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Municipal Resources

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Presently-Affordable, Clean Energy Solutions for Municipalities - Directory page for civic leaders who want to implement cost-effective, green utilities, away from dependence on polluting fossil fuels. Recommends the best technologies/companies in each of the major sectors. (PESWiki; Oct 23, 2008)

Advertising

Google AdSense - automatically serves ads related to page contents per Google's premier search algorithms. Income revenue for websites, while serving additional content of value for the visitor, and bringing needed targeted customers to the advertiser. Win, win, win.

PES Network Sites Top Google Searches - Find out how our family of websites (FreeEnergyNews.com | PESN.com | PESWiki.com) do so well in Google searches, and why honesty is the best policy for gaining favor with the search engines. (GoogleHigh.com; by PES Network)

Comparisons

Cents/kW-h

Cents per Kilowatt-hour: Energy Types Compared - Energy modality comparison based on projected "cents per kilowatt-hour". Ranging from Gas, Coal and Nuclar, to Solar, Wind, Tide, OTEC and other renewables.

Energy by orders of magnitude

Energy by orders of magnitude - List describes various energy levels between 10−31 joules and 1070 joules. (Wikipedia)

Fuel Energy Equivalency Calculator

Fuel Energy Equivalency Calculator - SHEC-Labs has released a free web-based energy conversion calculator. Did you ever want to know how a litre of liquid hydrogen equates to a cubic foot of hydrogen, a cubic meter of hydrogen or a litre of gasoline? How does hydrogen compare to other fuels? What is the energy content of various fuels? (SHEK-Labs; May 5, 2005)

Business Development

Featured: Store > Tools >
The Entrepreneur's Survival Guide - Coming up with a brilliant clean energy technology is only part of the process. There is a lot involved in taking it the distance to the market where it can benefit humanity. This book is a great resource for guiding you through these steps so that you don't become the biggest impediment to the progress of your technology.

ICreateProfits Service Helps Energy Website Development - A great tool for those with websites (energy or otherwise), to help them improve, but especially for those who are contemplating making the plunge, with beginning-to-end resources. Instructive step-by-step videos aid the concise instructions. (ICreateProfits)

Crackpots and Genius - New energy pioneers are often also involved in pushing the envelop in other areas of life. Such involvement should not be shunned but should serve as a sign that someone is cut out to launch a revolutionary technology -- practiced at withstanding the heat. (PESN; Mar. 8; 2007)

Innovative Technology IP Development Pipeline - In 2001, Primary Technologies (now Nova Institute of Technology, LLC of Salt Lake City, Utah) invested $185,000 hiring three MBA accounting firms, who spent a year to come up with an IP development pipeline, which is a gateway process for taking disruptive technologies from concept stage to market.

The Ten Biggest Hurdles to Innovation - Today's innovators need to be highly intelligent, motivated and creative to come up with solutions to some of the biggest technological problems. But adding to these difficulties is a whole host of hurdles that can make it tough for even the best and most innovative technologies to survive. (Ziff Davis Enterprise; May 20, 2008)

Oil Addiction and the Business Case for Change - To overcome addiction to oil, we need a clear business case, upon which to build a business model to then be refined into an actual business plan. Inventors take note. (New Media Explorer; Dec. 29, 2006)

Communications

See Tools:Communications - separate page

For the Laboratory

Certification

Scientific Method worth while in fringe energy too - A call for the same level of scientific rigor in cutting edge energy technology research as is required in mainstream science, not more, not less.Mentions the recent Joe cell claims and approach as an example of how not to do things. (PESN; July 11, 2006)

Certification Group Releases Draft of National Standards for Green Energy - Green-e is streamlining its standards in the U.S. to cover all geographic areas and product types. (Refocus Weekly; Aug. 24, 2005)

Choosing

RETScreen International Clean Energy Project Analysis Tools - Free software and other analytical tools for evaluating the energy production, life-cycle costs and greenhouse gas emission reductions for various types of technologies, the tools include product, cost and weather databases. Also includes a detailed online user manual, a college/university-level training course (e.g. slides, instructor's voice & notes), and over 85 case studies on real projects. Available in both English and French with many also available in 19 other languages.

