It is good to see Geothermal power generation is on the agenda. Some of the locals are opposing various proposals but it is hoped that proper consultations will overcome any community opposition and all concerns addressed. You can log onto their web site to track developments here:
Greenearth Energy Limited is an Australian Geothermal energy company that aims to explore for and develop geothermal resources in Australia, Indonesia, and in due course the wider Pacific Rim.
Geothermal energy is being increasingly recognised as having the potential to deliver, clean, reliable and renewable energy that is capable of a wide range of uses with very low or no greenhouse gas emissions.
The company was awarded 3 geothermal exploration permits (GEPs) in May 2007 by the Victorian Government covering 18,795 km2. The permits are located in the Latrobe valley/Gippsland Area (GEP12 & 13) and the Bellarine Peninsula/Surf Coast Shire/Geelong/Daylesford Area (GEP 10).
MIDI have now signed a contract with Tata in India and I understand are available now. A person tried to import one of these but the Australian government would not allow it…wonder why?
Tata Motors, once derided as the company with a name that sounds like it ought to be spread on a Fillet-o-Fish, has been making some serious forward movement in the past year or two. Now, hot on the heels of its recent acquisition of Land Rover and Jaguar, and news of the impending assault on the European market with the Tata Nano, the Indian company is set to release a car powered entirely by air. But is it all hot air? (You see what I did there.) Turns out it’s very much a legitimate prospect. Sure, it looks bloody ordinary, but let’s look beyond the styling for the moment. The MiniCAT (Compressed Air Technology), invented by French madman and ex-F1 engineer Guy Negre and his company Motor Development International (MDI), is a lightweight fibreglass urban car built around a tubular chassis which is glued together rather than welded. More importantly than that, and as you’ve no doubt gathered, it’s powered entirely by compressed air.
THE ENERGY SOURCE WE HAVE ALL BEEN WAITING FOR – This is very exciting news and we wish the company every success and hope that we can have units set up here in Australia very soon. However it seems they are not interested in making small units suitable for the home which is very sad….I hope they will change their mind. See comments below….
The year 2009 saw several breakthroughs in solar-energy technology, among them:
England’s QuantaSol Ltd. announced in June that it had developed what is likely the most efficient single-junction solar cell ever manufactured. The device was independently tested by Fraunhofer ISE as achieving 28.3-per cent efficiency at greater than 500 suns. The technology combines several nanostructures, of two or more different alloys, to create synthetic crystals that overcome the problems associated with current solar cell designs and enhances the photovoltaic conversion efficiency.
In May, Switzerland-based Oerlikon Solar, a supplier of thin-film silicon photovoltaic (PV) production equipment, said it had achieved a new record efficiency level of 11 per cent initial power conversion for commercial thin-film silicon PV modules. “This achievement … is another key milestone on our path to grid parity,” said CEO Jeannine Sargent. The company also set a production cost target of $0.70 (US) per watt peak, and said it was on track to achieve that goal by the end of 2010.
Donald Sadoway, a materials chemistry researcher at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology created a prototype liquid battery that could eventually “store enough electricity to allow cities to run on solar power at night,” according to the university’s Technology Review 10, which named the battery one of 10 emerging technologies with the greatest potential for changing how we live.
Arizona-based First Solar in February announced that it had broken the $1 (US) per watt price barrier for the cost of manufacturing solar modules, achieving a price of 98 cents per watt. “This achievement marks a milestone in the solar industry’s evolution toward providing truly sustainable energy solutions,” said Mike Ahearn, CEO of First Solar. He added that clean-energy efforts by governments in Germany and other countries helped make the breakthrough possible.
Early this year, T-Solar, a photovoltaics company based in Spain, began volume production of what it says are the world’s largest solar panels. With an area of 5.7m2, the panels are designed for large-scale solar farms and — compared to smaller panels — can reduce installation costs by 20 per cent, the company said.
