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here's another perspective.

i have not verified any of the details (which is why i'm posting a link to the article here). and while i'm skeptical given the free-energy theme of the web site on which it resides, i'm capable of imagining some of the details of the article might be true.

Mother of all gushers could kill Earth's oceans
http://pesn.com/2010/05/02/9501643_Mother_of_all_gushers_could_kill_Earths_oceans/

Alas it's worse.

http://pesn.com/2010/02/19/959019_GPI_3rd-party_test_results_trash-to-fuel/material-energy%20balance%202010.pdf

Right.
Test results. Okaaaay.

          Inputs totalling 2,257,710.0000 MJ.

          Total output from distillation column 2,257,710.0000 MJ

Run away, run far away!

These are not test results.

These are at best numbers from someone who has taken a wild stab at a reasonable output for the maximum theoretical output of an _ENERGY_CONSUMING_ process, and someone else who has done a writeup based on these numbers at best not understanding this, at worst fraudulently.

These are _HOPELESSLY_ optimistic. It's assuming 100% of the carbon is converted into useful fuel oil.

Is this realy news? there are already a prodjects in Norway and in Dutch where thay are building power plants using this consept More info can be found here: http://peswiki.com/energy/Directory:Mixing_Sea_and_River_Water Allso there is this post "Russians were First On Oct. 7, 2007, Wesley Bruce wrote: Statkraft's press release is, I believe, incorrect. I believe the Russians have an osmotic power plant running near Vladivostok. The plant may have only been experimental but it did sell power. I saw it on a TV report, Beyond Tomorrow I think, It had a web site in Russian but its since disappeared. Statkraft may be the first big plant but I don't think it counts as the first to sell power. The Russian team may even be working for Statkraft now " from http://pesn.com/2007/10/07/9500451_Statkraft_osmotic_power_plant/

for the record, i confused this 'genesys-hydrogen.com' with the entity called 'genesis world energy' aka 'United fuel cell technologies', the principle of which is in fact in jail: http://pesn.com/2006/11/15/9500433_Genesis_Patrick_Kelly_conviction/ but i am highly suspicious of the previously posted entity, their website sounds like a lot of bluster as well.

Lots of people have been playing with various gasoline additives. Alcohol does not come out high on the list.

Essentially, by adding ~10% ethanol to gasoline, people have measured reductions in gas mileage of around 10%. So it's a great way to create agricultural subsidies without really impacting OPEC all that much at all. Big win for everyone but the consumer.

This article about using acetone as an additive has always stuck out in my mind... too bad the guy's tone kinda veers towards sounding like a quack. But as an engineer, I commiserate with his exasperation in the face of stupidity.
http://pesn.com/2005/03/17/6900069_Acetone/

how perfect that this should be reported on December the 23 .. some say the number of Syncronicity ..

i always found this biblical passage of interest

1 Peter 4:7 But the end of all things is at hand; therefore be serious and watchful in your prayers.
1 Peter 4:12 Beloved, do not think it strange concerning the fiery trial which is to try you, as though some strange thing happened to you;

and perfect if the ultimate cause of this turns out to be the 50 years of launching rockets into space ..

and/or

the long term implications of blowing huge holes in the atmosphere with 521 nuclear test blasts ..

and/or

the HAARP project .. who's true purpose and implications remain a GOVERNMENT secret .. but which are said to be the
american military's attempts to gain strategic advantage over it's perceived adversaries.. by the weaponization of
the weather and possibly even the ionosphere itself ..

http://worldvisionportal.org/wvpforum/viewtopic.php?t=296
http://pesn.com/2005/09/06/9600160_Weather_Modification/
http://www.infowars.com/video/clips/weather_wars/wm_bb.htm

The military says the HAARP system could:

* give the military a tool to replace the electromagnetic pulse effect of atmospheric thermonuclear devices (still considered a viable option through at least 1986);
* replace the huge Extremely Low Frequency (ELF) submarine communication system operating in Michigan and Wisconsin with a new and more compact technology;
* be used to replace the over-the-horizon radar system that was once planned for the current location of HAARP with a more flexible and accurate system;
* provide a way to wipe out communications over an extremely large area, while keeping the military's own communications systems working;
* provide a wide-area Earth-penetrating tomography which, if combined with the computing abilities of EMASS and Cray computers, would make it possible to verify many parts of nuclear nonproliferation and peace agreements;
* be a tool for geophysical probing to find oil, gas and mineral deposits over a large area; and
* be used to detect incoming low-level planes and cruise missiles, making other technologies obsolete

