Takchess things of interest

100 + Things to be optimistic about (updated)

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Engine- Auto IC

1) DOE Consortium looks to improve ICE efficiency by 30%

2. Michigan State University, Nobert Mueller, has a Wave Disk creates a pulse which recharges a battery

Wave Disk Engine 3.5 X more efficient than ICE
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humphrey_cycle
http://gas2.org/2011/03/21/the-wave-disk-engine-cheap-efficient-clean-and-different/
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2011/04/11/new-gasoline-engine-design-has-4x-efficiency-of-pistons/
a good description of the shock wave cycles
Arpa-e MSU Norbert Mueller Group explanation of the technology

3 Tour Engines - Improved ICE with Split Cycle

The TourEngine™ design splits the conventional 4-stroke cycle of a common engine between two opposing cylinders: The Cold-Cylinder hosts the intake and compression and the Hot-Cylinder hosts the combustion and exhaust.

5. Ilmor engineering designs a 5 stroke IC engine

6. Kazimierz Holubowicz is a physicist who thinks he has a plan to greatly reduce the rate of fuel (oil) consumption in engines.

7 Concept: Garric Rotary Variable Compression Ratio Engine

8 http://www.sandersonengine.com/html/the_engine_of_the_future.html

9 Rolf Reitz, a professor of mechanical engineering at UW-Madison.

replacing heavy-duty diesel engines and conventional gasoline engines

10) Transonic injects supercritical fuel for 30mpg increase, a khosla startup

11) Vincent Carman  The Inertial Storage Transmission (IST) by storing the engine's energy in high-pressure fluid improves MPG.

12) SAE 2010 shows multiple automotive efficentcy innovations &

13) Electric Supercharger bumps torque with a decrease in Co2

14 ) Pinnacle Engine Boxer Engine 30-40 % efficentcy

15) Spark Plugs made from lasers

Engine -ICE Diesel

1) Zajac improved diesel engine design

2) Liquid Piston diesel engine design improvement 20-30

3)  Diesel-Gas in same engine 20 %improvement

Engine- Hydrogen

1 Hydrogen Fuel Cells costs cut by 75% by Nissan

http://news.cnet.com/8301-11128_3-20071530-54/solar-generator-splits-water-to-make-hydrogen/?tag=mncol;txt

Engine- Heat & Stirling
1 Lonnie Johnson Stirling Engine in a Box- SolidState Membrane Heat Recovery--Heat Engine

- JTEC- Johnson Thermo-electromechanical Energy Conversion System, It will convert heat to electricity at rates reaching just under 40 percent of the maximum theoretical efficiency available in an engine operating between two temperatures -- the Carnot efficiency.

Lonnie Johnson lectures at Xerox Parc Video

2 Lonnie Johnson Amtec

Amtec -solid state heat engine

http://www.memagazine.org/contents/current/archive/alkali.html
http://peswiki.com/index.php/PowerPedia:Atomic_Battery

3

Motor-Electric

Electric Motor
1) :QM Power uses parallel path technology for more power over a wider range of profiles
http://pesn.com/2011/04/30/9501820_QM_Power_Commercializing_Flynns_OU_Parallel_Path_Technology/

2) Yasa Motors Electric Motor design 1/2 the size and twice the tourque
and more about Yasa Projects

Fuel- Alcohol-Ethanol-Methanol

1) Supercritical Water removes sugar from wood at sugarcane prices

2)  Synfuel cleaned with plasma arcs

3)

4) Molecular Filtration Advancements for Petroleum Refiners

5)
6) Low grade Coal (lignite) to Gas? Is it real and desirable?

8) Urine Fuel

E3 clean technology hydrogen fuel cell
http://www.zerofuel.org/

Fuel Algae,bugs etc Microbrew fuel

Joule Technology and more on Joule bioengineered cynobacteria

Venter harvests 20 million new genes to find bug that turns coal to methane
Bugs that create Methane from Coal
ARPA invests in bugs that produce Hydrogen, Ethanol etc.

Pressure cooking Algae to oil

Fuel Celulosic

1 One Step Cellusoic sludge to Ethanol

2 One Step Algae to Ethanol

3 Miscanthus Research

4 Anellotech catalytic process for cellulostic

5) University of Maine Tree Residue to energy

Fuel - Syngas etc

1. Miniaturizing Fischer-Tropsch plants  allows for more regional smaller scale plants reducing material transportation costs

Improved Manufacturing for large scale chemicals


1( CO2 as a FeedStockhttp://www.chemicalprocessing.com/articles/2008/090.html

http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn18387-co2-in-the-air-could-be-green-fuel-feedstock.html
http://news.cnet.com/8301-11128_3-9811962-54.html
http://www.chemicalprocessing.com/articles/2010/133.html
http://www.businessgreen.com/bg/news/1938440/dnv-converts-waste-carbon-valuable-chemical-feedstock
http://www.catelectric.us.com/technology.html
http://www.powerplantccs.com/ccs/cap/fut/c2p/c2p.html
http://newenergyandfuel.com/http:/newenergyandfuel/com/2011/10/07/fuel-from-the-air-a-step-closer/
Hydrogenization of CO2 (using it as a possible feedstock through Fischer-Tropp)
CO2 to Methanol
Solar heated iron creates syngas
Improved Refining
Factor of 50 energy savings membrane for seperation

Geothermal & Drilling Technologies

2) Fracking Oil Shale (pending safety concerns)

3) New Drilling technology for GeoThermal Wells

4) Improved Heat carriers for Geothermal

5) faster hole drilling

6)Virtual lithium mine attaches to geothermal plant

Grid Energy

Miniaturizing Fischer-Tropsch plants allows for more regional smaller scale plants reducing transportation costs

Coal

Luca Technology microbes turn coal into Natural Gas in the ground

Wind

Vertical Wind towers can mean 10X wind power on same amount of land.

Jet-engine inspired FloDesign boosts wind turbine output (exceed Betz Limit}

Solar

1) Khosla Scilicium a startup in Solar where disk benefits from heat as well.

2   NanoAntennas -Harvesting the full spectrum of the Sun's Rays
http://alfin2100.blogspot.com/2008/01/revolutionary-unique-solar-energy-nano.html

http://www.greenoptimistic.com/2011/07/11/light-harvesting-nanoantennas/

3 Infrared Light into Electricity :using a wider spectrum

also early detection of diseases and splitting light by color and intense focus of light
4 Spectrolab Solar reaches 40% with mirrors
5 CanSolar Beer Can Solar
6) Artifical Photosynthesis

http://palscience.com/2009/03/11/turning-sunlight-into-liquid-fuel/

7 ) Wake Forest- Fibercell inc Fiber Photovoltaics can double flat cell solar productivity at a fraction of the cost =small microfibers

8) DOE spends money on concentrated solar power

9)Stanford Has a Process to Make Solar Power Production More Than Twice as Efficient to as High as 60% efficient (solar power and heat in the same package)

10)The company's tiny solar cells, each a dot the size of a ballpoint pen tip, have been validated to convert 41 percent of solar energy to electricity, the National Renewable Energy Laboratory announced yesterday. Semprius is in the process of building a manufacturing facility in Henderson, N.C., to make concentrating solar arrays using its "micro-transfer printing" technique, according to the Department of Energy

Pizoelectric-

1) Capturing kinetic energy from cars- Speed bump power-drive throughs toll booths. -

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/New-Energy-MotionPower-TM-iw-3318612337.html?x=0

CHP

http://www.treehugger.com/renewable-energy/the-holy-grail-for-renewable-energy-solar-power-makes-electricity-day-and-night.html

General Technology

NASA shares technology with others

Air Conditioning [energy efficentcy]

Chromosun Solar Air Conditioning with a 4 year payback

The U.S. Department of Energy's National Renewable Energy Laboratory has invented a new air conditioning process with the potential of using 50 percent to 90 percent less energy than today's top-of-the-line units

7AC technology Salt-driven air conditioner looks to slash energy

Heat Pumps

Finnish energy company uses corrigated aluminum for new heat pump technology.

