EPRI president and CEO
Michael Howard
request for public interest engineering help

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Wednesday May 11, 2011 10:15 We are hopefully competent enough to be suspicious as to question whether heat rate applies, or not, to non-combustibles in hope of saving some of us senior citizens electric bill money. Below may be very important information

From: "Jake Rudisill" j.rudisill@meridianenergyusa.com To: bpayne37@comcast.net Sent: Tuesday, May 10, 2011 4:37:20 PM Subject: Heat Rate misconception Mr. Payne, The definition of heat rate is not the heat content of just the fossil fuel inputting the conversion system—it is the conversion efficiency of the system with whatever is the heat input. Every plant’s heat rate can thus be calculated. Geothermal energy has a very high heat rate because it utilizes a relatively low grade of heat source—at its best, 350F, 100 psi steam, and thus 1200 btu/lbm. In a modern gas-fired boiler, steam is at 1000F and 2500 psi, with a much higher heat content of around 1770 btu/lbm. http://www.simetric.co.uk/si_supersteam.htm http://www.energyvortex.com/energydictionary/heat_rate.html heat rate A measurement used in the energy industry to calculate how efficiently a generator uses heat energy. It is expressed as the number of BTUs of heat required to produce a kilowatt-hour of energy. Operators of generating facilities can make reasonably accurate estimates of the amount of heat energy a given quantity of any type of fuel, so when this is compared to the actual energy produced by the generator, the resulting figure tells how efficiently the generator converts that fuel into electrical energy. http://www.engineeringtoolbox.com/power-plant-efficiency-d_960.html Heat Rate (Energy Efficiency) Overall thermal performance or energy efficiency for a power plant for a period can be defined as fhr = H / E (1) where fhr = heat rate (Btu/kW, kJ/kW) H = heat supplied to the power plant for a period (Btu, kJ) E = energy output from the power plant in the period (kWh)

Top 11 projections for 2011. 2 Electric vehicles begin to push the limits of distribution transformers by the end of 2011. Utilities across the country in early-adopter areas are already well aware of the potential for neighborhood-by-neighborhood electric vehicle (EV) adoption to strain the limits of some distribution transformers.

Monday December 20, 2010 13:31 Bob Vila's #1 Money Saver for 2010 booklet received in mail Monday December 20, 2010. PNM electric IRP stated that Heat Rate [BTUs IN required to generate 1 kWh of electricity] does not apply to solar and wind generation of electricity. Solar's Shiny Future Friday, December 17, 2010 We are in process of asking electrical engineer Frank Currie about this.

EdenPURE GEN4 397.00 GEN4 heater contains 3 SYLVANIA infrared quartz bulbs. BTUs: GEN4 is approx. 5,000. Uses normal 110 volt outlet and 12.5 amps/1483 watts. [3412.14163 * 1.483 = 5060.20603729 BTU.] EdenPURE Personal Heater $197.00 Uses 3 commercial infrared quartz tubes Rated at approximately 2300 BTU Conserves energy compared to most heaters 2300 = x * 3412.14163. x = .67406 kWh or about 674 watts. 1 kWh = 3412.14163 BTU.

Monday December 13, 2010 07:19 Electricial engineer Frank Currie is now looking good. EPRI has been a disappoitment.

DECEMBER 5, 2010, 7:07 P.M. ET. GENEVA—The production of yellowcake, a coarse powder, is the first step in a complex process that converts uranium ore into either the fuel for a nuclear-power reactor or the uranium metal used in an atomic weapon. Mining companies seek to extract high grades of ore, with levels of 20% uranium, for processing into yellowcake. The material is then converted into a gas that is fed into centrifuges and spun at supersonic speeds into various levels of fissile material. Uranium enriched to 3%-5% can fuel a nuclear-power reactor, while enrichment to 90% can create the fissile reaction of an atomic weapon. Iran has two uranium mines, one in Saghand, central Iran, and one in the town of Gachin, near the Persian Gulf. Iranian officials Sunday said the ore was processed into yellowcake near the port city of Bandar Abbas and then transported to Isfahan, where the material will be converted into uranium hexafluoride, a compound easily converted into a gas

