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What is a realistic plan for the future of energy?

Politicians can spout off about global warming till their blue in the face but they never offer a good alternative to fossil fuels. Let's prove that the people of this country are smarter than they are. Give me a recommendation for an energy plan that is affordable, clean and plentiful. Is coal the way to go now that emmisions can be controlled? What about fuel-cells? Can we make solar power affordable? Give me your thoughts.

Ok, here is one *sensible* plan for the future, and one that is a bit "out there". ^_^ Let's see which one, if not both, takes.

--I am personally all for fuel cell technology myself, but....we cannot just focus entirely on the Proton Exchange Membrane (PEM) technology. Yes it is the most efficient, least polluting technology of the bunch, and you know what? It is also the most expensive and least compact as well. And frankly we *cannot* sit on our hands and wait for someone else to stick a hydrogen infrastructure out there so PEM fuel cells can even be used. That is what Big Oil and the Big Auto companies expect us to do, to just sit and wait while they dawdle our time away doing nothing because they are "chasing perfection" as an excuse.

We need to look into ALL fuel cell technologies, including the slightly polluting high-temperature ones like "molten carbonate" and "metal oxide" designs that we can use with methane (compressed natural gas), methanol, and propane (liquified petroleum gas). Will they produce carbon dioxide? Yes, slightly. But they are usable *right now* with fuels *we have* infrastructure for. And they can be used with fuels we can make in *biomass* as well.

And....even a "dirty" fuel cell is going to produce 90% less CO2 than even your *best* gasoline engines do now. We really *can't* make internal combusion engines, at their cleanest, run *as clean* as a fuel cell does *at its high-temperature, auto-cracking dirtiest*. With gasoline and diesel engines, lowering the CO2 further always raises NOx emissions....emissions that are *not* an issue the overwhelming majority of the time with even "dirty" fuel cells.

So we need to look into EVERY fuel cell technology, not just PEMs. We need to have a *bridge* technology to *get us* there to the hydrogen infrastructure. We need something to use *right now*, even if it's one of the newer "hybrid battery" designs that combines a metal-air battery design (like zinc-air or iron-air Westinghouse batteries) with a fuel cell to increase specific power.

We *have* fuel cell technologies we could apply tomorrow, that would improve things dramatically....but they aren't the *perfect* solution PEMs are, and the Big Oil-led companies refuse to look into those to see if we can improve things *now*. Why? Because they stand to make more cash by sitting their hands, "waiting for perfection" and doing *nothing* as usual....

So we have to look into ALL fuel cell technologies, perfect and otherwise....so we can get things going *now*.

And now, something amusing. ^_^ That "out there" option.

--Just how many tons of motor vehicle do we *have* out there? And just how many millions of miles of paved road do we have, that are in time going to need replacing?

I ask, because the thought did occur to me....what if, when we replaced roads and highways, we included a *layer* of piezoelectric and thermo-couple mesh materials? And then connected that layer to a power grid, an inductive third rail of sorts, up top? The piezoelectric layer would generate electricity courtesy of pressure differentials every time a vehicle pressed down on it from above in passing, then released it--and yes, this could work, especially on concrete areas that come *segmented* and separated anyway. And the thermo-couple mesh generates electricity too, as the road heats up, either from vehicles passing overhead or from *sunlight* heating the road. ^_^ How much current could we get going from that?

We do have a lot of vehicles on the road, a lot of road, and a lot of roadway materials, like asphalt, that a) get HOT in the summer, and b) transfer pressure in a squishy manner fairly well.

Would it be enough to run the *lights*? Would it be enough to run a zero-emissions vehicle lane, with the cars that are supposed to be there hugging that inductive "third rail" like slot cars? *lol* I know, it sounds like a perpetual motion scheme, but.....I could see this working at least on the Interstates. ^_^ And hell, gravity and sunlight both are pollution free at our end.

But yeah, I get that having an unbroken "third rail" of any kind on a roadway, even one resting below the surface of the road and out of harm's way to pedestrians, is going to be a legal or political issue.

Still....a freebie's a freebie, right? ^_^

Hope this helps....thanks for your time!

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Himfr.com reports Solar water heater energy efficiency standards have been questioned

A consumer to buy a an energy-efficient solar water heaters, resulting in less than three years, with the bad. "You say that such a energy-efficient solar energy in the end it is good or bad?" The consumer asked the reporter. A solar energy enterprises on condition of anonymity told this reporter that engineers currently in a number of solar water heater technology, spare parts, hot water and other infrastructure projects have not developed standards and improve on the rush to promote the development of solar energy efficiency standards, a bit act with undue haste.

Beijing New Energy and Renewable Energy Association Vice Chairman Luo Yun-chun told reporters that now that a solar water heater energy efficiency standards is difficult, even if drawn up will face difficulty in enforcement. Solar energy better than air conditioners, refrigerators and other appliances mature, their poor foundation for development, many of the basic conditions do not improve, and do not have the product energy efficiency standards to promote soil.

A solar energy company sources, the relevant bodies in this standard-setting process, taking into consideration the standard of health is not an industrial sustainable development, but the interests of all parties can get how much. Some agencies in order to develop this standard ground head, to want to participate in the enterprise to set threshold standards must be by these institutions and organizations to participate in a number of exhibitions, forums, disguised charges. Virtually increase the business costs and expenses.

LUO Yun-jun told reporters that at present the field of solar water heaters need to develop and improve the standards of many, especially when it comes to product performance, quality, and materials and other basic components of standards, there is also imperfect place. Lighting such as solar water heaters, heat-absorbing area, the definition of terms such as the reflection coefficient is not clear. The current vacuum tube water heaters, heating area in the end how the calculation, we should not be deducted on glass aperture. Another example of solar water tank, frame and other key components of the material, thickness and so there is no uniform requirement.

"We must engage solar energy efficiency standards, now the area of how to calculate heating and unity are not clear, how to count the value of energy efficiency? National Standards emphasize that the authority and scientific, to the time standards were introduced to explain the unknown, that would be trouble joke. "LUO Yun-jun said.

Experts say learn from the relatively mature standard-setting system for home appliances of view, are the first complete standards-based products, and then formulating the overall performance of the standard product, so that from low to high, from basic to the performance of a steady push. At present, the development of solar water heaters in China in just 10 years time, typical of grass-roots industry, after the government and relevant industry associations based standards for product development work has been relatively lagging behind. Right now, for the standard-setting in this area, should accelerate the improvement of the basic products before specification and to promote market development of this product and order.

National Solar Water Heater Quality Supervision, Inspection (Wuhan) The Center Chief Engineer Zhang Xiaoli told our reporter, solar water heater energy efficiency standards by industry associations are not the lead organization, but directly from the Development and Reform Commission and the Commission jointly to promote the national standard is currently the standard has been held over two seminars, the test of 61 enterprise's product data, energy efficiency standards for an initial period of five criteria.

Zhang Xiaoli with particular emphasis on solar energy is different from the traditional consumer electronics, and appliance energy efficiency is not a concept compared to solar energy are clean energy, energy consumption does not exist, even five energy-efficient products, but also energy-saving products.

Solar industry observers, Zhicheng Wang Chengying Smart, chairman of the view that the product energy efficiency standards does not matter sooner or later, there is no better than to promote the standardization of product energy efficiency is one of the industry's development direction.

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