Buttered up to seem harmless HARRP (HIGH FREQUENCY ACTIVE AURORAL RESEARCH PROGRAM) is strongly suspected to be a scalar inferometer, which is able to use the earth and atmosphere as a conveyor of scalar waves to excite the energy in the atmosphere at any point on the planet.. subsequently these waves are able to effect weather patterns by changing the energy levels (density) of the atmospheric layers, also making it possible to create endothermic implosions, or exothermic explosions using something known as the woodpecker signal to target specific points on the globe.

high frequency scalar waves can also be adjusted to the frequency of 8hz. Transmitted, this frequency interacts with the natural vibrational frequency of the brain, and could in fact be used to tip emotional balance or calm a human down.. or even put them to sleep, by resonating at the brains sleeping frequency, or perhaps even making you more or less prone to violence.

First off, there's the basic nature of the project. It's scores of radio antenna pumping massive high-frequency directional broadcasts into the air for the purpose of heating the ionosphere. Yes, that's right â" it's blasting electromagnetic radiation into the sky to "microwave" the outer layer atmosphere. Starting to sound less innocuous?

Some people, purporting to be government employees with privileged information, have claimed that HAARP is actually some sort of massive destructor beam for a nefarious purpose.

HAARP

It seemed rather familiar to me, so a quick google search came up with a similar article from last year.
Additionally, there is an Australian company that is marketing a SolarCube, which looks like it uses conventional lenses to produce the same effect. The initial design was featured on the New Inventors in 2005

Even with solar-driven steam turbines, you can't generate any power at night and afaik, there's no effective way of storing energy.

Yes, there is.

Not saying this discovery wouldn't be useful, though.

Or can you Plug in your prius?

Ok, now the original designer has admitted that he was entirely wrong about this:

http://pesn.com/2008/02/19/9500471_Gravity_Lamp/#Inventor_Concedes_Error

I assume you will now apologize for calling the people pointing this out "know-it-all assholes" and "a bunch of fucktarded engineers", yes? You are an honest man and will admit that you made a mistake and insulted others without reason?

Kneider's Sea Wave Energy Propulsion Technology
http://pesn.com/2005/09/21/9600154_Kneider_Wave_Energy/
from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wave_power

posted at http://pesn.com/2008/02/19/9500471_Gravity_Lamp/

(for a better, more exciting lighting solution, see: http://peswiki.com/index.php/Directory:MPK_Co's_Litroenergy )

From: Clay Moulton
To: Sterling D. Allan
Sent: Thursday, February 21, 2008 5:59 AM
Subject: Re: re Gravia clock by Clay Moulton

Good morning Mr. Allan,

If there's any question as to the legitimacy of the competition now, I have offered to graciously concede the 2nd place win, as well as any winnings. My job now is to figure out a better design, plain and simple. I made an estimation based on feedback I got during the design process, and that estimation was shown to be incorrect.

see remainder of comment at http://pesn.com/2008/02/19/9500471_Gravity_Lamp/

posted at http://pesn.com/2008/02/19/9500471_Gravity_Lamp/

(for a better, more exciting lighting solution, see: http://peswiki.com/index.php/Directory:MPK_Co's_Litroenergy )

From: Clay Moulton
To: Sterling D. Allan
Sent: Thursday, February 21, 2008 5:59 AM
Subject: Re: re Gravia clock by Clay Moulton

Good morning Mr. Allan,

If there's any question as to the legitimacy of the competition now, I have offered to graciously concede the 2nd place win, as well as any winnings. My job now is to figure out a better design, plain and simple. I made an estimation based on feedback I got during the design process, and that estimation was shown to be incorrect.

see remainder of comment at http://pesn.com/2008/02/19/9500471_Gravity_Lamp/

This story makes reference to a slashdot story about Focus Fusion I submitted a couple of years ago.