Friday December 3, 2010 07:18 An 'Oil Embargo' Moment Is the Sputnik analogy for energy wishful thinking? Bill Opalka | Dec 03, 2010 IT and the smart grid Switching the topic to electric vehicles, which will hit the market this fall, Harkness talked about “big changes.” “Depending on the technology, one plug-in electric vehicle is like plugging another entire house on your street,” he said. “Your local transformers, your infrastructure, aren’t built to handle that.” Dr.Steven Chu, Is the Energy Race our new “Sputnik” Moment? National Press Club Washington, D.C. 29 November, 2010 What America’s innovation could produce: • Affordable electric vehicle batteries with 500-mile range. • Transformative approaches to lowering the cost of bio-fuels. • Abundant, domestic fuel produced directly from the sun. • Solar PV energy at 1/4th the fully installed cost. • Dramatically reduce carbon capture and storage (CCS) costs • Design by computer simulation that will eliminate costly development cycles. Looks like Mr Currie is going to suggest a way to generate electricity without water? Mr Currie's statement "In engineering terms," suggests he may be able to answer some of our questions? http://home.comcast.net/~bpayne37/eprishumard/howard/howard.htm#currie It is also worth noting that nuclear power is often cited as a suitable carbon-free source of electricity for hydrogen production [2, 10–12, 17], but its water consumption for thermoelectric cooling is at the higher end of the typical range, at 0.4–0.72 gallons kWh-1 [23]. Overall, the average US water evaporation at thermoelectric plants is 0.47 gallons kWh-1 [20]. http://www.prosefights.org/nmlegal/prccrd/schott/schott.htm#leer. http://home.comcast.net/~bpayne37/eprishumard/howard/howard.htm#rare

Power Production Wastes Water Bt Frank Currie Project Engineer, Commonwealth Associates, Inc.  According to "Estimated Use of Water in the United States in 2005," a report periodically published by the United States Geological Survey, of the 349 billion gallons of fresh water we withdraw from lakes, rivers and the ground each day, 41 percent is withdrawn to make electricity. Most of this water is used in the context of burning coal to create steam for electricity generation. By contrast, 37 percent of the fresh water we use is for irrigation, 13 percent is pumped for public consumption and the remaining 9 percent is used for industrial purposes and for livestock. It concerns me that we use such a vast proportion of our most precious and scarce resource for something that, strictly speaking, doesn't even actually need water, and worse, is known to cause significant adverse environmental and health impacts. Albuquerque Journal Monday Nevember 29, 2010

Tuesday December 28, 2010 06:29   http://home.comcast.net/~bpayne37/eprishumard/howard/howard.htm#johnson

Wed Dec 29, 2010 U.S. makers of high-tech products such as Apple Inc's iPads, along with Japanese companies have been scrambling to secure reliable supplies of the minerals outside of China as Beijing steadily reduces export allocations. Bloomberg News - Dec 28, 2010 3:40 AM MT China cut its rare earths export quotas by 11 percent in the first round of permits for 2011, threatening to worsen a global shortage of the minerals needed for smartphones, hybrid cars and guided missiles. Published: December 15, 2010 HONG KONG — The United States is too reliant on China for minerals crucial to new clean energy technologies, making the American economy vulnerable to shortages of materials needed for a range of green products — from compact fluorescent light bulbs to electric cars to giant wind turbines. 24 November 2010 Japan's trade minister confirmed that shipments of the minerals, vital for making a number of hi-tech products, started this week. Rare-earth exports from China, the world’s biggest supplier, declined 77 percent in October from a month earlier after the government reduced shipment quotas for the second half. Exports were 830 metric tons last month compared with 3,660 tons in September, the General Administration of Customs said in an e-mail.

Friday November 19, 2010 09:38 EE Times got our project started on January 22, 1996.

