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The Economics of Bloom Energy's "Breakthrough" Fuel Cell
Todd Woody, writing for the NYTimes GreenInc blog, has some details on the design of the Bloom Box solid oxide fuel cells from his look inside the Bloom Energy facilities this week. And Lux Research has this post looking at the economics of the Bloom Box, which is a good read.
It appears that the unsubsidized price of the Bloom Box is about $7-8,000/kW so their 100 kW units cost $700,000-800,000 without subsidy. As a fuel cell, it also needs fuel to run, in this case natural gas or another source of methane (such as landfill gas or biogas from anaerobic digesters).
After federal subsidies for fuel cells (they can claim the same 30% investment tax credit that solar gets) and a $2,500 California rebate, and assuming $7/mmBTU price for natural gas, a 100 kW Bloom Box unit generates electricity at 8-10 cents/kWh. That compares favorable to commercial electricity rates in many parts of the country,(average about 11 cents/kWh across US with higher rates in several states, including California, New York and Hawaii) so there could be good market for the Bloom Box in distributed generation applications in a variety of places, assuming federal/state subsidies holds out.
Unsubsidized cost would be 13-14 cents/kWh, with about 9 cents/kWh from the capital costs of the Bloom box and 5 cents/kWh from natural gas costs, according to Luz Research. If natural gas prices rise or fall 50% (gas prices are often volatile), overall price would fluctuate from 11.5-12.5 cents/kWh to 20.5-21.5 cents/kWh. That unsubsidized price is still too high to compete in most markets with retail electricity without subsidy. However, this is the first generation, and if Bloom can bring prices down (and/or natural gas prices are stable/low), there could be a significant market for this fuel cell.
As far as climate benefits, supposedly it generates electricity at 50-55% conversion efficiency. CO2 emissions when running on natural gas would be just under 0.8 pounds/kWh, which compares favorably to electricity from central station coal-fired plants (2 lbs/kWh) or natural gas plants (roughly 1.3 lbs/kWh) and the national average for on-grid electricity (around 1.3-1.5 lbs/kWh). Clearly, though the Bloom Box is still not a zero emissions tech and would only cut emissions by roughly 50% relative to the national average, unless it runs on landfill gas or biogas or hydrogen from electrolysis fueled by zero-carbon electricity (which would be much more expensive as you have to add cost of electrolysis unit, higher cost electricity, and about 30% conversion losses in electrolysis).
It is also worth noting that the average emissions rate of grid electricity in some states is less than the Bloom Box's 0.8 lbs/kWh. According to EPA's eGrid database, that list of states includes Vermont, Idaho, Washington, Oregon, California and New Jersey. However, EPA does not account for imported electricity across state borders, which tends to increase the emissions rates of most of these states. California, for example, has an emissions rate of about 0.65 lbs/KWh according to eGrid - which is notably less than the Bloom Box's emissions rate running on natural gas - but more like 1.0 lbs/KWh when imports of mostly-coal-fired electricity from out of state is factored in (author's calculations). When imports are factored in, this author calculates that average emissions rates for on-grid electricity in Vermont, Washington and Oregon still fall below that of the Bloom fuel cell (but emissions rates vary within each state from utility to utility as well).
Solid oxide fuel cells have notoriously faced challenges with durability, since they operate at very high temperatures, which the Bloom box will also have to overcome to prove profitable. Todd Woddy writes:
In seven months of [pilot test] operations, Bloom has replaced a few fuel-cell wafers, but the machines have otherwise operated without a problem, Ms. Skoczlas Cole [of Ebay] said.The advantage of solid oxide fuel cells running so hot is that all that waste heat can potentially be put to good use. When co-generating heat and electricity, solid oxide fuel cells can reach combined efficiencies upwards of 85 percent, which is excellent, but no word yet whether or not the Bloom fuel cell will co-generate heat. At this point, it appears that it does not (
Bloom executives said the company spent years developing a proprietary seal made from low-cost materials to prevent cracks and leaks. They estimate that the Bloom boxes will have a 10-year lifespan and that the company will have to swap out the fuel-cell stacks twice during that time.
Mike Brown, an executive with UTC Power, a leading fuel-cell maker, said the fuel cells need to last at least four or five years for the technology to be competitive.
I also hear that it may require zirconium oxide as a membrane (can anyone confirm that?) and zirconium doesn't grow on trees, nor is it processed quickly, which may hamper production volumes.
