Category: Journal ISSN 1078-1935

Yet another creative variant of solar. Japan is a country where only 11.65% of the land is really suitable for agriculture. They don't have the land to spare for big installations. Particularly with the loss of the Fukushima area, a loss that was both physical and psychological. Solution: take solar to sea.

Japan is building huge solar power plants that float on water

Here is another electricity generating technology I first covered in SR about 11 years ago. It made a splash at the time then disappeared. Now it has come back, and it has fascinating implications. This is yet another example of what happens where carbon energy is no longer thought of as the only way.

Blue energy: How mixing water can create electricity

Good, this is.

EnergyTorrent Releases Open-Source Documentation Of Its Solar Concentrators

Renewable energy has just become a closer option for everyone. And it is not about the price but rather about the access to the very technology of using solar energy. In this case, it is about solar concentrators — devices allowing you to obtain high-temperature heat (and with some tinkering, electricity). Now one can produce such devices right in their home workshop using open-source blueprints and documentation from the EnergyTorrent project. All of the documentation, with detailed step-by-step manufacturing instructions, can now be downloaded at the EnergyTorrent Wiki.

Here is the latest on the Vortex Bladeless wind technology. I think this is where wind is going. This technology eliminates several objections people have to wind power bladed turbines. And they are going to be much cheaper. This is very good news. I think the next step we are going to see is wind, solar, storage battery mixed individual house systems that take people off the grid. I think people will line up to buy them, and significant fortunes will be made by increasing wellness. Energy is going decentralize no matter what the carbon industries do to block the transition. That said there is about a 65% chance that monopolistic carbon era energy corporations will be too dumb and greedy to see the inevitability of the trend, and will defend carbon energy until it simply withers and dies like the gas lamp industry. By the time their executives wake up it will be too late. And I calculate this will happen by 2045.

Whirlpool windmill produces power without blades