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Future Energy eNews, IRI - Nov, 2009
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In This Issue:
1. Review of
COFE3 Conference
2. A Novel
Form of Fusion power, COFE3 speaker Eric Lerner featured in "The
Economist"
3. Tiny
Nuclear Batteries
4.
Dye-Sensitized Solar to Go
5. WEEC back
in DC for 2009
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Posted by vlad on Sunday, November 01, 2009 @ 20:58:01 PST (473 reads)
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An Engineer's Solution for Sustained Economic Growth
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By Steve_Morra/ The Market Oracle
...All throughout history, very rarely have true technical breakthroughs occurred. Such breakthroughs are the Golden Goose upon which our modern economy actually depends, as that is where significant and sustained growth originates. Such true technical breakthroughs have historically led to major step increases in overall economic growth and societal well-being. This is their distinguishing hallmark...
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Mystery mechanism drove global warming 55 million years ago
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A runaway spurt of global
warming 55 million years ago turned Earth into a hothouse but how this
happened remains worryingly unclear, scientists said on Monday.
Previous
research into this period, called the Palaeocene-Eocene Thermal
Maximum, or PETM, estimates the planet's surface temperature blasted
upwards by between five and nine degrees Celsius (nine and 16.2 degrees
Fahrenheit) in just a few thousand years.
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koen writes:  North America still has the biggest crude oil reserves world wide (not tar sand) and can lead to 18 dollar a barrel oil price in case this oil reserve is tapped.
See
http://www.rense.com/general86/world.htm
http://www.usgs.gov/newsroom/article.asp?ID=1911
It is not the Americans anymore who are in control of America and its oil reserves. Its the international bankers and their Wallstreet traders who are in control (and the rest of the world). They make huge profits from oil scarcity, wars and arms trade, illegal drugs trade, artificially created illnesses, artificial pharmaceuticals that only suppress symptoms or make you ill, food that makes you unhealthy, etc ...
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Posted by vlad on Wednesday, July 08, 2009 @ 22:52:52 PDT (1369 reads)
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Let’s get real about alternative energy
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This is an important perspective on alternative energy from David MacKay, a professor of physics at the University of Cambridge:
We need to introduce simple arithmetic into our discussions of energy.
We need to understand how much energy our chosen lifestyles consume, we need to decide where we want that energy to come from, and we need to get on with building energy systems of sufficient size to match our desired consumption. …
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Free Energy Technology Could Destroy the Natural World
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Friday, April 24, 2009 by: Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, NaturalNews Editor
(NaturalNews) As the editor of NaturalNews, I've long been a proponent
of free energy technologies and research. I've written about the
reality of cold fusion for more than ten years, braving the incessant
whining of ignorant scientists who said it was all a hoax, year after
year, right up until the U.S. Navy recently announced its own cold
fusion breakthroughs.
But in the world of free energy, cold
fusion is where things are just warming up. The really interesting
stuff is more in the realm of zero point energy -- tapping the vast stores of pure energy woven into the fabric of reality, even absent any physical matter whatsoever.
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Emerging Technological Black Swans
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The Black Swan theory (in Nassim Nicholas Taleb's version) refers to a large-impact, hard-to-predict, and rare event beyond the realm of normal expectations. Taleb regards many scientific discoveries as "black swans" — undirected and unpredicted. He gives the rise of the Internet, the personal computer, World War I, and the September 11, 2001 attacks as examples of Black Swan events...
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by Mark Goldes,
Chairman, Magnetic Power Inc.* [updated June 23, 2009]
"In the realm of ideas everything depends on
enthusiasm... in the real world all rests on perseverance." - Goethe
Steorn, an Irish firm, ran an advertisement in August, 2006 - claiming they had found a way to utilize magnetics “to produce free, clean and constant energy”. They invited 22 scientists with relevant backgrounds to form a jury in order to evaluate their claim. The Chairman of the jury recently issued a statement stating that after two years the jury has disbanded - having issued a unanimous verdict that Steorn had not provided evidence supporting their claim. Information about 16 members of the jury can be found at: http://stjury.ning.com.
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 A brilliant short film (~ 50 min) by Paul Grignon. "Only the small secrets need to be protected. The big ones are kept secret by public incredulity." - Marshall McLuhan, media "guru".
"The modern banking system manufactures money out of nothing. The process is perhaps the most astounding piece of sleight of hand that was ever invented. Banking was conceived in iniquity and was born in sin. Bankers own the earth. Take it away from them, but leave them the power to create deposits, and with the flick of the pen they will create enough money to buy it back again. However, take this great power away from them, and all great fortunes like mine will disappear, and they ought to disappear, for then this would be a better and happier world to live in. But, if you wish to remain the slaves of Bankers and pay the cost of your own slavery, then let them continue to create money and control credit." ...
