{"id":38252,"date":"2013-11-03T05:30:27","date_gmt":"2013-11-03T09:30:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=38252"},"modified":"2013-11-03T07:03:49","modified_gmt":"2013-11-03T11:03:49","slug":"oh-sht-here-we-go-again-solyndra-part-iii-anyone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=38252","title":{"rendered":"Oh, Sh!t – Here We Go Again. Solyndra Part III, Anyone?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Or Part IV.\u00a0 Or maybe Part V – hell, I’ve lost count.<\/p>\n

Energy Dept. Seeks Company to Turn Sunshine Into Gasoline<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

No, I’m not kidding.<\/p>\n

The process was apparently discovered by a Federal lab in Albuquerque in 2007.\u00a0 It produces hydrocarbons that are precursors to motor fuels from CO2, sunlight, and (presumably) a catalyst.\u00a0 At the time of discovery, it was estimated to be “15 to 20 years” away from being market-ready.<\/p>\n

Yeah, the process works – on a lab “proof-of-concept” prototype.\u00a0 But that’s far different than an economically-viable industrial production line.\u00a0 And the last time I checked, 2007 was 6 years ago rather than “15 to 20”.\u00a0 I seriously doubt the process will be producing fuel at anything resembling competitive costs any time soon.<\/p>\n

Here we go again.\u00a0 Looks like we’ll now have $23\/gal “sunshine-gas” for DoD vehicles to go with that $25\/gal bio-fuel oil for ships.\u00a0 Just the thing for an era of declining DoD budgets, eh?<\/p>\n

I wonder which “friend of the Administration” will get the contract for this financial boondoggle and obvious example of cronyism<\/del> critical and important research effort?<\/p>\n

This looks more to me like just another example of the current Administration steering Federal dollars for “clean energy” to political allies and cronies as a payback rather than a serious effort at clean energy.\u00a0 Further, their track record to date with “green” projects does nothing but support that impression.<\/p>\n

But what do I know?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Or Part IV.\u00a0 Or maybe Part V – hell, I’ve lost count. Energy Dept. Seeks Company … Oh, Sh!t – Here We Go Again. Solyndra Part III, Anyone?<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":623,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[213,98,97],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-your-tax-dollars-at-work","category-global-warming","category-its-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38252","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/623"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38252"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38252\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}