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Strategies & Market Trends : Booms, Busts, and Recoveries
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To: yard_man who wrote (38927)9/28/2003 7:55:09 PM
From: Haim R. Branisteanu  Read Replies (3) of 74559
 
>>mentioned that energy savings to be had in architecture or passive solar designs might be one of the best places to look for efficieny.<<

There were wonderful conceptual architectural solutions after the time the crude oil hit the high in 1980 or so.

Silicon Solar panels were and I think still are the most expensive solution. But windows (glass) coating against the low infrared in office buildings is very cost effective. Not sure if it is in use today.

But there were some very interesting concepts like that of storing snow & ice in underground chambers to help lower cost of air-conditioning in summer.

Further there were many types of oils which could store heath during summer to help heating your home in winter.

Also heath pumps based on underground water to cool your home summer and heat it in winter were cost effective

All those were local solution for small office buildings and homes. ..... And unfortunately tossed aside after the US government repelled the energy saving tax incentives, which IMHO was one of the dumbest moves.

15 or 18 years go I worked on Oxidized Stainless Steel encapsulated in vacuumed glass as heat collectors their efficiency was close to 96% which is very high. Farming those panels filed with certain types of oils (silicon based oils) in the southern areas of the US would produce substantial amount of energy which can be stored in insulated oil container to further generate high pressure steam.

One more solution I remember were huge super conducting coils energized by surplus electricity only to be drained later at peak hours. (those coils were to be several miles in diameter)

Biomass is also a very viable solution and you can not imagine how much of this stuff is produced in a pork farm or cattle farm not to mention the related slaughter houses.

But IMHO Methane Hydrate on the ocean floors is the real answer for the US to gain more energy independence.
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