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Greetings!
Greetings,
As all of the clean energy people have expressed
concern about the future of energy in this country in the coming
years, IRI joins the resistance movement and pledges to continue our
reporting, research, and development of innovative energy solutions
that do NOT use fossil fuels. In connection with that, we refer to
the greatest motivator for doing so…climate change from global
warming. I am just reading about the “Doomsday Glacier” in New
Scientist which Antarctic scientists warn about its destiny to single-handedly
raise global ocean height by about one meter when it goes into the
sea soon. Also, my friend and colleague, Prof. Jerry Kroth now has
released his fourth YouTube video on the subject called, “Climate
Doomsday 6 Years From Now” which contains
a lot of the convincing evidence that I have been touting for years
in my journal articles and videos as well. Only Jerry gets right to
the point, since no one in the world will be tolerant of the 4, 5,
and 6 degrees C increases that we are irreversibly headed for, except
perhaps the folks in Greenland who stand to gain a lot of green real
estate. A recent https://www.climatechangeconferenceeurope.com/ in
London just aired my Valone -
Predictive Climate Discovery - 2020.mp4 video
which received a commendation from the Coordinator: “I want to
express my sincere appreciation for the clarity and depth of the
content. Your effort in crafting such a well-structured and
thought-provoking summary is truly commendable. The audience
appreciated as well.”
Story #1 continues one of our favorite topics, Space
Based Solar Power (SBSP) which the US Air Force Space Command is
pursuing independent of NASA, as we featured at COFE12 (www.futurenergy.org )
with a slideshow and demonstration from the Commanding Officer, Col.
Eric Felt. The presentation is available from IRI on a Double DVD, or
on The KEY flash drive. Now a private company www.SpaceSolar.co.uk is
doing its best to “deliver a revolutionary vision” of global energy
security from their vision of SBSP.
Story #2 offers a great leap forward in creating
sustainable nuclear power with NO waste, since it uses nuclear waste.
To be located at the Idaho National Lab (INL), the USDOE
approved www.Oklo.com construction
of the Aurora
Fuel Fabrication Facility. INL is the
nation's center for nuclear energy research and development,
celebrating 75 years of scientific innovations in 2024. The
laboratory performs research in each of DOE’s strategic goal areas:
energy, national security, science and the environment.
Story #3 also continues a previous topic, the prospect
of replacing expensive Lithium-Ion batteries that are also dangerous
with Sodium-Ion batteries. Now a startup has taken it to the next
level with a 10 GWh production plant. The company
is Zoolnasm Energy. There are
already electric cars with sodium-ion
batteries in production, and as
supplier contracts like these increase, the technology is bound to
become more popular among battery companies and automakers alike.
Story #4 has a question about what country are you in
which you can delete to get to the real article. Researchers
have discovered that hemp batteries can potentially last eight
times longer than lithium-based batteries and outperform graphene
at a fraction of the cost. Not only hemp but jute, bamboo, and kenaf
are also good sources for the bio-based activated carbon which is a
suitable precursor for hybrid supercapacitors, according to a ScienceDirect
open manuscript from MaterialsToday .
An earlier report from ACS Nano indicated
that interconnected carbon nanosheets from hemp can produce ultrafast
supercapacitors with high energy.
Story #5 fulfills the hope of some of the fossil fuel
burning ocean vessels. The proposed ship Ponant's Swap2Zero would use
a combination of wind, solar, liquid hydrogen, and
bio-liquefied natural
gas. It will use onboard carbon-capture technology to
reduce its air pollution, as well as recover waste heat and cold. It
also could run solely on wind power for 30 days. Ponant's Newbuilding
and R&D Director, Mathieu Petiteau, said in a statement.
"It is a realistic and profitable approach that achieves the
highest level of decarbonization." The classification society
Bureau Veritas has granted the Swap2Zero approval in principle as
well. So it looks like cruise ships may become popular once again.
Grab your Black Friday special at www.BioenergyDevice.org with
discount code “PC22”. Have a Happy Thanksgiving!
Onward and Upward.
Tom Valone, Editor
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