Tuesday, June 2, 2009

# 89 > FUTURISTIC, SUSPECT, BUT INTERESTING SITES

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http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/News/News_By_Industry/ET_Cetera/Indian_breakthrough_taps_gravity_to_help_road-rail_travel_/articleshow/msid-3635701,curpg-1.cms


Gravity Power: An Addition to Alternative
Source of Energy
for Fossil Fuels
October 28, 2008
Rajaram Bojji, a product of the Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, has discovered a power, Gravity Power which he says would potentially save the world 70 percent of fossil fuels required for the purpose every year. Rajaram, says that it is "an evolutionary initiative that can possibly free the world of its dependence on fossil fuels, underlying much of the volatile price rise".Rajaram, former managing director, Konkan Railway, said his technology, unlike other sources of renewable or alternative energy like sunlight or biofuels, would not require heavy investment or land and can work with existing infrastructure even in developing countries.Interested to know more on Gravity Power
www.sciencefriday.com/.../news0514071.html
Gravity map.The University of Texas Center for Space Research, as part of a collaborative data analysis effort with the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory and the GeoForschungsZentrum Potsdam
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http://www.oilgae.com/energy/nn/b/cat/energy_inventions.html
NewNergy blog
List of all NewNergy blog categories
Energy Inventions - All posts for Energy Inventions @ NewNergy Blog
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Power Tree Corp Announces Filing of Utility Patent for Electrical Energy Storage Technology




BOCA RATON, Fla.--(EON: Enhanced Online News)--Power Tree Corp today announced another major step towards important advancements in electrical energy storage with the filing of a utility patent for its grid scale flywheel based electrical energy storage technology.
“We are proud to be working with Power Tree Corp on this important clean energy technology.”
Power Tree’s proprietary technology represents a breakthrough in the science of energy storage. The company’s technology is unique in that the design allows for flywheels of great mass that can tolerate the extreme forces generated by high velocity rotation, while efficiently and cost-effectively storing and converting kinetic energy into stable, on-frequency electricity. The result is a single device that is expected to deliver 1 mw continuously for several hours, or other combinations of discharge depending on the needs of the individual customer.
Power Tree's patent application was prepared and filed by the well-known patent law firm, Hamilton, Brook, Smith & Reynolds. Information about the firm can be found on its website, http://cts.businesswire.com/ct/CT?id=smartlink&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.hbsr.com&esheet=6015788&lan=en_US&anchor=www.hbsr.com&index=2, including information about a recent historical patent judgment on one of the patents it obtained for a client. Mr. David E. Brook, a founding partner of the firm, was quoted as saying, "We are proud to be working with Power Tree Corp on this important clean energy technology."

Construction begins on 30 GW electricity storage flywheel device
13 July 2009-- Power Tree Corp. said they have started building a 30 GW energy storage device designed to help implement the smart grid.The flywheel-based storage unit is expected to be ready for commercial use by the end of 2009. It is expected to store up to 30 GW of electricity and discharge continuous megawatt-size power for hours, including renewable energy power from wind and solar resources.Utilities can also place the devices throughout the generation and transmission system, helping to prevent brown and black outs during peak demand hours along the grid.
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http://www.nytimes.com/
2009/08/17/business/energy-environment/17algae.html?_r=1
IGNACIO, Colo. — An unusual experiment featuring equal parts science, environmental optimism and Native American capitalist ambition is unfolding here on the Southern Ute Indian Reservation in southwest Colorado.
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A New Test for Business and Biofuel

August 16, 2009






The Solix Biofuels plant on the Southern Ute Indian Reservation in southwest Colorado. The area averages 300 sunny days a year. >
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http://greenprophet.com/2008/09/05/2522/electric-car-shai-agassi/
Ford To Replace
Spark Plugs With
Freakin’ Lasers by 2011
July 14, 2009

In a move that is sure to be a stepping stone to the flying car, Ford is currently testing a new type of laser ignition system to replace the conventional spark plug (invented way back in the 19th century).
The new laser ignition system is reportedly more reliable – especially in cold weather – and aims to reduce fuel consumption and tailpipe exhaust emissions, particularly CO2.
Laser beams however, can be focused and split into multiple beams to give multiple ignition points, which means it can give a far better chance of ignition, and far better fuel efficiency.
To produce 3000 RPM, the laser will need to fire more than 50 times per seconds, but should still require less power than a conventional spark plug.
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http://www.space.com/common/media/video/player.php?videoRef=SP_090729_LightCraft
Laser-Pumped Flying Saucers:
How You'll Get to Orbit
This video goes to understanding that energy itself is evolving
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Whale watch
A new buoy system off the Massachusetts coast helps scientists track right whales and warn ships of their presence.


