Thursday, December 22, 2016

Lipstick on a Pig - Bloom Remains a Hog



Our friends at Bloom Energy the largest Eco - Fraud ever have beefed up their board of directors.  They added Mary K Bush

http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/mary-k-bush-international-finance-banking-and-government-policy-executive-joins-the-bloom-energy-board-of-directors-300382301.html


She actually is a very accomplished person in the field of corporate finance and governance.

https://www.sec.gov/spotlight/soxcomp/bios/biombush.pdf


However as Candidate Obama said in 2008 "you can put lipstick on a pig but it's still a pig"

http://nypost.com/2008/09/09/obama-put-lipstick-on-a-pig-its-still-a-pig/


Putting Mary K on Bloom's board will not change the fact that Bloomdoggle is a hog and has devoured approximately $1.2 billion of taxpayer and ratepayer subsidy.  Candidate Obama may have known about cosmetics, but President Obama had green lipstick applied by all his cronies and he will go down as having given us the Bloomdoggle which is Solyndra times four and Flint on steroids.



Friday, December 16, 2016

Almost Time for Bloom’s Goodbye



The single most gangrene company in the green space, Bloom Energy, suffered a major defeat on October 3, 2016.  The US EPA once and for all told Bloom and their very high price lawyer Michele Corash that each and every one of Bloom’s customers is a hazardous waste generator.  These customers include AT&T, Apple, Walmart, Home Depot, EBay, IKEA, Coca Cola, Exelon, Morgan Stanley and myriad other major corporations.  All of Bloom’s customers have greenwashed fake clean energy claims.  You can see all of Bloom’s clients in the link below from their website.



You can understand why Corash and Bloom put up a major defense to declare their hazmat benign until it reached the Hazmat treatment facility in Texas.  The last thing they wanted was for EPA to declare the canisters full of benzene, toluene, xylene, chloro-methane, bromo-methane, chloroform and a dozen other poisons as hazmat at the sites of their customers as all of these operatives of the complex had extracted over a billion dollars in taxpayer and ratepayer subsidies.  But the EPA ruled that the moment the hazmat canisters are disconnected from the fuel cell the canisters are hazmat.  Bloom’s Twinkie like defense was actually idiotic.  Read my Blog from March 2016 on this linked below.


Sadly for the folks in Delaware their cabinet secretary Mr. Small in charge of the state EPA (DNREC) joined Bloom and Corash to overturn long standing science on waste.  Corash met with DNREC in Janaury 2015 to hatch the scheme that DOE never bought.  But then they went to the General Counsel of the EPA in DC to get him to overrule EPA staff.  I have the Dear Avi letter that Bloom and Corash wrote to Avi Garbow (GC of EPA) on March 30, 2016 with their spurious argument that waste canisters remain part of the manufacturing processing unit (MPU) until they are opened in Texas even though the canisters filled with waste were created in Delaware.

I have little doubt that Al Gore, Colin Powell, and John Doerr or their lackeys also contacted Gina McCarthy the head of the EPA to overrule her staff.  Look Powell met with house speaker Ryan on behalf of Bloom to extend the investment tax credit why would these three powerful operatives of the military industrial complex not try to get a favorable ruling on the hazmat in the canisters.  Al Gore in particular is motivated to get the waste reclassified as he is a board member of Apple and Apple has over 50 Bloom boxes each creating 3 hazmat canisters every six months or so.  Apple’s VP of environmental affairs Lisa Jackson held McCarthy’s job before she left EPA to make big bucks at Apple.  Lisa Jackson has a MS in Chemical Engineering and certainly knows the dangers of Benzene, Toluene, Xylene and the other poisons in the canisters.

I have congratulated the staff of EPA for standing up to the crony capitalists and have told them the new head of the EPA should be very proud of them.  As for Avi Grabow he will head out soon and become a big time lawyer with a major law firm.  Gina McCarthy  will probably head back to the Bay State where she can lie about her legacy in the greenspace.  Mr. Small the DNREC secretary will probably be fired and he will just be remembered as a diminutive player in the Bloomdoggle.  A nobody !! 

Corash should retire, she is already in her seventies and is over the hill.  Actually she lives in a penthouse in a high-rise on a hill in San Francisco on a street ironically called Green Street.  The hill is called Russian Hill.  Yes Obama will blame Putin for the Bloomdoggle even though Middle Class Joe helped bring Bloom to Delaware just as he did bring Fisker to the First State.   Bloom and Fisker are sister companies in Kleiner Perkins’ portfolio of Gangrene companies that violated the second law of thermodynamics.


