A Science Portal. Ideal for Science Projects. Links to cutting edge science related web sites.
Environmental solutions videos. Environmental solutions, Solutions to CO2 emissions, reducing carbon emissions, reducing the impact on the climate, climate change solutions. Reducing greenhouse gas.
Photoproject at Ecomagination. Upload photos and help the planet and people who live on it. Upload up to THREE photos EVERY day to make an even bigger impact. The aim is to generate 30,000 photo uploads before the end of the year. If they can achieve that, the total impact will be:-
•4.8 million gallons of fresh, clean drinking water through the building of fresh water wells.
•1,700,000 hours of solar light for families in need.
•45,000 kw hours of wind turbine powered electricity.
When you arrive at the photo upload site, they will be able to upload 1 of 3 types of photos relating to either Wind, Water, or Light. We'll turn those photos into real donations.
Blog about it, tweet about it, make a wall post, send an e-mail…any way to reach your network. A quick e-mail message or blog post about this project would be greatly appreciated. And together we’ll truly help to make the world a better place.
Discusses the recent upswing in the development of large-scale solar projects, with elaboration on fast-track projects, the political, economic and financial barriers to implementation, and utility integration along with several current case project examples.
The Woods
Institute for the Environment Harnesses the expertise and
imagination of leading academics and decision-makers to create practical
solutions for people and the planet. In the same spirit that inspired
Stanford's role in Silicon Valley's high-tech revolution, the Woods
Institute is pioneering innovative approaches to meet the environmental
challenges of the 21st century from climate change to sustainable food
supplies to ocean conservation.
The Woods Institute carries out its mission by:
Sponsoring research that leads to new solutions to global
environmental sustainability issues.
Infusing science into policies and practices of the business,
government, and NGO communities.
Developing strong environmental leaders for today and the
future.
Serving as a catalyst and a hub for the university's
interdisciplinary work in environmental research, education, and action.
Nick Melosh, Assistant Professor of Melosh Group Materials Science and Engineering at Stanford University, discusses an innovative approach under development in his laboratory to implement combined cycle solar electricity generation using photon enhanced thermionic emission as a way to capture both the spectral and heat components of solar energy and achieve higher conversion efficiencies than standard thermal or photovoltaic processes alone. Stanford Group Melosh
Terri Root, Senior Fellow at
Stanford's Woods Institute for
the Environment, discusses her meta-analysis of scientific research on
animals affected by temperature change and she states that the time has
come for scientists to do more than research and write papers, but to
also start proposing creative and innovative solutions.
Stanford University is one of the world's leading research and teaching institutions. It is
located in Palo Alto, California.
IPCC Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. The IPCC assesses the scientific, technical and socio-economic information relevant for the understanding of the risk of human-induced climate change.
Nanotechnology may bring some benefits for example greatly improved solar cell, better energy storage and energy transfer.
How does nanotechnology make a difference in your life? (University at Buffalo)
Imagine the Possibilities. Could objects ten-thousand times smaller than the
width of a human hair change life as we know it? What if windows could also
function as solar panels, converting light from the sun into clean and renewable
electrical power?
When the size of materials is reduced to the nanoscale dimension, physical and chemical properties can change dramatically. In addition, nanostructures also afford new exciting opportunities of low-cost processing. We are interested in a broad range of nanoscale properties including electronic, photonic, electrochemical, mechanical, catalytic and interfacial properties.
Understanding these properties has important technological implications in energy conversion and storage, electronics, biotechnology and environmental technology. We study fundamentals of nanomaterials including nanowires, colloidal nanocrystals and patterned nanostructures, develop low-cost processings and address critical issues in real-world applications.
A blazing coating lets microscopic carbon nanotubes generate electricity
Engineers at MIT have devised what they call a new way of producing electricity. By coating a microscopic carbon nanotube with
a layer of fuel and igniting one end with a spark or laser, they're able to send a wave of heat shooting through the nanotube's interior.
This
thermal wave pushes electrons in its path, generating a significant electric current. Prototypes already have energy density 100 times
greater than lithium-ion batteries, and they can be stored indefinitely without leaking charge. The researchers are now investigating optimal
fuels and, to make the system reusable, will have to invent a way to automatically apply a fresh layer of fuel after the first burns away.
How It Works:
1. Heat the Tube. One end of a microscopic carbon nanotube, coated with reactive fuel, is ignited by a laser.
2. Herd the Particles. A wave of heat races through the inside of the tube, pushing electrons toward the other end.
3. Harvest the Energy. The movement of the electrons forms an electric current.
Nanotechnology promises to enable tiny, intricate circuits powering devices on any surface. But unless they’re harvesting energy from something like a heartbeat, the devices can only be as small as the smallest battery.
Now researchers at Rice University have combined the two, packing an entire lithium-ion battery into a single nanowire. The developers say it’s as small as such a device can possibly get.
Researchers led by Rice University professor Pulickel Ajayan, (Ajayan Group Nanomaterials Laboratory at Rice University.), built a hybrid energy storage device, which serves as a battery and a supercapacitor. The first version sandwiched an electrolyte between a nickel/tin anode and a cathode made of a polymer called polyaniline. The cathode also served as a supercapacitor, storing lithium ions in bulk, as this writeup by Rice University explains. The prototype proved that lithium ions would move through the electrolyte and into the cathode.
ABSTRACT
Nanowires and nanocrystals represent important nanomaterials with one-dimensional and zero-dimensional morphology, respectively. Here I will give an overview on the research about how these nanomaterials impact the critical applications in faster transistors, smaller nonvolatile memory devices, efficient...
Ted. What would happen if we could generate power from our windowpanes? In this moving talk, entrepreneur Justin Hall-Tipping shows the materials that could make that possible, and how questioning our notion of 'normal' can lead to extraordinary breakthroughs.
TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and performances from the TED Conference, where the world's leading thinkers and doers give the talk of their lives in 18 minutes.
