I blogged how it took one month for President Obama to
corrupt Secretary of Energy Dr. Moniz.
Now Engineers are corrupted. Yes
the Engineers News Record (ENR) a once venerable publication published utter
nonsense on the Bloom Boxes being installed in Delaware. ENR is
owned by McGraw Hill and here is a link to the poorly written and pathetically
researched piece on Bloom in the First Sate.
We know that the CEO of Bloom has fibbed about the efficiency
of the piece of government sponsored junk, but his hype went outrageously far
in claiming per the ENR piece “At a 2010 press event unveiling the Bloom Energy
Server, co-founder K.R. Srindar said, "It took eight years and over
400,000,000 cumulative hours of making, breaking, improving and testing this
fuel cell to get it to the point where we needed to get it."
A person works approximate 2,000 hours a year or 16,000
hours in 8 years. This mean Bloom had 25,000
people working on the box full time for 8 years. Hog Wash!
The article then claims “Already delivering power to the
local electrical grid owned by PJM as part of a deal with utility Delmarva
Power & Light Co., the estimated $40-million Red Lion Energy Center
eventually will produce 27.5 MW.”
We know from the California CPUC that the installed cost per
watt of a Bloom Box is $9.53. 27.5 MW is
27.5 million watts and the project should have cost $262 million not $40
million. Perhaps Bloom got $222 million
of subsidies and this would be a record for the team of Al Gore, John Doerr,
and Colin Powell.
ENR has 400 million hours worked and $40 million spent. For Bloom who are famous at underpaying
Mexican welders working in Santa Clara California they could have only paid 10
cents an hour to the workers if the ENR got the data correct. But we know that ENR did poor research and
wrote a terrible article. I know Mr.
Huffman got taken by Bloom and its customer AT&T but getting ENR to be
taken for a ride by Bloom is amazing.
The following is my email to the editors of ENR in which I
sent yesterday. Let’s see if and how
they respond:
Dear All at ENR
I read with
great interest the following article in ENR
Issue:
07/08/2013
Fuel Cells Finding Their Niche
07/03/2013
Sadly the
article misses the point about the expense and emissions these Bloom Fuel Cells
cause.
Data from the
California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) show the installation cost of the
fuel cell to be $9.53 per watt. The article stated that the 27.5 megawatt
station will cost $40 million. The real CAPEX before government hand out
is $262 million. Surely ENR could have checked this simple fact!
The Bloom deal
with Delmarva is for residents of Delaware to pay over 22 cents per kwh for
their power under the PPA. This is twice the price of existing power and
more than 3 times as expensive than power from a combined cycle power station
using the very same natural gas.
Now the zinger.
Per the Delaware permit application of November 2011 for the Red Lion
project CO2 emissions are 884 pounds CO2 per mwh. A combined cycle gas
station will emit only 730 pounds of CO2 per mwh.
The people in
Delaware are getting screwed on price and breathing in more CO2 thanks to
Bloom's political connections (Al Gore, John Doerr and Colin Powell). I
suggest you read my article in the link below that gives the real engineering
data behind this crony capitalist project.
Sadly ENR had
its eyes closed in writing this article and it saddens me how little real
engineering analysis is done in researching Bloom who are the greatest green
washer of all time.
Lindsay Leveen
BSChE, MSChE, MBA
Recipient of
the NorCal AIChE Professional Development Award for a lifetime of achievement
in Chemical Engineering
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