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The Germans have done it. The Japanese are doing it. We remain in the grip of the carbon energy barons.

Japan: The World’s New Star in Solar Power

FORTUNE — Until recently less than 1% of Japan’s electrical power output came from renewables. But following the catastrophe of Fukushima and the power blackouts that followed, Japan has seen an explosion in investment in alternatives. Solar, in particular, in this averagely photon-blessed country, has seen a seismic rise of late and is this year poised to become the world’s largest solar market in volume after China.

According to a report by energy analyst IHS on Japan’s energy mix, Japan’s solar installations jumped by “a stunning 270% (in gigawatts) in the first quarter of 2013.” That means by the end of 2013 there will be enough new solar panels equal to the capacity of seven nuclear reactors. Such massive growth will allow Japan to surpass Germany and become the world’s largest photovoltaics (PV) market in terms of revenue this year.

“Japan is forecast to install $20 billion worth of PV systems in 2013, up 82% from $11 billion in 2012,” IHS said. “In contrast, the global market is set for tepid 4% growth. The strong revenue performance for Japan this year is partly driven by the high solar prices in the country.” Germany still leads with the total number of units and capacity, however, with its 32,192 megawatts. Japan is now closer to the U.S.’s 8,069 megawatts at 7,429 megawatts, according to London-based BNEF.

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Koko

Sad.

America’s Secret Fukushima Poisoning the Bread Basket of the World

Margaret Flowers and Devin Zeese

truthout, 5 June 2013

Early in the morning of July 16, 1979, a 20-foot section of the earthen dam blocking the waste pool for the Church Rock Uranium Mill in New Mexico caved in and released 95 million gallons of highly acidic fluid containing 1,100 tons of radioactive material. The fluid and waste flowed into the nearby Puerco River, traveling 80 miles downstream, leaving toxic puddles and backing up local sewers along the way.

Although this release of radiation, thought to be the largest in US history, occurred less than four months after the Three Mile Island partial nuclear meltdown, the Church Rock spill received little media attention. In contrast, the Three Mile Island accident made the headlines. And when the residents of Church Rock asked their governor to declare their community a disaster area so they could get recovery assistance, he refused.

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John Maguire

For those of you more interested in understanding the basics/dynamics of Scalar/Longitudinal-Waves, and their potential applications, see description/video below.

YouTube Abstract: Wireless Engineer Eric Dollard demonstrates the reality of longitudinal waves and their application to the natural transmision of electricity…The Longitudinal Magneto-Dielectric wave (L.M.D.) is shown to have a propagating velocity greater than the speed of light! The transverse electromagnetic wave, (in present use) is shown to be a retarded, unnatural form of energy transmission…A competent researcher can duplicate the experiments on this video from the information given…This is a rip from an old VHS someone posted on the web and is now posted in numerous places.

Sepp Hasslberger

Richard Aho of MIST Energy Systems has been working for years on the idea that hydrogen bond energy could be harnessed. He went on working where others had abandoned the field because they knew it “couldn’t be done”.

In his Mist Energy System, water is pressurized by a commercially available high pressure pump, it is then released through a nozzle into an impact chamber, where the jet hits a metal target. Heat is released and the water instantly transforms into steam. The energy spent to pressurize the water and pre-heat the impact chamber is about one tenth of the energy contained in the steam that is produced. That is a 10:1 over-unity factor, achieved with nothing but available tech and water as a medium.

See a more detailed explanation in Hydrogen Bond Explosions

Of course steam is what has been driving our electricity-producing machines for a long time. The heat is usually supplied by burning carbon fuels like coal, oil or gas. Even atomic power plants are little more than very expensive – and rather dangerous – steam engines fired by the heat of radioactive elements.

So if we could make the needed steam without recourse to carbon based or atomic fuels, would that not be a giant step forward?

I believe it would, and the technology is available.

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John Maguire

Description: An example of a simplified schoolgirl (SSG) Bedini motor built by Tony Mills and Andrew Harry, at the off grid festival 2011.

A piece of the puzzle for an integral society emanating from the grassroots.

Bedini Website with Bedini Handbooks

My Interview with Electrical-Engineer and Tesla-Technologist Thomas Imlauer on the topics of Scalar-Wave Theory, Zero-Point Technology, and Rethinking the Natural Order. Online, Thomas operates under the pseudonym TheOldScientist. On both his personal website and YouTube he has posted numerous in-depth videos cataloguing his innovative work/theories. Thomas is also a contemporary/acquaintance of other visionaries in the field including Eric Dollard, Konstantin Meyl, and Jean-Louis Naudin. Reference the Abstracted Outline below for effective skimming:

0.min-5.min: Experience as industrial designer/electrician/IT-manager; Parallel interest in Nikola Tesla/Walter Russell; Dollard/Naudin; Beginnings as an electrical-engineer; Creative impulse in the frontier-science community

5.min-17.min: Tesla Magnifying Transmitter = musical instrument; Longitudinal-Wave dynamics; Transverse-Waves byproduct of L-Waves; Maxwell’s original formulations; Energy flow outside conductors; Meyl’s Potential-Vortex Theory; Super-Luminal Propagation; L-Wave penetration of Faraday-Cages; Dielectric/Near-Field Effects; Verifiable proof of L-Waves; L-Waves in Biological Systems; Zero-Point Field Connectivity; Electro-Smog