Featured speakers have included Al Gore on climate change, Philippe Starck on design, Jill Bolte Taylor on observing her own stroke, Nicholas Negroponte on One Laptop per Child, Jane Goodall on chimpanzees, Bill Gates on malaria and mosquitoes, Pattie Maes on the "Sixth Sense" wearable tech, and "Lost" producer JJ Abrams on the allure of mystery. TED stands for Technology, Entertainment, Design, and TEDTalks cover these topics as well as science, business, development and the arts.
Closed captions and translated subtitles in a variety of languages are now available at Ted Translate.
An introduction to the study of alternative energy
sources. Researches use ground-breaking atomic imaging techniques to
view hydrogen atoms moving on a specialized surface.
Paul Alivisatos,
co-leader of Berkeley Lab's Helios Project, is the Associate Director for
Physical Sciences and director of the Materials Sciences Division at
Berkeley Lab. In the Helios Project, Alivisatos will use nanotechnology
in the efficient capture of sunlight and its conversion to electricity
to drive economical fuel production processes. He is an authority on
artificial nanostructure synthesis and inventor of the quantum dot
technology.
Excellent talk. Worth watching to the end in my humble view.
Power From The Air. Ambient Electromagnetic Energy Harnessed for Small Electronic Devices. Researchers have discovered a way to capture and harness energy transmitted by such sources as radio and television transmitters, cell phone networks and satellite communications systems. By scavenging this ambient energy from the air around us, the technique could provide a new way to power networks of wireless sensors, microprocessors and communications chips. Professor Manos Tentzeris displays an inkjet-printed rectifying antenna used to convert microwave energy to DC power. It was printed on flexible material. "There is a large amount of electromagnetic energy all around us, but nobody has been able to tap into it," said Manos Tentzeris, a professor in the Georgia Institute of Technology, The School of Electrical and Computer Engineering who is leading the research. "We are using an ultra-wideband antenna that lets us exploit a variety of signals in different frequency ranges, giving us greatly increased power-gathering capability." Not free power see Crystal Set, power without batteries
Ted Sargent is a pioneer in solar science. He's
working on solar technology that could literally be woven into every
aspect of daily life, from our clothes to our roads, using what is known
as a spray-on solar cell. The implications for our energy systems are
profound. As Ted says, "Solar energy is not just an exciting science
problem, but an incredibly important human problem."
Ted is working on solar nanotechnology with the potential to make solar
energy very cheap and allow society to collect it on a huge scale.
Currently, solar technology costs more to build and install than most
people are willing to pay. Solar panels, for example, the technology
most commonly associated with solar energy, are installed on your
rooftop. The cost of collecting one kilowatt per hour of solar energy
(about a third of the electricity an average household uses on any given
day) is about $11,000.
Nano-solar -- This is a company that as the potential to change the world. It has
developed proprietary technology that makes it possible to simply
roll-print solar cells that require only 1/100th as thick an absorber as
a silicon-wafer cell (yet deliver similar performance and durability).
Their technology dramatically lowers the process cost
and complexity involved in the production of thin-film solar cells and
makes it possible to scale production very rapidly. The result sets the
standard for the technology and products that make it possible to put A
Solar Panel on Every Building „˘.
Jeff Grossman, UC Berkeley, (video above) Talks about the growing
involvement of nanotechnology in solar power development. He starts off
with a discussion of the basics of Nanotechnology, the moves into the
challenges around new energy, and the limitations of traditional solar
PV cells. Jeff concludes that nano does hold the potential to overcome
those limitations, even though he doesn't believe those breakthroughs
will happen for a few years. Finally, Jeff addresses the concern of
nanotoxicity and exposure.
Recorded at the Down to a Science event on 3/23/09 More about Nanotechnology Dangers
Printing Solar Cells With New Nanomaterials. (Nano Website), New materials make it possible to produce photovoltaic cells on paper or fabric, nearly as simply as printing a document.
Graduate student Miles Barr hold a flexible and foldable array of solar cells that have been printed on a sheet of paper. The sheet of paper looks like any other document that might have just come spitting out of an office printer, with an array of colored rectangles printed over much of its surface. But then a researcher picks it up, clips a couple of wires to one end, and shines a light on the paper.
Instantly an LCD clock display at the other end of the wires starts to display the time. Almost as cheaply and easily as printing a photo on your inkjet, an inexpensive, simple solar cell has been created on that flimsy sheet, formed from special “inks” deposited on the paper. You can even fold it up to slip into a pocket, then unfold it and watch it generating electricity again in the sunlight. The new technology, developed by a team of researchers at MIT, (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), is reported in a paper in the journal Advanced Materials, published online July 8 2011.
While you’re up, print me a solar cell, MIT. (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), MIT-developed materials make it possible to produce photovoltaic cells on paper or fabric, nearly as simply as printing a document. The new technology, developed by a team of researchers at MIT, is reported in a paper in the journal Advanced Materials, published online July 8, 2011. The technique represents a major departure from the systems used until now to create most solar cells, which require exposing the substrates to potentially damaging conditions, either in the form of liquids or high temperatures. The new printing process uses vapors, not liquids, and temperatures less than 120 degrees Celsius. These “gentle” conditions make it possible to use ordinary untreated paper, cloth or plastic as the substrate on which the solar cells can be printed.
Berkeley, CA For millions of years, green plants have employed photosynthesis to capture energy from sunlight and convert it into electrochemical energy. A goal of scientists has been to develop an artificial version of photosynthesis that can be used to produce liquid fuels from carbon dioxide and water. Researchers with the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have now taken a critical step towards this goal with the discovery that nano-sized crystals of cobalt oxide can effectively carry out the critical photosynthetic reaction of splitting water molecules.
Cobalt oxide nanocrystals can effectively be used to
split water molecules, one of the half reactions critical to an artifical photosynthesis system for producing liquid fuels from sunlight.
