Al Gore 2008 TED Talk Presentation

Here is a link to the latest from Al Gore. It's his TED talk. It's considerably cut down and he's got a disclaimer saying he is invested in green technology.

http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/243

Solar Concentrators vs. Photovoltaic

I did a little research into a pet peeve of mine, solar power. I always say that it is a joke to say that solar can't replace oil. Everybody who has played with a magnifying glass in the sunlight knows what a powerful energy source the sun is. I recently stumbled across my steam powered turbine idea as someone else's old news. Like those Tivo DVR commercials where the guy says he came up with the idea for DVR first.

Turns out there are already power plants in use around the world that use solar concentrators rather than over priced and inefficient solar panels AKA photovoltaics. To my delight I also googled practical home applications that you can have installed and more importantly, schematics and instructions on how to build some of these things yourself.

I'm going to read through the projects on these pages and pick one as my first solar project.

Concentrating Solar Collectors

Solar Cooking and Food Drying and Solar Stills and Root Cellars

Build a Solar Cooker

Looks like I can get away with a discreet solar cooker project without attracting anyone's attention. I think I've seen people doing solar barbeque and I remember thinking to myself either they are nuts or they just love putting aluminum foil over everything. I guess it's going to be my turn to wear the tin foil hat.

Solar Power

We are told so much junk about everything we are and how things work and our place in the universe. I found these video podcasts about our stuff and consumerism here:

The Story of Stuff Part 1

The Story of Stuff Part 2

It pretty much lays out the lies about so many things we are told and how most of it ties together. I say buy a farm and be self sufficient.

We are constantly being sold that solar power will never be able to provide the energy needed to repace oil. What a racket! Solar power just doesn't work unless you are Las Vegas and you have a desert with tons of sun and space. Then solar power is a very practical way to generate electricity. Look ma no solar cells. Just mirrors used like magnifying glasses to heat water to run a turbine. You know like you used to use to burn ants and start fires when you were a silly little kid!. What a joke our lives have become that special interests come before common sense.

Check out the solar power here:
http://www.eere.energy.gov/news/daily.cfm/hp_news_id=102

They call it solar power concentrating.

Here's the results of using solar panels:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nellis_Solar_Power_Plant

Solar panels are much more expensive than just converting that heat into energy. It looks like it is also producing more power, using less space, and doesn't require expensive equipment.

Let's see.

Solar Concentration:
$3 million to generate 64 mega-watts at a cost in pennies per a kilo-watt hour.

Solar Panels
$100 million to generate 15 mega-watts at a cost of 2 dollars and change per a kilo-watt hour.

Guess what. The department of defense created the solar concentration power plant as research. While the Solar panel power plant was created for a military base.

I like this article:
http://www.palmbeachdailynews.com/biz/content/business/SOLARUPDATE1213.html
177 mega-watts in one square mile. They call the technology solar thermal.

This is just crazy talk:
Jimmy Stewart & Jean Arthur on Solar Power in You Can't Take it With You


End Diatribe.

Here's some solar resources I found while researching this post. I might play around with one of the kits.

http://del.icio.us/danplawson/solar

Nice Work Mr President

Bush Intervened to Weaken EPA Smog Rules

Thanks for the smog. What a creep! He didn't just allow car emission standards to be lowered but in order to do it he had the scientific and Supreme Court mandated acceptable levels of car emission toxins increased.

What a cretin! I hope he ends up spending his final days in LA or some suburb of it. So he can enjoy the benefits of all the exhaust fumes he is single handedly creating by getting smog laden lungs.

What a jerk! When you only crave money. You only get money. And if you think that is a good thing then enjoy your money. Life has a way of teaching the greedy to find a more worthwhile pursuit.

Jet Contrails being used for Global Cooling

I located the PBS report linked in the title for this post after I read this posting on one of my favorite sci-fi author's blog. He doesn't believe in global warming or at least not in the science used to connect it to CO₂ so far.

