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Thursday, April 30, 2009

Magnet Motors > Mylow > Videos >
Mylow Posts Video of Running Bar-Magnet-Motor - After several weeks of enduring endless skepticism by people about his claim to a working, very simple, all-magnet motor design, Mylow has posted a very convincing video showing his latest iteration running. (PESN; April 30, 2009) (Comment at Examiner.com)

Solar > Plastic >
Pushing Plastic Solar Cells - Plastic solar cells are lightweight, flexible, and, most important, cheap to make, but too inefficient to compete with silicon solar cells for most applications -- until now? (MIT Technology Review; April 30, 2009)

It was once said that a black man would be president "when pigs fly" indeed 100 days into Obama's presidency...... Swine flu.

Wednesday, April 29, 2009

Featured: Suppression / Magnet Motors > Mylow > Correspondence >
Mylow Defies the BlackOps; Posting more Videos of his Magnet Motor - Yesterday Mylow met with a "very important person" -- possibly VP Joe Biden -- behind a one-way glass wall. He declines their invitation to work with them and says he's going to continue to open source the technology. (PESN; April 28, 2009) (Comment at Examiner.com)

Store > Electromagnetic > Keppean Scalar Motor >
Keppe Releases a New Motor Manual 3.0 - "The Keppe Motor 3.0 uses 70-90% less energy than traditional low-power induction motors and is readily adaptable for practical applications." The motor is based on Keppe’s disinversion of Physics, enabling the design of a motor that allegedly capture the natural scalar energy that exists in space.

Geothermal >
Geothermal explosion rocks green energy hopes - The bid to produce green power on a commercial scale using heat mined from subterranean rocks – or "hot rocks" – has suffered a major setback, with the breach of a four-kilometre-deep well on Friday in the Cooper Basin in South Australia. (New Scientist; April 28, 2009)

Tuesday, April 28, 2009

Magnet Motors > Mylow > In the News >
Special: Mylow Magnet Motor & BlackOps (audio) - On my Free Energy Now radio show last night, having just returned from Chicago to meet with Mylow, I gave a special one-hour presentation about the latest developments in the Mylow Magnet Motor open source project. More news being composed now. (PESN; April 27, 2009)

Batteries > EEStor >
EEStor Updates - Autoblog Green runs a blog thread just on EEStor, the Texas company that is working on an "energy storage" device made from ceramics. It's not technically a battery because it doesn't use chemicals.

CO2 Sequestration / Natural Gas >
New Way to Convert CO2 into Methanol - Scientists at the Singapore-based Institute of Bioengineering and Nanotechnology (IBN) have achieved an unparalleled feat by transforming carbon dioxide into methanol. Methanol (natural gas) is a widely used form of industrial feedstock and clean-burning biofuel. (Alternative Energy blog; April 28, 2009)

Sunday, April 26, 2009

Magnet Motors > Mylow > Correspondence >
Mylow Being Corralled by BlackOps for his Magnet Motor - An account of my trip to Chicago to meet with Mylow. His recent correspondence speaks of the involvement of a very powerful entity that is interested in his motor. Who are they? Will he go with them? (PESN; April 26, 2009) (Comment at Examiner.com)

Free Energy >
Free Energy Technology Could Destroy the Natural World (But It Doesn't Have To) - New energy technologies promise to provide endless, cheap energy from non-traditional sources (like cold fusion, zero-point energy, etc.), but there's one problem with this: The potential for an *increase* in the destruction of nature coupled with yet another population explosion. (Natural News; April 24, 2009)

Saturday, April 25, 2009

Featured: Books >
Prescription for the Planet - Prescription for the Planet explains how a trio of little-known yet profoundly revolutionary technologies, coupled with their judicious use in an atmosphere of global cooperation, can be the springboard that carries humanity to an era beyond scarcity. (PESWiki; April 25, 2009)

Waste to Energy >
Could your trashcan solve the energy crisis? - Could vaporising waste provide a solution to two of humanity's biggest environmental problems at once? Companies around the world are trying to turn household waste into clean energy – but critics say "gasification" isn't as green as it sounds. (New Scientist; Apr. 22, 2009)