Building Materials

Architect Grows Brick From Bacteria, Sand & Urine

Nuclear

1 ) General Fusion

Fusion for 30M? Vancouver CA company with Bezos money.
NPR interview with Michael Laberge of General Fusion

2 Toshiba smaller nuclear

HydroPower

Micro hydro- canals slow moving

Rentricity turns presure drops in pipes to electricity

Water

Various Water Ideas

Seawater Greenhouses

Cyprus Institutes Solar Desalination

Bruce Logan Microbial Desalination Microbial Fuel Cells

Substainability :growing trees in the desert
http://www.scientificblogging.com/news_releases/waterboxx_grows_forests_desert
http://newenergyandfuel.com/http:/newenergyandfuel/com/2010/04/15/getting-water-to-grow-biofuels/

Scientific America article on greening the world

Desalinization Energy Plant

http://www.greentechmedia.com/articles/read/desalination-can-the-technology-go-elsewhere/
http://www.greentechmedia.com/articles/read/energy-from-sea-water-consider-ibm-intrigued/

Desalinization Pressure Drop Energy

A variant on Salt-Freshwater Energyhttp://www.physorg.com/news171102611.html

Sewerage Energyhttp://www.greentechmedia.com/articles/read/can-sewage-save-the-world/

Salt Water Battery Cuts Desalination Energy Use by 80%

IBM Seawater Osmotic Pressure Gradient

????
the will to explore new energy ideas :Rising above the gathering storm
Electric Cream ??

Recycling

Biomediation
Microvi biotech solves polution problem with tiny dogs

Farming

Urban farming

Appreciation for Dirt

research into perenial grains such as wheat -20 years out?

Diamond coating for plows means reduced energy

Government

why governmneeds to invest in energy ent

ARPA-E Awards $151M to 37 Projects for Transformative Energy Research[2009

What I am trying to do here

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This blog contains facts and information about Renewable Energy,Global Warming and some other items that interest me. Currently,there are a large number of posts which are left unpopulated or partially populated. I'll backfill them and continue to add info as I come across it.

This is a virtual notebook where I can place information in an organized manner. Hopefully, this will help me retain (or at least let me know where to find) info that I would otherwise forget and lose. This blog will look more like a website than a blog.

Some sources for my blog info is from http://www.treehugger.com/ and http://www.peakoil.com/websites as well books such as The Plot to Save the World.

I also plan to keep some notes on other things growing vegtables and flowers, watercoloring, living simply and frugally, cooking, Nashua, Books, Music and personal projects. However, the main emphasis will be on renewable energy.I'm doing this mainly for myself but perhaps you may find things of interest here.

100 + things to be optimistic about

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Optimism

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I'm optimistic the combined energy of research,technology, discussion, political action that are occuring we will get some positive results in obtaining new sources of energy and reduce global warming.

I am optomistic about this due to;

1) Large amount of individuals, university research labs, entreprenuers and companies that are working on this problem. Market forces help driving this.

2) In general, the world and the US do recognize this as an important issue

3) There are a number of technologies that are now new or are improved:

a) massive computing resources allow us to do modeling

b) better understanding allowing us to do biomimicing of breaking down materials to fuel, creating photosynthesism, reducing wind drag in transportation

c) biotechnology

d) improvements in battery technology

To see what the scientists and thought leaders of the Edge collaborative website are optomistic about click on the picture at the top of the page.

The Big Picture

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Notes on World Usage Notes on World Supply Notes on World Demand Notes on US Usage 140 billion gallons of gasoline consumed in the US each year And our global appetite for petroleum continues to grow. In the United States alone, we consume nearly 40 quadrillion BTUs every year. (That’s 15 zeroes – a billion million.) The costs are astronomical: We spend over $200 billion on foreign oil every year. Notes on US Supply Notes on US Demand Ninety seven percent of the fuel used in U.S. transportation is petroleum-based, and two-thirds of our oil is imported. Much the largest source of renewable energy is hydroelectric power, which provides 17% of world electricity (and 6% of world energy), about the same as nuclear power; both are CO2-free. All the other renewables - wind, wave, tidal, solar, biomass (which are either CO2-free or CO-neutral) - hardly feature in the statistics at the present time.
Revia and Depade

A one megawatt plant can supply up to 1,000 homes with power).

Industry in the United States accounts for one-fourth of the world's manufacturing output, employs 14 million people and at 12 percent of the gross domestic product makes the highest contribution to the economy of any sector," Blue said.
While the U.S. industrial sector supplies over 60 percent of the nation's exports worth $50 billion/month, the challenge is to reduce the amount of energy - 32 quads, which is about one-third of the total energy consumed in the nation. One quad is equal to 1 quadrillion British thermal units, an amount of energy equal to 170 million barrels of oil.

CHARLIE ROSE: You’ve also said that we can get — have energy independence in 10 years
if we’re willing to go spend $180 billion?
AMORY LOVINS: I didn’t say in 10 years, but if we spent $180 billion getting off oil, half of
it to retool the car, truck and plane industries for tripled efficiency, and half to build a
modern bio-fuels industry, then that $180 billion investment by 2025 would return net $70

about milatary

AMORY LOVINS: And, of course, it’s a very teachable moment right now, because they
spend about half their money and a third of their people moving stuff around. That’s called
logistics.
CHARLIE ROSE: Right. Right.
AMORY LOVINS: 70 percent of the tonnage they move is fuel.

http://cohesion.rice.edu/NaturalSciences/Smalley/emplibrary/120204%20MRS%20Boston.pdf

100 improvements in Batteries, Super Capacitors,Fuel Cells

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I've seen a lot of press releases and articles regarding Battery and SuperCapacitor improvements. I thought I would captures some of that Optimism 8) here and check back on them.

Quantumscape : Khosla, Stanford University, 1st ARPA-E round All-Electron Battery
Market: Autos
Advancement: the way material stacks together, electron flow vs Ion flow ?
Benefits:
The footprint of fossil fuels-Power Density
High Cycle rate

2) 5.2010 Recapping + Khosla + Penn State
Market:?
Advancement: Ceramic Battery based on a 3D nanocomposite structure, like EEStor
Benefits
high cycling ability,
high power density,
low cost

3)Boston Power (now in China)
Market: Auto
Advancement: lithium ion
Benefits: small size means easier QC, similar to Tesla

4) 9.2011 AES Large Grid Storage
Market: Battery Grid Storage
Advancement-Execution

5) Rebunieus 1GW Grid Storage in Mexico

6)Nocerra MIT artificial Leaf for hydrogen
Market: Hydrogen for Hydrogen Fuel Cells
Advancement: Solar and Water and Catalyst = Hydrogen

7)Mission Motors Motorcycle Battery
Market: Motorcycles and move up?

8.ClearEdge SMB Building Fuel Cells

9.Zinc Cheap as Dirt Grid Energy

10. Sodium Research

11.Liquid Metal Battery

12.Ioxus Caps

more about ioxus
13.New Anode lift lithium another 30%

14.Lithium Air and IBM

The challenges of lithium air battery
15.solid State Batteries for Autos

16.Flourine long lasting battery chemistry

17.Salton Sea Lithium

18.Centrifuge improves battery building

19.silicon Boost

20.Oorja the fork lift fuel cell company

21.Firefly energy RIP trucker cab battery

22.Porus Power Spray

23 Energizer Zinc Air

24.Xtreme Power

25.Sion - Lithium Sulfide more on Sion Power

26.links to multiple battery stories

27.stretchy membraine at berkley

28. Salt Water Battery

29: Gartner Like Quandrant

30. Nissan cuts auto fuel costs by 75%

31 iron air battery SC

32 a23 paste battery

33 1000 mile car battery MAIL Battery
500-mile EV batteries. With the help of Recovery Act funding, Arizona-based Fluidic Energy is working with Arizona State University to develop a new generation of higher energy density metal-air batteries (metal air ionic liquid batteries, MAIL). To date, the development of these batteries has been blocked by the limitations of using unstable water based solutions that break down and evaporate out of the battery as it breathes. Fluidic Energy’s approach involves ionic liquids. If successful, the effort could yield batteries that weigh less, cost less, and are capable of carrying a four passenger electric car 500 miles without recharging, at a cost competitive with internal combustion engines.

