Bloom Energy Massaged US DOT With Rubbing Alcohol

My investigation into the Bloom Energy Bloomdoggle continues.  Under the freedom of information act we have records that US DOT was asked to investigate Bloom for transporting hazardous waste in multiple locations around the United States.  Of  course this is the hazardous solid waste with benzene that Bloom creates in those desulfurization canisters.

Instead the Oh Bummer US DOT paid a visit to Bloom’s HQ in Sunnyvale California on August 4, 2015. Bloom showed them a bunch a documents that relate to isopropyl alchohol which is rubbing alcohol.  The US DOT inspector was very happy and allowed the Bloom COO Ms. Susan Brennan to sign off on a “release” and the inspector then  noted the result of his inspection as “NO FURTHER ACTION”.

Yes Bloom and its COO gave the US DOT  a rub down.  But the Thermanator has told the US DOT under President Trump to go back and do a full baked inspection of Bloom’s scores of sites at clients such as AT&T, Apple, Walmart, EBay, Genentech,  IKEA, etc. and get all the manifests for the hundreds of thousands of pounds of hazardous waste in those shiny sealed metal canisters.  I have to question if the half-baked inspection of Bloom corporate HQ on August 4, 2015 was directed from the Oh Bummer Whitehouse?

I did find some interesting stuff on the US DOE EIA’s web site on the performance of the Bloomdoggle fuel cells at Apple’s data center in Maiden NC.  For the year 2015 these 50 dirty expensive coffins only had a capacity factor of  70.8% not the 95% Bloom hypes to commercial customers or the 100% Bloom lied about in Delaware.  The heat rate of the ugly boxes for the year 2015 was 7.97 million BTUs per megawatt hour or 20.7% higher (more fuel) than Bloom hyped on their web site when these were installed at Apple.

I have written an email to Tim Cook the CEO of Apple and the US SEC office in San Francisco that small shareholders in Apple were being screwed by Bloom and that because Al Gore has a hand in Bloom through Kleiner Perkins and Al is also an Apple board member, there is a massive conflict of interest  in the Bloomdoggle at Maiden North Carolina.  It is also reported that Apple will install multiple Bloom coffins at the new flying saucer spaceship HQ in Cupertino, California.

Cupertino and Sunnyvale are neighboring towns.   Perhaps the US DOT will visit the Apple HQ to ask about the hazmat from the Bloom coffins and Apple will show them the carnauba wax that is used to polish apples.  Apples are coated with carnauba wax to keep them shiny.

http://www.express.co.uk/life-style/life/672893/apples-are-covered-in-wax-is-it-safe-to-consume-long-term-health-effects-explained

As for Bloom, I feel I am playing whack a mole with them.  I actually like the game as moles also have a chemical meaning.  A mole of substance has Avogadro’s number of molecules.  That is a boat load of molecules.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avogadro_constant

Perhaps an Apple computer can calculate the number of molecules of hazardous waste Bloom and their customers generate in a year across these United States?.  I just know that the Isopropyl Alcohol story told to US DOT at Bloom’s Sunnyvale HQ was Bloom hiding the mountain of nationwide hazardous waste in a mole heap of rubbing alcohol.

Are Bloomdogglers Snake Charmers or Simply the Biggest Eco Fraud Ever ?

  

I once opined that KR Shridhar the CEO of Bloom Energy “reminds me of a snake charmer.  He makes a gangrene sulfur filled poisonous cobra pretend to be a smooth green snake that is harmless.”

 http://www.greenexplored.com/2015/03/a-tale-of-two-transportation-authorities.html

Of course I was referring to his company hiding the hazardous solid waste while pretending to sell affordable, better, greener, and cleaner electrons. 

In the blog I then linked the following you tube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kyj1DTUeugA&feature=youtu.be

We all know that Bloom sells dirty electrons with massive ratepayer and taxpayer subsidy.  My estimate of this subsidy is approximately $1.2 billion.  My estimate of the dirtiness is a million pounds a year of hazmat.  The California EPA and the US EPA are investigating the waste.  Operatives of the military industrial complex, like Mike Bloomberg, Di Fi, and others  appear in the video with Shridhar in selling the fake green energy story.  They are all Blooming Bloomdogglers.

The question is, do I still think KR Shridhar is like a snake charmer?    I did some investigation into snake charmers.  Wiki has an interesting link on snake charmers.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snake_charming

I really was taken by this paragraph that I quote from the Wiki link.

 “The early 20th century proved something of a golden age for snake charmers.  Governments promoted the practice to draw tourism, and snake charmers were often sent overseas to perform at cultural festivals and for private patrons.  In addition, the charmers provided a valuable source of snake venom for creating antivenins.”

