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Greetings!
Story #1 is about our public education event that has
wide-range applications for everyone and covers the gamut of our IRI
adventures in research and development. As we experience our first
heatwave into triple digits here in the DC area and elsewhere, it is
appropriate that I’m giving a Zoom lecture/slideshow presentation for
aimed at energy, climate, and health challenges
for Ubiquity
University. Tune in anytime to sharing
the YouTube Stream on or after
Tuesday, June 25 to see and hear summaries of the problems listed in
the “Saving Humanity Outline” and proposed
solutions that our institute has discovered.
Story #2 is an exciting NASA announcement regarding
the prototype testing of the X-59 supersonic
aircraft and its passing grade. As part of NASA’s Quesst
Mission through 2027 with
Lockheed Martin, Quesst is NASA's mission to demonstrate how the X-59
can fly supersonic without generating loud sonic booms and then
survey what people hear when it flies overhead. Reaction to the
quieter sonic "thumps" will be shared with regulators who
will then consider writing new sound-based rules to lift the ban on
faster-than-sound flight over land. The Quesst
Mission link has several
videos and lots of photos of the X-59.
Story #3 is quite surprising as a new source of energy
heretofore unrecognized. Water pipes,
which are under pressure, offer a largely untapped source of
renewable electricity that could provide 1.4 gigawatts of power in
the US alone. Tuning into the future-oriented Low Impact
Hydropower Institute https://lowimpacthydro.org/,
we find it is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization whose primary purpose
is to define and certify low impact hydropower. Furthermore, Oak
Ridge Lab says about 530 MW of power is already being generated in
this manner, called “in-conduit hydropower”. A related story is
about “net-zero
living” in a future carbon-neutral world.
Story #4 is about advanced tech demonstrations of
superconductivity for electric propulsion with cryogenic cooling
systems, to foster a new ecosystem. A related story is about a new
hybrid electric aircraft test flight.
Story #5 could have been our lead article about
Redwood Materials. Relatively unknown, Redwood
Materials was
founded by the former CEO of Tesla, along with the COO of Tesla,
mainly to address the biggest challenge to electric vehicle
technology, the lithium-ion battery, with help from Stanford
University. With a forecasted demand for Li-Ion batteries around 2000
GWh by 2030 and only a supply forecasted to be around 1000 GWh, the
company realized a big market exists and the supply is readily
available. Redwood has a 95% recycling ability with recovered
electronics and a Consumer
Recycling Program in
most of the US states with collection
locations. ß Click for a Google
map of the collection locations near you to help support this
worthwhile program. Redwood just built a new Battery Materials Campus
in Nevada in only two years which can process over 60,000 metric tons
of end-of-life battery supply and can meet the requirements for 1
million EVs presently! The future of battery material production is
here and their
3-minute “Closing
the Loop” video explains the
recycling process in detail, which is amazing to say the least.
You can partner with Redwood, even if you just want
your community to have a Redwood
electronic recycling box installed
locally. Our state of Maryland needs to have them too!
Onward and Upward.
Tom Valone, Editor
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1) Energy, Climate, Health Challenges on YouTube, June
25th, 2024
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IRI Press
Release June 25, 2024
IRI President, Tom Valone will be live on the Ubiquity University
YouTube channel on Tuesday, Jun 25th, 11 am EDT/8 am PDT,
but available anytime afterwards at the channel link. He will be
discussing "Can Humanity Save
Itself with Energy, Climate, Health Challenges?" With the current world crisis of 85% of the world’s
energy usage still based on fossil fuels, little or no consensus
about solving climate-related extreme weather, forced migrations, and
crop failures, along with widespread dependance on prescription drugs
for every ailment, the title of this presentation is very timely and
urgent. Furthermore, the world’s population spurred on by the Green
Revolution of Dr. Norman Borlaug has tripled (3x) in less than one
lifetime. Concomitantly, global annual CO2 emissions have quadrupled
(4x) as global energy demand has quintupled (5x) in the same period.
This 3-4-5 trio has put an unprecedented severe stress on the
environment, which up until now, has not been reliably quantified. In
2006, climatologist James Hansen discovered and published a
remarkably linear relationship between CO2, temperature, and sea
level levels from the Vostok ice core data for the past 420,000
years. In the same time frame, lots of emerging energy inventions
promise to provide emission-free electricity for mankind. Lastly,
discoveries in electrotherapy have revolutionized health care,
providing hope for reversing trauma, tissue damage, and pain. This
exciting lecture/slideshow will touch on all of these topics with
details of how a single nonprofit organization in the US has
pioneered a wide range of discovery, reporting, invention, and
hosting of conferences to help bridge the gap in public education by
bringing little-known future technologies and inventors to the fore
in person, in print, and in video format, thus giving hope toward
solving humanity’s survival. Current projects include an
electrogravitics demo in vacuum, a journal article on inertial
propulsion, and a ufology textbook for college and universities.
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2) X-59 Passes Test Toward Quiet Supersonic Flight
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NASA.gov June 25, 2024
NASA has taken the next step toward verifying the
airworthiness for its quiet supersonic X-59 aircraft with the
completion of a milestone review that will allow it to progress
toward flight. A Flight Readiness Review board composed of
independent experts from across NASA has completed a study of the
X-59 project team’s approach to safety for the public and staff
during ground and flight testing. The review board looked in detail
at the project team’s analysis of potential hazards, focusing on safety
and risk identification.
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3) Microturbines generate electricity from drinking
water pipes
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New Scientist, April, 2024
The excess pressure in water pipes can be used to spin
miniature hydroelectric turbines, providing an underutilised source
of clean energy. Some envision a distributed network of small
turbines serving as a form of reliable storage to back up wind and solar
power. “I think it is a very under-tapped resource,” says Shannon
Ames at the Low Impact Hydropower Institute, an environmental
non-profit based in Massachusetts. “The infrastructure is there;
adding a turbine into the infrastructure makes a lot of sense.”
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4) Advances in Superconductivity Research for Hydrogen
Aircraft
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IEEE Spectrum May 2024
Airbus UpNext, a subsidiary of Airbus, has initiated a
new technological demonstrator to advance superconducting
technologies for electric propulsion in future hydrogen-powered
aircraft. Named Cryoprop, the demonstrator will develop a two
megawatt-class superconducting electric propulsion system cooled by
liquid hydrogen through a helium recirculation loop. This system is
being developed by Airbus teams in Toulouse, France, and Ottobrunn,
Germany.
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5) Redwood Materials recycles gigawatts of lithium
batteries
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