Since Obama’s election, my partent Charles and I have been looking at what Obama’s refreshing attitude towards Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency, combined with the credit crunch, will do for some of our favorite stocks… here are the highlights:

Companies that may benefit from a solar glut

How Oil prices affect Alternative Energy Stocks

Emissions trading stocks under Obama

What might happen to Solar Photovoltaic companies if consumers pull back

Charles and I expect divened paying companies to come back into vogue. He has a few dividend paying alternative energy companies and I have a couple dividend paying energy efficiency companies to consider.

I also revisited my list of Blue Chip Alternative energy companies to see which ones might benefit from the expected stimulus package, while Charles looked at Smart Grid stocks that might benefit from a stimulus package. One technology I’m betting on is Geothermal heat pumps.

Since Obama’s election, my partent Charles and I have been looking at what Obama’s refreshing attitude towards Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency, combined with the credit crunch, will do for some of our favorite stocks… here are the highlights:

Companies that may benefit from a solar glut

How Oil prices affect Alternative Energy Stocks

Emissions trading stocks under Obama

What might happen to Solar Photovoltaic companies if consumers pull back

Charles and I expect divened paying companies to come back into vogue. He has a few dividend paying alternative energy companies and I have a couple dividend paying energy efficiency companies to consider.

I also revisited my list of Blue Chip Alternative energy companies to see which ones might benefit from the expected stimulus package, while Charles looked at Smart Grid stocks that might benefit from a stimulus package. One technology I’m betting on is Geothermal heat pumps.

Hi Everyone,

  Hope you are enjoying the holidays!

  I just wanted to share a few links with you. These should be of help if you are planning on “Going Green” anytime soon.

Alternative Energy
Home Made Energy
Home Made Wind Generator
Build Your Own Electric Car

I’ve been thinking of “going green” myself, & have been doing some research on it. It seems to be a little scary, but after looking into it, I think it’s something that can be done fairly easy, with a few guidelines or tips to help you along.

A wind catcher, something like the one above, should be able to catch the wind from any direction. You can pick up this kind of fan at the junkyard. Look for a discarded water (swamp) cooler fan & brackets.

That’s it for now.

Let me know what your thoughts are………….Rec

Hi Everyone,

  Hope you are enjoying the holidays!

  I just wanted to share a few links with you. These should be of help if you are planning on “Going Green” anytime soon.

Alternative Energy
Home Made Energy
Home Made Wind Generator
Build Your Own Electric Car

I’ve been thinking of “going green” myself, & have been doing some research on it. It seems to be a little scary, but after looking into it, I think it’s something that can be done fairly easy, with a few guidelines or tips to help you along.

A wind catcher, something like the one above, should be able to catch the wind from any direction. You can pick up this kind of fan at the junkyard. Look for a discarded water (swamp) cooler fan & brackets.

That’s it for now.

Let me know what your thoughts are………….Rec

The federal government has recently announced it will scrap the unpopular means test for the federal subsidy for domestic solar PV arrays, which restricted the rebate to households earning less than $100,000.

The size of the rebate was, formerly, $8 per watt of installed nameplate capacity, up to a maximum of $8000. The rebate will now be smaller; $5/W, up to a maximum of $7500.

Sounds good, right? But it’s horrendously expensive – the government is in effect paying $5/W for the cheapest, nastiest polycrystalline silicon PVs on the market.

There are scores of companies jumping on the bandwagon to sell these little 1-1.5 kW rooftop PV systems, advertising and promoting and installing them – because they’re making a fortune from the increase in business resulting from the subsidy.

The government rebate does not cover the full cost of such a system – therefore, in order to get as much interest as possible, the vendors are trying to keep the costs of such systems as low as absolutely possible, so that the cost that the customer pays is as small as possible. Therefore, all such systems are exclusively cheap, inefficient, basic polysilicon devices. After all, an advanced solar-concentrating collector with a high-efficiency CdTe cell or stacked heterojunction cell or sliver cell or whatever does not attract any higher subsidy than the basic polycrystalline Si device.

Advocates such as the Australian Greens say that such a scheme “supports the solar industry” – but all it does is supports the environmentally-damaging low-cost manufacturing of polycrystalline silicon in China, and doesn’t support innovation in advanced PV technology or anything like that.

What if the same amount of subsidy might be better spent elsewhere? Here’s a hypothetical idea to think about.

1. Go and find a suburb or a city or a community which has about 31,000 households. I’m certain there are 31,000 households in this country who support what I’m about to elucidate.

2. Get each household to put up AUD $1200 or so, temporarily.

3. Take that 25 million US dollars and purchase a 25 MWe Hyperion Power Module, or something similar.

4. At 25 MWe divided between 31,000 households, that’s a little over 25 GJ per year, which is a little more than Australia’s present average household electricity consumption. This doesn’t just generate a fraction of your household electricity needs – it generates 100% of it, and there will be no more electricity bills.

