Featured: Magnet Motors > Steorn > Steorn Jury issues verdict: no excess energy - After nearly three years of review, the jury selected by Steorn to validate their claim to a free energy device has issued a verdict: Steorn's process does not produce energy. Despite the negative results of this jury, Steorn continues to allege that they will have such a product available to go into production by the end of this year. (PESN; June 28, 2009) (Comment at Examiner.com)
Perpetual Motion / Gravity Motors > The Physical Principles of Unworkable Devices - . Perpetual motion machine inventors do have principles. Unfortunately the physical principles they assume are often ones not obeyed by nature. Let's examine just a few that stand in the way of these idealistic people who seek to make a machine that outputs more work than is required to run it. (Donald Simanek at IHUP.edu)
Global Warming > Politics > EPA Quashed Report Skeptical of Global Warming - Less than two weeks before the EPA formally submitted its pro-carbon dioxide regulation recommendation to the White House, an EPA center director quashed a 98-page report that warned against making hasty 'decisions based on a scientific hypothesis that does not appear to explain most of the available data. (CNet; June 27, 2009)
Saturday, June 27, 2009
Solar > Vehicles > Round-the-world solar plane debut - Swiss adventurer Bertrand Piccard, who made history in 1999 by circling the globe non-stop in a balloon, has unveiled a prototype of the solar-powered plane he hopes to fly around the world in 2012, using super-efficient solar cells, batteries, motors, propellers, and a wingspan the size of a Airbus 340 to get it through the dark hours. (BBC; June 26, 2009)
Batteries > Lithium Waterproof lithium-air batteries 10x more energy dense than Li-ion - A company based in Berkeley, CA, is developing lightweight, high-energy batteries that can use the surrounding air as a cathode. PolyPlus is partnering with a manufacturing firm to develop single-use lithium metal-air batteries for the government, and it expects these batteries to be on the market within a few years. (MIT Technology Review; June 26, 2009)
Friday, June 26, 2009
Marine > Ocean Renewable Energy Has Huge Potential But Not Without Giant Hurdles - Today’s marine renewable energy industry is commonly compared to the wind industry of the 1980's and early 1990's. At that time, there were many competing technologies being developed and thousands of turbines were broken during the testing process; but it won't take 15 years to catch up. (Renewable Energy World; June 24, 2009)
Wind > Tools Slip Rings for Wind Power (video) - Slip Rings by Moog Components Group, utilize fiber brush sliding contact technology, making them a “no maintenance” rotary devices for transferring electrical power and signals; and eliminates the need for common slip ring maintenance procedures such as vacuuming of brush debris, lubrication, regular inspection for wear, and brush replacement. (Engineering TV; June 22, 2009)
Thursday, June 25, 2009
Biofuel > Algae Blooming Biofuel: How Algae Could Provide the Solution - The distant sparkle of algae is coming into focus. Interest is growing exponentially and a handful of companies are planning the leap from research to commercial production of algae-based fuels. The tiny plants can produce at least 15 times more oil per hectare than alternatives. (RenewableEnergyWorld; June 22, 2009)
Electric Vehicles > Motorbikes > Yamaha set to launch hybrid production motorcycle for 2010 - Yamaha's Gen-Ryu uses a YZF-R6 600cc engine to turn a generator which in turn powers an electric motor to turn the rear wheel, delivering the type of performance normally associated with a much larger capacity engine, and is packaged as a futuristic cruiser with advanced aerodynamics and noise cancelling in the cockpit area. (GizMag; June 22, 2009) (Image Gallery)
Featured: Electrolysis > Brown's Gas > George Wiseman discusses Brown's Gas technology (Interview) - Industry leader describes his work in this fascinating field, spanning a quarter of a century. Discusses a myriad of applications including acetylene torch replacement, thick steel cutting, hydrogen boosting for fuel economy improvement, dissimilar metal welding, transmutation of elements, nuclear remediation, and refinement of ore. (PESN; June 24, 2009)
Nuclear > A Preassembled Nuclear Reactor - A US company, Babcock and Wilcox, that has that has made nuclear reactors for the United States Navy ships for about 50 years, has designed a nuclear reactor that can be manufactured in a factory and shipped by rail rather than built at a power plant, thus cutting construction times for nuclear power plants almost in half and make them cheaper to build. Expected by 2018. (MIT Technology Review; June 16, 2009)
Lighting > LEDs Sharp introduces color changing LED light bulbs - Sharp Corporation has just announced an LED globe that includes a remote-controlled, adjustable-color function and a dimmer. But in this context, when you see the word "color" don't think rainbow, thing various shades of white, from warm white to daylight light. (GizMag; June 17, 2009)
Tuesday, June 23, 2009
Wind > Wind Could Provide 5X World Energy Needs - A new study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science estimates the earth's capacity for wind power if plausible areas were put to use with 2.5-MW wind turbines, and 3.6-MW off-shore turbines (within 50 nautical miles in ocean depths less than 200 meters) showed that wind energy could provide over forty times the world's current electrical consumption and over five times the global use of total energy needs. (Mongabay; June 22, 2009)
Solar > Concentrated > Solar Project Meets Bigger Foe Than Cloudy Skies: The US Air Force - On a vacant piece of land near Nellis Air Force Base in Nevada, the promise of solar energy has collided into the demands of military training. And a solar project by SolarReserve that would have featured a vast field of mirrors, a molten-salt storage facility and a 600-foot "power tower" appears to be heading for defeat. (Washington Post; June 20, 2009)
Grid > Smart Grid > Security Interoperability Standards will be a key in Smart Grid backbone being formed by NIST - A teleconference will be held June 24, 1 PM Eastern to address the Security Interoperability Standards being set into place for the smart grid by NIST for the next 25 years. "Everything will come out of these and be based upon these." Attendance urged if you have knowledge/wisdom to impart for this key meeting. (PESN; June 23, 2009 update) (Comment at Examiner.com)
Monday, June 22, 2009
Featured: Running Vehicles on Water / Fuel Cells > Japanese Car that Runs on Water - I've been getting quite a few people sending me links to this Reuters video. Actually, this story is a year old: June 13 -- of 2008. See our feature page built last year, along with some of the reality about the technolgy, such as that it is basically a fuel cell, and that the ultimate goal of the company is a genset. (PESWiki; June 22, 2009)
Featured: Conspiracy > Suppression > David Icke on Alex Jones TV: Superseding the Reptilian Brain - A fascinating dialogue between two pillars in the freedom and enlightenment movement; relevant to the emergence of free energy technology because it describes the 'mindset' of those who seek to suppress the emergence of these technology that would not only make oil obsolete, but would remove one of the primary methods of maintaining control over society. (PESWiki; June 21, 2009) (Comment at Examiner.com)
Magnetism > Ocean Currents Proposed As Cause of Magnetic Field - "Professor Gregory Ryskin from Northwestern University in Illinois, US, has defied a long-standing convention by applying equations from magnetohydrodynamics to our oceans' salt water (which conducts electricity) and found that the long-term changes (the secular variation) in the Earth's main magnetic field are possibly induced by our oceans' circulation." (Institute of Physics; June 14, 2009) (Paper)
Hydrogen > Vehicles > Riversimple hydrogen-powdered urban car - The Riversimple Urban Car, a hydrogen-powered two-seater capable of speeds up to 50mph and of traveling more than 200 miles without refueling, was unveiled in London this week. The company's principles including: make the design and development completely open source; don't sell cars, but lease them; distribute manufacturing to small, local factories.(GizMag; June 19, 2009)
Electric Vehicles > Competitions > Electric Drag Racing - Oregon racer, John Wayland (Plasma Boy), has converted a 1972 Datsun B210? to become the world's fastest, street-legal, vehicle. Originally 69 HP, now ~300 HP, the "White Zombie" is all-electric, and it not only beats anything raced against it, but it sets world records, doing the 1/4-mile in less than 11.5 seconds, while topping 118 mph using A123 Li-ion batteries. (Oregon Public Broadcasting; May 7, 2009)