So is the Bloom Box the solution to all the world's energy problems? Of course not. But could it finally move fuel cells for stationary power generation a big step forward? It looks like the chances are good. Only time, and the tests of the market, will tell...
(As a side note, it's worth noting that the development of the Bloom fuel cell got started as part of the NASA Mars program, showing once again how public investments in technology development can catalyze innovation and private sector entrepreneurialism.)
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russ bailey says:The Chinese - the Chinese - the Chinese!
Charles Barton says:Jesse, zirconium is a rear earth, and the Chines control production of most of the world's rare earths. They have announced that there will be no rear earths exports after 2011. End of the Bloom Box? Maybe not. It is possible to recover significant amounts of zirconium from the used reactor fuels, of generation IV reactors (LFTRs and IFRs).
Rick Engebretson says:Re: Compare to Capstone. I did my grad research on proton exchange kinetics. Protons in water are just like electrons in semiconductors. They are a unique ion in that they are purely a quantum physics particle, they have no atomic volume. Like many in the fuel cell industry, I suspect Bloom still treats the proton like an ion. Ions use membrane pores that fail, quantum mechanics uses tunneling. But just guessing.
As for the Capstone product; I like it. I spoke with them some time ago about methanol but they had not tried it. However, Honeywell is a competitor and Treas. Sec. Geithner paid them a visit recently.
Here in Minnesota cogeneration is a big opportunity. Both approaches are good steps, but I believe the Capstone solution is ahead in cost and reliability.
Jesse Jenkins says:Question for the assembled TEC community: any idea how the Bloom fuel cell compares to the Capstone microturbine, which is of comparable size (35 kw to 200 kw) and can be used for distributed co-generation and backup power like the Bloom Box and can run on various methane fuels. A simpler technology (potentially), and already in deployment, but how does it compare on cost, performance, emissions, reliability, etc.? Anybody know?
Geoffrey Styles says:I believe the "not for long" concerning Vermont in the comment above refers to the decision by the state senate of Vermont to terminate the license for the Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant, the source of most of those low-emission electrons.
Charles Barton says:The Bloom Box appears no more efficient that combined cycle gas turbines, produces the same CO2 that they do, and uses natural gas, a product that according to recent posts in The Oil Drum may be in increasingly short supply in the next ten years. Unsubsidized the Bloom box is more expensive than nuclear power, even without counting the cost of its carbon based fuel. The Bloom Box is simply another example of the Amory Lovins soft road illusion machine in action. It is another example of the American cargo cult mentality.
Jesse Jenkins says:Commenter Amazingdrx at Grist reminds me that waste heat can indeed be used to provide cooling using the common absorption refrigeration technique (which I should have recalled, since the entire campus at my alma mater, the University of Oregon - Go Ducks! - was cooled using absoprtion chillers run by our natural gas plant). So the waste heat from these fuel cell stacks should be used to cool the data centers they also power, increasing the efficiency and economics of the system...
Post has been updated accordingly...
Jesse Jenkins says:Thanks Mark. Appreciate the compliments.
The ITC certainly isn't optimized for much at all. Why, for example, should we expect the same 30% tax credit to drive a whole set of different technologies forward, each with different price points, competitors and market conditions? (Answer: we shouldnt!). Clumsy indeed, but to be fair, the ITC is designed to spur "alternative energy" in the energy security and diversification of the energy mix sense, not zero-carbon energy sources.
To the highest degree politically possible, internalizing externalities like carbon emissions will certainly help level the playing field for low-carbon techs. But, as we've been agreed on before (I think), there's no reason to assume the kinds of carbon prices we'd get from Congress are sufficient to make something like Bloom's fuel cell appear. A $20/ton CO2 price would raise the ave. grid rate by about $13/MWh using the figures above, or 1.3 cents/kWh. That's not enough to make the 13-14 cents/kWh Bloom Box competitive in most markets, even if it ran on zero emissions fuels at no greater cost (which it doesn't).
If we want to see a suite of technologies emerge, we need a suite of targeted incentives that allow promising techs to move into the market price and down cost curves, with continued subsidy conditional on continued improvements in price and performance towards the point where the tech is competitive without subsidy at all (hopefully with as many externalities included as possible). I prefer to think of this as creating the conditions for winners to emerge at all - given the huge hurdles facing new energy techs in a market dominated by incumbents - rather than picking winners and losers. A carbon price helps but is far from sufficient in that.
Marc Gunther says:Jesse, thanks for this excellent post, which taught me a lot that I needed to know about Bloom. Too bad 60 Minutes didn't ask for your input. If this company is as good at producing electricity and as it is at marketing itself, it will be a huge success.