5. That corresponds to a nameplate capacity of 807 watts per household. Since the government hands out a subsidy of $5/W for solar photovoltaics with a 20% capacity factor, they should hand out $22.50/W for nuclear energy with a 90% capacity factor, right?

6. Collect your $18,157.50 rebate from the government. Less the $1200 investment, that’s $16,957.50 immediate profit in your pocket. This is exactly the same rate of payment per energy produced that presently exists in the form of the PV subsidy.

7. Go to the pub. Got to stimulate that economy, you know.

I wonder how many ordinary Australian households would support nuclear energy if you paid them $17,000 for doing so?

To replace one Loy Yang type coal-fired power station* with solar cells, we would need 6,082,342 homes equipped with 1.5 kW solar photovoltaic arrays.
With an $7500 rebate for each one, that would cost the government 45.6 billion dollars per each large coal-fired power station.

* (Loy Yang generated 15,995 GWh in 2006.)

Solar photovoltaics typically have a capacity factor of about 20%, and we’ll suppose the panels have a lifetime of, say, 30 years.
Therefore, this scheme costs the government 9.5 cents per kWh generated.

If the government purchases nuclear power plants, they will cost, say, 10 billion dollars (let’s be conservative) for a nuclear power plant with two 1100 MW nuclear power reactors which will operate with a 90% capacity factor and a lifetime of 50 years. The capital cost of plant dominates the overall cost of nuclear energy.

Therefore, the nuclear power plants would cost the government 1.15 cents per kWh – 12% percent of the cost of the solar rebate scheme. That’s the government’s rebate alone – without the rest of the price of these systems.

All this solar rebate is is another mendacious political enterprise involving renewable energy which can’t be scaled up, which hands out free money to the public, makes a bunch of money for the solar panel vendors (including many dangerous fossil fuel vendors such as British Petroleum), and mendaciously makes the government look like they’re actively getting the country running on clean energy.

ASIDE: I’m going to start cross-posting some blog content on the Daily Kos. I think it’s a nice site to engage with many, many readers – many of whom perhaps aren’t already so convinced of the virtue of nuclear energy – so, there’s plenty of engaging, active discussion, and the opportunity to maybe convince some people – even if that’s just a few people it’s still a very positive thing.

In a new attempt to get more power from solar energy, the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute recently published a new method that enhances the capture of sunlight on a solar panel. With the method the entire solar spectrum can be absorb from nearly any angle. The solar power extracted  the sunlight boost the energy efficiency and cost effectiveness, by this new antireflective coating.

For more information the research finding please visit the link provided as reference.

Reference:

http://news.rpi.edu/update.do?artcenterkey=2507

Earth4Energy Review

It’s Cheap!

I’m going to start by discussing why Earth4Energy works and how there are so many positive testimonials and reviews for this product. This complete system, designed by Michael Harvey, is one of the leading, top-noche programs teaching you how to construct devices and generate renewable fuels for a very cheap price.

Michael brags 80% or more on your energy savings, and from the raving testimonials all over the Internet, this is definitely not exaggerated. However, it’s important to note that this is in relation to the average house-hold energy consumption. Obviously, if you spend huge amounts of money on your energy bill currently, you’ll need a few more devices to compensate for the extra energy useage. These windmills and solar panels you will be constructing will generate tons of energy for the next decade.

Fact #1: Earth4Energy Will Save You Money

We all love saving money, and Earth4Energy is definitely the way to do it. By utilizing the power of wind and solar energy, within a day you can start eliminating up and over 80% of your energy bill.

To help you understand this, let’s look at the ROI for the Earth4Energy System.

The windmill and solar panel costs around $120 to create. If your average monthly power bill is $500, after the first month you will already have saved $250 – $400. By the second month you are guaranteed to make back the money invested, and more. These small devices aren’t something to look down upon – they are easy to create and they generate tons of energy for any household.

Now, what if instead of one device, you created multiple windmills and solar panels? Soon you will be generating all your energy by yourself, and you may even want to consider selling some to your neighbors!

Fact #2: Earth4Energy is Easy to Implement

Earth4Energy now has video tutorials, which makes it so much better than the other plans out there. In fact, it is so easy to create these devices, even a child could do it (adult supervision suggested b/c you’re working with electricity).

Michael Harvey is a DIY hobbyist and he knows what he is talking about. All aspects of the creation of these systems are covered in his tutorials, and his step-by-step instructions are difficult to misinterpret.

Best of all, these devices you will be constructing are professional, energy-generating machines.

Fact #3: Earth4Energy is very Professional

Professional companies charge $3000 – $5000 for an installation of a windmill or solar panel, hardly within the budget of the average person. Earth4Energy teaches you to create one at a fraction of the price, which is what makes this guide so popular.

However, its also important that you would be able to create a windmill or solar panel that is as professional as professional installations. From our research and comparisons, Earth4Energy devices are comparable to those sold in stores.

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