U.S. Government and Energy > Recovery Act >
Obama calls for new era of energy exploration - "Now, the choice we face is not between saving our environment and saving our economy," Obama said. "The choice we face is between prosperity and decline. We can remain the world's leading importer of oil, or we can become the world's leading exporter of clean energy." (PhysOrg; April 23, 2009)

Friday, April 24, 2009

Featured: Cold Fusion > 60 Minutes feature >
APS Denies Role Ascribed in 60 Minutes' Cold Fusion Piece - CBS temporarily pulled their very popular Cold Fusion video segment after the American Physical Society published a press release denying that it had recommended any particular scientist to verify the energy output claims [of Energetics LLC]. (PESN; April 24, 2009) (Comment at Examiner.com)

Electromagnetic > Zero Amps Tech >
Tom Valone Skeptical About Sumarack's March 30 Video - New Energy pillar, Dr. Valone, gives reason for skepticism on the Zero Amps generator demo video recently posted. "The video looks interesting but there are TWO BIG problems called storage batteries, along with no acknowledged consideration by Peter of the POWER FACTOR as he does his calculations." (PESWiki; April 23, 2009)

Thursday, April 23, 2009

Featured: Ambient Air Engines / Running Vehicles on Water >
Cowlishaw Endothermic Steam Engine - The most famous, but still suppressed realization of this concept was demonstrated in California in 1929, and was then called "The Water Powered Car". My maternal Uncle Hugh Wilson was present when it drove from Los Angeles California over several days in the hot California afternoons. (PESWiki; April 22, 2009)

Aether > KML Coils >
Chris Brown's Own Measurements Show No Change In TV Setup - Last week, Chris reported that he had run a television on a KML Coil system he devised, and that the duration seemed much longer than what would be possible without the KML Coils. Today, his first before/after control test concludes that the KML Coils are not contributing anything to the system. (PESWiki; April 23, 2009)

Human-Powered > Pedal Power >
17 Examples of Pedal Power and Propulsion - If the bicycle is the most efficient means of transport ever devised, it's not surprising that humankind has sought to leverage pedal power into other vehicles and apparatus. Here we look back over some of our past posts that’ve paid homage to the mighty cranking energy inherent in a bicycle. (TreeHugger; Apr. 20, 2009)

Wednesday, April 22, 2009 -- Earth Day

Featured: Magnet Motors > Mylow > In the News >
Mylow Magnet Motor Saga - A simple inventor in Chicago is stirring the imagination of many magnet motor enthusiasts around the world with the myriad of videos he's posted, open sourcing the design to bypass suppression and facilitate rapid development. (Examiner; April 22, 2009)

Featured: Magnetism > Magnet Motors >
Magnetic Current by Edward Leedskalnin - Download a copy of this fascinating inventor's book about magnetism, written in 1945. This former neighbor of Howard Johnson apparently had an all-magnet motor that resembles Mylow's in his famous Coral Castle which was allegedly built using anti-gravity principles. (PESWiki; April 22, 2009)

Solar > Space Based >
PG&E space solar power less than decade away! - California's biggest energy utility announced a deal Monday to purchase 200 megawatts of electricity from a startup company, Solaren Corp., that plans to beam the power down to Earth from outer space, beginning in 2016. (See Interactive Explanation) (MSNBC; April 13, 2009)

Tuesday, April 21, 2009

Featured: Magnet Motors > Mylow > Plans >
Magnets Used by Mylow - A video posted by Mylow on April 15 not only describes the various magnets he's used in his various motor iterations, but also gives a good overview of the recent history of the unfolding of this new technology, including a description of his new bar magnet configuration that he said also works. (PESWiki; April 21, 2009)

Suppression > Efforts to Remedy Pantone's Wrongful Treatment >
How Utah Steals Lives -- Pantone Imprisonment Parody - David Pantone's latest video commentary on the wrongful incarceration of his father under insane conditions at the State Mental Hospital. (YouTube; March 17, 2009)

DIY > Human-Powered > Pedal-Power
Pedal-A-Watt Stationary Bike Power Generator - Create electricity pedaling your own bicycle. Site provides detailed assembly instructions, pictures and diagrams, showing step-by-step how to construct your own Pedal-A-Watt generator from readily-available parts. Featured at Super Bowl XLII.