Unfortunately, the website (I'm no longer associated with it) referenced in that article is not in good shape, and that link is now dead.

The identical story, which was composed by myself, was also published at PESN.

Whoever has the necessary access might want to update the link at Slashdot.

I might point out that the Slashdot community gernally belittled to story. I take some satisfaction in seeing that two years later the subject is featured at Google Tech Talks.

Focus Fusion is the first technology we reviewed when I founded the New Energy Congress a couple of years ago. It has remained in our top 100 since that time. See our feature page: http://peswiki.com/index.php/Directory:Focus_Fusion (second return for a Google search on 'focus fusion'.)

The US may start to cut emissions rather soon. There are market forces: rising energy costs, that make efficiency look more and more attractive. One CFL saves about $60 over seven years (pays for itself in 6 weeks), and insulation pays for itself pretty quickly too. The big 3 are having lots of trouble these days with their product lines because companies that have concentrated on efficiency are starting to see the payoff in their investment. It is not too hard to get a 20% reduction in per capita energy use over 15 years much less 30. Rising fossil energy costs are also making room for more renewable energy leading to scale in this sector and lower prices for these. One interesting development is an improved method for refining solar grade silicon http://pesn.com/2007/05/02/9500469_RSI_Silicon_win s_MIT_contest/ that should lower material costs for panel fabrication down quite a bit in a short time. Getting 30% energy conversion in thirty years is pretty simple.

It seems likely to me that the most industrialized countries are going to go this route, may are already on track to meet Kyoto. The question is, will developing countries have the ability to make these conversions? There, efficiency does not have such a large impact because energy using technology is still being adopted. The reliance on coal is pretty natural as well since they can cookie cutter their new plants. But, owing to the structure of Kyoto, there is little incentive to jump past coal even if it would cost less in the long run. China set itself back with its policies in the past and is only beginning to find something that seems to work. They may be open to further improvement, or they may dig in fearing to mess with success. This is really the coming issue with emissions reducing or not.

Reducing concentrations does not happen without our active intervention. Some folks are thinking about this: http://www.sciencemuseum.org.uk/antenna/CO2hoover/ .
--
Rent solar power; utility competitive rates: http://mdsolar.blogspot.com/2007/01/slashdot-users -selling-solar.html

Who cares about biodiesel when we can use compressed air!!

Engineair's Ultra-Efficient Rotary Compressed-Air Motor
http://pesn.com/2006/05/11/9500269_Engineair_Compr essed-Air_Motor/
http://www.engineair.com.au/

Though this is only partially related to the whole ethanol discussion going on here, I thought everyone would find it interesting:

http://pesn.com/2005/08/02/9600142_IAUS_Solar/

(Be sure to check the part about methanol production)

This coming Saturday, I will be conducting a 1-hour, live interviw with Jefferson Tester, who headed this Geothermal panel and report. It will be broadcast live from 6:00 to 6:55 pm Eastern time. http://pesn.com/2007/01/22/9500449_MIT_Geothermal_ Report/

McCarthy itemized three primary facets that will need to be addressed in any validation of the technology. The first thing to prove will be that there is indeed mechanical work being done. The second thing to prove will be that the amount of energy coming from the system is not a function of the amount of energy that went into creating the magnets in the first place. Finally, the last thing to prove will be that the energy is not coming from some unseen environmental source that can be depleted, such as ambient heat in a room or nearby transmission lines.

"We're a technology company, not Physicists. We've shown that it can work. It will be up to the the Physicists to tell us how it works." That answer may be years, if not decades in coming.

But the core question of whether or not it works, and whether or not it is feasible for implementation as an energy-generating technology is the pressing question that will be presented to the international cross-section of scientists, who will make up the jury of twelve.

But the core question of whether or not it works, and whether or not it is feasible for implementation as an energy generating technology is the pressing question that will be presented to the jury of twelve scientists, drawn from an international cross section.

Each jury member will sign a contract that states that Steorn will provide all funding for the review, and that the results will be published, including disclosure of each jury member's name and credentials. Once convened in Dublin, the jury will be presented with the information that Steorn has about the technology.

