End to All Power Problems

I hope it does too but not because I think a Polar bear will hug me in a commercial. If they would just say its better to clean things up instead of selling flawed and feloniously squewed science maybe they would actually get somewhere.
Climate change is more a cycle than anything else and the far left needs to come to terms with it, once that happens real progress can be had and many MANY more will participate.

This is exciting stuff. Check out the vid.
I would bet at some point in time, big oil will have a problem with this.

Big Oil will be behind this like you wouldn't believe. Big oil also is big natural gas, and domestically. It would be the biggest profit making venture of all time. Now IPP's (independent power producers) and large regulated power companies (FPL, Southern Co, TVA, WPS, AEP), now they will have problems with this.

Macdad,
I'm afraid that government policy is involved, like it or not.

My electric bill is for say.....450KwH per month. Let's just say I could buy a methane genset of 1000KwH per month capacity. The rules make it mandatory that the power company 'buy' my power. However, they never cut me a check, but use my power to 'offset' my bill. So, I could have a ZERO bill and make the power company money.
Change the rules and make 'em PAY me cash, and the game changes.
Likewise tax incentives / rebates. If the unit costs 20,000$ it'll take me a LONG time to justify the cost thru traditional payback analysis. This is strictly a money calculation. But, if I can sell my power for cash or get a lot of money from the government till, than the equation changes.

If your statements about being less expensive and lower marginal cost are correct, than it is indeed a game changer. However, the other side is that you are now a 'power company' and may have additional rules / licensing and taxation to contend with. Maybe if you stay off-grid?
Point is, the Power Utilities simply won't take this laying down.

I remember a couple summers ago when Enron was SCREWING California by selling our electricity back to us for some wacky rate that FERC did absolutely NOTHING. (Federal Energy Regulatory Commission) ......

This is, however, after all is said and done, a technology to keep track of.

Magfan, sorry butyou actually have all of that wrong from top to bottom.

This technology will generate power and only as much as you use. You will have no excess to sell back to your electric provider. You will only be billed for the Nat Gas that you use if this works as advertised. You are "off the grid" unless you keep a connection for back up. The power company has no say in this at all. They cannot stop you from generating your own power.

What happened with Enron in the Summer 2000 had nothing to do with FERC. The state of California deregulated their retail and wholesale power without knowledge of what they were doing. The utilities were no longer in charge of the grid, and were actually complicit in the legislation that passed allowing it. They should have paid more attention.

What Enron, Dynegy, El Paso, Aquila (and other charged in this F--- Up) did was they took advantage of some terrible rules concerning scheduling through the congested transmission point into SoCal. They would all schedule into the points, they would fill up and dis-allow a lot of the generation to flow. The companies would then take the generation off line and market would SCREAM up to find generation to fill the load.

Firstly, the companies that did this were not doing anything illegal, they were just short term thinking idiots who shot the goose who laid the golden egg. Part of the problem was that California regulations were so rediculous, that at the time there was not anywhere near enough transmission capacity (thanks tree huggers and Grey D), or generation so that caused the congestion. Who on earth would de-regulate then?? It was a cluster from Day 1.

The idiots at the mechant energy companies involved shot he goose that laid the golden egg because they were so short sighted they didn't think of the consequences beyond the quarterly returns from the prices they pushed the market to.

The other huge regions that were in the process of deregulating, Souther Co (GA, AL, parts of FL, MS), Florida Power and Light, Entergy (LA, AR and parts of TX), AEP, etc... all used this crisis to stop deregulation dead in it's tracks. This was a major cause for the Bankruptcies of Mirant, NRG, Calpine and the dissolution of a bunch of other merchant power developers, and none of it was good for the consumer. Oh yeah, and the "Smartest Guys in the Room" took about 15,000 jobs with them as they melted down.

Sorry, I digressed, but long story short, no the utilities won't be happy, but they cannot stop you from generating at your house, and you will have no excess power to sell back to the grid.

Also the state commisions, not FERC dictate your particular states' rules regarding retail (consumer) power. The good news for you in Cali, is that you will get this technology first, and many businesses there (Google, eBay, Cisco) have been the Beta test facilities, and Cali has great natural gas infrastucture, and access to lots of supply.

So sign up now.