The Future for Profit - Neil Roberts, C.E.O. of BMA International, asks: "Can we really afford to wait for governments or vested commercial interests to act on our behalf," and suggests some proactive tools his company provides for grassroots solutions. (ZPEnergy; June 26, 2005)

How to Buy Green Power - Berkeley Lab and Partners guidebook designed to help organizations, facility managers buy renewable energy. (ZPEnergy; Nov. 9, 2004)

U.S. DOE launches energy saving tips website - Guide for choosing energy efficient products, auditing your home energy use, adding energy smart plans when building a new home or saving on transportation costs. (Alt. Energy News; Dec. 28, 2004)

Electro Magnetic Frequency Radiation Protection

EMF Safety Super Store - LessEMF.com is the place to buy Gauss meters, RF meters, shielding. Action you can take against the body-penetrating effects of electromagnetic fields.

Radiation Detector - For your keychain. Detects gamma, x-ray, beta, fast neutron.

Radiation Emergency Preparedness

Construction

See Directory:Tools:Construction

Integration

How Wireless Meshing Could Save Energy - "It is the holy grail of the factory floor: hundreds of sensors wirelessly connected, monitoring motors for problems and drastically reducing energy consumption." (Slashdot; Aug. 9, 2004)

Measurement

$6.00 Gauss meter

Advanced Measurements: Test and Measurement Solutions; Fuel Cell Test Products - Professional testing crew since 1989 specializing in alternative energy (mainstream).

Expert FE Device Testing - by Walter L. Rosenthal.

Sterling Energy Quotient - Proposing an Algorithm to calculate the true cost of energy from a given "free energy" device.

Atlas II - Device determines how well wind turbines operate - Accurate Time Linked data Acquisition System (ATLAS II) can provide a great deal of the information necessary to understand how well a turbine is performing, capable of sampling a large number of signals at once to characterize the inflow, the operational state, and the structural response of a wind turbine. (PhysOrg; July 26, 2006)

Determining Your Energy Use to Decide Which Power Unit to Purchase - Basic math to help you get the right home power device.

UK Home Energy Price Comparison by EnergyLinx - “information provider related to home energy, home energy pricing, and the energy industry in general throughout the UK."

West Mountain Radio Computerized Battery Analyzer - Best value for your money for amateur use. (PESWiki; Dec. 14, 2004)

Biomass >
Basscam Biomass Camera - BassCam has developed an economical, durable, easy to use camera package for viewing combustion chambers in operating biomass applications, up to 4000°F/2204°C, so you can detect early signs of trouble before they become a problem in your furnace.

Supplies

Free Energy Store - A few items supplied by PES Network, Inc.
Experimenters Store - Don Adsitt's online shop for FE tinkerers.
FutureHorizons.net - "free energy," anti-gravity, and other science fiction-come-true plans, toys, gadgets galore for purchase to fund ongoing research and development.

Testing

Advanced Powertrain Research Facility - The principal U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) facility for assessing advanced and hybrid electric vehicle (HEV) technologies for the Vehicle Technologies Program.

Tools > Fuel Efficiency >
Argonne's Modular Automotive Technology Testbed (MATT) - Researchers in Argonne's Center for Transportation Research have built the Modular Automotive Technology Testbed (MATT), an Erector Set-like platform for automotive powertrains in which engineers can swap in and out different engines, transmissions and other core powertrain components. (PhysOrg; March 16th, 2009)

Budding Clean Energy Technologies Get Test-Bed - Two Austin Texas groups have agreed to create the first test-bed environment in the United States for alternative energy companies to prepare their technologies for commercialization, allowing clean technology companies to prove their technologies on Austin's Energy grid. (SustainableBusiness; Feb. 26, 2007)

Combustion Resources - "Provide comprehensive engineering services in the fields of energy, fuels, and combustion by utilizing a wide range of resources and technologies to facilitate learning and increase understanding. They have an analytical lab for testing and certification.

Underwriter Labs - UL is the trusted source across the globe for product compliance.

