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U.S. Set to Okay New Nuclear Plants

CNN... . New nuclear reactors set to be OK'd for Georgia By Steve... more

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United Kingdom Talk Wednesday 8th February 2012

Wednesday's talk show. Subscribe to my You Tube channel. Username ChrisReardonUK... more

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Dealers: The Big Time

Gary and Wayne prepare themselves for the big toy convention.

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Israeli scientists/activists bring green power to West Bank village Susya, South Hebron Mountains

Residents of a West Bank village with no electricity have been helped out of the... more

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The Sea of Energy in Which the Earth Floats - free Energy hidden from 1914.

The Moray Radiant Energy discovery, using radiations from the cosmos as its power... more

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World's Most Famous Street Goes Green for the Holidays

SmartPlanet... . World’s most famous street goes green for the holidays... more

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The Lightning Foundry project - Wireless power transmission systems

Engineers in the U.S are hoping to build the world's largest Tesla coil. This... more

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Free Energy

Ted Talks with Justin Hall-Tipping on what is available now. We just need to get this... more

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From Edison’s Trunk, Direct Current Gets Another Look

Thomas Edison’s direct current technology is gaining popularity as engineers are... more

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Forumschiste.com L'Émission, édition septembre 2011

Aujourd’hui, la plus récente version de Forumschiste... more

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Siemens to quit nuclear industry

German industrial and engineering conglomerate Siemens is to withdraw entirely from... more

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The Sun is predicted to "hibernate" during its next cycle in 2020.

A recent press release states that the Sun's activity will slow to an unprecedented decline in the next ten years. The prediction is based on "...three independent studies of the sun's insides, surface, and upper atmosphere..." According to the article, the drop in output could initiate climate effects comparable to the Maunder Minimum between 1645 and 1715.

Predictions about how the Sun will behave are reliable only if the interpretation of the data upon which the prediction was made is reliable. As many past Picture of the Day expositions have revealed, however, conventional theories of solar dynamics leave much to be desired. For example, attributing to internal heating the unexpected "weather patterns" recently discovered below the photosphere is like ascribing Earth’s weather patterns to heat escaping from within the Earth. The possibility that weather systems may be externally electrically powered has not occurred to investigators.

The Electric Universe theory proposes that stars are primarily electrical phenomena and not strictly based on gravitational compression somehow balanced by internal thermonuclear energy. Stars are electromagnetic in nature, responding to the laws of plasma physics and electric circuits and not those of gas dynamics or electrostatics.

This alternative view applies to the Sun, as well as to all other stars that populate the Universe: celestial bodies exist in conducting cosmic plasma and are connected by electric circuits. The Sun is "plugged-in" to a galactic power source and behaves like an electric motor and electric light. The faster rotation of the solar equator is prima facie evidence of an external force acting to offset the momentum loss of the solar wind.

Electric stars are not born from cold nebular clouds. Rather, their genesis resides in the electric currents induced in moving plasma. The electric currents induce their own encircling magnetic field, which "pinches" the currents to flow in filaments. Photographs of plasma in the laboratory show those currents forming twisted filament pairs called "Birkeland currents." Birkeland currents follow magnetic field lines, drawing ionized gas and dust from their surroundings and then "pinching" it into heated blobs called plasmoids.

As the so-called "z-pinch" effect increases, it strengthens the magnetic field, further increasing the z-pinch. The resulting plasmoids form spinning electrical discharges that glow first as red stars, then "switch discharge modes" into yellow stars, some intensifying into brilliant ultraviolet arcs, driven externally by the Birkeland currents that created them.

Since this view of the Sun is at great variance with the conventional view, the mainstream "predictions" concerning solar activity should probably be taken with a grain of salt.

Stephen Smith and Wal ThornhillThe Sun is predicted to "hibernate" during its next cycle in 2020. A... more

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10 Steps to Learn How to Read Your Electricity Meter

If you’ve never owned or rented a home where you were responsible for reading... more

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10 Biggest Consumers of Electricity in Your Home

We have many appliances and devices that we use every day to provide things such as... more

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Post Apocalyptic Nick: Don't You Know About the Birds?

