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revelarts

01-24-2011, 02:33 PM

revelarts

06-01-2011, 10:39 PM

FYI

...Batteries are the "heart" of electric vehicles, he said, adding that the Department of Energy is funding research that will drop the cost of electric-vehicle batteries 50 percent in the next three or four years and double or triple their energy density within six years so "you can go from Los Angeles to Las Vegas on a single charge," he said. "These are magical distances. To buy a car that will cost $20,000 to $25,000 without a subsidy, where you can go 350 miles is our goal."...

http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-05-mile-per-charge-electric-car-reality-doe.html

Fuel-cell cars have been a tomorrow technology as long as I've been reporting on them, but it looks like 2015 will be the year they finally go commercial, with hundreds of thousands (you read that right) planned for production as early as 2015.
Right now, it remains theoretical. The cars, including the Toyota Fuel Cell Hybrid Vehicle advanced (FCHV-adv), fuel up at Proton OnSite in Connecticut, are in test fleets, and the numbers are very small. And what is loftily referred to as the hydrogen infrastructure - the necessary network of filling stations - is lacking. There are maybe 70 of them in the U.S. (nobody seems to have an exact count), and only about 25 of those are open to the public.

But that's all set to change, and even now fuel cells have made inroads - just not in cars yet. I love the fact that there are hundreds of fuel-cell forklifts at companies like Wal-Mart and Bridgestone-Firestone, and 1,000 or more in the pipeline. Why? It's cost-effective, there's no need to store heavy battery packs, and because the lifts are zero emission, there's no problem operating them indoors.
...The EFOY is also standard equipment as back-up power for federal troops in Germany, because it reduces on-the-move weight compared to diesel generators. Plus, remember that it doesn't make any noise? That's great for "silent watch" military missions.

On a larger scale, stationary fuel cells are providing back-up power for hospitals, military bases, banks, and telecoms (especially to keep cell towers online). Companies like long-term player Ballard Power Systems, Linde, UTC Power and Air Liquide (which has built 50 big hydrogen generators) have made this a big business. And nearly all of them are eyeing the pending deployment of those fuel-cell cars - from Daimler, Honda, Hyundai and Toyota - as the next big market to get into...
http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-05-zero-emission-fuel-cell-back-up-power.html

revelarts

06-18-2011, 11:02 AM

E-Cat Cold fusion device independently validated producing 800% more energy than input

Learn more: http://www.naturalnews.com/032455_cold_fusion_E-Cat.html#ixzz1PdzZml25

(NaturalNews) Initially met with skepticism due to claims that it works on cold fusion technology, the energy catalyzer has been validated producing 2.6 kilowatts from an input of 300 watts by Swedish technology magazine NyTeknik (http://www.nyteknik.se/nyheter/ener...). The technology, which was granted a patent in April, is expected to be on the market this fall. (http://www.nyteknik.se/nyheter/ener...)

Inventors Andrea Rossi and Sergio Focardi announced the "E-CAT" in January claiming they had created a reactor that produces massive amounts of energy by fusing nickel and hydrogen nuclei at room temperature.

If the invention proves genuine, it would be one of the greatest scientific achievements of all time and would beat out oil for position as king of energy resources (http://www.washingtontimes.com/news...). It could provide nearly limitless cheap energy with no radioactive byproduct or massive carbon emissions. The inventors say, scaled for commercial use, their process could generate eight units of output per unit of input and would cost roughly one penny per kilowatt-hour, drastically cheaper than a coal plant (http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2011...).

Skepticism has abounded so far, and expectedly so, since every past claim of cold fusion turned out to be false. Rossi and Focardi's failure to provide details on how the process works has not helped their case nor has the fact that they cannot account for how the cold fusion is triggered. (http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2011...).

But the inventors do have something going for them. They have demonstrated the device publicly numerous times and their claims are looking more credible as more tests validate them. Video and reports of physicists who were present confirmed that electricity was produced.

The latest tests on the energy catalyzer by NyTeknik took place in Bologna on April 19 and 28. The test, as with previous tests, aimed to measure the net energy that the device generates as accurately as possible. The results of the tests from both dates showed a developed net power of between 2.3 and 2.6 kilowatts with and input electric power of 300 watts. (http://www.nyteknik.se/nyheter/ener...)

To date no one has been able to give a detailed explanation of the measured values that NyTeknik now has been able to confirm. But tests by Professor Sven Kullander and Associate Professor Hanno Essen in March found that the measured values can only be explained by a nuclear reaction.

Yet another endorsement of the device came this week as the inventors signed on with a partner firm, Ampenergo--a company formed in 2009 with connections to the U.S. Department of Energy, to assist in the proliferation of the E-Cat technology. (http://freeenergytruth.blogspot.com/)

Rossi is planning an installation of 300 energy catalyzers at a total of one megawatt for his U.S. customer in Greece in October 2011. The one-megawatt plant will be using the catalyzers for profit and not for demonstration. (http://www.journal-of-nuclear-physi...). On his website, Rossi said that a U.S. plant in October is not impossible. (http://www.e-catworld.com/2011/05/1...)

Rossi's website also said that the Universities of Uppsala and Bologna will have E-Cats on which they can test "in any way they want."

Learn more: http://www.naturalnews.com/032455_cold_fusion_E-Cat.html#ixzz1PdyT7lCs

fj1200

06-18-2011, 11:16 AM

^Here's to hopin'.

revelarts

07-07-2011, 11:40 PM

revelarts

07-07-2011, 11:48 PM

this is a truly amazing documetary.
It goes through the brief history of the Cold Fusion Debate , from the 1st announcements the controversy and up to the some of the fairly current research at universities and the like. Very informative and Incredible really.
If you've got the time and interest.
It's an Hour plus.

don't let the UFO logo in the corner throw you.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7FilflaqbVI&feature=view_all&list=PLBB70C7903D4989D8&index=6

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PostmodernProphet

07-08-2011, 06:16 AM

revelarts

07-08-2011, 08:13 AM

I wonder how much energy it takes to convert a kilo of plastic to a liter of oil.....

Thats a good question, I'd want to know how much energy compared to getting crude from the ground then refined into oil.
that's the comparison that needs to be made.

PostmodernProphet

07-09-2011, 07:37 AM

Thats a good question, I'd want to know how much energy compared to getting crude from the ground then refined into oil.
that's the comparison that needs to be made.

I can live with that......I could see installing one of these in every landfill.....and we could employ the homeless to sort through the trash to obtain recyclable plastics in exchange for dormitory style housing and meals......

logroller

07-11-2011, 08:57 PM

Thats a good question, I'd want to know how much energy compared to getting crude from the ground then refined into oil.
that's the comparison that needs to be made.

Plastic (for the most part) still comes from oil, refined to produce the plastic; so ERoEI comparisons would be misleading. Recycling makes far more sense with true non-renewables like metals and such.

revelarts

07-11-2011, 11:06 PM

Plastic (for the most part) still comes from oil, refined to produce the plastic; so ERoEI comparisons would be misleading. Recycling makes far more sense with true non-renewables like metals and such.

what are you saying, I don't get you here?

we shouldn't compare recycled oil cost to the cost of going to other countries digging and refining it? cost and local availablity make recycled oil-plastics seem to make sense enough to at least check the cost.

and i don't understand "true" non renewable, what's that? Oil is a renewable? If that's so how does that figure into the idea of "peak" oil?