An aqueous solution contains silica particles that have been embedded with photooxidizing cobalt oxide nanocrystals plus a sensitizer to allow the water-splitting reaction to be driven by visible light. When laser light hits the solution it turns blue as the sensitizer absorbs light. Bubbles soon begin to form as oxygen gas is released from the spilt water molecules
Development of nanoelectronics and highly efficient solar cell Danish nanophysicists have developed a new method for manufacturing the cornerstone of nanotechnology research - nanowires. The discovery has great potential in solar power.
PhD student Peter Krogstrup, Nano-Science Center at the Niels Bohr Institute, developed the method during his dissertation. We have changed the recipe for producing nanowires. This means that we can produce nanowires that contain two different semiconductors, namely gallium indium arsenide and indium arsenide. It is a big breakthrough, because for first time on a nanoscale, we can combine the good characteristics of the two materials, thus gaining new possibilities for the electronics of the future, explains Peter Krogstrup.
Viruses get a bad rap - and rightly so. The ability of a virus to quickly and precisely replicate itself makes it a destructive scourge to animals and plants alike.
Bill Hammack, (The Engineer Guy), cover his office floor with trash to see what takes up space in a landfill.
He digs through fast food containers, newspapers and diapers to arrive at answers; noting that what we really need is green design of our manufactured objects.
The clear polycarbonate tubes are approx 3 meters high, and 10-20 centimeters in diameter.
It removes upto 86% of the NOx and 40% of the CO2 of the smokestack emissions that are bubbled through it. The algae are feeding on exhaust with 13% CO2 content. This size algae photobioreactor can't handle the entire exhaust emissions, it would need to be much larger for that.
This photobioreactor you see here on the roof of MIT, has since been dismantled and reassembled in Naboomspruit (now called Mookgopong) South Africa at a biodiesel plant.
Helios A solar energy initiative at Lawrence Berkeley National
Laboratory (LBNL) and UC
Berkeley. The primary goal of this effort is to develop methods to store
solar energy in the form of renewable transportation fuel. Several approaches
under investigation include the generation of biofuels from biomass, the
generation of biofuels by algae, and the direct conversion of water and carbon
dioxide to fuels by the use of solar energy.
Making Climate Change Policy Work In Difficult Economic Times: A Conference
Focusing On The Job And Equity Impacts Of Carbon Pricing Policies. Carbon
pricing policies like cap-and-trade programs are being proposed or implemented
to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in California, the Western states of the US
and Canada, and nationally. This conference will explore the design options
within carbon pricing policies that shape impacts on employment and equity.
Presenters will include leading policy makers, economists, labor leaders,
environmental justice advocates, business leaders, environmentalists, and
others.
View Flyer, (PDF
file format file).
Labor Center Berkeley
UC The Center for Labor Research and Education (Labor
Center) is a public service and outreach program of the UC Berkeley Institute for Research on
Labor and Employment (formerly the Institute of
Industrial Relations), and an affiliate of the UC
Miguel Contreras
Labor Program. Founded in 1964, the Labor Center conducts research and
education on issues related to labor and employment. The Labor Center's
curricula and leadership trainings serve to educate a diverse new generation of
labor leaders. The Labor Center carries out research on topics such as job
quality and workforce development issues, and we work with unions, government,
and employers to develop innovative policy perspectives and programs. We also
provide an important source of research and information on unions and the
changing workforce for students, scholars, policymakers and the public. UC Berkeley
IPCC Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. The IPCC assesses the scientific, technical and socio-economic information relevant for the understanding of the risk of human-induced climate change.
Real Climate A commentary site on climate science by working climate scientists
for the interested public and journalists. They aim to provide a quick response
to developing stories and provide the context sometimes missing in mainstream
commentary. The discussion here is restricted to scientific topics and will not
get involved in any political or economic implications of the science.
Climate control: Is CO2 really in charge? ( New Scientist )
CROCODILES in the Arctic? You better believe it. There was a time, about 90 million years ago, when the Earth was so warm that crocodile-like creatures lived and bred inside the Arctic Circle. At other times, ice has spread over large parts of the planet.
Department of Energy and Climate Change. Climate change is not only a massive threat to the global environment, it is also perhaps the greatest economic challenge facing us in the twenty-first century. It demands an urgent and radical response across the developed and developing world. At the same time, the United Kingdom needs to secure clean, safe, affordable energy to heat and power our homes and businesses. Creating a low carbon and resource efficient world means making major structural changes to the way we work and live, including how we source, manage and use our energy.DECC exists to take the lead in tackling these challenges, and reflects the fact that climate change and energy policies are inextricably linked – two thirds of our emissions come from the energy we use. Decisions in one field cannot be made without considering the impacts in the other.
The Energy Saving Trust A non-profit organisation that provides free and impartial advice on how to stop wasting energy.
If you are looking for easy ways to stop wasting energy and money then check their for details.
Carbon Trust. A not-for-profit company providing specialist support to help business and the public sector boost business returns by cutting carbon emissions, saving energy and commercialising low carbon technologies.
Microgeneration Certification. Certificates Microgeneration technologies used to produce electricity and heat, (usually on smaller scales than large power suppliers), from renewable sources.
Ofgem Office of the Gas and Electricity Markets. Protecting consumers is our first priority. We do this by promoting competition, wherever appropriate, and regulating the monopoly companies which run the gas and electricity networks. The interests of gas and electricity consumers are their interests taken as a whole, including their interests in the reduction of greenhouse gases and in the security of the supply of gas and electricity to them.
National Renewable Energy Laboratory in Colorado, The National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) is the nation's primary laboratory for renewable energy and energy efficiency research and development (R&D). NREL's mission and strategy are focused on advancing the U.S. Department of Energy's and our nation's energy goals. The laboratory's scientists and researchers support critical market objectives to accelerate research from scientific innovations to market-viable alternative energy solutions.
