Craig's Book on Renewables – Much Thanks To All Those Who Helped
Current Book Outline – Shooting for April Publication
Working Title: “Renewable Energy – Facts and Fantasies”
| Chapter Concept | Current Status — All Completed — Interviews Conducted with .. |
| 1. Introduction | (written by Craig) |
| 2. Peak Oil | Matt Simmons |
| 3. Oil and National Security | James Woolsey |
| 4. Global Climate Change | Dr. V. Ramanathan |
| 5. Renewable Energy and the US Federal Government | National Renewable Energy Labs’ George Douglas |
| 6. Preserving the Wilderness | Audubon’s Brian Rutledge |
| 7. The Smart Grid and Vehicle-to-Grid | EPRI’s Mark Duvall |
| 8. Fuel Cells | Steve Ellis |
| 9. Business and Consumer Incentives – The Regulatory Environment | Electric Drive Transportation Association’s Brian Wynne |
| 10. Electric Vehicle Advocacy | Plug-In-America’s Jay Friedland |
| 11. Sociology of Driving | Trinity Universty’s Dr. Michael Kearl |
| 12. Washington Watchdog | National Resource Defense Council’s Johanna Wald |
| 13. Mobilizing the Private Sector | Carbon War Room’s Jigar Shah |
| 14. Solar Thermal | Ausra’s David Mills |
| 15. Wind Energy | Clipper Windpower’s Dr. Amir Mikhail |
| 16. Geothermal Energy | Ormat’s Paul Thomsen |
| 17. Hydrokinetic Energy | Universiry of Washington’s Dr. Brian Polagye |
| 18. Photovoltaics | Bruce Allen |
| 19. Biofuels | Scripps Instutution’s Dr. Greg Mitchell |
| 20. Renewable Energy Media | Renewable Energy World’s Steve Lacey |
| 21. Renewable Energy Activism | Sustainable Business’s Dr. Rona Fried |
| 22. Renewable Energy Economics | 2GreenEnergy’s Bill Paul |
| 23. Intelligent Energy Management | Steve Nguyen |
| 24. All the Physics Most People Will Ever Need to Know in 10 Pages | (written by Craig) |
| 25. Cutting-Edge Physics – Possible Faces of Renewable Energy in 50 Years | Wally Rippel |
| 26. Renewables in Municipal Government | Santa Monica’s Rick Sikes |
| 27. Conclusion | (written by Craig) |
| Again, thanks for your help! | |
Craig,
Would you consider adding a chapter on the new wind industry of airborne wind energy conversion systems? Dr. Cristina Archer, the world’s foremost researcher in high altitude wind energy will be moderating the conference for which the website link has been provided. Most of the experts who are designing and testing these new technologies will be attending HAWP 2009 in Chico and Oroville CA this Thursday and Friday, November 5 -6. See following article by Dr. Archer and Dr. Ken Caldeira
http://news.stanford.edu/news/2009/june24/high-altitude-winds-062309.html
Also, if Ken isn’t on your oceans experts list already, just to let you know he will not be at the HAWP conference because he will be testifying before congress and at other high level meetings in D.C. the end of this week and early next. As you probably have hard, his message about what is happening in the oceans is very easy to understand as the chemistry is straightforward. More CO2 in the air equals more carbonic acid. This lowers the pH and robs the water of carbonate impairing the ability of creatures to form calcium-carbonate shells.
Sky WindPower would be happy to help make connections for you to the high altitude wind power (airborne wind energy conversion systems) industry.
Regards,
PJ Shepard, Technical Marketing Engineer, Office 530-403-5167 x1300
PJ: Thanks very much for this. I’m not sure how I’m going to handle high-altitude wind; I’m glad you brought this to my attention. I definitely want to speak with her.
And on ocean acidification yes, I wrote a little post on the falling ocean pH levels a few days ago. Thanks again.
You don’t seem to have found yet the decentralized version of CSV, which is called CPV – see: http://peswiki.com/index.php/Directory:Concentrated_Solar_Power.
It’s based on 3g cells and invented by a team at NREL lead by Dr Sarah Kurtz – sarah_kurtz@nrel.gov. I strongly suggest an interview with her.
CPV is about 35-40% efficient in converting sunlight to electricity compared to 12-15% with PV flat panels.
It’s used by NASA to power their vehicles on Mars.
We expect to install a 10kW CPV system in Feb 2010. Happy to give you feedback on performance……/Chris
PS That twitter ‘Follow’ tab overlaps the comments field and makes it hard to see what you’re typing at the start of the line. Easy to fix.
For Chapters 2 & 3, be sure to read the stories in FP Magazine’s Sept./Oct. 2009 issue titled “Oil: The Long Goodbye.”