Future Energy eNews

August 2021 Vol.22

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Hello Tom,

As we end our summer of 2021, I was sent a CARET report that seems controversial with redacted portions. Upon further research, I find that our colleague, Linda M Howe has reported on it and a related “Dragonfly” antigrav craft more than a decade ago. It sure renewed my interest in antigravity.

Our first story is somewhat related since our edited volume on Faster Than Light uses electromagnetic toroidal structures to modify and favorably warp spacetime. By linking the Lagrangian of electrodynamics to the Einstein-Hilbert Action quantity of general relativity, two Finnish physicists have upended Maxwell’s equations. In their open access Journal of Physics article, they state that Einstein field equations are just nonlinear generalizations of Maxwell’s equations, which puts the Faster Than Light book on a much more firm physical foundation. “In a way, Einstein’s objective to unify the classical fields seems to be the correct approach” https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1742-6596/1956/1/012017/pdf

Story #2 is very futuristic. Seeing a flying car is one thing but one that looks like a roadster and still flies is another. The Urban EVTOL company is the source of the sleek electric vertical takeoff and landing concept car. It is nice that it includes a DARPA-funded propulsion system “which adds to the vehicle’s safety.” The images of it flying, even with three occupants, is breathtaking . The future of transportation is arriving pretty quickly.

Story #3 shows that graphene continues to amaze the scientists. Reporting recently about the fluctuating graphene production of limitless, free electrical energy was amazing enough (Prof. Thibado, U of Arkansas, FE enews, ). However, now it seems that in addition, we can expect a superconductor from graphene as well, if it is three layers thick. MIT professor Herrero has now found the spin-triplet form of graphene that is impervious to magnetic fields, which theoretically can improve MRO performance significantly.

Story #4 could spearhead a new speedway to the future of renewable energy. Low-cost iron-air batteries have now been given a boost with 100 hour storage of energy, at 10% of the cost of lithium-ion batteries, yielding an estimate of $20 per kilowatt-hour. The Form Energy company video is also helpful at 

Story #5 follows the 2007 MIT Panel report endorsing geothermal as a key energy resource for the United States (mit.edu). The Geothermal Entrepreneurship Organization is a long time coming but we are glad it is finally in business with the slogan, “30,000 feet and 350 Celsius – Geothermal Energy, Anywhere in the World” and “The Answer is Beneath Our Feet.” Based at the U of Texas at Austin, GEO was formed with the support of the United States Department of Energy Geothermal Technologies Office to build a geothermal innovation ecosystem at UT Austin. See https://www.texasgeo.org/about for more information. Our recommendation to them is to expand their vision to include lava dome drilling as Iceland has done , which we reported in FE enews back in 2016. It yields a 10X energy output compared to normal geothermal and could be envisioned as a Yellowstone Caldera Project to postpone its inevitable eruption in the middle of our country, by sucking heat on a grand scale from it for energy production. Is that possible? In Iceland, “The drilling will penetrate a landward extension of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge – a major boundary between Earth’s tectonic plates – says Albert Albertsson, assistant director of HS Orka, an Icelandic geothermal-energy company involved in the project. At that depth, magma that moves from below through volcanic activity meets and heats seawater that has penetrated beneath the ocean bed.”

Sincerely,

Tom Valone, PhD

Editor