Sir Josiah Stamp - Director, Bank of England 1928-1941
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Xtreme Science Foundation (XSF) - an Institution whose time has come
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 Here we are at the beginning of 2009, year that will certainly prove very challenging for all of us, wherever we are. Such a global economic crisis doesn't only hurt people where it seems to matter the most - their pockets - but it also provides some time for reflection, and creates an opportunity to re-examine the adequacy of many fundamental principles our society has been guided by in its chosen developmental model.
We may finally understand that money IS NOT everything, and that Earth provides enough to satisfy everybody's needs, but not everybody's greed. We may hopefully understand what Gandhi said about "The Roots of Violence: Wealth without work, Pleasure without conscience, Knowledge without character, Commerce without morality, Science without humanity, Worship without sacrifice, Politics without principles.” And we should have understood by now that, in this WWW age, people are powerful, if they're not "asleep".
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Posted by vlad on Thursday, January 01, 2009 @ 22:20:00 PST (2326 reads)
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The International Energy Agency has made a new comprehensive forecast of world energy from now until 2030. The conclusions are:
 Current energy trends are patently unsustainable —socially, environmentally, economically
- Oil will remain the leading energy source but...
> The era of cheap oil is over, although price volatility will remain
> Oilfield decline is the key determinant of investment needs
> The oil market is undergoing major and lasting structural change, with national companies in the ascendancy
- To avoid "abrupt and irreversible" climate change we need a major decarbonisation of the world’s energy system
Note: Yes, that may be true for an "Evolutionary" technology development scenario. A "Revolution" in the energy science can change all that. Read the two posts below to see what I mean and what we need to do Now.
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Future Energy eNews-IRI/ Sep 27, 2008
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Posted by vlad on Sunday, September 28, 2008 @ 13:20:53 PDT (1514 reads)
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Google offers $10M for ideas that can 'change the world'
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Search firm pledges to fund charitable projects suggested by Google usersSeptember 24, 2008 (Computerworld)
Google Inc., which is celebrating
its 10th birthday this month, today unveiled a $10 million effort to
implement ideas that can "change the world by helping as many people as
possible."
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Posted by vlad on Thursday, September 25, 2008 @ 22:28:05 PDT (1919 reads)
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Redefining Alternative Energy
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From The Orion Project: With
over $100 billion going into alternative energy investments this year, it is
time to pause and ask: What is real alternative energy?
So
far, the discussion is mainly focused on Solar, Wind and Biofuels. Biofuels are
really one step forward and two steps back. Solar
and Wind show promise but are very costly, especially to the average homeowner.
And our creaky electric grid is not configured to even carry large scale solar
and wind generation.
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Posted by vlad on Wednesday, September 24, 2008 @ 22:10:35 PDT (1915 reads)
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| Wednesday, September 17, 2008 | | · | 'Calm before storm' may foreshadow climatic tipping point |
| Tuesday, September 16, 2008 | | · | Colossal Profits and More Drilling is NOT the Answer! |
| Monday, September 15, 2008 | | · | BREAKTHROUGH POWER |
| Sunday, September 14, 2008 | | · | Hackers 'find black hole in atom smasher computers' |
| Tuesday, September 09, 2008 | | · | Alternative Energy Trends and Implications for GCC Countries |
| Thursday, September 04, 2008 | | · | Space, Propulsion & Energy Sciences International Forum (SPESIF-2009) |
| Monday, August 25, 2008 | | · | At Conference on the Risks to Earth, Few Are Optimistic |
| · | Future Energy eNews-IRI/ Aug 25, 2008 |
| Saturday, August 23, 2008 | | · | 'Clock ticking' on global warming: UN climate chief |
| Friday, August 22, 2008 | | · | Free Energy and the Open Source Energy Movement (Part 4) |
| Sunday, August 17, 2008 | | · | New book tutors future presidents and public on science behind the headlines |
| Wednesday, August 06, 2008 | | · | Clean energy: Do we need an Apollo project for energy? |
| Monday, August 04, 2008 | | · | A Question |
| Monday, July 28, 2008 | | · | Cuil - The World's Biggest Search Engine |
| Sunday, July 27, 2008 | | · | Utilities must lead way to clean-energy model |
| · | Protocols for survival -- A new energy era, urgency of research, development and |
| · | Future Energy eNews-IRI/ Jul 26, 2008 |
| Tuesday, July 22, 2008 | | · | Cold Fusion: Winds of Change Approach |
| Friday, July 18, 2008 | | · | Article "Free Energy and the Open Source Energy Movement (Part 3)" |
| Thursday, July 17, 2008 | | · | InvestorIdeas.com Audio Series - Google's Going Green |
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A science with all the answers and no more questions atrophies into mere technology.-- Michael Collier
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