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Firms producing their own power in post-Fukushima Japan

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By Patrice Novotny

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Cool. I wish we Americans were half as innovative as the Japanese.

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Of course, the gas has to be trucked in. That has to cost a bit.

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Roppongi Hills produces their own electricity

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What about the renewables stories? Some firms are using biomass for these same purposes.

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At the end of the day its a factory it needs loads of electricity. God I love those gas turbines

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TOYOTA Lead on !

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Wow! I'm proud of Toyota!!

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Well done!

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...and they have to import the gas from gas producing countries. The idea that burning gas is somehow more "green" or more sustainable than burning other fossil fuel is ludicrious.

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Good for them!!! Way to show 'em how it's done, Toyota!

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To the nay sayers, please notice they are using the residual heat for drying paint on cars and heating greenhouses. I don't know for certain if utilities are using the residual heat in an efficient way, but I would guess that being monopolies (up until now) they don't have much incentive to be efficient.

While there are vast and efficient economies of scale >technologically< available for large scale power generation, it is not a certainty that advantage will translate into cheaper prices, because inefficient >business and political< practices.

A case in point: while much safer nuclear power has already been technologically possible even using boiling water design, it appears to be impossible to design and implement a human organization capable of being altruistic enough to not cut corners and to include the total cost of winding down reactors and maintaining long term storage of nuclear waste when announcing total costs. (And yes, I consider counting on use of breeder reactors to safely dispose of used nuclear fuel as unproven, unrealistic, and having well known risks).

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