By the way, your story also points out the clumsiness of the investment tax credit as a prod for "alternative energy." (Bloom isn't renewable when using natural gas.) The same tax credit supports a technology that, as you point out, does not deliver the carbon benefits of solar or wind.
This is why we need cap-and-dividend or a carbon tax or some technology-neutral way to capture the externality of carbon emissions.
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Discussions about the making, showing and selling of art from the Middle East have been echoing around contemporary art circles for a few years, raising several questions and problems about the current art-market obsession with Arab art. But the question of whether galleries, artists and institutions can themselves challenge or undo the now-fashionable hype around art from 'the region' – and are not, in fact, its accomplices – remains unanswered.
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Annette Fullerton-Thoman became emotional as she talked about the flooding from Tropical Storm Lee that damaged her business, the Tourist Inn, in Hellam Township a year ago.
"It's not sad tears," she said. "It's grateful tears."
Family, employees, customers and the community chipped in to help her make repairs, she said. The carpet in the bar, for example, was given anonymously. An electrician donated three days of work.
What should have taken months to repair only took 21/2 weeks, she said. The bar hosts benefits for people in the community, and to be on the flipside was "quite an experience."
"You just pay it forward," she said.
This week marks a year since Lee dropped about a foot of rain on York County and unleashed severe flooding. It washed away a few mobile homes, flooded businesses, and damaged roads and bridges.
One man -- 70-year-old Paul Hoffman of Codorus Township -- died when he fell down his basement steps during a power outage.
It took nearly a year for the Seven Valleys Community Fire Company to recover from the 3 feet of water that flooded the firehouse. It moved walls, destroyed wood paneling and washed away some firefighter gear.
The finishing touches were put on the building last week, said John McDonald, president of the fire company.
"It looks pretty decent," he said.
He added that it's more flood-resistant. A concrete floor, for example, replaced a damaged wood one.
Some 29 households are still recovering from that flooding.
"We're in the last phase of work with several families to finish up the projects," said the Rev. Jim Herbert, chairman of the York/Adams Long Term Recovery Committee.
It's minor things, such as finishing the drywall installation, putting fixtures such as toilets and sinks in place and moving some earth to prevent runoff, Herbert said.
The committee has learned much through the process, such as it definitely needs to get more players involved in the event of another disaster, Herbert said.
He also wants to see if it can work with the county's community emergency response team, also known as CERT, in the future.
Herbert estimates at least 150 volunteers helped out.
"Those that did volunteer their time gave a lot," he said.
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About 6.27 inches of rain fell at the York Airport on Sept. 7 and 8 last year, said Mike Leseney, senior meteorologist with AccuWeather.com.
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of the most controversial topic regarding the India's society and
culture is its stringent caste system. The word "caste" is taken
from the Portuguese word 'casta'. It can be defined as a rigid
social system in which a social hierarchy is maintained generation
after generation and allows little mobility out of the position to
which a person is born.
This system dates almost 3000 years back and was formed based on the need to form a social order in ancient India. It is still very prevalent as part of India's society. Today, it occurs more in the rural villages than in big urban cities; and more in the social matters of kinship and marriages than in impersonal day-to-day interaction, such as taking the bus. Having been around for centuries, it is highly doubtful that the caste system will die out completely. Its presence will still be felt in the near future.
The original caste system came about when the Aryans migrated from the north to India around 1600BC. During the Vedic age, Manu, the founder of this ancient Hindu or Aryan society established the new social order, reflecting a return to spiritual values from an earlier and materialistic humanity. He founded four social orders based on four main goals of both humans and society. A social classification system of four different classes (varnas) was thus devised so that the human race could have a smooth and ordered life in society.
The origin of the caste system is in Hinduism, but it affected the whole Indian society. The caste system in the religious form is basically a simple division of society in which there are four castes arranged in a hierarchy and below them the outcast. But socially the caste system was more complicated, with much more castes and sub-castes and other divisions. Legally the government disallows the practice of caste system but has a policy of affirmative discrimination of the backward classes.
The caste system in India can be described as an elaborately stratified social hierarchy distinguishing India's social structure from any other nation. Its history is multifaceted and complex Caste is a term, which is used to specify a group of people having a specific social rank and dates back to 1200 BCE. The Indian term for caste is jati, and generally designates a group that can vary in size from a handful to many thousands. There are thousands of jatis each with its own rules and customs. The various jatis are traditionally arranged in hierarchical order and fit into one of the four basic varnas the (Sanskrit word for "colors").