10-watt alternative LED bulb (which glows white when turned on) could save the nation about 35 terawatt-hours of electricity or $3.9 billion in one year and avoid 20 million metric tons of carbon emissions if every 60-watt incandescent bulb in the U.S. was replaced with the L Prize winner. | Photo Courtesy of Philips Lighting North America. “The L Prize challenges the best and brightest minds in the U.S. lighting industry to make the technological leaps forward that can greatly reduce the money we spend to light our homes and businesses each year,” said Energy Secretary Steven Chu. “Not only does the L Prize challenge innovative companies like Philips to make LED technology even more energy efficient, it also spurs the lighting industry to make LEDs affordable for American families.”
Low Energy Nuclear Reactions (LENR-CANR). This site features a library of papers on LENR, Low Energy Nuclear Reactions, also known as Cold Fusion. (CANR, Chemically Assisted Nuclear Reactions, is another term for this phenomenon.) The library includes more than 1,000 original scientific papers reprinted with permission from the authors and publishers. The papers are linked to a bibliography of over 3,500 journal papers, news articles and books about LENR.
World Scientific.To develop the highest quality knowledge-based products and services for the academic, scientific, professional, research and student communities worldwide.
Cold Fusion is belived to be a term coined by the Media, not by science.. The basics is to produce Fusion under lower* tempartures i.e. cold)
* fusion at temperatures below the couple of millions of degrees Celsius required for thermonuclear fusion.
Fusion, (very simply put), is the joining of atoms to produce energy.
Fission is the spilting of atoms to produce energy
The Office of Health, Safety and Security (HSS) was created to bring the vital Department of Energy (DOE) corporate functions of health, safety, environment, and security together under one office. To ensure effective coordination of these functions, HSS focuses on policy development, technical assistance, education and training, enforcement, and independent oversight programs. To provide consistency across the Department, HSS maintains a close working relationship with the
National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA), the Under Secretaries of Energy and Science, line managers, and the Department's field sites.
The Centre for Innovation in Carbon Capture and Storage (CICCS), (University of Nottingham), is an interdisciplinary, innovative, and international leading centre for research at the interface between science and engineering and international cooperation to accelerate the technological innovation needed for the wider deployment of carbon capture and storage (CCS).
Their mission is to develop a holistic view to the development of carbon capture and storage, making a significant impact in finding solutions in climate change and protecting the planet.
Blacklight Power new hydrogen-based energy source.
The Orion Project
The BlackLight Process generates more than 200 times the energy of
burning hydrogen that can be harnessed to replace the thermal power in
coal, oil, gas and nuclear power plants.
Blacklight Power BlackLight Power, Inc. is the inventor of a new primary energy source
with applications to heating, distributed and central power generation,
and motive power. It is based on a new chemical process of releasing the
latent energy of the hydrogen atom, the BlackLight Process, with the
formation of a prior undiscovered form of hydrogen called "hydrino." (More...)
BlackLight Power, Inc. is the inventor of a novel catalytic chemical
process, the BlackLight Process, of causing the latent energy stored in
the hydrogen atom to be released as a new primary energy source.
This allows the negatively charged electron that is otherwise in a
stable orbit to move closer to the naturally attracting, positively
charged nucleus to release large amounts of energy with the formation of
a prior undiscovered form of hydrogen called "hydrino". This
patented process of releasing chemical energy from hydrogen generates
power, heat, and proprietary new hydrino compounds. BlackLight
Power has developed a breakthrough in solid fuel chemistries that are
very efficient at liberating energy from forming hydrinos and can be
thermally regenerated. In principle, green power plants can be
operated continuously as power and regeneration reactions of the fuel
mixture are maintained in synchrony using known industrial processes,
and the only consumable, the hydrogen fuel, would be obtained ultimately
from water due to the enormous net energy release relative to
combustion.
The Orion Project is a
not-for-profit corporation created to transform the current energy,
environmental and social crisis into a world of sustainability and
enlightened abundance.
History is replete with inventors who have discovered and produced
amazing clean energy devices. Men like Nikola Tesla, T. Townsend Brown,
Stan Meyer and others have shown us it is possible to have all the power
we need without burning noxious oil, coal, and gas or risking nuclear
damage. For 100 years, however, there have been no significant changes
in the way we generate power.
Even now, we continue to pollute and pay large corporations for the
power we need to live our lives. We can no longer afford this "business
as usual" attitude. We can not wait for big business to decide to do the
right thing on our behalf. We must insist on having and using new
technologies that can turn this energy crisis around - starting right
now! We must embrace those technologies that are clean and sustainable
for centuries to come, and supply them to All peoples on the earth -
now!
Thee New Green Economy. Sustainability. Diversity. Empowerment. Right Relationship. Collaboration. These are some of the emerging values of The New Green Economy. The website is exploring the new values and the new language of sustainability. How will businesses and non profit organizations work together in the near future to address humanity's pressing challenges? How can we successfully weave business into the Earth's ecology? What is the "integrity of the whole" and how can you engage it?
Mission is to build a strong, diverse, decentralized, cross-sector
movement to transform systems of production and consumption to serve
ecological sustainability and social wellbeing. Our goals are to amplify
public discourse on a diverse set of sustainability issues and to
facilitate the growing Story of Stuff community's involvement in
strategic efforts to build a more sustainable and just world.
Youtube user potholer54 A basic look at how climate scientists infer that
man-made carbon gases are changing the climate, and how this view is contradicted by other climate scientists who are
sceptics.
( potholer54
is a former
science correspondent with an interest in reporting the facts,
not the media hype):-
Climate Works,
Hal Harvey,
(Chief Executive of Climate Works), discusses the urgency of mitigating climate change as
well as how to craft and implement approaches to the problem that
achieve results, and the costs of delaying action.
Solutions to the climate change. From the extreme of weather becoming the norma
Solutions to the
climate change. From the extreme becoming the normal. Trying to reduce
to 2 °
Celsius and 450 PPM, Parts Per Million CO2.
