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Re: Maglev Wind Turbine Technologies - Lookin' mighty powerful - MWTT
New vid:Maglev Wind Turbine
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Green Careers: Building Green - Phoenix Learning Group
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Re: NYC - All Events at Solar One & I HEART PHOTOVOLTAICS
http://www.phoenixlearninggroup.com/Green Careers: Building Green (clip)
It's Ve-Gas, Baby !!! And the fleets are going in !!!
You can call it CNG or LNG or NG (which stands for nitroglycerin in my book) but I think the world would be a better place if the trucking industry went to www.Ve-Gas.com baby !!! What runs on Ve-Gas stays on Ve-Gas.This message brought to you by www...
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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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LibertyIsGreen.com Wants You to Know that Doug Selsam's Yankee Ingenuity Secures Blessings that Flow From Liberty
www.Selsam.com 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
Posted on October 14th, 2008 at 7:30pm —
"How not to die" - article by Yahoo Stores and Ycombinator inventor Paul Graham
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
Posted on October 9th, 2008 at 6:00pm —
700 Billion Here, 700 Billion There, Pretty Soon You're Talking Real Money
Senator Dirksen may never have uttered the remark famously attributed to him ("A billion here, a billion there, pretty soon you're talking real money") but he is reported to have developed such a fondness for the association that he never publicly denied it. T Boone Pickens' testimony in the Dirksen Senate Office Building about e… Continue
Posted on September 29th, 2008 at 8:00am — 2 Comments
Natural gas home refueling appliance company FuelMaker bought by Boone
T Boone Pickens has been using this home-fill technology for home refueling with natural gas under low pressure, with no storage (except in the car) to Phill 'er up for the past 20 years. He was so impressed he bought the company! Note that Phill is a certified appliance safe for home CNG (compressed natural gas) refueli… Continue
Posted on September 22nd, 2008 at 10:30am — 1 Comment
Nancy Pelosi, John McCain & Barack Obama should take The Pledge
Nancy Pelosi should look at this Keith Olberman segment <= the second video in this post - and take the pledge for sure. 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. If you listen to Obama in that video segment which has to do with the "tire inflation" flapdoodle (for m… Continue
Posted on September 19th, 2008 at 12:30pm —
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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.
Thanks for joining the Solar Updraft Tower group.
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
" Is Evacuated Tube Transport useful in a turbine? I'm picturing a particle accelerator-type tube charged by your system and used to spin a turbine at its core. Seems like there might be some potential there. Might make a nice steppingstone to human or freight transport. "
Rick,
While ETT uses many of the principals of a particle accelerator used in physics projects, but ETT is a lot less complex, and MUCH less costly, so i do not believe a particle accelerator is a likely "stepping stone" to ETT. Instead of accelerating atoms and subatomic particles up to relativistic speeds, ETT is optimized for accelerating vehicles up to 350mph for initial systems, and eventually developed up to 4,000 mph (less than 1000th the speed of "atom smashers").
You do bring up a good point that particle accelerators have GREATLY exceeded (by more than a million times) the simple requirements of ETT. This fact, combined with the fact that human spaceflight requirements also exceed ETT requirements by the same margins, help prove the viability of ETT.
BTW, I am not sure i fully understand your question/comment, if not please please break it down into more steps can understand.
TRANSPORTATION is the master key to basic survival, and the cornerstone of the economy. We all know that transportation presently depends on oil production, and oil production is peaking. We must focus first on transportation – it is the highest priority.
The PickensPlan to transition vehicles to natural gas is a great start toward 100% energy independence, but is a stop-gap measure till we can transition to all electric transportation. Electric energy is strained without adding transportation demands; so we must drastically improve efficiency .
Evacuated Tube Transport (ETT) is a patented technology where travel occurs without air friction or rolling resistance (like “Space Travel on Earth”); ETT can accomplish 50 times more transportation per kWh (or carbon credit) than electric cars or trains. ETT is silent, low cost, safe, faster than jets, and is electric so it can make maximum use of wind or PV power. I invite you to visit my page to learn more about ETT
PS, i have worked in aerospace too, so i thought you might find ETT interesting.
I like the way you think, sounds all good to me, I'm not sure if the sleeping giant will awaken unless we the people prod it a wee bit.( corprate lobbyist holding a neanderthal status quo) We are so very far behind on where we should be with a solid energy policy, networking can help speed up the healing of that discrepancy. Thanks for being hear and being involved.
DB Parker
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