SOLAR TODAY’s January/February issue launches the magazine’s first major redesign since its launch in 1987 with a free online digital edition.
Issue highlights include –
— American Solar Energy Society [ASES]
Magnetism has been used to generate electricity for over 100 years. But previous approaches do not allow the ceaseless orbital motion hidden within ferromagnetic atoms to perform useful work. The necessary work of rotation to generate electricity has traditionally been sourced by other means, which today have become nuclear, natural-gas, hydroelectric and coal-driven turbines. An assumption has grown, that such brute sources of motion are necessary to cause magnetism to generate electricity. To date, there has been very little scientific focus on the use of the subatomic rotation within magnetic elements themselves, which causes their magnetism in the first place. It isn’t necessary to consume limited natural resources to produce the spinning motion. Ceaseless rotation is a natural resource in its own right, on a sub-atomic scale but existing everywhere, in accordance with quantum physical laws. The motion is permanent. Mankind cannot hope to ever exhaust it.
Continue reading ‘Aether induced electricity?’
This technology, using organic dye coated windows to concentrate solar energy on photovoltaic cells at glass edges, has been released for like 4 months but is still pretty fascinating stuff and the company is now online.
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MIT Research May Bring Down Cost of Solar Energy from Renewable Energy World
Foxfire is the term for the bioluminescence created in the right conditions by a few species of fungi that decay wood.
As a kid, I remember my Grandfather’s Foxfire books, which were an effort to document the lifestyle, culture, and skills of people in southern Appalachia in a mixture of how-to information from first-person narratives and oral history. The series of Foxfire books come from the Foxfire Magazine, which was created in the late 1960s by Eliot Wigginton and his students in an effort to record and preserve the unique traditional folk culture of the Southern Appalachians. This particular type of knowledge is a kind of social science but, can also be referred to as Appropriate Technology, as it was specific to the region and needs of its people.
There are regions all over the world in which the needs of its local population vary, but are similar to the needs of other regions. All of these appropriate technologies are very simple and sustainable in their practice. Another term for this phrase could be “sustainable technology” as well.
Continue reading ‘Appropriate Technology Resources’
Our nation just made history. The American people clearly are calling for bold change.
With our support, Barack Obama can be a President who can steward this kind of change, even in the face of special interest lobbies. Check out the new Repower America ad that’s going up today, then send a message to Barack Obama, letting him know that you’ll be there to support a bold approach. Just click on the video:
Now’s not the time for small steps or a narrow focus. It’s time to go big. Our challenges are large and are deeply connected. As Al Gore has said, “We’re borrowing money from China to buy oil from the Persian Gulf to burn it in ways that destroy the planet. Every bit of that’s got to change.” With a bold plan, we can make that change in 10 years. In fact, only a bold plan will cut through the special interest politics in Washington and inspire the nation.
Send a message of support to Barack Obama and his team, view the new ad, and check out the Repower America plan, detailed on the website. Just click here:
http://www.RepowerAmerica.org/obamapetition.
On Tuesday Barack Obama said, “And I know you didn’t do this just to win an election. And I know you didn’t do it for me. You did it because you understand the enormity of the task that lies ahead. For even as we celebrate tonight, we know the challenges that tomorrow will bring are the greatest of our lifetime–two wars, a planet in peril, the worst financial crisis in a century.
“We can Repower America with 100% clean electricity within 10 years. It will push our economy out of recession, create millions of new American jobs, end our addiction to dirty coal and foreign oil and solve the climate crisis. Big problems need big solutions. History is watching.
from wecansolveit.org
Click on map through to your state to find out which organizations offer green power in your state. The results will include utility green pricing programs, retail green power products offered in competitive electricity markets, and renewable energy certificate (REC) products sold separate from electricity. For additional information about these distinct products, see the EERE Overview of Green Power Markets.
AK AL AR AZ CA CO CT DC DE FL GA HI IA ID IL IN KS KY LA MA MD ME MI MN MO MS MT NC ND NE NH NJ NM NV NY OH OK OR PA RI SC SD TN TX UT VA VT WA WI WV WY
from The U.S. DOE – Energy Effieciency and Renewable Energy
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AND… don’t forget to check the DSIRE resource:
Federal Incentives
Please support The Institute for 21st Century Energy’s Blueprint for Securing America’s Energy Future (PDF full – 4.43Mb) at Colorado State University in Fort Collins, CO. With more than 75 energy policy recommendations (PDF summary) for the next President and Congress, the Institute’s bold energy blueprint is worth your attention.