Delaying the improvements of changes will have a significant negative impact exponentially climate change.
The extremes of global weather change, (flooding, drought, hurricanes',
tornados'), are becoming the normal.
This unit will turn off mains electrical devices similar to switching off at the main supply but via a remote control unit, as you turn off your Television. It should therefore save electricity and money over the year. Although standby supplies generally don't use a lot of power over the year some electrical energy and money could be saved.
Oceanographer John Delaney is leading the team that is building an underwater network of high-def cameras and sensors that will turn our ocean into a global interactive lab -- sparking an explosion of rich data about the world below.
John Delaney leads the team that is building a cabled network of deep-ocean sensors that will study, over time and space, the way the ocean's complex processes interact.
TED Stands for Technology, Entertainment, Design, and TEDTalks cover these topics as well as science, business, development and the arts.
TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and performances from the TED Conference, where the world's leading thinkers and doers give the talk of their lives in 18 minutes. Featured speakers have included Al Gore on climate change, Philippe Starck on design, Jill Bolte Taylor on observing her own stroke, Nicholas Negroponte on One Laptop per Child, Jane Goodall on chimpanzees, Bill Gates on malaria and mosquitoes, Pattie Maes on the "Sixth Sense" wearable tech, and "Lost" producer JJ Abrams on the allure of mystery.
NASA Climate Essentials A multimedia gallery brings together the latest and most
popular climate-related images, data visualizations and video features from Goddard Space Flight Center on one web page. Browse our top ten most popular
climate resources, or select from the categories below. You can download the imagery in a variety of formats directly from this site. For more multimedia
resources on climate and other topics, search the Scientific Visualization Studio.
Reinventing the Gasoline Engine. Precise combustion control cuts fuel consumption by more than 30 percent. new engine concept developed by researchers
at the University of Wisconsin-Madison could cut fuel consumption by about 30 percent in cars and by almost 20 percent in heavy trucks. In gas-powered cars,
the new design would add little to the cost of the engine. In heavy-duty trucks, it would substantially reduce costs by eliminating the need for expensive
after-treatment systems to reduce emissions. Test engine: Researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison used this Caterpillar heavy-duty diesel
engine to test a new high-efficiency combustion concept. Credit: Derek Splitter. The concept, which has been demonstrated in test engines, involves precisely
mixing two different fuels in the combustion chamber, which gives greater control over both the timing and duration of combustion. It could provide a way
to meet fuel economy regulations without the more expensive electric motors and batteries found in hybrid vehicles (although for still greater efficiency, the
new design could be incorporated into a hybrid vehicle). The new engine concept is made possible by precise electronic fuel injection and advances in computer
simulations. "We discovered this process using advanced computer modeling, which allowed us to identify the recipe for optimal mixing of the fuels," says Rolf
Reitz, a professor of mechanical engineering at UW-Madison.
Facing the Future Climate change. Population growth. Poverty. Environmental degradation. Conflict. Global health crises. Intractable global problems? We
don't think so. At Facing the Future we believe in the transformative power of widespread, systemic education to improve lives and communities, both locally and globally. Our positive, solutions-based programming is designed by and for
teachers, and brings critical thinking about global issues to students in every walk of life. We work within the education system to help teachers help students achieve academic success, while preparing them to create and maintain positive,
healthy, and sustainable communities. We provide curriculum resources, teacher workshops, and service learning opportunities used by teachers, schools, and
districts in all 50 states and over 100 countries. By 2020, Facing the Future programming will reach over 12.5 million students each year.
'Artificial leaf' Turns sunlight into fuel. US scientists have developed an "artificial leaf" that converts sunlight into a chemical fuel that could be stored and used later, according to a study.When placed in a container of water, the silicon solar cell -- with catalytic materials on each side -- generates oxygen bubbles on one side and hydrogen bubbles on the other, which can be separated and collected. The gases could then be fed into a fuel cell that recombines them into water while producing an electric current, according to lead researcher Daniel Nocera, of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).
MIT Artificial leaf The device is the subject of a paper in the journal Science co-authored by six researchers from Sun Catalytix, a solar-energy firm founded by Nocera. The Nocera Group studies the energy conversion in biology and chemistry. Efforts have focused on understanding the reactions of multielectron, proton-coupled transformations of energy poor substrates. From this platform, the group has successfully used solar light to split water into hydrogen and oxygen. Recently, they have realized artificial photosynthesis by the solar splitting of water under benign conditions. In doing so, the Nocera group can now provide solar energy/storage and clean water to the poor and those of the non-legacy world.
Wireless Solar Water Splitting (Science Mag), Using Silicon-Based Semiconductors and Earth-Abundant Catalysts escribe the development of solar water-splitting cells comprising earth-abundant elements that operate in near-neutral pH conditions, both with and without connecting wires. The cells consist of a triple junction, amorphous silicon photovoltaic interfaced to hydrogen and oxygen evolving catalysts made from an alloy of earth-abundant metals and a cobalt|borate catalyst, respectively. The devices described herein carry out the solar-driven water-splitting reaction at efficiencies of 4.7% for a wired configuration and 2.5% for a wireless configuration when illuminated with 1 sun of AM 1.5 simulated sunlight. Fuel-forming catalysts interfaced with light-harvesting semiconductors afford a pathway to direct solar-to-fuels conversion that captures many of the basic functional elements of a leaf.
Deep sea microbe populations are evolving in response to the Deepwater Horizon disaster, helping to digest the oil that continues to contaminate the Gulf of Mexico, according to a study on the ScienceExpress website.
The findings provide tantalizing clues that the ocean is evolving in a way that will help it heal from the massive spill, but it's still early days, said biogeochemist John Farrington of the School of Marine Science and Technology at the University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth, who was not involved in the research. By sampling the microbial communities both within and beyond the oil plume, Terry Hazen of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and his colleagues found increases in several bacteria varieties within the oil's reach, nearly all of which are related to species known to degrade hydrocarbons, like those found in oil. They further determined that these bacteria appear to be degrading the hydrocarbons.
