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.
AVAAZ began in my Mallorca village of Deia, where Ricken Patel and another AVAAZ founder live(d). Now it is truly changing the world with its enormous campaigns (over 40 million members!)
We're one giant step closer to a huge win at the Paris summit in December – where the entire world could unite behind the same goal. Let's share encouragement and wisdom for the road ahead, and celebrate a battle won!!
Phi Beta Iota: Worth a full read, but with skepticism. The elite are fragmenting and all manner of delaying actions are now being rolled out to keep the masses distracted across many fronts. There is one thing and one thing only that can produce systemic change: electoral reform that restores integrity to all forms of governance. Anything less is a sideshow. The center of gravity is the USA — install an honest government that embraces extreme democracy and open source everything and you empower the five billion poorest to change the world toward infinite wealth and sustainable peace. In our view, the climate change people — with the best of intentions — are settling for pretense and giving up the possibility of applying all that energy toward a “root” victory that removes the G7 from power, that ends predatory capitalism, virtual colonialism, and unilateral militarism.
It seems that after more than a century, someone eventually managed to come close to Nikola Tesla’s breakthrough in transferring wireless electric power. Japanese scientists for the first time succeeded in transmitting electricity wirelessly through the air.
Although people like the Koch brothers are doing all they can to keep us mired in the carbon age, the future is non-carbon, and here is some very good news as to how that is happening.
Here is some good news. Researchers at Stanford have worked out what it really would take to convert from carbon to noncarbon energy. It can be done, and it is clear it is now no longer a matter of technology but of political will, and America's willingness to choose wellness over profit for the few. It will be cheaper, more efficient, productive of tens of thousands of jobs while, at the same time tens of thousands of lives in the U.S. alone would be saved. And it could happen by 2050.
Plant-e, a company based out of the Netherlands, has found a way to harness electricity from living plants, using them to power Wi-Fi hotspots, cell phone chargers, and even streetlights. The company debuted their project, called “Starry Sky,” in November of 2014 near Amsterdam, where they lit up more than 300 LED streetlights at two different sites. Their plant power technology is also being used to power the company’s headquarters in Wageningen.