Merry Christmas and Happy Hanukah to all who are Green.  To those who are Gangrene the Thermanator is Back and very happy that Trump will make Thermodynamics Great Again in America.  It certainly has been ignored for the past 8 years. 

Tuesday, November 22, 2016

The Dirty Secret of Fuel Cells Fueled by Natural gas




In 2003 I wrote my book Hydrogen – Hope or Hype?  I predicted that Fuel Cells were a Betamax technology that would essentially flop.  This predictions is almost 100% true.  Excepting for the massive government funding, fuel cells remain expensive and a silly way to generate power.

What I did not calculate back in 2003 was how dirty fuel cells fueled with natural gas really are.  Yes I did state that their CO2 emissions were not great, but I never investigated the hazardous solid waste that fuel cells using natural gas create when they generate electricity.  First there are tons of hazmat from the spent catalysts in the fuel cell stacks as the stacks become poisoned, less efficient, and are therefore discarded.  But second, there is a massive amount of hazardous solid waste from the desulfurization of the natural gas prior to entering the fuel cell stack.

Yes natural gas has some sulfur and this has to be removed.  Natural gas also has other horrible chemicals such as Benzene, Toluene, Xylene, Chloromethane, Chloroform, etc.   In fact from data published for Delaware pipeline natural gas there is almost 0.1% by mass  of these horrible poisons in the natural gas.  In normal power generation plants that burn natural gas the poisons are destructed, but in fuel cells the poisons concentrate up with the sulfur in the desulfurization filtering media.   

Hundreds if not a thousand tons a year of Hazmat is sent for treatment from one site in Delaware (27 megawatt Bloom site at Red Lion) to a hazmat facility in Texas.  Believe it or not the fuel cells are located in the Protected Coastal Zone !!

If one adds all the fuel cell power generation sites around the country, several thousand tons a year of hazmat needs to be treated.  The generation of hazmat by FuelCell Energy and Bloom Energy is a dirty little secret that these two massively greenwashed companies have hidden for years while taking almost $2 billion in Taxpayer and Ratepayer subsidies.  In the small state of Delaware the subsidy to Bloom by Delmarva ratepayers now exceeds $135 million and grows by approximately $100,000 a day.



Colin Powell who is on Bloom’s board of directors had a secret meeting earlier this year with Speaker Ryan to extend the 30% Investment Tax Credit on Fuel Cells.  Of course my position is the Investment Tax Credit must end.  Electrons from these fuel cells that use natural gas are Gangrene not Green.

Bloom Energy and FuelCell Energy need to end their lies about being green and we need to move on with greener power generations that does not include either of these two greenwashed companies.  They should be remembered as having been the Bloomdoggle of early part of the 21st century.   

The politicians like Jared Huffman and Jack Markell that gave away billions of dolars to the fuel cell industry that use natural gas should be remembered as being Thermodynamic Cretins that lived in a big Swamp.    

The Green Machine should be remembered as having tried to make science great in America again.




The Dirty Secret of Fuel Cells Fueled by Natural gas




In 2003 I wrote my book Hydrogen – Hope or Hype?  I predicted that Fuel Cells were a Betamax technology that would essentially flop.  This predictions is almost 100% true.  Excepting for the massive government funding, fuel cells remain expensive and a silly way to generate power.

What I did not calculate back in 2003 was how dirty fuel cells fueled with natural gas really are.  Yes I did state that their CO2 emissions were not great, but I never investigated the hazardous solid waste that fuel cells using natural gas create when they generate electricity.  First there are tons of hazmat from the spent catalysts in the fuel cell stacks as the stacks become poisoned, less efficient, and are therefore discarded.  But second, there is a massive amount of hazardous solid waste from the desulfurization of the natural gas prior to entering the fuel cell stack.

Yes natural gas has some sulfur and this has to be removed.  Natural gas also has other horrible chemicals such as Benzene, Toluene, Xylene, Chloromethane, Chloroform, etc.   In fact from data published for Delaware pipeline natural gas there is almost 0.1% by mass  of these horrible poisons in the natural gas.  In normal power generation plants that burn natural gas the poisons are destructed, but in fuel cells the poisons concentrate up with the sulfur in the desulfurization filtering media.   

Hundreds if not a thousand tons a year of Hazmat is sent for treatment from one site in Delaware (27 megawatt Bloom site at Red Lion) to a hazmat facility in Texas.  Believe it or not the fuel cells are located in the Protected Coastal Zone !!

