Monday, December 30, 2013

2013: The year of the drone

2013: The year of the drone

2014 business opportunity?

The top 13 green stories of 2013: The good, the bad, and the muddled | Grist

The top 13 green stories of 2013: The good, the bad, and the muddled | Grist

How Baxter—a Safer and Smarter Industrial Robot—Works | MIT Technology Review

How Baxter—a Safer and Smarter Industrial Robot—Works | MIT Technology Review

Brain Implants Could Help Alzheimer’s and Others with Severe Memory Damage | MIT Technology Review

Brain Implants Could Help Alzheimer’s and Others with Severe Memory Damage | MIT Technology Review

Brain Implants Could Help Alzheimer’s and Others with Severe Memory Damage | MIT Technology Review

Brain Implants Could Help Alzheimer’s and Others with Severe Memory Damage | MIT Technology Review

High Voltage DC Switch Enables Supergrids for Renewable Energy | MIT Technology Review

High Voltage DC Switch Enables Supergrids for Renewable Energy | MIT Technology Review

Thursday, December 05, 2013

Monday, December 02, 2013

FULL DOCUMENTARY Rise of the Drones -Scary as Hell



Wednesday, August 07, 2013

Make a garden shed for function and beauty

http://www.motherearthnews.com/diy/garden-shed-plans-zm0z11zgri.aspx?PageId=4#ArticleContent

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Garden Show

Saturday, June 22, 2013

Friday, June 21, 2013

Let technlogy set us free from the cancer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5kWIoECB8X0&list=PLg7ZchcX8j5ixh-9GDamVrdRQUfcRLgXa  Inspiration from Cody Wilson

Open source technology confounds the restriction ability making gatekeepers ,enhances free will and initiative

The time has come to regain our personal choice though free will and not restrictive force.  You can see how this is very threatening  to those that .create fear and limitations through force that do not permit  individual free choice .It is a terror to them.  Let this type of " intellectual terrorism reign. Lets become liberated human beings with freedom of choice again .

be a true ethical  human being 
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Thursday, April 11, 2013

Truth or consequences - Bio gas fraud update

Of interest - Real accountability

Sentence passed on Absolute Fuels fraudster
4 April 2013

Full details of the sentence received by Jeffrey Gunselman, the man behind over $40 million (€31.2 million) worth of RIN fraud, have been revealed.
The West Texas native has been sentenced to at least 15 years in prison and ordered to pay out $55 million in restitution by a federal judge.
In a story followed by Biofuels International, Gunselman started a bogus biodiesel company named Absolute Fuels in 2010 and told RIN purchasers to wire monies to his bank account – however he did not have a production facility and he falsely created federal renewable fuels credits until his racket was discovered last year.
Gunselman pleaded guilty last December to 51 counts of wire fraud, 24 counts of money laundering and violation of the federal Clean Air Act.
It has been reported that Gunselman, with his ill gotten gains, purchased a $2.65 million house, several top level cars, a $1.6 million jet and a military tank.

Wednesday, April 10, 2013

Disruptive technology -Good for the users bad for the providers?

http://www.eei.org/ourissues/finance/Documents/disruptivechallenges.pdf

This is an excellent food for thought article on the future of energy distribution .

It is also a warning that those in the comfortable pew -who are complacent and arrogant in their past power dominance and authority will face disruption from their past "cushy cosy "triangle"  monopolistic " practices . The customer becomes stronger with real choices and will abandon those that profiteer and fee them into other lower cost alternatives .


I found this to be true . Just look at your bill over 50% of the charges have nothing to do with the raw energy  cost.  The law of supply and demand will force people out of the sweet utility spot .

Ideas worth working on



Microorganisms are multitalented. The same kinds of bacteria used in wastewater treatment plants can also generate small amounts of electricity. But these two abilities have rarely been combined so cleverly.   
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Energy future


In the United States, renewable energy sources could supply 80 percent of electricity demand in 2050 just by using technologies commercially available today. That is the word from a new report from the National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Renewable Electricity Futures Study (RE Futures). The report offers a detailed focus on the extent to which U.S. electricity needs can be supplied by renewable energy sources, including biomass, geothermal, hydropower, solar, and wind.

Tuesday, April 09, 2013

BioEnergy News - Industry News

BioEnergy News - Industry News

Another interesting use of organic waste that really saves the environment.
Indiana farm moo-ving with clean transport energy
8 April 2013
A farm in Indiana, US has begun fuelling its fleet of 42 tractor-trailers by re-using the cattle dung it collects on-site.

Fair Oaks Farms (FOF) has around 30,000 cows as part of its operation and it has a $12 million (€9.2 million) digester on its property that converts their manure, and that of pigs, into natural gas. The business used to simply convert into CHP for its barns and other structures but now some of it is used to keep the fleet on the roads.

‘As long as we keep milking cows, we never run out of gas," FOF CEO Gary Corbett was quoted as saying. ‘The switch to cow power saves us from using 2 million gallons of diesel fuel a year and the US Department of Energy believes this to be the largest fleet powered by agricultural waste currently in operation in this country.’

The overall bioenergy project began in June 2011when FOF contracted Clean Energy to build two fuelling stations. The project received financial backing from grants from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act and the Indiana Office of Energy Development.

A study on the project by the Innovation Centre for US also says the FOF system captures 98% of methane emissions produced.

Humour to put it into perspective

Friday, April 05, 2013

Is 3D printing the wave of the future ?



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=faHA00Ue9_g&feature=youtu.be
Using a 3D printer in an oily solution, researchers assembled tiny water droplets into a jelly-like material that can flex like a muscle and transmit electric signals like chains of neurons.

Wednesday, March 27, 2013

Clmate hawks should stop being shrill


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What climate hawks can (and can't) learn from public-health campaigns

The public health community has learned a lot about what motivates people to change behavior -- and what doesn't. Climate hawks, listen up.


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Food for thought    on how to change the "climate terror campaigns"  whch create terror and  fear ,huge government fix it monopolies and little else ? Interesting comparison from public health experiences   Worth reading .

Sieg Holle BS MBA

Tuesday, March 26, 2013

Thursday, March 21, 2013

Abu Dhabi mega solar plant will free up oil to export | Grist

Abu Dhabi mega solar plant will free up oil to export | Grist

Using a combination of 258,048 parabolic mirrors and the one powerful Arabian desert sun, Shams 1, the new 100-megawatt concentrated solar power plant just southwest of Abu Dhabi, is now cranking out power.
13-03-20Masdarsolar

Monday, February 25, 2013

Waste plastic to useable fuel l

http://www.flixxy.com/convert-plastic-to-oil.htm


This is an interesting idea

Idea of the Day...Don't stifle creativity by penalizing those who work hard and make honest mistakes, says one-time presidential hopeful Henry Ross Perot. “I want people moving and shaking the earth and they are going to make mistakes.”

Simple works best

meets objectives
  • plastic made with heat and processed oil
  • recycle waste plastic back into oil
  • why pay to bury it when you can use it again ?
It is not waste it is a resource that has not been properly used .Think outside of the box please.