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- Are you interested in becoming an organizer in your area?
- Yes
- Tell us about your experience with alternative energy:
- LibertyIsGreen.com owner-operator. Also, worked for a company that manufactured lightweight composites (such as those used in McLaren racing cars), rocket motors (including "Pegasus" - the first plane launched rocket to reach orbit), Voyager - the Rutan brothers plane that was first to circumnavigate the world on a single tank and the first human-powered flying machines to cross the English Channel and fly a figure-eight.
- What excites you about this campaign?
- The right message promoted by the right person at the right time.
- What do you want to do to help?
- Use my network of websites (e.g., LibertyIsGreen.com and InformaticsWorks.com) and forums (e.g., LibertyIsGreen.com/index.php and InformaticsWorks.com/index.php) as talent communities for technology innovation.
My background is in Aerospace HRM, HRO, Law and Media and I've been at work in my spare time building a "network of networks", examples of which are on display at LibertyIsGreen.com/index.php and InformaticsWorks.com/index.php (all in beta). These forums already receive targeted technology and university traffic, which when combined with a positive tone, could be quite useful in mustering talent communities.
I plan to set up forums at PEOworks.com and LicensingWorks.com for sourcing technological skills and technology. I appreciate the wartime sense of urgency Mr. Pickens bring to the table and would hope it is maintained in harmony with the talent communities we may foster there.
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Energy. Independence. Ingenuity. Novelty. Utility. Nonobviousness. Invention. Synchronicity.
If these are the stuff of your dreams prepare to be thrilled to the core by Doug Selsam's core business, his invention pipeline for energy (wind and hydrogen) independence at www.Selsam.com where the stuff of his dreams are put on display as they are conceived, reduced to actual practice and built-out for insertion i… Continue
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"How not to die" - article by Yahoo Stores and Ycombinator inventor Paul Graham
How not to die is a very thought provoking piece in title and concept. Written by Paul Graham, an expert on micro-finance and micro-entrepreneurship, it sounds a clarion call for economic survival in the hardscrabble world of Internet… Continue
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I hope Boone gets a Cabinet post in whatever administration gets in. Energy is the driving issue in our economy. If we get it right, everything falls right into place, including finance, peace and prosperity.
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VIDEO of the very first design prototype:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZmUZJYYT2n0
An article recently published:
http://www.biztimes.com/news/2009/2/6/innovations-racine-inventor-creates-a-better-windmill
27FEB09
Honorable Speaker of the House Congresswoman Pelosi,
I am an Electronic Technician Chief in the US Navy with 27 years service stationed overseas. I’m outlying an idea to assist and work with current plans for achieving energy independence. I urge you, as speaker of the house and the driving force to form the select committee on energy independence and global warming, consider for discussion and introduction into the house US Treasury Savings Bonds for Energy Independance.
In WWII America sold war bonds supporting the war effort. When young, my mother told me her primary school raised enough money through bonds to build a tank to support troops. I am impressed with the patriotism and purpose of our greatest generation that accomplished so much.
Selling energy bonds for RE (Renewable Energy) development would lower foreign oil imports and assist with the complex problem of funding. Bonds sold as “Energy S” could support new solar trough plants, “Energy W” to support wind farms, Energy “H” to support hydroelectric plants, Energy “T” to support RE transportation such as electric bullet train routes powered by RE, Energy "C" COOPS for small communities only needing a small quantity of turbines, and Energy “I” for needed infrastructure high voltage power lines to the RE site. Bonds will have the project name and include an artist’s perspective of the project and an American flag. President Obama had great success with the internet during his campaign. In a similar manner, using the internet, energy bonds could have a website listing current projects and an “electronic checkout” could purchase a bond $25 or higher. Simpler methods of payment such as “PAYPAL” and credit cards would be available and after an electronic purchase is complete a color print out of the bond is available with a follow up of the bond in the mail. The website would limit quantity of projects for each category until funding is complete. After a project becomes funded, a new project will be available. A tab on the site will show history and status of previous projects. Purchasers may take great pride in “collecting” and displaying bonds of various RE projects and participating at different levels of financial support. Solar trough plants in the multi-hundred MW size capacity with molten salt energy storage in California, Arizona, and West Texas can provide a major portion of electric needs. North Dakota has potential to support 1/3 of our nations electric needs in it’s class 4 wind zone areas. There are plenty of suitable proposed wind turbine farms now around the nation to significantly increase our RE if funded. Mid sized hydro-electric has not been used in America to it’s full potential. Following the example of our neighbor, Canada, it would provide a significant increase in percentage of electric production. Developing all three we could provide the majority of our electric and heating needs through renewable energy in a "New New Deal" fashion allowing natural gas for transportation as T. Boone Pickens is working for. Bullet train routes have proven a viable alternative to commercial domestic air service and when powered by electricity provided by RE suppliers America would be in the forefront of world technology. Example, I heard of discussion for a commuter train from Denver to Colorado Springs. Such a route built as a renewable energy project with charter requirement legally requiring to only purchase electricity from available renewable energy sources would be a model example. There are many train routes, city bus systems, and government vehicles that can be converted to run from alternative energy sources and fuels. Jobs created would bolster the economy, lower trade deficit, and strengthen national security. I would take great pride in print outs of bonds with graphics of each project I supported and many other Americans would also. The energy bonds could have tax breaks. BLM lands may be a viable place to start for some projects.