If one adds all the fuel cell power generation sites around the country, several thousand tons a year of hazmat needs to be treated.  The generation of hazmat by FuelCell Energy and Bloom Energy is a dirty little secret that these two massively greenwashed companies have hidden for years while taking almost $2 billion in Taxpayer and Ratepayer subsidies.  

Colin Powell who is on Bloom’s board of directors had a secret meeting earlier this year with Speaker Ryan to extend the 30% Investment Tax Credit on Fuel Cells.  Of course my position is the Investment Tax Credit must end.  Electrons from these fuel cells that use natural gas are Gangrene not Green.

Bloom Energy and FuelCell Energy need to end their lies about being green and we need to move on with greener power generations that does not include either of these two greenwashed companies.  They should be remembered as having been the Bloomdoggle of early part of the 21st century.   

The politicians like Jared Huffman and Jack Markell that gave away billions of dolars to the fuel cell industry that use natural gas should be remembered as being Thermodynamic Cretins that lived in a big Swamp.    

The Green Machine should be remembered as having tried to make science great in America again.




Monday, November 21, 2016

Secs Of State Swimming In Swamp


Sunday, November 6, 2016

My Reply To More of Bloom's Lies in Delaware



A rebuttal to Ms. Susan Brennan’s Piece in the News Journal regarding Bloom Energy

She is comparing apples to oranges to rocks.  If her math is half correct, and I will show later she is only half correct, the number of vehicles she estimates as taken off the road is 120,000 corresponds to 1.23 billion pounds CO2 emitted from these vehicles in only a single year.   Bloom claims incorrectly and falsely that they emit 1.23 billion less pounds of CO2 versus the grid in total over the entire 21 years during which they will be heavily subsidized by Delmarva ratepayers.  If the 1.23 billion pounds were correct, which I will show is not correct, this would be equal to taking only  5,714 vehicles off the road for each of the 21 years

Now let’s perform the correct calculation of the CO2 emissions savings. The EIA reports the Grid in Delaware emits 1,030 pounds CO2 per megawatt hour.  From data obtained from the Delaware PSC the Bloom boxes are averaging 890 pounds CO2 per megawatt hour.  The 30 megawatts station operating for 21 years with an 87% capacity factor will save 672,184,840 pounds of CO2, but only  if the grid does not get greener which is false and if the Bloom boxes do not lose efficiency over time, which is known to occur.  The 674,184,840 pounds is 54.6% of the 1.23 billion pounds of CO2 Ms. Brennan claimed.  This demonstrates that Ms. Brennan is telling only a half-truth on the amount of CO2 emissions saved.

Ms. Brennan has a demonstrated history of not delivering the goods she promised.  She as part of the Nissan team promised  Energy Secretary Chu and therefore the American people that Nissan would be selling hundreds of thousands of Leafs a year.  Nissan will sell approximately 15,000 Leafs this year. 

Bloom might claim the grid electrons have line losses, this is again an incorrect assertion, as the Bloom electrons in Delaware are also generated at a substation and not at customer sites and therefore suffer similar line losses.  By my analysis Bloom can claim they took 3,120 cars off the road at a cost to Delmarva ratepayers of $36 million a year.  This is equivalent to paying each motorist $11,538.46 a year not to drive.  Ms. Brennan is only 2.6% correct in the number of vehicles she estimated that will be taken off the road.




As the COO of Bloom, Ms. Brennan must have employment data for Bloom  at their other sites in California and India. Two years back, Mr. Markell said to the News Journal (Aaron Nathans) that essentially all manufacturing is in Delaware. The COO must answer how many manufacturing jobs are in India and in California, and then we can see if it is true that essentially all manufacturing by Bloom is performed in Delaware.
She also claims the boxes are capable of  "completely eliminating all air pollutants" .  I ask then why do they have 14.4 pounds per day of VOC's permitted for the 30 megawatts of boxes (0.02 pounds per megawatt hour)?  These emissions of VOC are similar to a paint shop spewing out VOCs.  I ask why would Delmarva ratepayers subsidize a paint shop in the protected coastal zone? 

Sorry to bore you with just a little more math.   Bloom was supposed to increase employment from 600 to 900 this year. This is a 50 percent increase. They only hit a 23 percent increase or half the rate of increase they contracted for. The data are pretty bleak as bloom hired only 53 out of 300 additional jobs they promised for 2016. They hired 17.66% of what they promised for 2016. This implies they are doing relatively worse in 2016 than they were doing before. In 2015 total employment was 37.3% of what they promised. In 2016 total employment is only 30.8% of the promised amount.  