Featured: Wind > Horizontal Axis > Honeywell Wind Turbine by EarthTronics - EarthTronics, of Michigan, USA, says they have developed a wind turbine for residential and business customers that produces the highest output while having the lowest cost per kWh installed, at 1/3 the cost of any other wind generator on the market, and will be available through Ace Hardware stores in the Fall. Skeptics say this is hype not supported by actual deployment. (PESWiki; June 18, 2009)
Fuel Efficiency > Hydrogen Injection > Cleaner fuel through hydrogen innovation - Normally, hydrogen fuel generators use electricity to divide molecules. Go Go Green LLC uses a chemical reaction that uses less energy. They can’t sell the device in the U.S. until it is certified by the California Air Resource Board and the EPA, but they can market the product internationally through their website. (Tracy Press, CA; May 29, 2009)
Solar / Electric Vehicles > Solar Vehicles > Cruise Car Electric Cars - Garry Reid from Florida's Cruise Car Inc. talks about the Kudo and Sunray vehicles in their solar-powered line-up. Cruise Cars, with more than 50 models to choose from on four continents, can be made street-legal in most US states and driven on roads with speeds posted 35 mph or lower. (EngineeringTV; June 8, 2009)
Featured: Nuclear > Thorium Reactors > Thorium as a green nuclear solution (FEN interview) - Robert Hargraves discusses the advantages of thorium, particularly the liquid fluoride thorium reactor, as a clean and safe nuclear solution that could compete with coal for inexpensive energy generation. Suggests a 10-year plan for bringing this forward. (PESN; June 17, 2009) (Comment at Examiner.com)
Solar > Solar Hydrogen > SHEC > SHEC Energy relocates to new headquarters - starts commercialization - The new facility will host laboratories for ongoing product enhancement, a CNC machine shop, a welding shop, a super structure assembly area for building large scale solar arrays and a glass mirror forming operation to form the curved mirrors for the solar arrays. Summary given of SHEC's technology. (SHEC press release; June 17, 2009)
Conspiracy / Suppression > E-Mail Surveillance Renews Concerns in Congress - The National Security Agency is facing renewed scrutiny over the extent of its domestic surveillance program, with critics in Congress saying its recent intercepts of the private telephone calls and e-mail messages of Americans are broader than previously acknowledged, and are illegal. (NY Times; June 16, 2009 )
Featured: Magnet Motors > Hamel > Sean CLaNZer's Replication of the Hamel Spinner - Drawing from information around the web, Sean has posted a series of videos showing his replication of David Hamel's all-magnet spinner. Though it doesn't accelerate, the rate of deceleration appears to be much slower than what would be manifest with a normal friction-based slow-down. (PESWiki; June 16, 2009)
Wind > High-Altitude > Results from High-Altitude Wind Study Promising - In the future, will wind power tapped by high-flying kites light up New York? A new study by scientists at the Carnegie Institution and California State University identifies New York as a prime location for exploiting high-altitude winds, which globally contain enough energy to meet world demand 100 times over. (Wired; June 15, 2009)
Electric Vehicles > Hybrids > Plug-in > Volvo Tests Plug-in Hybrids - One of the cars being tested this summer can go up to 50 kilometers on a 100-horsepower electric motor powered by a lithium-ion battery before switching to a 205-horsepower diesel engine. The cars have two plugs: one for recharging via a standard wall socket, and one for more rapid recharging via special charging stations. (MIT Technology Review; June 16, 2009)
Global Warming > Skeptics > Statement on Global Warming Petition Signed by 31,478 Scientists - Ron Paul sumarizes: "While ... the human right to produce and use energy does not extend to activities that actually endanger the climate of the Earth upon which we all depend, bogus claims about climate dangers should not be used as a justification to further limit the American people's freedom."
Environment > Home: how we care for our planet (video) - Stunningly beautiful footage and introspective commentary GoodPlanet.org reviews the milti-billion year history of our planet and the major disruption imposed in just that last 100 years, urging action to stem the tide of destruction and spur sustainable existence. (YouTube; May 19, 2009)
Featured: Grid > Smart > NIST presently setting grid connectivity backbone - Right now at this very instant of time and for a very short period of time in the near future the standards for the transmission, formats and processes for all of the data handled in the Smart Grid are being written. Everything that proceeds for decades after this time will hinge on what we do in the next approximately 25 days. (PESN; June 13, 2009) (Comment at Examiner.com)
Fuel Efficiency > Motorbikes 4MC: The 20 year making of the tilting 4-wheeler - This first prototype of an entirely new design of leaning four-wheeled bike not only offers an increase in safety but would will be legal for anyone holding a car driving license to use without taking an extra test – all while keeping the cheap road tax, having good fuel economy and being exempt from congestion charging. (GizMag; June 11, 2009)
Batteries > Lithium > IBM Invests in Lithium-Air Battery Research - IBM Research is beginning a project that it hopes will lead to the commercialization of batteries that store 10 times as much energy as today's within the next five years. The controversial technology uses energy-dense but highly flammable lithium metal to react with oxygen in the air, resulting in a lightweight, powerful, and rechargeable battery for the electrical grid and the electrification of transportation. (Technology Review; June 11, 2009)
Anti-Gravity > Seven things that don't make sense about gravity - Gravity keeps our feet on the ground and our planet circling the sun, but we know remarkably little about it. New Scientist investigates the force's greatest mysteries, including why gravity pulls rather than pushes, does life need gravity, and could we ever build a gravity shield? (New Scientist; July 10, 2009)
Second law of thermodynamics > Non-equilibrium chips could avoid overheating laptops - Researchers are re-examining the Second Law of Thermodynamics in a bid to manage heat from laptops and other miniaturised electronics. [Hence the mainstream is forced, by a very practical difficulty - heat dissipation in laptops - to investigate reversing entropy.] (IT News; Oct. 2, 2008)
Classifieds > Seeking Professor to Validate Tesla-type Technology - An investment group is looking to hire a Ph.D. professor of electrical engineering presently employed by a university, preferably in North America, to conduct a technical assessment of an exotic energy technology. The consultant will have a demonstrated expertise in rotating machines. Do you know such a person? (PESWiki; June 12, 2009)
Featured: Profiles > Welton Myers: A Grandfather of the Free Energy Movement (interview) - Welton has been involved in several amazing projects, including an electromagnet motor that levitated, patterned after John Searl's work; overunity electromagnetic systems of major output; as well as tire and vaporization devices. He's also had significant brushes with GEET, Brown's gas, and Stanley Meyers technology. (PESWiki; June 11, 2009)
Wireless Transmission > Power from Ambient Electromagnetic Radiation > Nokia Developing Wireless Power-Harvesting Phones - Nokia says it's developing technology that could draw enough power from ambient radio waves to keep a cell-phone handset topped off. We're talking ambient electromagnetic radiation emitted from Wi-Fi transmitters, cell-phone antennas, TV masts, and other sources being converted into enough electrical current to keep a battery charged. (MIT Technology Review; June 9, 2009)
Batteries > Lithium Sulphur > Lithium-sulfur batteries could store triple the power of lithium-ion - A research team from the University of Waterloo has synthesized a prototype of a lithium-sulphur rechargeable battery that, thanks to its peculiar nanoscale structure, can store three times the power of a conventional lithium-ion battery in the same volume while being significantly lighter and potentially cheaper to manufacture. (GizMag; June 10, 2009)
Wednesday, June 10, 2009
DIY / Fuel Efficiency > Hydroxy > Water4Gas for Diesel Cars and Trucks - Ozzie Freedom's free online book shows you how to adapt your truck/van or any other diesel engine to run with less fuel via hydroxy technology which uses onboard electrolysis to run the H-H-O gas into the air intake to effect a more complete burn of the diesel. The ebook has lots of pictures, showing step by step here how to install the device at home.