The scientists will then decide how to proceed with testing. Inasmuch as adequate testing might take several months, the jury is likely to select an independent testing firm to do the actual testing, which they will oversee. This is likely to take several months. Then, when the testing is complete, the jury will reconvene to analyze the results and render their decision.

-FL

The company is refusing any offers for investment or licensing rights. They intend to pay all expenses involved in the jury review of the technology. This is to dissuade any claims that the company is fraudulently creating a spectacle to raise money from: http://pesn.com/2006/08/21/9500298_Steorn_free_ene rgy_gauntlet that might stir those fraud speculations a bit

According to the aforementioned article, the CFO of Steorn is Michael Moriarty.

Considering the dubiousness of the technology, I think it's high time we rejuvinate Sherlock Holmes to fight the Moriarty menace.

So frustrated with this lack of willingness on the part of accredited personnel to go on the record, McCarthy said that six months ago his company was just about ready to give up the project. In his view, getting credible scientific confirmation of the technology is foremost.

Anyone else notice how the Steorn web site (appears to be the main site for the company), has no products or services to offer the world? The closest portion of their web page to resemble anything like that is their "Our Technology" section which only talks about their "revoutionary technology", i.e. the free energy stuff, that doesn't seem to have it's own name (after three years?), or any photos directly accessible. There are photos though:

This being an article with a few
A discussion I started on their forum to find pics
and finally
PES Wiki

http://www.steorn.net/images/sean5_small.jpg
http://www.steorn.net/images/sean4_small.jpg

As an Irish person, I'd surely love for something scientifically significant to be invented here, if only so I don't have to endure racist comments for the rest of my life.
Sadly I think this is an elaborate marketing stunt or a bunch of marketing people who don't know their causality laws from warp-engine field theory.

Read the Irish state media coverage here.

http://www.rte.ie/business/2006/0818/steorn.html

More pictures

http://pesn.com/2006/08/21/9500298_Steorn_free_ene rgy_gauntlet/

Patent application

http://www.peswiki.com/index.php/Directory:Steorn_ Free_Energy?coral-no-serve

Steorn to Push Tipping Point for Magnet Motor Technology - To solidify the credentials of a radical, new energy approach, Irish Company intents to select jury of 12 hard-core skeptics with high academic qualifications to review existing data, then design testing procedure, test, and publish the results.

Very nice guy. One of the most impressive groups I've encountered in my quest for legitimate free energy technlogy.

In order for such a revolutionary technology to have the public support needed for it to become used widely, McCarthy says that confirmation from the academic community will be crucial. "That is our focus at this point," he said.

McCarthy declined to specify how many prototypes they have built, or how long they have run, how much power they produce, and other details of the design.

All of this documentation will be presented in full to the jury of twelve scientists that are soon to be selected to analyze the technology. As of the time of this writing, 1,300 people have expressed interest in serving on the jury of scientists; and 15,516 people have signed up to be notified of the results.

The selection of the jury will screen out anyone who has past involvement or other indications that might be construed as showing support of the technology in some form or other. "We want cynics," said McCarthy.

"We are not seeking validation from the court of public opinion. What we need is validation from the academic world," he said. Once that has been achieved, then the public can know.

It really sounds to me like they want outside verification, and are willing to pay for it themselves. Shouldn't we let that take place before we fry them in oil?

Depending on where you live you can apply one of several ways to produce cheap hydrogen. Sun, wind, water, algae, geothermal, waves or exchanging hot and cold ocean water (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ocean_thermal_energy _conversion)

There is always something that will work for you, locally. But, as long as cars running on hydrogen (or even just hybrids) are insanely expensive, the "Hydrogen Echonomy" is only going to take off in a government supported (and rich) environment .. like Iceland.

A nuclear power plant is a very expensive enterprice and will only be build after "we" have started using more and more Hydrogen .. even though it probably is the cheapest way to get hydrogen in the long run..

I hope the gas prices keep going up (in Europe the price is around $7/gallon, so I have no idea what that SUV thing everybody is talking about is...) If gas prices keep going up, people will start thinking, demanding alternatives...