She claims to deliver "clean, reliable and resilient power".  Perhaps she considers toxic waste and higher than advertised CO2 emissions clean?   Bloom is not as reliable as they claimed in the CZA permit application where Bloom promised 100% capacity factor.  Data provided to the PSC show only 87% capacity factor.    I have been an engineer for 43 years and have never heard the word resilient power???  Resilient to me means the ability to recover quickly from difficult conditions.  Maybe her piece was an attempt at resilience, I give her that.  But did she really recover?  I think she actually dug a deeper hole to bury herself together with her sealed desulfurization canisters filled with Benzene.  The mass of those sealed canisters with benzene could be as much as 1,000 tons per year.  Yes Bloom could be sending as much as two million pounds a year of hazardous waste from Delaware to the Texas Hazmat site.

In September 2015, I asked the Delaware Association of Professional Engineers (DAPE) to investigate the professional conduct of five professional engineers regarding the hidden hazardous waste.   Recently DAPE informed me that the investigation is now in the hands of the Delaware Department of Justice and that an Assistant Attorney General has been assigned to the case.  DAPE’s investigation also turned up that one of the “professional” engineers who works for DNREC was in fact not registered as a professional engineer in Delaware.  She played a role in the issuance of the CZA permit.  One has to remember that in May 2012, I contacted DNREC to inform them that the Bloom CZA permit has inconsistencies.  Had DNREC been open and honest with us all the Bloomdoggle could have been stopped just as it was being started. 

I have asked Attorney General Denn to fully investigate the fake CZA permit.  The ball is in his hands to quickly resolve this, or else we will be calling for a special prosecutor to be appointed, and a Federal investigation into the violation of the civil rights of citizens in Delaware to commence.

Lindsay Leveen The Green Machine
Sausalito, CA
Winner of the 2013 First Prize Serious Column National Newspaper Association for exposing greenwashing by Bloom Energy in Delaware



Friday, October 28, 2016

FBI Before and After Clinton

BEFORE





AFTER


Saturday, October 15, 2016

THERANOS IS THE BLOOM OF BLOOD


Friday, September 23, 2016

Enphase out of Phase




Another Kleiner Perkins company touted by Prof Dan Kammen of Bezerkely is headed south.  Their stock is plunging.

http://www.kpcb.com/companies/enphase-energy

The company had an IPO four years ago and the existing shareholders before the IPO (probably Kleiner) had to prop up the IPO.

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2012-03-30/enphase-ipo-raises-half-of-target-after-shares-price-at-bottom

Kleiner brought us the Bloomdoggle and Hillary's campaign gets funds from John Doerr of Kleiner.  I hope Trump reads my blogs so he can ask Hillary about Enphase being out of phase.   As for Kammen of UC Berkeley in 2006 he promised us 4.25 billion gallons of cellulosic ethanol for this year.  We will be lucky to get just over 3 million gallons.  I asked Kammen if 0.08% is a passing grade for the classes he teaches at Berkeley.  Kammen has remained silent and he probably is doing some phase shifting on his position at Enphase where he chairs a research board.

http://tsrc.berkeley.edu/DanKammen


I can't wait for Donald to make Hillary's head spin on Monday in the debate.  She will do a full 720 double back flip with a half twist not a 180 out of phase Kammen trick.

Enphase out of Phase




Another Kleiner Perkins company touted by Prof Dan Kammen of Bezerkely is headed south.  Their stock is plunging.

http://www.kpcb.com/companies/enphase-energy

The company had an IPO four years ago and the existing shareholders before the IPO (probably Kleiner) had to prop up the IPO.

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2012-03-30/enphase-ipo-raises-half-of-target-after-shares-price-at-bottom

Kleiner brought us the Bloomdoggle and Hillary's campaign gets funds from John Doerr of Kleiner.  I hope Trump reads my blogs so he can ask Hillary about Enphase being out of phase.   As for Kammen of UC Berkeley in 2006 he promised us 4.25 billion gallons of cellulosic ethanol for this year.  We will be lucky to get just over 3 million gallons.  I asked Kammen if 0.08% is a passing grade for the classes he teaches at Berkeley.  Kammen has remained silent and he probably is doing some phase shifting on his position at Enphase where he chairs a research board.

http://tsrc.berkeley.edu/DanKammen


I cant wait for Donald to make Hillary's head spin on Monday in the debate.  She will do a 720 not a 180 out of phase Kammen trick.