From: bpayne37@comcast.net To: "R. Colin Johnson" Cc: "george leopold" , "junko yoshida" , "paul miller" , "nicolas mokoff" Sent: Thursday, November 18, 2010 5:08:58 PM Subject: Re: I have been named: Kyoto Prize Fellow | Re: "Never overlook the oblivious." cautions Notos. Hello Mr Johnson, Congratulations. Neat EE Times article on rare earths. Rare earth supply chain: Industry's common cause. bill http://home.comcast.net/~bpayne37/eprishumard/howard/howard.htm#rare From: "R. Colin Johnson" rcolinjohnson@gmail.com To: bpayne37@comcast.net Sent: Wednesday, November 17, 2010 8:04:27 PM Subject: I have been named: Kyoto Prize Fellow | Re: "Never overlook the oblivious." cautions Notos. I have received your email and will answer it as quickly as possible, but you may have to wait few days for me to catch-up, as I have been named Journalism Fellow to the Kyoto Prize: http://www.eetimes.com/electronics-news/4209016/EE-Times-tech-writer-wins-Japan-fellowship I have traveled to Kyoto Japan to participate in the Kyoto Prize Ceremony and spent the week getting to know the laureates: http://www.eetimes.com/electronics-news/4210673/Algorithm-pioneer-wins-Kyoto-Prize# This year there were two Kyoto Prize Fellows--me for my coverage of advanced technologies and international issues, and Time magazine senior reporter Alice Park for her writing on stem cells. I am honored and humbled to have participated in the regalia "under the presence of Her Imperial Highness, Princess Takamado." The Kyoto Prize is the second most prestigious international award after the Nobel Prize, and three Kyoto Prize laureates were honored this year: Laszlo Lovasz, whose mathematical methods have enabled myriad breakthroughs in information technology--from RSA encryption to wireless 4G--Japanese physician Shinya Yamanaka for his seminal discovery that skin-cells can be substituted for those obtained from embryos, and South African artist William Kentridge for his invention of the now widespread animation technology called "drawings in motion." The Kyoto Prize includes a $550,000 award and unrivaled international recognition. Here is what President Obama said (he could not attend, since the G20 summit was also held the same week, but he sent the following statement which was read during the Ceremony): "Since 1985, the Kyoto Prize has recognized accomplishments made by scientific and artistic visionaries. This year's awardees can take pride in this prestigious honor, and in the achievements that distinguish them in their fields. I am especially pleased to congratulate Dr. Laszlo Lovasz on receiving the Kyoto Prize this year. Americans like him have contributed to myriad advancements in mathematical sciences and other fields of study. These efforts help advance all humankind and create a brighter future for all nations." B.H.O. Dr. Lovasz told me after the Ceremony that he is currently studying very large networks, like the ones I describe in my recent EETimes cover story "MEMS Packed Smartphones are World's Biggest Wireless Sensor Net": http://bit.ly/NextGenLog-apu9 Dr. Lovasz said he hopes to make major revelations about these very large-scale networks during his coming tenure at Princeton University in 2011. I also spent time with Mr. Kentridge this week discussing his self-described "stone age technology" called "drawings in motion"--an artistic technique in which he takes an original charcoal drawing and photographs it, then alters it, turning frame one into frame two, which he photographs then repeats the process until he has a complete frame-by-frame film. By erasing and redrawing a small part of a single drawing to create each frame, by the end of the process only his film has a complete record of his artistry. I ask him about the humanitarian themes he portrays, which belay a deep empathy for the human condition that put him on par with other great South African commentators: http://bit.ly/NextGenLog-9rjz Mr. Kentridge's humble response to my praise was that not he, but all caring individuals in South Africa were responsible for the positive progress we have all witnessed there. Mr. Kentridge plans to continue creating new "drawings in motion" from his ancestral home in Johannesburg. Anyone interested in the work of Kyoto Prize laureates will have the opportunity to directly interact with them on April 4-6, 2011 in San Diego where the Ceremony and Gala will be repeated for the U.S. audience, including public lectures and workshops given by the laureates: http://www.kyotoprize.org/events/ Again, I will personally answer your email soon, but please be patient. Thank you. Best wishes, Colin -- R. Colin Johnson, Kyoto Prize Fellow http://bit.ly/KyotoPrizeJournalismFellow -- EETimes, Technology Editor, United Business Media (UBM) Ziff-Davis Enterprises, Contributor, SmarterTechnology.com -- RColinJohnson@gmail.com Skype: RColinJohnson 971/570-4162 -- @NextGenLog - TWEETS http://twitter.com/nextgenlog -- NextGenLog - WEBLOG http://NextGenLog.org " .tv - YouTube " .ws - RSS " .info - XML --

Thursday November 18, 2010 06:48 Most of our 'knowledge' comes from what we read or hear - frequently written by liberal arts educated media types. It is not first-hand knowledge. Below is a different take on the Supply of Uranium. The link was posted Nuclear Energy and the Iran Affair. Our knowledge of 8051 microcontroller hardware/software is first-hand. 8051 microcontroller family low-power mode projects looks like positive energy efficiency contributions. FORTH86 now runs on Windows XP and 7. But the communications between it and FORTH51 board are broken. Let's fix.

