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As we
move into the New Year, our economy is still struggling and in
the personal transportation sector, global sales of passenger
vehicles fell by 20% but 2020 sales of electric vehicles (EV)
soared by an additional 38% as compared to 2019 (Wood Mackenzie, www.woodmac.com). The chief
analyst for Wood Mackenzie also forecasts that EV sales will grow
another 25% in this decade, if not more. This coincides with the
push by many auto makers including General Motors who is striving
for a “zero-emissions future”. Perhaps because an environmentally
conscious woman is in charge (CEO Mary Barra), GM wants to “be
part of the solution by putting everyone in an electric vehicle”
(GM.com/electric-vehicles.html).
Since
our main focus is energy, it is always exciting to find a new
discovery such as viruses which are now shown to produce their
own energy! Story #1 is a breakthrough describing giant viruses
that do so, thereby leading into the question of whether viruses
are alive or not. This article shows an artist’s drawing of one
of these mimiviruses that simply encloses DNA in a protein shell.
However, such mimiviruses also have their own adaptive immune
system to destroy invaders Another
type discussed in Story #1 is the pandoravirus, giving rise to
the title of the article, that generates a membrane potential
that is an electrical gradient across their outer membrane. Such
an accomplishment requires a generator and a flow of energy from
inside the virus, such as with human, plant and animal single
cells. Furthermore, it normally serves a distinct purpose to
produce ATP but in a virus the method of generation and the
purpose of the voltage potential is a mystery waiting to be
solved. Quite intriguing for an inert bunch of protein that is
normally not considered to be alive…or is it?
Story #2
is the third installment of the recent US Navy Patent Documents,
all of which are unusual and controversial. Some of us who worked
at the US Patent and Trademark Office wonder how they were
allowed to become patents without a constructive reduction to
practice for such theoretically speculative ideas. However, this
article surmises from a FOIA how Dr. Pais survived an internal
review with costly testing from the Navy before proceeding with
the patent applications. We leave it to our readers to decide if
gravity modification is now a possibility since it has been
patented.
Story #3
comes on the heels of the UK declaring a new commitment to
tokamak nuclear fusion power by
2040. Across the pond, General Fusion’s Jeff Bezos says their
design can be more practical than tokamaks in Story #3, which was
just released this week. Commonwealth Fusion Systems is also
competing and targeting 2025 for their use of extraordinary
magnets to pressurize elements into superhot plasma.
Story #4
is an exiting upgrade from the Tesla Powerwall 2 with an
Australian company Lavo that offers a 40 kWh hydrogen fuel cell
with three times the capacity of the Tesla Powerwall 2. This can
power an average home for two days if the grid is down, while
additional solar or wind can make it grid-independent.
Story #5
is a great development for this country with New Jersey finally
joining the trend of offshore wind with the biggest wind turbines
ever built (12 MW capacity). https://www.njspotlight.com/2021/01/giant-turbines-will-generate-power-at-new-jerseys-first-offshore-wind-farm/
General Electric says that each turbine (out of the 99 to be
built) will take 10,000 fossil fuel cars off the road annually.
The wind farm is expected to start operating soon…by 2024...and
provide enough power for about 94% of the New Jersey homes, which
is pretty amazing. However, it is only the second largest after
New York State.
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1) Viruses Shown to Produce Their Own Energy
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A few
giant viruses appear to generate their own energy, which viruses
aren’t supposed to be able to do. The finding will fuel an
already fierce debate about whether giant viruses really are
viruses, and if they are alive or not.
“It is
really incredible to have energy in a virus,” says Bernard La
Scola at Aix-Marseille University in France. Why any virus needs
to produce its own energy remains a mystery, he says.
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2) Navy UFO Patent Documents Gravity Modification
Weapon Testing
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By The Drive.com January 2021
The War
Zone's most recent report on the strange circumstances surrounding
these patents underlined that there were indeed some type of
physical experiments conducted related to them, even if very
limited. Now, new Freedom of Information Act releases provide
unprecedented insights not just into how seriously the Navy took
Dr. Pais's work, but also exactly how elements of it were actually
tested at the cost of hundreds of thousands of dollars and where
the program may have ended up. The materials even include mention
of a "Spacetime Modification Weapon (SMW- a weapon that can
make the Hydrogen bomb seem more like a firecracker, in
comparison)."
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3) What is New Magnetized Target Fusion
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Popular
Mechanics January 2021
Two
competing nuclear fusion companies, each with venture capital
superstars as major investors, say we’re approaching the “Kitty
Hawk moment” for their technology as early as 2025. Like a tokamak,
an MTF reactor involves hot plasma contained by a powerful magnetic
field. But where a tokamak is heated by extraordinary outside
power, the MTF reactor made by Canada’s Jeff Bezos-backed General
Fusion is pressurized to superheat the plasma—like a party filled
with dancing people where the room continues to shrink around them.
This pressure is applied by pistons that coordinate to make a
pressure wave.
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4) World's-First Home Hydrogen Battery
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Australian
energy company Lavo is throwing down the gauntlet to Tesla’s
Powerwall with a home battery storage system that doesn’t rely on
conventional batteries at all, New Atlas reports — opting for
hydrogen as fuel instead. For both systems, the idea is to soak up
any excess energy generated through solar or wind energy systems, as
well as provide an emergency ration of power in case the grid ever
fails.
Lavo’s
massive battery, which it’s calling the Green Energy Storage System,
is technically an electrolysis unit that can generate hydrogen from
water, store it, and then turn it into electricity using a fuel
cell, much like a hydrogen vehicle.
Thanks to
its massive 40 kilowatt-hours capacity, Lavo’s battery has nearly
three times the capacity of Tesla’s current-gen Powerwall 2. That’s
plenty of energy to power an average home for two days straight —
and a strident shot across the industry’s bow.
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