US Deptartment of Energy II

Taiwan to install LED trafic lights

2007-07-02T23:39:00.000-07:00

"Taiwan's Ministry of Economic Affairs (MOEA) has budgeted NT$229 million (US$7.0 million) for the next three years starting in 2008 to change the traffic lights in all counties and cities in Taiwan to LED-based ones, according to the Chinese-language Central News Agency (CNA).

Taiwan's Bureau of Energy, under the MOEA, said Taiwan now has 350,000 traffic lights using LEDs as a lighting source, with the remaining 420,000 traffic lights to also use LED lighting in the next three years for a total savings in power consumption estimated to be 85%, CNA said.

After switching traffic signals to LEDs, MOEA will launch a NT$130 million plan to change street lamps at specific roads or areas to LED-based ones, CNA indicated."

They seem to save 89% of their energy and last for ~22 years.

Air Power Anywhere

2007-04-04T16:51:00.000-07:00

This is a great idea, but it will still not detract from this month and summer's research into free energy.

LED Stoplights

2007-02-12T15:47:00.000-08:00

Raleigh NC is shifting their public lighting to LED's.

This may be somewhat efficient, as LEDs have a lumens per energy ratio of about 35. Incandescents have about 30. However, special bulbs have up to 85. There are probably more efficient light sources than LED's.

However, unidirectional light requirements, such as stoplights, do not require field light sources, so LEDs are probably among the more efficient systems for those applications, except for the electronically controlled light with a mirror system.

Energy and Waste

2007-02-03T03:26:00.000-08:00

A new way to turn trash into energy could reduce our pollution concerns and make power safer. Toxic waste can be burned and destroyed using superheated material to fuel a ~50,000* [F] plasma fire and add electrical power to our lines.

Waste placed in this fire turns from normal matter into plasma and is completely consumed leaving no known byproducts. Using these installations can reduce the level of waste emitted into our oceans, skies, and soil. Hurray!!

A Brand New Energy

2006-12-20T21:04:00.000-08:00

Www.startech.net is the front page of a company that creates energy by sustaining a plasma combustion reaction fuelled by contaminants and other trash. This method could be used to enhance the output of all of our coal burning power plants and reduce the level of refinement necessary to produce fuel. It could also eliminate the usefulness of nuclear power plants, which is a key global goal for the 21st century. Since the plasma reactions produce very little pollution and can be fuelled by pollutants, this is a good choice for powering the electrical activities of urban and industrial centers.

For example, there are two trash mounds in the Pacific Ocean, each the size of the state of Texas, leaching dioxins into the water and poisoning marine life. Hauling these loads to Los Angeles and burning them in such a power plant as startech's could power the entire city for years.

This idea, among thousands of others, are part of a necessary comprehensive neoglobal energy plan. The state department of the US has not produced a plan to achieve environmental energy sustainability, and the IAEA and other organizations are yet to combine plans. Now is the time to assemble this plan on a community and multi-community level.

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Conservation techniques can reduce our energy requirements. This can be felt locally with properly insulated and designed houses and efficient vehicles and appliances. We can conserve commercially with effective communications technologies and delivery mechanisms. New technologies can help us use less energy when build' everything from cars to computers, and give us the time and community affordability to hand make and machine many quality goods. Sensible techniques at www.agribusinesspark.blogspot.com will help us cleanly and non-intensively grow enough crops on less land and for longer growing cycles.

We will use these technologies to build enough spare energy to accomplish these tasks.

-Moray device, resonating with cosmic waves
-Tesla device, resonating with earth's em field [solar ion power]
-plasma trash combustion and disposal
-water splitting H2O -> H2 via e- Hz
-biological enzyme fuel cells
-photosynthetic H2 from GM bacteria
-algae fuel processing
-'overunity' water ram/pump
-geothermal boreholes
-advanced particle physics photon collection
-urban architectural and midatmospheric windmills [infrastructure via 2030's]
-arboreally un-assisted waterwheels
-hemp and greasy weed oils
-love

The first design will be for a sufficient town with a population of ~150.

