Study Group: Solar Cell Manufacturing Experts (?)

The intermittent nature of many renewable forms of energy are already giving some problems to utility grids.  New energy storage systems will need to be developed to go with the surge in the use or renewables such as wind.  Sodium-sulfur batteries and flywheels are commercially available and...

There are two rules (left from the Jimmy Carter era) for picking biofuel plants: 1. Never use food 2. Never use land that could grow food      I would add a third: 3. Make sure the amount of fossil fuels used to grow and process the fuel is significantly less than...

Distributed energy as well as energy conservation will be very important in any future planning of electrical generation and distribution. Hydrogen will not plan any part significant in distributed energy systems in the foreseeable future since there are still many problems ...

Carbon sequestration will be a costly and complex technology to implement. It is unclear that one of these system added to a coal fired power plant will ever make the plant competitive with wind and other renewable energy sources without major and continuous government subsidies.

The Chinese government is very aware of the need to cut their carbon footprint while at the same time improving the lifestyle of their citizens.  They have already created a large “cottage” industry producing millions of solar water heaters and now are building large new factories to produce...