Why don't I get a huge tax break if I buy a car that goes 100 kilometers on 3 liters of gas?
Why is a simple electric car impossible to get hold of? (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toyota_RAV4_EV)
There are several engine improvements out there (http://peswiki.com/index.php/Directory:Engines)

This one: http://pesn.com/2006/05/02/9500266_Gun_Engine/ runs on Hydrogen as well as Gas .. the same engine!

Click at your own risk. Reality bending questions lurk here.

Appended as preface at http://pesn.com/2006/02/28/9600238_High_School_Soy _Sports_Car/

Feb. 30, 2006

I spoke this morning by phone with Simon Hauger who is the director of the West Philadelphia High School auto program.

He said that his students have been working on this car for a couple of years, and that they ran it in the Tour de Sol and won their division in May 2005. The 50 mpg mileage was well documented there.

They were then able to enter the car into the Philadelphia Car Show, where the car was the star of the show.

The Philadelphia Inquirer ran a feature, which CBS News then noticed and came to the school to run the feature which they aired a week ago.

Hauger said that the camera crews were there for an entire day and took four hours of footage.

"You never know what they will select to include in their three minutes of air time," he said.

The coverage had generated a lot of favorable media interest.
The question that gets asked over and over, he said, was "Why aren't the major automobile manufacturers doing this?"

"It kind of begs the question," he said. "This is all off-the-shelf stuff. These kids are not geniuses, and look at what they have been able to come up with on a shoestring budget."

What's under the hood is a VW turbo diesel in the back, and an AC propulsion electric motor in the front.

They're still working out some issues with the hybrid aspect of the car, and did not use that in winning the Tour de Sol.

In other words, the technology exists in presently-manufactured automobiles to achieve these kinds of efficiencies and power. Why aren't the major automobile companies doing this as a matter of course?

-- Sterling D. Allan

Those big solar concentrators are just one of the options besides photovoltaics. There's also a huge array of solar powered stirling engines being constructed in Southern California, and there's a giant solar tower being built in New South Wales Australia. Those are just the two projects I've heard of besides the solar concentrators. The advantage of the stirling engines is that they are the most efficient method of converting solar power into electricity (currently about 30%), while the advantage of the solar towers is that although they are much less efficient (2% or so) they are extremely simple to design and should be relatively cheap to build as well.

The Norsk Hydro floating design has one turbine per post, no batteries, no hydrogen. It is basically a simplified version of Lee's design. (By the way, Lee sent me an email saying that the Norsk design impinges on his pending patent. I encouraged him to seek for cooperation rather than litigation.)

It seems to me that the wake issue, and 6D separation factor is the weak point of Lee's design. Too inefficient to build a platform that would enable a saparation of 6D.

Then again, mabye a combo of Lee and Norsk would be the ideal. For every 6 pillars, individually moored, you could have one floating H-gen / battery platform.

But then you loose the advantage of portability.

appended at http://pesn.com/2005/10/25/9600196_Wilma_Capacitor /reply_to_slashdot.htm

Thursday, October 27, 2005 6:57 AM
by Paul Noel

Well the article he sites may have some fact behind it, but is definitely not what was observed here. ( I appreciate the electromagnetic side of the events a great deal) The radiation from this storm in the second 1974 event was brighter than noon day sun and occurred at 11pm. It was observed by thousands of people. It was terrifying to many of these people. The earlier event may have been influenced some by sunlight as it was late afternoon but the angles are wrong. The colors observed are most frequently green but I have also seen yellow, blue and reddish late at night.

One event not related to the 1974 events, which I saw I was driving down the road and saw a strong lightning strike associated with a tornadic event. The sky air turned green. This is a sustained glow. I would suspect that the green is probably what gets out of the cloud with the more intense stuff buried in the cloud. This is very bright, blindingly bright and not some soft green as indicated by the author of the article. Also Tornado research tends to be full of guys who refute the eyewitnesses because they are so sure the people didn't see what they saw. I said this stuff gets pretty strange. I have also observed very large ball lightning quite close up. It is spectacular and will shake one up. (In many ways)

