energy generation through low energy nuclear reactions (lenr)

Reactor for energy generation through low energy nuclear reactions (lenr) between hydrogen and transition metals and related method of energy generation
US 20130243143 A1


https://www.google.com/patents/US20130243143?dq=patents&hl=en&sa=X&ei=cuucUvzBIJTYoASHpYKwDQ&ved=0CDcQ6AEwAA

EV wireless power transfer standard set.

http://insideevs.com/sae-international-announces-agreement-on-wireless-power-transfer-frequency-for-evs/

Underwater Kites Harness Ocean Currents and Tides for Power

That power potential is estimated at about 20 gigawatts, or about 10 nuclear power plants.

http://mashable.com/2013/11/12/underwater-kites/

Finally! Independent Testing Of Rossi's E-Cat Cold Fusion Device: Maybe The World Will Change After All

http://www.forbes.com/sites/markgibbs/2013/05/20/finally-independent-testing-of-rossis-e-cat-cold-fusion-device-maybe-the-world-will-change-after-all/

Kyocera launches 70-megawatt solar plant, largest in Japan

http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-57611602-1/kyocera-launches-70-megawatt-solar-plant-largest-in-japan/?ttag=fbwp

Fwd: What does this mean?

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http://washingtonexaminer.com/no-one-bids-to-build-solar-plants-on-colorado-public-lands/article/2537825
Is government-controlled solar over?

Eight governors make zero-emission car pledge

http://www.usatoday.com/story/money/cars/2013/10/24/eight-states-electrric-cars/3176221/

Carbon-negative energy, a reality at last -- and cheap, too - CNET Mobile

http://m.cnet.com/news/carbon-negative-energy-a-reality-at-last----and-cheap-too/57608281

SOLAR IMPULSE - AROUND THE WORLD IN A SOLAR AIRPLANE

http://www.solarimpulse.com/timeline/view/7121#!

ACROSS AMERICA - ST. LOUIS: SUSTAINABILTY REPORT

 16.06.2013

EPA Announces Revised Fuel Economy Label Estimates for 2013 Ford C-Max: 43 MPG Combined, 45 MPG City, and 40 MPG Highway | Green Energy News

http://www.green-energy-news.com/nwslnks/clips813/aug13014.html

Wirelessly-charged electric buses start public route in South Korea

 http://www.engadget.com/2013/08/06/wirelessly-charged-electric-buses-south-korea-public-routes/

Gone in 90 Seconds: Tesla's Battery-Swapping Magic - Businessweek

http://mobile.businessweek.com/articles/2013-06-21/gone-in-90-seconds-teslas-battery-swapping-magic

Elon Musk: Tesla to demo battery swap technology on Thursday — Tech News and Analysis

http://gigaom.com/2013/06/18/elon-musk-tesla-to-demo-battery-swap-tech-on-thursday-night/

Charge Your Phone for Free at One of These Solar-Powered Stations | Gadget Lab | Wired.com

http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2013/06/street-charge/

Replace your car battery with capacitors! 12V BoostPack Update

Check out this video on YouTube:

http://youtu.be/z3x_kYq3mHM


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The Supermaterial That Could Make Plastic Obsolete Is... Mushrooms?

http://gizmodo.com/the-futuristic-material-that-will-replace-plastic-is-511544462

Fungus is, almost universally, not a good thing to have in your walls or personal belongings. And normally, selling certain strains could lead to federal charges. But a company called Ecovative is violating both of those rules, creating packaging and building materials from fungus—and they’re being lauded as visionaries for it.

Ecovative was founded by Eben Bayer and Gavin McIntyre, who started experimenting with fungus as part of a school project. Today, they employ 60 people and maintain a massive facility in upstate New York, where they farm mycelium, the root-like threads that form the basis for fungus. Mycelium is like a glue: it latches onto whatever it finds around it—usually, low-value organic matter like plant stalks or cotton hulls—to create a super-dense network of threads. Ecovative grows it in dark cartons for three to five days, after which they use extreme heat to stop it from blossoming spores. “Spores come from the fruiting body or mushroom,” explains Ecovative’s Sam Harrington. “Since we don't grow the mycelium for long enough to 'fruit' to form a mushroom, there are never any spores or allergen concerns with our process."

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Ecovative's process is transformative in two ways. First, there's the unique biological properties of Mycelium, which can grow miles of thread-like roots in days. It's an incredibly speedy organism, which makes it ideal for manufacturing. Then there's the fact that it grows to fit any mold, almost like a dense foam. Ecovative grows everything from finely detailed packaging for laptops, to wide panels of insulation for homes. They're also able to control the density of each product, simply by stopping the growth process sooner or later. Their latest experiment? Growing Mycelium architecture. This month, they unveiled what they call Mushroom Tiny House, a small gabled cabin whose interior walls are packed with Mycelium insulation. “We see a future where Mushroom Materials are found in the bumper of your car, the walls of your home, and inside your desk,” says Harrington.