*The varna of Brahmans, commonly identified with priests and the learned class
*The varna of Kshatriyas, associated with rulers and warriors including property owners.
*The varna of Vaishyas, associated with commercial livelihoods (i.e. traders)
*The varna of Shudras, the servile laborers
The Untouchables occupy a place that is not clearly defined by boundaries and is outside of the varna scheme. Their jobs (such as toilet cleaning and garbage removal) cause them to be considered impure and thus "untouchable." Historically the untouchables were not allowed in temples and many other public places. In 1950 legislation was passed to prevent any form of discrimination towards the untouchables. Although legislation has affected the status of the people, they are yet very much a visible part of Indian society.
Religious Background
The earliest expressions of caste can be found in one of India's vast bodies of religious scripture known as the Vedas, which are though to have been complied between 1500 and 1000 BCE, although the time of their composition is under debate. They were transmitted orally for many generations before being written down. Therefore, centuries may have passed before they were ever committed to writing. These works are considered the source of ancient Indian wisdom. The first of the four basic Vedic books is the Rig Veda; a collection of over 1,000 hymns containing the basic mythology of the Aryan gods. The Rig Veda contains one of the most famous sections in ancient Indian literature in which the first man created, Purusa, is sacrificed in order to give rise to the four varnas.
"The Brahmin was his mouth, his two arms were made the Rajanya [Kshatriya, king and warrior], his two thighs [loins] the Vaishya, from his feet the Sudra [servile class] was born."
It can be argued that the composers of the Vedas, especially those sections within the Vedas called the Brahmanas, were concerned with the interconnections that organized reality (Smith, 7). This way of looking at the varnas allows us to see how such a system can survive several millennia. It classifies people not only in terms of their different qualities but also with respect to their different privileges. Each class thus has a special role to play in society as well as a unique function: this structure is a means of creating and organizing an effective society. The varna system is inter-linked with creation, lending itself a great deal of reverence and validity. If space, time the congregation of the gods and goddesses, the natural world, scripture and ritual, and the human body itself- if all these realms bear classification according to varna, how could an organization of society be regarded as anything other than the way things should be? An important thing to note is that the Vedas do NOT mention a concept such as Untouchability. It is a part of the system that has been created by society itself.
Although the nation has a long and varied history, the role of the caste system pre-colonialism can be understood by focusing on the major eras in Indian history. Much of India is rural and that which is not, for the most part, is much more urban. With such a drastic difference in the city and the village there is also a difference in the way caste has been interpreted and implemented over the years. The early system most represented something analogous to the medieval guild system. It allowed a specialization of society and each member knew their role. Much later in India's history, as India became more and more prevalent in the international scene the concept of the caste system began to have different connotations. It was thought of as backward by much of the west. The greatest changes in the perception as well as in the reality came with the coming and going of the British.
Caste System in Modern India
The leaders of independent India decided that India will be democratic, socialist and secular country. According to this policy there is a separation between religion and state. Practicing untouchability or discriminating a person based on his caste is legally forbidden. Along with this law the government allows positive discrimination of the depressed classes of India.
The Indians have also become more flexible in their caste system customs. In general the urban people in India are less strict about the caste system than the rural. In cities one can see different caste people mingling with each other, while in some rural areas there is still discrimination based on castes and sometimes also on untouchability. Sometimes in villages or in the cities there are violent clashes which, are connected to caste tensions. Sometimes the high castes strike the lower castes who dare to uplift their status. Sometimes the lower caste get back on the higher castes.
In modern India the term caste is used for Jat and also for Varna. The term, caste was used by the British who ruled India until 1947. The British who wanted to rule India efficiently made lists of Indian communities. They used two terms to describe Indian communities.
Castes and Tribes
The term caste was used for Jats and also for Varnas. Tribes were those communities who lived deep in jungles, forests and mountains far away from the main population and also communities who were hard to be defined as castes for example communities who made a living from stealing or robbery. These lists, which the British made, were used later on by the Indian governments to create lists of communities who were entitled for positive discrimination.
The castes, which were the elite of the Indian society, were classified as high castes. The other communities were classified as lower castes or lower classes. The lower classes were listed in three categories. The first category is called Scheduled Castes. This category includes in it communities who were untouchables. In modern India, untouchability exists at a very low extent. The untouchables call themselves Dalit, meaning depressed. Until the late 1980s they were called Harijan, meaning children of God. This title was given to them by Mahatma Gandhi who wanted the society to accept untouchables within them.