The reason I report it to be Cerenkov radiation is, it looks like it. It is like the bright eerie glow from a radiation cooling pond. I have witnessed the more blue version of this associated with an intense ball lighting strike. It is pretty scary. The probability here is that the electromagnetic discharges here are causing fusion or transmutation of elements and a particle discharge. I would suspect that we are seeing a sustained version of events similar to cold fusion in some cases. Of course with many patients in the field of cold fusion existing and a lot of research going on, "It still doesn't exist." (Sorry for being a bit terse but does exist) All such events do have strong electromagnetic events associated with them. This is why you get an EMP pulse from an atomic bomb. Tornadoes have been known for decades to be very strong Microwave transmitters on TV Channel 2. I would assume on other frequencies as well. The green or other colors is a typical doubling down or fluorescence process seen in optics. This is where you use a higher frequency to drive a lower one. This is also related to the production of C14 from N14 http://www.beckwithelectric.com/keeping-current/kc -31.html and other sources will note it as well.

I have not proposed that this is any new physics. It isn't. It is absolutely simple physics associated with well known principals. The problem is that people see it as something new. Van De Graff Generators are not new. They are the very classical base of nuclear physics research. Ionization of water is not new. (not pH) People tend to think it isn't there. You can see it when you wash a car and see the beads of water skimming over the surface not joining up with the already wet surface. There is all sorts of data coming in. The "Red Sprites" and "Blue Jets" are not new physics, NASA just recently observed them. Pilots had been told for years that they were crazy when they reported them. In the 1930's to the present when pilots reported strange glows associated with thunderstorms, suddenly the best educated and professional men, were relegated to the list of nuts and denigrated. It took NASA filming this and even in the case of the 1974 tornado event, it was home movies by these government types before glows associated with these storms could be accepted to exist. Even then it was heckled. It doesn't surprise me the hecklers

Paul is the author of this piece that so many here at Slashdot have flamed. Here is a response that he submitted for your consideration.

It is posted in full, with illustrations, at http://pesn.com/2005/10/25/9600196_Wilma_Capacitor /reply_to_slashdot.htm

- - - -

To the critics of my article that made their comments in Slashdot's site, I say thanks for your attention. Maybe some of you will get brave and try to prove me wrong rather than just make argument. When you do, somewhere on the trail, we may come to more fully understand these events. What must be understood is just how poorly these events are understood. This may seem strange for the pasting some of you shot at me, but I am most interested in good science. Good science is more interested in fact than the politically correct opinions of today. That means you say thanks for criticism....

To those who might have noted a bit more and been supportive, thanks. But keep on looking at reality. What I say doesn't matter except if it gets people thinking. Do remember I didn't attempt to write a technical document. It was more like a news report.

For those who think I don't know what is going on regards these storms, I am so far into the edge of understanding them, I probably do sound crazy. This comes from the point of view of having observed this stuff for a long time. My observations of tornados and their associated phenomena extend from the 1960's. It grew more intense and deliberate in the early 1970's. Early on when I heard strange stories from tornado events, I thought these people were crazy. After actually observing them myself, I have concluded that most reports are probably less crazy than the reality. The physics is pretty strange. Hurricanes are very much related to this because tornados generally occur associated with continental storms, that are minus the name "Hurricanes" very much the same type of storm. Hurricanes also contain lots of tornados. It is all one set of physics.

When the massive outbreak of April 3 of 1974 occurred I was watching and taking notes. I was there! In the two days prior to this outbreak, the wind blew warm and strong at up to 50 mph from the south, southwest. It had rained early on April 1 and the ground was soaked across the eastern USA with something close to 3 inches of rain in many areas. There was some tornado activity on the 1^st . As the evening of the 3^rd drew on tornado warnings were followed by massive tornados. I witnessed from a distance 2 of these super cell storms for about 45 minutes total. My location gave me an exceptional view most of the time. At that time I witnessed large volumes of air glowing with Cerenkov radiation. (Ref) These were several cubic miles in volume. This is referenced in the movie "Twister" where they talk about "going green." The events are related. The technical advisors from NASA (6 persons) to the movie were witnesses of the same event. I also took notes. K. Vonnegut (Troy NY) published these notes in a scientific report on the event.

