PUBLIC TESTIMONY

HOUSE ALTERNATIVE ENERGY COMMITTEE

REP. Ted Celeste – CHAIRMAN
Date: Wednesday, October 27, 2009
Time: 2:30 pm
Gallery 2 COSI
PANEL DISCUSSION
Doug Alsdorf, OSU Institute for Energy and the Environment

By
William Mook, CEO
The Mök Companies

Human industry uses energy at a rate of 17 trillion watts today. That power level doubles every 17 years as people
throughout the world grow richer. Today this power is generated primarily by burning of the following fossil fuels;

30.0 billion barrels of crude oil

5.7 billion tons of coal
2.7 billion tons of natural gas

Burning these fuels produce 40 billion tons of carbon-dioxide each year, These fuels also cost humanity $4 trillion
per year. Supplies of these fuels are limited. The ongoing industrial growth in Asia, principally in China and India
increases demand for energy every day. Energy prices rise as suppliers struggle to meet rising demand with fixed
reserves. Failure of supply adversely impacts the economies dependent on these fuels.

Growth will continue since human industry produces $66 trillion each year with that $4 trillion worth of energy
products.

Increasing demand, increasing prices and shortage of conventional supply create a long term trend favorable to
alternative energy development. Any nation, any state, any community, that supports the development of alternative
energy and helps reduce its costs relative to other communities, will reap the rewards of this long-term growth trend,
even if higher fuel prices mean slow downs in more traditional economic sectors.

We should take a moment to consider the size of today’s energy infrastructure, relate it to the size of today’s
alternative energy structure and consider what it would really take to displace these primary fuels in the time frame
given us by the fixed reserves of crude oil, coal, natural gas and fresh air we have left on this planet.

Any reasonable analysis must conclude we are not doing enough. But what should we be doing?

The very first thing that strikes us is the disparity between the cost of energy today and the cost of alternative energy
forms. When we burn any of the primary fuels at market rates we get heat energy. That heat energy may be
converted to other forms, but the cost of the heat is a good measure. Here are some recent prices

1 ton coal $26.49 23.0 giga-joules $ 1.15 per giga-joule

1 mcf natural gas $3.80 1.1 giga-joules $ 3.46 per giga-joule
1 barrel crude oil $85.00 6.1 giga-joules $13.94 per giga-joule

Electricity, which some would say is a higher ‘quality’ source of energy due to its flexibility;

1 mega-watt-hour conventional $100.00 3.6 giga-joules $ 27.77 per giga-joule

1 mega-watt-hour alternative $400.00 3.6 giga-joules $138.89 per giga-joule

We can see the market pays a premium for energy forms. Electricity is more valued than liquid fuels. Liquid fuels
are more valued than gaseous fuels and gaseous fuels are more valued than solid fuels. It is well known that this

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disparity is due to their ease of use and convenience. These are also factors that must be considered in addition to
price.

My company is a solar energy company. I have created a solar collection system that is very low cost relative to all
existing systems. I can produce panels in quantity at a cost of $0.05 to $0.07 per peak watt. What does this mean to
energy cost?

Well, in Ohio annual insolation is 1,310 kWh/m2/year. My panels are 40% efficient so this means each square meter
of installed capacity generates 524 kWh per year. It also means that a square meter of collector generates 400 watts
so costs $20 to $28 installed. With a 20 year life span and a 6.5% discount rate this means each square meter costs
between $1.82 to $2.54 per year. So, this means a mega-watt-hour generated by my panels costs no more than $4.84

1 mega-watt-hour Mök low est $3.48 3.6 giga-joules $0.97 per giga-joule
1 mega-watt-hour Mök high est. $4.84 3.6 giga-joules $1.34 per giga-joule

Which is less costly than the least costly of our primary fuels and allows us to contemplate the economic
replacement of all primary fuels and put us on track to lower cost energy in the future. All it takes is putting in place
regulatory framework to assist in the transition from dirty fossil fuels to clean solar energy.

I have included references to online resources detailing this technology for those who are interested. These may be
found here;

http://www.scribd.com/doc/20047598/Mook-Patent-Application
http://www.scribd.com/doc/20024194/Pages-1-42-From-Mok-Report
http://www.scribd.com/doc/20024019/White-Paper-to-Mok-FINAL-1
http://www.scribd.com/doc/20019383/mokenergy

Basically, I take a sheet of PET plastic and point a foil circuit on it, and mount small photo-voltaic cells on this
circuit. I then precision mold this sheet and other sheets of PET and join them all together to form lens like cavities.
I ultrasonically join these sheets in a fluid bath which acts as an optical medium. I then insert expanded polystyrene
in the base as a stiffener. The result is an array of 25.4 mm lenses that focus sunlight to 5,800x ambient intensity to
a 300 micron PV ‘dot‘ equipped with an optical bandpass filter and MEMs based cooling. The foil circuit costs and
installation costs dominate the pricing. Material costs, even the Ge/GaAs/InPh ‘dot‘ with MEMS features are nil.

There are a variety of ways this technology may be quickly introduced into the energy markets to compete
effectively head to head against primary energy producers all without government subsidy. What is needed is the
ability to operate AS an energy company in raising capital, and the ability to play on a level playing field with
energy companies when transporting, storing and processing solar derived energy rich chemicals that I call ‘sun
fuels’.

Videos Describing my Technology

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dbWNnVsBhOg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mkX_nvrPt1Y
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mtimceXOGzw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HDYAiFSUkuo

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