related area. Familiar with a variety of the field's concepts, practices, and procedures. Relies on experience and judgment to plan and accomplish goals. Performs a variety of tasks. A degree of creativity and latitude is expected. Typically reports to a supervisor or manager.
Alternate Job Titles: Exercise Specialist, Exercise Technician
Categories: Sports and Recreation , Healthcare -- Administrative , Healthcare -- Technicians , Non-Profit and Social Services