Tutorials

Battery Characteristics

Information Technology

Foretech, Inc. - Fortech has successfully developed and implemented several Business Process Automations solutions to clients across a range of industries using the latest tools and technologies. Also using Rapid Prototype Deployment techniques.

Building

See Directory:Building

Intellectual Protection

Documenting Prior Art - Online methods to document time-stamp.
InventorsForum.org - five star process for protecting your idea.
Insights into the Proprietary Syndrome - , by Ken MacNeill Sites the U.S. "secrecy order: Title 35, USC (1952) Sec. 181-188, which enables the patent office to issue a warning to an inventor to prohibit him from publishing or privately pursing his technology.
Legal Resources for Free Energy Technologies - Resources for inventors and teams involved in alternative energy technology research, development, marketing. (FreeEnergyNews.com)
Google Patent Search
Wiki Patents
Patents - Patents as a tool or an impediment -- ramifications for free energy technologies. The general patent mentality discourages cooperation, which stymies progress and innovation. (FreeEnergyNews index page)
International Patent Lookup
US Patent Lookup

For the Office

Common Law Contracts - A Primer A recommended way of doing contracts for alternative energy groups, that brings responsibility back to the people and away from lawyers.
Translation Services - Energy technology inventors, marketers, investors, etc., all potentially have need to translate in their communications with people of other languages. Publicly editable index for referring the best offerings.

Personal

I Create Reality - Flash presentation and book by my friend, Chris Westra (husband of our midwife), explains the power of the mind to manifest your highest abilities and dreams for your life. (ClickBank)

Resources for Energy Researchers to Heal from Sex-related Addictions - Pornography etc. scavenges productivity, wrecks marriages, shatters trust, violates the innocent. A how-to page explains how sex addiction arises and how to completely heal from it.

Secret: The Law of Attraction - 1.5-hour online movie compiles the best thinking of the best thinkers of our day, to explain the power of our thoughts, negative and positive, to create our reality; and how to harness that energy for good. (TheSecret.tv)

Security

Anti Spy Cam Device - detects hidden cams. Also detect wireless audio transmitting devices commonly used for wiretapping.

Spy Equipment - Monkey's toolbox.

Gear Spy Equipment and Spy Gadgets - PI Gear offers hidden cameras, wireless spy cameras, covert equipment and spy gadgets, along with detectors for the same. Also offers passive and live vehicle GPS tracking devices designed for the private investigator and police detective.

Ultimate Security Encryption Software - for secure communications of sensitive information.

Secure Phone Equipment - SV-100 Safevoice Phone Scrambler is a hi-tech solution for protection from eavesdropping on your telephone conversations.

Stop Big Brother Listening in on Your Mobile Phone Conversations - The UniS system is the first true end-to-end secure GSM system which does not rely on this special GSM data service, but rather uses the standard GSM voice service. (PhysOrg; Sept. 27, 2004)

Other Research

Ocean Wind Power Maps Reveal Possible Wind Energy Sources - Scientists have been creating maps using nearly a decade of data from NASA's QuikSCAT satellite that reveal ocean areas where winds could produce wind energy. (Happy News; July 9, 2008)

Panacea University Research and Development - They are in the process of setting up a granted, non-profit, publicly owned Panacea research and development center.

Finance - The best place to go to learn about publicly traded U.S. companies. Entering the stock symbol into the search box pulls up a dynamic page about the company, recent news, SEC filings, stock performance, etc.

Free access academic journals - Directory of Open Access Journals service covers free, full text, quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals; covering all subjects and languages. There are now 1529 journals in the directory.

EnergyStorm's Energy Abstracts Web Site - Free, searchable database of hundreds of thousands of energy paper abstracts goes back 10 years. Covers subjects as diverse as geothermal energy and oil shales and energy conservation. (ZPEnergy; Aug. 4, 2005)

$150 million Teragrid award heralds new era for scientific computing - Interoperable cyberinfrastructure now accessible to entire science and engineering community. Energy research is but one of many fields that can benefit from this turbo-charged, next-generation Internet. (PESN; Aug. 17, 2005)