The second category is Scheduled Tribes. This category includes in it those communities who did not accept the caste system and preferred to reside deep in the jungles, forests and mountains of India, away from the main population. The Scheduled Tribes are also called Adivasi, meaning aboriginals.
The third category is called sometimes Other Backward Classes or Backward Classes. This category includes in it castes who belong to Sudra Varna and also former untouchables who converted from Hinduism to other religions. This category also includes in it nomads and tribes who made a living from criminal acts.
According to the central government policy these three categories are entitled for positive discrimination. Sometimes these three categories are defined together as Backward Classes. 15% of India's population are Scheduled Castes. According to central government policy 15% of the government jobs and 15% of the students admitted to universities must be from Scheduled Castes. For the Scheduled Tribes about 7.5% places are reserved which is their proportion in Indian population. The Other Backwards Classes are about 50% of India's population, but only 27% of government jobs are reserved for them.
Along with the central government, the state governments of India also follow a positive discrimination policy. Different states have different figures of communities entitled for positive discrimination based on the population of each state. Different state governments have different lists of communities entitled for positive discrimination. Sometimes a specific community is entitled for rights in a particular state but not in another state of India.
In modern India new tensions were created because of these positive discrimination policies. The high caste communities feel discriminated by the government policy to reserve positions for the Backward Classes. In many cases a large number of high caste members compete for a few places reserved for them. While the Backward Classes members do not have to compete at all because of the large number of reserved places for them compared to the candidates. Sometimes in order to fill the quota, candidates from the lower classes are accepted even though they are not suitable. Sometimes some reserved positions remain unmanned because there were few candidates from the lower classes causing more tension between the castes. Between the lower castes there are also tensions over reservation.
In the order of priority for a reserved place of the Backward Classes, candidate from the Scheduled castes is preferred over a candidate from the Scheduled Tribes who is preferred over a candidate from the other Backward Classes. As stated earlier Other Backward Classes are about 50% of India's population but only 27% of the Other Backward Classes are entitled for positive discrimination according to central government policy. Some Other Backward Classes communities are organizing politically to be recognized as Backward Classes entitled for positive discrimination.
The Scheduled Tribes who are seen as the aborigines of India got ownership and certain rights over Indian land. Many communities in India claim also to be aborigines of India and they are claiming the same rights as the Scheduled Tribes.
The caste identity has become a subject of political, social and legal interpretation. Communities who get listed as entitled for positive discrimination do not get out of this list even if their social and political conditions get better. In many cases the legal system is involved to decide if a certain person is entitled for positive discrimination.
But with all this positive discrimination policy, most of the communities who were low in the caste hierarchy remain low in the social order even today. Communities who were high in the social hierarchy remain even today high in the social hierarchy. Most of the degrading jobs are even today done by the Dalits, while the Brahmans remain at the top of the hierarchy by being the doctors, engineers and lawyers of India.


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Woman shot dead, man injured near Olympia
The shootings at Lattin's Country Cider Mill and Farm, east of Olympia, left the man, Roy Franco, with critical injuries. He was airlifted to Harborview Medical Center in Seattle.
The woman, later identified as Kay Langford, 43, was pronounced dead at the scene. She was an employee at the cider mill, a family-owned farm that sells apple cider, eggs, pies, apple fritters and seasonal fruit and produce.
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"He had sent her flowers last week, and she didn't want anything to do with him. She told me it was over," Lattin said.
Lattin said she and Langford saw Franco coming Thursday morning. Langford tried to get away while Lattin tried to restrain him.
"I tried to grab his arm and his clothing and stop him ... to give her more time to get away. But he was so strong I couldn't hang onto him," Lattin said.
"I was trying to help to stop him so that she could get away, but it just wasn't possible. He jumped over a pallet of product and got to her anyway."
Lattin called the deadly shooting a "terrible, terrible tragedy."
"We'll miss that gal tremendously," she said. "She was a wonderful employee, and she just was a real good gal. ... She was afraid of him, and he was evidently waiting for her this morning in the parking lot."
Lattin said it's a miracle that the man didn't shoot more people.
"He was just intent on doing what he was going to do, and if he wasn't so intent in what he was doing I figure he would have probably shot us, too," she said.
Lattin said a baker and driver were also there at the time. Altogether, the cider mill employs about 25 people.
Chief Deputy Dave Pearsall of the Thurston County Sheriff's Office said gunman fired several shots before hitting the victim.