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http://www.cleantech.com/news/4487/it-came-space
It came from space!
May 21, 2009 -
Cleantech Group
Eli Hariton's new space-aged designs of a sky high solar facility have re-ignited excitement over such a pie-in-the-sky idea.
Recently, we gave word about PG&E partnering with Solaren to develop an incredibly expensive and potentially promising facility that would capture pure, unfiltered sunlight 24/7 and beam it down to earth in the form of microwaves.
While he lacks the street cred from a major utility, Hariton’s designs have gained traction on the Internet—a fact that points to a continuing interest in the idea of space-based solar in any form, even if it says nothing about its viability. Hariton is a recent graduate of
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Sustainable Green Technologies
Algae Oil Lipid Trigger Breakthrough
http://www.pr.com/press-release/169648
Sustainable Green Technologies (SGT)
a start-up company in Escondido, California announced today that it has discovered a highly effective and low cost way to massively increase algal oil production. Metabolic engineering research conducted at SGT over the past two years paid off when SGT scientists uncovered the elusive and long sought after “lipid trigger” in green algae.
August 04, 2009
Contact:
Jim SiegristCell: 760-522-3087
Email: jimsiegrist@hotmail.com
Web: sustainablegreentechnologies.com
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http://greeninc.blogs.nytimes.com/

July 29, 2009,
McKinsey Report Cites $1.2 Trillion in Potential Savings From Energy Efficiency
By Kate Galbraith
U.S. energy efficiency supply curve - 2020. The shorter the bar, the less that category will cost; and the fatter the bar, the more energy can potentially be saved. Click image to see full-sized graphic. through 2020, by investing $520 billion in improvements like sealing leaky building ducts and replacing inefficient household appliances with new, energy-saving models.
That investment would cut the country’s projected energy use in 2020 by about 23 percent — a savings that would be “greater than the total of energy consumption of Canada,” said Ken Ostrowski, a senior partner in McKinsey’s Atlanta office
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http://www.ecofactory.com/norway-uk-will-develop-carbon-storage-under-north-sea


06-04-09
http://www.nsbtf.org/index.htm
Norway, UK Will Develop Carbon Storage Under North Sea
BERGEN, Norway, June 4, 2009 (ENS) - The UK and Norway have signed an agreement to cooperate on the development of North Sea sub-seabed geological formations for permanent storage of the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide captured from European sources.


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http://www.ecofactory.com/news/joule-teases-alt-energy-sector-solar-biofuel-072709
Joule Teases Alt-Energy Sector with Solar Biofuel








Joule Biotechnologies, a Massachusetts based research firm, claims they have developed a microorganism that uses photosynthesis to convert carbon dioxide into ethanol, as well as diesel that is chemically identical to the petroleum-derived liquid. The company is refusing to reveal their method outright, saying only that it is "not algae" and likely to be the only organism of its kind. According to Joule, these organisms will yield 20,000 gallons per acre per year, and do not require soil or fresh water to survive.
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http://peakoil.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=955
24-August-04

