On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 12:57 PM, Jones Beene <[email protected]> wrote: > According to this story, wind energy in England, is not living up to > expectations. > > http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1361316/250bn-wind-power-industry-gr > eatest-scam-age.html
Of course storage technology could have a major effect on the viability of PV and Wind energy. >From http://www.theeestory.com/ "Six years after leading the Kleiner Perkins effort to invest in EEStor, billionaire venture capitalist Bill Joy has finally commented publicly about the investment at the MIT Enterprise Forum of Cambridge this past Thursday evening." (see video) "After the fireside chat, Joy answered questions from a small crowd of people for over an hour. Question: So, are you still hopeful about EEStor? Bill Joy: Oh yeah. I mean these things are hard so there is always a chance they won't work. But we're very uh ...... We'll see. I don't know anything that isn't in the press. Question: .... a person team somebody that already may already have a solution that hasn't been discovered, is that something you think is possible? Like a crowdsouring ... somewhere in world that's working .... Bill Joy: It doesn't tend to work that way. It proceeds from somebody who has deep expertise in a domain who acquires interdisciplinary collaborators. Thats a better formula. There are no child prodigies in these fields that involve physics and chemistry. You really just have .... you mentioned Carl Nelson he is like 90 years old an MIT PhD material scientist, who is one of the inventors under EEStor. If you don't have someone like Carl. I mean you ask Carl, tell me something about hafnium. Carl will talk to you for 15 minutes about hafnium. He knows something about every element in the periodic table. He can tell you off the top of his head what its crystal forms are and alot of interesting properties. I mean you have to be intimate with the periodic table to do this kind of stuff. You have to know .... you really have to have had a career. With somebody like that, he's probably the oldest founder I ever backed. But you just have dinner with him and you realize he really understands what he is doing with materials. Now what they are proposing to do is wild. And there's lots of reasons in which some of these things could fail to be commercialized. I'm not saying whether it's worked or not and if we've announced it or not, I'm just saying it's hard. What they're trying to do ... obviously, it's took years ... to get .... since they .... first .... it's not easy to do these things. So ... but the worthwhile things usually are hard and they always take longer." <end excerpt> I love the way he stuttered. Also, there's a letter regarding an overdue FOIA request to the DoE on rumors from SNL. (no, not saturday night live) T