The biggest challenge with scaling their burgeoning fungus operation is likely the public perception of its products. Organically-grown packaging is usually seen as coup for companies’ marketing teams, but it’s less so for those on the logistics side of things. Still, that’s rapidly changing. This year, Ecovative is partnering with Sealed Air Corporation, the 50-year-old company that invented bubble wrap, to open a factory in Iowa where they'll scale their packaging output. They’re also in talks with several electronics makers to grow Mycelium packaging for laptops and tablets. "We have tested these materials in environmental chambers under extreme conditions as well as several years of shipping packaging and we have not found mold to be an issue at all," says Harrington.

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Harrington, tellingly, situates Ecovative as the latest in a long line of great American chemical and materials giants. “Dow and Dupont spent the last 100 years turning petroleum and natural gas into all sorts of amazing plastics and materials,” he says. “[But] usually with not so amazing environmental consequences. We aim to be this centuries leader in sustainable materials.” Companies like Dow and Dupont have past hundred years developing chemicals to prevent mold. Now, Ecovative is poised to spend the next hundred years encouraging it.

Massive Energy Skyscraper Proposed On U.S.-Mexico Border - Forbes

http://www.forbes.com/sites/davidferris/2013/03/26/massive-energy-skyscraper-proposed-on-u-s-mexico-border/

Massive Energy Skyscraper Proposed On U.S.-Mexico Border

From the Article:

A Maryland energy company is planning to deliver 500 megawatts of power to the electrical grid from a giant hollow tower on the Arizona-Mexico border that would be the second-tallest structure ever built.
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The project does seem farfetched, and the company’s stock is trading at a penny a share, down from a high of 32 cents two years ago. But Sharon Williams, the director of development services for the city of San Luis, said the company’s professionalism bespoke a certain seriousness.

Massive Energy Skyscraper Proposed On U.S.-Mexico Border http://www.forbes.com/sites/davidferris/2013/03/26/massive-energy-skyscraper-proposed-on-u-s-mexico-border/

Follow-up: 
Your Energy Skyscraper Questions, Answered
http://www.forbes.com/sites/davidferris/2013/03/26/your-energy-skyscraper-questions-answered/

Tesla boosting its charging network THonline.com

http://m.thonline.com/mobile_new/news/technology/article_98bd7af8-8589-50a8-bdb3-9452f6882471.html

Tesla to introduce new $30,000 compact sedan as EV company expands its charging network

http://m.digitaltrends.com/cars/tesla-to-introduce-new-30000-compact-sedan-as-electric-car-company-expands-its-charging-network/

Generating Power from Old Automotive Batteries

By David Greenfield, Director of Content (of automationworld.com) Automation industry shows are rarely lacking in cool, new technologies to showcase. And while several intriguing new products were on display in Orlando, Fla., at ABB’s Automation & Power World 2013, one of the displays I found most interesting was at the ABB Energy Storage Module (ESM) booth.

ESM was presenting a community energy storage (CES) system comprised of two enclosures that separately house the ABB ESI-S inverter and five GM Chevy Volt batteries. The batteries, which have been in use in the Volt for 8 to 10 years, are capable of holding only 70 percent of their full charge, thereby making them less viable for automotive use. But that remaining capacity, which can discharge power over the span of several hours, has definite benefits as a stationary storage application.

http://www.automationworld.com/industry-business/generating-power-old-automotive-batteries

Scientific Reports: Peel-and-Stick: Fabricating Thin Film Solar Cell on Universal Substrates

http://www.nature.com/srep/2012/121220/srep01000/full/srep01000.html

Fabrication of thin-film solar cells (TFSCs) on substrates other than Si and glass has been challenging because these nonconventional substrates are not suitable for the current TFSC fabrication processes due to poor surface flatness and low tolerance to high temperature and chemical processing. Here, we report a new peel-and-stick process that circumvents these fabrication challenges by peeling off the fully fabricated TFSCs from the original Si wafer and attaching TFSCs to virtually any substrates regardless of materials, flatness and rigidness. With the peel-and-stick process, we integrated hydrogenated amorphous silicon (a-Si:H) TFSCs on paper, plastics, cell phone and building windows while maintaining the original 7.5% efficiency. The new peel-and-stick process enables further reduction of the cost and weight for TFSCs and endows TFSCs with flexibility and attachability for broader application areas. We believe that the peel-and-stick process can be applied to thin film electronics as well.

Ev charging at Mc Donald's Part 2

Ev charging at Mc Donald's

Indian-American student develops a capacitor than can charge cellphone in 20 seconds.

http://www.techlife360.com/2013/05/Indian-american-Eesha-Khare-cellphone-charging-news.html

Indian-American student develops a capacitor than can charge cellphone in 20 seconds.

An Eighteen year old Indian-American teenage girl Eesha Khare from Saratoga, California, invented a super capacitor that can charge cell phone in 20-30 seconds. 

