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First of a series for the book. This edition questions: Is Energy Really Scarce?
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Ray Podder
I know that most men — not only those considered clever, but even those who are very clever and capable of understanding most difficult scientific, mathematical, or philosophic, problems — can seldom discern even the simplest and most obvious truth if it be such as obliges them to admit the falsity of conclusions they have formed, perhaps with much difficulty — conclusions of which they are proud, which they have taught to others, and on which they have built their lives.
—Leo TolstoyOpening to Ch 14. Translation from: What Is Art and Essays on Art (Oxford University Press, 1930, trans. Aylmer Maude)
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Cruelty
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Poverty
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Hunger
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Insanity : Natural Gas
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Insanity : Geothermal
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Insanity : Nuclear
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“At present there is a preponderance of evidence that there is no threshhold dose of ionizing radiation so low that it is safe or such that the risk of damage (even serious damage such as leukimia) is zero”
—Karl Z. MorganManhattan Project Scientist and Anti Nuclear Activisthttp://www.ratical.org/radiation/NRBE/NRadBioEffects.html
*Centralized Renewables emit over 2.4 million + tons of CO2 in India and China as well as lose an average of 67% in transmission. Not to mention the technologies deployed in Solar and Wind farms
are only marginally upgraded technologies from the 1960s!
Insanity : Centralized Renewables*
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Insanity**Photovoltaics are most effective in distributed contexts like solar film and solar thermal for homes and businesses. Generating utility scale power with solar is actually more expensive than current dirty energy methods. Today, solar investments are already tied to dated tech that makes for a great show for investors, but not so much benefit for the rest of us. China’s 54 percent share of the global panel-making market will grow, and we’ll remain locked into older technology.
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Insanity**Wind farms disrupt delicate ecosystems and communities where they are placed. They use oil to drive the turbines and are already invested on oild and gas for their existence. The noise and vibrations are harmful to the biosphere, and the tech is already old compared to bladeless Tesla turbine inspired solutions at the local level. It’s “Greenwashing” at its best.
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Insanity**Since the obvious negative effects on food production and biodiversity have been well documented with Ethanol, mass produced natural and synthetic Algae production is now the Biodiesel beacon. While more viable local production options from cooking oil to biowaste takes a backseat, the billions betting on large scale Algae futures waste both private and public funds for an yet unclear upside and clearly known downsides for biodiversity and arable land.
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all because of
One idea!
Energy is Scarce
What if we got it all wrong?
“There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it’s going to be a butterfly.”—Buckminister Fuller
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What if...
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Energy was Abundant?Our hearts use only 0.2v to pump over 2000 gallons of blood through its 4 chambers daily. The only battery it needs is a biochemical reaction of Potassium, Sodium and a little bit of Calcium. No wires, no batteries, and no dirty energy plants. We now have the technology to mimic this process and much, much more...
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Pressure Biochemistry Light
Tom Broadbent, Inventor of HydroPower in the UK uses the pressure from existing plumbing in buildings to generate enough energy to power the pump and then some.
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Bruce Logan and Younggy Kim, developed a microbial reverse electrodyalysis electrolysis fuel cell with a nanofilter that can take everyday wastewater and generate unlimited Hydrogen Fuel using less than 1% of the energy generated.
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Dan Nocera and his team at MIT have developed an artificial photosynthesis leaf that can generate 10X the storage within 1/100 of the volume of commercial fuel cell. A swimming pool full of water (3.2 million liters) for example can generate over 43TW (Terrawatts) per second using his solution.
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Friction Heat Motion
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Noise and sound can now generate enough energy to power buildings.
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Materials can now capture photons and split water to create unlimited power sources.
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Simple motion can now capture energy for personal electronics and more.
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Rubber piezoelectric surfaces can generate energy from pressure.
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Body heat can power electronics like the SkinnyPlayer here.
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Motion from foot traffic can power streetlights, escalators & more.
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Organic photonics and electronics like these nano scale solar cells can be sprayed as dust on clothing or other porous surfaces to generate enough power for all proximal appliances like lights and electronics.
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Organic Photonics
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Available Everywhere?
A real Air Powered Perpetual Engine* (*generates energy from its own process) developed by a 15 yr old kid student from Uzbekistan in 2008!
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Self Powered Air Car
Water Powered Car Engine (peswiki.com)
Fuel Cell for Water Powered Car Design
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Inventive
Wireless transfer via WiTricity is now real. From inductive charging becoming standard for electric cars to reapplying Tesla coil principles to distribute without wires at the last mile, the gridless grid is real and available now.
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Fujitsu Magnetic Resonance Transfer
HALO IPT Induction Charging
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Unbounded
Nanophotonic glass can capture photons by an instant state change from clear to cloudy to power buildings and transfer line of sight to another. One of many nano innovations for energy from nanoholdings.com
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Direct
Accessible to Everyone?
2 Liter plastic bottles with bleach and water placed through holes in the roof can supply the light of a 50w bulb and last for upto 5 years! Access is about innovation with what is available. Innovation that can be accessible to many...
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Simple
Rural Africans are using discarded bike parts to make local wind energy. What would happen if the latest IP that is now shelved by big Oil and Gas could be made openly available to these innovators?
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Resourceful
Sean Elliot of Boston University, can use light sensitive pigments into certain heme proteins into darkness dwelling microbes to produce hydrogen fuel.
Your body is now the power station. What would innovation like this do in developing nations if the tech was made available?
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Bio Generation...and coming soon..
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...and we didn’t have to kill each other to
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