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Sand as the solution to the world's energy woes? Or, more precisely, silica? The Sahara Solar Breeder Project is a plan by universities in Japan and Algeria to provide 50 percent of the world's electricity by 2050.
http://nothingtotweetabout.com/The_Sahara_Solar_Breeder.phpSand as the solution to the world's energy woes? Or, more precisely, silica? The... more
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Have you ever seen a wind farm up close? From up in the air?
John Fischer uses 100% wind-powered electricity at his company, Sticker Giant. In this video, John goes up in the air to check out the giant turbines at the windfarm that generates his electricity ...
"The wind energy that we get comes to us via Xcel Energy and they have a partnership with Wind Source, a company that has wind farms all over the country. So today we are going to do a fly over and check out a wind farm near Peetz Colorado."
Do you know where your electricity comes from?Have you ever seen a wind farm up close? From up in the air?
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I have been living a hyper conscious life for a about 4 years now and there are some phenomenal things that may happen as you start to experience your hyper conscious lifestyle. A lot of people in the 90s thought that ADD kids were indigo children, because the older hippies could sense an aura around them that was ultra violet, or indigo. Well, this field really does exist, and when you start to master your hyper consciousness you will notice odd things happen when you get real stressed or over aware of your surroundings such as the following things which many have witnessed happening to me. For instance, light bulbs go out all the time around me whenever I get stressed or over aware of my surroundings, and also this happens when I walk through anti-theft detectors at grocery and department stores...
Read More: http://vivificoultra.com/ppprf/?p=131I have been living a hyper conscious life for a about 4 years now and there are some... more
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Whopper of a wind farm opens off Britain
World's largest offshore project has 100 turbines — so far
Image: Wind turbines in Thames estuary
Stefan Wermuth / Reuters
Photo: A boat powering through the Thames estuary on Thursday provides perspective of just how big the wind turbines there are.
msnbc.com staff and news service reports
updated 9/23/2010 11:59:42 AM ET
LONDON — The world's largest offshore wind farm had its grand opening Thursday — and its location on the estuary of the Thames River makes it a showcase for Britain's push to move beyond fossil fuels.
So far, 100 wind turbines have been planted in waters up to 80 feet deep across the estuary in southern England. The idea is to produce enough electricity, 300 megawatts, to power the equivalent of 200,000 homes.
Each turbine is nearly as tall as a 40-story building and the blades are at least 65 feet above the water for clearance with vessels. No turbine is closer than 1,600 feet to another and the entire "farm" covers an area of 22 square miles.
Up to 341 turbines will be installed over the next four years.
With Thursday's opening, which tops a 91-turbine farm off Denmark, Britain now has more offshore wind capacity than the rest of the world combined.
"We are in a unique position to become a world leader in this industry," British Energy and Climate Change Secretary Chris Huhne said in a statement before he attended the grand opening. "We are an island nation and I firmly believe we should be harnessing our wind, wave and tidal resources to the maximum."
Britain now gets three percent of its electricity from renewables but aims to get 15 percent by 2020. As part of that, the government this year awarded licenses to wind farm developers in a program that could deliver up to 32 gigawatts of generation capacity and require investment of more than $117 billion.
Critics of the $1.4 billion wind farm include some nearby residents who object to the sight of the giant towers, some visible from shore. The farm starts about seven miles from shore.
Environmental groups tend to back wind power as long as projects are not in areas of significant bird flight paths.
The new wind farm met that standard. It's an "important stride forward," said Craig Bennett of the British chapter of Friends of the Earth.
But the group also wants Britain to guarantee funding of at least $3 billion a year for the recently created and government-funded Green Investment Bank, which aims to boost private-sector spending on low-carbon technology.
"I know that there is still more to do to bring forward the large sums of investment we want to see in low-carbon energy in the U.K.," Huhne said, "and we as government are committed to playing our part."
One embarrassment to the government is that only 20 percent of the investment in the new wind farm has gone to British firms. The farm is owned and operated by Swedish energy company Vattenfall, and the largest chunk of expenditure has been to Denmark's Vestas for the wind turbines.
Global interest
The promised vast expansion of Britain's offshore wind resources is proving to be a powerful lure for companies not normally associated with renewables but keen to generate eco-friendly and reliable sources of revenue.
Engineers, consultants and oil rig makers around the world are setting up new divisions and partnerships in order to get a foothold in the market, which offers secure returns to those building and running the turbines.
