This
week here on Capitol Hill, we saw a miracle occur with the
imminent passage of an “Inflation Reduction Bill” that
is mostly directed toward reversing climate change and supporting
cleaner technology, for which Manchin’s
Inflation Reduction Act is really a climate and energy bill.
What’s in it? - Vox says, “it would be the single most important
legislative step the US has ever taken to combat the climate
crisis.” Even the independent Rhodium Group says the quoted “40%
reduction in pollution by 2030” in the bill is “plausible.”
Our
First Story centers on my recent public education service via Dr.
Michael Salla’s “Exopolitics Today” interview online, which is
now on YouTube. If you are like me and want a short URL to
remember and share, here it is for this one hour memorable
biography of my exciting work with IRI: https://tinyurl.com/ValoneExopolitics. Of
course, the capital letters are nonessential but may help you
remember it. I think you will enjoy the candid nature of the
interview, which is highlighted with photos and slides.
Story #2
is an unusual discovery that mainly deals with electron transfer
and CO2 storage. Goethe University found a new enzyme in a
bacteria that can utilize CO2 and hydrogen, which alone makes it
useful. More practical uses are on the way.
Story #3
explains a fascinating subject that has always interested me. Why
are we not optimizing the space on top of EVs for solar panel
electricity input? Well, this “Engineering Explained” video
is full of details, on a marker board no less, as to why is not feasible
for the first 10 minutes, until he analyzes the Aptera Motor 2200
lb. electric vehicle to be released with lots of solar panels on
it. Being about 20% of the weight of a Tesla EV, this makes a big
difference in the calculations! Now for the last 5-minutes, our
geek even explains how you will get 40
miles/day of “free energy” from the sun with the Apera Motor car and
shows how the numbers actually match his calculations for what is
available from the sun. Amazing reversal of opinion in one video.
Story #4 shows
how persistent the Swiss are when they are onto something
important and innovative. After 14 years of digging underground,
a water storage and release system called a “water battery” is
now operational in the Swiss Alps. Capable of 20 GW/h of power
generation during demand exceeding supply cycles and the opposite
in pumping water for supply exceeding demand time outs. The
2-minute silent video is a simple and educational video, great
for school kids of all ages. The article also notes that China is
planning 270 GW of energy storage capacity by 2025 so the Western
world has some catching up to do.
Story #5
is one of my favorite topics, tapping into geothermal energy,
which MIT told us with their study back in 2007 that it could
power much of the United States. Even Iceland explored drilling
into molten lava magma for ten times the energy density of
geothermal power as we reported in https://integrityresearchinstitute.org/Enews/EnewsDec2016.htm#LETTER.BLOCK19. Now
Quaise Energy, building on MIT’s work, is planning to retrofit
old coal and gas power plants to become geothermal clean energy
hotspots, completely carbon-free.
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1) IRI President Interview with Dr. Michael Salla
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IRI
PRESS RELEASE July 2022
In this interview with Dr. Michael Salla, Dr. Valone
discusses how he became interested in Future Energy, Nikola
Tesla, a century of suppression of breakthrough technologies, the
role of the USPTO in this suppression, the controversy over his
1999 Conference on Future Energy, the creation of his Integrity
Research Institute, and some of the breakthrough electrogravitic
propulsion, electrotherapy, and zero point energy inventions he
has personally worked on or whose development he has supported.
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2) Research on bacteria: Electron highway for hydrogen
and carbon dioxide storage discovered
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In 2013,
a team of microbiologists led by Professor Volker Müller from
Goethe University Frankfurt discovered an unusual enzyme in a
heat-loving (thermophilic) bacterium: the hydrogen-dependent
CO2 reductase HDCR. It produces formic acid (formate) from
gaseous hydrogen (H2) and carbon dioxide (CO2), and in the
process the hydrogen transfers electrons to the carbon dioxide.
That makes this HDCR the first known enzyme which can directly
utilize hydrogen. In contrast, all enzymes known until then that
produce formic acid take a detour: they obtain the electrons from
soluble cellular electron transfer agents, which for their part,
receive the electrons from the hydrogen with the help of other
enzymes
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3) Solar-Powered Cars are Coming
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The
electric vehicle and solar energy markets are both simultaneously
growing at record clips, which begs the question, why haven’t cars
powered entirely by the sun taken root as the next big thing?
On the
surface, the prospect of a car powered by an infinite and free
power source that is never “off” sounds like a dream come true for
renewable energy enthusiasts. But as the old adage says, ‘if
something sounds too good to be true, it probably is.”
Check out
the following Youtube video from Engineering Explained for an
in-depth and wonky overview of the mathematical and engineering
challenges of solar-powered cars.
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4) Water Battery now Operational In Switzerland
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Innovation
Engineering. July 2022
A 900 MW
'water battery' that cost Switzerland €2 billion and was under
construction for 14 years, is now operational, Euronews reported. The
battery is located nearly 2,000 feet (600 m) underground in the
Swiss Alps.
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5) Tapping into the million-year energy source below
our feet
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Woskov, a
research engineer in MIT’s Plasma Science and Fusion Center, notes
the plant’s power turbine is still intact and the transmission
lines still run to the grid. Using an approach he’s been working on
for the last 14 years, he’s hoping it will be back online,
completely carbon-free, within the decade.
In fact,
Quaise Energy, the company commercializing Woskov’s work, believes
if it can retrofit one power plant, the same process will work on
virtually every coal and gas power plant in the world.
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