Comments on: Big Trouble for Big Oil http://priceofoil.org/2007/11/02/big-trouble-for-big-oil/ Oil Change International campaigns to expose the true costs of oil and facilitate the coming transition towards clean energy. We are dedicated to identifying and overcoming political barriers to that transition. Fri, 21 Nov 2008 14:41:26 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5 By: Paul Crosby http://priceofoil.org/2007/11/02/big-trouble-for-big-oil/#comment-161592 Paul Crosby Wed, 07 Nov 2007 20:59:05 +0000 http://priceofoil.org/2007/11/02/big-trouble-for-big-oil/#comment-161592 Non-renewable energy has (and will) dominated energy markets since coal, gas and oil was discovered, and capitalism dosen't want your revolutionary cost effective design competing against their obsolete practicies which brings major profits to those who belong to the establishment. Your great idea would be very attractive to socialistic governments such as Bolivia and Venezuela and also to any country who's market is dominated by selling mostly oil for their returns. Wish you all the luck Grassi Non-renewable energy has (and will) dominated energy markets since coal, gas and oil was discovered, and capitalism dosen’t want your revolutionary cost effective design competing against their obsolete practicies which brings major profits to those who belong to the establishment.
Your great idea would be very attractive to socialistic governments such as Bolivia and Venezuela and also to any country who’s market is dominated by selling mostly oil for their returns.

Wish you all the luck Grassi

]]> By: F Grassi http://priceofoil.org/2007/11/02/big-trouble-for-big-oil/#comment-158485 F Grassi Sun, 04 Nov 2007 14:00:56 +0000 http://priceofoil.org/2007/11/02/big-trouble-for-big-oil/#comment-158485 I think I know what's up with energy. With the cost of gas so high and the instability in the middle east, Big Oil has realized that their days are at a minimum very turbulent. Cars made with rechargeable batteries are here and GM also realizes that fuel cell cars are years away and that rechargeable is the way forward. That means trouble for Big Oil. Recently private equity funds (Big Oil and Saudi Arabia) has purchased the biggest electrical utility (TXU) in the country for $32 Billion. Utilities were never a good investment for private equity funds, thus the only reason for this purchase and others to follow are to control and own their competition. The rechargeable battery is one technology that stand in the way of Big Oil continuing to dominate the energy markets. Plug-in hybrids would be a simple adaptation of existing hybrid technology by adding a battery that can recharge from the grid. You'd charge your hybrid at night and drive about 10 to 30 miles on the overnight power before you start using liquid gas, which means your 50-mpg Prius now becomes a 100- to 150-mpg Prius. Based on current electricity prices, you would get the functional equivalent of 50-cent-a-gallon gasoline. The TXU purchase was followed by the cancellation of 9 new coal fired plants in the works. The global war on the dirty coal fired plants may be financed by Big Oil. The global warming hysteria may also part of this equation. I have discovered a means of producing electric power from the wind that is many times more efficient then the horizontal turbines now in use. My patent pending wind machine will power the 21st. Century! Imagine a 50 MW wind power plant that is operational 100% of the time. The cost of wind electric energy must be reduced to below $.03/ kWh. and made more reliable in order for wind power to become competitive with coal. My discovery is an innovative machine using static airfoils. Rotors produce power proportional to the diameter squared. My patent pending invention produces power from the wind not by increasing rotor diameter to immense sizes but by increasing the wind velocity, and since power is proportional to the cube of the velocity you immediately see the advantage. Where does one go from here? Unless the Middle East spigot is shut off, there no chance that wind or any renewales will be more then a curiosity. I think I know what’s up with energy.

With the cost of gas so high and the instability in the middle east, Big Oil has realized that their days are at a minimum very turbulent. Cars made with rechargeable batteries are here and GM also realizes that fuel cell cars are years away and that rechargeable is the way forward. That means trouble for Big Oil. Recently private equity funds (Big Oil and Saudi Arabia) has purchased the biggest electrical utility (TXU) in the country for $32 Billion. Utilities were never a good investment for private equity funds, thus the only reason for this purchase and others to follow are to control and own their competition. The rechargeable battery is one technology that stand in the way of Big Oil continuing to dominate the energy markets.

Plug-in hybrids would be a simple adaptation of existing hybrid technology by adding a battery that can recharge from the grid. You’d charge your hybrid at night and drive about 10 to 30 miles on the overnight power before you start using liquid gas, which means your 50-mpg Prius now becomes a 100- to 150-mpg Prius. Based on current electricity prices, you would get the functional equivalent of 50-cent-a-gallon gasoline.

The TXU purchase was followed by the cancellation of 9 new coal fired plants in the works. The global war on the dirty coal fired plants may be financed by Big Oil. The global warming hysteria may also part of this equation.

I have discovered a means of producing electric power from the wind that is many times more efficient then the horizontal turbines now in use. My patent pending wind machine will power the 21st. Century! Imagine a 50 MW wind power plant that is operational 100% of the time.

The cost of wind electric energy must be reduced to below $.03/ kWh. and made more reliable in order for wind power to become competitive with coal. My discovery is an innovative machine using static airfoils. Rotors produce power proportional to the diameter squared. My patent pending invention produces power from the wind not by increasing rotor diameter to immense sizes but by increasing the wind velocity, and since power is proportional to the cube of the velocity you immediately see the advantage.

Where does one go from here? Unless the Middle East spigot is shut off, there no chance that wind or any renewales will be more then a curiosity.

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