Light Emitting Transistors and Photovoltaics

2006-11-08T23:19:00.000-08:00

We just in the past weeks invented light emitting transistors [LET] which turn electric signal into photos by an electrochemical process. This process can be reversed to turn photons into electricity more directly than a photovoltaic cell. We should reverse engineer this process to advance photovoltaic technologies.

Also linked here.

"“With LETs, we could develop an optical interconnection beyond the present copper interconnection,” Shin-Ichi Saito, co-author of the study in Applied Physics Letters, told PhysOrg.com."

Natural Monopolies and Alternative Energy

2006-10-16T14:18:00.000-07:00

Why does the government create monopoly power via its patent system, when elsewhere it spends millions trying to prevent the emergence of or regulate monopoly power?

The state wants to foster scientific growth. Although, this may be at odds when a scientific advancement would threaten the basis of a natural monopoly. For example, www.byronwine.com shows that GM, oil producers, and other companies have worked to suppress carburater technologies and alternative fuel technologies. Rudolpf Diesel, inventor of the diesel engine, when he tried to switch back to vegetable oil from crude was killed, likely by industry competetors. His fuel plan would have substantially reduced the natural monopoly of refineries. Today, alternative fuel technologies could/would demolish the accrued arbitrary wealth stored up in those refineries, oil fields, and also in certain elements of the $billions-level auto industry, as well as shift massive oil-centered political power, and the energy production industry and all it subsidiaries, nuclear and coal plants, natural gas plants, commodities shifting systems and infrastructure, and potentially their power lines and permits and contracts, certain elements of jet propulsion and tactical military complex production and threat assessment, as well as certain chemical plants, steel mills, and other cottage industries that would be quickly replaced by a new technology that made superior procedures affordable. As well as the added competition that could potentially be faced in most any monopolistic business by drastically reduced startup costs due to this shift in power production and availability of superior systems. Modernizing itself would probably cost 10-20% of any major firm’s annual revenue, while obsoleting many industries and fundamentally altering many others. However, the cost of this upgrade would be dramatically reduced by the very same measures that caused the need to upgrade. Furthermore, the 10-year return on value of investment and quality of life would be phenomenal. However, an investment in this era and a reutrn in that era would be very difficult to compare due to the corresponding shift in the value and function of money in such a society. This might/would cause massive deflation, which could seem like devaluation to an analyst or investor, but in actuality it is hypervaluation because of the new perfusion of goods and the cheapness of producing and distributing those goods in the new market.

Alternative fuels still face an uphill battle, but they are being aided by Mother Nature, the principle of shortage, and growing human population. All these are God’s ways. Patents do exist for alternative technologies. About 20 patents exist for 100%< efficient special electrolysis water splitting technologies and certain companies make use of them. A patent for a motionless electromagnetic generator was produced in spring of 2002, but it has yet to be meaningfully applied for these reasons.

On Behalf of the USD of Energy MK2...

2006-09-19T22:01:00.000-07:00

Thanks to MIT for their hard work. These air turbines can power hundreds of thousands of homes without burning a bit of hydrocarbon or splitting a single atom to get it.

Now install the motionless electromagnetic generator on a sea platform.

Windmills

2006-08-26T16:18:00.000-07:00

I would like to see these windmills made of the cheapest stuff you can find that won't break, and to run best on low winds, but remain undamaged by high winds. they might even add a rainwater collection and turbine system to increase power and efficiency.

For example, these turbines cost perhaps $10,000. This is a large windmill and the price is dramatically large. I have seen small windmills in the genre of $500. I'd like to see them drop down to $200, be made of ultralightweight stiff plastics or perhaps a corn starch gel for light blades for ease of spin. I want rain catchers with optional basin. They will have a simple alternator generating AC or DC current, and that should either feed directly into the house line, because the house is usually using power of some sort and the dial is spinning. Otherwise it can go unused or charge up a smallish Liiion battery, which can also trickle into the house later.

The setup would be a $50-100 workman job taking under an hour with all components, and the machinery would cost ~$200 and the optional battery a similar price.

Also, I'd like to see in-home biofuelcells and water fracturing. See below for details.