34 Harvard Microbial battery

35 Idaho University Lead Battery Advancements

36) online resources for battery research

37 Ultra Caps fromIOXUS

38 Flouride-ion Batteries
ten times the density of Lithium, need to figure out how to operate at lower temperatures.

39 Stretchy Membrane 2 at Singapore

40)MIT has new catalyst for Nocera leaf

and another new Catalyst

and another Hydrogen Catalyst avoid Platinum

41 FastCap
Nanomaterials in Capacitors

42 Algaenate binder

43 Formic Acid Fuel cells

44) Ceramatec Ceramic Batteries for the home

http://www.heraldextra.com/news/article_b0372fd8-3f3c-11de-ac77-001cc4c002e0.html

45) Organic Fuel cells

http://www.physorg.com/news168018281.html

46) Molten Salt Battery

47) Applied Materials and improved battery production technology

Nalamasu ended his talk on a retro note. The manufacturing process for batteries, even the lithium-ion batteries in a Toyota Prius or Telsa Roadster, has barely changed for a century. Applied Materials is developing a new, cheaper process that cuts the traditional 14 stages of production down to three.

48 Lithium Air Batteries (increased energy density)

http://www.greentechmedia.com/green-light/post/revolt-basf-ink-zinc-air-battery-development-deal/

49 Khosla Seeo lithium technology with Pilot Plant
http://gigaom.com/cleantech/battery-startup-seeo-sets-up-pilot-production/

50 Discussion on types of Lithium Batteries .

51 Sumitomo's Low Temp Molten Salt batteries for cars in 2015

Foam battery and Capacity Hybrid

http://gigaom.com/mobile/future-gadget-batteries-could-last-10-times-longer/

notes from battery university regarding types of battery materials

Pellion : Khosla, ARPA-E and magnesium battery investment

Norwegian working on cheap wasteheat recovery

PolyPlus Lithium Saltwater Battery funded by ARPA-E first round

Winston Chung Chinese Entrepreneur US production and the 1000 mile bus battery

nd the 300 mile battery

Stanford Based Research Battery with a 30-year life for Grid Storage and MIT Review

GT Advanced Technology discusses 2 technologies to produce better solar for cheaper

25 battery ideas

UltraBattery combines lead-acid technology with supercapacitors for cheap 100k mile battery
,

Emefcy develops advanced energy efficient wastewater treatment technologies for minicipal and industrial plants creates Microbial Fuel cells

Tokyo Institute of Technology Professor Takashi Yabe uses water and the common metallic element magnesium to create pollution-free power

Isentropic Energy Pumped heat electric energy gravel storage bed

http://www.greencarreports.com/news/1058119_its-official-dbm-energys-electric-car-battery-is-real

http://www.smartplanet.com/blog/intelligent-energy/why-vcs-are-flocking-to-aquion-energys-novel-battery/8597?tag=search-river

IBM makes some strides in Lithium Air Batteries using big data to explore

Steve Chu of Arpa-e talks of battery improvement targets

Iraq War

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sold as self financing by oil, it is not. Oil Saboteurs can't be stopped.

40% of Iraq's middle class left Iraq. Black market Oil finances the terrorist.

4000 American dead 10's of thousands wounded. Cost of war may end up about 2 trillion dollars 5 X Saudi Arabia's GNP.

the Abqaiq facilites process 7 million barrells -8% of worlds output. attacked a number of times

American Energy Indepence

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Robert Bryce "gusher of Lies" says it can't happen. We need to prepare for interdependence.

US bought Crude from 41 different countries, jet fuel from 26 and gas from 46. We import electricity from Mexico and Canada. We import 60 % of oil needs and 80% of computer chips.

Energy use goes hand in hand with prosperity

4 Issues:
Iraq
Infrastructure attacks and Osama Bin Laden
Peak Oil
Climate Change

American Oil industry has shortage of trained engineers and workers. Only 15% are in their mid 20-30's. Shortage of Welders.

Oil is a global business. BP produces more oil in US than any other.

Energy Consumption

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Economics of Energy

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EROEI

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Complete listing of initial 111 Entrants