Fuel Efficiency > Hankook's enfren low rolling-resistance tires deliver 5 percent fuel saving - Hankook says its new range of low rolling-resistance tires could delivering significant fuel savings and environmental benefits without consumers having to upgrade their car. The silica compound enfren tire achieved a 5.1% saving over conventional steel belt radials. (GizMag; June 9, 2009)
Conservation > The eco-switch saves energy – including your own - We all know we should turn off appliances at the wall to reduce fire risk as well as our carbon emissions, but the inconvenience is a deterrent. The eco-switch is a simple and inexpensive energy-saving device that lets you relocate the power point switch to a more convenient spot where you can turn multiple appliances on and off – with the flick of a single switch. (GizMag; June 8, 2009)
Featured: Recycling / Nuclear > Recycled radioactive metal contaminates some consumer products - Thousands of everyday products and materials a across the U.S. and around the world have turned out to contain radioactive metals. Things like common kitchen cheese graters, reclining chairs, women's handbags and tableware, at least in some cases, have been manufactured with contaminated metals. (PESWiki; June 9, 2009)
Magnet Motors > Steorn > Steorn 300 - Some Fine Print? - Creator writes: "Our electromagnetic implementation?" I must confess that I am somewhat disappointed to come to this realization. I had been hoping for the "holy grail" of free energy, arcane knowledge of how to make a permanent-magnet-only motor. From all early reports, Orbo was reputedly an "all magnet" motor. (Nolan Chart; June 5, 2009)
Grid > Smart Grid > 'Smart grid' is new buzz of electric power industry - What smart grid visionaries see coming are home thermostats and appliances that adjust automatically depending on the cost of power; where a water heater may get juice from a neighbor's rooftop solar panel; and where on a scorching hot day a plug-in hybrid electric car charges one minute and the next sends electricity back to the grid to help head off a brownout. (Globe Gazette; June 7, 2009)
Monday, June 8, 2009
Magnet Motors > Bill Landon Jr.'s Magnet Motor Design - Bill Landon of Lebanon, Connecticut, USA, has filed for a patent for an all-magnet motor design involving magnets arrayed along the edge of a pizza-sized disc. He is hoping an entrepreneur will come along to fund the creation of a working model. (PESWiki; June 8, 2009)
Fuel Efficiency > GM's Spark-less Engine Boosts Fuel Economy By 15% - GM's homogenous charge compression ignition engine (HCCI) is able to improve fuel economy by 15 percent when combined with other advanced technologies. HCCI works by igniting the air and fuel mixture through compression instead of with a spark; and saves fuel by reducing pumping losses, burning fuel faster at lower temperatures and reducing the loss of heat energy. (EcoGeek; May 22, 2009)
Waste-to-Energy > Zoo Poo to Energy (video) - Through a machine-container-bacteria-based process called Aenerobic digestion, manure collected from around a zoo can be turned into methane (natural gas), which can be used to run generators to make electricity. (GoGoEco via YouTube; May 25, 2009)
Events: Nuclear > Cold Fusion > 2009 Colloquium on LANR (Cold Fusion) - The 2009 Colloquium on Lattice-assisted Nuclear Reactions (LANR) will be held June 20, 2009 at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA, focusing on the science and technology of deuterated metals, engineering and devices, with theme: successful mathematical formulae and engineering concepts in LANR. (STD.com)
Water > Purification > Multi Solaqua draws on the sun to provide safe drinking water - The Solaqua is a nifty portable device that uses the sun's rays to purify contaminated water. Through innovative use of readily available materials, it carries, disinfects and stores water, providing a safe, environmentally sustainable source of water for rural communities. (GizMag; June 3, 2009)
Animal-Powered > Electric eel powers Christmas tree - Maybe someone living near the sea and a cheap way to keep the eels fed, could power a house using enough of these 800-Watt eels. But wiring it up might be tricky. (YouTube by FreeGlobalEnergy; June 1, 2009)
Saturday, June 6, 2009
Flight > Multi Mode Vehicle - motorbike AND aircraft in one - Here we are in 2009 - televisions are thin, phones are smart and robots are on the rise, but still there's that nagging sense of disappointment each time you look outside and realize that cars don't fly. Samson Motorworks hopes to rescue us from this predicament. (GizMag; June 3, 2009)
Featured: Fuel Efficiency > Engines > MYT > Mighty (MYT) hope for auto dealerships - While Raphial Morgado's Massive Yet Tiny (MYT) engine is not yet in production enabling the service department of dealerships to run a retrofitting business, dealerships might consider getting into the interim business of pre-owned/used car sales rather than just shutting down, if they can, to hold them over. (PESN) (Comment at Examiner.com)
Nuclear > Thorium Reactors > Aim High! Liquid Fluoride Thorium Reactor - The Liquid Fluoride Thorium Reactor (LFTR) uses inexpensive thorium as a fuel, transforming it to uranium-233 which fissions, producing heat and electric power at a cost less than that from coal power plants. (Advocacy page)
Solar > Thin Film > Roll-Up Solar Panels - Xunlight, a startup in Toledo, Ohio, has developed a way to make large, flexible solar panels. It has developed a roll-to-roll manufacturing technique that forms thin-film amorphous silicon solar cells on thin sheets of stainless steel. Each solar module is about one meter wide and five and a half meters long. (MIT Technology Review; June 4, 2009)
Wednesday, June 3, 2009
Featured / Events: Orgone / Weather Control > Interview with James DeMeo about Orgone technology - Former professor DeMeo, a foremost world expert on the subject of Orgone Energy, discusses the well-documented yet still shunned work of the late Dr. Wilhelm Reich and his findings on the orgone energy, or life-energy, which has application in health, mechanical energy, and weather work. Upcoming conference. (PESN; June 3, 2009) (Comment at Examiner.com)
Trends > Global Shift to Renewable Energies Happening - In 2008, for the first time, more renewable energy than conventional power capacity was added in both the European Union and United States, showing a fundamental transition of the world’s energy markets towards renewable energy. Solar tops the list of renewable energies, just beating wind power. At least 73 countries have renewable energy policy targets. (ISIS; June 3, 2009)
Biofuels > Ethanol > Ethanol Production Could Jeopardize Soil Productivity - The American Society of Agronomy reports that crop residues possess a critical role in sustaining soil organic matter, and as it is increasingly being used for the production of cellulosic-based ethanol, this removal may impact the long-term productivity of soils. (Newswise; June 2, 2009)
Orgone / Bio-Energetics / Weather Control > Wilhelm Reich and the Orgone Energy (video) - Dr. James DeMeo provides a brief overview of Dr. Wilhelm Reich's work and findings on the orgone energy, or life-energy, which have been subjected to careful scientific scrutiny and evaluation, being verified and confirmed in their major aspects, even while his malicious critics continue to ignore or distort this record of accomplishment and discovery. (YouTube; May 11, 2009)
Nanotechology / Solar Machines > Tiny boats made of nanomaterials are powered directly by sunlight - Researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, are using carbon nanotubes to build small, simple waterborne machines propelled directly by sunlight. In theory, they say, these machines could be scaled up to make energy-generating pumps directly powered by the sun. (MIT Technology Review; April 13, 2009)
Nuclear > Fusion Giant Laser Reactor Unveiled in California - The $3.5-billion-dollar National Ignition Facility at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory will focus 192 laser beams on a hydrogen pellet the size of a bead, heating it to incredible temperatures in an attempt to recreate the power of the sun, in an event that could light the entire country for a split second. (Fox News; May 29, 2009) [Like trying to harness a hurricane?]