"He had chased her on foot from these vehicles to the building," Pearsall said. "He fired some shots while chasing her and then shot her inside."
The cider mill, located at 9402 Rich Road SE, is a popular destination for families and schoolchildren.
"So it's very fortunate that there were no other people here today when this occurred," Pearsall said.
Laurie Sanchez, a neighbor, said the family-owned farm operation was the last place anyone would expect a killing to happen.
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Grading the off-season moves: Defensemen
There has been some criticism of the things Stars GM Joe Nieuwendyk either has or hasn't done this summer, so I thought we should just take a look back and study some of the decisions he and the front office have made in a segment we'll call "Grading the off-season moves."
Today, let's look at how they have handled the defensemen.
I know this will be an area where a lot of you are heavily critical of Nieuwendyk and Co., but I'm actually going to give him a passing grade on this one. I just think there was only so much he could have done within the budget he had. As such, he would have had to move a high dollar forward in a trade in hopes of finding decent stop-gap players who might not stick around for the future.
It really is a pickle when you think about it. The Stars didn't do much with this group over the summer and part of the reason for that is moves Nieuwendyk and the front office made last year.
They got Stephane Robidas signed to a four-year contract extension last October and that extension kicks in this season. Robidas will make $3.25 million this season on a contract that averages $3.3 million for the four years. I really think that's a fair deal, because I think Robidas, 33, will be your No. 2 defenseman for that span and will do a great job all four seasons. He's versatile enough to play with the best defensemen in the league and he's strong enough to lead a second pair if that's how the Stars want to use him.
He is a key reason why you might only really need one more defenseman (although he has to be a really, really good defenseman) to make this thing work eventually.
The front office also got Nicklas Grossman signed to a two-year contract extension that averages $1.625 million, and that will be good value for a rock solid 25-year-old defenseman going forward. The fear is that Grossman will be an unrestricted free agent at the end of this contract, but new ownership will definitely be in place by then and they should be able to keep him if they want.
Now, also under this regime were the signings last summer of Karlis Skrastins (on the second-year of a two year contract who will make $1.65 million this season) and Jeff Woywitka (on the second year of a two-year contract and will make $700,000 this season). Both are decent defenders, but you do wonder if there weren't better options out there. Heck, the addition of Brad Lukowich (who will probably spend most of the season in the minors) over Woywitka probably would have been an upgrade, but since Woywitka is on a one-way contract, he will most likely stay in the NHL and Lukowich will play in the minors.
A year later, you do have to think that spending a few million on depth defensemen to play in places that are now occupied by Skrastins and Woywitka would have been a better investment than adding depth forwards, but that problem can be remedied next summer when the defense group could see bigger changes.
Mark Fistric isn't going anywhere after he had a great season, and the Stars are still sold on Trevor Daley, who is in the final year of his contract before becoming an unrestricted free agent and will make $2.5 million this year. They also plan on giving Matt Niskanen one more chance and expect to get him signed to a new contract extension.
That means that there are a lot of motivated players this season. There is a chance that Daley, Skrastins, Niskanen and Woywitka are not on this team next season if they do not perform well, so the front office does have some options going forward.
In addition, Nieuwendyk did give himself some depth in case he wants to make a trade or two this season. By cutting loose Andrew Hutchinson ($600,000), Garrett Stafford ($250,000) and Dan Jancevski ($250,00), the front office cut a huge part out of the Texas Stars (and one of the big reasons the team was able to make it to the AHL final). But, it also cut out three guaranteed contracts for veterans and replaced them with Lukowich ($1 million at the NHL level and $275,000 at the minor league level) and Swiss free agent Severin Blindenbacher ($900,000 at the NHL level and $67,500 at the minor league level). Those two should be better NHL options and they do allow Nieuwendyk to get creative if he wants to make some moves with his other players.
I think they also should give Texas a more dynamic blueline when you combine them with promising rookie Philip Larsen. Could top prospect Ivan Vishnevskiy's departure (traded to Atlanta in the Kari Lehtonen deal and then moved to Chicago by the Thrashers) end up hurting the Stars? Possibly. But Dallas believes that Larsen is a better player and that the two are similar enough that both could not have developed at the same time on the same blueline (especially if Brad Richards is sticking around on the power play).
We'll see if that was a good move, but it was necessary to get Lehtonen.