MIT on Energy

2006-08-11T17:44:00.000-07:00

"Solar cells made from spinach. Algae-based biofuel fattened on greenhouse gas. Plasma-powered turbo engines. These are just some of the technologies being developed by a Manhattan Project-style research effort for new energy technologies at MIT.

Scientists at MIT are undertaking a big, ambitious, university-wide program to develop innovative energy tech under the auspices of the school's Energy Research Council.

"The urgent challenge of our time (is) clean, affordable energy to power the world," said MIT President Susan Hockfield."

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I would also recommend that they examine the water splitting strategem.

Energy Efficiency

2006-08-08T11:50:00.000-07:00

Do examine Energy Efficiency Incorporated. Until we find a way to broadcast signal in the visual range, lightbulbs will have to do. 40% of American lighting is incandescent. This is inefficient and can be changed. Also, stoplight arrays can be made of LED's, using ~88% less energy and lastin ~10X longer. This will save money time and labor.

Verizon Fuel Cells

2006-08-08T05:10:00.000-07:00

Verizon is building fuel cells. They are powering a call-center in NYC-metro with this one. I am pleased to see fuel cells coming into public circulation. Some fuel cells are 65% efficient. Biofuelcells can be even more efficient! Nuclear reactors are only 23% efficient.

What if we built a fuel cell on the same plot as a nuclear site and it's fuel waste for 20 years? How much power could that produce capacity? How much would it cost? I estimate at least 80% as much as a nuclear plant, and that it would cost about half as much, and have minimal upkeep costs. Over the 20 year comparison, the fuel cell plant would produce a far more substantial profit-return. That is good business.

30% cheaper AC technique

2006-08-03T02:28:00.000-07:00

This is excellent. An air conditioning unit that cools refrigerant using ice water built up during the night. These AC units can reduce peak draw during the hottest days by running at night. They also save energy by not having to work as hard to quickly pump out cold air when turned on. This measures two major advances. Lower wattage AC, and lower peak urban wattage during hot days in cities.

This will also slightly reduce and moderate urban temperatures by reducing the amount of heat exchanged into the city's out-of-doors during the daytime. I could expect overall urban temperature in a metro region to be reduced by an aggressively estimated 3*F from less AC use.

It is also basically less expensive to use energy generated at night, because there is significantly less demand for it. Some businesses charge up supercapacitors full of power at 3AM and sell it for a modest profit at 3PM when the prices are higher. You pay for this without realizing it or negotiating for it. Now you may pay less. Now everyone may pay less.

The corer

2006-07-16T05:07:00.000-07:00

Examine these links at rexresearch for information about constructing your own hydrogen splitter. You too can tickle water atoms apart to get them to yield their juicy cores.

"I core hydrogen for a living."

For a living. That means all your time and money. Love it.

This man from the Philipines runs engines in power plants with 70% water. Write your Congressman and Duke Energy.

Hydrogenated Power

2006-07-16T02:18:00.000-07:00

This is another video demonstrating the unique process of electrolysis that will provide unlimited free energy. Let's keep the planet clean enough to grow substantial food resources now.

Stop construction of new nuclear plants. Stop construction of new oil refineries. Take those hundreds of millions$ and invest them into this technology. This is a standing offer and order for humanity.

Also, examine the economic impact and return on those millions. You're buying protoutopia.

Danny Klein, Stanley Meyer, Dr. Moray.

Examine these links at rexresearch for information about constructing your own hydrogen splitter. You too can tickle water atoms apart to get them to yield their juicy cores.

"I core hydrogen for a living."

For a living, folks. That means all your time and money. Love it.

Wind Energy

2006-07-12T13:38:00.000-07:00

Wind is a side project to the potentials of hydrogen and resonation energy. As 'alternative' energy, it raises awareness of energy sources other than coal, oil, and nuclear and reduces our reliance on them and consumption of them.

I support the installation of wind turbines.

The DOE2 Maintains Standing

2006-07-06T21:27:00.000-07:00

If things were run like this in the DOE2, heads would roll and jobs would be opening quickly. I demand responsibility and accountability on this seat. Investigate this office and find out who told the secretary not to call back. They shall be excommunicated from government.

