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Submission + - Izumi says run-of-river turbine cheaper than grid (examiner.com) 1

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: A Slovenian turbine-generator called the SP River Pump that is designed to work in relatively slow and shallow moving water supposedly could not only provide clean energy but at a price point many times cheaper than the cheapest grid power presently available. You have to admit that the design is eligantly simple and sound. But could it deliver on the inventor's claim that it could be produced for as much as seven times cheaper than grid power?
Privacy

Submission + - Cybersecurity Bill Would Destory Open Internet (wired.com)

Submitted by sterlingda
sterlingda writes: Wired writer, Ryan Singel says the biggest threat to the open internet is not Chinese government hackers or greedy anti-net-neutrality ISPs, it’s Michael McConnell, the former director of national intelligence. And Infowars.com points to the cybersecurity bill (HR 4061) that has passed the U.S. House and is now in the Senate under the direction of the renown internet hater, senator Jay Rockefeller. It would pave the way for requiring that websites be registered with the Federal Government in order to operate, essentially obliterating the free speech pillar of freedom that allows for dissent. The software standardization provision (section 3.1) would require that all software would have to go through the cybersecurity panel, with oversight by NIST, which cooked the books in its report blaming fire as the cause of Building 7 of the WTC collapsing at free-fall speed on 9/11, defying the laws of physics they are supposed to champion. Watch Alex Jones and Jason Bermas discuss the various draconian aspects of the bill, reading from it and commenting [Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3]. I can't imagine any slashdotter supporting this bill if they knew its contents. How did it pass the house with such a strong margin? With your help, maybe we can stop it in the Senate.

Submission + - Noble Gas engine a finalist for prestigious award (examiner.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: PlasmERG Inc., who is developing a noble gas plasma expansion motor that could revolutionize the renewable energy industry with clean, cheap, and reliable power has been selected as a top five finalist among the "Most Promising Renewable Energy Technologies" category for EE Times' prestigious Annual Creativity in Electronics (ACE) Awards, with media sponsorship by IEEE Spectrum. Is it really possible to run an engine on inert noble gas?
Privacy

Submission + - Programmer blamed for St.George Bank data leak (itnews.com.au)

Submitted by schliz
schliz writes: St.George Bank in Australia has mailed the details of up to 42,000 account holders to other customers. The error was blamed on a programmer at business process outsourcing company Salmat, who "manually intervened" when a file was found to be corrupted during the automated process. Disciplinary action is expected to be taken.
Power

Submission + - Why Not Harness Deep Sea Vents? (examiner.com)

Submitted by sterlingda
sterlingda writes: Bruce Marshall has filed a patent for a hydrothermal system that would harness the vast energy available from deep sea hydrothermal vents in which water seeps into near-surface magma, where it is continuously heated and ejected through vents at around 750 degrees Fahrenheit. The hot water and minerals would be brought to the surface to turn turbines. The vent output is very consistent and energy dense and at very high volumes. This is a brand new, previously untouched, energy source — a discovery on the scale of man's harnessing nuclear power, but cleaner and potentially cheaper. National Geographic estimates the power of just the known worldwide vents at around 17 million megawatts, with thousands of miles of ocean still unexplored. It's difficult to estimate the quality and number of vents that are convenient enough to be practical, but Marshall believes that several thousand gigawatts of power are recoverable worldwide-- the equivalent of perhaps 1,000 or more nuclear power plants. Also, as the hydrothermal fluid rises it carries with it some of the richest ores to be found anywhere, laden with just about every metal and mineral that we mine the surface for now. Anyone have a few spare billion to help build the pilot plant?

Submission + - Fractal antenna arrays proposed as energy source (examiner.com)

Submitted by sterlingda
sterlingda writes: Jack Passerello, who was involved with the invention of the first computer chip, proposes that the fractal antenna technology that is used in cell phones could be engineered to capture naturally-occurring electromagnetic waves and convert them into usable power. An engineering breakthrough would be needed, along with a multi-discipline cooperative approac, to get sufficienty coherence from the wide array of miniscule power inputs.

Submission + - Ohmasa Gas makes water as fuel more feasible (examiner.com)

Submitted by sterlingda
sterlingda writes: Mr. Ohmasa, president of Japan Techno, Inc., has devised a method of producing an unusual hydrogen-oxygen gas by using low frequency vibrations to circulate the water upon which electrolysis is run, creating a highly stable H2-O2 gas called Ohmasa gas which exhibits unusual characteristics. Also, while oxygen normally liquifies at -183 C, and hydrogen liquiefies at -253 C, Ohmasa gas liquefies at -178 C. Also, the Ohmasa gas does not escape from containers that hold oxygen but not normal hydrogen; it holds its pressure in the container, making storage and shipment feasible. Similar to Brown's Gas, one can wave their hand through the Ohmasa gas torch flame, yet that same flame will vaporize Tungsten in a second. When Ohmasa gas is burned, its emission is water vapor. Hence, with this new method, water could conceivably become the energy carrier of choice for energy produced from renewable sources such as solar and wind. Some modifications would likely need to be made to existing engines for it to work well with them, and it would require new tanks (gaseous rather than liquid), and new dispensing orifices.
Space

