No doubt Bloom Energy knows the way to San Jose. They do not need Dionne Warwick to show them
the way. They were pleased to announce
on their website on October 29, 2012 that they placed two boxes at the San Jose
Pavilion where the Sharks play NHL hockey.
Bloom provided the Sharks spokesman the data in the press release that they will
save 4.8 million pounds of CO2 emissions over a ten year period with the two
boxes at the Pavilion. I contacted the Sharks Spokesman (Jim
Sparaco) by email and told him that if the PG&E data on the grid emissions
only being 393 pounds of CO2 per megawatt hour are correct and the data in the
Bloom permit filing in Delaware are correct and if the boxes have an uptime of
95% then the Pavilion will in fact be adding 16.3 million more pounds of CO2
over the ten year period than the case where they continued to simply buy electricity
off of the grid from PG&E.
The Sharks Spokesman replied to my email that he had
contacted Bloom to ask about the discrepancy between the data Bloom provided
him for his press release and the PG&E and Bloom Delaware data. I am happy that the spokesman takes his job
seriously and does not want to be the cause of greenwashing.
Today I sent an email to the spokesman as well as the Mayor
of San Jose, Chuck Reed, and helped inform the Mayor of the possible
greenwashing at the state-of-the-art arena.
You see the mayor was quoted in
the press release as follows: “Congratulations
to HP Pavilion for being the first arena in the nation to implement Bloom
Energy’s cutting-edge fuel cell technology.”
Yeah Mr. Mayor this cutting-edge technology may well be an illusion.
The City of San Jose owns the arena and they are therefore directly
responsible for the emissions of CO2 and VOCs as well as the toxic and
hazardous solid wastes that accumulate in the Bloom Boxes. I am sure that the Mayor just like the
spokesman was given misleading information by Bloom.
We now have evidence that Bloom gave the operators of the
San Jose Pavilion the data on their emissions.
Bloom can either respond to the spokesman and the mayor that PG&E is
fibbing about the grid emissions and / or that Bloom provided Delaware with
incorrect information in a permit application submitted under penalty of
perjury. Or they can tell the city of
San Jose that the boxes will not save 4.8 million pounds of CO2 emissions over
the 10 years.
No matter what Bloom tells the Spokesman or the Mayor their
data somewhere are not correct. Won’t it
be nice if they misled Delaware rather than San Jose? That is a crime under penalty of
perjury. If they misled San Jose rather
than Delaware that is a crime against me and my neighbors as we all pay money
into the SGIP to lower carbon emissions.
We all breathe the crisp air in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Interestingly the population of Delaware (917,012) is
similar to the population of the city of San Jose (982,765). It looks like Bloom likes boondoggling in places
with approximately one million people. My
congressman pretends to represent the 707,530 people living in the 2nd
Congressional district of California.
While Mr. Huffman is a champion boondoggler, Bloom has him beat by an
extra 275,235 people in San Jose and 209,482 extra people in the First State.
Now the zinger!!! The
Secretary of the Delaware Department of Natural Resources and
Environmental Control (DNREC) is Collin O’Mara. Quoting from the DNREC web site “Prior to
joining Governor Markell, Secretary O’Mara served as the Clean Tech Strategist
for the City of San Jose, and was the primary architect of the city of San
Jose’s Green Vision, built upon the belief that environmental sustainability
and smart economic development are inextricably linked and entirely compatible. “
Wow there is a link between the San Jose Boondoggle and The
Delaware Boondoggle. It is Mr. O’Mara!!! Honestly the whole thing reads like a novel
called “Carbon Dioxide Into The Wind”. Our hero is Green not Rhett and the leading high
maintenance person is O’Mara not O’Hara.
But the key line from this book is “frankly my dear Scollin, I do give a damn!”
According to PG&E, the GHG Emission factor for 2011 was 393, but for 2012, the factor is estimated to be 453... PG&E also states that the average factor from 2003 to 2010 was 553... The California PUC estimates that the factor will drop from 453 to 290 in 2020 if PG&E provides electricity in accordance with AB 32, California's "Cap-and-Trade" law...
ReplyDeletehttp://www.pge.com/includes/docs/pdfs/shared/environment/calculator/pge_ghg_emission_factor_info_sheet.pdf
http://www.arb.ca.gov/cc/ab32/ab32.htm
This is not a defense of Bloom... I'm sure it is playing fast-and-loose with the truth and the science...
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