Monday November 8, 2010 06:09 http://home.comcast.net/~bpayne37/eprishumard/howard/howard.htm#rare Hello Mr Leopold, Mr Johnson, and Ms Yoshida, Uranium supply for production of electricity may be a far more serious problem than rare earth production? "Never overlook the oblivious." cautions Notos. Rare earth product applications supposes electricity for power. US electricity is generated from 57% coal, 17% natural gas, 20% nuclear and 6% hydro, we googled on Internet. Uranium supply Internet posts warn According to the Times, China's "civilian nuclear power industry" (and rest assured there's a Chinese military nuclear power industry as well) has 11 operating reactors, with as many as 10 new reactors per year planned for the next 15 years. That's 150 new reactors just in China. So where will the world nuclear industry obtain the uranium fuel for all these new reactors? That's a darn good question. Just in the US, annual uranium use for the nuclear power industry is about 55 million pounds. The US produces less than 4 million pounds of this fuel - about 7% - and imports the rest. and Uranium supply shortage is real, and "Peak Uranium" is harder to deny than "Peak Oil".This year's world uranium mine output could or might attain 55000 tons, but demand will be about 68000 tons. It is difficult to imagine what would happen to world oil, coal or gas prices if their world supply was 20% lower than their world demand. according to Byron King and Andrew McKillop. While EE TIMES articles on rare earth problems are important, they may be overshadowed by Heat required to produce 1 kWh = 3412.14163 BTU which appears to threaten world economies? Modern history warns of what can happen when a nation reacts to shortage of energy or other essential materials. The American oil embargo caused a crisis in Japan. Reliant on the US for 80% of its oil, the Japanese were forced to decide between withdrawing from China, negotiating an end to the conflict, or going to war to obtain the needed resources elsewhere. Fidel Castro appears to sense this too. Castro's sudden re-emergence after four years in seclusion for health reasons has raised questions about his intentions, but his message has been consistent -- a devastating war is at hand if the United States, in alliance with Israel, tries to enforce international sanctions against Iran for its nuclear activities. So we hope EE TIMES addresses issues of future electricity production, possible high-tech altenergy scams, and energy production pollution problems as we are trying to do: http://home.comcast.net/~bpayne37/eprishumard/howard/howard.htm#scam Focus perhaps should be on reliable energy-efficient hardware/software technolgies? bill Electronic Engineering Times, January 22, 1996, p. 84. References 1 The rare earth challenge. george.leopold@ubm.com 2 Rare earth supply chain: Industry's common cause. rcolinjohnson@gmail.com 3 Three-step plan for Japan's independence from China. junko.yoshida@ubm.com Distribution dlammers@austin.rr.com dave@radfreenm.org mhartranft@abqjournal.com; smatlock@sfnewmexican.com; the.secretary@hq.doe.gov; alexander.morris@hq.doe.gov amorales58@comcast.net rshumard@epri.com askepri@epri.com clperry@epri.com clibby@epri.com zalan8587@q.com Jason.Marks@state.nm.us; David.King@state.nm.us; JeromeD.Block@state.nm.us; Becenti@state.nm.us; Sandy.Jones@state.nm.us; jonbarela2010@yahoo.com info@susana2010.com info@martinheinrich.com mikemalloy5006@comcast.net billrehm@comcast.net william.payne@nmlegis.gov dylan.mcgrath@ubm.com ronald.wilson@ubm.com mark.lapedus@ubm.com rick.merritt@ubm.com marita@responsiblenergy.org Reliability both in hardware and software is required. The Cree CR6 (above) hides the individual diodes, visible on earlier LED bulbs shown below. Many diodes on one LED (bottom right) have already gone out despite limited use.

Thursday October 21, 2010 12:54  Large-scale solar generation of electricty is hard at work possibly trying to get a financial scam funded.

Arrived in Mail Thursday October 21, 2010

Wednesday October 20, 2010 08:25 http://home.comcast.net/~bpayne37/eprishumard/howard/howard.htm#scam info@martinheinrich.com Hello Mr Heinrich, We are concerned that large-scale solar generation of electricity may be a fraud. We read that you voted to pass the American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009 that would add 11,00 jobs in New Mexico. From your vote, we presume that you advocate large-scale solar generation of electricity. New Mexico appears to be best place on the planet to put to test whether large-scale solar generation of electricity is a fraud or not. Schott solar Albuquerque Mesa del Sol facility apparently draws its electric power from the grid. We propose that Schott solar be required to erect an array of its own solar panels on Mesa del Sol for a grid-tie system to A First, generate as much electric power as it consumes. B Second, additional generation of electricity to pay off the cost and maintenance of its grid-tie Mesa del Sol system over a 20 year period. C Third, additional generation of electricity of pay for removal and clean disposal its Mesa del Sol system at the end of the 20 years. Alexander Braun points out in the April 2010 issue of SEMICONDUCTOR International Since 2002, photovoltaic production has doubled roughly every two years, increasing at a yearly average of 48%, making it the fastest growing energy technology. By 2008, PV installations worldwide had surpassed 15 GW and the end is not in sight. However, as Obi-Wan might paradoxically put it, "There is a Dark Side to sun power. Eventually, existing installations will reach the end of their useful lifetimes, requiring replacement. One of the seeming contradictions of producing the means to generate clean renewable energy is that you must manufacture them using stuff that can be pretty deadly to the environment such as ammonia, arsine, cadmium sulfate and diborane. And when you discard these installations, effluvia such as arsenic are released during solar cell decomposition, and then there is all that chromium in screws and frames. and But there is more to PV manufacturing than just recycling. According to the SVTC's white paper, "Toward a Just and Sustainable Solar Energy Industry, although the solar PV boom is still in its infancy, what it describes as "disturbing global trends" are emerging. It goes on to say that a considerable amount of the polysilicon feedstock material - the refined silicon used as crystalline silicon solar cells' basic material - is produced in countries like China, "where manufacturing costs and environmental regulatory enforcement are low." It also quotes a March 2008 Washington Post report that at least one plant in China's Henan Province regularly dumps silicon tetrachloride, a toxic waste product of polysilicon manufacturing, on nearby farmland. The Post quoted Li Xiaoping, deputy director of the Shanghai Academy of Environmental Sciences: "Crops cannot grow on this, and it is not suitable for people to live nearby." Proof, in view that you voted to pass the American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009, you are not involved in a large-scale solar generation of electricity financial scam is required before the November 2, 2010 election, we feel. Proof steps include 1 Immediately contact EPRI CEO to demand that he immediately respond to my October 5, 2010 08:13 request. Send email saying that you have done this. 2 As an engineer please respond in writing to A Does Heat Rate apply to solar PV generation of electricity? B Does Heat Rate apply to solar trough generation of electricity? C Does more than 3412.14163 BTU have to go IN for each 1 kWh of electricity OUT? D Is the second law of thermodynamics repealed for solar and wind generation of electricity? 3 Do you support the Schott Mesa del Sol large-scale solar generation of electricity grid-tie proof-of-concept demonstration? Please send email ack for receipt of this message. We ask you respond to proof steps 1-3 by close of business Friday October 22, 2010. Sincerely, William H Payne