Friday, May 29, 2009
Free Energy > World renowned physicist challenged over free energy machines - Nuclear physicist, Dr. Robert Koontz, has written an open letter challenging Dr. Michio Kaku who recently called free energy machines "impossible" in a recent interview on Coast to Coast AM, saying he needs to reconsider their feasibility based on unknown principles such as alternate dimensions. (Examiner; May 29, 2009)
Solar > Largest The race to build the world's biggest solar power plant heats up - The race to build the world’s largest solar power plant continues with Arizona Public Service and Starwood Energy Group Global LLC unveiling plans for a 290-megawatt concentrating solar plant west of Phoenix. Named Starwood Solar, it will produce enough electricity to power more than 73,000 homes and is scheduled for completion by 2013. (GizMag; May 26, 2009)
Thursday, May 28, 2009
Featured: Magnet Motors > Mylow > Data > Jose E. Concepcion, aka Mylow magnet motor a hoax - Recent evidence suggests that "Mylow" of Chicago was fibbing from the beginning when he claimed to have successfully replicated Howard Johnson's all-magnet motor; and that he has never actually produced a single working unit. (PESN; May 28, 2009)
Waste-to-Energy > Waste Management joins with with InEnTech to convert waste to energy - Waste gasification, a process for converting garbage into fuel and electricity without incinerating it, may be a step closer to large-scale commercialization. Industry heaviweight, Waste Management, has entered into a joint venture with InEnTec of Richland, WA to commercialize its plasma-gasification technology, forming S4 Energy Solutions. (MIT Technology Review; May 27, 2009)
Wednesday, May 27, 2009
Solar > Vehicles > Plans to build Arizona bullet train fired by the sun - Solar Bullet LLC is developing a bullet train that will be powered by the sun. At 220mph the train could travel from Tucson to Phoenix in just 30 minutes. The system would need 110 megawatts of electricity to run, generated by solar panels mounted above the tracks, and is slated for operation beginning in 2018. (GizMag; May 26, 2009)
Tuesday, May 26, 2009
Nanotechnology / Storage > Capacitors > Print-on-Demand Power - Flexible carbon-nanotube supercapacitors could give more power to cell phones and other electronics. Researchers have made the first printable supercapacitor. This high-performance energy-storage device performs better than conventional supercapacitors currently on the market. (MIT Technology Review; April 27, 2009)
Monday, May 25, 2009
Featured: Suppression / Movies > Race to Witch Mountain -- a Metaphor - This new Disney film is amazingly on point when it comes to depicting how the BlackOps control advanced technologies via off-budget, huge projects, in cahoots with certain elements within the U.S. government, often in blatant disregard for the large picture in favor of some myopic agenda. (PESWiki; May 25, 2009) (Comment at Examiner.com)
Cold Fusion > Sonofusion > Explaining how collapsing bubbles can get so hot - A new paper published in the New Journal of Physicsproposes a model explains much of the sonofusion heating process, including a possible route towards heating the interior of the bubble further, making the process more potentially practical. (ARS Technica; May 14, 2009)
Biomass > Ethanol > Cellulosic Ethanol on the Cheap - Mascoma, a cellulosic biofuels company based in Lebanon, NH, reports significant advances in its goal of simplifying the cellulosic ethanol process by skipping the use of costly enzymes, which could potentially reduce cellulosic ethanol's production costs by 20 to 30 percent. (MIT Technology Review; May 12, 2009)
Featured: Tools > The New Jersey Corporation for Advanced Technology (NJCAT) - A private/public partnership that pools the best talents and diverse resources of business and industry, entrepreneurs, university research centers, utilities and government to promote the development and commercialization of exciting, new energy and environmental technologies. (PESWiki; March 6, 2009)
Biomass / Plastic / Alt Fuels > Plastic and Fuel That Grow On Trees - Chemists have learned how to convert plant biomass directly into a chemical building block that can be used to produce not only fuel, but also plastics, polyester, and industrial chemicals, cheaply and efficiently. (GizMag; May 20, 2009)
Friday, May 22, 2009
Featured: Magnet Motors > Swiss Ring Magnet Motor - "A current is produced in the ring because of the magnetic field of the magnet, this current creates a secondary magnetic field around the ring that is little delayed from the primary magnetic field of the magnet, which creates a force and makes the ring rotate." Higher output versions claimed. Open source maybe. (PESWiki; May 22, 2009)
Thursday, May 21, 2009
Featured: Magnet Motors > Mylow > Forum > What's your take on Mylow and his magnet motor? - Weigh in and comment on poll posted by Sterling, with the following range of answer options: - Will soon be vindicated - Sincere inventor scared by MIB - Psychotic faker from the beginning - Planted to discredit FE movement - Don't know / none of the above. (99Polls.com; May 21, 2009)
Air / Batteries > Lithium Ion Future air-fueled battery could store 10 times more power - The new idea the researchers are examining is to replace the lithium cobalt oxide electrode in today's rechargeable lithium batteries with a porous carbon electrode. This allows lithium ions and electrons in the cell to react instead with oxygen in the ambient air. (CNet; May 19, 2009)
Wednesday, May 20, 2009
Wind > High Altitude Wind Power > Harnessing High Winds With Giant Kites - On overview of various companies and groups seeking to develop viable, reliable methods of harnessing energy from high altitude winds, which carry hundreds of times more energy and are more constant than those near the ground. A look at Delft University of Technology's Laddermill; Google-supported Makani; University of Sussex; and Kitegen of Italy. (Alternative Energy News; May 20, 2009)
Paul Pantone of GEET has been released from the UT state hospital (he's been out for about 1.5 weeks now). He's talking live to James Jancik right now.