University of New South Wales
Australian scientists predict that a revolutionary new way to harness the power of the sun to extract clean and almost unlimited energy supplies from water will be a reality within seven years.
Using special titanium oxide ceramics that harvest sunlight and split water to produce hydrogen fuel, the researchers say it will then be a simple engineering exercise to make an energy-harvesting device with no moving parts and emitting no greenhouse gases or pollutants.
It would be the cheapest, cleanest and most abundant energy source ever developed: the main by-products would be oxygen and water. '
'This is potentially huge, with a market the size of all the existing markets for coal, oil and gas combined,'' says Professor Janusz Nowotny, who with Professor Chris Sorrell is leading a solar hydrogen research project at the University of New South Wales (UNSW) Centre for Materials and Energy Conversion. The team is thought to be the most advanced in developing the cheap, light-sensitive materials that will be the basis of the technology
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http://www.greentechmedia.com/green-light/post/blue-spark-gets-1.5m-for-thin-printed-carbon-zinc-batteries-with-3.5m-more-/
Littleton, Colo.-based Infinite Power Solutions, for example, has raised about $50 million to develop solid-state micro energy cell devices about the size of a postage stamp, and has customers including Lockheed Martin. Planar Energy Devices and Cymbet Corp. have customers for their lithium-ion based thin-film battery technologies (see Tiny Batteries Get Better).
Some of these tiny batteries are meant to be rechargeable, which could allow them to be linked with energy harvesting devices that capture energy from radio waves, vibrations or heat to keep running for years or decades without replacement (see A Battery for Perpetual Motion).
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http://energyandenvironmentblog.dallasnews.com/archives/2009/07/in-print-exxon-goes-green-real.html
In Print: Exxon goes green. Really.
Mon, Jul 27, 2009
Yahoo! BuzzElizabeth Souder/
This from the company that scoffs at the losses rivals chalked up by investing in wind farms and other alternative fuels.
But Exxon never technically opposed alternatives to petroleum. It simply opposes losing money on bad investments. And $600 million isn't a token investment, even for Exxon. Seems to me that's real money. Not greenwashing, impress Congress, marketing money, but serious, this-might-be-the-future-of-our-industry money.
Chief Executive Rex Tillerson has said to me and in public speeches that the alternative fuel industry needs a break-through technology to move people off of oil. That is, some technology that is cheap enough, big enough and convenient enough to fundamentally change the way we use energy.
Perhaps Tillerson has found his break-through in one of the least likely places: Pond scum.

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http://www.bp.com/genericarticle.do?categoryId=2012968&contentId=7055087
Irving Oil and BP Will Not Proceed With Proposed Second Refinery
Release date: 24 July 2009

BP and Irving Oil announced today they will not be moving forward at this time with the proposed second refinery in Saint John, New Brunswick, as a result of global economic and industry conditions

The joint technical and commercial feasibility study that the two companies have been conducting over the last 18 months concluded that the project was not viable at a time of global economic recession and dampening forecasts for petroleum product demand in North America.

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http://yourgreenability.com/?WTrH90v_ EXXON REPORT ON NATURAL GAS
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The Trade Offs from US-EU WTO Card against China - China Stakes.com
Posted on June 23rd, 2009

http://euobserver.com/884/28293
China accused of hoarding minerals
ANDREW WILLIS
12.06.2009 @ 09:28
CET Officials say the high tariffs prevent minerals such as zinc, tin, tungsten and silicon from leaving China, enabling manufacturers within the country to purchase the raw materials at bellow market prices, reports the Financial Times.
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clicking here. Team Pickens click here > website.
Over a Barrel: The Truth About Oil
ABC News' Charles Gibson Crosses the Country for the Inside Story on the U.S. Oil Addiction
By PETER KLEIN July 24, 2009
45 comments
Americans are used to hearing about their oil addiction. The case is usually made with numbers. The 400 million gallons of gasoline consumed each day. The 13 million barrels of oil imported every 24 hours. The fact that, with 4 percent of the world's population, they consume a quarter of its oil.
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http://www.gizmag.com/portable-solar-powered-fridge-from-iis/12226/
Portable solar powered fridge goes off-the-grid
By Paul Ridden
July 15, 2009

The custom, made to order IIS solution will maintain temperatures as cold as -5F (-20C) for at least 24 hours between charge, but with the (up to) 400 amp hr battery

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"We now believe the technology is stable enough to be used for science. It is no longer just an engineering prototype," Fratantoni said.The thermal glider fulfills a major step toward a long-held dream of oceanographers: launching an armada self-propelled, long-lasting, relatively inexpensive robots to roam throughout the oceans. The vehicles could measure ocean conditions over timepsans and territory impossible to attain and afford using ships, and they would report regularly via satellite to scientists back on shore.The idea was conceived in the 1980s by Doug Webb, a former WHOI research specialist who founded the Webb Research Corporation, which built the thermal glider. Webb collaborated extensively with renowned WHOI physical oceanographer Henry Stommel, who in 1989 penned an article in the journal Oceanography about a fleet of Webb’s gliding sentinels bobbing through the ocean. Webb and Stommel named the vehicles “Slocum” gliders for Joshua Slocum, the first man to single-handedly sail around the world.