In January, German researchers announced they had broken a new record for solar energy efficiency, converting a full 41.1 per cent of the power of incoming rays into electricity. The system, developed at the Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems, concentrates incoming sunlight by a factor of 454, then focuses the beams onto tiny — 5 millimetres square — solar cells made of gallium indium phosphide and gallium indium arsenide on a germanium substrate. The result is a solar cell whose electrically active regions are free of defects and capable of record-high efficiencies. The Fraunhofer team said it had begun working with two German companies — Azur Space and Concentrix Solar GmbH — to “make this technology competitive as soon as possible.”
I wasn’t going to muddy the waters whilst we’re looking at the HHOHHU heating system, which with Cameron’s testing is indeed looking like producing a COP>1, but what the hell. I’ve been getting some interesting info lately via my subscription to the Quantum Key (which I mentioned a bit a year or so ago – small black book with some interesting writeups on new physics and the like, now a subscription service with a much updated electronic version of the book), which includes this posting on a COP17 heating circuit by Rosemary Ainslie, which a few respected organisations are saying works (but they don’t know how) which purportedly makes use of back-EMF. As such I thought I’d better throw it in the mix & see if our resident electronics expert Brian can make any sense of it; the circuit itself (at the end of the document, with variations thereof) uses an inductive resistor heating element to capture and recycle inductive collapse, or something like that. Anyway, it reminds me very much of some of the circuitry Brian has outlined in the past to take advantage of back-EMF, so looks worthwhile following up on, and Rosemary’s new view of magnetic fields is included. Also worth checking out are the following websites:
1) Rosemary’s blog: http://rosemaryainslie.blogspot.com/
2) Discussion forum re the magnetic field model on Energetic Forum: http://www.energeticforum.com/renewable-energy/4006-rosemary-ainslie-magnetic-field-model.html
3) Replication forum on ditto: http://www.energeticforum.com/renewable-energy/4314-cop-17-heater-rosemary-ainslie.html
4) Summary info: http://www.free-energy.ws/rosemary-ainslie.html
Most of this stuff was originally published in South Africa in November 2002, but apparently at the time the usual academics went to town on Rosemary about COP>1 being impossible & browbeat her until she gave up & moved on to other things, but recently (September 2008) she decided to say to hell with it & go public online. Peter Lindemann (of free energy fame, and more recently publisher of an ebook on how to reduce energy use in the home) is also getting in on the act & promoting it (with a modification of the circuit).
I suppose I should talk about this next week, unless Brian beats me to it & has a working circuit by then already (hint hint . Please pass this on to our other electronic gurus as well; if we could get a bunch of these working then combined with the HHOHHU heater we’ll be making some real progress, overunity-wise.
The final Secret of Free energy is well worth a study from Tom Bearden’s Web site . [Peter K. Campbell, who has the book, says that it is quite interesting reading, but not terribly helpful for building devices to make use of the principles.]
Also I am told that Floyd Sweet’s device is well worth a look at as well. Possibly a worthy project for our Association.
Here is a report on the presentation at the ASTRO group in Adelaide for the book launch by Stephen Jones. ‘FREE ENERGY -WATER FUEL CELL SECRETS REVEALED’ We hope to have Steve over in Melbourne some time in the near future. Bruce is a founding farther of the ASTRO group and their web site is well worth a look at. see http://astrosa.com/main.htm
Hi Ian,
Steve gave a really good talk at last Fridays ASTRO meeting, he also answered the questions presented to him really well. (some were really tricky presented by obvious cynics)
The subject obviously caused a lot of interest with the attendance record for an ASTRO meeting being broken with 69 people present. (best in 16 years the group has been going)
I bought a book and found the format excellent with good information along with no false promises, you guys have certainly done a good job with it.
I have not seen Bob so keen on anything for years, he brought along his Datsun motor setup with generator fitted, I have no idea how he got it inside the meeting venue.
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The year 2009 saw several breakthroughs in solar-energy technology, among them:
. Please pass this on to our other electronic gurus as well; if we could get a bunch of these working then combined with the HHOHHU heater we’ll be making some real progress, overunity-wise.