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WINDPOWER 2009, May 4-7, Chicago, IL USA
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CHICAGO EDITION of my 2009 EWEC Paper. EWEC Marseille, France 16 - 19 March 2009
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Buying Electricity and Natural Gas in Illinois' Competitive Energy Market
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Buying Electricity and Natural Gas in Massachusetts' Competitive Energy Market
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Developing Large (> 1 MW) Wind Projects
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Developing Small Wind (< 1 MW) Projects
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The design of the post-Kyoto Protocol (2013) climate change mitigation Treaty (the COP 15 Copenhagen Protocol)
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Consulting on Climate Change Mitigation, the Kyoto Protocol, Carbon Trading and the Carbon Tax
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Developing Solar Thermal Projects
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Developing PV (Photovoltaic) Projects
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Purchasing Hybrid, Electric, Natural Gas, Hydrogen and Alternative Fuel Vehicles
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Developing Microturbine & Distributed Generation Projects
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Complimentary Copy of my Article in the June, 2002 Issue of the Northern Solar SUN
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PRESENTATION at the EWEC 2009 Marseille, France 16 - 19 March 2009
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Paper at the 2009 Michigan Wind Conference 3-4 March 2009, Cobo Hall, Detroit, MI
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PRESENTATION at the 2008 Latin American Wind Energy Conference, November 5-7, Guadalajara, MX
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PRESENTATION at WINDPOWER 2008, June 1-4, Houston, TX
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PRESENTATION at the 2008 European Wind Energy Conference, 31 March-3 April, Brussels. Belgium
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PAPER, "The Economics of Storing Wind Electricity as Hydrogen" at WindPower 2007 June 3-6 Los Angeles, CA USA
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PAPER "The Technology of Storing Wind Electrcity as Hydrogen" at the European Wind Energy Conference, 7-10 May, 2007, Milan, Italy
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PAPER at the POWER GEN Renewable Energy and Fuels Conference, March 6-8, 2007, Las Vegas, NV
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PRESENTATION "Reporting the Wind Story" At the Seminar "Reporting Energy Issues in the Midwest", Sponsored by the Foundation for American Communications, Urbana, IL September 14, 2006
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Letter to the Editor of SPARK, November, 2005
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"US Energy Sources and Uses" October 29, 2005 Interview on KYGT, Clear Creek County, CO Public Radio
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2005 COMMENTS to Illinois Commerce Commision Concerning lllinois' Renewable Portfolio Standard (RPS)
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My ANSWERS to Certain Questions Concerning Illinois' 2005 Renewable Portfolio Standard (RPS)
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My 4 October 2005 Speech to the Sierra Club, Chicago Group, North Shore Program
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COMMENTS Quoted in Newspapers or Magazines
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PUBLISHED "January 3, 2005 Letter to the Editor" in Crain's Chicago Business
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UNPUBLISHED Letters to the Editor
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PAPER "Carbon Content of Hydrogen Vehicle Fuel" in the February, 2005 Journal of Solar Energy Engineering
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PAPER "Worksheet to Compute the Cost Wind Electricity", World Renewable Energy Conference-VIII, Denver, CO USA, August 29-September 3, 2004
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PAPER California Climate Change Center's First Annual Conference on Climate Change, June 9-10, 2004, Sacramento, CA
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PAPER, National Hydrogen Association 20O4 Convention, April 26-30, 2004, Los Angeles, CA
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PAPER-Global WINDPOWER 2004 Conference, Chicago, IL USA, 28-31 March 2004
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PAPER-United States Association for Energy Economics-NCAC-Washington, DC, Friday, December 19, 2003
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PAPER-Illinois Economics Association's 33rd Annual Meeting, October 17-18, 2003, Chicago, IL
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PAPER-American Wind Energy Association, WIND 2003 Conference, May 18-21, 2003, Austin, TX
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PAPER-American Solar Energy Society's SOLAR 2003 Conference, June 21-23, 2003, Austin,TX
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PAPER-International Solar Energy Society-SOLAR WORLD CONFERENCE 2003-14-19 June 2003,Goteborg, Sweden