Green' Energy Powers Undersea GliderThermal glider uses heat from the ocean to fly through the deep blue.Researchers have successfully flown the first thermal glider through the ocean—a robotic vehicle that can propel itself for several months across thousands of miles, using only heat energy from the ocean.In April 2008, a research team led by Dave Fratantoni of Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) and Roy Watlington of the University of the Virgin Islands retrieved a prototype thermal glider that they had launched in December 2007 off the coast of St. Thomas in the Caribbean Sea. The vehicle crisscrossed a deep ocean basin between St. Thomas and St Croix more than 75 times, traveling uninterruptedly for more than 1,600 nautical miles (3,000 kilometers).
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http://www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/episode.cfm?id=005E4190-9DE4-32A2-015B43F0702189EA
Bumpy Whale Fins
Outperform
Smooth Turbines
Whale and dolphin fins, flippers and tails are bumpy, which produce disturbed wakes that increase lift and decrease drag. Engineers are taking note. Cynthia Graber reports.
Whales and dolphins were molded by evolution to glide through water. We’ve been trying to create streamlined designs ourselves for structures such as wind turbine blades.
Now researchers are examining the flippers, fins and tails of our water-dwelling cousins to learn how to improve engineering designs. Dr. Frank Fish—yes, that’s really his name—from West Chester University in Pennsylvania presented this research July 8 at the Society for Experimental Biology’s annual meeting in Marseille.
Here’s one example of the way Dr. Fish’s research is being applied. Whale flippers have a bumpy edge. This makes little sense to engineers. They’ve designed structures like wings and blades that ensure a steady air flow. But it turns out the unsteady flow over this more complex shape increased lift and reduces drag much better than any previous manmade design. It has to do with something called vortices. These are small tornado-shaped water f
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http://www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/episode.cfm?id=wastewater-analysis-for-drug-abuse-09-07-16

July 16, 2009
Wastewater Analysis for Drug Abuse Evidence
A study in the journal Addiction shows that a viable system for measuring the consumption of illegal drugs in various communities is to analyze samples of untreated wastewater--which contains the leftovers. Steve Mirsky reports

Ninety-six municipal water treatment facilities across Oregon volunteered for the study, which concentrated on finding evidence of the drugs meth, cocaine and ecstasy. All samples were collected on the same day, in areas that include about two-thirds of that state’s population.
Some findings: evidence for cocaine use was primarily in urban areas, almost nonexistent in rural regions; ecstasy use tended toward urban areas as well, and only turned up in about half of all communities; meth was everywhere. More important than those one-day snapshot findings, however, is that this methodology was proven viable, and could be used to track patterns of drug use in multiple regions over time.
http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&q=wastewater+treatment+diagram&gbv=2&aq=4s&oq=waste+water
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http://www.popsci.com/scitech/article/2009-06/more-funding-machine-might-save-world

Funding The Machine That "Might Save The World" 06.23.2009


General Fusion, the Canadian duo who hope to produce a cold fusion power plant for perhaps a tenth the cost of other such promised projects, just got a $12 million shot in the arm.
According to the Toronto Star, the four-year grant comes from a non-profit called Sustainable Development Technology Canada (SDTC). However, SDTC will only provide the grant if General Fusion can match it with $28.7 million in private investment. Considering General Fusion only raised $6 million in its last round of funding, that sounds pretty steep.