Although I believe the shrinking of the glaciers are a clear sign the end of the water is nigh upon us. I tend to believe the science hasn't quite modeled the problem in terms of the glaciers.

If the glaciers once covered most of the world during the ice ages then the melt process is just the continuation along those lines. I take it a step further and say the real problem isn't the temperature increase but the disappearing glaciers. It looks like the short term problem of creating drinking water may already be solved by the desalination plants. But the solution to the longer term problem of a coming ice age isn't being addressed and may end up being the easier problem to deal with if our technology keeps advancing at the exponential pace it's on.

Personally I feel we are all being held back simultaneously by not being nomadic and being told the solution to our energy crises is to live in close proximity in cities. How blind do you have to be to not see all the free energy given out by the sun? Don't be fooled. We all know it only takes a magnifying glass or a mirror to release the heat energy at a level that is usable for generating energy.

Updated: 2008-03-14

I found some links to the science about jet contrails:

How Do Jet Contrails Affect The Weather

Look Up They Are Spraying Us

Rocket Exhaust Leaves Mark Above Earth

Zero Point Energy AKA Gettting Something for Nothing

Getting more energy out than you put in is a common theme in management. Under pay your workers and get more of their time. Contribute to a politician's campaign and get a contract that only costs you a fraction of a percent of what you donated. I've been thinking of oil and water rights after my last post.

Found those interesting sites in my last post. One of which led me to thinking about trying out Adsense. I ended up stumbling across a video with "secret" techniques and such. And clicked a link to a video that I guess is about the same concept. You should check it out. It's old news from 1995. I've never seen it before. And it's curious how no one talks about it when they talk about hydrogen.

Equinox - It Runs on Water (Free Energy - 1995)

What I would really have liked to have seen is one of those devices powering itself. Take the hot water/steam supersonic pump for example. It could have been split to run part of the steam back to spin the shaft directly or to a turbine to power the motor. Now that would have been some perpetual motion worth seeing. Even feed the steam back into the supersonic pump after passing it through a turbine. If it could keep above 100% output even with a turbine. It would be interesting to see how long it would take a closed loop steam system to explode from the continually increasing pressure from the ever hotter steam.

I have several theories on what's happening. The frequency based ones may be tapping into either an extra energy overlaid/embedded in the electricity. Supposedly there is a medium through which all energy passes. Does AC or DC make a difference? Or is it something inherent to electrons? Sort of like QED(Quantum Electro Dynamics) the Theory of Light. Specifically, the fact that photons are going in every direction at once but the directions at the edge cases are canceling each other out. You can broadcast electricity over a the air at certain frequencies. Maybe electricity from earth's core is operating at these frequencies and only needs a catalyst stream of electricity operating in that frequency range to tap into it. No I'm not joking. It's called the Earth Magnetic field and it's very real. In fact the way the earth spins it might as well be a planet sized turbine.

Another possibility is that the frequency stuff is tapping in the Earth or the Sun's or the black hole at the center of the galaxy's gravitational field. Maybe the research into gravity has it all wrong. Maybe it's all just electrons and the force of nuclear attraction and repulsion. Maybe gravity is just electrons expressing attraction at a different frequency. Meaning that the perpetual and relatively free force that is gravity is just electricity as a frequency that can be brought back into phase by electricity running at a similar frequency.

I have another theory that involves the fact that gravity seems to me to be a force without a cost. Where is the energy for gravity coming from. Energy in is equal to energy out. Does that mean that gravity by it's very nature is using zero point energy? If that's true and it's expression is electrons and it's unlimited then it's just a matter of tapping into it. The Earth already converts the gravitational force of the Sun to a spin which generates the planet sized magnetic field. The Sun is an expression of gravitational energy by the process of it's own formation.

If you forget for a moment everything we've been taught about the scarcity (scare tactic?) of resources and thereby energy one might see all the free and virtually unlimited energy all around.

One day I'm going to stick a waterwheel in a stream and generate my own electricity just for kicks.

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