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XSF and the XS-NRG Prize (Executive Summary)
Unfortunately, the energy crisis is real. It is now widely accepted that the crisis is about to reach the critical point when only a “miracle” can turn the situation around and get us out of the “mess”-- a mess in which our lazy complacency with our own energy technology has pushed us into. Fortunately we can buy some time by stepping up conservation efforts and by deploying more and improving on existing (some quite old) clean alternative energy technologies such as solar, wind, geothermal, hydro and ocean wave, etc., switching to cleaner burning fuels such as hydrogen, biofuels, etc., or building improved nuclear reactors, fuel-cells and so on.
Well understood from a scientific and technological point of view, these "evolutionary" developments are necessary to start removing our society from the present addiction to fossil fuels, but none of them represent the quantum-leap clean energy revolution we need to avoid major problems in the near future and guarantee a sustainable development of human civilization for generations to come.
Categories: Free Energy Portals
Scientific Anomalies and How the Mind Manages Them
Excerpts from the Keynote Address For Festschrift in Honor of the Princeton Engineering Anomalies Research (PEAR) Lab’s Twentieth Anniversary -- By Elizabeth Lloyd Mayer, Ph.D.
... PEAR’s work hasn’t had an altogether easy reception in some of the quarters which house mainstream science. That’s no surprise to anybody who makes a business of scientific anomalies. Anomalies don’t invite widespread acceptance until they’ve stopped being anomalous. That’s normal science and it’s old news.
But I want today to suggest that just because it’s old news doesn’t mean it’s not worth a fresh look as interesting news. A fresh look that turns it into interesting news may do us the particular favor of enabling us to move beyond all those tired arguments over whether or not work like that being done at PEAR belongs in the register of what mainstream science likes to call science. Those are by now very tired arguments. As arguments they’re boring. They rarely convince anyone of anything and worse, they have a peculiarly draining quality which usually leads me to feel with Melville’s Bartelby the Scrivener that, invited to engage, I Prefer Not.
... PEAR’s work hasn’t had an altogether easy reception in some of the quarters which house mainstream science. That’s no surprise to anybody who makes a business of scientific anomalies. Anomalies don’t invite widespread acceptance until they’ve stopped being anomalous. That’s normal science and it’s old news.
But I want today to suggest that just because it’s old news doesn’t mean it’s not worth a fresh look as interesting news. A fresh look that turns it into interesting news may do us the particular favor of enabling us to move beyond all those tired arguments over whether or not work like that being done at PEAR belongs in the register of what mainstream science likes to call science. Those are by now very tired arguments. As arguments they’re boring. They rarely convince anyone of anything and worse, they have a peculiarly draining quality which usually leads me to feel with Melville’s Bartelby the Scrivener that, invited to engage, I Prefer Not.
Categories: Free Energy Portals
how long must i wait to be vindicated
The global collapse of world
economies and or global war with Russia over energy is occuring right
before our eyes-when will you wake to what is the foundation of any
civilized industrialized country- ENERGY- I HAVE SOLVED IT- pressure
Princeton university to replicate my experiment to verify- over 17
months i still wait- Lets see how long it takes to uncover
i believe my experiments will end the energy crisis via nuclear fusion- the only way i can prove it is to have a credible university repeat my experiment- because i hand built a tunable Tesla coil at 1 million volts to resonate within heavy water/deuteron for stable conduction of plasma arc-the experiment is very dangerous and i am grateful to god i survived;) however, what seems even harder than the experiment- is trying to convince my fellow American citizens- i am for real- remember this- soldiers fight and die for energy-our economy is about to be crippled-how long must i be ignored as i try my best to stimulate you to help force a university to just replicate my experiment for verification.
i believe my experiments will end the energy crisis via nuclear fusion- the only way i can prove it is to have a credible university repeat my experiment- because i hand built a tunable Tesla coil at 1 million volts to resonate within heavy water/deuteron for stable conduction of plasma arc-the experiment is very dangerous and i am grateful to god i survived;) however, what seems even harder than the experiment- is trying to convince my fellow American citizens- i am for real- remember this- soldiers fight and die for energy-our economy is about to be crippled-how long must i be ignored as i try my best to stimulate you to help force a university to just replicate my experiment for verification.