Nick and Martin's plan to light up post-apocalyptic Las Vegas goes off the rails.

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Still in the lantern age: Bihar

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UK-Netherlands power cable represents the first step towards a renewable energy revolution

It stretches 260km under the North Sea, contains 23,000 tonnes of copper and lead, and may represent the first step towards a renewable energy revolution based on a European electricity "supergrid". The £500m BritNed cable, which has just entered operation, is the first direct current electricity link from the UK to another country in 25 years.

The high voltage DC (HVDC) cable, a joint venture between the UK National Grid and the Dutch grid operator TenneT, has a capacity of 1,000MW, the equivalent of a nuclear power station. It runs from the Isle of Grain in Kent to Maasvlakte, near Rotterdam, in the Netherlands.

HVDC cables allow electricity to be transmitted over much greater distances than existing alternating current lines, which start losing power after 80km. A network of HVDC cables across Europe is seen as the key to "weather-proofing" the large scale use of renewable energy, some forms of which are intermittent and have to be balanced in real time with generation elsewhere.

"Our investment in this interconnector means that we are joining a much wider European electricity market," said Nick Winser, executive director of National Grid. "This ability we now have to move power across national borders means we can use the full potential of renewable energy from wind – making it easier to import when wind is not available and export when there is a surplus." In the short term, linking the UK and European grids boosts the UK's energy security and helps stabilise wholesale energy prices.

Chris Huhne, secretary of state for energy and climate change, said: "Renewables win as it means surplus wind power can be easily shared [and] consumers win as a single European market puts pressure on prices."

"This is a major step," said Louise Hutchins, head of UK energy campaigns at Greenpeace. "It sends a signal to renewable manufacturers that we're a step closer to unlocking the potential of one the world's main renewable power houses – the North Sea."

BritNed auctions the cable's transmission capacity on the open market and all 1,000MW was bought from the first hour of operation on 31 March. Since the start, electricity has flowed from the Netherlands to the UK most of the time. The project took about five years to complete and will be officially opened on 12 May.

The idea of a European supergrid gained momentum in December with the signing of an agreement by all 10 nations bordering the North Sea to, for example, co-ordinate the deployment of new HVDC cables. The North Sea offshore grid initiative, backed by the UK prime minister, David Cameron, aims to link renewable energy generation across the North Sea, including wind power from the UK, solar power in Germany and hydropower in Scandinavia, maximising the use of renewable energy.

Wilfried Breuer, head of power transmission solutions at Siemens, which manufactured and built the AC-DC conversion stations at each end of the BritNed powerline, said: "The supergrid will be built, but gradually. It's not one investment like a highway. It will develop over 10-15 years, leg by leg."

In the UK, the biggest driving force for new HVDC lines will be the 30GW of offshore windpower capacity planned for deployment before 2020. By comparison, the current total UK capacity from coal, gas, nuclear and other sources is 85GW. "HVDC lines are a commercially driven market. Excess wind power is an asset and you want to be able to sell that," said Breuer.

Another 10GW of HVDC lines are planned by 2020 including links from the UK to Norway, Belgium and France. The latter is the only nation with an existing HVDC link to the UK, a 2,000MW cable that has been in operation for 25 years. In 2001, a 500MW HVDC link crossed the Irish sea between Scotland and Northern Ireland. The HVDC line most likely to open next is within the UK, running south under the sea from near Glasgow to Liverpool. Scotland has the best wind power resource in Europe, according to trade body RenewableUK.It stretches 260km under the North Sea, contains 23,000 tonnes of copper and lead, and... more

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Device Harnesses Wind Power from Passing Trains

When you think of wind power, you think of giant turbines harnessing big breezes. But... more

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Artificial leaf that harvests solar energy makes debut

An artificial leaf that can turn sunshine into electricity was showcased last week at... more

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Soon we'll all live in tree houses. seriously!

(CleanTechnica)

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