Build Green Housing. Build a Green House. Building Eco-friendly homes. New Jersey school of architecture professor presents us how to make an eco-friendly home on a tight budget.
Alternative Energy News. Articles, Discussions, Headlines and Videos about alternative and renewable energy technology. Alternative, energy supply's, alternative ways. Solar, Wind, Wave, Powers etc...:-
Alternative Energy
Articles, Discussions, Headlines and Videos about alternative and renewable energy technology.
At TEDTalks 2010, Bill Gates unveils his vision for the world's energy future, describing the need for "miracles" to avoid planetary catastrophe and explaining why he's backing a dramatically different type of nuclear reactor. The necessary goal? Zero carbon emissions globally by 2050.
Bill Gates. A passionate techie and a shrewd businessman, Bill Gates changed the world once, while leading Microsoft to dizzying success. Now he's set to do it again with his own style of philanthropy.
Started by Google and Intel in 2007, the Climate Savers Computing Initiative is a nonprofit group of eco-conscious consumers, businesses and conservation organizations.
The Initiative was started in the spirit of WWFa's Climate Savers program which has mobilized over a dozen companies since 1999 to cut carbon dioxide emissions, demonstrating that reducing emissions is good business.
Th goal is to promote development, deployment and adoption of smart technologies that can both improve the efficiency of a computer's power delivery and reduce the energy consumed when the computer is in an inactive state.
Saving energy at home. Using power management features on your computer can save more than 600 KWh of electricity and more than $60 a year in energy costs. That equates to nearly half a ton of CO2' more than lowering your home thermostat by two degrees Fahrenheit in the winter or replacing six standard light bulbs with compact fluorescents . Follow the steps to ensure your computer is operating more efficiently.
Dr. Carlson turns over a new leaf to study photosynthesis.
Plants know how to get energy from the sun, it would be so nice if we could too!
To understand our efforts on getting energy out of the sun, it's useful to understand (a little bit) how plants can capture and store energy from sunlight.
Fri, 17 Dec 2010 08:45:57 +0000 - Remember the Steig et al 2009 Nature paper? As Steve McIntyre points out at Climate Audit: “Like so many Team efforts, it applied a little-known statistical method, the properties of which were poorly known, to supposedly derive an important empirical result. In the case of Steig et al 2009, the key empirical claim was that strong [...]
Mon, 06 Dec 2010 07:39:06 +0000 - Average temperatures or temperature ranges are often used as a simple proxy for climate. In combination with some description of rainfall, they encapsulate the essentials: in the Mediterranean it is typically hot and dry in summer and cooler and wetter in winter, and a continental climate is hot and dry in summer and cold with [...]
Fri, 03 Dec 2010 08:21:51 +0000 - We can today reveal for the first time the true extent of taxpayer funded environmental campaigning in the UK and the European Union. This sort of campaigning pushes the case for green taxes and distorts decision making in favour of greater regulation. It is a form of taxpayer funded lobbying and, particularly at a time [...]
Mon, 29 Nov 2010 07:42:27 +0000 - Temperatures plummeted to the coldest on record for November in parts of the UK overnight. Northern Ireland hit a new low of -9.5C (15F) at Lough Fea, Co Tyrone, and in Wales, a record minimum of -18C (0F) was reached at Llysdinam, in Powys. Snow is still falling in Scotland, Northern Ireland and north-east England, [...]
Sun, 28 Nov 2010 20:54:30 +0000 - This time last year, the Copenhagen climate change conference (technically the 15th Conference of the Parties to the UN Climate Change Convention, COP15)) was being widely hyped in the media. This was to be the make-or-break conference, which would come up with a workable international agreement to follow on from the Kyoto protocol. In particular, [...]
Fri, 19 Nov 2010 09:46:31 +0000 - The boss of one of Scotland’s most successful companies has warned MSPs that urgent action is needed to secure the country’s energy supply. Rupert Soames, chief executive of Aggreko, said no industrialised country planned to lose so much of its current generating capacity as fast as Britain. And he ridiculed government targets for renewable energy [...]
Fri, 19 Nov 2010 09:38:33 +0000 - Climate policy has almost nothing to do with environmental protection anymore, says the German economist and IPCC official Ottmar Edenhofer. The next world climate summit in Cancun is actually an economy summit during which the distribution of the world’s resources will be negotiated. –Neue ZĂĽrcher Zeitung, 14 November 2010 First of all, developed countries have [...]
Thu, 18 Nov 2010 12:51:26 +0000 - I know your blog is fighting for a rational treatment of climate change. We do the same in germany, with our European Institute for Climate & Energy EIKE. We are well known to some of well known british sceptics like Viscount Monckton, Benny Peiser, Piers Corbyn just to name a few. In order to let [...]
Wed, 17 Nov 2010 20:52:16 +0000 - I must admit that I thought it was a hoax when the news broke about the leaked UEA CRU emails around the 19th November 2009. It all seemed too good to be true, but it soon became apparent that the contents of the emails were genuine. In context they were highly damaging to the IPCC, the [...]
Fri, 12 Nov 2010 14:35:47 +0000 - It is impossible to predict how the current obsession with climate change will be seen in a hundred years’ time, but it arguably remains the defining issue of the early 21st Century. Despite the acres of newsprint and years of airtime devoted to the issue, the debate is notable for its sterility over recent years. [...]
There are arguments against climate change and even those who argue against mankind's impact on any climate change that may be taken place e.g. it is a normal cycle in the sun spots, the earth has a very long, (hundreds of years), cycle of colder then hotter weather, etc....
This page is probably more likely to feature videos that argue that climate change is taken place and that mankind having an impact on it. They will try to present information that hopefully will reduce any impact mankind is having on the climate.
Generally the information presented will try to show how to reduce energy consumption by mankind and this is thought to be a positive thing in that it could reduce energy costs to the consumer.