I contacted the US treasury department and was told that the marketing department for savings bonds closed several years ago. I was told there would be problems because savings bonds are at the federal level while the projects will be at the state and local level. I disagree and believe that these can easily be figured out in the way of grants to the state and local level using money from the bonds for those specific projects. I was told to check out auctions on the www.treasurydirect.gov website and found them to not apply to citizens wanting to buy savings bonds to support a cause such as energy independance. I was told by the treasury department to look into CREB (Clean Renewable Energy Bonds). I found CREB to be large scale funding that a citizen would not be able to participate in as a US Treasury Energy Independance Bond would provide. If given the tools to participate directly, the power of the citizens of the United States to help achieve energy independance could not be denied. Americans mean well and the Energy Independance Savings bond program will give citizens the power at their level to make it happen. If marketed through a web page, commercials, and to federal employees the word would get out and participation would spread like wildfire.
Mr. Paul Gipe, a resident of Bakersfield CA, an author of several books about wind energy, and recipient of multiple awards as a pioneer in the industry since the 1970's has put a letter I wrote to Senator Dorgan on this subject as well as an older letter I wrote on wind COOP in JAN07. These websites are:
http://www.wind-works.org/coopwind/RenewableEnergyBondsforEnergyIndependence.html
and
http://www.wind-works.org/articles/AmericanEnergyIndependencethroughCooperativeInvestmentinWindEnergy.html
Sincerely and very respectfully,
ETC(SW/AW) Mike Kendall USN
Mailing address: PSC 476, Box 879, FPO AP, 96322 USA
Telephone (803) 265-4756, Email: ke6cvh@yahoo.com
There is little I will not pursue to get it it's due attention. Through the course of development I have also created what I believe will be a patentable lightweight structural member (imagine a house I-beam used to support the joists that 1 worker can lift into place) in my pursuit of reducing costs.
Getting this project attention has been nearly impossible for me as it is 70 hour a week job all within itself. Within the last 60 days I have lost my financial backing and so I have scrambled to try to learn a way to do this. Relatively minor debts are now filing suit and I am simply not capable of picking up where my financial backer defaulted...
What is involved with your idea and how do I begin? Adam
Got your message through my YouTube account. I'll try and look up your websites this week, about to rush out the door now.
My Jatropha video will go on YouTube in a couple of weeks, don't expect a "professional video." I am having good luck so far with the seedlings I planted, but the seeds I started in peat-pots myself are not doing to well. I think the skills of a nurseryman are needed to get the seeds to growing. Once they start, looks easy. I just hope my current-crop will handle the winter in the next few months and continue to grow next Spring.
In any event, I'll see if I can find a podcast or link of Mayor Koch's argument to post here and on LibertyIsGreen.com.
So the electric grid needs to be rebuilt. How about a small volunteer electric tax of say $10.00 per month per every electric bill in the U.S. from both residential and commercial electric bills. That should just about pay for that in about 46 months, as 360 million electric bills go out every mouth. And if you have an electric plug-in hybrid already then you can place an electric meter on an out let on every gas station and convenience store gas station in America for under $200.00 per outlet and add an extra $1.00 at every recharge of say 10 minutes, to be give to the tax fund to rebuild the grid. If the Gas stations has access to NG then the Device I just mentioned in the paragraph above can be install and metered and paid for just like buying gasoline in the store or gas station for $3500.00 per pump island and paid for at point of sale. you could add an extra $1.00 to your purchase to be paid into the tax fund to rebuild the grid. And the government and the Electric companies could make up the difference and the project could start tomorrow. As the revenue would be there as the volunteer tax monies start showing up on the electric bills. These two proposals are a no brainer.
There are those who claim advantages of maglev berings for WTs, IMO this is hype -- steel-on-steel rolling element berrings are so low drag (ounces of drag per tone of load) that the bearing losses are less than 1%, so gains of maglev even if 1000 times more efficient, would at best result in a 1% gain.
Most of the losses in a WT are aerodynamic, while it is true that aerodynamic drag force would be eliminated in a vacuum, it is also true that aerodynamic forces that cause the WT to generate electricity would also be eliminated.
I see no favorable benefits of ETT for WTs, but that is not to say that one could not exist!
Thanks for the thought provoking discussion, and interesting links.
daryl
All I meant to suggest was that a massive object circling at a high rate of speed in a circular vacuum track might have advantages for use as a turbine and would not require the kind of radical infrastructure overhaul that a transportation system might necessitate. The reference to a particle accelerator was only there for the shape of the track.
Good luck with your transportation build-out. We definitely could use some rapid transit alternatives. I understand your system is not pneumatic but I still couldn't help but think of the Secret Subway. Hope to get the chance to ride the ETT soon. I'd like to see one in New York Harbor between Liberty State Park and the Trade Center site. See this Tribute in Light flash animation and remember that Liberty Is Green.
Rick
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