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September
2019, Volume 20
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This week I presented my slideshow on the
Spiral Magnetic Motor which now has had over 2000
open readers on www.ResearchGate.net, to the
World Energy Engineering Congress www.energycongress.com here
in Washington DC, where it was well-received and I was encouraged
to complete the development. A lot of the participants also had a
keen interest in climate change. The best exhibit in my opinion
was from www.InsolCorp.com which
has the most advanced PHASE CHANGE insulation in the world. We
have reported on this technology for years and now the passive
Infinite-RTM sheets
are almost paper thin but equal 18 inches of regular Fiberglas
layers because they freeze at 73F, releasing heat and absorbing
heat as the material thaws at 73F if temperature rises. The CEO
Pete Horwath explained that they can eliminate the need for air
conditioners since they can stabilize a building’s temperature
within one degree even in summer or winter months, just with
single sheets on the ceiling and walls. Check out the videos on
the home page of InsolCorp but also the Roofing
page which can pay for itself in one year, rather
than several years with any other technology and can be installed
over existing roofing, with a 30-year warranty. Pretty futuristic
energy savings available today.
Our
partners in the Netherlands are hosting another Breakthrough
Energy Movement conference https://globalbem.com on
November 9-10, 2019 with a number of interesting energy
researchers presenting new energy ideas.
Another
worthwhile research group is the Lawrenceville Plasma Physics
Fusion research lab https://lppfusion.com in
New Jersey whose president was a former COFE speaker. Their
latest newsletter, which is available by email monthly, has an
exciting new development. The September 12, 2019 Summary states
that: “Senator Pennachio Introduces NJ Fusion Energy Bills” which
is an amazing endorsement from their Senator! Since their unique
process produces NO dangerous neutrons and NO nuclear waste, it
is possibly the most promising fusion technology under
development today.
Story #1
is perhaps one of those historical breakthroughs that will be
remembered for years to come. Reusing CO2 by treating it with a
catalyst has only been a dream until now. Thanks to a cerium
oxide catalyst, many new products are now possible while
electrochemically reducing CO2, including carbon-neutral
hydrocarbon fuels, say the Stanford University researchers. We
cannot wait until the day when billions of tons of CO2 will be
sucked from the atmosphere with such a process, in order to begin
directly offsetting the 40 to 50 gigatons of CO2 that are going
up there worldwide every year.
Story #2
offers some good news with a Bloomberg report that is quite
promising with almost 50% of global electricity projected to be
supplied by solar energy by 2050 and renewables up to 62%, even
with the projected increase in worldwide energy demand.
Story #3
has a wide range application for a new type of battery that
utilizes heat instead of light. The thermal battery can convert
heat in the range of 60 C to 100 C to electricity which could
have geothermal applications and waste heat installations.
Story #4
offers a new type of thermoelectric generator (TEG) which can
produce electricity from a slight difference in temperature as
part of it cools unevenly, even at nighttime. If this can be
scaled up, the new TEG may have a wide market available.
Story #5
emphasizes the bioenergetics portion of the IRI mission with a
new development in prostate cancer treatment using photothermal
therapy and gold-silica nanoparticles with lasers. Most patients
undergoing this therapy were cancer free even 12 months later.
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1) Ceria Catalysts Could Help Produce Carbon Neutral
Fuel
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This story is part of Covering
Climate Now, a global collaboration of more than 250 news outlets
to strengthen coverage of the climate story.
Carbon dioxide can be reduced to carbon monoxide
with 100% selectivity in an electrochemical reaction using a cerium
oxide catalyst. So say researchers at Stanford University in the
US and the Technical University of Denmark (DTU) who have found
that the process does not produce undesired solid carbon either –
unlike conventional CO2 electrolysis technologies.
Re-using CO2 is an alternative to burying the
greenhouse gas underground and could help in the development of a
carbon-neutral sustainable energy economy. Electrochemically
reducing CO2, for example, is a promising way to store the
intermittent electricity produced from solar and wind power as
chemicals such as synthetic hydrocarbons. These energy-dense
carbon-neutral liquid fuels are compatible with existing petrol
and diesel infrastructures and so could be employed in real-world
applications.
RELATED ARTICLE from NATURE
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2) Electrification, Biomass and Hydrogen
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In its
latest “energy outlook” report, Bloomberg New Energy Finance says
wind and solar photovoltaics (PV) will supply almost 50% of
global electricity by 2050. Wind, it projects, will produce 26%
and solar 22%, with renewables overall supplying 62% of the
total. That’s despite electricity demand by 2050 increasing 62%,
resulting in global generating capacity almost tripling. Nuclear
will then be at 7% and fossil at 31%, according to this outlook,
so renewables will clearly have won — although emissions from the
fossil sector will still rise.
IRENA,
the International Renewable Energy Agency, is more optimistic. In
a new report it says renewables and energy efficiency, boosted by
electrification, could provide 90% of the necessary reductions in
energy-related carbon emissions to limit the global rise in
temperature to well below 2°C by 2050. Renewables can supply 86%
of global power, and with electrification, they would provide 75%
of the emission reductions needed.
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3) Novel Thermal Battery Promises Green Power Around
the Clock
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Researchers
at the Tokyo Institute of Technology have developed a new kind of
battery that can reliably generate electric power from heat in
environments with temperatures ranging from 60 degrees C to 100
degrees C—which is low enough to mimic geothermal heat.
In an
earlier experiment, the researchers developed sensitized thermal
cells (STCs) that employed dye-sensitized solar cells to convert
light into electric power. In their latest advance, team leader
Sachiko Matsushita, an associate professor at Tokyo Tech,
explained that they replaced the dye with a semiconductor to
enable the cells to operate using heat instead of light.
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4) New Devices Harvests Energy in Darkness
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Dr. Raman
demonstrated a way to harness a dark night sky to power a light
bulb.
His
prototype device employs radiative cooling, the phenomenon that
makes buildings and parks feel cooler than the surrounding air
after sunset. As Dr. Raman’s device releases heat, it does so
unevenly, the top side cooling more than the bottom. It then
converts the difference in heat into electricity. In the paper, Dr.
Raman described how the device, when connected to a voltage
converter, was able to power a white LED.The core enabling feature
of this device is that it can cool down,” Dr. Raman said.
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5) Photothermal Gold Nanoshell based Treatment for
Prostate Cancer
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Prostate
cancer can be treated using nanoparticle-based photothermal therapy
without triggering severe side effects. This is the conclusion of a
year-long clinical trial conducted at Icahn School of Medicine at
Mount Sinai, where prostate-cancer patients were injected with
gold–silica nanoparticles and irradiated locally using near-infrared
lasers.
In the 90
days post-treatment, none of the subjects suffered serious side
effects, fulfilling the aim of the trial. Although the treatment’s
efficacy was not formally measured, the results are encouraging:
biopsies showed that 13 of the 16 patients who underwent the
procedure were cancer-free after 12 months (PNAS
10.1073/pnas.1906929116).
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