Remember that vast amount of money, (many billions), power and jobs could be at stake by both those arguing for and those arguing against mankind's impact on any possible climate change.
Any information presented as facts maybe therefore have bias and any data presented may by sated in error or be skewed to favour one argument or the other..
You are advised to listen to arguments from all sides.
Overunity, (The Production of Free Energy, Perpetual
Motion, higher energy Output than what is put into the system). Generally goes against The Law Thermodynamics. Overunity it is similar to a Perpetual Motion Machine this is said not to be really possible. For some people who may believe the have developed such Overunity, (Perpetual Motion Machines,
Free Energy), when further independent research takes place it is usually discovered that true overunity has not taken place and a higher amount of energy is input into the system than is gained from the
system. For example remember to include: the energy taken to make the machine, energy taken starting and stopping the machine, energy stored in
magnets that may be used, gravity, friction, air and water pressure, electrical energy, (radio waves, etc), heat, temperature differences and
temperature variations, static electric, (and many more energy use issues which may be overlooked), etc.... Perpetual motion violates either the first law of thermodynamics, the second law of thermodynamics, or both. The first law of thermodynamics is
essentially a statement of conservation of energy. The second law can be phrased in several different ways, the most intuitive of which is that heat flows spontaneously from hotter to colder places; the most well known statement
is that entropy tends to increase, or at the least stay the same; another statement is that no heat engine (an engine which produces work while moving heat between
two separate places) can be more efficient than a Carnot heat engine. As a special case of this, any machine operating in a
closed cycle cannot only transform thermal energy to work in a region of constant temperature. Machines which are claimed not to violate either of the two laws of thermodynamics but rather to generate energy from unconventional
sources are sometimes referred to as perpetual motion machines, although they are generally considered not to meet the standard criteria for the name. By way of example, clocks and other low-power machines, such as Cox's timepiece, have been designed to run on the differences in barometric pressure or temperature between night and day. Such a machine has a source of
energy, albeit one which is not readily apparent so that it seems to run on nothing. One example could be Power without batteries. Crystal Set Radio, (sometime known as a cats
whisker radio), this gets it's power from outside the system as radio wave, therefore it is not truly fee energy. Please take a look at Science opposites links for some Hoaxes and tricks revealed. Discover the
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Magnets are not Free Energy, think about the energy it takes to manufacture, transport, build systems and how that energy has an impact on the environment. Add to this usually the energy needed to start moving the magnets, (maybe gravity, sort distance, is used), or and electrical energy, and so-on...
Super Magnet Man Main Web Site owned by George Mizzell in Birmingham, Alabama. An electrical engineer and have always had a love for all kinds of magnets and the cool things they can do. I started doing some hands-on science classes as a volunteer at our local elementary schools. The magnets class was always the favorite. Over time, I grew this "hobby" into a full-time business. I have enjoyed meeting people all over the world and working with businesses in many fields to help develop various products. It has been great to work with many inventors and helping them to obtain exactly the right magnets so they can test their ideas and inventions.
Electromagnetic energy is amazing, but it follows some simple rules of energy conversation.
ed. says: just because it is magnets, (or electro-magnets),and may not be able to see any physical connection remember these have in a way a magnetic connection and have used energy to make them.
A brief demonstration and explanation of electromagnetic induction, the phenomenon at the heart of all electricity power stations. The "generator" is a home-made prop, a prototype that doesn't work very well.
A circuit t built because it is felt it was a more effective demonstration than getting an ammeter needle to flicker as is done in traditional classroom demonstrations of this effect.
One of the students is building a more sophisticated version with gears, interchangeable magnets and coils, and 4mm connectors to allow it to be connected to a voltmeter - which should make it much better for teaching purposes.
I use the prop to introduce EM, (electromagnetic), induction to students - it is genuinely surprising to some of them to see that you can generate electricity in this way and for them to learn that this is essentially the same thing that goes on in a power station.
This works better than diving straight into talking about wires cutting lines of flux etc. Of course, I then go on to explain the topic in more detail, but this simple demonstration serves to supply the basic points they need to learn at GCSE in a memorable way
Ed says: Stronger Magnets could be Neodymium Magnets or electromagnets for example. These may be even hidden from view,
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The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is the leading international body for the assessment of climate change. It was established by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) to provide the world with a clear scientific view on the current state of knowledge in climate change and its potential environmental and socio-economic impacts. The UN General Assembly endorsed the action by WMO and UNEP in jointly establishing the IPCC.
The IPCC is a scientific body. It reviews and assesses the most recent scientific, technical and socio-economic information produced worldwide relevant to the understanding of climate change. It does not conduct any research nor does it monitor climate related data or parameters.
Thousands of scientists from all over the world contribute to the work of the IPCC on a voluntary basis. Review is an essential part of the IPCC process, to ensure an objective and complete assessment of current information. IPCC aims to reflect a range of views and expertise. The Secretariat coordinates all the IPCC work and liaises with Governments. It is supported by WMO and UNEP and hosted at WMO headquarters in Geneva. IPCC IPCC Scams notice
International Energy Agency (IEA). Analyses show that biofuels may have to play an important role if the world is to make meaningful reductions in carbon dioxide emissions. In the most ambitious scenario presented in the World Energy Outlook 2009 - which aims at stabilising greenhouse gas (GHG) concentration at 450 parts per million (ppm) of CO2-equivalent, in line with an increase in global temperature of around 2oC - biofuels supply about 278 million tonnes of oil equivalent (Mtoe) in 2030, a share of 9% of total transport fuel. IEA report Energy Technology Perspectives
World Energy Outlook (WEO). (International Energy Agency). Source of energy market analysis and projections, providing critical analytical insights into trends in energy demand and supply and what they mean for energy security, environmental protection and economic development. The WEO projections are used by the public and private sector as a framework on which they can base their policy-making, planning and investment decisions and to identify what needs to be done to arrive at a supportable and sustainable energy future. The WEO received numerous awards from governments and energy industry for its analytical excellence.