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PAPER-European Wind Energy Association-2003 EUROPEAN WIND ENERGY CONFERENCE 16-20 June 2003-Madrid,Spain
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PAPER-National Hydrogen Association's 14th Annual Meeting, March 4-6, 2003, Washington, DC
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PAPER "Worksheet to compute the Cost of PV electricity" in the August, 2002 Journal of Solar Energy Engineering
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PAPER, SOLAR 2002, Reno, NV, June 15-20, 2002
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PAPER, Global Windpower 2002 Conference, Paris, France, April 2-5, 2002
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Paper, RIO '02 CONFERENCE--ENERGY POLICIES AND TECHNOLOGIES FOR A SUSTAINABLE FUTURE January, 2002 RIO de JANEIRO, BRAZIL
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Download WINDPOWER 2009 Post Card
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GHG Emissions Papers Will Help You Understand Climate Change
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PAPERS Cited in Other Published Papers
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QUOTED in the Northwestern Alumni Magazine, Winter, 2007
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VISIT to Georgetown, CO August 12 to September 2, 2008
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PARIS VISIT, 9 March - 1 April 2009
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VISITED Washington, DC 23-30 June 2005
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First BLOG (April 5, 2007) on the New York Times Web Site
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ATTENDED SOLAR 2006, July 8-13, 2006, Denver, CO
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ATTENDED WINDPOWER 2006, June 4-7, 2006, Pittsburgh, PA
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ATTENDED the AWEA RPS Workshop, March 7-8, 2006, Chicago, IL
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PAPER, National Hydrogen Association 20O4 Convention, April 26-30, 2004, Los Angeles, CA
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Michael Stavy
Consulting Energy Economist
312.832.1631
432 North Clark Street
Suite 204
Chicago, Illinois USA 60654

michaelstavy@covad.net
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The Click feature does not work I presented my paper, The Carbon Content of Hydrogen Vehicle Fuel, at the recent National Hydrogen Association Conference. The carbon content of gasoline combustion was incorrectly stated at the NHA Conference. It is correctly stated below. The carbon content of natural gas was not presented at the Conference. It is presented below. The carbon content of hydrogen vehicle fuel (HVF) produced at a wind electric powered hydrogen electrolyzer (HE) is zero. The carbon content of HVF produced at an electric powered 80% efficient HE using the average carbon content of electricity on the US grid is 27,815 gm-CO2/gal-H2. Using electricity from a combined cycle gas turbine an electric powered 80% efficient HE would produce HVF with a carbon content of 16,907 gm-CO2/gal-H2 . Using electricity from a conventional coal plant, an electric powered 80% efficient HE would produce HVF with a carbon content of 45,268 gm-CO2/gal-H2. Upstream carbon in the grid/coal/NG electricity is not included. Upstream carbon would increase the carbon content of the HE's HVF. The carbon content of HVF from steam methane reformation (SMR) of natural gas has a carbon content of 8,492 gm-CO2/gal-H2. This assumes that the SMR has 75% efficiency in the conversion of the NG energy into energy in the H2. The carbon content of the electricity used to power the SMR is not included in the 75% efficiency. The carbon content of NG is 51,338 gm-CO2/mmBtu-NG. Source: Table: Carbon Content of Various Fuels, Page 333, US Congress, Office of Technological Assessment, Changing by Degrees: Steps to Reduce Greenhouse Gases, OTA-0-482 (Washington, DC U.S. Government Printing Office, February 1991). I converted the Table’s value for 14 mg-C/Btu-NG into 51,338 gm-CO2/mmBtu-NG. Upstream carbon in the NG is not included. Upstream carbon would increase the carbon content of the SMR's HVF. For comparison, the combustion of a gasoline has 9,099 gm-CO2/gal-gasoline. Source: I converted the OTA-0-482 Table’s value of 20 mg-C/Btu-gasoline into 9,099 gm-CO2/gal-gasoline. I also computed a second value for gasoline; 9,455 gm-CO2/gal-gasoline using the HHV for gasoline. Source: M. Wang, GREET 1.5 -- Transportation Fuel-Cycle Model, Volume 1: Methodologies, Development, Use, and Results, Center for Transportation Research, Argonne National Laboratory, ANL/ESD-39, Vol.1, Aug. 1999 and M. Wang, GREET 1.5 -- Transportation Fuel-Cycle Model, Volume 2: Appendices of Data and Results, Center for Transportation Research, Argonne National Laboratory, ANL/ESD-39, Vol.2, Aug. 1999. I converted M. Wang's Tailpipe 75,640.0 g-CO2/mmBtu and HHV of 125,000 Btu/gal-gasoline values into gm-CO2/gal-gasoline. Both values are tailpipe values and do not include upstream carbon. Upstream carbon would increase the carbon content of the gasoline.
4 June 2004 Revised: 6 June 2004
Black ink illustration of wind turbines located along I-10, San Gorgonio Pass, San Bernadino Mountains, Palm Springs, CA. The carbon content of hydrogen vehicle fuel (HVF) produced at a wind electric powered electrolyzer is zero. Used with permission of the artist: Christine BOIRY
4 June 2004
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