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Total # of Registered Teams: 111 (6 remain confidential)
Total # of Vehicles: 136
Mainstream Class Entries: 80
Alternative Class Entries: 56
Total U.S. States Represented: 25 (88 U.S. teams; 107 U.S. vehicles)
U.S. States Represented: AZ, CA, CO, CT, FL, GA, IA, IL, IN, LA, MA, MD, ME, MI, NM, NY, NV, OH, OR, PA, TN, TX, VA, WA, WV
Total Countries Represented: 11 (23 international teams; 29 international vehicles)
Countries Represented: Australia, Brazil, Canada, Finland, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Switzerland, Thailand, UK, USA
Total Fuel Sources: 14
Full electric / battery 32
Hybrid (gas or diesel) / electric 36
Hybrid multi-fuel / electric 11
Hybrid CNG / electric 1
Hybrid Hydrogen / electric 3
Hybrid compressed air/electric/gas 4
Hybrid solar / electric 3
Hybrid human / gas / electric 1
Gasoline 23
Diesel 13
Urea 2
CNG 2
Other (Water, Vegetable oil, TBD) 5
*Please be aware that the types of technologies/fuel sources noted above
are subject to change up to the point of Data Submission Judging.
Registered Teams in the Mainstream Class:
Mainstream Class vehicles must carry four or more passengers, have four or more wheels, and offer a 200 mile range.
Team Name Fuel Source City/State Country
7K Hamsters CNG Roswell, NM USA * No current link*
AdiabaticGas , optional electric Frewsburg, NY USA *
Alternative Fuel Sciences ZeroFuel ammonia on demand Ridgefield, CT USA
American HyPower Hybrid/Hydrogen Centennial, CO USA
AMP !!!
Apet-x !!!!
BDCOTSRUS Diesel /Electric Chuluota, FL USA
Belloso Motor Company Gasoline Salisbury, MD USA
BITW Technologies Bio Diesel Palmyra, IN USA!!!
Boulder Electric Vehicle Electric drive Boulder, CO USA
Brilliant-EV Bio-diesel / Electric Hybrid Fairfield, IA USA
Cloud Electric Racing Electricity/Batteries Woodinville, WA USA
Combined Technology Solutions Gasoline/ethanol/electric Ellicott City, MD U
Cornell !!!!
D'Antheus Motors Hybrid - Electric - Gas (backup) Apopka, FL USA
Daheco Engines Flexible: Gasoline/Ethanol/Diesel/Bio-diesel Valdese, NC USA
Delta Motorsport Battery Electric Northants UK
Eco-Taxi Vegetable oil based biofuel Truckee, CA USA
Eddison * 2 --Mass Management Gasoline or natural gas Charlottesville, VA USA !!!
Eltra Technology, Inc. Hybrid electric modified gasoline electric Las Vegas, NV USA
EnerMotion Gasoline, Diesel, Bio Diesel, or CNG Caledon, ON CAN
Enertia Motors Electricity / Biodiesel Wake Forrest, NC USA
Registered Teams Overview
Engineous Power Gasoline Brainerd, MN USA
Enginer Gasoline + Electric Troy, MI USA !!!
ENVI Electric (batteries) Portland, OR USA
EVIN Electric Battery Store (Lithium-Ion) Hawthorn Woods, IL USA
Finishing Dutch (Prautotype) Gasoline or E85 Arnhem NL
Gomecsys Gasoline Naarden NL
Goodwin-Young LINCVOLT Biodiesel/ gasoline/ hydroxy gas Los Angeles, CA USA
GroupXCaliber Bio-diesel (can also run on E85 or gasoline) Redlands, CA USA
Herf Duo Gasoline Teltow, BR GER
Illuminati Motor Works Gasoline Series Hybrid Virden, IL USA!!!
Integrated Innovations Corp Gasoline Rutland, VT USA
Jordan Engineering 110V/220V AC electricity and/or gasoline Houston, TX USA
Kinetix Motors Diesel Santa Ana, CA USA
Liberty Motors Gasoline Botkins, OH USA!!!!
Lightning Hybrids BioDiesel Loveland, CO USA
Maxi-Eco Team Ethanol E85 or Gasoline Guarulhos, SP BRA
MDI-ZPM Compressed air New Paltz, NY USA
Millmac Gasoline and Ethanol or a combination Coral Springs, FL USA
MIT VDS Vision XP Plug-in series hybrid running on CNG Cambridge, MA USA
Motive Industries Inc. Electric Calgary, AB CAN
Nelson TYWA Power Corp. Gasoline, Propane, Natural gas, Diesel, Ethanol Princeton, NC USA
NgEK Gasoline / E85 / Ethanol Cincinnati, OH USA
NorthWest Energy Research Associates Diesel Arlington, WA USA
Parr Piston Engine Company Biodiesel (Multifuel) Soquel, CA USA
Pegasus X Electricity and gasoline Ann Arbor, MI USA
Physics Lab of Lake Havasu, AZ Electric, diesel, steam/waste heat, solar PV, hydraulic Lake Havasu City, AZ USA
Pinwheel GT Compressed air / electric Atlanta, GA USA
PMC Biodiesel, LNG, CNG, Hydrogen Los Angeles, CA USA
Poulsen Hybrid Battery / Gasoline Shelton, CT USA
Revolucion Motors Electric, Diesel, Compressed Natural Gas Lawrence, KS USA
Ricker Truck 20% Biodiesel Turner, ME USA
San Fernando Hybrid Alliance Petrol, hydrogen, electric, solar, air Van Nuys, CA USA
Slipstream Diesel Granger, IN USA
Synergy Innovations Electric MINI Fully Electric Guildford, Surrey UK
Team FourSight Diesel (biodiesel) and Electricity Morgantown, WV USA!!!
Team Global-E Compressed Natural Gas Mandeville, LA USA!!!
Team GreenWorks E85/Grid Electricity Itu, Sao Paulo BRA
Team HydroPhi Battery/Generator/Hydrogen Toronto, ON CAN
Team ULV-3 Bio-Diesel/Ethanol/Electric Chanhassen, MN USA
Tesla Motors Electric Auburn Hills, MI USA
The Little Engine That Can Team Diesel Ham Lake, MN USA
USA Electric Cars Gasoline Courtland, NY USA
Utopia Water USA
Velozzi Plug-in multi fuel Beverly Hills, CA USA
Veperformance Battery electric La Plaine, QU CAN
West Philly Hybrid X Team Gasoline/Biobutanol and electric Philadelphia, PA USA !!!
WIKISPEED Gasoline Denver, CO USA !!!
Registered Teams in the Alternative Class:
Alternative Class vehicles must carry two or more passengers, have no constraints on the number of wheels, and allow for a
100 mile range.
Team Name Fuel Source City/State Country
Aero-Siordia Hyper X Racing Biofuel Electric Paso Robles, CA USA
Alterna Diesel GTL, Hybrid Electric Vonore, TN USA
AMP Electric Blue Ash, OH USA!!!
Aptera Motors Plug-In Electric Vista, CA USA!!!
Avion Car Company TBD Bellingham, WA USA
Electric Truck Diesel-electric hybrid Greenwich, CT USA
ENVERA Gas Mill Valley, CA USA!!!!
Falcon Future Methane Fountain Hills, AZ USA
FVT Racing Electric & Gasoline Maple Ridge, BC CAN!!!
Gaia Transport Electricity and gasoline Marietta, GA USA
GotPower All electric Martinez, CA USA
Innovative Environmental Energy Concepts E85/Natural Gas/Solar/Electric/Plug-in Coral Gables, FL USA
Ino8 Electric & petrol Jan Juc, VIC AUS
Kinetic Vehicles Diesel Cave Junction, OR USA
Loremo Diesel Mari GER
Millennial Powers Motors Corporation Electric Scottsdale, AZ USA
OptaMotive Electric Stittsville, ON USA ( in contest but no web presence)
Persu Mobility Inc. Electric/Gasoline hybrid Los Angeles, CA USA
RaceAbout Association Grid Electricity Helsinki FIN!!!
Red Light Racing Diesel or Biodiesel Lexington Park, MD USA
SABA Motors Electric San Jose, CA USA
Spira Gasoline Banglamung, Chonburi THA!!!
SSI Racing Electric San Diego, CA USA
T3 Motion All-electric (w/optional Gas Assist) Costa Mesa, CA USA
Tango Battery Electric Spokane, WA USA!!!
Tata Motors Limited Electric Conventry UK!!!
TEAM EVI Electric Mooresville, NC USA!!!
Team EVX Electric Dallas, TX USA!!!
Team Myers Motors Electric Tallmadge, OH USA
Team Tejas Battery Electric Vehicle El Paso, TX USA
Team Urbe Electric/Bioethanol Winnipeg, MA CAN
Tri-Hybrid Stealth Electric, Gas, Human power Erin, TN USA
TTW Italia CNG and Electricity Torino, TO ITL
TW4XP Electricity Rosenthal, Hessen GER!!!
V-Mobile Rechargeable Batteries Vancouver, BC CAN
Western Washington University Gasoline, Electricity, Biomethane/CNG Bellingham, WA USA!!!
X-Tracer Team Switzerland Electricity Uster SUI!!!
XLR8SUN Battery/Photovoltaic Orlando, FL USA
ZAP PEV Santa Rosa, CA USA!!!
K-Way Motus

Population and Wealth Distribution

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Link to Population Density by Country

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_population_density

Arpa-e DOE Steve Chu

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PopScience Article about ARPA

Arpa article with Photos

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Article on Darpa

Chu speaks do we compete or waive the white flag?

http://www.greencarcongress.com/2011/09/arpae-20110930.html

http://www.greencarcongress.com/2009/08/doe-science-20090804.html

http://www.greencarcongress.com/2009/08/efrcs-20090807.html

http://www.greencarcongress.com/batteries/

http://www.greentechmedia.com/articles/read/the-doe-launches-the-sunshot-solar-program/
http://www.greentechmedia.com/articles/read/arpa-e-and-dod-advance-partnership/
http://www.greentechmedia.com/green-light/post/arpa-e-three-home-runs-out-of-37-at-bats-wouldnt-be-bad-chu-says/
http://www.greentechmedia.com/articles/read/doe-stimulus-spending-17b-so-far-30b-by-years-end/
http://www.greentechmedia.com/green-light/post/chu-touts-bell-labs-at-mit-lecture/

Majumdar speaks in feb 11video

Arul Majumdar speaks at University of Washington

The listing of 2010 first ARPA funding cycle

Peak Oil

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US uses 14 million barrells a day about a Gallon for every person in the US. pg100the plot Global demand to grow by 30% by 2030. Over 150 Coal plans are being planed to be built in the US. Processing and using tar sand generates 40% c02 than traditional oil . Oil Shale twice as much Co2 than Oil. The average person travels 50% more to shop than in 1990. PTSW The "lifting" price - how much it costs to get oil out of the ground - is very cheap in the Persian Gulf, around a dollar a barrel, while from Gulf of Mexico, North Sea or Alaska the "lifting" price is $8-12. Matthew Simmons predicts by 2015 the world will, in the BEST case scenario, be pumping no more than 65 million barrels per day of crude Important Articles on this subject http://money.cnn.com/2008/09/15/news/economy/500dollaroil_okeefe.fortune/index.htm http://seekingalpha.com/article/96685-why-drill-baby-drill-does-not-translate-into-effective-national-energy-policy http://article.nationalreview.com/print/?q=OTlmMjFjYWRjOWI3ZGI0MzUxZDJjYTBlMmUzOTc2Mzc= http://article.nationalreview.com/print/?q=OTlmMjFjYWRjOWI3ZGI0MzUxZDJjYTBlMmUzOTc2Mzc