Acoustic Fusion: A sphere of pistons surrounds a ball of liquid metal. When the pistons fire, the metal compresses, and the pressure drives the plasma in the center tube into fusion. Theoretically, of course. via General Fusion
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http://www.popsci.com/environment/article/2009-07/mv-auriga-unveils-worlds-first-solar-powered-cargo-ship

M/V Auriga Unveils World's First Solar-Powered Cargo Ship
Posted 07.06.2009
The M/V Auriga Leader is currently docked in the Long Beach Port and is open for public viewing

The M/V Auriga Leader is the world's first solar powered cargo ship, which uses solar panels to provide up to 10 percent of the ship's power. Working alongside Toyota and NYK Line, the ship will be used to transport 6,400 cars while using less diesel fuel.
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http://www.popsci.com/gear-amp-gadgets/article/2009-04/introducing-holo-disc

Introducing the Holo-Disc
A holographic disc that can store 100 DVDs' worth of data and lasts a century
By Adam Hadhazy Posted 04.27.2009
Hologram kun0me
Today, General Electric unveiled a next-generation optical storage technology that can pack as much as 20 Blu-Ray discs or a hundred DVDs' worth of data onto a single disc. The newly devised discs, which use holograms to store data in the form of bits, can hold 500 gigabytes of information, the company says.
Researchers achieved this data density by embedding microscopic holographic patterns in light-sensitive plastic. When the disc is later "read" (hit with a laser beam to retrieve the data for
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http://www.popsci.com/scitech/gallery/2009-07/solar-impulse



Solar Impulse
Unveiled: the solar plane that can circle the globe on no fuel Posted 7.2.09





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http://www.popsci.com/military-aviation-amp-space/article/2009-07/antares-dlr-h2-first-plane-run-exclusively-fuel-cell-power
Video: Antares DLR-H2 Becomes the First 100% Fuel-Cell Powered Plane
Posted 07.09.2009

The Antares DLR-H2 has just completed its first test flight, making it the world's first zero-emissions aircraft to successfully fly on hydrogen fuel cell power alone.
And because hydrogen fuel cells only react with oxygen in ambient air, the lone byproduct is water, which has no ill effect on the environment.
When flying in a straight line, the Antares is capable of running at about 52% efficiency, drawing 10kW of power in the process (it's capable of delivering up to 25kW). It can go for roughly 450 miles, flying at speeds of 105 mph.
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http://www.gizmag.com/go/2870/
LPG-powered Portable fuel cell system is 25% smaller
By Mike Hanlon


http://www.voller-energy.com/ ,
the world’s first developer of fuel cell technology portable generators, has launched an updated version of its VE100.
The VE100 v2 is smaller and lighter than the VE100 and delivers more power output.
The VE100 v2 will be unveiled at the Fuel Cell Forum in Lucerne, Switzerland on 30 June 2004. Advance orders for the VE100 v2 can be taken immediately.
Voller Energy launched the VE100 at the Grove Fuel Cell event in London in September 2003. At its launch, the VE100 was recognised as the world’s first h
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Yves Rossy completed a 10-minute test flight with an 8ft jet-powered wing strapped to his back, flying more than 22 miles - the equivalent of travelling from Dover to Calais.

Rocket Man
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Solar plane's 3 day flight
A UK-built solar-powered plane has set an unofficial world endurance record for a flight by an unmanned aircraft.
The Zephyr-6, as it is known, stayed aloft for more than three days, running through the night on batteries it had recharged in sunlight. The 30kg Zephyr was guided by remote control to an operating altitude in excess of 18km (60,000ft), and then flown on autopilot and via satellite communication.
It tested a communications payload weighing approximately 2kg. Zephyr has demonstrated that it can cope with extremes of temperature - from the blistering 45C heat found at ground level in Arizona's Sonoran Desert, to the minus 70C chill experienced at altitudes of more than 18km (60,000ft).This would see the biggest plane in history take to the sky, powered by the sun and capable of carrying a 450-kilo (1,000lb) payload.
US commanders say the design must be able to maintain its position over a particular spot on the Earth's surface uninterrupted for five years.
Lightweight plane (30-34kg/70lb) is launched by hand
Coms or surveillance payload of about 2kg (4.5lb)





Solar plane makes record flight









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http://www.autobloggreen.com/
Peugeot Hymotion hybrid scooter scheduled for 2010 production
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Fossil fuels -- bridge to green energy future
ConocoPhillips Chairman and CEO Jim Mulva spoke at the International Petroleum Week program in London on February 18, 2009.
http://www.conocophillips.com/newsroom/other_resources/IPW_speech.htm
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BP, ConocoPhillips, Shell and Scottish and Southern Energy (SSE) announced on 30 June 2005
that they are to commence engineering design of the world’s first industrial scale project to generate “carbon-free” electricity from hydrocarbon.