Sunday, September 11, 2016

Hillary and the Bloomdoggle


Wednesday, August 17, 2016

Working on a massive case of GREENWASHING

Image result for image jolly green giant

Folks


I have been very busy at work but I have not stopped investigating greenwashing scams.  My next blog will show that Apple, Bloom, Duke Energy and a county in North Carolina (Catawba County) are all in bed with a scheme to make Apple lots of money,and screw Duke ratepayers all the while Al Gore and his buddies claim to be greener than the Jolly Green Giant

Friday, June 17, 2016

THERANOS AND BLOOM SCAMS



Wednesday, June 15, 2016

Bloom Disaster – Enough is Enough



This Op Ed was written by Lacey Lafferty a GOP candidate for the 2016 election of Governor of Delaware
Bloom Energy promised Delaware to deliver affordable electricity and bring 900 new high tech jobs to our state.  Bloom Energy broke its promise.  Bloom fails every month to meet its obligations under the agreement with the state.   This is the worst deal ever in the state of Delaware and an environmental disaster.  As one Delaware Senator states, “We were sold a bad bill of goods.” 
Delaware rate payers and work place employers are punished month-by-month by excessive electric bills. Over 130 million dollars has wrongly been taken from Delawareans.  Much of it goes to the pockets of the richest 1% of the 1%.  They are the venture capitalist owners of Bloom Energy.  Delaware families and workers are the victims.  This has to end.  Our money, taken under false pretenses and by broken promises, must be returned to the people of Delaware. 
Bloom promised long–term efficiency, its “miles-per-gallon” was wrong and they knew it.
Bloom generates extremely hazardous chemical waste in our protected coastal zone.  They failed to honestly disclose it when negotiating with Delaware authorities and they knew it.
Bloom’s energy cost premium far exceeds costs stated when negotiating with Delaware authorities and they knew it.
Bloom’s promise of 900 jobs has never been kept; not for as much as one month.
Bloom negotiated in “my opinion” in bad faith.
Bloom misrepresented its product, its costs, its availability and reliability, its hazardous waste, and its benefits to the rate payers in Delaware.
Bloom Energy’s business in Delaware does not represent any new and exciting technology.  Its business is based on intentional deception, insider dealings and guaranteed revenues no different than the days of the “robber barons” of the timber, coal or railroad industries a hundred years ago.  It is always honest working families who make the few insiders rich.  It was wrong a hundred years ago and it’s still wrong today.
All of the above are more enough reason to find Bloom in breach of contract.  As your Governor I believe in all sources of reliable energy.  I will stand with Delaware families; stand up to the venture capitalists and their crony friends.  I promise to do everything I can by hiring the best attorneys to void Bloom’s 21 year contract at the cost of 700 million dollars, claw back the $130 million Bloom took from Delaware and return it to Delaware families.   Enough is enough of our government’s disastrous decisions and wasteful spending.

Warm regards and God Bless,
Lacey Lafferty

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Saturday, June 11, 2016

KIOR and the DOE



I now have the terms under which the DOE would have loaned KIOR money.  The DOE had read the Shaw Report and was aware that KIOR had little chance of succeeding in their Alchemy.  Therefore the DOE imposed strict requirements and would only loan KIOR a small fraction of the Billion Dollars KIOR wanted.

Of course these real terms were unacceptable to Khosla and KIOR and the company pretended they voluntarily dropped out of the loan application and they went on to raise money in their IPO that ended up being a disaster to investors.  KIOR also hyped the arrival of Con D Rice as a board member to support the IPO and the subsequent boondoggle that they were a “reality” to replace vast amounts of fossil fuels through use of their white mystery catalyst that converted pine trees to diesel.

The state of Mississippi still has their fraud suit against Khosla and the other folks who hyped the thermodynamic lie.  Shareholders have their lawsuits.  The SEC has their investigations.  And Obama has Khosla involved in building his Billion Dollar Presidential Library.

The lesson learned from the KIOR caper is that the Shaw Group did a good job pointing out that KIOR was likely to fail and the DOE prevented another Billion Dollars going down the drain to a contributor to the President and the Democrat Party.  Con D also learned a lesson that she looks like a fool and not quite Kosher for having insider traded shares in KIOR for a profit while she was a director on the company’s board and while she was an advisor to Khosla the man who has now been shown to be a thermodynamic idiot with his myriad failures at Cello, Range, KIOR, Gevo, LS 9, Calera, and others.


I learned that the staff at the DOE is willing to help a citizen get information under the Freedom of Information Act and that the DOE prevented another Solyndra from happening even though Vinod Khosla had the ear of President Obama.  The outcome of the lawsuits against Khosla et. al. is still unknown but Vinnie did learn that the second law of thermodynamics applies to him as well as that he cannot prevent surfers from reaching Martin’s Beach on the California coast.  Let’s hope President #45 helps science in America become great again and that thermodynamic imposters like Khosla never become energy gurus again.

