The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
The Triumph of Solar in the Energy Race (L. Hunter Lovins)
Fossil fuel just lost the race with renewables…The world is now adding more capacity for renewable power each year than coal, natural gas, and oil combined.
Economy At The Edge (L. Hunter Lovins)
Like slavery and apartheid, poverty is not natural. It is manmade and it can be overcome and eradicated by the actions of human beings.
Includes excellent links to other water into fuel projects.
500 Kilometers On 1 Litre: Brazilian Man Shows Us Why We Don’t Need Gas Stations
… the design includes a combination of water and a single, external car battery that’s used to produce electricity, and spark the process that separates the hydrogen from the water molecule. As a result, the necessary energy to power the bike is created.
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Cold Fusion could change the world of energy …
Cold fusion reactor independently verified, has 10,000 times the energy density of gas
Against all probability, a device that purports to use cold fusion to generate vast amounts of power has been verified by a panel of independent scientists. The research paper, which hasn’t yet undergone peer review, seems to confirm both the existence of cold fusion, and its potency: The cold fusion device being tested has roughly 10,000 times the energy density and 1,000 times the power density of gasoline. Even allowing for a massively conservative margin of error, the scientists say that the cold fusion device they tested is 10 times more powerful than gasoline — which is currently the best fuel readily available to mankind.
Nexushaus is an amazing and cheap solar living home that is water independent
This one story, energy positive house comes from designers from Technische Universität München (TUM) and the University of Texas at Austin (UTA). Made with almost entirely sustainable materials, a self-reliant water capture and treatment system and solar panels, Nexushaus is currently being constructed and tested in Austin, Texas. It's a response to a rise in the cost of housing, relative to all the new people moving to the city and an opportunity to build a house that will feed electricity back into the system. The solar panels are enough to power the lighting, air conditioning, household appliances, and an electric car.
Continue reading “Ian Crossland: Nexushaus Solar Water Independent Home”
Good for the girls! That urine powered hydrogen gas driven generator is a basic, useful thing to have in Africa … and elsewhere.
A group of four high school teenage girls solved one of Nigeria's gravest electrical challenge by inventing a system that uses urine to power generator. This came after years of reported cases of deaths resulting from carbon monoxide poisoning that emanates from power generator fumes.
YouTube (19:42) Below the Fold
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This report of course has received no attention from U.S. corporate media, but I take it as a big datapoint on what is going to become a major trend: the electrification of commercial vehicles of all kinds. As the article points out most of the long term cost of a commercial bus is in the fuel it burns. So electric buses, which don't burn carbon energy, will be notably cheaper. What should also be noted is that the technology is Chinese. The Chinese like most of the rest of the world except the U.S., take infrastructure seriously, including commercial transportation networks from planes to trains to buses. While we are burning our money in the bonfire of war, China is building and upgrading infrastructure. And they are going to make billions and billions of dollars outfitting the buses and taxis of the post-carbon world, while the U.S. plays catch-up. The problem America's mega corporations have is that they are inherently wedded to the past, because the past is when their installed network was built, and they want to protect and prolong that investment.
Chinese-built zero-emissions electric bus prepares for service in London
If you do a Google on “The Spin Cell™” you will find the site of the company described in this report. I have just gone through their several sites, and I think this is the real deal.
Cone Shaped Spinning Solar Cells Generate 20 Times More Electricity Than Flat Photovoltaics