Department of Energy & Climate Change The Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) was created in October 2008, bringing together energy policy previously with BERR, (Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform) and Defra, (The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs).
Scientists invent heat-regulating building material. A new material that can retain and release heat according to specific temperature requirements could make a significant difference to the cost of heating and cooling buildings, scientists say. Researchers based at The University of Nottingham Ningbo China (UNNC) believe their invention — which could be used in existing structures as well as new builds — could offer considerable energy savings. The novel non-deformed energy storage phase change material (PCM) has the unique advantage of possessing a larger energy storage capacity with faster thermal response than existing materials and could be cheaply manufactured.
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Diving under the Antarctic ice to get close to the much-feared leopard seal, photographer Paul Nicklenfound an extraordinary new friend. Share his hilarious, passionate stories of the polar wonderlands, illustrated by glorious images of the animals who live on and under the ice.
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The USA Today article details an extraordinary account of Dennis Lee's criminal record, as a traveling salesman peddling bogus heat pumps, solar refrigeration systems, and investments in his own cooperative since 1985.
2) "Perpetual Motion: Still Going Around" The Washington Post 12 Jan. 2000 sec. Horizon; pg. H03
3) "The Cold Fusion Files;" Los Angeles Times 28 Feb. 2001 sec. Business; Part C; pg 1; Financial Desk Byline: Jerry Hirsch, Times Staff Writer
The State's Power Crisis Is A Magnet For People Who Claim To Have Come Up With The 'Breakthrough' That Will Solve The Energy Problem.
The LA Times article explains that Lee's Web site gives visitors, "information on how to buy a "dealership" for his products--plus an explanation for those eight fraud counts in Ventura County that once
landed him in prison for three years."
Examined the Free Electricity web site in Nov. 2001, the explanations for fraud and jail time must have been removed.
Just in case Dennis Lee registered a patent, under any of the aliases used on his web site, my 11/6/01 US Patent and Trademark Office search of both databases had these hits:
1)"Better World Technologies" (0)
2)"International Tesla Electric Company"(0)
3) TechKnowLogic (0)
4) Sundance generator (0)
5) Hummingbird AND generator (0)
6)"Dennis Lee" AND generator (5)
7)"Dennis Lee" AND magnets (0)
The hits included medical devices, bearing lubrication process, a microwave device, and data processing patents. Nothing related to energy or electric generators.
The LA Times quotes Robert Park, a University of Maryland physicist and
author of Voodoo Science: The Road From Foolishness to Fraud. "Under
the microscope of scientific scrutiny, most of these 'discoveries'
turn out to be versions of the mythic perpetual motion machine or its
modern counterpart, a cold fusion device."
Also aware, however, no matter the prototype or invention, patent protection is not always recommended or possible. More on this later.
The Web site articles I found regarding Dennis Lee were poorly referenced.
What these articles fail to explain was how
Dennis Lee --and others like him-- continue to stay in business and out of legal trouble.
Perhaps, persuasive marketing does generates so much cash, that it is self fullfilling and can keep you out of jail.
Without any proof of concept or product delivery, in Nov. 2001 Lee's web site claimed 200,000 registrants that paid US $5.00 each so far, not including investment options. There must be over $ 1 million in revenue plus a very large mailing list of US homeowners, complete with Name, Address, and Phone number.
Perhaps, legal sanctuary can be found in many places.
Lee's FAQ at freelectricity.com stated in Nov. 2001, "ITEC plans to begin installation of the Hummingbird/Sundance generator once 1.6 million households across America have been registered."
There exists no obligation if the target number of 1.6 million members goes unmet (or unproven). There would be no breach of contract. This is a legal sanctuary under contract law to deceive the public.
If the transaction is not considered a financial investment by the SEC or NASD, US citizens are left with common law, contract law or the Uniform Commercial Code. Therefore, if fraud cannot be proven, with
Lee's use of contract law, all registration fees and member investments can be legally forfeit, regardless of the electricity
generator being real or allegations of fraud.
Dennis Lee's venture takes advantage of both to scam the public.
On his freelectricity.com web site, Lee states that he will not disclose his patent progress because of hostile competitors he
suspects can steal his ideas regardless of a patent.
This creative "registration fee" forces members to make investments by contract law, and to depend entirely on "sales publications" or the individual integrity of people like Dennis Lee. No investor
safeguards or payback is required
The above is said to be a scam, this could be one of many so take care.
Do Not believe in totally Free Energy.
If you treat money as energy, (after all you have to produce energy, work to make money), then this may help you understand that Free Energy just does not exist
Fermilab physicist, Dr. Erik Ramberg describes the reality of using hydrogen fuel cells, biofuel, and other renewable energy sources.
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Funding to improve living conditions Tenants Report a report used to help a campaign for funding. This helped reduced CO2 impact by many metric tonne's per year. This report was used in a successful campaign for funding to improve living conditions on a Council Estate. About the problems that used to exist on the Fordyce Estate, Middlesbrough, Cleveland, England, United Kingdom. Solving poor living and housing conditions. Community Development related.
Britain needs to spend more than £110bn on new electricity supplies to keep the nation's lights on, (Year 2011, July the 12th) he Government has claimed. Energy Minister Chris Huhne has warned that with ageing power stations closing down, urgent market reforms are needed. One of the key proposals in a White Paper published on Tuesday, is the introduction of contracts which guarantee long-term stable prices for electricity from low-carbon sources. These include nuclear power stations and offshore wind farms. If the price of electricity outstrips the prices guaranteed in the contracts, companies will have to pay back the difference, preventing a windfall for low-carbon generators.... According to Mr Huhne, the current electricity market is unable to meet the demand - and, without action, risks of costly blackouts will be higher at the end of the decade. Department of Energy & Climate Change. Energy Market Reform White Paper
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