Solar power absurd
#11
Posted 22 August 2011 - 01:30 AM
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"If you've heard this story before, don't stop me because I'd like to hear it again," Groucho Marx (on market history?).
“I've learned in options trading simple is best and the obvious is often the most elusive to recognize.”
"The god of trading rewards persistence, experience and discipline, and absolutely nothing else."
#12
Posted 22 August 2011 - 09:28 AM
Thirteen-year-old patents solar efficiency breakthrough. Ever wonder who the future belongs to?
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"Hope springs eternal!"
They also used to think they could turn lead into gold with just the right formula.
Gold spray paint was as close as they got.
(UPDATE: After this story broke over the weekend, at least one science blog is debunking these claims as impossible. As is the case with many stories on the Internet, take it with a grain of salt…)
Most importantly, by mistake he did not measure power outputs from the solar cells. Instead he measured voltage, without a load attached ("open circuit"). They are barely related -- in solar cells, voltage is actually almost a constant, independent of power.
The actual power delivered by a solar cell is not linearly related to the open-circuit voltage; actually, as a semiconductor, it has a horribly nonlinear relationship. Here's the current-voltage (I-V) curve:
[National Instruments] Photovoltaic Cell I-V Characterization Theory
VOC denotes the "open circuit" voltage: when there is no load attached, and no current flows (I = 0). Power goes as V*I; a real solar system will maximize efficiency, by working at the point on the I-V curve which maximies power (PMAX).
The kid is measuring VOC. As it happens, this is practically independent of power output! Here's how the I-V curve changes with incident solar power ("irradiance", areal density of radiation in [W/m2]). As this solar module datasheet shows, VOC is almost a constant, regardless of incident light!
Edited by Rogerdodger, 22 August 2011 - 09:35 AM.
BIGGEST SCIENCE SCANDAL EVER...Official records systematically 'adjusted'.
#13
Posted 26 August 2011 - 09:39 PM
Thanks to the new technique of hydraulic fracturing (fracking), which makes it possible to recover oil and natural gas trapped in shale, the United States now has more reserves of oil, coal and natural gas than any other nation, concluded the Congressional Research Service.U.S. Tops in Fossil Fuel
The United States has largest reserves on Earth, according to a report from the Congressional Research Service.
"Shale gas doesn't change everything, it's much more important than that," said British energy expert Nick Grealy.
If these resources were exploited properly, America could be energy independent very soon. Millions of well-paying jobs would be created. New tax revenues would flood the Treasury. The cost of gasoline and electricity would plummet.
But the government forbids oil drilling in most of Alaska, most areas offshore and much of the West. Regulations proposed by the Environmental Protection Agency would destroy hundreds of thousands of jobs in the coal and electric power industries, and send electric bills soaring.
so-called "renewables" require massive government subsidies to produce little energy. Studies in Spain, Britain and Italy indicate each subsidized "green" job costs, respectively, 2.2, 3.7 and 4.8 jobs in the private sector.
Energy
Defenders of the status quo are always stronger than reformers seeking change,
UNTIL the status quo self-destructs from its own corruption, and the reformers are free to build on its ashes.
#14
Posted 27 August 2011 - 02:39 PM
Canadians can do what they want with their oil in Canada, and theres little American protesters can do to stop them
That, presumably, is why the White House announced today that the pipeline will go ahead, greens and New York Times editorial board notwithstanding. There was no other rational choice he could make.
No significant political force in the United States is as incompetently organized and led as the greens. Republicans should rejoice; green extremism, hysteria and incompetence seriously undercuts Democratic coherence and credibility. That is the point that TPM and its allies need to be making; until the rest of the left knocks some sense into green heads, the environmentalists will continue to serve as one of the Republican Partys most helpful auxiliaries.
Pipeline
Defenders of the status quo are always stronger than reformers seeking change,
UNTIL the status quo self-destructs from its own corruption, and the reformers are free to build on its ashes.