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Facts about Oil

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The U.S. currently imports 68% of its daily oil needs -- an all-time high. "This is more than half the trade deficit [and] has far-reaching tentacles and influence over what goes on in this country, where it has not been exposed or even explained to anybody," said Pickens.
The U.S. consumes 21 million barrels of oil per day, or roughly a quarter of the world's production (85 million barrels). Thirteen million of the 21 million barrels come via imports. From a geopolitical perspective alone, this creates some unpleasant realities.
Over half of U.S. oil imports come from Venezuela ("good friends of ours"), the Middle East and Nigeria. "This is absolutely insane, that this country is dependent on supplies as precarious as Nigeria for instance or Venezuela," said Pickens. "Look at Saudi Arabia: They produce 9 million barrels a day. What we import is greater than what Saudi Arabia produces."

94 percent of the oil you see is owned by governments, which either don’t know or won’t honestly say what they’ve got.

they can keep on their social lid and not have to reform their polity or their economy. But let me remind you of a happier time. The last time America paid attention to oil, from 1977 to ‘85, in those eight years, the economy grew 27 percent. Oil use went down 17 percent. Oil — oil imports fell by half. Imports from the Persian Gulf fell 87 percent. And they would have been gone if we had kept — kept that up for one more year.

Vehicles, all kinds of transport in this country use 70 percent of our oil And the rest is industrial raw materials, industrial heat and buildings.

And the car, you know, uses 100 times its weight every day in ancient plants, but most of
that is wasted.

That means by the way protecting the climate is profitable,because it costs a lot less to save fuel than to buy fuel.

DARPA

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http://cleantechnica.com/2009/07/04/darpa-joins-blue-energy-and-world-energy-in-race-to-harness-ocean-power/

http://spie.org/x8772.xml?ArticleID=x87

http://www.annarbor.com/business-review/model-t-of-wind-energy-accio-energy-lands-250000-darpa-contract/

http://www.greendiary.com/entry/darpa-s-blimp-harvests-solar-energy-for-propulsion/

http://www.forbes.com/sites/williampentland/2011/07/01/darpa-builds-first-bio-engineering-factory/

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Water

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Salt Water Farming

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http://articles.latimes.com/2008/jul/10/business/fi-seafarm10
http://www.seawaterfoundation.org/newSite/swKino.htm

http://www.miracosta.edu/home/kmeldahl/writing/..%5Carticles/crops.pdf

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Factors

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There are alot of articles talking about claims of advancements or new findings or nuances in research of renewable energy . alot of these will not come to pass or progress.

Some of them are exagagerations, statements which do not tell the whole story, packaged pr for VC funders, Grant or in general good news to keep the hope alive.

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Global Warming

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C02 Facts

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Using/Reducing CO2

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S2P Sunlight turns c02 to Petroleum

Co2 technology examples in this article

http://biofuelsdigest.com/blog2/2009/04/20/singapore-team-pioneers-low-cost-method-for-converting-co2-into-ethanol/

http://www.carbonsciences.com/

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C02 Sequestering Ideas

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Co2 Sequestering : using Cement to Sequester c02

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Carbon Credits

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Planet Engineering

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Pollution Control Remediation

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Microbes for Nuclear Remediation

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29915669/

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Ideas for Solutions

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Conservation

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Reclaiming Waste Heat

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http://nextbigfuture.com/2008/11/low-temperature-energy-harvesting-new.html

http://venturebeat.com/2008/11/18/need-more-power-try-recycling-what-youve-already-used/

http://www.grcblog.com/?p=884 http://www.chpcenternw.org/Library.aspx
http://www.northeastchp.org/nac/sitemap.htm

http://www.cyclonepower.com/

Electrotherm

http://www.electratherm.com/recycled-energy.html
http://www.popsci.com/bown/2008/product/electratherm-green-machine

Casten wrote a book on this.

http://www.greentechmedia.com/articles/tapping-americas-secret-power-source-5259.html

http://www.greentechmedia.com/articles/will-waste-heat-be-bigger-than-solar-5577.html

The Stirling Engine

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http://www.ssrsi.org/sr2/Heat/stirling.htm

http://www.howstuffworks.com/stirling-engine.htm

http://www.ent.ohiou.edu/~urieli/stirling/stirling.html

http://www.sesusa.org/links.htm

http://www.stirlingengines.org.uk/

http://www.physics.sfasu.edu/astro/courses/egr112/StirlingEngine/stirling.html

http://peswiki.com/energy/Directory:Stirling_Engines

http://www.instructables.com/id/The-Sterling-Engine-absorb-energy-from-candles-c/

http://www.origin.popularmechanics.com/science/research/4286850.html?series=60&page=8&?series=60

Recycling

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Americans produced 40 BILLION pounds of plastic in 2006
Americans recycled 5.3% (2 Billion pounds) of that plastic
Plastic waste occupies 25% of landfill space by volume
Plastic waste occupies 11% of landfill space by weight

As the prices of oil and other raw materials rise, recycled products become more attractive. Consider that 8% of global oil production is siphoned off to make plastic each year. Recycled plastic, however, requires 80% less energy to produce. Recycled aluminum burns up 95% less energy. Recycled iron and steel use 74% less, while paper requires 64% less. The money piles up quickly: One ton of recycled aluminum saves an average of $700 in electricity. The Environmental Protection Agency estimates that if the recycling rate were to increase by just five points, to 35%, this would save the equivalent of almost 2 billion gallons of gasoline annually.

FROM
http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/08_31/b4094036650513.htm?chan=top+news_top+news+index_top+story

http://www.recyclebank.com/recycling

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Smart Buildings

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That's because, according to the U.S. Green Building Council, buildings account for 65 percent of U.S. electricity use and produce 30 percent of the country's greenhouse-gas emissions and 30 percent of its waste.

cogeneration - CHP -Combined Heat and Power

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making electricity and heat together -- which takes about half of the money, fuel and carbon of making them separately, as we normally do.

Cogeneration at in 1976 was 4% of the energy of the United States. It is now 18%, and Amory now calls it micropower. Amory talked then of coal, conservation and soft technologies (wind and solar) reducing energy demand and squeezing oil and gas usage

CHP
http://greenlight.greentechmedia.com/2008/12/11/doe-calls-chp-a-big-fat-target-for-energy-savings-849/

http://www.greentechmedia.com/green-light/post/doe-announces-256m-in-grants-for-industrial-it-energy-efficiency/

http://www.renewableenergyworld.com/rea/news/article/2009/07/chp-electricity-powers-cars-22-times-farther-than-ethanol

check out organic rankine cycle

http://www.labothap.ulg.ac.be/cmsms/Staff/QuoilinS/TFE_SQ010607.pdf
http://www51.honeywell.com/sm/chemicals/refrigerants/eu/en/products-n2/organic.html

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Smarter Manufacturing

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Xprize teams I am following

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Amp Totally electric (150miles ) sports car (GM Saturn);IN

http://www.progressiveautoxprize.org/teams/amp

Bitw-existing geo- some humor here IN

http://www.bitwtech.com/project.html

Enginer -steam turbine boost from waste heat retrofitted-aussie-china-IN

http://www.progressiveautoxprize.org/teams/enginer

Envera-variable compression engine-goverment lab tested-IN

http://www.progressiveautoxprize.org/teams/envera

Illuminati Motor Works -7- bunch of guys with cool team name-IN

http://www.progressiveautoxprize.org/teams/illuminati-motor-works

Raceabout- from Helsinki tech-IN-HYVAA!