Light Bulbs

2006-06-27T15:14:00.000-07:00

The American industrial state should cease building incandescent light bulbs, except for express space heating purposes. 40% of our light comes from incandescent sources. I read today that a 60 watt plug can be filled with a 13 watt special bulb. That saves over 80% of the energy from that bulb. Additionally, traffic lights can be updated with LED arrays, saving over 88% of the electricity used in them, and they won't need to be changed for 20 years. This could save us many megawatt hours of power annually.

If it is necessary, the state should subsudize the industry to stop major production of incandescents and pick up the slack with modern lightbulbs. This will save us money from electricity and reduce consumption and pollution, and make our energy infrastructure more able to meet growing needs.

Furthermore, we should cease production of old polluting technologies in automobiles, power plants, and other appliances and applications and update them with modern techniques to save power.

Automotive and Electrical Sources

2006-06-23T04:38:00.000-07:00

www.byronwine.com

This website posts links to numerous energetically focused articles about producing energy dramatically more efficiently than we currently do.

"For those wanting to verify the patents. Go to http://www.uspto.gov, you will find information for viewing patents.

1. Some folks at Shell Oil Co.[emphasis added] wrote "Fuel Economy of the Gasoline Engine" (ISBN 0-470-99132-1); it was published by John Wiley & Sons, New York, in 1977. On page 42 Shell Oil quotes the President of General Motors, he, in 1929, predicted 80 MPG by 1939. Between pages 221 and 223 Shell writes of their achievements: 49.73 MPG around 1939; 149.95 MPG with a 1947 Studebaker in 1949; 244.35 MPG with a 1959 Fiat 600 in 1968; 376.59 MPG with a 1959 Opel in 1973. The Library of Congress (LOC), in September 1990, did not have a copy of this book. It was missing from the files. I bought my copy from Maryland Book Exchange around 1980 after a professor informed me that it was used as an engineering text at the University of West Virginia.

VPI published a paper, March 1979, concerning maximum achievable fuel economy. This paper has several charts illustrating achievable and impossible fuel economy. About 1980 I contacted the author concerning conflicts between the paper and documented achieved "impossible" mpg. The author said, "I will get back to you.". I am still waiting for his response."

These methods dictate performance dozens of time better than what we currently receive from our fuels, from the heads of corporations in the early days of fuel technology.

Other articles examine ways of extracting hydrogen from water. By uing a certain electrical frequency Stanley Meyer, a Christian, has been able to emit hydrogen from water at an impressive rate, using less than one amp of electricity. It is some 1700% better than conventional electrolysis.

It is my belief that these methods will be more crucially discovered and applied during and after peak oil. At this time the energy giants will face massive discontent and inability to contain American and world fuel dissatisfaction. Information will spread more like wildfire than it currently does, and hundreds of thousands of new researchers will investigate these old files and new ones too and begin to apply them more and more. Science cannot remain silent.

Thankfully this will achieve pre-Better Godliness Through Chemistry levels of plentiful cheap clean energy, and the resulting society. We shall see how much time and space our current society takes up before the new one is born.

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What is the risk of free energy? Standalone energy devices could easily replace a majority of the world's work. The people who sell energy and oil would be removed from economic fortitude, but what kind of place would they find if they abandoned oil? Saudi Arabia and the Middle East could be massively westernized or northernized or southernized or centralized if they chose to adopt free energy instead of oil. They could build factories building anything they want for about no dollars, ad be flush with things and capacity to do work. The equally divided better lot is greater than the entire present lot on a person to person basis. It would be easy to support very high qualities of living for everyone on earth and billions more with such technology and social structure in place. By 'everyone' I mean all 6.2 billion humans living here.

Nuclear

2006-06-18T16:09:00.000-07:00

Uranium oxide pellets do not conduct heat well and thus crack in shifting heat of nuclear cores and must be replaced before all the fuel is used. This makes highly radioactive depleted uranium. [DU is about 60% as radioactive as refined uranium.] The new UBeOxide pellets conduct heat better and will not crack or break as quickly, making nuclear power more efficient, fuel last longer, ad depleted uranium slightly less toxic.

