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Today
our top news is nine of our country’s governors taking individual
action toward 100% renewable energy. A couple minutes of
uplifting, inspiring excerpts from their declarations is available
from YouTube and also from #CleanEnergyForAll. Along the same
lines is the Green New Deal, which has a need for details,
actually available online along with a nice
poster:. Another similar development, defying
Administrative policies, is the release just a few weeks ago of
the “Report on Effects of a Changing Climate to the Department
of Defense”, a 22-page report embedded in an online
review article with headings like: “recurrent
flooding, drought, desertification, wildfires, thawing
permafrost” along with the expected impact on each defense
agency. In related news, the two-minute Preview to my online “Solving
Climate Change” interview is a symbolic analysis of fossil
fuels .
Also important to mention is the
launch of our next COFE11 and the Call for Papers. Send in your
Title, Abstract, Bio, and a headshot picture to iri@erols.com for
consideration in the fields of energy, propulsion, or
bioenergetics. We would love to schedule you in a 45-minute slot
if you have a nice slideshow to go with your topic www.futurenergy.org .
Our Story #1 gives us a great
preview of the future with probably the best detailed plans for
an orbiting commercial space station. Congrats to the Gateway
Foundation for an exciting and convincing educational video on
all of the design specifics, including the economics and
financial incentives for company pods at the station. Couldn’t stop
watching this one ‘til the end.
Story #2 is an amazing new
process for converting a wide range of plastics, including toys,
plastic bags, shrink wrap, into liquid or gas fuel. It addresses
the problem that the world’s landfill sites and oceans are being
flooded with plastic. A mere 9% of the 8.3 billion tons of
plastic produced over the last 65 years has been recycled,
according to the United Nations. Over eight million tons of
plastic flow into our oceans every year, harming wildlife. The
textbook on it has been around for a few years, “Recent Advances
in Bioenergy Research” with a nice twelve page chapter on the
“CONVERSION OF PLASTIC WASTES INTO LIQUID FUELS – A REVIEW” and a free PDF
download online . For
those interested in this ubiquitous problem, there actually are
“Plastic to Fuel Power Plants.” They have two plants running in
Spain. Each Cynar plant can process up to 20 tons of End of Life
Plastic per day, producing 5,000 gallons (19,000 litres) of high
quality liquid fuels at a conversion rate of 95%. Read the best illustrated
details .
Story #3 is an amazing bioenergy
confirmation of our institute’s Tesla Coil (Premier Junior
series) electrotherapy. Lightning or more generally speaking,
high voltage electric fields, have healing effects on cells,
according to Tel Aviv University. The Related Article is also a breakthrough with the discovery of “Cardioprotection from
stress conditions by weak magnetic fields in the Schumann
Resonance band” which is the 8 Hz earth-ionosphere frequency.
Story #4 gives us a glimpse of
the ongoing flexible solar cell research, that someday will be
everywhere and embedded in windows too.
Story #5 is an important
discovery for those interested in longevity, since senescent
cells (old cells that hang around) stress the body and immune
system as we age. Anti-aging research has targeted these cells
with quercetin, senolytic activator and other natural remedies but now a drug can
remove them from the body entirely, thanks to the University of
Texas at Austin. “The idea is that removing these cells may
be beneficial to promote healthy aging and also to prevent
diseases of aging".
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1)
Commercial Lunar Space Station Plans
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Watch
this Epic Trailer of the Von Braun Space Station
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Welcome on board the Von Braun Rotating Space
Station.
At least, that’s what the
Gateway Foundation is envisioning. Dreamed up by former
pilot John Blincow and retired Jet Propulsion
Laboratory mission architect Tom Spilker, the station would
allow for both low-gravity scientific experiments conducted by
national space agencies and space tourism. In a slick new video
posted to YouTube, the Foundation shows off its ambitious
plans — including a render of a Hilton space hotel module.
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2) Plastic
Waste Can be Converted to Fuel
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How it works: The technology
works on polyolefin waste, the sort of plastic used for grocery
bags, toys, and shrink wrap. This sort of plastic accounts for
about 23% of plastic waste, according to researchers who describe
the process in a paper published in Sustainable Chemistry and
Engineering. The new technique uses a process called hydrothermal
liquefaction, in which very high temperatures melt pellets of
polyolefin and then dissolve them in water. The by-products of
this process are oil, gas, or solvents.
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3)
Lightning's EM Fields Have Healing Effects on Cells
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By Michael Irving, New Atlas
You definitely don't want to be
on the receiving end of a lightning strike, but in the right
doses the stuff may have a healing effect. A new study from Tel
Aviv University suggests that the electromagnetic fields given
off by lightning activity around the world could protect living
cells from certain kinds of damage, which may have had
implications for the evolution of life on Earth.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-018-36341-z
Schumann Resonance cardioprotection by weak
magnetic fields
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4) Researchers Develop Cheaper
Flexible Solar Cells
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By Lokia Papadopoulous IE mag.
Perovskite solar cells have been
gaining attention lately as their energy efficiency starts
reaching that of silicon cells and with good reason!
These cells are simple and cheap
to produce and have a high level of flexibility that would lend
themselves to a variety of applications. The problem, however, has
been getting them to last for more than a couple of months.
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5) Anti-Aging Drug that Kills Old
Cells Passes Human Test
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Not all damaged cells die. Some
stick around as senescent cells, unable to divide but still able to
produce chemical signals — and they could play a major role in the
battle against aging.
“It is thought that these cells
and the substances they produce are involved in the process of
aging,” longevity researcher Nicolas Musi from the University of
Texas at Austin told MIT Technology Review. “The idea is that
removing these cells may be beneficial to promote healthy aging and
also to prevent diseases of aging.”
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