Technology
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Electrogravitics – A Simplified Description
May 1st
1st May 2012
Guest Writer for Wake Up World
Electrogravitics… This technology was being developed and tested in all major aerospace companies in the 1950′s. Martin, Convair, Lear, Sperry, Raytheon, and many others all were eagerly studying electrogravitics. But in 1959 or early 1960, the technology became highly classified and the path to energy abundance was stymied. Here is a basic description of electrogravitics:
First, One has to understand that the model offered by Einstein is flawed… There are other models, here is one in particular…
The model, which I say is a far better one than relativity, is subquantum kinetics (SQK). Its developer, Dr. Paul A. LaViolette (an interesting character, to say the least), started with chemical kinetics (as above, so below?) and came up with SQK, being very concerned by its gravitational predictions. He had not heard of the Biefeld-Brown Effect, nor the work of T. Townsend Brown. He struggled with these predictions until He encountered Brown’s work, discovering that SQK predicted exactly what Brown was showing experimentally.
Why is SQK better than relativity?
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The End of Entropy: A Look at Our Entropic World and the Evidence Supporting How We Could Change This
Apr 5th
5th April 2012
Guest Writer for Wake Up World
Entropy… That measure of disorder that increases as energy is dissipated into unusable forms effects many aspects of our present human condition. It is easy to grasp the principle as it pertains directly to heat. We see the energy of a fire heat our food, but we also can see a great deal of heat going out unused and unusable. This extra heat can be seen as increasing the disorder, as the molecules affected move more rapidly and more disorderedly. A more difficult aspect to see is the entropy inherent in our social structure.
In Jeremy Rifkin’s seminal work Entropy, published in 1980, he does an excellent job of demonstrating that, because energy is at the base of life, itself, entropy can ripple through society, creating disorder even as we try to clamp down and control the order of things. In fact, he paints a very grim picture of what we can expect as we consume more and more energy, explaining that fascist tendencies are most likely to crop up in the efforts to overcome entropy in our society. Today we see more and more signs of encroaching fascism.
Japanese CCTV Cameras Scans 36 Million Faces Per Second
Mar 25th
25th March 2012
By Rob Waugh
* Biometric camera stores details of everyone who walks past it
* Stores ‘library’ of face info
* Can scan through 36 million faces per second searching for people
* Will be on sale to governments within next year
A new camera technology from Hitachi Hokusai Electric can scan days of camera footage instantly, and find any face which has EVER walked past it.
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Money is Not Needed in Energy Abundance
Mar 20th
20th March 2012
Guest writer for Wake Up World
In order to understand the very basis of money, it is best to contemplate how it developed in the first place. Once society developed past the clan stage, when barter, trade and so forth arose, it became the practice to place value on the products of Human energy expended. If One used One’s energy to build a bow, go out hunting, kill an animal, process the carcass, and transport the meat back to be traded or bartered for, this gave that meat value. The bow components were free, as was the animal. The same was true for the farmer, who expended meaningful energy in tilling, sowing, tending, harvesting, and, if need be, transporting what that farmer produced. The produce had value. Even the gatherer expended meaningful energy in seeking things to gather and transporting the find back to be used as “money” for other things. The miner expended the meaningful energy to find the (free) ore, hew it out of the earth, and transport it.
Solar Energy Harvesting “Nanotrees” Could Produce Hydrogen Fuel on Mass
Mar 13th
Electronic microscopic image of a "nanoforest," with green tint added for contrast (Imge: Wang Research Group, UC San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering)
13th March 2012
By Catherine Hockmuth - University of California
University of California, San Diego electrical engineers are building a forest of tiny nanowire trees in order to cleanly capture solar energy without using fossil fuels and harvest it for hydrogen fuel generation. Reporting in the journal Nanoscale, the team said nanowires, which are made from abundant natural materials like silicon and zinc oxide, also offer a cheap way to deliver hydrogen fuel on a mass scale.
“This is a clean way to generate clean fuel,” said Deli Wang, professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the UC San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering.
The trees’ vertical structure and branches are keys to capturing the maximum amount of solar energy, according to Wang. That’s because the vertical structure of trees grabs and adsorbs light while flat surfaces simply reflect it, Wang said, adding that it is also similar to retinal photoreceptor cells in the human eye. In images of Earth from space, light reflects off of flat surfaces such as the ocean or deserts, while forests appear darker.
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New Device Demonstrates Potential to Turn Sewage Plants into Power Stations
Mar 8th
Biodigesters at United Utilities Daveyhulme plant which processes 714m litres of sewage from Manchester each day. Photograph: Ashley Cooper/Corbis
8th March 2012
By Damian Carrington - guardian.co.uk
Sewage can be used to generate electricity using a new device revealed by scientists on Thursday 1st March 2012. It combines a fuel cell with other technologies to convert waste water treatment stations into power plants, which the researchers believe could provide the power for entire water grids.