Nuclear reactions will never stop releasing radioactive gas, which no filter can capture, and is often not counted on quotas or treated in any way.

However, this improvement still will only improve nuclear power's efficiency by a margin.. It currently stands at 1 unit of energy consumed for each 1.3 units produced. Old generation fuel cells produce 1.54 units of energy for each 1 consumed, and new improvements promise to reduce cost considerably. Wind farms in suitable and urban areas contribute clean energy to the system and hydrogen fuel will entirely replace every other dirty and complicated fuel source, except possibly fusion and certain clean hydrogen-skimming systems.

We can freeze Nuclear Proliferation by perfecting and distributing power plants that are cheaper ad more efficient than nuclear plants. This market module will ensure that anyone desiring large amounts of cheap power, such as Iran, Russia, or China, or lower technology nations aspiring to plentiful energy, will not turn to dangerous and filthy nuclear plants, in favor of the cheaper more efficient method. Anyone seeking the dangerous and dirty nuclear plants will be immediately suspect of ulterior motives with purely economic and systemic proof. NNP Treaty lives.

Hydrogen Economy > Nuclear Proliferation

2006-06-17T20:36:00.000-07:00

We can cleanse the world of nuclear reactors by making cheaper more plentiful hydrogen reactors. If fuel cell technology is less expensive and cleaner than nuclear power it will be unthinkable to approach nuclear's risks. Fuel cells are massively simpler than controlling nuclear fission. Building these plants will effectively market-force the Nuclear Non Proliferation treaty, because nuclear plants' premium and risk would be for only one purpose at that point. Weapons. Energy is energy and hydrogen is plentiful.

To get nuclear reactors out of Iraq, Russia, China, India, Pakistan, and any other nation with suspect nuclear intentions, introduce cheap fuel cells to their markets. The United Nations should be contacted with relevant information about this blockbuster solution.

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The Power Company

2006-06-12T14:15:00.000-07:00

Now is an opportunity for us to shift our electricity sources from nuclear power to newer *cheaper* forms of energy production. The United States Enrichment Corporation, USEC, which originally inherited much of the US government's research and equipment, is facing financial and systemic difficulties, partially due to the high maintenance cost of nuclear power, partially offset by undermarket contracts with the Russians and special deals with the US. Their funds and resources still are depleting rapidly.

Fuel cell power capacity can be built at 1/3 the expense of nuclear power capacity. Fuel cells require hydrogen fuel, available from a multitude of sources. Older fuel cell models have been shown 65% efficient, compared to nuclear power's ~23% efficiency. New biofuel cell models' efficiency remains to be tested, but they remove '75% of the setup's complexity, and therefore cost'. Hydrogen reactions also produce no unfavorable byproducts, just power and water.

The secret trick is what to do with our existing nuclear machinery. We may decide to sell much of our equipment and stockpiles to Europe, or China for that matter. Our nuclear scientists can shift interest into the developing fusion and z-machine reactions, pure science, or other electromagnetic field and atmospheric functions. The EPA can also hope to enforce its nuclear codes and shut down plants aging past ~20 years without building new ones in its place. Some plants will still likely fire for another few decades, and one or two new nuclear plants may even be built, but if we the environmentalists and economists have our say and way that might be the end of nuclear power.

Where will the hydrogen market come from, though? Current infrastructure leads to natural gas. Hydrogen can easily be produced by concentrating solar powered electrolysis, a system of mirrors designed to heat water with the sun's rays, make energy from steam turbines, and zap the steam apart. Hydrogen may also arrive from plant matter depending on agribusiness, or it may come from bacterial photosynthesis. Wherever the source comes from, the fuel cell chain is likely to be both cheaper and cleaner than nuclear fission and most other forms of power generation. The market should get on the stick.

You can help institutions study enzymes using free cycles on your cpu. Download "Folding@home" to help us use new protein structures.

http://www.newscientisttech.com/channel/tech/mg18524865.100.html
-12 Feb 05 enzymes may replace platinum in fuel cells. THAT DAY IS NOW!
http://www.newscientisttech.com/channel/tech/mg18925401.600.html
-26 fEB 06 bacterial photosynthesis adjusted to produce hydrogen gas. Fuel from the sun. Solar hydrogen.

