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Gold/Mining/Energy : Big Dog's Boom Boom Room
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To: Elroy Jetson who wrote (186366)11/8/2014 3:16:03 PM
From: E_K_S  Read Replies (1) of 206330
 
Nice chart.

A few things I see that caught my eye.

(1) Coal 17.4% vs NG 9.31% for Electrical generation. If Carbon tax legislation is approved for Coal usage, NG demand could double in usage.

(2) Only 10.6% of Electrical usage is Residential.

(3) I see little to no electrical allocated to transportation which probably will grow w/ the introduction of electrical cars.

(4) Petroleum for Autos will probably come down due to more fuel efficient engines.

(5) Would have thought Biomass would be a future grower especially for the Industrial Sector (ie > 4.3%). New plants will be designed to use solar, biomass & geothermal sources for electricity. The new Tesla battery factory in NV will incorporate all three sources in their design.

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The table is two years old so probably some of the percentages have changed. It would be interesting to see how a similar table looks for the EU, Asia, China & India. I suspect Nuclear is a much larger percentage in the EU & Asia than U.S. but more coal usage in China and India.

EPRI here in Silicon Valley is working on efficient transmission of high voltage electricity. There is also a lot of work done here on "distributed" electricity generation and storage. The key for this to work efficiently here in CA is to use Solar w/ super efficient long lasting batteries. There is also research being done of hydrogen fuel cell technology. Bloom Energy is one fuel cell "on-demand" system ( they use bio-gas) being tested here at Google, E-Bay and and Apple facilities.

Bloom Box: The Alternative Energy that Terrifies Obama



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