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John Maguire: Mark Dansie on Breakthrough or Free Energy

05 Energy
John Maguire
John Maguire

Interview with Revolution-Green's Mark Dansie. Mark is recognized as a world-renowned evaluator of energy technologies and is currently helping develop several new energy concepts himself. Over the last seven years, Mark has traveled the world evaluating many new and free technology claims. He specializes in magnetic motor and HHO gas evaluations, but has reviewed many other technologies as well. He has been featured as a speaker at several energy conferences, and his catch cry is “show me the data” as he is a believer in scientific methodology when evaluating claims.

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Sepp Hasslberger: Daniel Nocera Achieves Holy Grail of Energy Research — a Silicon Leaf that Splits Water

05 Energy
Sepp Hasslberger
Sepp Hasslberger

Simple and efficient – producing hydrogen and oxygen from water by use of light and catalysts. They say electricity is cheap and no one wants the new technology, so Nocera is setting his sights on the developing world…

The artificial leaf that could power the world

Cambridge, MA (CNN) — As Daniel Nocera gazed down on one of his experiments in what has come to be known as the “holy grail” of energy research, his response was to shrug:

“Oh, that can't be right.”

It was a glass of tap water with a thumb-sized strip of silicon floating in it. When he held the glass up to the light, the strip began to gently bubble. It seemed to be splitting water into hydrogen and oxygen. But this would mean you could take any tub of water and — with no more than a few cheap materials and a little light from the sun — produce two incredibly powerful fuels. It couldn't be right. Professor Nocera went back and, for 8 months, tried to prove himself wrong.

The artificial leaf: better than nature
Scientists had split water before. By 1870, electrolysis using platinum electrodes and vast electrical currents could achieve the feat. In the 20th century, too, simpler methods had been developed which used sunlight to power the reaction — but these, too, relied on prohibitively costly metals. Nocera's “artificial leaf” is different.

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SchwartzReport: Fracking, Earthquakes, & 1% Corruption

05 Energy, 07 Other Atrocities, Commerce, Corruption, Government, Idiocy, IO Impotency, Law Enforcement
Stephan A. Schwartz
Stephan A. Schwartz

The matter is settled: Fracking causes earthquakes. My prediction: The carbon energy interests see Fracking and natural gas as a way to prolong the dominance of carbon energy for another 30 years. It may bring your house down in states like Oklahoma? Destroy your kids school while they are in it? A small price to pay so that the carbon barons and their corporations can continue making their obscene profits. And the people who voted ! the politicians in that will permit this? They can be relied upon to vote against their own self-interest, even their survival. It is one of our national mysteries.

Earthquake Experts: Yes, Fracking Earthquakes Are A Thing
Clean Technica

When the Seismological Society of America says that fracking earthquakes are a real thing, then it’s a good bet that they are. The annual SSA meeting last Thursday featured a daylong session on ‘Induced Seismicity” that featured new research indicating that oil and gas fracking, and the practice of disposing wastewater underground, can alter the state of an existing fault. The result is to spread the range of seismic hazard farther out from the faultline than previously thought.

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Sepp Hasslberger: Ocean Energy

05 Energy, Earth Intelligence
Sepp Hasslberger
Sepp Hasslberger

I like their design and the professional prototyping. The turbine can tap the huge energy potential of moving water in ocean currents without disturbing the marine eco-system. It can supply power constantly, 24/7/365

Crowd Energy seeks funding for vertical axis Ocean Energy Turbine – Renewable energy from ocean currents

The Ocean Energy Turbine is important because it  is the first renewable energy system designed to effectively harness ocean currents on a commercial scale. Globally, ocean currents can provide the power to completely replace the worlds dependance on fossil fuels and nuclear energy. The quantity of energy available from ocean energy greatly exceeds that of wind and solar. Ocean energy production is also a consistent reliable source of energy, whereas solar and wind power are limited by the availability of sun and wind.

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Fossil Fuel Pollution   Problems with Wind Energy   Problems with Solar Energy   Problems with Wave Energy   Problems with Nuclear Energy   Global Energy Use   Protect Our Future   Limitless Ocean Energy

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Sepp Hasslberger: Nanoporous Material Combines the Best of Batteries and Supercapacitors

05 Energy
Sepp Hasslberger
Sepp Hasslberger

Storing electricity for later use is a factor that imposes limits on what we can do with our technological gadgets.  If this turns out to be commercially viable, the battery-supercapacitor hybrid being developed could improve things tremendously.

