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As you may remember, IRI is an advocate for
the solar lights made
by MpowerD.com called “Luci”. They are a wonderful,
sturdy, long-lasting investment in portable renewable energy with
hours of light from a short time in the sun. Now the company is
conducting Operation
Gratitude to help troops overseas. If you buy one
“Luci Americana” model of solar light, they will send one to the
troops too. You can also simply donate $15 for a care package
from the Operation Gratitude webpage.
Another
great cause that keeps evolving is the XPRIZE. Specifically, IRI
is following the “Off-Grid Energy
Access Design Challenge” with a goal of providing
a breakthrough in energy for the developing world. Check out the
short video on their site which includes three other design
challenges of global proportion. Also noteworthy for future
energy researchers is the extensive “Energy
of the Future” Wiki page which reviews
“affordability, efficiency, and generation” in separate sections
and “barriers to progress” for a realistic summary of the new
energy design challenge.
Our
Story #1 is a nice announcement of the recent Tenth
Conference on Future Energy (COFE10) DVDs now being
made available. I particularly suggest getting a copy of the
remarkable presentation by Dr. Brian Ahern who reviewed the
intriguing Manelas Device, which has a long history of anomalous
energy output based on a solid state strontium ferrite billet in
the core of a battery. His impeccable awareness of the facts
versus speculation was admirable and he fielded questions at the
end better than most. Most importantly, one is left with the
desire to see this project advanced, since it was able to charge
an electric car without any outside energy or power input, under
high security monitoring.
Story #2
offers a new view of the Great Pyramid in Egypt with a Journal
of Applied Physics https://aip.scitation.org/doi/10.1063/1.5026556 article
summary that was just published in Newsweek magazine. This is the
first time that the “Electromagnetic Properties of the Great
Pyramid” have been analyzed which found that a 230 meter (1.3
GHz) electromagnetic wave was the most resonant with the Great
Pyramid. The German and Russian authors find that with the most
up-to-date chambers included in the analysis, the pyramid on a
substrate of sand will direct all of its energy downward into the
ground but it is only a preliminary report.
Story #3
offers a new view of small electric vehicles now becoming popular
because of their extended range, besides the flashy new electric
BMW Roadster being featured first. The Related
Links to New Electric Cars are
extensive and proves how the electric car market has exploded.
How about a 2019 Chevy Bolt for only $36,000 or a Nissan Leaf for
only $29,000?
Story #4
is a great encouragement for electric clothes of the future. MIT
researchers now have proven the capability of basic electronics
being incorporated into fabrics along with sensors for biological
monitoring.
Story #5
is one more addition to our number of citations for building
substances that ABSORB significant quantities of CO2 from the
atmosphere. In this breakthrough announcement, the mineral
magnesite has been shown to speed up the process of absorption
dramatically, with industrial capability. For those concerned
about this most vexing problem of carbon capture associated with
global warming, check out our Future
Energy eNews Archive Page: for
March 2018; December 2017, September 2016, October 2015, March
2015, August 2014, May 2014, April 2014, December 2013, October
2012, April 2012, and May 2011. These give any student you may
know looking for an environmental report topic a wonderful
assortment of proven technologies for conversion or storage of
carbon dioxide for practical use or permanent sequestration.
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1) COFE10: A Fantastic Conference Again!
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Held at
the Crowne Plaza in Albuquerque, NM August 10-11, COFE10 was yet
another amazing conference , full of new information, one of kind
presentations by speakers from all over the US, including Alaska
and from Europe..
We want
to thank all who attended the conference and we want to extend
very special thanks to all our speakers who presented on energy,
propulsion and bioenergetics:
Josh Reynolds, Mike Gamble, Gwen Holdmann, Moray
King, Glen Rein, Judy Kosovish, Suzanne Price, Larry Deavenport,
Brian Ahern, Bob DeBiase, Bill Alek, Elaine
Walker, Brian Anderson and Thorsten Ludwig.
We will
be providing a full report in the coming weeks via our website
and members mailing. DVDs are available
here
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2) Electromagnetic Properties of the Great Pyramid:
Resonances & Energy Concentrations
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The Great
Pyramid of Giza is steeped in history and mythology, and as such
fascinates researchers from various fields who all want to unravel
its many secrets.
Now, an
international team of physicists has found that, under the right
conditions, the Great Pyramid can concentrate electromagnetic
energy in its internal chambers and under its base. The results,
which are published in the Journal of Applied Physics,
could help scientists to create new nanoparticles—particles
between 1 and 100 nanometers in size—that could be used, for
example, to develop highly efficient solar cells or tiny sensors.
The team
from ITMO University in Saint Petersburg, Russia, and the Laser
Zentrum in Hannover, Germany, applied theoretical physics methods
to investigate how the Great Pyramid responded to electromagnetic
radiation—which includes radio waves, microwaves and infrared,
visible light, ultraviolet light, X-rays and gamma rays.
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3) Electric Cars Keep Growing in the 2018 Market
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Yes, it’s
just a BMW i8 without a roof. And yes, it’s taken BMW an unholy
amount of time to get around to it, but the i8 Roadster is still a
thing of beauty (how on earth did BMW’s designers manage to keep
the flying buttresses despite decapitating it?). It also coincides
with a mid-life update for the i8 so the electric motor now
produces 143bhp – up 12bhp, taking the car’s total petrol and
electric output to 374bhp. The electric-only range tops 30 miles
now, too. And because the Roadster only weighs 60kg more than the
Coupe, it’s still fast – 0-62mph in 4.6secs and 155mph flat out.
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4) Weaving Socks that Monitor your Heart
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Woven
Fabrics that incorporate LEDs
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Now,
researchers led by Yoel Fink at the Massachusetts Institute of
Technology in the US have developed a new scalable process to
manufacture fibres incorporating the three basic ingredients of
electronics – conductors, insulators and semiconductors. “We’re
getting the function into the fabric itself,” explains Fink. “For
the first time in history, we can credibly say that the function of
fibres and fabrics is going to accelerate in the years ahead.”
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5) Mineral Removes CO2 from Atmosphere
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Scientists
have found a rapid way of producing magnesite, a mineral which
stores carbon dioxide. If this can be developed to an industrial
scale, it opens the door to removing CO2 from the atmosphere for
long-term storage, thus countering the global warming effect of
atmospheric CO2. This work is presented at the Goldschmidt
conference in Boston. "Our work shows two things. Firstly, we
have explained how and how fast magnesite forms naturally. This is a
process which takes hundreds to thousands of years in nature at
Earth's surface. The second thing we have done is to demonstrate a
pathway which speeds this process up dramatically
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