Which leads us to the big question of why didn't the Stars get a big name defenseman? The easy answer is money. Dallas doesn't need a good defenseman, it needs a great one. Many of the players out there would have required a long-term investment at fairly big money or would have been done on expiring contracts with no guarantee of an extension. Trades for players like Tomas Kaberle, Kevin Bieksa or Sheldon Souray are still open, but the Stars would have to make the deals work within the constraints of the current budget and they would have to then try to get those players signed long-term.
The Stars studied all of those possible moves, but simply could not make a deal. In the long run, I think they will probably be happy that they didn't. The current set-up allows them plenty of options going forward, and new ownership will hopefully allow them the opportunity to study better options.
But the problem with all of this is that they are bringing back the same defense of a team that struggled with defense last season. Their hope is that this group will play better in front of Lehtonen than they did in front of Marty Turco (in part because of Lehtonen's simple style of puck movement and in part because they believe Lehtonen will stop more pucks than Turco and give this group more confidence). They also think players like Daley, Grossman, Fistric and Niskanen are still improving _ and that players like Lukowich, Blindenbacher and Larsen will push the top group very hard to play well.
And, lastly, they believe the work of new associate coach Willie Desjardins and a better understanding of Marc Crawford's system will mean that the forwards are better defensively.
Improving a goals against average of 2.98 that ranked 23rd overall in the NHL is clearly the No. 1 job of this team right now.
So, could Joe Nieuwendyk have done a better job fixing this defense in the summer? If he really wanted to take on Sheldon Souray or move out pieces like Matt Niskanen and Trevor Daley, he could have. But I think for the long-term health of the franchise, a wait-and-see philosophy is best. Of course, that means that moves eventually will have to come if they really want to get this defense to where it needs to be, and how the front office performs with those eventual moves could determine their long-term grades and longevity with the franchise.


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Empty Planet
Nov 16 2007, 2:05 PM ESTEver since since seeing the Empty Planet episode I have been on a quest to find the book/story as it was mentioned in the episode. Search at local library lead me to a book published last in 1961 titled "Tiger By the Tail and other Science Fiction Stories" by Alan Nourse. Searched Amazon, found and ordered that book, but when it finally arrived...no such short story named Emty Planet. Also mentioned in that episode was a book/story called Allegro. Can anyone out there help me discover the source of the Empty Planet or Allegro story mentioned in the episode? Or was it just a writters fictional part to the story told in that episode?
Thanks, all who respond, in helping me on this, now, epic quest for an answer.
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1. RE: Empty Planet
Nov 17 2007, 8:52 AM ESTSo many of the shows on TV now have their own shop online where you can by cups, hats, etc. I do so wish the would do that for Criminal Minds. Have a online store where we could get the cool stuff and also have the books, tapes of songs and other things that are in the stories. 10 out of 16 found this valuable. Do you?
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Nov 17 2007, 11:05 AM ESTEmpty Planet is a fictional plot device, Allegro was a character in the story.
I do wish someone would write it though, kinda like that "Bad Twin" book for Lost. Although I hate Lost. =] 10 out of 13 found this valuable. Do you?
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Nov 17 2007, 7:44 PM ESTWhat about the book from "Fisher King", was it based on a real book or just a plot device? 0 out of 5 found this valuable. Do you?
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Nov 17 2007, 8:05 PM ESTThe Collector (the book from The Fisher King) is real. It's at amazon.com. 7 out of 9 found this valuable. Do you?
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Nov 18 2007, 5:58 AM ESTThank you Bessie Mae. I will order it today. 2 out of 5 found this valuable. Do you?
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Nov 18 2007, 7:43 AM ESTsue 1313, Bessie Mae...
Have you found something that will help me concerning Empty Planet "quest"? Tell me how The Collector may be related, please, before I order another book that isn't in any way connected! In never saw the Fisher King episode. 0 out of 2 found this valuable. Do you?
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Nov 18 2007, 7:50 AM ESTThe Collector has nothing to do with Empty Planet (which doesn't exist). The Collector was a book that the unsub in The Fisher King made the team find, because there was a code in it. I don't know anything about the book itself, but I remember people online trying to figure out the clues when the first part came on (it was a two part episode) and a lot of them did manage to figure out that it was the book.
It's just Empty Planet is the second episode where a book played a big part in the plot. The Fisher King was the first. That's really the only connection. 3 out of 7 found this valuable. Do you?
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Nov 18 2007, 8:20 AM ESTbmwdandc: Like Bessie Mae said, the Collector has nothing to do with Empty Planet. I just loved the cover of the book and I loved the 2 part story "Fisher King" (pt. 1 was the ending story of season 1 and pt 2 was the first show of season 2. I thought it would be fun to have the book and work out the code for myself. I never thought it might be a real book until you asked about Empty Planet and that is what made me ask about The Collector. 0 out of 1 found this valuable. Do you?
