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tcgI really like the image of some poor slob shoveling coal into a boiler as what we are trying to step up from.
To a certain extent, Aeronaut is correct about the sales job that will be needed. Technical success will be hard enough, but only the first step because the social and economic obstacles will be many. Some people will refuse to believe in the DPF generator because it is “too good to be true”. A few soothing words and a flashy demonstration may win over many of these. Others will hesitate to implement such a new technology because of the lack of a track record. If a few of these can be won over, many of the others could turn favorable. But the most trouble would come from the few who have a vested interest in the status quo. Coal and natural gas produces most of the electricity in this country, and the owners of these resources would be desperate to preserve their money makers.
It seems to me that framing the debate about DPF power is partially casting our side as “forward looking” and the opposition as “backward looking”. In this way, we have the high ground, and they are struggling uphill.