Energy Alternatives

The Great Sellout on Energy

July 3rd, 2009

The sale of energy is the biggest business in the world, raking in TRILLIONS�of dollars per year.� those companies that sell this energy don’t want you to know about the alternate energy sources out there, but they are there.

If you start looking around as I have, you’ll start finding a myriad of people who have developed various alternative energy methods.� “How can it be that we’re not using these technologies”, you might ask?� The people who run the power companies don’t want them made available AT�ALL!� Why would they?� They have an expensive infrastructure in place that makes them all very wealthy on a continuous basis.� They will do almost anything to stifle this technology

So how are these alternative energies to be utilized in our world on a large scale.� Well to be honest, the power companies not only don’t want these devices to become well known publicly, and I believe they will take action against people who will try to mass produce them.� For example there was a company in Australia, Lutec, that had designed models that would power a house.� The video that we found for this was over a year old, and they have yet to be able to go to commercial with this.�

So what are we faced with except that the world doesn’t want to have to change (or at least the people up top in charge don’t want to change) which means that we have to bring this change ourselves.� These natural, renewable, environmentally friendly energy technologies are available.� This is going to have to be a grass roots development and the way to make it happen is by doing it yourself.� There are some great places out there that offer plans on building some of these devices, and its through this and spreading the word on this that we can begin to turn the tide to renewable energies.

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Energy Management - A Tool For Effective Energy Consumption

July 2nd, 2009

Energy management phenomenon should be applied by everyone in order to make this earth a better place to live in! Anything that happens -from a pin-drop to an explosion-requires energy. Energy is the capacity for “doing work”(making something happen).Various forms of energy exist, including light, heat, sound, electrical, chemical, nuclear, kinetic and potential energies. There is a ceaseless abundance of energy for everyone. Your efficiency in energy management basically defines your life. You can just live a simple life with no concept of how you are using or misusing it, or you can meticulously work with it to live a peaceful, happy, joyous, contented and abundant life. The choice is yours!

Energy plays a very vital role in human life and it is our duty to save energy as much as we can for near future. In today’s global climate every change increases our combined efforts against energy loss. Though we all have the ability to save energy, we don’t give much importance to it.

It is not possible to develop an energy program successfully without having a way to measure and account for the amount you are spending on energy and its usage. A better choice is to have the information shared among a number of users.

This process of accounting is a vital component of energy management. The accounting of energy must not be just a complex series of numbers. They must be written in a concise and clear version. For example, you must have noticed a steady increase in your monthly power bills. You must consider using solar power and wind power to generate your own electricity. It is highly cost effective and environment friendly. Hence if you successfully build solar power panels or wind generators, you can expect to make all your money return back in one to two months.

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Low Cost Balloon Shaped Solar Design is Highly Efficient

July 1st, 2009

In doing research for this article I have run across some great green products but never one like this. Can you imagine getting electrical power from balloons? This is what a Cool Earth out of Livermore, California has done when it designed the next generation of solar collectors. The basic concept hasn’t changed; convert sunlight into electric power using solar cells; but the packaging has changed, and this is where balloon design is unique.

One side of the balloon is made from reflective silver Mylar plastic. With the other half is clear to let sunlight in. The silver material is parabolic-shaped to concentrate the sunlight on to a single point. That point is the solar cell package that is placed on an arm at the precise point of maximum light concentration.

The balloon has a simple circular metal frame that is used to hold the Mylar in the proper shape. An arm extends from the ring to the top center of the orb. This holds the solar cells that produce the electricity. The cells are cooled by water to dissipate the heat concentrated on the solar cells.

The balloon’s design will concentrate the sunlight 300 to 400 times better than traditional roof mounted solar panels. By design, this reduces the cost of each balloon and greatly increases electrical output per cubic inch of solar cell material. This means that cost of the electricity produced will be on par with current natural gas peaker power plants.

When operational the balloon will produce about 1kw of power. With the average house consuming around 3.5 kw it would only require a 20 sq ft area foorprint. But alas the company is only looking at producing this design for local utility companies and large business. �

Some of the more daunting aspects of any of the green products i have looked at is cost.� When researching renewable solar power it is amazing how simple t Read the rest of this entry »

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