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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I went to a seminar on CNG fuels today.
Lots of rebate programs. Lots of grants, lots of Tax incentives. Lots of
activities. If you own a fleet.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>In the seventies, I had a friend who converted his
van to gas or Propane at the flip of a switch. What happened was oil got
cheap and we all got used to it. Now it costs $16,000 to convert an
F-150. </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I used to live across the street from a nuclear
engineer in Houston. The plants are great, but what about the spent
fuel? Find somebody willing to stash it safely for hundreds of
years.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>My daughter lives outside of Lubbock. There
are a lot of wind farms up there, and I think they look terrific. I often
wonder why we don't have them lined up along the I-10 corridor.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>So, there are many solutions, and they all fit
together as a team. Not one of them will work by itself. (Paris Hilton is
right.) But as the world oil supply has started to peak, I'm afraid we
only have about 30 years left to find a solution. If we keep buying gas
and "hoping it will come down" it won't do anybody any good.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><A
href="http://www.transtexastrucks.com">http://www.transtexastrucks.com</A><BR>I
decided to challenge the Automakers.<BR>I will make a Plug in Series Hybrid
Crew-Cab Pickup before Detroit does.<BR>But if I lose this race, we all become
winners.</FONT></DIV>
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<A title=sleeper02_14_06@yahoo.com
href="mailto:sleeper02_14_06@yahoo.com">Joby Wieser</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=ausev@austinev.org
href="mailto:ausev@austinev.org">ausev@austinev.org</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Tuesday, August 12, 2008 7:10
PM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: [ausev] AusEV Digest, Vol
31, Issue 8</DIV>
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face="Times New Roman" size=3>John,</FONT>
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face="Times New Roman" size=3>It’s easy to say “We should develop
alternative energy”, but how do you propose that would happen?<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The PV industry has been working
hard for that cost /KW manufacturing breakthrough that would make solar
cost effective for 40 years with very slow improvement.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The Wind farms only work in
certain areas and they are far far away from population centers which is
why T Boone wants the Feds to get into the transmission line business
and even if he gets it built there still has to be a conventional power
plant idling on line to back up the wing generation because sometimes
the wind just stops blowing like it did for an hour this last march
which triggered a capacity emergency that came very close to tripping
off large interruptible customers.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>As Wind generation becomes a larger percentage of the total
generation mix this problem will increase without higher levels of
spinning reserve.</FONT>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT size=3><FONT
face="Times New Roman">The bottom line is that the only economic
alternative to fossil fuels, Is Fission fuel. Nuclear generation
combined with an effective battery technology allowing more people to
use electric cars that would be charged at night when demand is
otherwise low is our best hope.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
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face="Times New Roman" size=3>Joby</FONT>
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