Later that evening as another series of thunderstorms passed through, the people without power knew to evacuate as tornados arrived, because "The air turned green." The NASA movie advisors were witnesses of this latter event.

This event led me to look into the physics at a very deep level. What I found was most interesting. The predecessor to the US Department of Agriculture's Soil Conservation Service had published their annual report in 1910. It just happened to be in the local Public Library. I doubt the book even exists any more. In that report a discussion of drought, and soil erosion by various means led to a section on rain impact erosion and similar topics. It was noted in the report that the wind blowing over wetland at over 12.5 mph would aspirate microscopic droplets of water out of the land. These droplets were highly charged on their surfaces at the maximum for water. This is the belt o

Hi Sterling.

I'm surprised you have the guts to show yourself in the thread after some of the comments which have been made. So, kudos on your bravery.

However, I would like to take this opportunity to explain to you why so many people are mad at you right now.

People were expecting (rightly or wrongly, this being Slashdot) a science story. This is not what they got. I will explain to you why this is not a science story.

A science story would present a phenomenon which was previously unexplained, then present either a number of possible explanations and a way of testing them to see which one was right, or preferably, evidence showing that a particular explanation was correct. Paul Noel has not done this with his article.

Instead of presenting an unexplained phenomenon, he makes suppositions and then skips the physics. I see a number of phenomenons which are being described in the linked article and its accompanying one at http://pesn.com/2005/10/21/9600193_Wilma_Energy_fr om_the_Vacuum/ One is his back pain. He presents no evidence that his back pain was caused by Wilma, and only presents one possible hypothesis (the electromagnetic one). Another is his link between vacuum energy and hurricanes. His only evidence that there might be link to vacuum energy is that according to his calculations, Wilma was losing energy of an "amount here is equal the detonation of a 20 megaton Hydrogen bomb every few minutes. To strip the planet of this much heat this fast requires an ionic short circuit into deep space." Um, there is this thing called the stratosphere where energy is radiated away into space as electromagnetic energy, named infrared. This is not new knowledge. Nor does it have anything to do with ionization or any "ionic short circuit". People on slashdot know this stuff. You should too.

There are certainly things we don't know about hurricanes and other vortices. However, there are a lot of things that we DO know. Mr. Noel doesn't seem to know the existing science behind hurricanes, and he doesn't seem to have any problem with making up possible ideas to explain his gaps in knowledge. This is not a bad way to learn a subject, mind you. But before you go around telling other people that your ideas are correct, you better test them. Mr. Noel doesn't seem to have considered other hypotheses, much less tested to see which ones are correct. I mean, seriously! Vacuum energy? WTF? Where does that come from? His theory might as well be that the energy fairies are stealing it for all that he explains the mechanism. If he wants to expand our knowledge, great. Where is he doing that?

I appreciate what you are trying to do with OSEN. If you guys want to discuss ideas, please do. However, once you decide it's worthy of publicizing, then you need to hold your people to the same burden of proof that other scientists are held to. Does Paul know how much you just publicly humiliated him? Linus wouldn't let any crap code into the linux kernel, and you shouldn't be posting any old crap to slashdot. Don't waste our time - it's enough of a waste as it is! ;)

You know, I work on weird stuff also. I know that there is plenty of energy that we could be harvesting if we did it right. I'm building something right now you would probably find quite interesting. Some day someone like me might need something like OSEN to get word out about something that is not accepted by a part of the science community, or squelched by big business. However, if you think that ideas are more important than evidence, you would do me no good. I'd be better off avoiding you. If you want to have a little club, that's fine. But if you want to have more, you'll have to back up your shit with more than "we don't know everything". No shit. We already know that. Tell us something we don't know - not just something we don't think. There is a difference.

Not all solar power involves photovoltaics.
For example, mirrors can concentrate sunlight on a large Stirling Engine to produce eletricity.
There are several pilot projects in the works.
Google for more info.

I did an exclusive interview with SkyBuilt President & CEO, Dave Muchow. The story is posted here: http://pesn.com/2005/10/20/9600192_SkyBuilt_Plop_a nd_Go/

Here is an excerpt:

Muchow said that his inspiration and model in forming the company was the laptop computer, with its plug-and-play versatility of components, from the chips to the hardware and the peripherals. The open architecture enables a mixing and matching of components to suit the individual user so that they don't have more than they need, and they can just add on what they might be missing.