New American Energy

2006-06-09T15:35:00.000-07:00

The US produces 3.892 trillion kwh. The majority of this comes from coal and nuclear power plants. www.exxun.com

This releases millions of tons of pollution into the atmosphere and leaves behind a few square miles of nuclear waste. Nuclear energy costs $3200/kw of capacity. We can make our energy more cheaply by using fuel cells, concentrating solar plants, wind sources, and conservation. And by getting hydrogen fuel sources from engineered bacterial photosynthesis.

Fuel Cells

When burned, hydrogen produces pure water and heat. By using fuel cells we can produce water and energy from hydrogen sources, including liquid hydrogen and metal hydrides. Fuel cell energy production expenses estimate around $1000/kw of capacity, and considering new advances in enzyme technology and cheap clean hydrogen availability, the cost of fuel cell capacity and hydrogen fuel should be reducing steadily. A fuel cell can be made using a mason jar, a capacitor, and samples of the enzymes with hydrogen introduced into the atmosphere.

Concentrating Solar Power [CSP]

Concentrating solar power is an array of mirrors focusing the sun's light on a central bulb which collects it as heat to produce molten sodium, which cycles through a series of turbines. By building numerous such plants in the California desert regions and charging them into supercapacitors, California can supply its day and night power supply with a few hundred square miles of mirrors. Other southern and equatorial latitudes can easily harvest all the solar energy they need without using expensive photovoltaics.

New discoveries in picoturbine solar technology can sharply increase the efficiency of photovoltaic cells. One photon can produce two or more excited energy particles. This system could increase photovoltaic efficiencies by folds. Extended research should be devoted to this possibility.

Solar power can be used to advance conservation worldwide. Solar cookers can replace cooking fires in the 3rd world. Such a shift in the undeveloped world's methods of food preparation would have positive systemic changes on the way we spend our time and resources, and the byproducts of the average human life.

Urban Efficiency

Urban roofspace is notoriously unused. It is a fine resource of valuable sunlit land. By installing wind power plants on these rooves, or using them for greenhouses, we can beautify our skylines and increase efficiency. A large windmill can produce ~3.5 kw in moderate wind, common on and often sustained on rooftops of buildings doubling as wind tunnels. This effort can provide the city and private areas with clean local power, reducing the need to import power from large dirty power plants. Private owners of these power sources can reduce their electric bills and contribute to energy efficiency.

If not wind tunnels, then rooftop greenhouses or conservatories should take their place. By using mirrors and waste heat from the building itself even northern cities can grow greenage well into the fall and early in spring while they insulate their rooftops and save on heating bills. Then when the produce is ready the harvest will yield fresh resources. At the same time, these plants will clean urban air, reducing smog and indoor pollution.

Conservation

Much can be done to improve our energy efficiency. About 40% of American lighting comes from incandescent bulbs. By changing these bulbs to energy efficient lightforms in 100 million American homes we can save billions of kwh. By changing all of America's millions of 70-watt traffic lights to 9-watt LED arrays we can save 88% of the power used on them, and replace them one tenth as often, also saving billions of kwh.

Power lines leak electricity, and the longer they are, the more they leak. This leakage is free electrons, also known as beta radiation. About 10% of our energy is wasted to beta radiation. By decentralizing power production using rooftop wind farms and greenhouses in windy cities and installing numerous small fuel cell plants to take the place of large and heavily polluting power plants, we can improve efficiency and reduce exposure to dangerous radiation. Where we must use the largest power lines, we can use high-temperature superconductors or send power as lasers through fiberoptic lines.

From here our power industry and grid will be well insulated and up to the global par for sustainability and ready to face the 21st century. Combined with fuel efficient vehicles, mass transit, and agricultural fuel reform and industrial regulation we should be prepared to maintain the environment and meet international emissions requirements for health and safety, and save money and labor doing it.

=Fuel Cells And CSP to Replace Dirty Power Sources
=Power Decentralization
=Urban Greenhouses and Wind Farms
=International Accord

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