Whilst this project has a number of promising aspects, the particular interest for IOR Views is the proposed use of the CO2 created in the process for enhanced oil recovery in the Miller Field. Here Nigel Brealey (nigel.brealey@senergyltd.com), Principal Reservoir Engineer with Senergy Ltd in Aberdeen reviews the scheme and discusses some of the issues.
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Press Release
May 17, 2007
Rio Tinto and BP join forces to develop clean energy
worldwide
BP and Rio Tinto today announced the formation of a new jointly-owned company, Hydrogen
Energy, which will develop decarbonised energy projects around the world. The venture will
initially focus on hydrogen-fuelled power generation, using fossil fuels and carbon capture and
storage (CCS) technology to produce new large-scale supplies of clean electricity.
http://www.riotinto.com/documents/PR523g_Rio_Tinto_BP_Hydrogen_Energy.pdf
http://www.hydrogenenergy.com/78.html
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http://www.greencarcongress.com/2006/02/bp_and_edison_p.html
http://www.edison.com/pressroom/pr.asp?id=6125
http://www.bp.com/genericarticle.do?categoryId=9024973&contentId=7046901
BP and GE to develop hydrogen power plants and technologies
London, UK, July 18, 2006 -
BP and GE today announced their intention to jointly develop and deploy hydrogen power projects that dramatically reduce emissions of the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide from electricity generation. Vivienne Cox, BP’s chief executive of gas, power and renewables, and David L. Calhoun, vice chairman of GE and president and CEO of GE infrastructure, signed the agreement today in London.
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Global News
Gazprom to Invest $9.2 Billion in Russian Power Sector Until 2012
Researched by Industrial Info Resources (Sugar Land, Texas)
Russia is the world's fourth-largest user of electricity, but growth in demand threatens to outstrip supply capacity because of limited investments in generating facilities. Power cuts and blackouts during the high-demand winter months have become common occurrences. Russia's giant oil and gas power company OAO Gazprom (Moscow, Russia) hopes to change the bleak scenario with heavy
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Boehner Calls Climate Bill "A Pile Of Shit"
digg Huffpost - Boehner Calls Climate Bill "A Pile Of Shit" stumble reddit

In an interview with The Hill he explained himself: "Hey, people deserve to know what's in this pile of shit."
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http://www.popsci.com/military-aviation-amp-space/article/2009-06/forever-plane
Giant Solar Plane Will Stay Aloft for Five Years Straight

Odysseus, an autonomous surveillance-plane concept, 
will fly for years on end, powered by nothing but the sun
Nine days: That's the longest any airplane has stayed in the air. Burt and Dick Rutan's Voyager set the record in 1986 by flying 24,986 miles around the world without refueling. But nine days of uninterrupted flight won't cut it for Darpa, the Pentagon's advanced-research organization. I
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http://www.popsci.com/scitech/article/2009-06/robot-jellyfish-swims-just-real-one


Robot Jellyfish Swims Just Like The Real Thing

Even though a jellyfish is 90 percent water, it moves at about 40 mph. Jellyfish use their bell -- the top portion, above the tentacles -- to create a jet that propels them through water. Now, scientists at the Chonnam National University in the Republic of Korea have built a robot that mimics the movement. The robot, using an electro-active polymer artificial muscle, retracts and expands its skirt, exerting a minimal voltage and propelling the jellybot faster than you can swim.

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OS:George Soukup V-Track Rotary Magnet Motorhttp://peswiki.com/index.php/OS:George_Soukup_V-Track_Rotary_Magnet_Motor

George Soukup Nachbauer claims to have come up with a working all-magnet motor (Magnetmotorenbauer) of the "V-gate" variety, for which he has filed for a patent, after which he will make it accessible. He presents what he calls the V-Track Rotary Magnet Motor. It appears to embody the V-track magnet acceleration model into rotating motion.