Submission + - NASA Scientists Levitate Mice (yahoo.com) 1

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sterlingda
sterlingda writes: "Scientists working on behalf of NASA built a device to simulate variable levels of gravity. It consists of a superconducting magnet that generates a field powerful enough to levitate the water inside living animals. Experiments are being run to test how they respond to microgravity, both physically and psychologically."
Power

Submission + - NIST presently setting grid connectivity backbone (examiner.com)

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sterlingda
sterlingda writes: "Right now at this very instant of time and for a very short period of time in the near future the standards for the transmission, formats and processes for all of the data handled in the Smart Grid are being written by NIST. Everything that proceeds for decades after this time will hinge on what we do in the next approximately 25 days. Just think of how some of the present bottlenecks in the Internet could have been circumvented with proper foresight. Now is the time to chime in to make sure that the standards set for the Smart Grid are the best the can be."

Comment The future has been stolen by BlackOps (Score 1) 499

by sterlingda (#28164237) Attached to: Why Our "Amazing" Science Fiction Future Fizzled
Those fancy technologies have been developed. They just never made it to the civilian population because the BlackOps sequestered them for their own nefarious purposes. How many of the UFO craft flying overhead are of human origin? Probably a lot, if not most. Including cloaking technology. Many of the wild inventions of our day have been stolen and sequestered. And anyone who says as much is called a crack pot and put on a list for a concentration camp when the regular civilization starts major meltdown. The military-industrial complex, and then some. MIB on steroids.

Comment Re:Have to publish it in the right place (Score 1) 233

by sterlingda (#27463299) Attached to: How Do I Put an Invention Into the Public Domain?

Wikipedia is not a good place to publish cutting-edge stuff. They only allow well-entrenched stuff. If it hasn't made it into the Wall Street journal, you're wasting your time there. They'll just delete it.

That's why I founded http://peswiki.com/ for breakthrough clean energy technologies back in 2004. Most of our stuff is cutting edge, and not safe from deletion at Wikipedia. Wikipedia is "old wine", we are new. New wine can't be put into old bottles.
Power

Submission + - Has DOE Reneged on Its 1977 Charter? (peswiki.com)

Submitted by
sterlingda
sterlingda writes: "Begun officially on August 4, 1977 during the Carter administration, now with 16,000 employees, 100,000 contract employees and an annual budget of over $24 billion, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) was created to reduce America's dependence on foreign oil; develop energy efficient technologies; strengthen America's energy security, environmental quality, and economic vitality; and ...bring clean, reliable and affordable energy technologies to the marketplace. Three decades later, how has this well-funded federal department done? PES Network has posted a Poll, the results of which so far give an overwhelmingly negative assessment of the DOE's performance. What's your take? Has it become a matter of the foxes guarding the henhouse? (Regarding the response option: "Our NEC is going a better job", the "NEC" refers to the New Energy Congress, a relatively small group that specializes in finding and facilitating the best clean energy technologies."
Transportation

Submission + - Angel Flight Pack enters last frontier of aviation (pesn.com)

Submitted by
sterlingda
sterlingda writes: "Isn't it about time we achieved the Jetson-like capability of personal flight via a jetpack type of apparatus? Raphial Morgado, inventor of the NASA-award-winning Massive Yet Tiny (MYT) engine, is setting forth to devise just such a flight pack, named after his company: Angel Labs, LLC. He says his systems will be comprised of two 3.5-inch diameter engines, one for backup, that would power a counter-rotating turbofan engine. "It would be practical and safe, with redundancy built in." But this is just his hobby. His primary objective is to go into production of a MYT engine that could be retrofit into existing cars, claiming that the energy density of his engine is so high that the engine size needed to retrofit an SUV would be a little larger than an alternator — tiny in comparison — even while having essentially the same cubic inch cylinder displacement. The resulting vehicle would have better performance, while achieving the mileage of a Prius."
Power

Submission + - eCoupled hooks up with Energizer for wireless erg (peswiki.com)

Submitted by
sterlingda
sterlingda writes: "Fulton Innovation's eCoupled technology(TM) has added Energizer to their list of partners that also include Motorola, and Texas Instruments, with a promise of wireless power products arriving on the market in 2009. eCoupled technology enables one power transmission device to cover the range of power needs from milliwatts to kilowatts — simultaneously — by dynamically adapting as it seeks resonance at high frequencies. They can power directly or charge devices. Until some distance can be achieved, the eCoupled approach merely eliminates the "plug in" step. It doesn't eliminate the constraints of distance to the recharge console. However, it does render a one-size-fits-all aspect for all portable devices. No doubt, it's a fun baby step toward a wireless power future. Those first few steps can be the most enjoyable. No doubt, there will yet be astonishing leaps in the future, including the ability to not be constrained by distance — something Nikola Tesla was working on a century ago. Someday we might catch up to him."

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