Categories: Free Energy Portals
Tesla & Environmental Resources
Michael Riversong writes: ADVANCED ENERGY RESEARCH AND ENVIRONMENTAL TREASURES
Beginning in 1983, Michael Riversong has been deeply involved in energy research, and from 1990 has been doing environmental consulting. This has resulted in many fascinating adventures. He has been in contact with many of this planet's best inventors and scientists. An able photographer and writer, he has often documented many developments in these fields.
Beginning in 1983, Michael Riversong has been deeply involved in energy research, and from 1990 has been doing environmental consulting. This has resulted in many fascinating adventures. He has been in contact with many of this planet's best inventors and scientists. An able photographer and writer, he has often documented many developments in these fields.
Categories: Free Energy Portals
Fortech Inc. Introduces Real-time Cost Modeling Solution for Power Generation
TEMPE, AZ -- Fortech Software Consulting, Inc. announces the introduction of “Power Manager™” leveraging its unique Utility Power Operations expertise along with its proprietary line of other Automated Solutions. Power Manager™ is a flexible, scalable, REAL-TIME business technology solution that seamlessly integrates Power Generation, Energy Forecast/Scheduling, Generation Cost Modeling, Resource Management, Accounting and Reporting functions required for any power operations.
Categories: Free Energy Portals
The Dark Universe and Limitless Dark Energy
By CambridgeBlog: Last week I explained what I argue to be the greatest theoretical challenge facing fundamental physics today; that the very concept of the spacetime continuum is flawed and in need of revision. This week I want to explain what I think is the very greatest challenge coming from the experimental and observational side. Science thrives on a dialogue between theory and experiment and when you put all this together you arrive, as I see it, at the most exciting time for theoretical physics for a century, perhaps even since the 17th century in terms of the expected level of shake-up.
Categories: Free Energy Portals
NASA - 50 years of exploration
NASA officially turns 50 on October 1, but the agency celebrated its golden anniversary with an early birthday party on Sept. 24, 2008, at the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center in Chantilly, Va.Legendary astronauts Neil Armstrong, John Glenn and Jim Lovell joined NASA Administrator Michael Griffin and other dignitaries in the gala, celebrating the power of innovation and discovery, and recognizing the agency's challenges and achievements over the past five decades.
Link: http://www.nasa.gov/externalflash/gala_gallery/
Categories: Free Energy Portals
Forget black holes, could the LHC trigger a Bose supernova?
The fellas at CERN have gone to great lengths to reassure us all
that they won’t destroy the planet (who says physicists are cold
hearted?).
The worry was that the collision of particles at the LHC’s high energies could create a black hole that would swallow the planet. We appear to be safe on that score but it turns out there’s another way in which some people think the LHC could cause a major explosion.
Categories: Free Energy Portals
NREL Solar Cell Sets World Efficiency Record at 40.8 Percent
From ElectricalEngineer.com: September 29,2008
Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) have set a world record in solar cell efficiency with a photovoltaic device that converts 40.8 percent of the light that hits it into electricity. This is the highest confirmed efficiency of any photovoltaic device to date.
Categories: Free Energy Portals
CSIROs UltraBattery goes global in the auto sector
The CSIRO-invented UltraBattery is set to have a global impact on
greenhouse gas emissions after Japan’s Furukawa Battery Company, which
has already begun production of the UltraBattery, and US manufacturer,
East Penn, today signed an international commercialization and
distribution agreement for the technology.
Categories: Free Energy Portals
Barack Obama - New Energy For America Plan
Details on Obama's energy plan if he is elected President.
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