Thursday October 21, 2010 06:04 1-202-293-6184 Hello Mr Perry, We're thinking of what to say. We've got it. But won't post. :-) Sincerely, William H Payne

Thursday October 21, 2010 07:41 2010 US Election Preview for Cleantech Comment 2 of 2 billp37 October 21, 2010 Wednesday October 20, 2010 08:25 http://home.comcast.net/~bpayne37/eprishumard/howard/howard.htm#scam Hello Mr Heinrich, We are concerned that large-scale solar generation of electricity may be a fraud. We read that you voted to pass the American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009 that would add 11,00 jobs in New Mexico. From your vote, we presume that you advocate large-scale solar generation of electricity. New Mexico appears to be best place on the planet to put to test whether large-scale solar generation of electricity is a fraud or not. Schott solar Albuquerque Mesa del Sol facility apparently draws its electric power from the grid. We propose that Schott solar be required to erect an array of its own solar panels on Mesa del Sol for a grid-tie system to A First, generate as much electric power as it consumes. B Second, additional generation of electricity to pay off the cost and maintenance of its grid-tie Mesa del Sol system over a 20 year period. C Third, additional generation of electricity of pay for removal and clean disposal its Mesa del Sol system at the end of the 20 years. Alexander Braun points out in the April 2010 issue of SEMICONDUCTOR International Since 2002, photovoltaic production has doubled roughly every two years, increasing at a yearly average of 48%, making it the fastest growing energy technology. By 2008, PV installations worldwide had surpassed 15 GW and the end is not in sight. However, as Obi-Wan might paradoxically put it, "There is a Dark Side to sun power. ... EPRI has it corporate hand in all PNM electric rate-payers pockets. Poll: Public Supports Renewable Energy Large majorities in six Western countries are in favor of green energy Liberal arts approach to altenergy? - Oct 20, 2010 - 12:01 PM Memorizing, emotions, speculation, and interpretation should not take the place of engineering evaluation in energy matters. Polls solicit opinion of those who may know little about a subject such as energy. New Mexico effort to cut-through possible altenergy scams. ... The changing face of the utility workforce A convergence of technology, communications, computing and energy systems amps up the game A Solar Installer's View of the Job Market “But I don’t see any link between China’s reasonable rare earth export control policy and the irrational U.S. decision of protectionist nature to investigate China’s clean energy industries.”