"It's attractive for a lot of companies that are looking for contracts," said Ian Simm, chief executive of green fund firm Impax Asset Management, which has holdings in companies such as Vestas.
"The fundamental point that makes it attractive is scale and government commitment, and the fact that industrial companies can learn the facts of success in one offshore environment and be able to transfer the majority, if not all, of those skills to other countries," he said.
However, clearer statements from the government on renewables incentives are still needed to support wind farm developers and really kick-start the market, according to Sarwjit Sambhi, managing director of power generation at Centrica, which has won the rights to develop up to 4.2 gigawatts of offshore windpower in the Irish Sea.
"There is a general theme across this in that we haven't passed the tipping point yet where the industry is confident enough that there is a long-term pipeline of projects."
Britain's potential
The Offshore Valuation Group, made up of government and industry organizations, estimates if Britain were to develop just 29 percent of its potential offshore resource, this could deliver 169 gigawatts of capacity by 2050 and turn Britain into a net exporter of electricity.
This would involve installing 7.2 gigawatts a year — roughly equivalent to 1,000 7.5 megawatt turbines — with fixed offshore wind accounting for 5.4 gigawatts of the average annual build rate needed.
The supply chain needed for this would have annual revenues of nearly $100 billion in 2050 and employ around 145,000 people directly, according to the Offshore Valuation report.
As a result shipbuilders and companies that specialize in making oil rigs are also entering the wind market.
SeaEnergy Executive Chairman Steve Remp, who has worked in the offshore oil and gas market for 30 years, expects the market for equipment vessels to take off at the beginning of 2012.
"I foresee a sizeable industry evolving that calls on the engineering expertise in working offshore in deep water," he said.
Reuters and The Associated Press contributed to this report.http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/39324391/ns/us_news-environment/
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The "trees" feature a unique, low-energy design that increases safety and attracts tourists to local businesses after dark.
In an effort to make people in Angkor Wat, Cambodia more comfortable while walking the streets at night, avant garde Nothing Design Group created the tree-like solar lamps in partnership with Asiana Airlines and Korea International Cooperation Agency (KOICA).
Read more: http://ow.ly/2HDEyThe "trees" feature a unique, low-energy design that increases safety and... more
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This probably needs and real or fake confirmation, but so far it is a video of someone creating their own lightshow with static electric currents.This probably needs and real or fake confirmation, but so far it is a video of someone... more
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This cartoon is about the second generation of energy-saving light bulbs.They are easy to get hold of, and produce BETTER LIGHT from LESS ENERGY!This cartoon is about the second generation of energy-saving light bulbs.They are easy... more
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Ride the Lightning
It's still just a dream, but scientists are slowly getting us closer to the day when we might be able to collect electricity from thin air - or rather, humid air - in the atmosphere. They're not thinking of harnessing the power of lightning like in Back to the Future (where would you store such a massive influx of electricity?), but rather of collecting electricity from water vapor and dust particles. How would that work?
LINK : http://www.treehugger.com/files/2010/08/collecting-electricity-from-thin-air-hygroelectricity.phpRide the Lightning
It's still just a dream, but scientists are slowly getting us... more
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The agencies entrusted with the care of a couple found dead in a house with no heating in Northampton could not have done more to save them, a report found.
A review looked into the deaths of Jean and Derrick Randall after their bodies were found at their home in Kingsthorpe on 7 January in freezing conditions.
Mr Randall, 76, died from pneumonia and lung cancer, while Mrs Randall, 79, died from a heart attack.
The seriousness of their conditions had not been known, the report said.
The couple were found in their home in Birch Barn Way by police after a nurse who came to give Mrs Randall an injection failed to get an answer.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-northamptonshire-11056870The agencies entrusted with the care of a couple found dead in a house with no heating... more
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Get your chargers ready! The President and CEO of the Electrification Coalition shares his innovation on cars that won't have you running to the pump.Get your chargers ready! The President and CEO of the Electrification Coalition shares... more
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More doubts are surfacing about the existence of this undetectable phantasm.
In previous Picture of the Day articles about the existence of “dark matter” we noted that it is primarily an add-on to "Big Bang Cosmology.” The Big Bang is supposed to be what brought all matter and energy, including gravity, into existence. All modern cosmologists, with few exceptions, accept the theory without question.