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Nov 20 2007, 12:40 AM ESTsue 1313, Bessie Me...
Thanks for the input. No reason not to believe you. Guess I should give up the OCD "quest." Just wish it wasn't so. The story line of Empty Planet unsubs (presumed) mothers' book about a future controlled by technology intrigued me. When my search at local libraries come up with Tiger by the Tail as a missing book, I assumed it was of the nature of Alchemists Cookbook, considering the "bombing" nature in the story, which then set me off on the quest. Now I have several childrens books titled Tiger by the Tail, and answers. Thanks to you both. It is better to have tried and failed, than to..... I'll check out the Collector. Oh, by the way...Allegro...another word in the Empty Planed episode, led me to find a book by Ramon Harris called Allegro's Secret. Genre...mystery/crime.
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Nov 22 2007, 11:03 AM ESTI know that the question is already answered but I have also searched for a novel on which "Empty Planet" is maybe based. However, I came across the wikipedia article "List of fictional books from non-book media", where "Empty Planet" is also listed. (Miscellaneous from television)
Just wanted to tell you, in case you like to take a look. It is quite entertaining, especially the "books" eventually mentioned in "The Simpsons".. 3 out of 3 found this valuable. Do you?
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Dec 21 2007, 6:43 AM ESTI looked for Empty Planet too! It sounded like a cool book, but it doesn't exist. Why would they write a whole episode on a fake book? It seems logical that it would be easier and cooler if they based an episode on something real. Episodes are usually based on real serial killers and stuff so why not a real book??? 1 out of 2 found this valuable. Do you?
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Dec 21 2007, 10:35 AM ESTBut, they're more approximations of real killers, not the actual ones. Like there are criminals *like* Tobias Henkel (Revelations) but he's not an actual real person. So, this is the same thing. A book that might sound like a real science fiction book, but one that doesn't actually exist. Plus, a real book would have a real author and to do the story they wanted, they'd have to find an author who gave up a kid for adoption or who was okay with their lives being portrayed in a fictional way, if they hadn't. 1 out of 1 found this valuable. Do you?
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Dec 21 2007, 12:35 PM ESTAmazon has a book called "Dragonfall 5 and the Empty Planet" by Brian Earnshaw and Simon Stern, don't know if it is in any way related but that is all I came up with. As for the "Alchemists Cookbook" I think that was supposed to be something akin to "The Anarchist Cookbook" by William Powell, which is a real book that, should you own a copy, will probably get you put on some sort of governmental watch list for potential terrorists. I think a kid in England just got arrested a few months ago who had a copy of "The Anarchist Cookbook" although I am not sure if mere possession of the book is why he ended up in jail. 1 out of 3 found this valuable. Do you?
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Jan 19 2010, 10:58 AM ESTFor the episode they just changed the title and a few minor details to avoid paying royalties, the books actually called " Brave New World" hope this helps :) 5 out of 6 found this valuable. Do you?
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Mar 23 2010, 10:53 PM EDTwho is the author of that book, Child if the KoRn? there were 54 search options at hastings. 0 out of 1 found this valuable. Do you?
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Apr 4 2010, 2:12 PM EDTThe existance of the book itself is in fact a fiction. As far as "Allegro" is concerned that is the name of the hero of that book. It's a music term defined in answers.com as:
adv. & adj. (Abbr. allo)
In a quick, lively tempo, usually considered to be faster than allegretto but slower than presto. Used chiefly as a direction.
Perhaps if you are serious about finding this book... you should assume the pen-name from the episode and write it? I would certainly find this an interresting solution to this connundrum. Do you find this valuable?
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Apr 6 2010, 1:58 PM EDTAldous Huxley is the author 1 out of 2 found this valuable. Do you?
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Apr 10 2010, 8:52 PM EDTI just so happen to have read Brave New World by Aldous Huxley. And that book is not even close to the descriptions mentioned in Empty Planet on that Criminal Minds episode. It is an interesting book, but its not the same one. 3 out of 4 found this valuable. Do you?
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Jun 5 2010, 3:56 PM EDTYou should read iRobot...the movie is good but the book is better. Although, it's not identical to the fictional book "Empty Planet" where the fictional main character is Allegro, it's still pretty close and definately a good read. 2 out of 2 found this valuable. Do you?


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