Comments on: 10 Things You Need to Know From The Economist's Energy Report http://gigaom.com/cleantech/10-things-you-need-to-know-from-the-economists-energy-report/ Sun, 27 May 2012 04:22:29 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: carbon silicon http://gigaom.com/cleantech/10-things-you-need-to-know-from-the-economists-energy-report/#comment-13511 Fri, 01 Aug 2008 12:48:44 +0000 http://earth2tech.com/?p=2548#comment-13511 [...] Than You Think.??? But hey, it??s 14-pages long Economist pages! and we know in these digital tihttp://earth2tech.com/2008/06/22/10-things-you-need-to-know-from-the-economists-energy-report/Carbon/SiliconBlog entry about band Carbon/Silicon with YouTube [...]

]]> By: Chuck Kezar http://gigaom.com/cleantech/10-things-you-need-to-know-from-the-economists-energy-report/#comment-13510 Tue, 24 Jun 2008 11:41:34 +0000 http://earth2tech.com/?p=2548#comment-13510 The venting hydrogen in Iceland is natural not engineered to be efficient and the wells do not touch magma. If they did and water was pumped in the production would be significantly more that is not venting, CAK

]]> By: Chuck Kezar http://gigaom.com/cleantech/10-things-you-need-to-know-from-the-economists-energy-report/#comment-13509 Tue, 24 Jun 2008 11:38:50 +0000 http://earth2tech.com/?p=2548#comment-13509 The Geothermal information in the Economist is missing one very important fact. Deeper drilling into geothermal areas will provide hydrogen. Sandia Labs proved that one can drill into magma, the hot stuff that heats geothremal area, and pump in water. The reaction with the iron oxide produces hydrogen – tons of it. Now in Iceland where they are planning to capture the natural venting of hydrogen one well produces 330 tons per year of hydrogen. That is enough to run 75 hydtogen cars every day forever.
We need to force the us DOE to fund a demonstration of this technology — the science is known — Professor C. A. Kezar ckezar34@aol.com

]]> By: The Economist - The Future of Energy - Tesla Motors Club Forum http://gigaom.com/cleantech/10-things-you-need-to-know-from-the-economists-energy-report/#comment-13508 Tue, 24 Jun 2008 00:26:36 +0000 http://earth2tech.com/?p=2548#comment-13508 [...] 10 Things You Need to Know From The Economist’s Energy Report « Earth2Tech Quote: [...]

]]> By: greensolutions http://gigaom.com/cleantech/10-things-you-need-to-know-from-the-economists-energy-report/#comment-13507 Mon, 23 Jun 2008 22:29:23 +0000 http://earth2tech.com/?p=2548#comment-13507 Umm hello? Concentrated solar power? Combined heating and cooling? Negawatts? Permaculture?
Well, it is the economist (not the ecologist).

]]> By: Kleiner, Index Invest $34.5M in Rubber Recycler Lehigh « Earth2Tech http://gigaom.com/cleantech/10-things-you-need-to-know-from-the-economists-energy-report/#comment-13506 Mon, 23 Jun 2008 21:29:13 +0000 http://earth2tech.com/?p=2548#comment-13506 [...] yet another example of a firm that’s done well with dot-com and is now dabbling in cleantech. As the Economist points out this week, it’s the same players all over again (and check out our own list of 25 Who Ditched [...]

]]> By: eric http://gigaom.com/cleantech/10-things-you-need-to-know-from-the-economists-energy-report/#comment-13505 Mon, 23 Jun 2008 17:25:27 +0000 http://earth2tech.com/?p=2548#comment-13505 Sorry Katie, wind won’t replace coal, nuclear, gas, or other forms of base load generation of electricity until battery technology advances to the point where we are able to efficiently store massive amounts of energy produced when the wind is blowing and use it when the wind isn’t blowing.

Reliability is a utility’s number one concern, and understandably so when you consider how upset people get when they flip their light switch and the lights don’t turn on. This becomes particularly problematic on very hot days when loads are the highest, since those tend to be days with minimal wind.

]]>