"[The motor] accelerated up to destruction, therefore the rotor must be built better. But the size which it is did not create a problem. Only if I did the same with larger magnets would it becomes a problem. But this is accessible at the moment only for the German patent office. During disclosure it will become visible for everyone. I plan also its own web page. I have German investors already." -- Soukup (Response to Sterling D. Allan; June 15, 2009; slightly edited)
Once engineered for production, the promise of an all-magnet motor is that it would present a clean, reliable, portable, and hopefully affordable energy source that could make electric motors and fuel-powered generators obsolete.
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Exxon & TransCanada: Back to the future
Andrew Halcro
Sunday, 14 June 2009 15:58
http://alaskadispatch.com/tundra-talk/energy/1240-exxon-a-transcanada-back-to-the-future -------------------------------------------------------


A MUST READ below


Will Big Oil Be the Next Detroit?April 10, 2009 – 23:46

Big Oil has abandoned alternative-energy despite President Obama’s eager embrace of clean energy and carbon-emissions regulations, according to the New York Times.
Economically, Big Oil appears to have more compelling logic on its side. “The scale of their alternative investments is so mind-numbingly small that it’s hard to find them,” Nathanael Greene, a senior policy analyst at the Natural Resources Defense Council, told the New York Times. “These companies don’t feel they have to be on the leading edge of this stuff.”
While it may surprise those reporters who serve up press releases with little or any additional exploration of the bigger factual picture, Big Oil has never had more than a token interest in alternative energy.
For all its faults, Exxon-Mobil has been more honest about its stance on alternative energy. Less so can be said for Royal-Dutch Shell and “Beyond Petroleum.” These companies have aggressively promoted minute investments in renewable energies like solar energy and biofuels in the media while quietly funneling far more significant amounts of capital into conventional carbon-intensive fossil-fuel projects. Heard of Sakhalin, an island off the coast of eastern Siberia in the North Pacific – a part of the Sakhalin Oblast?
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$$$$$ EXXON R& D BUDGET
Exposing Big Oil’s Biggest Lie – Exxon Mobil’s R&D BudgetJune 7, 2009 – 00:28

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Clean energy: America can meet the challenge
Trip Van Noppen
Sunday, June 7, 2009
America's addiction to oil and other fossil fuels has put our economy, our security and our future at risk. But while President Obama, Congress, energy experts, business leaders and citizens across the country are rolling up their sleeves to create a clean-energy future, oil executives stubbornly insist that rapid change is impossible or too expensive.
Chevron CEO David O'Reilly says moving away too quickly from oil is "a straight path back to a pre-industrial economy and a standard of living to match." Exxon Mobil CEO Rex Tillerson says the transition is 100 years away and that tougher rules to reduce carbon emissions will hurt consumers.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/06/06/INDV180UFR.DTL
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SHELL OIL and DISCOVER MAGAZINE get it on >
disguised as an energy informational forum and 100 neat idea pictures/opinions
http://discovermagazine.com/2009/jan/001

( In all fairness, you should look at the 100 2008 stories and alternative energy thoughts)

I FIND THE partnerhip with Discover Magazine begs $ questions, the state of the arts TECHNOLOGY INTERACTIVE SCREEN INVITING and the interaction behind the screen scenes "data gathering must be to die for"...
Other than that, it is the same old Fossil Fuel Mission to shapeshift or portend any direction and accomadation that will minimize, mitigate, distract, divert, any real Energy Awareness Direction away from a controled means of Energy Generation for Profit at any expense.

**Note: **This site just kicked off and i consider it the usual suspects,,
evolving into a highly suspect ,
then,, becoming a more sophisticated suspect
in their pretending to be in our best interest
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COPPER ?!#&* =$$$$
Copper thefts threaten infrastructure
June 6, 2009 - 11:17 PM
By MAGGIE BORMAN
The Telegraph
Copper thefts in the United States are threatening critical infrastructure throughout the country, federal and local officials said.
And if you think that doesn't affect you think again: According to a recent FBI report, copper thieves, either individuals or organized groups, are targeting electrical substations, cellular towers, telephone land lines, railroads, water wells, construction sites and vacant homes.
http://www.thetelegraph.com/news/copper-27590-thefts-infrastructure.html
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THIS IS SOME SITE check it out.. models of conepts --This represents new frontiers of idea materialization by individuals as little people.
http://sketchup.google.com/3dwarehouse/cldetails?mid=3d8a9533b0668574601826a79849febf&ct=mdcc
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An interesting site on oil discussions
http://www.theoildrum.com/node/5404
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