17.min-25.min: Asymmetric Systems; Symmetry as an Illusion; Gold-Mean/Ratio; Perception and Aesthetic Beauty in Nature; Sacred Geometry; Human Body as a Harmonic-Resonant Structure; Kepler’s Mysticism; Reconnecting w/ Nature; Paranormal = Normal; Quantum Fluctuations; Casmir Force; Virtual Fields/Pair Production; ZPF = God-Field/Ether; Big-Bang Fallacy; Irreconcilables of BB-Theory; Non-mystical Nomenclature; Electric-Universe Paradigm

25.min-36.min: Ether History; Harold Aspden’s Liquid-Crystal Aether; Resonance and Electromagnetism; Tapping Zero-Point Energy through Resonance; Sympathetic Resonance and Quantum Fluctuations/Virtual Photons; Rethinking Over-Unity; Close-System Myth; Universe = Open-System; Backwardness of Current Energy Systems; COP > 1.0 Systems in Nature

36.min-44.min: LENR/Cold-Fusion; Hot-Fusion Fallacy; Sun Not a Hot-Fusion Reactor; Fallacy of Particle-Accelerators/Colliders/String-Theory; Mathematics vs. Reality; Proprietary-Hierarchies Stunting Free-Energy/Evolution; Wasteful Scientific/Military Spending; Current Work in Foundation/Corporate World Investigating/Evaluating New-Energy Tech; Analysis/Short-Comings of Rossi E-Cat Cold-Fusion Device; Importance of Open-Source Paradigm; Open-Source Distribution/Networking of Free-Energy Devices

Michel Bauwens

A status report on the Open Source Energy project in France

A contribution from Geoffroy Levy from Nantes:

“A few words about a French project named Open Source Energy. This project is intended to enable the design of open hardware solutions to capture the different kinds of energies available all around us (from the environment or from human activities). A first module to transform and to store electricity from renewable sources is being designed: the ENERCAN (opensourceenergy.wordpress.com/lenercan-v1). This first brick is the starting point of a large scale design process toward the creation of new solutions inspired by old or forgotten ones and improved by the use of high-tech devices. The project is not about large and costly devices but about simple, open and cheap modules that can be replicated to capture every stream of available and lost energies, even the smallest one.

Besides designing the modules, the team took part in several events related to design or DIY in order to promote the project and to share with others.

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John Maguire

Finally! Independent Testing Of Rossi’s E-Cat Cold Fusion Device: Maybe The World Will Change After All

Mark Gibbs

Forbes, 20 May 2013

Back in October 2011 I first wrote about Italian engineer, Andrea Rossi, and his E-Cat project, a device that produces heat through a process called a Low Energy Nuclear Reaction (LENR).

Very briefly, LENR, otherwise called cold fusion, is a technique that generates energy through low temperature (far lower than hot fusion temperatures which are in the range of tens off thousands of degrees) reactions that are not chemical. Most importantly, LENR is, theoretically, much safer, much simpler, and many orders of magnitude cheaper than hot fusion. Rather than explaining LENR in detail here please see my original posting for a more complete explanation.

My next post on this topic was here on Forbes a few days later and, as the labyrinthine and occasionally ridiculous saga developed, I tried to sort fact from fiction in a series of posts (see the list at the end of this posting) which covered everything from unconvincing demos, through an Australian businessman offering Rossi $1 million to show independently tested proof, to other players in the LENR market showing interesting results.

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Sepp Hasslberger

Not just blowing in the wind: Compressing air for renewable energy storage

Study IDs 2 compressed air energy storage methods, sites for the Northwest

RICHLAND, Wash. – Enough Northwest wind energy to power about 85,000 homes each month could be stored in porous rocks deep underground for later use, according to a new, comprehensive study. Researchers at the Department of Energy’s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory and Bonneville Power Administration identified two unique methods for this energy storage approach and two eastern Washington locations to put them into practice.

Compressed air energy storage plants could help save the region’s abundant wind power – which is often produced at night when winds are strong and energy demand is low – for later, when demand is high and power supplies are more strained. These plants can also switch between energy storage and power generation within minutes, providing flexibility to balance the region’s highly variable wind energy generation throughout the day.

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“With Renewable Portfolio Standards requiring states to have as much as 20 or 30 percent of their electricity come from variable sources such as wind and the sun, compressed air energy storage plants can play a valuable role in helping manage and integrate renewable power onto the Northwest’s electric grid,” said Steve Knudsen, who managed the study for the BPA.

Geologic energy savings accounts

All compressed air energy storage plants work under the same basic premise. When power is abundant, it’s drawn from the electric grid and used to power a large air compressor, which pushes pressurized air into an underground geologic storage structure. Later, when power demand is high, the stored air is released back up to the surface, where it is heated and rushes through turbines to generate electricity. Compressed air energy storage plants can re-generate as much as 80 percent of the electricity they take in.

Read full press release from DOE Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

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