Featured: Tools > The New Jersey Corporation for Advanced Technology (NJCAT) - A private/public partnership that pools the best talents and diverse resources of business and industry, entrepreneurs, university research centers, utilities and government to promote the development and commercialization of exciting, new energy and environmental technologies. (PESWiki; March 6, 2009)
Biomass / Plastic / Alt Fuels > Plastic and Fuel That Grow On Trees - Chemists have learned how to convert plant biomass directly into a chemical building block that can be used to produce not only fuel, but also plastics, polyester, and industrial chemicals, cheaply and efficiently. (GizMag; May 20, 2009)
Friday, May 22, 2009
Featured: Magnet Motors > Swiss Ring Magnet Motor - "A current is produced in the ring because of the magnetic field of the magnet, this current creates a secondary magnetic field around the ring that is little delayed from the primary magnetic field of the magnet, which creates a force and makes the ring rotate." Higher output versions claimed. Open source maybe. (PESWiki; May 22, 2009)
Thursday, May 21, 2009
Featured: Magnet Motors > Mylow > Forum > What's your take on Mylow and his magnet motor? - Weigh in and comment on poll posted by Sterling, with the following range of answer options: - Will soon be vindicated - Sincere inventor scared by MIB - Psychotic faker from the beginning - Planted to discredit FE movement - Don't know / none of the above. (99Polls.com; May 21, 2009)
Air / Batteries > Lithium Ion Future air-fueled battery could store 10 times more power - The new idea the researchers are examining is to replace the lithium cobalt oxide electrode in today's rechargeable lithium batteries with a porous carbon electrode. This allows lithium ions and electrons in the cell to react instead with oxygen in the ambient air. (CNet; May 19, 2009)
Wednesday, May 20, 2009
Wind > High Altitude Wind Power > Harnessing High Winds With Giant Kites - On overview of various companies and groups seeking to develop viable, reliable methods of harnessing energy from high altitude winds, which carry hundreds of times more energy and are more constant than those near the ground. A look at Delft University of Technology's Laddermill; Google-supported Makani; University of Sussex; and Kitegen of Italy. (Alternative Energy News; May 20, 2009)
Featured: Magnet Motors > Mylow > Data > Fish line mechanical drive discovered in Mylow magnet motor - Some keen observers have pointed out a cheater device, which when noticed becomes blatantly obvious: a drive mechanism via fish line. Was Mylow forced to do that as a ploy to discredit the entire operation which actually had some legitimate stuff, or was it all a strange hoax? (PESN; May 19, 2009)
Featured: Events > 2009 Jarboes Mill AEPC Energy Show n’ Tell Event - Come and see who and what shows up in Maryland May 30-31 this year. It's the second annual Woodstock of free and renewable energy. Covering both conventional and exotic clean energy technologies -- mainly the latter. Bring your own tin foil hat. (PESWiki; May 19, 2009)
Sunday, May 17, 2009
Featured: Magnet Motors > Mylow > Version 2.1 > How does Mylow get his all-magnet motor to work? - Despite having posted a video showing his motor running using readily-available magnets, along with photos and caliper measurements of the spacing, no one yet has been able to replicate his work four days later. New information provided may change that soon? (PESN; May 16, 2009) (Comment at Examiner.com)
Featured: Magnet Motors > Mylow > Plans > V2.1 Mylow Magnet Motor Version 2.1 Plans Available - We've completed the updated plans for the most recent all-magnet motor shown by Mylow, which appears to run using just six bar magnets on the rotor, using magnets that we sent him which are readily available in today's market. (PES Network, Inc.; May 16, 2009)
Funding > Secretary Chu: Calling All Cold Fusion Inventors—and Other Revolutionaries - The U.S. Department of Energy is accepting proposals for energy R&D projects that “disrupt the status quo." The $400 million program is part of the Energy Department’s new emphasis on breakthrough technologies. Small thinkers need not apply: “We are not looking for incremental progress on current technologies.” (Wall Street Journal; May 12, 2009)
Friday, May 15, 2009
Magnet Motors > Howard Johnson > Bedini Posts Video of Howard Johnson's Devices - John Bedini and Rick Friedrick post a video showing Howard Johnson's linear track magnet train and original magnet motor that John has in his possession, received from HJ years ago. He addresses the video to Mylow to encourage him in his efforts to carry on the work of the late H.J. (YouTube; May 15, 2009)
Magnet Motors > Mylow > OS:MYLOW:Theory > Mylow's gate - "I have explained that the switching is very important and you must understand that first. I don't care how many magnets you glue on that disc it's not going to work until you understand the switch and where the energy is coming from." -- John Bedini (Mylow_Magmo; May 15, 2009 11:57 am Mountain)
Electromagnetic > Bedini SG > Spinning Magnet Using Bedini Circuit (video) - I found this looking for a back-up copy of Bedini's video about Howard Johnson's linear track and magnet motor. A cow magnet is seen spinning vertically on top of a plate over a Bedini coil powered by a 9-V battery on the input side, powering a 9-V on the output. (YouTube by Pirate88179; May 03, 2009)
Clean Coal > Phoenix Firm Offers Nation 'Clear Coal' Solution - A new company, Phoenix-based CoalSack Energy's Clear Coal™ technology makes it possible to convert any type or grade of coal into three basic by-products — char, synthetic oil and synthetic gas — through one integrated process, and it produces one barrel of crude per ton of coal processed. (Bob McCarty Writes; May 14, 2009)
Awards > CleanTech Open - $1 million USD set aside by organization whose "mission is to serve as an innovation catalyst for ... entrepreneurs and early-stage companies creating clean, environmentally sustainable technologies. Any inventor, technologist or clean tech enthusiast is invited to submit a three-page Executive Summary by May 30th."
Wednesday, May 13, 2009
Magnet Motors > Mylow > Replications > Mylow gets all-magnet-motor running using off-the-shelf parts - Since Saturday, Mylow has been posting a series of instructional videos to show how to replicate his motor using readily-available parts. Tuesday evening he got it spinning with just one set of six magnets on the rotor. The replication race will heat up for sure. Who will be first? (PESWiki; May 13, 2009) (Comment at Examiner)
Tuesday, May 12, 2009
Magnet Motors > Mylow > Data / Videos > RPM Data of Mylow's All-Magnet Motor - LightRider has programmed some software that works with an external sensor to automatically perform an acceleration analysis of any of Mylow's videos. Analysis of his glass table video from May 2 shows rapid acceleration at first, then reaching an equilibrium speed at around 5 minutes, which is maintained to the end of the ~10-minute video. (PESWiki; May 12, 2009)
Monday, May 11, 2009
Books > Breakthrough Power > Breakthrough Power book receives silver award - For 26 years, Independent Publisher has been recognizing the work of publishers who exhibit the courage and creativity necessary to take chances, break new ground, and bring about change, not only to the world of publishing, but to our society. This year they recognized Jeane Manning and Joel Garbon's book with one of their Outstanding Book of the Year awards. (IndependentPublisher.com; 2009)
Humor / Global Warming > Two Sides of the Same Coin (video) - The Stuart David Show -- Episode 12 -- A Foothill in the Mouth, provides a good-natured poking fun at environmentalism and extremism from either end of the spectrum. (Vimeo; Apr. 2009)
Cold Fusion > Theories QED cavity up conversion is relativistic confusing measurements re LENR - "I am proposing that the hydrino state of relativistic hydrogen inside a Casimir cavity can only occur if vacuum fluctuations twist on the temporal axis appearing to an observer in our plane as getting faster and taking all matter diffused in the field such as the hydrogen atom along for the ride leading to the fractional quantum hydrino." (ScienceBlog; May 3, 2009)
Featured: Magnet Motors > Mylow > Videos > High-Resolution Video Files of Mylow's Magnet Motor Available - On May 6, Mylow conveyed around 20 of his original mpg video files to us to make available for download. The spinning motor videos are especially valuable. In order to cover bandwidth costs and to provide additional revenue to support this project, we are making those available for a small fee. (PES Network; May 9, 2009)
Wind > Augmentation Donut-Shaped Plastic Improves Turbine Output By 30% - Leviathan Energy has come up with a way to improve wind turbine efficiency that has nothing to do with the size or angle of the blades. The company's Wind Energizer is instead a donut-shaped structure made of plastic and steel that wraps around the base of the turbine to maximize wind velocity aimed at the blades. (EcoGeek; May 1, 2009)
Solar > Concentrated > Largest > Spain Plugs In World's Largest Solar Tower - The world's largest solar tower has started generating electricity in Seville, Spain. The PS20 plant has a capacity of 20 MW and will be able to power 10,000 homes. The plant is made up of 1,255 mirrors, each taking up 1,291 square feet, that focus solar radiation on a 531-foot tower. The heat boils water in the tower which creates steam. The steam then turns a turbine, making electricity. (EcoGeek; Apr. 28, 2009)
Featured: Magnet Motors > Mylow > Correspondence > OverUnity.com Naysayers Spoil the Mylow Magnet Motor Show - Yesterday, Mylow said that now that the MIB pressure had subsided, he was ready to begin posting lots of videos again..., but then he encountered the barrage of extreme negativism over on a Free Energy forum where people should have been patient and helpful; so he pulled the plug. (PESN; May 2, 2009) (Comment at Examiner.com)
Magnet Motors > Mylow > Videos > Mylow Posts Video of Running Bar-Magnet-Motor - After several weeks of enduring endless skepticism by people about his claim to a working, very simple, all-magnet motor design, Mylow has posted a very convincing video showing his latest iteration running. (PESN; April 30, 2009)
Solar > Plastic > Pushing Plastic Solar Cells - Plastic solar cells are lightweight, flexible, and, most important, cheap to make, but too inefficient to compete with silicon solar cells for most applications -- until now? (MIT Technology Review; April 30, 2009)
It was once said that a black man would be president "when pigs fly" indeed 100 days into Obama's presidency...... Swine flu.
