Hug a farmer today! Try ethanol. Your fuel cell will run just fine on it. And growing the corn to make the ethanol will use up the small amount of carbon dioxide you will generate along with your kilowatt hours.
There has long been the technology to communicate with underwater submarines. Don't you remember Project Seafarer, or Project Sanguine which weren't build and the smaller project that was? They probably used the technology Nikola Tesla was working on around the turn of the century to transmit power without wires.
You can put a fuel cell in my back yard or even in my cellar. No noise. (No moving parts) No pollution of sulphur dioxide, nitrous oxides, carbon monoxide (my fuel cell will eat carbon monoxide and spit out more electricity), neglible particulate matter (smoke), pollution an order of magnitude below the Vision 21 federal standards. Efficiency of a fuel cell will be better than from a 600,000 kw coal fired steam turbine which is 33% at the busbar and 30% at the meter. It will even be better than the efficiency of a combined cycle system of the same size and it will be cheaper , when costs of reserves, transmission, subtransmission, and distribution are taken into account, then even GE's new H technology combined cycle unit with a claimed efficiency of 60%. Maybe that's why the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power just bought one to be located at their headquarters building in downtown LA. For many years they haven't been able to build any thermal generation in the Los Angeles Basin because of the smog [According to Bob Hope, "Smog" is a nasty rumor, started by tourists, who insist on breathing."] Because of the smog, they have had to go as far our as Four Corners to build generating capacity. You can invest in this technology. If you do, you will be like the missionaries in James Michener's Hawaii who when to Hawaii to do good and did very well indeed.
Nonsense. Charge the car during the 10 hour off peak at a meter which won't supply power during on peak or will supply power on peak only at a price five times as much. You will not only supply all the power you need to the cars but you will improve the capacity factor of the generators and cut the cost of electricity to everyone and cut the amount of maintenance because the generating units aren't cycled as much.
How long ago was it that New England paid $6,000 per MWH for three hours or more? When you are selling power for 6 cents a kwh and buying it for $60, you can't make money even on volume sales. What is currently your percentage of reserves in New England? Is it going up or down? My own study shows that nationally, from 1992 through 1997, kwh use went up by 15% but capacity installation went up by 4%. How can you get someone to invest in new generation when there are the uncertainties of wholesale competition, retail competition, possible caps on free market sales at elevated prices, new technologies coming along like the industrial aeroderivative turbine and the combined cycle system which double fuel efficiency over the coal fired steam turbine, and here comes the fuel cell with its own combined cycle or hybrid fuel cell/gas turbine promising an 80% efficiency. The free market doesn't work under those circumstances and the grid will get worse and worse. What will save us will be distributed power with the fuel cell winning out over the IAD turbine because fuel cells can provide efficient generation in small sizes and the IAD and its combined cycles can't.
Fuel cells are the answer. They are more efficient than anything on the grid or anything coming in small sizes. With efficiency in small sizes you can inexpensively protect against contingencies. If your single largest unit, generating at a 55% efficiency is only 250 kw, it doesn't cost much for 4 nines, 5 nines, 6 nines efficiency. More than half the grid is coal fired steam turbines at 30% efficiency (30% at your meter after a long trip down transmissiona and distribution and through a number of transformers). You can get a 60% efficiency in a couple of years with GE's H technology but you need a load of 400 MW to do it. Then you need 20% reserves (at least) and only get 3 nines reliability. And you need to build transmission (if you can get right of way) and subtransmission and distribution). By the time you are done you have paid $600/ kw for generation and $850 per kw for subtransmission and distribution. That's a total of $1,650. For $1250 you can get a FCEL fuel cell, and for a little more you can get 5 or 6 nines reliability. No transmission or distribution outages. No blinks. What more do you want.
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Grow some corn. Feed your fuel cell ethanol. While your at it, make yourself some hooch.
Hug a farmer today! Try ethanol. Your fuel cell will run just fine on it. And growing the corn to make the ethanol will use up the small amount of carbon dioxide you will generate along with your kilowatt hours.
There has long been the technology to communicate with underwater submarines. Don't you remember Project Seafarer, or Project Sanguine which weren't build and the smaller project that was? They probably used the technology Nikola Tesla was working on around the turn of the century to transmit power without wires.
You can put a fuel cell in my back yard or even in my cellar. No noise. (No moving parts) No pollution of sulphur dioxide, nitrous oxides, carbon monoxide (my fuel cell will eat carbon monoxide and spit out more electricity), neglible particulate matter (smoke), pollution an order of magnitude below the Vision 21 federal standards. Efficiency of a fuel cell will be better than from a 600,000 kw coal fired steam turbine which is 33% at the busbar and 30% at the meter. It will even be better than the efficiency of a combined cycle system of the same size and it will be cheaper , when costs of reserves, transmission, subtransmission, and distribution are taken into account, then even GE's new H technology combined cycle unit with a claimed efficiency of 60%. Maybe that's why the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power just bought one to be located at their headquarters building in downtown LA. For many years they haven't been able to build any thermal generation in the Los Angeles Basin because of the smog [According to Bob Hope, "Smog" is a nasty rumor, started by tourists, who insist on breathing."] Because of the smog, they have had to go as far our as Four Corners to build generating capacity. You can invest in this technology. If you do, you will be like the missionaries in James Michener's Hawaii who when to Hawaii to do good and did very well indeed.
Nonsense. Charge the car during the 10 hour off peak at a meter which won't supply power during on peak or will supply power on peak only at a price five times as much. You will not only supply all the power you need to the cars but you will improve the capacity factor of the generators and cut the cost of electricity to everyone and cut the amount of maintenance because the generating units aren't cycled as much.
How long ago was it that New England paid $6,000 per MWH for three hours or more? When you are selling power for 6 cents a kwh and buying it for $60, you can't make money even on volume sales. What is currently your percentage of reserves in New England? Is it going up or down? My own study shows that nationally, from 1992 through 1997, kwh use went up by 15% but capacity installation went up by 4%. How can you get someone to invest in new generation when there are the uncertainties of wholesale competition, retail competition, possible caps on free market sales at elevated prices, new technologies coming along like the industrial aeroderivative turbine and the combined cycle system which double fuel efficiency over the coal fired steam turbine, and here comes the fuel cell with its own combined cycle or hybrid fuel cell/gas turbine promising an 80% efficiency. The free market doesn't work under those circumstances and the grid will get worse and worse. What will save us will be distributed power with the fuel cell winning out over the IAD turbine because fuel cells can provide efficient generation in small sizes and the IAD and its combined cycles can't.
Fuel cells are the answer. They are more efficient than anything on the grid or anything coming in small sizes. With efficiency in small sizes you can inexpensively protect against contingencies. If your single largest unit, generating at a 55% efficiency is only 250 kw, it doesn't cost much for 4 nines, 5 nines, 6 nines efficiency. More than half the grid is coal fired steam turbines at 30% efficiency (30% at your meter after a long trip down transmissiona and distribution and through a number of transformers). You can get a 60% efficiency in a couple of years with GE's H technology but you need a load of 400 MW to do it. Then you need 20% reserves (at least) and only get 3 nines reliability. And you need to build transmission (if you can get right of way) and subtransmission and distribution). By the time you are done you have paid $600/ kw for generation and $850 per kw for subtransmission and distribution. That's a total of $1,650. For $1250 you can get a FCEL fuel cell, and for a little more you can get 5 or 6 nines reliability. No transmission or distribution outages. No blinks. What more do you want.