http://www.progressiveautoxprize.org/teams/raceabout-association

more who are out update 4.26.10

Alternative Fuel -Urea! -Cool Factor (zero fuel): OUT

http://www.progressiveautoxprize.org/teams/alternative-fuel-sciences
last blog post 6/12/09

Belloso - Two engines one for acceleration (The Belleso Brothers): OUT

http://www.bellosomotors.com/patents

CTS- plasma ignition :OUT

http://www.combined-ts.com/index.html

Enertia-converted Studebaker Avanti-style points:OUT

http://www.progressiveautoxprize.org/teams/enertia
http://www.enertiamotors.com/-motors

site that is still up

Gomecys-new gas engine design at it for 10 years:OUT

http://www.gomecsys.com/uk/

polson- The Poulsen Hybrid system utilizes Permanent Magnet, Axial Field (PMAF) motors-OUT

http://www.progressiveautoxprize.org/teams/poulsen-hybrid

Velozzi-Tied in with Bayer -hot Race Car :OUT
http://www.velozzi.org/

These favorites of mine are no longer in the contest.

Avion-Bullet Car from 88- World Champion-cool Factor (no longer links?) http://www.progressiveautoxprize.org/teams/avion-car-company

Eco-Taxi-vegtable oil + brown's gas oxegen-hydrogen (no longer links) http://www.progressiveautoxprize.org/teams/eco-taxi

Finishing Dutch - super efficent new motor design (no longer links) http://www.progressiveautoxprize.org/teams/finishing-dutch-prautotype

Nelson Tyla -Old School -Oxygen flywheel Inovator- a favorite (no longer links) http://www.progressiveautoxprize.org/teams/nelson-tywa-power-corp

Smarter Transportation

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You know,
the average car today only uses .3 percent of its fuel energy to move the driver; 95 percent
of the weight you’re moving around is the car, not the driver. And we need to fix that

MicroPower

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CHARLIE ROSE: What is micro-power?
AMORY LOVINS: Well, it’s either making heat and power together in buildings or factories.
That’s a lot more efficient. Or decentralized renewables: sun, wind, and the rest. And those
actually added last year four times as much new electricity and about 11 times as much
generating capacity as nuclear added.

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Smarter Electicity Production

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The Smart Grid

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Amory Lovins

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Article with Great Amory Lovins links
http://barrier-busting.com/tag/amory-lovins/

Interview

http://www.cfr.org/publication/7553/rethinking_energy_security.html?breadcrumb=%2Fmedia%2Ftranscripts%3Fgroupby%3D3%26filter%3D2004

factor 10 engineering, 10xe

http://64.233.169.104/search?q=cache:gXzxavWtNtAJ:fora.tv/fora/fora_transcript_pdf.php%3Fcid%3D1049+amory+lovins+transcript+pumps&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=15&gl=us

A different view
http://www.energytribune.com/articles.cfm?aid=676

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Dean Kamen

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http://www.popsci.com/scitech/article/2009-05/army-one-mind

Info

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Hot Flat and Crowded Chapter 1: Where Birds don't Fly TF point is the US reaction to 9-11 has created isolation which is hurting us. The freeflow of business, tourism, ideas is reduced in terms of our interactions while overseas and foreigners in the us. Esp. in the Arab world which is distancing from our friends. The problem is the world is getting Hot, Flat and Crowded. Hot= Global Warming Flat=The Growing Middle Class Crowded= Rapid population growth The books theme In particular, the convergence of hot, flat, and crowded is tightening energy supplies, intensifying the extinction of plants and animals, deepening energy poverty, strengthening petrodictatorship, and accelerating climate change Three trends 9-11 fence building Dumb as we wanna be policies- red vs blue fighting, subprime lending Nation building at home - grass route energy Washington Environmentalism was a bipartisan issue. Reagan reduced budget of National Solar Energy Lab now NREL . Todays average car mileage is equal to ten years ago per the Pew Foundation. In 2020, the CAFE is moving us to 35 mpg which is where Japan is today. Amory Lovins of Rocky Mountain Institute says when Regan rolled back CAFE it was like undiscovering the Artic Reserve. If the auto industry did not lobby for low taxes on gas there would not be a demand for SUV's. What is good for GM is not necessarily good for the US. Denmark decided to do taxes and Premium gas is 9 bucks a gallon. Since 81 the economy has grown to 1981 has grown 70 percent and energy usage has remained the same. Solar and wind is 16% of the energy of Denmark. 1/3 of the wind turbines come from Denmark. Danisco and Novozymes both come from Denmark. In 77 , Denmark gets 99 percent of their energy from the middle east but now gets none. Today's China is building infrastructure more modern than the US asked quoted by Zakaria . The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be Valery Imagine how many people would enlist at Nation Building at home. We need to continually rebuild ourselves by David Rothkopf . Green is not simply a new form of generating electrical power. it is a new form of generating national power--period. The America we would like to see..(gives a bunch of examples) Chapter 2: Today's Date E.C.E 1 Today's weather Hot, Flat and Crowded Flat as defined by his World is Flat:Technical Revolution is leveling the global economic playing field and enabling more people to compete, connect and colaborate having a huge impact on economics,politics , milatary, and social affairs. 2 other factors global warming and soaring population growth five key problems: (that the book describes) 1)the growing demand for ever scarcer energy supplies and natural resources 2) a massive transfer of wealth to oil-rich countries and their petrodictators 3) disruptive climate change 4) energy poverty, which is sharply dividing the world into electricity haves and electricity have-nots 5) rapidly accelerating biodiversity loss, as plants and animals go extinct at record rates If we are going to solve these problems we need New tools New infrastructure new ways of thinking new ways of colaborating with others This is stuff which great new industries, scientific breakthroughs and propelling some nations ahead. 2.6 billion in the world in 53 and in 2053 world pop estimated 9.2 billion (5.4 billion now). 2.3 million people annually move from nondeveloped to developed countries. In 1800, London was the largest city with a million in 1960 ,111 cities with one million 1995 380 cities now over 300 Megacities 10 million 5 in 75 14 in 95 26 in 2015 This has also made the world flatter Technology-- desktop publishing, broadcasting -the internet- software and transmission - the workflow revolution Geopolitical- Collapse of Communism and the Berlin wallcreates a global marketplace The end of Communism lifted 200million people out of abject poverty in the 80's and 90's in China and India alone. according to the IMF in the next 12 years, we expect another billion people. if we gave them each a 60 watt lightbulb we would need 20 50 mgwat coal plants. (pointed out by Dave douglas of Sun) http://www.treehugger.com/files/2007/01/dave_douglas_vi.php An energy chemist California Institute of Technology, Nate Lewis, analogy “ Imagine you are driving in your car and every mile you drive you throw a pound of trash out your window. And everyone else on the freeway in their cars and trucks is doing the exact same thing, and people driving Hummers are throwing two bags out at a time – one out the driver-side window and one out the passenger-side window. We are throwing out is a pound of CO2 – that’s what goes into the atmosphere, on average, every mile we drive.” Deforestation in places like Brazil and Indonesia are responsible for the 20 % of the c02 more that all the transportation combined. Methane- released from rice farming, oil drilling, coal mining, animal defecation, cow belching. 21 times stronger than c02 in ghg. average cow 600 liters a day. 1.3 billion cows is the world pop. Fuels from Heaven vs Fuels from Hell Andy Karsner- DOE- We built the greatest ineffecient environment with the greatest efficentcy known to mankind. energy chemist California Institute of Technology, Nate Lewis analogy “Imagine you are driving in your car and every mile you drive you throw a pound of trash out your window. And everyone else on the freeway in their cars and trucks is doing the exact same thing, and people driving Hummers are throwing two bags out at a time – one out the driver-side window and one out the passenger-side window. we are throwing out is a pound of CO2 – that’s what goes into the atmosphere, on average, every mile we drive.” deforesting of places like Indonesia and Brazil creates more co2 than all the transportation -20% of all global emissions. Methane CH4 is a bad ghg from rice farming, oil drilling, coal mining, animal defecation, waste sites and cattle belching. There are 1.3 billion cows in the world. Methane from livestock is a major ghg source. Pew Center studies GHG. Electric Power Research Institute studies. Peter Verleger Energy Economist notes global energy consumption grew 5% from 51 to 70. China and India growing like post WWII. Royal Dutch Shell thinks that all energy consumption will double by 2050.