Store > Electromagnetic > Keppean Scalar Motor > Keppe Releases a New Motor Manual 3.0 - "The Keppe Motor 3.0 uses 70-90% less energy than traditional low-power induction motors and is readily adaptable for practical applications." The motor is based on Keppe's disinversion of Physics, enabling the design of a motor that allegedly capture the natural scalar energy that exists in space.
Geothermal > Geothermal explosion rocks green energy hopes - The bid to produce green power on a commercial scale using heat mined from subterranean rocks – or "hot rocks" – has suffered a major setback, with the breach of a four-kilometre-deep well on Friday in the Cooper Basin in South Australia. (New Scientist; April 28, 2009)
Tuesday, April 28, 2009
Magnet Motors > Mylow > In the News > Special: Mylow Magnet Motor & BlackOps (audio) - On my Free Energy Now radio show last night, having just returned from Chicago to meet with Mylow, I gave a special one-hour presentation about the latest developments in the Mylow Magnet Motor open source project. More news being composed now. (PESN; April 27, 2009)
Batteries > EEStor > EEStor Updates - Autoblog Green runs a blog thread just on EEStor, the Texas company that is working on an "energy storage" device made from ceramics. It's not technically a battery because it doesn't use chemicals.
CO2 Sequestration / Natural Gas > New Way to Convert CO2 into Methanol - Scientists at the Singapore-based Institute of Bioengineering and Nanotechnology (IBN) have achieved an unparalleled feat by transforming carbon dioxide into methanol. Methanol (natural gas) is a widely used form of industrial feedstock and clean-burning biofuel. (Alternative Energy blog; April 28, 2009)
Free Energy > Free Energy Technology Could Destroy the Natural World (But It Doesn't Have To) - New energy technologies promise to provide endless, cheap energy from non-traditional sources (like cold fusion, zero-point energy, etc.), but there's one problem with this: The potential for an *increase* in the destruction of nature coupled with yet another population explosion. (Natural News; April 24, 2009)
Saturday, April 25, 2009
Featured: Books > Prescription for the Planet - Prescription for the Planet explains how a trio of little-known yet profoundly revolutionary technologies, coupled with their judicious use in an atmosphere of global cooperation, can be the springboard that carries humanity to an era beyond scarcity. (PESWiki; April 25, 2009)
Waste to Energy > Could your trashcan solve the energy crisis? - Could vaporising waste provide a solution to two of humanity's biggest environmental problems at once? Companies around the world are trying to turn household waste into clean energy – but critics say "gasification" isn't as green as it sounds. (New Scientist; Apr. 22, 2009)
U.S. Government and Energy > Recovery Act > Obama calls for new era of energy exploration - "Now, the choice we face is not between saving our environment and saving our economy," Obama said. "The choice we face is between prosperity and decline. We can remain the world's leading importer of oil, or we can become the world's leading exporter of clean energy." (PhysOrg; April 23, 2009)
Electromagnetic > Zero Amps Tech > Tom Valone Skeptical About Sumarack's March 30 Video - New Energy pillar, Dr. Valone, gives reason for skepticism on the Zero Amps generator demo video recently posted. "The video looks interesting but there are TWO BIG problems called storage batteries, along with no acknowledged consideration by Peter of the POWER FACTOR as he does his calculations." (PESWiki; April 23, 2009)
Thursday, April 23, 2009
Featured: Ambient Air Engines / Running Vehicles on Water > Cowlishaw Endothermic Steam Engine - The most famous, but still suppressed realization of this concept was demonstrated in California in 1929, and was then called "The Water Powered Car". My maternal Uncle Hugh Wilson was present when it drove from Los Angeles California over several days in the hot California afternoons. (PESWiki; April 22, 2009)
Aether > KML Coils > Chris Brown's Own Measurements Show No Change In TV Setup - Last week, Chris reported that he had run a television on a KML Coil system he devised, and that the duration seemed much longer than what would be possible without the KML Coils. Today, his first before/after control test concludes that the KML Coils are not contributing anything to the system. (PESWiki; April 23, 2009)
Human-Powered > Pedal Power > 17 Examples of Pedal Power and Propulsion - If the bicycle is the most efficient means of transport ever devised, it's not surprising that humankind has sought to leverage pedal power into other vehicles and apparatus. Here we look back over some of our past posts that've paid homage to the mighty cranking energy inherent in a bicycle. (TreeHugger; Apr. 20, 2009)
Featured: Magnet Motors > Mylow > In the News > Mylow Magnet Motor Saga - A simple inventor in Chicago is stirring the imagination of many magnet motor enthusiasts around the world with the myriad of videos he's posted, open sourcing the design to bypass suppression and facilitate rapid development. (Examiner; April 22, 2009)
Featured: Magnet Motors > Mylow > Plans > Magnets Used by Mylow - A video posted by Mylow on April 15 not only describes the various magnets he's used in his various motor iterations, but also gives a good overview of the recent history of the unfolding of this new technology, including a description of his new bar magnet configuration that he said also works. (PESWiki; April 21, 2009)
DIY > Human-Powered > Pedal-Power Pedal-A-Watt Stationary Bike Power Generator - Create electricity pedaling your own bicycle. Site provides detailed assembly instructions, pictures and diagrams, showing step-by-step how to construct your own Pedal-A-Watt generator from readily-available parts. Featured at Super Bowl XLII.