Saturday, May 14, 2016

Statistics and Biased Interpretation Thereof




This week Secretary of Energy Moniz tweeted that US CO2 emissions are way down using the chart shown above.  I looked at the chart and came to the conclusion that it is true that CO2 emissions are reduced from a decade ago, but and a big but during the three years Ernie Moniz has been secretary of energy emissions have not gone down at all.  Therefore Dr. Moniz was simply pointing out his own incompetence by publicizing the chart.

When I pointed this out to friends who are so left they can never be right, they complained that I dislike Moniz.  When I pointed this out to right wing nuts who deny global warming, they agreed Moniz was ineffective and went further that he should be impeached for wasting tens of billions of dollars.  The interpretation of data is subject to the bias of the beholder.

I then tested the hypothesis on what right wing nuts would say about the success of solar energy.  These climate change deniers who make Stevie Wonder have twenty twenty vision present charts the show massive growth in the gigawatt hours of solar generation and then disqualify this as still only contributing 0.9% of all the electrons in the grid.  Left wing nuts looking at the same data came to the conclusion that in a decade all fossil fuel fired power generation station will be shut.  Of course I concluded that PV is highly successful and will play a very useful niche role that will grow to approximately 10% in power generation.

People are highly biased and the data are interpreted to reinforce the bias.  Honest interpretation of data requires impartiality and actually not looking at only the mean of the data but the variance within the data set.  I know a professor of decisions sciences at Stanford named Sam Savage who wrote a textbook titled The Flaw of Averages.  Sam says “plans based on average assumptions are wrong on average.”



Over 40 years ago I wrote a master thesis on business decisions using statistical distributions.  The results of my research were then used in gold mining and the decisions under great uncertainty to invest large amounts of capital in a gold mine.  That is why I look at all data presented to me critically and make more profound interpretations of what the data tell.  I must admit though when Ernie Moniz presents any data I just laugh as I know this guy is the living embodiment of Alfred E. Neuman and is a joke of an energy secretary.



Saturday, May 7, 2016

Saudi Oil Minster Al Naimi Fired



You all may wonder who Al Naimi is?  He was the Oil Minister of Saudi Arabia for a couple of decades.

He was fired today


I am quite happy this thug who fleeced the world of trillions of dollars for the past score years is gone.

There are three Als I do not care for, and Naimi was Al number three.  Of course Al number One is the hypocrite and former presidential candidate that was chadded up in 2000.  Al number 2 is Jazeera that saw it US business BLOOMERANG.  Now all we are waiting for is Al number One to go away.

The best chance of the getting Gore to shut up and disappear is the hidden hazardous waste from his Bloom Boxes at Apple in Maiden NC.  Latest news on that is that the EPA and the NC State DNER are telling Apple they are a LARGE generator of hazmat.  LARGE generators are ones that generate over 2,200 pounds a month of hazardous material.

This past week was not good for Apple and their stock is near its 52 week low.  As news filters out that Apple has hundreds of tons a year of hazardous filtered sulfur and benzene waste in Maiden, Apple will have to demand that Al Gore (their board member profited from BLOOMDOGGLE ENERGY  via his relationship with Kleiner Perkins) leave the company .


Two out of three Als are now gone and the third BIG AL will soon be going going gone.  The DONALD will be the GOP candidate and he has already got the Oil Minister of Saudi Arabia fired.  Both he and HILLARY have promised to JAIL powerful executives.  Big AL you are all fired up.


Saturday, April 30, 2016

Earth Day Gone and Probably Forgotten



My last blog had the beautiful Earth Day Rainbow.  Just like the rainbow Earth Day is over and life continues in the same old way.

The primaries are exciting and it looks like the Donald will take on Hillary.   Hillary has promised to jail executives who are very powerful and Donald will build a wall.  Seeing will be believing in either case.  My guess is neither will jail Al Gore for his crimes against nature and humanity in the BLOOMDOGGLE , and the operatives of the complex are very happy the Bernie is not going to be president.

What does this mean for Green Energy?  Actually not very much!  The US is essentially irrelevant in green space.  We failed in solar, we failed in cellulosic fuels, we failed in thermodynamics, and we certainly failed in honesty.

Latest on the BLOOMDOGGLE is that Apple and Bloom sell electrons to Duke Power in Maiden NC.  The Bloom Boxes do not really power the data center.  The data center is powered by dirty cheap power from Duke Energy and expensive pretend green energy from the Bloom Boxes is sold to Duke Energy who in turn rip off other ratepayers. 

