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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

Submitted by
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)

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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)

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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."

Comment Can't teach old dog new tricks (Score 1) 260

by sterlingda (#25090047) Attached to: Keeping Older Drivers Behind the Wheel
Most old people are adverse to learning new methods. This works to our advantage inasmuch as at least they aren't trying to drive and text at the same time. I don't see a smart car working for a borderline senile senior. If they grew up with the technology, and it was second nature, then maybe it would prolong the amount of time they could drive safely. But that isn't what is being proposed here. What is being proposed is a new trick to teach old dogs, and we all know what they say about that.
Power

Submission + - Microwave Converts Waste to Fuel (peswiki.com)

Submitted by
sterlingda
sterlingda writes: "Global Resource Corp's High-Frequency Attenuating Wave Kinetics (HAWK) recycler extracts oil and gas in seconds from most everyday objects like tires, plastic cups, as well as from shale, coal, and tar sands. Microwaves tuned to an optimum frequency separate the component parts which can be burned or condensed into liquid fuel, using only a small portion of the energy produced."
Space

Submission + - White Christmas Brought to you by ... (peswiki.com)

Submitted by
sterlingda
sterlingda writes: "A dozen years ago, while pursuing a super-efficient machine, David Wells discovered that the machine was affecting local weather. Several machines and years later, the effect is much better understood and refined. Hurricanes can be deflected, tornadoes prevented, rain brought in, skies cleared. It apparently works through wave interference patterns, with a wavelength of some 20 miles. The effects are repeatable, and include anomalies such as changing the speed of light."
Power

Submission + - Toshiba Builds Household Nuclear Reactor (peswiki.com)

Submitted by
sterlingda
sterlingda writes: "Toshiba has developed a new class of nuclear reactor 100 times smaller than a standard reactor. These micro sized nuclear reactors could be used to power large houses, apartment blocks or some city blocks. The new 200 kilowatt reactor, which is only 20 feet by 6 feet is engineered to be fail-safe and totally automatic and will not overheat. The new micro reactor uses no control rods to initiate the reaction, but uses reservoirs of liquid lithium-6, an isotope that is effective at absorbing neutrons. The whole whole process is self sustaining and can last for up to 40 years, producing electricity for only 5 cents per kilowatt hour, about half the cost of grid energy. Toshiba expects to install the first reactor in Japan in 2008 and to begin marketing the new system in Europe and America in 2009."
Power

Submission + - Continuous Light Doesn't Need to be Plugged In (peswiki.com)

Submitted by
sterlingda
sterlingda writes: "First announced publicly at NASA Tech Briefs on Oct. 5, 2007, GlowPaint glow-in-the-dark paint company, MPK Co., has come up with self-luminous micro particles called Litrospheres(TM) which they say are inexpensive, non-toxic, and will stay on for 12+ years (half-life point) continuously — without having to be plugged into any power source. The Litrospheres(TM) are not effected by heat or cold, and are 5,000-pound crush resistant. They can be injection molded or added to paint. The fill rate of Litroenergy micro particles in plastic injection molding material or paint is about 20%. The constant light gives off no U.V. rays, and can be designed to emit almost any color of light desired. The company seeks to mass produce this mateiral and supply OEMs."

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