Apply that now to renewable energy systems. That is what SkyBuilt is all about, and has been tackling since 2002 when they started. That is the essence of the 140 claims they have filed in their patent applications.

They want to be the Dell of renewable energy systems.

"We are the world's first plug-and-play, open architecture, mobile renewable power system," said Muchow.

Call them up, tell them your needs, and they pull together a package based on their wide experience and network of experts that they can call upon to make an ideal system, providing the highest value, at the lowest price possible.

Paul Noel wrote an excellent article talking about how this Grand Challenge could now spur a race to real "auto" mobiles -- vehicles that drive by themselves, similar to the Internet revolution, which DARPA also launched. He then poses the question: Just think what could happen if the next Grand Challenge were in the area of energy development technologies!

Letter to the Editor at PESN reviews recent coverage on Coast to Coast AM regarding the down sides of Power Grid Internet.

I'm trying to get a feel for the size of a parking lot, but I believe spaces are about 8 feet wide and 15 feet long and lanes are usually around 15 feet wide; a representative area would be 180 square feet per space. If you could tile a lot with collectors similar to these at 1/3 coverage, you'd get 1 unit-equivalent for every 3226 square feet or more than one for every 18 parking spaces. If each one can produce at full power for 8 hours a day, that's 200 kWh/unit/day or more than 11 kWh/space/day.

The median commute is around 22 miles; assuming an electric or plug-in hybrid car that used 350 watt-hours per mile, the median commuter would need 7.7 kWh/day. These solar dishes could recharge the electric cars of the commuters parking beneath them, and have power left over to supply to the office the commuters work in.

Goodbye, grid distribution losses! Hello, green suburban commuter lifestyle!

I thought this one is rather interesting.

Not to bash this solar lighting system or anything, but the author of the article is a bit of a nutcase-- she wrote a whole article about how we're all doomed because of the impending Magnetic Field Revesal, and another article about a scientist was killed in a conspiratorial fashion because of his "new energy" discoveries, which apparently came from space aliens.

So take this article with a big grain of alien-free salt.

and raise you to 15% (by weight):

Ammonia

Checkout http://pesn.com/2005/06/26/9600116_Naudin_MAHG/
and http://jlnlabs.imars.com/cfr/index.htm/

Experimenter claims to derive free energy cleanly and safely from the dissociation and association of hydrogen atoms. Data posted from several tests. Plans, schematics, methods all listed openly to encourage replication and improvement of results. Based on decades-old concepts set forth by Nobel laureate.

Because this development was featured in prestigious Nature, the world is taking notice. An Associate Press story is receiving widespread coverage by mainstream news organizations. Google News is showing major coverage by a wide range of news organizations worldwide. http://pesn.com/2005/04/28/6900088_UCLA_Cold_Fusio n/

UCLA website http://rodan.physics.ucla.edu/pyrofusion/ credits SlashDot for overwhelming their server.

"Sorry, couldn't handle Slashdot effect. ...Last modified: Wed Apr 27 20:37:46 UTC 2005"

Also worth note: Cold Fusion Goes Back to School at MIT - Colloquium to be held on Massachusetts Institute of Technology campus May 21, 2005. http://pesn.com/2005/04/20/6900085_Cold_Fusion_MIT /

Because this development was featured in prestigious Nature, the world is taking notice. An Associate Press story is receiving widespread coverage by mainstream news organizations. Google News is showing major coverage by a wide range of news organizations worldwide. http://pesn.com/2005/04/28/6900088_UCLA_Cold_Fusio n/

UCLA website http://rodan.physics.ucla.edu/pyrofusion/ credits SlashDot for overwhelming their server.

"Sorry, couldn't handle Slashdot effect. ...Last modified: Wed Apr 27 20:37:46 UTC 2005"

Also worth note: Cold Fusion Goes Back to School at MIT - Colloquium to be held on Massachusetts Institute of Technology campus May 21, 2005. http://pesn.com/2005/04/20/6900085_Cold_Fusion_MIT /