Duke and Kleiner Perkins are tight.  Co-investors in a business called Spruce Financing and Duke also is propping up Aquion batteries which is one of the last standing Kleiner greentech companies.



OK we know that Duke, Apple, Bloom, and Kleiner are in bed together.  The real question here is who knows there is hazardous solid waste that is not permitted and ends up being transported across state lines to Texas for “treatment”.    Bloom knew years ago they had the hazardous waste.  I told Kleiner Perkins years ago they have the hazardous waste.  I told Apple over a year ago they have the hazardous waste, and I told Duke yesterday they have the hazardous waste.  It will be interesting if these four powerful corporations can evade Hillary’s promise to have them fail and to jail their executives.  I know thermodynamics and that tells me by statistical analysis there is as much chance of this happening as Kasich being the nominee for the GOP out of Cleveland.


What I do know is the 50 Bloom Coffins in Maiden NC are in the bottom right corner of the photo next to the substation and each time an electron is dispatched into Duke’s grid for sale at high price to a ratepayer in NC, more unpermitted hidden hazardous waste is generated and Al Gore and cronies make money while the poor are schlonged.   I love Trumpie and his campaign words.   But I actually think my invention of the words BLOOMDOGGLE and BLOOMERANG should be included in the Oxford Dictionary before some of crude Yiddish words become part of everyday language.  BLOOMDOGGLE and BLOOMERANG are such elegant and refined words even though perpetrators of the eco-crimes associated with the words are so vile.

Saturday, April 23, 2016

Earth Day Rainbow



Late yesterday afternoon it rained here in the San Francisco Bay Area.  This is a fairly uncommon event for this time of the year.  We had a pretty wet winter and reservoirs from the Golden Gate up north are full thanks to the El Nino. 

Yesterday was Earth Day and the planet added another 100 million metric tons of CO2 to the atmosphere.  Mother Nature wanted to remind the Green Machine that there is still some hope to slow down this madness.  That is why I believe when I looked out the window over the lagoon I saw the photo of the rainbow that is above.

Israel Kamakawiwo’ole  (Bruddah Iz) added this verse from A Wonderful World to his Somewhere Over The Rainbow:
Well I see trees of green and red roses too,
I'll watch them bloom for me and you
And I think to myself
What a wonderful world

The photo shows the green tree on the left that my daughter climbed as a kid.  She is long grown up now.  The lagoon is the place she learned to swim.  I remember fondly the times she was a child in our care.  The photo was taken from the dining table where we were celebrating Passover Seder.  Yes Earth Day and Passover coincided yesterday.

Passover is the celebration of Freedom.  Bruddah Iz also dreamed of sovereignty for Native Hawaiians.  Maybe the Rainbow was a message from Bruddah Iz or maybe it was just a fluke that rain and sunshine happened to occur in the right spot at the right moment?  Either way I know that Louis Armstrong who is noted for A Wonderful World was an African American who became part of a Jewish family.




So maybe it was Satchmo who sent us that rainbow to tell us Happy Passover?   For sure the message of the rainbow is that we have a wonderful world and it is high time to deploy real science and real engineering solutions to reduce and end emissions and pollution.  We need a Budding Red Rose Solution not a Wilted Bloom Box Greenwash.  Mostly we need much more brotherhood and a lot less anti-Semitism, racism, stupidity, greed, lies, greenwashing, corruption, and hatred.

Peace and Chag Sameach

Sunday, April 17, 2016

Peet’s Versus Starbucks On The Tiburon Peninsula



Foe almost 20 years on a daily basis I have bought a Venti Soy No Foam Latte from the Starbucks at Strawberry Village.  My wife drinks this as her source of protein as well as caffeine for the day.  The drink was great for 19 years and 8 months and has become terrible for only the past 4 months.  I asked the folks at Starbucks if they had changed their supplier of Soy Milk?  No they have not.  Did they change their coffee?  No they have not. 

I do know that some rookie Baristas have a hard time with Soy as it has a propensity to foam and gets burned if the temperature is too hot.  I had the barista check the temperature of the steamed soy milk to see if that had changed?  No it had not.  I simply was bewildered until I realized the espresso machines at the Strawberry Starbucks’ store are very old and are approaching ten years since the store was remodeled. 