The blueprint puts specific recommendations behind the 13 fundamental pillars for a comprehensive energy strategy outlined in the Institute’s Open Letter to the next President and Congress.
Aggressively Promote Energy Efficiency
Reduce the Environmental Impact of Energy Consumption and Production
Invest in Climate Science to Guide Energy, Economic, and Environmental Policy
Significantly Increase the Funding for Research, Development, and Demonstration of Advanced Clean Energy Technologies
Immediately Expand Domestic Oil and Gas Exploration and Production
Commit to and Expand Nuclear Energy Use
Commit to the Use of Clean Coal
Increase Renewable Sources of Electricity
Transform our Transportation Sector
Modernize and Protect U.S. Energy Infrastructure
Address Critical Shortages of Qualified Energy Professionals
Reduce Overly Burdensome Regulations and Opportunities for Frivolous Litigation
Demonstrate Global Leadership on Energy Security and Climate Change
from celcias.com
This technology has been around for almost 5 decades, with open-source plans freely available on the internet since 2002. And last year, a startup (as well as a big player) has been trying to capitalize on the concept. Production of this gas from ordinary water -a.k.a. Brown’s Gas, HHO or oxy-hydrogen gas- was optimized by the tuned-frequency electrolytic stumbler Bob Boyce, stating, “I discovered that with the right frequencies, I was able to generate monoatomic hydrogen and oxygen, which when recombined, produces about 4 times the energy output of normal diatomic hydrogen and oxygen molecules since the process of combustion does not have to break apart the molecules first before recombining into water vapor.” Electrolysis is of course nothing new, but being able to break water molecules apart into monoatomic constituents for 1/9th the energy of conventional electrolysis, is. Bob Boyce continues, “The only drawback was storage at pressure causes the monoatoms to start joining into diatomic pairs, and the mixture weakens, so it must be produced on-demand and consumed right away.” This issue is no problem if you have the HHO generator at the point of use.
And another benefit of using tunable harmonics combined with electrical current in water, is that any number of impurities can be easily separated in a matter of minutes, or likewise, destroy harmful water-containing pathogens in hours.
P.S. Have you heard of the “Joe Cell” for adding onto automobiles? Bunk or Believable?
Algae’s single-celled structure is extremely efficient in use of light and absorption of nutrients. So much so, that algae’s growth and productivity is 30 to 100 times higher than crops like soybeans. Algae production does not compete with agriculture. Algae production facilities are closed and do not require soil for growth, use 99% less water than conventional agriculture, and can be located on non-agricultural land far from water. Since the whole organism converts sunlight into oil, algae can produce more oil in an area the size of a two-car garage than an entire football field of soybeans.
The right naturally occurring algae species can, under just the right conditions, produce oil at near-theoretical limits. Their small size (less than 30 microns) and aquatic nature makes them ideal for a large-scale, highly automated, closed production system called a photobioreactor, or PBR. These systems are highly-tuned to provide each cell the precise conditions needed for maximum productivity.
Algae thrive on a high concentration of carbon dioxide. And nitrogen dioxide (NO2), a pollutant of power plants, is a nutrient for the algae. Algae production facilities can thus be fed exhaust gases from fossil fuel power plants, and even breweries, to significantly increase productivity and clean up the air.
The carbohydrates remaining after the oil has been extracted from the algae can be used to make animal feed, ethanol, and potentially sequester carbon.
OTHER INFOS: The algae that produces hydrocarbons is botryococcus braunii China Strain 1 or 2. This particular algae produces hydrocarbons of up to 60% of its DRY WEIGHT. It doubles itself every 2 to 4 days. This algae also has a life cycle that slows down even under the best of conditions. The conditions to generate this algae’s max potential are very specific as to lumogens, (too much or too little sunlight stunts reproduction), food stock for the algae, salinity of the water and particularly temperature. More or less than the ideal 25 deg C stunts growth measurably.
Solix Biofuels, IGV GmbH/GreenFuel Technologies Corporation, Photosynthesis and Optimizing Algae Growth in a Bioreactor, Quinn Edwards, Introduction to Biophotonics, April 28, 2006.pdf, more biofuels research links
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above 3 from becauseaction network
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