The early 21^st century has proved to be something of a golden age for thermodynamic fakers and greenwashers in the green energy space.  Bloom is one of a dozen companies that Kleiner Perkins (Gore, Doerr, Shridhar and Powell) , Khosla Ventures, and other promotors festered upon us.  Governments, particularly the US and several states like Delaware, California, Connecticut, and New York promoted the practice of greenwashing to enrich cronies and drew billions of taxpayer, ratepayer, and small investor dollars in BS schemes to save the world from carbon emissions.  Sadly in the early 21^st century, the BS the greenwashers hyped provided nothing valuable, but just toxic waste that stinks and no antivenins. 

I do not think KR Shridhar qualifies or is honorable enough to be a snake charmer.  The right comparison is that KR Shridhar invented, hyped, and is running the largest gangrene ecofraud ever.  He has the title of Chief Bloomdoggler in a gangrene company that is Solyndra times four and Flint on steroids.  The sulfur waste metaphor in my blog that referred to snake charming is far too soft and kind.  I should have simply called KR Shridhar the Joe Isuzu of green energy. 

I once did blog about Bloomerangs and how the sulfur waste came back to bite Bloom in the ass.  Boy has it ever bitten Bloom and their customers like Apple, AT&T, IKEA, Coca Cola, EBay, Home Depot, Genentech, Walmart, and others in the ass.

http://www.greenexplored.com/2015/08/bloomerang-new-word_31.html

Joe Isuzu  hyped the 1988 Impulse with Lotus handling.  Sridhar hyped his 2010 fuel cell with better electrons.  Better electrons than coal maybe.  Maybe not.   Some things never change from century to century, especially the laws of thermodynamics.  Yes Thermodynamics Trumps Everything.  Donald Trump would never have funded the Bloomdoggle as unlike Oh Bummer he does not need Doerr and Khosla to build his billion dollar library.  President Trump is an expert at building things.

CAL EPA and US EPA Agree Al Gore’s Poop Stinks

First from CAL EPA Department of Toxic Substances Control that Bloom Energy, Al Gore’s wonder-child Bloom Energy has hazmat.

Next US EPA hammers Bloom.

It is pretty much over and the Bloomdoggle will end once the world like the CA EPA and US EPA realize that Al Gore’s poop does stink.  NBC the network that operates in a cess pool still thinks Bloom is a Rose.

The Thermanator – Hasta Leveenta Baby

Post Script   Al Gore does look a younger George Soros

 

To Doom With Bloom

Folks you know I am Lindsay Leveen The Green Machine AKA The Thermanator.  Yes I am back and stronger and say out loud Hasta Leveenta Baby. 

Bloom Energy the largest ecofraud ever is reeling.  They and every one of their customers got busted by the US EPA as generators of hazardous waste with Benzene.

I have the US FTC, US SEC, US EPA, US DOJ and several state EPAs and DOJs investigating Bloom for GREENWASHING.

I wrote about their idiotic Twinkie like defense that the hazmat with benzene was part of the manufacturing process unit.  Now I have found a document under the FOIA from Delaware DNREC files where DNREC claimed the following:

"Upon review , the Division of Air Quality agreed that the contents of the fuel cells are not hazardous; in the event of a mishap regarding these cells - a natural disaster, an explosion, or human error - the contents of these units will not pose a hazard."

Well Al Gore, John Doerr, Colin Powell, KR Shridhar, Vinod Khosla, and other BLOOMDOGGLERS a disaster has happened and the content of these cells do pose a hazard.  Your lies have been exposed and The Thermanator is now asking for criminal indictments by the US DOJ.  The BLOOMDOGGLE ECOFRAUD has extracted approximately $1.2 billion of taxpayer and ratepayer money.   

As for an explosion, the only explosion here is the reverse big bang in Al Gore’s alt universe where entropy decreases with time and free energy is maximized.  The Thermanator and all freshmen Chemical Engineers know in the real universe entropy increases and free energy is minimized. 

Thermodynamics Trumps Everything.  Bloom is the No Trumps of green energy.   It is 100% Gangrene.  It is Solyndra times Four and Flint On Steroids. 

Delaware which had the slogan years ago “To Hell With Shell” now is experiencing “To Doom With Bloom”.  Mr. Cooney, Mr. Carper, Mr. Coons, Mr. Markell, and Mr. Denn are Bloomdogglers.  Mr.O'Mara is a Crook.  A HUGE one.

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.

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.

http://www.bloomenergy.com/customer-fuel-cell/

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.

http://www.greenexplored.com/2016/03/bloom-energys-twinkie-bagel-defense.html

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. 

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 21^st 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.