RJ output is completely green, continuous, and reliable.  It's possible anywhere.

Energy drives economic growth improves the quality of life.  We are working on a "smart city" in Mozambique ; COVID has caused serious delays as it stymies local work and hinders transportation of engineers.

 CLVHT makes the buoyancy/gravity duo work.  We have mastered the secret of the obvious natural forces forces to work together with a useable output of energy.  The method is simple, so, we have to keep it a business secret and operate the facilities' O&M ourselves.

Since construction is new, our cost per MW is high, but will come down as more are built.  Operation is 24/7/365, location neutral.  See our website to contact for more info,

Generating a fresh future.

Closed Loop Vertical HydroTower "CLVHT" is all green, even in construction [just cement and steel rebar (though working to replace those with recently patented replacements that are greener)], lasts forever (poetically speaking), quick to production (45-60 days), small foot print (875 sq m), produces anywhere (Antarctica to Sahara), 24/7/365, costs less than 1.56mn per MW (cost to reduce with greater capacity and volume).  Move fast and get it for microgrid or to sell into grid.  www.RenewJoule.com.  Info@renewjoule.com.

Currently being built in India.  Coming to USA soon.  Join the revolution.

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No energy to post

I'm pretty miserable at posting. Life is busy and it is necessary for me to focus my personal energies on matters at hand -- business, family, health -- than on sharing such as this. Sorry, but true.

Still, there are events worthy of discussion. One is the continuing evolution of technology in energy and its affect on the choices project funding takes.

Technology does move fast, beyond certain basic, essential facts. However, market adoption of such moves does not move fast. When one is responsible for others' monies, one takes the surest course because all too often the newest course, despite its promises of mega returns, presents unknowns, which are not a "return-desiring" buyers interest.

I am fortunate to see innovative technologies as they arrive, such as with Genergy on whose advisory board I am honored to serve. Others similarly claim "disruptive" technologies. Ultimately, the market decides which will do the disrupting, if at all. While one would hope that government support would create an unbiased market, so to speak, for technology, the government as well has an agenda and its support, naturally, goes to those whom it chooses.

Funding energy is improving and solid PPAs now can absolutely qualify one for funding. Yet, that hasn't been created by government stimulus, but market recognition of the fact that energy consumption continues and an improving economy demands more.

So, we (the energy industry) need the economy to recover as much as does any other business. Let's dedicate energy to making it so, even to such as posting to a blog.

Funding

"Money makes the world go 'round," as the old saying goes (or something like that). The saying certainly applies in energy development -- one must have money to develop energy.

And the financial markets are not providing it. The US government has set up DOE guarantees and the Green Bank to provide funding, but it's not getting out to those who need it (maybe they should have set up the funding as bonuses -- there have been no problems getting those paid!)

Banks are limited in lending because of the ratios they are required to maintain on the balance sheets. They've had dumped back onto to them all the "bad" mortgages theyy made, so that their lending limits have been hit. With that regulation, they are forbidden to lend.

Regulation stifles creativity. The only effective limit on creative is the creator's moral compass. Seems that's been missing from the market of late, and, certainly, government programs don't promote that. So, we get more and more regulation, so, less and less flexibility, less and less ability to respond to new issues.

Markets reliable?

Oil & gas markets, both locally and internationally, have been anything but reliable of late.

Last year's bubble in price was obviously produced by hype than reality as was the industry's very childish response to it -- spend, buy, acquire ... at whatever cost! Now, many of those players are realizing that discretion is the better part of valor.

Demand for oil must continue as the world runs on it, and will for at least a decade to come.

And when it comes to choosing energy, as the economy contracts, the lesser cost is the wiser choice. Why? Because people must be put first. Deliver food and services cheaply, so that all prosper, then prosperity will create the cushion that alternative energy demands.

So much for a cursory, incomplete, uneducated review.

Which energy source

Which form of energy is best is now more a political and social issue rather than economic.

Certainly the environment is a consideration in choice of fuel (and how it's used), but, ultimately, the effect of that choice is a cost to the instant chooser and the society as a whole.

If the current economic downturn continues, efficiency will have to trump environment as efficiency is what will keep people fed, etc.

Ethanol is an immediate example of the effect of the realities of economics on fuel choice. Increase in the use of corn for ethanol production effectively took food out of the mouths of people and has cooled the fervor for this form of energy.

Solar can not be justified economically in the current market (and probably never, given space requirements, et al.) -- without the government incentives. And the government incentives are coming from the pockets of people, monies that could otherwise go to food, medicine, infrastructure.

Utilitarianism certainly would measure energy choice rightly, though, again, it comes down to how one values economic wellness against personal wellness.

One man's view.