Wednesday October 20, 2010 08:25 http://home.comcast.net/~bpayne37/eprishumard/howard/howard.htm#scam info@martinheinrich.com Hello Mr Heinrich, We are concerned that large-scale solar generation of electricity may be a fraud. We read that you voted to pass the American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009 that would add 11,00 jobs in New Mexico. From your vote, we presume that you advocate large-scale solar generation of electricity. New Mexico appears to be best place on the planet to put to test whether large-scale solar generation of electricity is a fraud or not. Schott solar Albuquerque Mesa del Sol facility apparently draws its electric power from the grid. We propose that Schott solar be required to erect an array of its own solar panels on Mesa del Sol for a grid-tie system to A First, generate as much electric power as it consumes. B Second, additional generation of electricity to pay off the cost and maintenance of its grid-tie Mesa del Sol system over a 20 year period. C Third, additional generation of electricity of pay for removal and clean disposal its Mesa del Sol system at the end of the 20 years. Alexander Braun points out in the April 2010 issue of SEMICONDUCTOR International Since 2002, photovoltaic production has doubled roughly every two years, increasing at a yearly average of 48%, making it the fastest growing energy technology. By 2008, PV installations worldwide had surpassed 15 GW and the end is not in sight. However, as Obi-Wan might paradoxically put it, "There is a Dark Side to sun power. Eventually, existing installations will reach the end of their useful lifetimes, requiring replacement. One of the seeming contradictions of producing the means to generate clean renewable energy is that you must manufacture them using stuff that can be pretty deadly to the environment such as ammonia, arsine, cadmium sulfate and diborane. And when you discard these installations, effluvia such as arsenic are released during solar cell decomposition, and then there is all that chromium in screws and frames. and But there is more to PV manufacturing than just recycling. According to the SVTC's white paper, "Toward a Just and Sustainable Solar Energy Industry, although the solar PV boom is still in its infancy, what it describes as "disturbing global trends" are emerging. It goes on to say that a considerable amount of the polysilicon feedstock material - the refined silicon used as crystalline silicon solar cells' basic material - is produced in countries like China, "where manufacturing costs and environmental regulatory enforcement are low." It also quotes a March 2008 Washington Post report that at least one plant in China's Henan Province regularly dumps silicon tetrachloride, a toxic waste product of polysilicon manufacturing, on nearby farmland. The Post quoted Li Xiaoping, deputy director of the Shanghai Academy of Environmental Sciences: "Crops cannot grow on this, and it is not suitable for people to live nearby." Proof, in view that you voted to pass the American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009, you are not involved in a large-scale solar generation of electricity financial scam is required before the November 2, 2010 election, we feel. Proof steps include 1 Immediately contact EPRI CEO to demand that he immediately respond to my October 5, 2010 08:13 request. Send email saying that you have done this. 2 As an engineer please respond in writing to A Does Heat Rate apply to solar PV generation of electricity? B Does Heat Rate apply to solar trough generation of electricity? C Does more than 3412.14163 BTU have to go IN for each 1 kWh of electricity OUT? D Is the second law of thermodynamics repealed for solar and wind generation of electricity? 3 Do you support the Schott Mesa del Sol large-scale solar generation of electricity grid-tie proof-of-concept demonstration? Please send email ack for receipt of this message. We ask you respond to proof steps 1-3 by close of business Friday October 22, 2010. Sincerely, William H Payne Distribution dlammers@austin.rr.com travis@jonbarela.com mikemalloy5006@comcast.net billrehm@comcast.net dave@radfreenm.org mhartranft@abqjournal.com; smatlock@sfnewmexican.com; the.secretary@hq.doe.gov; alexander.morris@hq.doe.gov amorales58@comcast.net rshumard@epri.com askepri@epri.com clperry@epri.com clibby@epri.com pat.o'connell@pnmresources.com don.brown@pnmresources.com susan.sponar@pnmresources.com george.nail@pnm.com Info@RioGrandeFoundation.org

Wednesday October 20, 2010 07:35 Call to Heinrich's office at 202-225-6316 to ask about clean energy jobs. We spoke with Mike Knowles at Barela's campaign office about EPRI's unresponsiveness. Both on Tuesday October 19, 2010. http://home.comcast.net/~bpayne37/eprishumard/howard/howard.htm#heinrich

We forwarded a copy of below to Heinrich, I believe, should be given and opportunity to address the issue of our stolen $22,036 by Christopher Jillson and how he can help get it returned to us. And focus on possible alt energy fraud too. Possible scam based on near-future electric energy cost/shortages may be to try to tax traditional fossil fuel sources of electricity to fund possible alt energy scams. oil/gas scam albuquerque journal These possible financial scams are sometimes masked behind environomental fiented concerns. DEFENDERS OF WILDLIFE ACTION FUND. Technical obstacles may stand in the way of large-scale solar generation of electicity. EPRI president and CEO Michael Howard request for public interest engineering help.

Received October 11-16, 2010

Tuesday October 5, 2010 10:11 Phone call to Howard Tuesday October 5, 2010 08:20. http://home.comcast.net/~bpayne37/eprishumard/howard/howard.htm#howard

FIRST PERSON with Mike Howard.

Solar industry reports radiant revenue New Mexico Business Weekly - New Mexico Business Weekly Tax incentives and price declines are particularly signficant factors. Consumers now can offset PV investments by up to 40 percent through state and federal tax writeoffs. And the Solar Energy Industries Association says PV module costs declined by 40 percent between 2008 and 2009. ...

