Re: Peak Oil- this says the world peaked-What do you think ?

Bingo! 

  That's exactly what it is, give or take a little bit.  The difference is that we can do it on a far smaller scale 50kW and up.  An ideal size for a modest commercial building, strip-mall, warehouse, school, etc...

  We're banking on significantly lower costs of the solar concentrators.  The SEGS, Solar One, and  Saguaro, all use thermo-formed glass/ceramic panels, and that makes them expensive, and heavy!  We're going after rooftop systems and were able to keep the weight under 3lbs/sq.ft.  We're slso got a different approach to the ORC, we're pulling some of the latent heat of vaporization out of the hot-gas by means of what I've been calling a synthetic heatsink.  It will allow us to boost the overall Carnot efficiency "a little bit" (I don't want anyone to think that this is a "silly perpetual motion" type of claim.  But the LHV may boost our output by a couple of percent, so even with the relatively low concentrator temperatures we're looking at 15% total system efficiency -- That's on par with the best silicon PV systems today, but at a fraction of the price, and far greater ruggedness.  We've had several notables folks (PH.D.s,  analysts, engineers) look at the system as a whole and even without any LHV we're looking at 12% electrical output.  And that's what we based the $90/MWh claim on  (better a pleasant surprise, than a subtle disappointment).

 Thanks for reading.