I then found out the machines are hundreds of thousands of shots overdue for replacement.  My source is a Starbucks worker. I then found out the machines significantly dilute the soy milk during the steaming process due to water condensing.  To test if the espresso machines at Strawberry Village are the fault, I started buying the daily Venti No Foam Soy Latte at the Starbucks store on East Blithedale.  The drink returned to its former glory of being tasty and not watered down.  I therefore had found the reason why for 4 months I had bought over 120 horrible tasting drinks and spent well over $500 for the trick of Starbucks selling me water milk not 100% soy milk.

As I am a Starbucks gold card holder since 2008, I called the customer service number.  I spoke with a supervisor about a week ago.  I was promised that within 3 days the region manager would call me.  Of course I have not received a call and of course Starbucks hopes I just go away.  As part of my experiment in the pursuit of good tasting coffee, I started taste testing the 20 ounce soy no foam latte at Peet’s in the Cove.  It is a wonderful drink.  I also found out that Peet’s gives customers three shots of expresso in this size drink not the two shots in the Starbucks’ Venti.  Pete’s also uses straight up soy milk not vanilla impregnated soy milk.


I have to say Peet’s beats Starbucks by a mile for this particular drink in this size.   The only Starbucks store that I now occasionally buy the Venti no foam soy latte at is the one on Blythedale.  Also by saving the two extra miles each way I have a lower carbon footprint by frequenting Peet’s.  I have probably bought 7,000 Venti no foam soy lattes at Starbucks,and If I last another 20 years I may match this number at Peet’s.  The way I feel about Starbucks is they shorted me by 7,000 shots and sold me watered down soy.  I am pretty miffed about Starbucks and may soon have to go after them with the same vigor that I have gone after Bloom Energy.  Let's see if the region manager calls me.

Tuesday, April 12, 2016

Kaiser Bloom and Greenwashing


An Email to the VP for Sustainability for Kaiser

Ms. Gerwig

I know that Kaiser has tried to be green.  Sadly you have been hoodwinked by Bloom Energy and the 4.3 megawatts of power generation at 7 Kaiser sites are anything but green, they are GANGRENE.

NBC copied did report on Greenwashing by Bloom Energy and Ms. Gerwig on behalf of Kaiser chose to defend Bloom in the first of four reports by NBC.


I now have conclusive evidence that Bloom Boxes generate hazardous solid waste that is hauled to an EPA licensed hazmat site in Texas.  Kaiser is therefore a generators of many tons of undocumented hazardous waste from their Bloom Boxes.

I have copied the CPUC as Kaiser benefitted from many dollars of SGIP funds from the Bloom Boxes.  Also copied is my Congressman as there was a lot of federal incentive for these Dirty Boxes.

Attached is a letter from the head of the US EPA Philadelphia office to the Delaware Cabinet Secretary for the environment stating EPA position that the waste is hazardous and should be handled accordingly.

Below is my Blog on the waste and Bloom's Twinkie Defense.  


Also attached is a recent article I wrote.

Ms. Gerwig please contact me as I am now writing a piece on how Kaiser is a part of the Bloomdoggle.

Thanks 

Lindsay Leveen The Green Machine

Saturday, April 9, 2016

Green Is Good



Often I spend my time exposing Gangrene folks who Greenwash.  That is the job of the Thermonator but on Greenexplored dot com I will now mainly focus on Green that is Good.  The LED blog is an example of how green tech that is really green can make a real difference. 

So what else is really green and making a difference.  My friend Ronni in Australia who started and runs Oz Harvest is really doing a bang up job making sure food does not end up in a garbage dump.


Ronni and her organization have made sure that 45 million meals end up in people’s mouths and not in some garbage dump.  Six years back when Ronni started Oz Harvest she was one of the few in the world to do this on an industrial scale.  She and I went to high school together many years ago and we linked again on Facebook.  Every year or so I help the team at Oz Harvest calculate their negative carbon footprint.

Yes they prevent methane forming from food decomposing in garbage dumps.  As methane is more of a greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide that we breathe out after digesting food, using food for meals instead of waste means a negative carbon footprint in the enterprise of donating food that otherwise would have been wasted.  The negative carbon footprint holds even after netting out emissions for food refrigeration, reheating, and delivery.


Oz Harvest is a world leader in their field and many other organizations in many other countries are now following Oz Harvest’s lead.

Here is an article on the BBC from a couple days ago that reveals interesting global statistics on food waste.


Who said Australians simply were beach bums?  When it comes to preventing food waste the Ozzies are world class.  Ronni even got to meet royalty when Camila and Charles popped in for tea and scones.



I do hope to visit Australia one day soon and also pay a visit to Oz Harvest and see my old high school chum Ronni.