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YESTERDAY

THINGS-TO-THINK-ABOUT WEDNESDAY, August 23:

  • TTTA Wednesday-ORIGINAL REPORTING: The IRA And The New Energy Boom
  • TTTA Wednesday-ORIGINAL REPORTING: The IRA And the EV Revolution
  • THE DAY BEFORE

  • Weekend Video: Coming Ocean Current Collapse Could Up Climate Crisis
  • Weekend Video: Impacts Of The Atlantic Meridional Overturning Current Collapse
  • Weekend Video: More Facts On The AMOC
  • THE DAY BEFORE THE DAY BEFORE

    WEEKEND VIDEOS, July 15-16:

  • Weekend Video: The Truth About China And The Climate Crisis
  • Weekend Video: Florida Insurance At The Climate Crisis Storm’s Eye
  • Weekend Video: The 9-1-1 On Rooftop Solar
  • THE DAY BEFORE THAT

    WEEKEND VIDEOS, July 8-9:

  • Weekend Video: Bill Nye Science Guy On The Climate Crisis
  • Weekend Video: The Changes Causing The Crisis
  • Weekend Video: A “Massive Global Solar Boom” Now
  • THE LAST DAY UP HERE

    WEEKEND VIDEOS, July 1-2:

  • The Global New Energy Boom Accelerates
  • Ukraine Faces The Climate Crisis While Fighting To Survive
  • Texas Heat And Politics Of Denial
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    WEEKEND VIDEOS, June 17-18

  • Fixing The Power System
  • The Energy Storage Solution
  • New Energy Equity With Community Solar
  • Weekend Video: The Way Wind Can Help Win Wars
  • Weekend Video: New Support For Hydropower
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  • WEEKEND VIDEOS, August 24-26:
  • Happy One-Year Birthday, Inflation Reduction Act
  • The Virtual Power Plant Boom, Part 1
  • The Virtual Power Plant Boom, Part 2

    Friday, May 25, 2007

    STANFORD’S NEW ENERGY DREAMIN’

    Old man Stanford had a farm, E-I-E-I-Oh!

    Stanford takes the long view with alternative energy research
    Carrie Sturrock, May 21, 2007(San Francisco Chronicle)

    WHO
    Professors Fritz Prinz, Arthur Grossman, Stanford’s Global Climate and Energy Project (GCEP), GCEP Director Lynn Orr
    Just as I thought...(click to enlarge)
    WHAT
    GCEP does highly speculative, fundamental, long-range research rather than working with familiar materials and aiming for short-term results.

    WHEN
    GCEP began in 2002

    WHERE
    Standford University, Palo Alto, CA and alternative energy projects at universities and institutions across the globe: Brigham Young University in Utah, the Research Institute of Innovative Technology for the Earth in Japan, the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Switzerland and the University of New South Wales in Australia

    WHY
    - GCEP: founded by $225 million 10 year grant from ExxonMobil, General Electric, Schlumberger Limited and Toyota.
    - GCEP: 42 projects worldwide, 59 principal investigators at 10 institutions, 225 graduate students, postdoctoral students and other researchers.
    - Examples: Using microelectrodes to short-circuit the photosynthetic cycle and draw off the electrical energy in plant photosynthesis, better ways to store hydrogen, generating hydrogen from pond scum (filamentous cyanobacteria), radical new ways to make engines more efficient, new concepts in solar cells to better ways to sequester carbon dioxide
    The Stanford Rancho (click to enlarge)
    QUOTES
    - Orr: "We are definitely focused on applications that might be farther out -- the 10- to 50-year time frame…We are willing to take risks because we're looking for our work to create new energy options…The original intent was to look for the best people around the world…"
    - Grossman: "There aren't as many people as far-sighted…"
    - Prinz: "Or naive or crazy…We have not yet demonstrated it's possible [to get electrical energy from plant photosynthesis]…It takes money and technology, patience, dedication and commitment."
    - James Howard Kunstler, author of "The Long Emergency: Surviving the End of Oil, Climate Change and Other Converging Catastrophes of the Twenty-First Century":
    "There's a great deal of confusion that technology is going to save our ass one way or another…I don't doubt we'll make many efforts and many ingenious things will be devised, but ... we're still going to have to make fundamental changes in the way we live in this country, and we're going to be disappointed about what these things can do."
    - GCEP/Stanford Professor Arthur Spormann, working with postdoctoral student Jacky Ng to produce hydrogen from sunlight and water: "The solutions are out there -- you just have to see them…"

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