HYDROGEN HOPE OR HYPE?

 

I wrote this email this morning to Jigar Shah who heads DOE $40 billion loan program and Michael Regan who heads the US EPA.

Jigar and Mr. Regan

I call Jigar by his first name as I know him, I hope to call Mr. Regan, Michael soon.

You do know I wrote Hydrogen Hope or Hype? back in 2003.   Thermodynamics has not changed in 18 years.

I also helped the WRI under Jonathan Lash think through Hydrogen when Bush 43 and Sam the Sham Bodman were hyping it.  I represented Shinko Pantec of Kobe Japan as far back as 1995 for their PEM electrolyzers at the US National Hydrogen Association.  Their former Managing Director, now retired Dr Hogetsu translated my book into Japanese.

I do believe there is some hope for hydrogen and am probably still one of the ten folks on the planet who know a bunch about hydrogen.  Bloom Energy is not part of that HOPE.  As Jigar once emailed me "they know how to get free money".  We do not need any BLOOMDOGGLES.

Mr. Lavin of New York and I funded research at Iowa State University on producing bio-ethane and bio-hydrogen from waste bio-oil in biomass pyrolysis.  We showed 84% efficiency in conversion of electrical energy into chemical energy using simple electrodes without noble or expensive metals.  Research and development on this should be now funded by DOE for scale up.  Note Khosla's KIOR went bankrupt because of the organic acids and aldehydes in bio-oil.  We make good use of these oil killer chemicals.

The news out of Israel is also promising in electrolysis.

https://newatlas.com/energy/h2pro-cheap-hydrogen-electrolysis/

For Blue Hydrogen produced with carbon capture, I am leading some of the most promising technology developments out there.

I suggest that the DOE/EPA convene a public WEBEX or Zoom that I am willing to participate in to showcase the real status and the real promise of zero or very low carbon footprint hydrogen.  You should also note that I led and paid a bunch of money for a spectacular failure in the pyrolysis of methane to make solid carbon and hydrogen.

We built a pilot plant based on published research from Lawrence Livermore Labs.  We proved after a lot of time and effort that the authors from LLNL were simply faking their results of yields and product quality.  Yes even prestigious national labs are aboard the hydrogen gravy train.  We don't need these Solyndras of Science to be repeated.

I look forward to assisting our nation and my country to follow the laws of thermodynamics and make meaningful reductions in carbon emissions..  I expect replies from both DOE and EPA that my voice and the voices of other Thermodynamicists will be heard and that GREEN NEW DEAL will NOT BE A REHASH OF THE GANGRENE OLD DEAL

Lindsay Leveen

GREEN LIES MATTER

A GONZI SCHEME

 

EPA FINES BLOOM FOR HAZMAT

 Bloom Energy the largest ecofraud of the 21st century has been fined by the EPA for Hazmat.   The EPA does not trust Bloom to police itself and there will be an Independent Auditor over the Hazmat.

BLOOMRISMA THE MOVIE

COMING SOON

Worries About Green New Deal

I worry that The Green New Deal will be a rehash of The Gangrene Old Deal

Let's look at Bloom Energy in Delaware.  Bloom set up a LLC called Diamond State Generation Partners to operate 30 megawatts of Bloom Boxes in Delaware.  Bloom charges Diamond State Generation Partners approximately $15 million a year to maintain and operate the boxes not including the natural gas.  The boxes generate approximately 220,000 mwh per year.  This means the O&M costs are approximately 7 cents per kilowatt hour.  The gas costs are another 3 cents per kwh.  The cash costs of operation are therefore around 10 cents per kwh.  This is without paying for depreciation, interest, or capital recovery by the equity partners.  

Bloom lied that could generate power for around 9 to 10 cents a kilowatt hour including all capital costs such as depreciation, interest, and profits to the owner of the Bloom Boxes.  Bloom simply lied to get Credit Suisse to be their 99% tax equity partner in the Delaware deal.  They lied to other customers about their cost of power generation.  They lied to investors who bought their stock.  They lied to to the so-called Green Press like Greentechmedia.

Deep State Doerr who owns Schumer The Bloomer, The Democrats and Obama is the poster child of the Old Gangrene Deal.  He and his friend Vinod Khosla took a bunch of money from the DOE for the DOA gangrene schemes like, Cello, Range, Kior, Amyris, Gevo, Bloom, Fisker and others.  Sadly AOC never studied Thermodynamics and her GREEN NEW DEAL is a rehash of Obama's GANGRENE OLD DEAL.  

Colin Powell Loses A Million Dollars

Since we did our presentation at the Heritage Foundation on September 21, 2018, Bloom Energy has lost 60% of their market cap and this is a loss of $2 billion. Colin Powell who somehow had $5 million of spare cash, bought $5 million of Bloom shares in the IPO at $15. The shares closed at $12 today. Powell's loss on paper is a million dollars. When equal justice and the rule is restored in the USA, I hope we get the same judge as in General Flynn case to preside over the trial of the Bloomdogglers. Why did Obama protect the Bloomdogglers?? Maybe so that he could have Doerr help build his library in Chicago? Why did Schumer, Coons and Carper reinstate the 30% investment tax credit for the Bloomdoggle? Maybe because the Doerrs contributed $1.75 million to Senate Democrats. Soon we hope that GREEN LIES MATTER to all Americans and we have the rule of law and equal justice.

Delaware Resets Date To Discuss The Bloomdoggle

Delaware DNREC blinked and the date to discuss the Bloom Energy Bloomdoggle is now January 10, 2019.

I discovered documents that back in November 2018 Bloom tried to gain the permit to replace the $269 million of coffins without even having a hearing.

Bloom claimed the project was A Natural Minor Project


The Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control, Division of Air Quality, will conduct a public hearing on the Regulation No. 1102 Natural Minor construction permit applications submitted by Bloom Energy (Diamond State Generating Partners) to replace all fuel cells at their Red Lion site located at 1593 River Road, New Castle and their Brookside site located at 512 E. Chestnut Hill Road, Newark.