T Friedman

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Hot Flat and Crowded
http://www.todaysten.com/2008/12/book-summary-of-hot-flat-and-crowded.html

Chapter 1: Where Birds don't Fly

TF point is the US reaction to 9-11 has created isolation which is hurting us. The freeflow of business, tourism, ideas is reduced in terms of our interactions while overseas and foreigners in the us. Esp. in the Arab world which is distancing from our friends.

The problem is the world is getting Hot, Flat and Crowded.
Hot= Global Warming
Flat=The Growing Middle Class
Crowded= Rapid population growth

The books theme

In particular, the convergence of hot, flat, and crowded is tightening energy supplies, intensifying the extinction of plants and animals, deepening energy poverty, strengthening petrodictatorship, and accelerating climate change

Three trends

9-11 fence building
Dumb as we wanna be policies- red vs blue fighting, subprime lending
Nation building at home - grass route energy

Washington Environmentalism was a bipartisan issue.

Reagan reduced budget of National Solar Energy Lab now NREL .
Todays average car mileage is equal to ten years ago per the Pew Foundation.
In 2020, the CAFE is moving us to 35 mpg which is where Japan is today.

Amory Lovins of Rocky Mountain Institute says when Regan rolled back CAFE
it was like undiscovering the Artic Reserve.
If the auto industry did not lobby for low taxes on gas there would not be a demand for SUV's.

What is good for GM is not necessarily good for the US. Denmark decided to do taxes and Premium gas is 9 bucks a gallon. Since 81 the economy has grown to 1981 has grown 70 percent and energy usage has remained the same.
Solar and wind is 16% of the energy of Denmark.

1/3 of the wind turbines come from Denmark. Danisco and Novozymes both come from Denmark. In 77 , Denmark gets 99 percent of their energy from the middle east but now gets none.

Today's China is building infrastructure more modern than the US asked quoted by Zakaria .

The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be
Valery

Imagine how many people would enlist at Nation Building at home.

We need to continually rebuild ourselves by David Rothkopf .

Green is not simply a new form of generating electrical power. it is a new form of generating national power--period.

The America we would like to see..(gives a bunch of examples)

Chapter 2: Today's Date E.C.E 1 Today's weather Hot, Flat and Crowded

Flat as defined by his World is Flat:Technical Revolution is leveling the global economic playing field and enabling more people to compete, connect and colaborate having a huge impact on economics,politics , milatary, and social affairs.

2 other factors global warming and soaring population growth

five key problems: (that the book describes)
1)the growing demand for ever scarcer energy supplies and natural resources
2) a massive transfer of wealth to oil-rich countries and their petrodictators
3) disruptive climate change
4) energy poverty, which is sharply dividing the world into electricity haves and electricity have-nots
5) rapidly accelerating biodiversity loss, as plants and animals go extinct at record rates

If we are going to solve these problems we need
New tools
New infrastructure
new ways of thinking
new ways of collaborating with others

This is stuff which great new industries, scientific breakthroughs and propelling some nations ahead.

2.6 billion in the world in 53 and in 2053 world pop estimated 9.2 billion (5.4 billion now). 2.3 million people annually move from unundeveloped to developed countries.

In 1800, London was the largest city with a million
in 1960 ,111 cities with one million
1995 380 cities
now over 300

Megacities 10 million
5 in 75
14 in 95

26 in 2015
This has also made the world flatter
Technology--
desktop publishing, broadcasting
-the internet-
software and transmission - the workflow revolution
Geopolitical- Collapse of Communism and the Berlin wallcreates a global marketplace

The end of Communism lifted 200million people out of abject poverty in the 80's and 90's in China and India alone. according to the IMF

in the next 12 years, we expect another billion people. if we gave them each a 60 watt lightbulb we would need 20 50 mgwat coal plants. (pointed out by Dave douglas of Sun) http://www.treehugger.com/files/2007/01/dave_douglas_vi.php

An energy chemist California Institute of Technology, Nate Lewis, analogy “

Imagine you are driving in your car and every mile you drive you throw a pound of trash out your window. And everyone else on the freeway in their cars and trucks is doing the exact same thing, and people driving Hummers are throwing two bags out at a time – one out the driver-side window and one out the passenger-side window.

We are throwing out is a pound of CO2 – that’s what goes into the atmosphere, on average, every mile we drive.”

Deforestation in places like Brazil and Indonesia are responsible for the 20 % of the c02 more that all the transportation combined.

Methane- released from rice farming, oil drilling, coal mining, animal defecation, cow belching. 21 times stronger than c02 in ghg. average cow 600 liters a day. 1.3 billion cows is the world pop.

Fuels from Heaven vs Fuels from Hell

Andy Karsner- DOE- We built the greatest ineffecient environment with the greatest efficentcy known to mankind.

energy chemist California Institute of Technology, Nate Lewis analogy “Imagine you are driving in your car and every mile you drive you throw a pound of trash out your window. And everyone else on the freeway in their cars and trucks is doing the exact same thing, and people driving Hummers are throwing two bags out at a time – one out the driver-side window and one out the passenger-side window. we are throwing out is a pound of CO2 – that’s what goes into the atmosphere, on average, every mile we drive.”

deforesting of places like Indonesia and Brazil creates more co2 than all the transportation -20% of all global emissions.

Methane CH4 is a bad ghg from rice farming, oil drilling, coal mining, animal defecation, waste sites and cattle belching.
There are 1.3 billion cows in the world. Methane from livestock is a major ghg source.

Pew Center studies GHG.

Electric Power Research Institute studies.

Peter Verleger Energy Economist notes global energy consumption grew 5% from 51 to 70. China and India growing like post WWII. Royal Dutch Shell thinks that all energy consumption will double by 2050.

Energy Policy Research Foundation says the shock absorbers of excess capacity are gone.
Oil grew by 3 million barrels a day (1 million in China alone) in 2004. Some problems in meeting this are broad shortage of equipment and Countries tried to remove foreign companies now

2.4 billion people living on 2 dollars a day.
Natural Resources and infrastructure is backed up. aluminum smelters. 3 year waiting list.
goal is to grow GDP with less energy.

Food pressures . 1) more food to fuel and 2) higher fertilizer reduces acreage grown

India, China and Middle East subsidizes their own oil purchases raised rates. 2007, Indonesia spent 30% of their budget on energy subsidies and 6 % on education

oil $ transfers are funding petrodictators

C02 stays in the atmosphere several thousand years. if there is no action by 2012 it is too late.
Sigma Xi

Energy poverty = Business poverty =educational poverty

Biodiversity Loss = 1 acre a second. 90 % of large predator fish are gone.20 % of corals are gone with another 20 threatened. half of wetlands and a third of mangroves are gone.

bajaii is extinct or close to extinction in China

Agenda for a sustainable america for human beings to reach their potential they need to
1) maintain quality of life
2) forestall another depression
3) prevent a world war

(economic development, human rights, and peace and security)

Bill Collins says "we are experimenting on the only home we have'

Part 2: How we got here
Chapter 3 Our Carbon Copies ; or too many Americans energy supply and demand.