NASA launched the Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) on June 30, 2001. The instruments onboard the satellite were designed to measure temperature fluctuations theorized to exist in lower mass density regions of the Universe. Since the Big Bang theory does not account for such regions—matter and energy should be evenly distributed—WMAP was sent to confirm their existence.
According to conventional physics, dark matter is a necessary addition to their models since there is not enough gravity in the Universe to account for galaxy formation, or those galaxies assembling themselves into clusters. Galaxy clusters should have slowed down considerably over the last few billion years and not maintained such wild recessional velocities, some of which are said to approach the speed of light.
Astronomers came up with a dark (or undetectable) form of matter when they noticed stars on the edge of a spiral galaxy orbiting its nucleus with the same angular speed as stars closer to its center. As Newtonian mechanics insists, stars farther away from the center should be moving more slowly, so astronomers assumed dark matter was imparting extra velocity to them.Investigators have also tried for years to reconcile the amount of mass in the Universe with how fast it is expanding. Their only recourse has been to invent the existence of another undetectable force, “dark energy.”
As long ago as 2007, for example, serious reconsideration of dark matter theory was already published. Consensus astronomy presupposes dark matter organizing galactic structure. Dark matter (as well as dark energy) are thought to be necessary mathematical constructs in the astronomical community, because in their minds gravity is the sine qua non of all forces that govern galactic motion.
Recently, scientists from Durham University in Great Britain announced that the theories of dark matter and dark energy are most likely based on incorrect assumptions about WMAP observational analysis. Professor Tom Shanks noted: "If our results prove correct then it will become less likely that dark energy and exotic dark matter particles dominate the Universe. So the evidence that the Universe has a 'Dark Side' will weaken."
Those who consider Electric Universe theory have adopted a far different approach regarding the nature of the cosmos. Astrophysicist Hannes Alfvén elucidated his “electric galaxies” theory in 1981. Alfvén (a Nobel laureate) noticed that galaxies and their motions resemble a homopolar motor more than anything else. A homopolar motor operates because electric currents create magnetic fields, causing a metal disc to spin at a rate directly proportional to the supplied current.
Galactic discs act like the conductive plates in said homopolar, or Faraday, motors, named for their inventor, Michael Faraday. Gigantic Birkeland currents flow into galaxies, so stars in their discs are powered by those currents. Galaxies, in turn, receive their power from intergalactic Birkeland currents that are visible in space as filamentary structures traceable by their magnetic fields.
Birkeland currents are drawn toward each other in a linear relationship, with a long-range attraction potential 39 orders of magnitude greater than gravity. Dark matter and dark energy influences can be dismissed when electric currents flowing through dusty plasma are recognized as that which energizes and sustains clusters, galaxies, and stars.
Stephen SmithMore doubts are surfacing about the existence of this undetectable phantasm.
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Something has gone wrong. There are misleading, flawed ideas and common misconceptions we learn from our school textbooks.Something has gone wrong. There are misleading, flawed ideas and common misconceptions... more
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Something has gone wrong. We have learnt many misconceptions at school as well as the school text books. And these misconceptions have further sharpened our negative perceptions and comprehension on what we have learned so far.Something has gone wrong. We have learnt many misconceptions at school as well as the... more
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Afghanistan was the first Asian country that had women in parliament. The capital Kabul buzzes with life, its streets filled with cars, bicycles and pedestrians. At this time, Kabul was famed as an exotic stop-off point on the hippy trail between Europe and India. That was a golden period for the Afghans http://www.makeahistory.com/index.php/recent-news/413-afghanistan1950Afghanistan was the first Asian country that had women in parliament. The capital... more
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John Pemberton of Southern Company thinks the oil spill disaster in the Gulf may muddy the waters of Congress's environmental debate. Tell us what you think in the comments section below.John Pemberton of Southern Company thinks the oil spill disaster in the Gulf may muddy... more
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ThunderboltsProject — November 22, 2009 — The selections presented here are from the 78-minute DVD "Symbols of an Alien Sky," Episode One, now available from Mikamar Publishing.
An unsolved mystery: Why did archaic astronomical traditions always identify their most powerful gods as planets? And why did they insist that "Doomsday" occurred when these gods went to war?
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Velikovsky wrote 'Mankind in Amnesia' and is also responsible for waking us up from it.ThunderboltsProject — November 22, 2009 — The selections presented here... more
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