Nanoporous Material Combines the Best of Batteries and Supercapacitors

From spectrum.ieee.org – April 30, 10:22 AM

“Compared with a lithium-ion device, the structure is quite simple and safe,” said Yang Yang, lead author of the paper, in the press release.

“It behaves like a battery but the structure is that of a supercapacitor. If we use it as a supercapacitor, we can charge quickly at a high current rate and discharge it in a very short time. But for other applications, we find we can set it up to charge more slowly and to discharge slowly like a battery.”

Nanoporous material combines the best of batteries and supercapacitors | Cool Future Technologies | Scoop.itTo make the battery-supercapacitor hybrid, the Rice team deposited a nickel layer on a backing material. They then etched the nickel layer to create pores five nanometers in diameter. The result is high surface area for storing ions.

After removing the backing, the nickel-based electrode material is wrapped around a solid electrolyte of potassium hyrodroxide in polyvinyl alcohol.

In testing, the researchers found that there was no degradation of the pore structure after 10 000 charge-discharge cycles, or any significant degradation of the electrode-electrolyte interface.

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SchwartzReport: Grass-Roots Anti-Fracking

03 Economy, 05 Energy, Civil Society, Commerce, Cultural Intelligence, Earth Intelligence, Ethics
Stephan A. Schwartz
Stephan A. Schwartz

Here is a wonderful story of how a single couple has been able to take on a destructive industry and win.

The Real Secret to Beating the Koch Brothers: How Our Broken Political System Can Still be Won
LINDSAY ABRAMS, Assistant Editor – Salon

You probably haven’t heard of Helen Slottje, or, for that matter, of her husband, David. But in the past few years, the former corporate lawyers have become arguably two of the most powerful opponents of fracking in New York – not to mention the most successful. As the (sort of) public face of the duo’s efforts, Helen Slottje on Monday was honored with the Goldman Prize, the world’s largest environmental prize.

Like most fracktivists, the Slottjes became embroiled in the issue when they moved to an area targeted by drilling companies – in their case, upstate New York, which sits atop the gas-rich Marcellus Shale, and where Gov. Andrew Cuomo has repeatedly put off making a decision about whether to lift the state’s five-year moratorium on hydraulic hydrofracking. Lacking confidence in the power of the picket sign or citizen engagement on oil-funded big government, they instead decided to approach the program at the most basic level. Their weapon of choice is a principle known as home rule: If individual communities decide that these industries pose a significant risk to common resources like air and water, then those communities can decide to keep those industries out, regardless of what state and federal laws say.

One by one, the Slottjes have helped small towns in New York enact such bans, to the point at which, even if New York’s moratorium were to be lifted tomorrow, the oil and gas industry would find itself effectively barred from drilling in 172 communities. After being decided in the towns’ favors at all of the state’s lower courts, two of those cases, in Dryden and Middlefield, are now up before the Court of Appeals. A decision, which will determine whether towns have the right to override state law, is expected this fall, and its anticipated impact can’t be overstated. As Thomas West, a lawyer for the energy company seeking to have the ban overturned, told the New York Times last year, ‘It’s going to decide the future of the oil and gas industry in the state of New York.” (The Slottjes, it should be noted, weren’t even mentioned in the piece.)

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SchwartzReport: The Peak Oil Crisis – Cold Fusion Update

05 Energy
Stephan A. Schwartz
Stephan A. Schwartz

Here is the latest on the LENR technologies. I continue to believe something solid is going to come out of this work.

The Peak Oil Crisis: Cold Fusion Update
TOM WHIPPLE – Falls Church News-Press

There are at least four contenders in the race to bring a cold-fusion powered heat-producing device to market in the near future. These are the Rossi E-cat project now based in North Carolina under the aegis of a new firm called Industrial Heat; the Brillouin and SRI effort to develop a nuclear reaction boiler out in California; the Defkalion Green Technology’s effort in Vancouver and Greece to market a heat producing device later this year; and finally BlackLight Power’s radically different ‘hydrino” technology which, if it proves to work at a commercial scale, could trump all the rest.

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