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SchwartzReport: Almost Half in US Find USG Environmental Efforts Lacking — With Solution from Earth Intelligence Network

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schwartz reportHere, again, we have an example of the disconnect between what the American people understand and want, and what the corporate owned Congress is focused on.

The only thing that is going to change this equation is a massive voter turnout that supports compassionate life-affirming policies and politicians prepared to act on those wishes. We did it with Elizabeth Warren, we can do it in other districts.

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Nearly Half in U.S. Say Gov't Environmental Efforts Lacking
FRANK NEWPORT – The Gallup Organization

PRINCETON, NJ — Americans tilt toward the view that the government is doing too little to protect the environment — at 47% — while 16% say it is doing too much. Another 35% say the government's efforts on the environment are about right. These views have not changed much since 2010, although Americans in most years between 1992 and 2006 were more likely than they are today to say the government was doing too little to protect the environment.

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Sepp Hasslberger: Bladeless Wind Turbine

05 Energy
Sepp Hasslberger
Sepp Hasslberger

…sounds like an interesting development. Working with electrically charged water droplets and wind to produce energy.  3 minute video below.

Invention of the day: A bladeless wind turbine

It may look like a giant airplane window strung with Venetian blinds, but this structure, designed by Dutch architecture firm Mecanoo and installed at the Delft University of Technology in March, is a model of a machine that would convert wind to energy without any moving parts.

Any mechanical moving parts, at least: The technology, developed by the Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science faculty at Delft, uses the movement of electrically charged water droplets to generate power. How does this work? A handy video explains:

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Jean Lievens: 100 Miles Per Gallon – Making It Reality

03 Economy, 03 Environmental Degradation, 05 Energy
Jean Lievens
Jean LievensJean

There is no lack of public intelligence — only a lack of public integrity.

100 Miles Per Gallon – Making It Reality

So the Wikispeed car design is ultralight and runs with a Honda F1 racing engine (internal combustion).  The car weighs under 1500 pounds right now but doesn't have all the interior amenities we have all come to know and love.

Therefore, in order to add 1 more feature to the car that will increase the gas mileage even further, I plan to add a vapor fuel system first designed in the 1970's by Tom Ogle.  See the documentary GASHOLE to get a complete picture of how the oil companies have been manipulating the auto industry to maximize profits.  Don't even get me started on the wars we have fought to protect their profits.

Watch this video to see how people are doing this now.

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Sepp Hasslberger: World’s largest solar power plant

05 Energy
Sepp Hasslberger
Sepp Hasslberger

Sepp Hasslberger‘s insight:

It took $ 600 million and 3 years to build this – not bad for a plant that doesn't need fuel, leaves no polluting exhaust and is extremely safe. Arabia could be exporting electricity instead of oil. Future business for desert countries?

Who needs oil? World's largest solar power plant with 258,000 mirrors opens in Abu Dhabi ~ Why Don't You Try This?

You might think that as one of the world's top oil producing nations, the United Arab Emirates would have little use for solar energy. But that hasn't stopped the Middle East state from unveiling the largest concentrated solar power plant in operation anywhere in the world.

solar farmThe 100-megawatt solar-thermal project in Abu Dhabi will power thousands of homes in the country and, it is hoped, displace approximately 175,000 tons of CO2 per year.

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John Maguire: Quantum Gas Goes Below Absolute Zero

05 Energy
maguireArticle Summary: “What is normal to most people in winter has so far been impossible in physics: a minus temperature. On the Celsius scale minus temperatures are only surprising in summer. On the absolute temperature scale, which is used by physicists and is also called the Kelvin scale, it is not possible to go below zero – at least not in the sense of getting colder than zero kelvin. According to the physical meaning of temperature, the temperature of a gas is determined by the chaotic movement of its particles – the colder the gas, the slower the particles. At zero kelvin (minus 273 degrees Celsius) the particles stop moving and all disorder disappears. Thus, nothing can be colder than absolute zero on the Kelvin scale. Physicists at the Ludwig-Maximilians University Munich and the Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics in Garching have now created an atomic gas in the laboratory that nonetheless has negative Kelvin values. These negative absolute temperatures have several apparently absurd consequences: although the atoms in the gas attract each other and give rise to a negative pressure, the gas does not collapse – a behaviour that is also postulated for dark energy in cosmology. Supposedly impossible heat engines such as a combustion engine with a thermodynamic efficiency of over 100% can also be realised with the help of negative absolute temperatures.”

A temperature below absolute zero

Atoms at negative absolute temperature are the hottest systems in the world
noble gold