“We certainly could take care of the whole water system: the treating and pumping of water, which currently requires substantial amounts of power,” said Prof Bruce Logan at Pennsylvania State University in the US. “We also treated the organic matter much faster.”
His team’s work is published in the journal Science and is “the proof of concept”, Logan said. “Our hope now is to optimise the electricity generation as much as possible.”
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First Ever Integrated Solar Power Tile Launched in India
Mar 3rd
3rd March 2012
The Amrita Centre for Nanosciences has come out with what is billed as the world’s first integrated solar power storage tile using super capacitor.
It has been named ‘Amrita Smart’ and was launched on Friday at the ongoing International Conference, NANOSOLAR 2012, organised by the Amrita Centre for Nanosciences at the Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences.
The product has been developed at the Amrita Centre by its team of 40 researchers headed by Shanti Nair and Vinod Gopal.
Amrita Smart is a combination device of a solar cell and a battery that can be used to power devices even at night. The patented concept uses special electronics to integrate the solar cell with the storage device.
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Top Five Free Energy Technologies Unfolding Now
Feb 19th
19th February 2012
by Hank Mills - pesn.com (Pure Energy System News)
An age of free energy is rapidly approaching. As we speak, multiple companies are preparing the technologies that will make energy abundant, cheap, and extremely low cost. The most exotic of these technologies are poised to bring an end to the age of fossil fuels, by allowing energy to be produced in radically novel ways. All of this is taking place with very little, or even no coverage by the mainstream media. They are sneaking up on the world, with relatively very few people paying attention.
For the past decade, we at PESN have been tracking these game-changing innovations as they develop, and report on them as they move closer to the market place. We have made a “Top 5″ list of the most promising of these technologies, and have paid especially close attention to them.
Of all the emerging technologies the public should be aware of, the following are the “creme de la creme” that deserve special recognition. From our vantage point, these are the ones with the most potential to make a strong and lasting impact on our civilization. In the remainder of this article, we will describe these technologies, and explain why everyone eager for an energy revolution should follow their progress towards the market place.
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The Science of Television: Reading Viewers’ Minds to Create Popular Programming
Feb 14th
By Madison Ruppert
Contributing Writer for Wake Up World
In the past if television networks wanted to gauge audience reaction to a program before it went on air, they would have to create a focus group where consumers are paid to sit in a room and give feedback to a proctor. Now, that seems to be a practice which might forever be dashed in favor of high-tech mind reading methods which can actually better gauge the viewer’s engagement and enjoyment than they themselves can.
It sounds like the stuff of science fiction, but indeed highly advanced testing methods are able to better discern how viewers are responding to content than they consciously can.
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Creating Solar Cells from Grass Clippings
Feb 6th
A researcher at MIT, Andreas Mershin, has created solar panels from agricultural waste such as cut grass and dead leaves. In a few years, Mershin says it’ll be possible to stir some grass clippings into a bag of cheap chemicals, paint the mixture on your roof, and immediately start producing electricity.
If you remember high school biology classes, you will hopefully remember a process called photosynthesis, whereby plants turn sunlight into energy. Mershin has found a process which extracts the photosynthesizing molecules, called photosystem I, from plant matter. Photosystem I contains chlorophyll, the protein that actually converts photons into a flow of electrons.
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26 Facts About the Awful Conditions Where Your Gadgets are Made
Feb 4th
4th February 2012
By Lois Becket - alternet.org
Breaking down what we know about Foxconn, the massive factory in China where workers manufacture popular products like iPhones and iPads.
An investigative series by the New York Times and a performance piece by Mike Daisey featured on This American Life have put the spotlight on Foxconn, the Taiwanese company whose massive Chinese factories manufacture some of the world’s most popular consumer electronics.
As well as working with companies like Dell, Motorola, Nokia and Hewlett-Packard, Foxconn assembles popular Apple products like the iPhone and iPad.
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SOPA and PIPA Still Alive – And a New Bill Joins Them
Jan 26th
26th January 2012
Heather Callaghan - Activist Post
Many of us breathed a sigh of relief when an overwhelming amount of Americans banned together and voiced their opposition to Congress over both the Stop Online Piracy Act, and Protect Intellectual Property Act.
Sites that dimmed the screen for a day or two have gone back to normal — Facebook users have swapped their anti-SOPA images for their previous profile pictures.
We may have even believed that the postponement of the vote originally scheduled for January 24th was some sort of white flag of capitulation. But that is certainly not the MO of most lawmakers.
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