#15
Posted 27 August 2011 - 08:07 PM
Just as the Beverly Hillbillies went from starvation to untold wealth so too are those STATES extracting GOLD from the dirt.
It's amazing how AMERICA'S HEALTH AND COMMON GOOD WOULD benefit from Black Gold, that BEAUTIFUL ORGANIC NATURAL TREASURE: CRUDE OIL!
Texas Tea.
North Dakota enjoys the spoils of full employment
Budget deficits, slashed services and higher taxes have been the norm across the country during the past three years as states scramble to make up for revenue shortfalls. Not in North Dakota. Investments in education, health and human services, the environment and transportation will boost total state spending by 12.5 percent, or $1.1 billion, during the next biennium.
Geology, not tax policy, explains North Dakota's incredible run. They've been drilling for oil in the Williston Basin since the early 1950s, but new horizontal drilling technologies have allowed prospectors to tap into the rich Bakken Formation. The U.S. Geological Survey estimates that the region holds about 4.3 billion barrels of recoverable reserves of oil, larger than all other current oil assessments in the lower 48 states.
North Dakota is now the fourth-largest oil producer in the United States. The number of people working in its oil industry has tripled since 2007, to more than 16,000, and the growth in jobs since then can be almost entirely accounted for by the state's oil industry.
According to the North Dakota Petroleum Council, crude oil taxes on production and extraction brought in about $750 million in state revenue. In addition, the industry spent $1.49 billion in taxable sales and purchases. The state tax department has said that "every $1 increase or decrease in the price of oil impacts gross state revenue by $9.3 million a year."
Edited by Rogerdodger, 27 August 2011 - 08:21 PM.
BIGGEST SCIENCE SCANDAL EVER...Official records systematically 'adjusted'.
#16
Posted 31 August 2011 - 08:14 PM
The federal government should get out of the business of picking technology and "green" winners. Government backing of alternate energy companies has been nothing short of disastrous.
In this case, it is rather amazing how fast Solyndra wasted over half a billion US taxpayer dollars, so fast I suspect fraud.
In general, if companies cannot survive without government subsidies then they should not survive at all.
Solar
Defenders of the status quo are always stronger than reformers seeking change,
UNTIL the status quo self-destructs from its own corruption, and the reformers are free to build on its ashes.
#17
Posted 31 August 2011 - 08:41 PM
Edited by Rogerdodger, 31 August 2011 - 08:51 PM.
BIGGEST SCIENCE SCANDAL EVER...Official records systematically 'adjusted'.
#18
Posted 01 September 2011 - 05:47 PM
The $1/2 Billion government "loan" was a slush fund repayment for Tulsa's own Kaiser Söze, who bundled political contributions for politicians.
Current investigations are underway.
Business as usual while our children and grandchildren will cough up the money.
Government auditors had questioned the wisdom of the administration's loan guarantees to the company, backed in part by capital from a group controlled by Kaiser, a billionaire Tulsa oilman, banker and political fundraiser.
In July, a House subcommittee subpoenaed White House documents related to the guarantee, and after Wednesday's developments, lawmakers vowed to continue investigating.
The Treasury Department provided Solyndra's loan, on the assurance of the Energy Department. The terms were reviewed in advance by the White House Office of Management and Budget, and almost all of the $535 million has been disbursed to Solyndra.
Officials with the George Kaiser Family Foundation did not return phone calls late Wednesday.
George Soros was also unavailable for comment about his lucky Brazil oil investment.
BIGGEST SCIENCE SCANDAL EVER...Official records systematically 'adjusted'.
#19
Posted 02 September 2011 - 06:28 AM
#20
Posted 02 September 2011 - 08:18 AM
Why anyone would oppose renewable energy is beyond me.
How long have you been off the grid?
BIGGEST SCIENCE SCANDAL EVER...Official records systematically 'adjusted'.