UFOs > Former astronaut: Man not alone in universe - Former NASA astronaut Edgar Mitchell, who was part of the 1971 Apollo 14 moon mission, asserted Monday that extraterrestrial life exists, and that the truth is being concealed by the U.S. and other governments. (CNN; April 20, 2009) (See Coast to Coast AM, hour 1 with Stephen Bassett)
Monday, April 20, 2009
Featured: Nuclear > Cold Fusion > 60 Minutes: Cold Fusion is Hot Again - A report by CBS News' 60 Minutes program on April 19, 2009 states: "When first presented in 1989 cold fusion was quickly dismissed as junk science. But, as Scott Pelley reports, there's renewed buzz among scientists that cold fusion could lead to monumental breakthroughs in energy production." (PESWiki; April 20, 2009)
Biomass / Global Warming > Black carbon soot mitigation may be rapid piece of solution - Black carbon soot emissions (much from third world cookstoves) may cause up to 18% of global warming, and 50% of arctic warming, but are relatively easy to mitigate with donations of new stoves to third world countries. (NY Times; April 15, 2009)
Sunday, April 19, 2009
Cold Fusion > Cold Fusion - CBS TV's "60 Minutes" Turns Up the Heat - Low-energy nuclear reactions, historically known as "cold fusion," will get their 12 minutes of fame on CBS TV's "60 Minutes" Sunday, April 19 at 7 p.m. Eastern Standard Time in a program titled "Cold Fusion Is Hot Again." (X-Journals reprint from New Energy Times; April 16, 2009)
Conservation > Save Over $250 a Year by Unplugging Stuff You're Not Using - Vampire power, or phantom load is the phenomenon where the appliances you keep plugged in quietly drain electricity consistently all day, every day, even when they're off. Good Magazine, estimates vampire power costs US consumers $3 billion dollars a year. Unplug or use Smart power strips to save. (Planet Green; Apr. 9, 2009)
Friday, April 17, 2009
Store: Conservation / Energy Efficiency > Save On Home Energy ebook available (Interview) - New ebook by Peter Lindemann and Aaron Murakami tells you how you can stop wasting 50% of your home energy by putting to use some mostly simple conservation methods, beginning with those that cost the least and are easiest to implement, while making the biggest difference. (PESN; April 17, 2009)
Thursday, April 16, 2009
Hydrogen > Hydrogen Powered Car Two Centuries Old - In 1806 Francois Isaac de Rivaz is a Swiss inventor designed and successfully constructed the first-ever internal combustion engine using Hydrogen as it's fuel source. (H2-Hydro-Gen)
Wednesday, April 15, 2009
Featured / OS: Aether > KML Coils: Super-Duper Simple Method for Pulling Energy from Aether? - Young Delaware inventor, Chris W. Brown, thinks he has come up with a way of harnessing aetheric energy through an ultra simple coil arrangement. Yesterday he said he powered his TV for nearly 7 hours using a new arrangement comprising less than $100 in off-the-shelf parts. (PESWiki; April 15, 2009)
Tuesday, April 14, 2009
Featured / Buyer Beware: Electromagnetic > Boswell > Boswell Power Production Unit Videos Posted - Claims that something turning in a 5-gal. bucket elevated on a 4-foot PVC pipe, having 12-gauge wire coming from it is producing 5.4 kW and has been powering his home for months. Documents PG&E vehicle stopping by the day after he posted his video. (PESN; April 14, 2009)
Solar > Cooking > Cardboard Box Wins $75K Prize - Dubbed the 'Kyoto Box', this $6.60 solar cooker, winner of the Financial Times' Climate Change Challenge, was made by placing insulation (straw or newspaper) in between the two boxes; placing foil inside the first box and painting the inside of the second box black, both to help with heating; an acrylic cover goes over the top. (TreeHugger; April 9, 2009)
Magnet Motors > Mylow > In the News Magnetic Motor Experiment - The inventor, who calls himself Mylow, originally loaded up a number of videos to YouTube detailing the construction of his motor which apparently was an effort to duplicate a magnetic motor originally built by Howard Johnson back in the 1970s. (X-Journals; Apr. 13, 2009)
Electromagnetic > Planes Could Be Brought Down By DIY 'E-bombs' - Electromagnetic pulse weapons capable of frying the electronics in civil airliners can be built using information and components available on the net. All it would take to bring a plane down would be a single but highly energetic microwave radio pulse blasted from a device inside a plane, or on the ground and trained at an aircraft coming in to land. (New Scientist; April 1, 2009)
In a landmark broadcast airing Sunday, April 19, 2009 at 7pm EST, CBS News Magazine,
’60 Minutes’, profiles the breakthrough research accomplished by Energetics Technologies LLC in the field of Low Energy Nuclear Reaction (LENR), historically referred to as ‘Cold Fusion’.
The broadcast airs near the 20th Anniversary of the ‘Fleischmann/Pons’ announcement, when two researchers from the University of Utah claimed a breakthrough in Cold Fusion to great, public fanfare.
The hope for Cold Fusion, or what had been designated as the ‘Holy Grail’ of energy, was short-lived. Independent laboratories were unable to quickly replicate the Fleischmann/Pons claims of
excess heat, a process by which more heat energy is released than the electrical energy needed to create the reaction.
Their announcement was ridiculed, their reputations ruined, and the search for Cold Fusion was cast aside by established scientists and branded “pathological” or “junk” science by the media.
With the global economy in turmoil
and the Obama administration committed to funding the discovery of new clean energy sources,
Neither PMMTester nor I have been able to get in touch
with Mylow since the last correspondence mentioned below two days ago.
This is highly unusual. He normally has been very responsive, returning
calls within the day. I've left three messages with him periodically
today.
Given the circumstances mentioned below, and the MIB
(NSA) incident I reported on previously, I'm inclined to think that
strong-arm pressure has been brought to Mylow to have no further
correspondence with John or me or anyone else regarding his magnet motor
work.
Until two days ago, Mylow has been proceeding with us
despite the warnings initially given him by the NSA guy a couple of weeks
ago. I think this was a brave thing for him to do -- partially defying
the MIB threat.
For those of you thinking Mylow is running a
scam, I ask you: WHY? He's never wanted a penny from any of this. In
fact, the last time I talked to him he asked me how much he owed me for
the magnets I had sent him. His motives have been for humanity.
I think that those of us who believe Mylow's story owe it to him to do
all we can to try and replicate his effect, to show the MIB that indeed
the genie is out of the bottle, and that their threats to Mylow are
futile.
I intend to spend more time as soon as I can to see if
I can replicate it, starting Monday when I get back from Estonia.
The Geothermal conference went very well. It was well-attended, and
well-received. I did put in a plug there for some "other potential
baseload capable renewable on the horizon, including magnet motors"
(paraphrasing).
The adaptor I had for my laptop battery is
not high enough power to recharge my Dell batteries, so I've been
extremely limted by this hotel computer that doesn't let me have access to
a lot of things. Hence the inability to update the site, etc.
Sterling See http://MylowMagnetMotor.com
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Message ----- From: [PMMTestser] To: Sterling D. Allan
Sent: Thursday, April 16, 2009 6:53 PM Subject:
Mylow 7:30 PM CST 4/16/09 update
Just talked to
Mylow.
Figured I would give him some time before calling
because of his work load. It was 7:30 PM Central time. He said it had
been a busy day and he had not worked on the motor yet. He thanked me
for sending the digital tachometer. He said he needed to go get a 9 volt
battery. He understands the important of getting the motor done but
he is quite busy at work this week. He doesn't want to get worn down
again. He mentioned two people came to work today at 11:00AM looking
for him. They saw his boss who said that he was out making deliveries. The boss said there was a male and a female and they were both dressed
up. The guy had a briefcase. He said they showed his boss badges and said
they looked like FBI badges. After that they left. I don't think I
would mention this on the internet. If you talk to him see how it plays
out. He said he would call me later and let me know his progress.
Featured: Fuel Efficiency > H Injection > HAVC > Dateline Accuses Dennis Lee of Fraud - Citing credible third-party testing of an HAFC installation on a Honda Accord, a Dateline special paints Dennis Lee as a charlatan preying on good people who want to see fuel economy improvement, and who believe that a conspiracy keeps these technologies from going forward. (PESWiki; April 8, 2009)
Magnet Motors > Mylow > Correspondence New horseshoe stator magnet works - Mylow's 3rd and 4rth reassembly to a functioning device described. The most recent one uses an elongated horseshoe magnet. Now rotor magnets are growing weak. MIB incident still giving nightmares. (Mylow_Magmo; Apr 8, 2009 9:13 pm Mountain)
Featured: Suppression / Magnet Motors > Mylow > Mylow's All-Magnet Motor "Not a Fake" - Mylow gives more info about how his motor works, how the recent episode with the MIB guy (NSA) rattled him, tells of non-symmetric polarity in his stator magnet, encourages replication attempts. (PESN; April 6, 2009)
EVs > Plug-In Can GM's Volt Save the Company? - Last week, President Obama said that GM had failed to present a convincing plan to turn around its decline, and he warned that the automaker may face bankruptcy. GM's planned plug-in hybrid car is at the core of the automaker's attempt to reinvent itself. (MIT Technology Review; April 6, 2009)
Investment Resources > Report: Global clean-energy investment falls 53% - The steep drop-off shows the global economy's continued deterioration despite a fresh emphasis on curbing pollution and promoting cleaner energy such as wind farms, solar parks and biofuels plants. (MIT Technology Review; April 02, 2009)
Sunday, April 5, 2009
Featured / Store: Magnet Motors > Mylow > Mylow Magnet Motor Plans -- Version 1.1 - Sterling presents a concise and clear set of instructions of how to build a working all-magnet motor as described by Mylow, who is the first person we know of who has replicated Howard Johnson’s Stonehenge model from three decades ago. (MylowPlans.com; April 4, 2009)
Featured / OS: Joe Cell / Fuel Efficiency > H Boost > The Moe-Joe Spherical Joe Cell - Moshe Daniel, inventor/designer of the Moe-Joe Cell, has placed his project here at PESWiki, sharing some of the special features of the Moe-Joe cell and how it is an improvement over the cylindrical-type cells in the Joe Cell technology world. (PESWiki; April 4, 2009)
Nanotechnology / Batteries > Nanotech Batteries For A New Energy Future - Researchers at the Maryland NanoCenter at the University of Maryland have developed new systems for storing electrical energy derived from alternative sources that are, in some cases, 10 times more efficient than what is commercially available. (ScienceDaily; March 22, 2009)
Videos > 'Dancing in Paris' -- 80s Car Commercial - Totally stunning stunt car driving of the Isuzu Gemini. Best performance video I've ever seen along these lines. "'Bet you can't do this", every few seconds. (Google Video; Jan. 31, 2006)
Solar > Concentrated > Home-Heating Mirrors - A new company called Practical Solar uses mirrors to focus sunlight where you want it via a computer-controlled heliostat system. One application would be to focus it on your home to keep it warm in the winter. (EcoGeek; March 20, 2009)
Mylow phoned me in tears this morning, distraught and very scared.