Tuesday October 5, 2010 08:13 http://home.comcast.net/~bpayne37/eprishumard/howard/howard.htm#howard Michael Howard President and Chief Executive Officer EPRI 800-313-3774 or 650-855-2121 Hello Mr Howard, Large scale-solar generation of electricity may be a fraud, we've been told. We are not sure if this is true or not. Mr Rick Shumard gave at presentation behalf of EPRI at REI in Albuquerque on Tuesday April 27, 2010. Mr Shumard appears to have the EE educational background and information base at EPRI to verify or deny whether large-scale solar generation of electricity is a fraud or not. EPRI electrical engineer Shumard lives in Placitas, NM. 505-867-1091. Shumard apparently works from there too. Shurmard appears not to want to talk. Shumard phone conversation audio. So we request that you make a formal EPRI job assignment to Mr Shumard to answer the following questions in writing. Shumard's responses could possibly avoid investor scams in event that large-scale solar generation of electricity has insurmountable physical and technical problems. But first some history involving EPRI and PNM which alerted us to possible scams. The foil was presented by PNM employee Pat O'Connell on Wednesday January 16, 2008 at the PNM service center in Santa Fe. Note 'EPRI' in lower left of foil. O'Connell informed Payne by email that 'N/A' stood for 'Not Applicable' in the Heat Rate column identified by the red star. This invites claims that less than 3412.14163 BTU IN for each 1 kWh of electricity OUT is achievable with solar and wind generation of electricity. This may violate the second law of thermodynamics? Here are the questions for Mr Shumard's written responses. 1 Does Heat Rate apply to solar PV generation of electricity? 2 Does Heat Rate apply to solar solar trough generation of electricity? 3 Does more than 3412.14163 BTU have to go IN for each 1 kWh of electricity OUT? 4 Is the second law of thermodynamics repealed for solar and wind generation of electricity? Former EPRI president and CEO Mr Specker pointed out on August 3-4, 2009 that we may face large increase of price of electricity in the future. This situation may be far worse According to the Times, China's "civilian nuclear power industry" (and rest assured there's a Chinese military nuclear power industry as well) has 11 operating reactors, with as many as 10 new reactors per year planned for the next 15 years. That's 150 new reactors just in China. So where will the world nuclear industry obtain the uranium fuel for all these new reactors? That's a darn good question. Just in the US, annual uranium use for the nuclear power industry is about 55 million pounds. The US produces less than 4 million pounds of this fuel - about 7% - and imports the rest. Uranium supply shortage is real, and "Peak Uranium" is harder to deny than "Peak Oil". This year's world uranium mine output could or might attain 55 000 tons, but demand will be about 68000 tons. It is difficult to imagine what would happen to world oil, coal or gas prices if their world supply was 20% lower than their world demand. according to Byron King and Andrew McKillop. Possible problems with future electricity cost and availability have created an opportunity for solar generation of electricty fraud in New Mexico and elsewhere in the world. We think that some at PNM have data to help confirm or deny this. Repeated attempts to obtain electrical performance information from PNM on its Algodones, NM test solar array have gone unanswered despite assurance from PNM spokesperson Don Brown that we would receive answers. EPRI employee Cara Libby has been involved in Algodones solar array project. Listen to our March 22, 2010 conversation. Suspicion appears to mount that taxing traditional electric generation fuel industries to fund large-scale solar generation of electricity may be a scam perpetrated by the large-scale solar generation of electricity industry and its political associates. About one billion dollars disappeared at Eclipse Aviation over a ten year period in Albuquerque, New Mexico under suspicious circumstances. The recent Paramount film Pretty Bird, starring Billy Crudup and Paul Giamatti, centers around a quixotic quest by a small startup firm, Fantastic Technologies, to build a rocket pack like the one featured in the James Bond movie _Thunderball_. ... More ominously, the author and director, Paul Schneider, declares it to be “based on a true story”. ... Speaking of real life, one need look no further than to the now-defunct Eclipse Aviation in Albuquerque, to see this same story written much larger. More warning signals that large-scale solar generation of electricity may be a fraud surfaced in addition to the '[N/A]' in the above foil. Below statement by New Mexico governor Richardson July 27--SANTA FE -- A defiant Gov. Bill Richardson said he won't relax environmental regulations -- or back off attempts to implement stricter new ones -- to try to boost New Mexico's economy. ... "We can continue being the clean-energy state, creating green jobs and protecting the environment," Richardson said. "I want one of my legacies to be that we never harmed the environment, and I'm not going to (take) steps that weaken our environmental regulations." may be a ploy to attempt to funnel money to the large-scale solar generation of electricity industry and perhaps then to crooked politicians and lobbyists. These possible financial electric generation energy scams maybe facilitated by well-educated scientists and engineers who use their educational backgrounds to lure those less technical educated into investing when they, in fact, know their schemes won't work for personal financial benefit. With respect to collective scam by scientists, the public’s only safeguard is that scientific insiders watch out for them. Unfortunately, this is increasingly turning out to be not a good safeguard at all. And the science media is entirely controlled by the scientists. Dr Bibhas De's above admonishion emphasizes the role of 'insiders', like EPRI, to shield the public from possible altenergy scams. Nine Critical Questions to Ask About Alternative Energy cautions 5. Does the invention defy the Laws of Thermodynamics? Most of the other questions in this list can be tied up into this one question: does the invention defy the Laws of Thermodynamics? If the answer is yes, then something is wrong. That is what the PNM foil seen above appears to do. Protection of the public from possible large-scale solar generation of electricity scam, we feel, is within EPRI's charter. The Electric Power Research Institute, Inc. (EPRI) conducts research and development relating to the generation, delivery and use of electricity for the benefit of the public. EPRI brings together its scientists and engineers as well as experts from academia and industry to help address challenges in electricity, including reliability, efficiency, health, safety and the environment. Focus can then be directed at energy efficiency which does work. I ask that you acknowledge receipt of this email. I ask that you send me a copy of your instructions to Mr Shumard by close of business Friday October 8, 2010. Or your reasons for not assigning Mr Shumard the task by the same date. Sincerely, Bill Payne Retired from Sandia National Laboratories and Washington State University Distribution rshumard@epri.com askepri@epri.com clperry@epri.com clibby@epri.com pat.o'connell@pnmresources.com don.brown@pnmresources.com susan.sponar@pnmresources.com george.nail@pnm.com dave@radfreenm.org nmusa@rt66.com mhartranft@abqjournal.com smatlock@sfnewmexican.com