This super charger can be installed inside the cell phone battery. According to Eesha, this technology can handle 10,000 charge/recharge cycles, while most modern battery only can handle 1000 charge /recharge cycles. And also have many advantages over current batteries.

So far this new technology is only been tested on LED light, and also it have a great chances to work with other devices like cellphones and also flexible environmentslike bendable displays, fabrics and clothing's.

The project is named as "Design and Synthesis of Hydrogenated TiO2-Polyaniline Nanorods for Flexible High-Performance Supercapacitors." For this project she was awarded $50,000 by Intel Foundation-Young Scientist Award.

Big players like Google has been already contacted with her, she not yet revealed any details about that.

Patent filing claims solar energy ‘breakthrough’ | McClatchy

http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2013/05/08/190683/patent-filing-claims-solar-energy.html#.UYwmsRpZ5Kd

More Good News About Supercaps

Looks like I am going to win my bet.

FROM:  http://www.kcet.org/news/rewire/science/more-good-news-on-those-carbon-supercapacitors.html

That battery life video that had gone viral due to a recent post on UpWorthy (and which we told you about Tuesday) now has an update. We told you that researchers at Ric Kamen's lab at UCLA had found a way to make a non-toxic, highly efficient energy storage medium out of pure carbon using absurdly simple technology. Today, we can report that the same team may well have found a way to make that process scale up to mass-production levels.

The recap: Graphene, a very simple carbon polymer, can be used as the basic component of a "supercapacitor" -- an electrical power storage device that charges far more rapidly than chemical batteries. Unlike other supercapacitors, though, graphene's structure also offers a high "energy density," -- it can hold a lot of electrons, meaning that it could conceivably rival or outperform batteries in the amount of charge it can hold. Kaner Lab researcher Maher El-Kady found a way to create sheets of graphene a single carbon atom thick by covering a plastic surface with graphite oxide solution and bombarding it with precisely controlled laser light.

English translation: He painted a DVD with a liquid carbon solution and stuck it into a standard-issue DVD burner.

The result: Absurdly cheap graphene sheets one atom thick, which held a surprising amount of charge without further modification.

That work was reported a year ago; we mentioned it due to the video virally making the rounds this week. Late Tuesday, UCLA announced that El-Kady and Kaner have a new article in press, in the upcoming issue of Nature Communications, describing a method by which El-Kady's earlier, slightly homebrewed fabricating process shown in the video can be made more efficient, raising the possibility of mass production. As the authors say in their article abstract,

More than 100 micro-supercapacitors can be produced on a single disc in 30 min or less.

El-Kady and Kaner found a way to embed small electrodes within each graphene unit, and place the whole thing on a flexible substrate that allows the supercapacitor to be bent. The team is already claiming energy density comparable to existing thin-film lithium ion batteries.

In the video we shared Tuesday, Kaner says that this technology, if it pans out, offers possibilities like a smart phone getting a full day's charge in a second or two, or an electric car reaching "full" in a minute. This week's press release from UCLA offers other intriguing possibilities:

The new micro-supercapacitors are also highly bendable and twistable, making them potentially useful as energy-storage devices in flexible electronics like roll-up displays and TVs, e-paper, and even wearable electronics. The researchers showed the utility of their new laser-scribed graphene micro-supercapacitor in an all-solid form, which would enable any new device incorporating them to be more easily shaped and flexible. The micro-supercapacitors can also be fabricated directly on a chip using the same technique, making them highly useful for integration into micro-electromechanical systems (MEMS) or complementary metal-oxide-semiconductors (CMOS). As they can be directly integrated on-chip, these micro-supercapacitors may help to better extract energy from solar, mechanical and thermal sources and thus make more efficient self-powered systems. They could also be fabricated on the backside of solar cells in both portable devices and rooftop installations to store power generated during the day for use after sundown, helping to provide electricity around the clock when connection to the grid is not possible.

Kaner says that his lab is now looking for partners in industry that can help make these graphene supercapacitors on an industrial scale.

It's tempting to be cynical about the possibility of a magic bullet energy storage solution; such a breakthrough could solve any number of problems from annoying dead smart phones to two-hour charge times for electric cars to an inefficient power distribution grid, and it's easy to really want this kind of thing to be true. Plenty of seemingly promising technical innovations in the last few years haven't lived up to their hopeful hype. There's always the chance that further study will reveal a fatal flaw in graphene supercapacitor technology. 

Chinese firm gets OK to buy failed U.S. battery maker A123

Chinese firm gets OK to buy failed U.S. battery maker

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-202_162-57566519/chinese-firm-gets-ok-to-buy-failed-u.s-battery-maker/

These batteries are a vital industry in the immediate future. Letting this leave our shores will be a trillion dollar mistake. This isn't about this one company but the future of robotics and all vehicles. Not just cars but trucks, busses, trains and planes. UAVs and self driving autonomous systems of all forms depend on high density batteries.