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Story #1
may become a new tradition for our FE eNews if we keep having
such productive months in the future. Three events worth sharing
all happened in August: the long-awaited publication of my edited
volume called “The Future Of Energy: Challenges, Perspectives,
and Solutions” with lots of great chapters from my favorite
colleagues who pitched in to consider developments in renewable
energy, novel energy discoveries, environmental climate futures,
possible technological advances, temporal distortion, and gravitational
electromagnetism. The full Table of Contents and a more detailed
summary are all online at the publisher’s
website . We also have finalized the cover artwork
seen here for the Double DVD Set of COFE12 which
will start shipping in another week or so. For our FE eNews
readers, here is a secret I can share with you: If you become an
IRI Member, you will receive a FREE copy of the Double COFE12 DVD
Set for a holiday gift . Otherwise, it is available
separately at a super discounted price for 16 hours of conference
experience. Either way, you come out a winner! Lastly, my new
climate article, “Global Warming, Carbon Dioxide, and Sea Level
Predictions Based on Paleoclimatology” has become Chapter 3 of
the new Volume 4 of Current Perspectives to Environment
and Climate Change series, where I explain the
quantitative relationship discovered by famed NASA climatologist,
Dr. James Hansen.
Story #2
offers another milestone in the military acceptance of
Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAP) and its importance to
national security and transparency. With the Department of
Defense now forming a UAP Task Force, we can look forward to more
honest reporting on UAPs perhaps, which hopefully will lead to
the “nature and origins of UAPs” which is promised. Can’t wait!
Story #3
is a surprising development in space propulsion that looks
suspiciously like cold fusion, which it is. Load up something
like metal with deuterium (heavy hydrogen) nuclei and hit it
with electrons…even an electric current will do to get excess
heat and fusion byproducts. Only in this case, the smart people
at NASA decided to give their electrons a kick with an electron
accelerator that Pons and Fleischmann didn’t have in their
laboratory. However, their denial of cold fusion is quite
charming and political of course. Hand waving toward nonexistent
photons and warmth noted during handling afterwards doesn’t
magically make it “hot fusion” as they claim but whatever works
is what counts since the government is funding it.
Story #4
shows that Branson will not be left behind in the race for space.
Only this time, it is the space right above our rooftops that he
is going for with the next supersonic transport with Virgin
Galactic’s Chief Space Officer in charge of the project, also in
cooperation with NASA.
Story #5
offers us another spin on the wind turbine saga with a six blade
for home use that is quiet (under 30 dB) and does NOT create the
tremendous back force which normal wind turbines will do. Check
out the nice video too https://youtu.be/_TxP1jUzQMg . This style, reminiscent of the
Darrius Rotor design, is a vertical axis model which also has a
smaller footprint as a result and can be assembled by anyone who
normally succeeds with IKEA furniture assembly, according to the
manufacturer, who is based in Iceland. Another plus is the wind
tolerance…up to 130 mph, which is hurricane strength winds. The
company is called IceWind https://www.icewindusa.com/ and the residential model
is The Freya.
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1) New Publications by IRI
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Two exciting new Books: The Future of Energy;
Current Perspectives; plus COFE12 Double DVD with all the talks
NOW AVAILABLE
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The Future of Energy Book
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The Future Of Energy: Challenges, Perspectives, and
Solutions” with lots of great chapters from my favorite
colleagues who pitched in to consider developments in renewable
energy, novel energy discoveries, environmental climate futures,
possible technological advances, temporal distortion, and
gravitational electromagnetism. The full Table of Contents and a
more detailed summary are all online at the publisher’s
website
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We are
happy to now offer our COFE12 Conference Double DVD Set. The
event was livestreamed but many people who registered at www.futurenergy.org may not
have seen the entire conference for many reasons. This DVD SET of
the entire COFE12 Online Conference has 16 hours of presentations
in MP4 file format and is ONLY $25 plus $5 shipping. It
inclues: Paul Murad, Col. Eric Felt, Dean Radin, Thorsten
Ludwig, Bill Alek, Mike Gamble, Ray Fleming, Ed Storms, Steve
Hampton and Tom Valone
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Global Warming, Carbon Dioxide, & Sea Level
Predictions Based on Paleoclimatology DOI: 10.9734/bpi/cpecc/v4
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Climate
articles and publications continue to erroneously suggest a one
and a half (1.5°C) to two degrees (2°C) Celsius as an achievable
global limit to climate change [1]. A comprehensive review has
found that observationally informed projections of climate
science underlying climate change offer a different outlook of
five to six-degree (5-6°C) increase as “most accurate” with regard
to present trends, climate history and models, yielding the most
likely outcome for 2100 [2]. A significant causative triad from
1950 to the present has been identified: The tripling (3x) of
world population; the quadrupling (4x) of carbon emissions; and
the quintupling (5x) of energy consumption. This paper presents a
quantitative, linear global temperature link to carbon dioxide
levels, which has a short emporal feedback loop.
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2) The Pentagon Unidentified Aerial Phenomena
(UAP)Task Force is now Active
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On Aug.
4, 2020, Deputy Secretary of Defense David L. Norquist approved
the establishment of an Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAP) Task
Force (UAPTF). The Department of the Navy, under the
cognizance of the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for
Intelligence and Security, will lead the UAPTF.
The
Department of Defense established the UAPTF to improve its
understanding of, and gain insight into, the nature and origins
of UAPs. The mission of the task force is to detect, analyze
and catalog UAPs that could potentially pose a threat to U.S.
national security.
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3) Spacecraft of the Future Can be Powered by Lattice
Confinement Fusion
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Researchers
at NASA’s Glenn Research Center have now demonstrated a method of
inducing nuclear fusion without building a massive stellarator or
tokamak. In fact, all they needed was a bit of metal, some
hydrogen, and an electron accelerator.
The team
believes that their method, called lattice confinement fusion,
could be a potential new power source for deep space missions.
They have published their results in two papers in Physical Review
C.
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4) Virgin Galactic Unveils Jet Design that Travels
Three times Faster than Sound
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There are
other influential heavyweights advising Virgin Galactic, too. In
May, Virgin Galactic signed a deal with NASA to share expertise and
resources.
Virgin
Galactic also announced this supersonic jet concept recently passed
a mission concept review, which confirmed that the concept
"can meet the high-level requirements and objectives of the
mission."
"We
are excited to complete the Mission Concept Review and unveil this
initial design concept of a high speed aircraft, which we envision
as blending safe and reliable commercial travel with an unrivaled
customer experience," said George Whitesides, Virgin
Galactic's chief space officer.
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5) New 6 Blade Vertical Wind Turbine Can Power you Off
Grid Safely for 30 years
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Wind now
accounts for 7.2% of power generated in the United States, and
IceWind says that will be around 20% in less than a decade, by 2030.
But most of that is the huge horizontal turbines you see in
commercial wind farm applications with blades the length of a 747.
All green energy is good — although there are concerns with bird
loss — but it’s hardly something a homeowner can install. The new
Freya model from IceWind, which starts at $3,200, is an entirely
different design. “What we have designed over at IceWind is actually
a vertical axis wind turbine,” Samuel Gerbus, one of IceWind’s
mechanical engineers, told me recently on the TechFirst podcast. “The large difference is those
big turbines, when wind comes from different directions you either
need to use a gearbox to change those blades to face that wind
direction, or stop them and change it. Vertical axis wind turbines
are omni-directional. We can take wind from any direction.”
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