Follow Wyoming on Fracking Regs By prosefights, October 8 at 6:19 pm Electricity increased costs and possible shortages loom. US electricity apparently comes from 57% coal, 17% natural gas, 20% nuclear, and 6% coal [whoops - hydro] we googled to find. ‘Fracked’ gas looks to help keep the price of electricity down. Nuclear Energy and the Iran Affair by Andrew McKillop paints a scary picture. http://www.energypulse.net/centers/article/article_display.cfm?a_id=2339 No requested response to ‘Protection of the public from possible large-scale solar generation of electricity scam, we feel, is within EPRI’s charter. The Electric Power Research Institute, Inc. (EPRI) conducts research and development relating to the generation, delivery and use of electricity for the benefit of the public. EPRI brings together its scientists and engineers as well as experts from academia and industry to help address challenges in electricity, including reliability, efficiency, health, safety and the environment. Focus can then be directed at energy efficiency which does work. I ask that you acknowledge receipt of this email. I ask that you send me a copy of your instructions to Mr Shumard by close of business Friday October 8, 2010. Or your reasons for not assigning Mr Shumard the task by the same date.’ received so far. http://home.comcast.net/~bpayne37/eprishumard/howard/howard.htm#howard

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Monday October 4, 2010 08:27 http://home.comcast.net/~bpayne37/eprishumard/howard/howard.htm#stillman dbstillman@comcast.net Hello Mr Stillman, In the process of determining whether the second law of thermodynamic applies to large-scale solar generation of electricity with, hopefully, EPRI electrical engineer Rick Shumard's help, fusion power statements puzzles us. The statements The new laser is expected to have the ability to produce, for the first time, more energy from controlled, inertially confined nuclear fusion than was required to initiate the reaction. and In June 2005, the construction of the experimental reactor ITER, designed to produce several times more fusion power than the power put into the plasma over many minutes, was announced. appears to us to violate the second law of thermodynamics. But we don't know. Energy is an area of interest but not of expertise or even, perhaps, ability. Our areas of expertise, interest, and hopefully, ability, include 8051 family microcontroller hardware and software, machine combinatorics, pseudorandom numbers, and several lesser areas. This reason is why we solicit opinions from you experts of applicability of the second law of thermodynamics. For all we know, the second law of thermodynamics may not apply to nuclear physics. We know Ivy Mike fusion device worked. Our primary source of answers to fusion and nuclear physics questions, Dr Leo Mascheroni, is currently in a halfway house and presumably unable to answer our questions. Reason we select Dr Mascheroni to answer fusion power questions is that he has been consistently right in the past. No fusion power so far. Therefore, we turn to you. What are your thoughts about the applicability of the second law of thermodynamics to thermonuclear bombs? Please ack if you get this email. Best bill

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Danny Stillman, retired Los Alamos thermonuclear bomb designer seen to right of Thomas Reeed, pink pants, probably can answer the question of how the second law of thermodynamics applies bomb 'secondary' materials. dbstillman@comcast.net The results gave the scientists confidence that they will be able to achieve ignition in more realistic tests scheduled to begin in the summer of 2010.[27] Liberal arts educated MSM has not reported ignition, with more heat coming out than went in, as of October 2, 2010. Josef Stalin theory of project failure.

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Los Alamos Nuclear physicist Dr Pedro Leonardo Mascheroni May 6, 2009 phone conversation. [t]he physics community is no slouch in attacking others, haughtily calling them impostors, crackpots, cranks and such other names – in public, in print. It is only when they are the "attackee" that they respond with righteous indignation and hurt sentiment.

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