He said that last night his lawyer (last name Kaplan [sp?; starts with a K]) brought with him a man in a dark suit and briefcase, who looked and acted very intimidating.
They took his motor, all his papers, and left him with a note warning him to not say anything about this or to tell anyone or to post any more videos but that it was in his best interest to just leave it alone.
Mylow was extremely rattled and cut the call short.
But first, I told him to not go into fear, but to send them love and forgiveness and light and to not let them scare him.
I got on the phone to some of my associates and was recommended that Mylow press charges because a criminal act was carried out against him.
Mylow then phoned back and said that his wife just called him and said that the lawyer and the guy brought all the stuff back in a box, with some of the magnets dislodged from the rotor. They told her, "Don't say anything about this. Just let it drop. It's 'just a toy'; keep it that way. Don't post any more videos on YouTube."
She called the police, who came over to arrest them, but the guy in the suit told the police something, and they then turned on Mylow's wife saying that they could arrest Mylow if he didn't comply.
In a subsequent phone call, Mylow said that he is going to keep the work going forward. "The spirit of Howard Johnson [inspires] me, and I'm going to bring this forward."
He plans on continuing to post videos and pressing forward with this work.
Way to go Mylow! We're rooting for you.
Everyone, please hurry and replicate this thing. Let's show the world that this is not going to be stopped. They've done this too many times.
Kaplan should not get away with his complicity as a coward to the bullies that for too long have been ruling the playground.
Let's show the world that the day of the bullies' rule is coming to an end.
Magnet Motors > Mylow > Correspondence 18 hours at 140 rpm; stator magnet cold - As of 7:10 pm, Mylow said his motor had been running continuosly since about 1:00 am last night, at around 140 rpm. Four minutes after he stopped the motor, the stator magnet was 13 degrees below ambient temperature. (Mylow_Magmo; April 2, 2009)
Featured: Fuel Efficiency > Animal-Powered > 1 HP Vietnamese Hybrid Runs on Hay - A couple of rural Vietnamese inventors have turned the world of physics on its head by achieving a COP (Cow-efficient of Performance) far in excess of what was possible even a century ago. (Free Energy News; April 1, 2009)
Featured: Biofuels > Human-Powered > NatGeo Bus Powered by Passengers - The bussing authority in Atlanta in conjunction with NatGeo, a global biofuel research group, has been experimenting with a new approach to powering their bus fleet with the passengers that board the bus. Passengers enter through the jaws and exit through the tail pipe. (Free Energy News; April 1, 2009)
Flight > Aeroscraft > Airship Company To Enter LSA Market - "The five-gallon fuel capacity proved the limiting factor," said our source. "That turned out to be just enough fuel to make two or three full turns, and required spending the rest of a flight just drifting with the wind. (Aero-News.net; April 1, 2009)
Human-Powered > Fuel Efficiency Extraordinary Loads on Ordinary Bikes - A collection of 20 images from around the planet, primarily in the developing world, where amazing feats of stacking and balance are achieved, and powered by human locomotion and ingenuity. (TreeHugger; March 30, 2009)
Tuesday, March 31, 2009
Biodiesel > from Algae > 'First Economical Process' For Making Biodiesel Fuel From Algae - One of the problems with current methods for producing biodiesel from algae oil is the processing cost. Researchers from New York say their innovative process is at least 40 percent cheaper than that of others now being used. (Science Daily; March 31, 2009)
U.S. Government and Energy / Fuel Efficiency > Obama to Automakers: Make Greener American Cars or Go Under - One of the reasons cited by Obama for denying Chrysler and GM further bailout funds, was that neither planned on going green enough, and that in order to be 'viable' they need to put more effort and resources towards developing and selling fuel efficient vehicles. (TreeHugger; March 30, 2009)
Monday, March 30, 2009
Fuel Efficiency > Hybrids > Series > Wheel Motors to Drive Dutch Buses - A Netherland company, e-Traction, has developed a series hybrid bus. A diesel generator charges a battery, which in turn supplies electricity for two motors, one in each rear wheel, yielding a 2x increase in mileage. (MIT Technology Review; March 23, 2009)
Tools > Communications > Jaxtr Provides Free International Phone Call Service - Just enter your cell phone number and the cell phone number of the person you wish to call internationally, and they'll received a text message of a local number to call that will connect you for free. You can also place regular international calls at a very low rate.
Top 100 / Featured: Nuclear > Cold Fusion > Cold Fusion Acknowledged 20 Years Later - The original press release from the American Chemical Society, and a compilation of mainstream news coverage of this historic validation on the anniversary of the original announcement. (PESN; March 29, 2009)
Magnet Motors > Howard Johson > Howard Johnson linear magnetic track accelerator video (video) - May 24, 1994 video shows Howard Johnson giving a demonstration of a banana magnet going through a magnetic gate with no apparent repelling force and 12 pound thrusting force, as measured by a scale, and being accelerated through the gate then continuing along the track. (OverUnity.com; March 29, 2009)
Body Electric / Grand Unified Theories > If We Have Free Will, Then So Do Electrons - Two Mathematicians believe they have proven that if human experimenters demonstrate 'free will' in choosing what measurements to take on a particle, then the axioms of quantum mechanics require that the free will property be available to the particles measured, or to the universe as a whole. (video) (Slashdot; March 20, 2009)
Building > Twelve amazing shipping container houses - While a number of resourceful people have converted shipping containers into make-shift shelters at the margin of society for years, architects and green designers are also increasingly turning to the strong, cheap boxes as source building blocks. (Yahoo Green; March 16, 2009)
Saturday, March 28, 2009
Magnets > Magnet Motors > Howard Johnson Discovering Magnetism - Video by Howard Johnson demonstrates a number of his unique magnetic gates, which accelerate cars on tracks using the little-known ability of magnets to fire bursts of energy like guns. These forces can be up to a thousand times more powerful than the base magnet strength. (Cheniere.org store)
EV > Tesla Motors > Tesla Model S Electric Sedan Breaks Cover - Tesla Motors, the electric-car maker, unveiled its Model S sedan on Thursday, expected to be delivered to customers in the third quarter of 2011, in three battery ranges: 160-mile, 230-mile and 300-mile. The based model is priced at $49,900 after federal tax credits. (NY Times; March 26, 2009)
Fuel Efficient Vehicles > Rave reviews for world's cheapest car - Tata Nano, was hailed the world's cheapest car as "one of the greatest bargains of all time" and "a triumph of Indian ingenuity." The tiny car, "as cute as a cartoon caricature," costs just 100,000 rupees (2,000 dollars). (Autoblitz; March 24, 2009)