Affleunza

Dohar Quatar and Dalain (Chinese silicon valley) are places that are growing at a wild pace noticable in only two years. They will quickly eat any energy savings made by others.....

Dalian is one of 49 chinese cities with over a million people.
Today 1 billion are living an American life style by 2050 3 billion.

Europe and Japan show it is possible to live a middle class lifestyle with much less consumption.

it took all of human history in 1950 to reach a 12 trillion dollar economy (now we grow by that every decade)

James Gustave Speth at current rates of growth the worlds economy will double in 14 years.

Tom Burke of E3G speaks of americums = units of people making 15k plus a year and consumerist. ld.

Tom Burke is a great energy innovator from Britain. He invented a unit of measure. He calls it the "Americum." And an Americum is any 300 million people in the world living like Americans. Well, when I was born in the 50s, there was only two and a half Americums in the world. There was America, Europe and Japan. Today there are nine. There's one in America, there's one in western Europe, there's one in eastern Europe and Russia, one in India, giving birth to another, one in China giving birth to another, one in Japan, east Asia, one in South America. We've gone, Bruce, from a world of two and a half Americums, 300 million people living like Americans, to a world of nine.-TF

Jeff Wacker EDS Futurist - Articles

France with a 35 hour workweek can not compete with India China 35 hour workday.

Elizabeth C Economy writes on China in the Foreign Affairs about rapid chinese growth.

China's middle class growing scores of airports 40 in the next several years.ghg of planes can grow five fold.

Moscow grew from no cars to massive traffic jams

Salil Tripathi speaks on India's Growth in 2005 India grew the size of Portugals economy. Delhi has 16 million people with .5 million new immigrants every year. Energy is heavily subsidized.
0ver 200 million raised out of poverty in India and China in the last 30 years.

China Shakes the World book tells of disappearing manholes around the world

Jared Diamond Consumption Factor . Each American consumes 32 X what a Kenyan does.

Larry Brillant at Google.org

Can the World afford a middle class foreign affair article while there will be 1 billion new people in the next 12 years the middle class may add 1.8 billion new people

Food, Water and Floor Space all under stress per Mckinsey global institute a think tank

Iraq doesn't think of conversation or pollution. All economic spurts were cause by unexploited common resources. Carl Pope Sierra Club .

We can substitute knowledge for raw materials and the need to accelerate knowledge.

Thinking Cradle to Cradle - Interacademy council on energy

China and India citizens uses 9-30 times less energy than an American.

Four - fill her up with Dictators -petropolitics

First Law of Petropolitics

We are funding both sides of the Iraq war.

As oil goes up democracies decreases in oil rich countries.
Looming Tower is a book on Al-Quada

1.5 Billion Muslims in the world. 2/3 of the population in the Muslim world is under 25, 1in 4 in unemployed,
Egyptians are beholden to fundamentalism from Saudi Arabia.Our allies Saudia a and Libya were sources of 60% of foreign fighters in Iraq,

institute for the analysis of global security Jim Woolsey former CIA head oil independence = us security

Bahrain the first oil state to start running out of oil has become more independent. Lebanon the only democracy has no oil.

Dutch Disease or the Resource Curse

Does Oil hinder Democracy
There is the taxation effect -no taxation=no representation'
Spending effect -more oil = more patronage spending
More oil = greater repression
limits occupational specialization, higher education, urbanization
reduce power base of non oil institutions

Also keeps Woman rights down

Oil kept Mubarak in power
There is not a single world class university or scientific research institute in the entire Arab world.
Reduced entreprenuership.

Larry Diamond's Democratic Recession

Oil and the new Economic order

With 200 dollar barrel of Oil, Bank of America could be bought by OPEC by 1 months oil revenue, GM in 2 days , Apple in a week.

Need for reform in the Arab-Muslim world is great.

It was 70 dollar oil followed by 10 dollar oil that killed the Soviet Union.
Collapse of an Empire: lessons for modern Russia

" You cannot be either an effective foreign-policy realist or an effective democracy-promoting idealist without also being an effective energy environmentalist" TF

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Vinod Khosla

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Vinod Kholsa has an interesting pragmatic perspective about energy and his companies have a potential to make a difference.
The Kholsa Portfolio
His take on the Renewable Energy Portfolio http://goinggreen.goingon.com/page/display/28929?param=session/354
his take on Biofuels
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NMB8-8tPuWE http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NMB8-8tPuWE

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/vinod-khosla/biofuels-good-or-bad_b_107921.html
opposing viewpoints (much of which I disagree with)
http://greenlight.greentechmedia.com/2008/11/21/black-swans-and-greenwashing-738/

http://www.theoildrum.com/node/3612#more http://i-r-squared.blogspot.com/2006/07/conversation-with-vinod-khosla.html http://fora.tv/2008/07/04/Will_Biofuels_Starve_Us_or_Save_Us http://connect.extension.iastate.edu/p26543398/
http://www.tvworldwide.com/events/eqtv/061016/ppt/
Vinod%20Khosla.pdfn.iastate.edu/p26543398/
http://earth2tech.com/2008/05/05/25-who-ditched-infotech-for-cleantech/ http://www.bigthink.com/user/vinod-khosla
http://www.truveo.com/search.php?query=tag%3A%22vinod%20khosla%22&results=10&page=1&view=basic http://www.tvworldwide.com/events/eqtv/061016/ppt/Vinod%20Khosla.pdf

Vinod talks about Failing

Vinod interview

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VC Firms

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Quercus Trust listing of investments
http://www.greentechmedia.com/articles/the-secret-life-of-the-quercus-trust-5135.html

21 ventures
http://www.21ventures.net/pages/Portfolio-clean.asp

http://cleantech.com/
http://alwayson.goingon.com/permalink/post/13118 http://www.cleantech.com/news/webinars
http://www.kpcb.com/portfolio/portfolio.php?greentech http://alwayson.goingon.com/permalink/post/28868
http://www.foundationcapital.com/ http://energypriorities.com/entries/2005/11/energy_venture.php http://www.newenergycapital.com/

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Our Feedstocks and Future Feedstocks

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http://www.chicagobusiness.com/cgi-bin/multiMedia.pl?mmId=404
coskata ethanol

There are 1,865 biofuels companies out there, and sometimes it seems that there are at least 1,865 different ways of turning every manner of biological material into fuel for a car, truck, train or plane.

http://www.forbes.com/2009/04/28/biofuels-ethanol-virent-technology-breakthroughs-biofuels.html

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Shale Oil - Oil Sands

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Petroleum uses as a feedstock

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Research in reducing feedstock petroleum

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Companies involved in Petroleum Feedstock

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Natural Gas

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Interview about Natural Gas

http://www.energytribune.com/articles.cfm?aid=1806

Companies Research Projects in NG

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Coal

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There are X Coal plants in the US. Over 150 Coal plans are being planed to be built in the US. Processing and using tar sand generates 40% c02 than traditional oil . Around the world, there are thought to be roughly 3 trillion barrels of oil locked in oil shale deposits. And more than half of that is in the United States

Clean Coal (?)

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Technology making coal an energy plant in the ground.

http://greenlight.greentechmedia.com/2008/12/23/coal-to-methane-via-bacteria-company-gets-759-million-913/

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Ethanol vs Biodiesel

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Plane Fuel

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In the US 1.6 billion gallons of jet fuel are used every month resulting in significant greenhouse gas emissions

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Food vs Fuel Debate

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It points out, for example, that despite an 8 percent reduction since 1980 in the amount of land dedicated to coarse grains (that is, corn, grain sorghum, barley oats, rye and millet), annual world coarse grain production has increased nearly 50 percent over the same period.

http://greeninc.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/11/12/debate-the-ripple-effects-of-biofuels/

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Why not just burn things outright

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http://www.biomassmagazine.com/article.jsp?article_id=2728

Pellet Stoves

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