UFOs >
Former astronaut: Man not alone in universe - Former NASA astronaut Edgar Mitchell, who was part of the 1971 Apollo 14 moon mission, asserted Monday that extraterrestrial life exists, and that the truth is being concealed by the U.S. and other governments. (CNN; April 20, 2009) (See Coast to Coast AM, hour 1 with Stephen Bassett)

Monday, April 20, 2009

Featured: Nuclear > Cold Fusion >
60 Minutes: Cold Fusion is Hot Again - A report by CBS News' 60 Minutes program on April 19, 2009 states: "When first presented in 1989 cold fusion was quickly dismissed as junk science. But there's renewed buzz among scientists that cold fusion could lead to monumental breakthroughs in energy production." (PESWiki; April 20, 2009) (See PES Interview)

Biomass / Global Warming >
Black carbon soot mitigation may be rapid piece of solution - Black carbon soot emissions (much from third world cookstoves) may cause up to 18% of global warming, and 50% of arctic warming, but are relatively easy to mitigate with donations of new stoves to third world countries. (NY Times; April 15, 2009)

Sunday, April 19, 2009

Cold Fusion >
Cold Fusion - CBS TV’s “60 Minutes” Turns Up the Heat - Low-energy nuclear reactions, historically known as “cold fusion,” will get their 12 minutes of fame on CBS TV’s “60 Minutes” Sunday, April 19 at 7 p.m. Eastern Standard Time in a program titled “Cold Fusion Is Hot Again.” (X-Journals reprint from New Energy Times; April 16, 2009)

Conservation >
Save Over $250 a Year by Unplugging Stuff You're Not Using - Vampire power, or phantom load is the phenomenon where the appliances you keep plugged in quietly drain electricity consistently all day, every day, even when they're off. Good Magazine, estimates vampire power costs US consumers $3 billion dollars a year. Unplug or use Smart power strips to save. (Planet Green; Apr. 9, 2009)

Friday, April 17, 2009

Store: Conservation / Energy Efficiency >
Save On Home Energy ebook available (Interview) - New ebook by Peter Lindemann and Aaron Murakami tells you how you can stop wasting 50% of your home energy by putting to use some mostly simple conservation methods, beginning with those that cost the least and are easiest to implement, while making the biggest difference. (PESN; April 17, 2009)

Thursday, April 16, 2009

Hydrogen >
Hydrogen Powered Car Two Centuries Old - In 1806 Francois Isaac de Rivaz is a Swiss inventor designed and successfully constructed the first-ever internal combustion engine using Hydrogen as it's fuel source. (H2-Hydro-Gen)

Wednesday, April 15, 2009

Featured / OS: Aether >
KML Coils: Super-Duper Simple Method for Pulling Energy from Aether? - Young Delaware inventor, Chris W. Brown, thinks he has come up with a way of harnessing aetheric energy through an ultra simple coil arrangement. Yesterday he said he powered his TV for nearly 7 hours using a new arrangement comprising less than $100 in off-the-shelf parts. (PESWiki; April 15, 2009)

Tuesday, April 14, 2009

Featured / Buyer Beware: Electromagnetic > Boswell >
Boswell Power Production Unit Videos Posted - Claims that something turning in a 5-gal. bucket elevated on a 4-foot PVC pipe, having 12-gauge wire coming from it is producing 5.4 kW and has been powering his home for months. Documents PG&E vehicle stopping by the day after he posted his video. (PESN; April 14, 2009)

Solar > Cooking >
Cardboard Box Wins $75K Prize - Dubbed the 'Kyoto Box', this $6.60 solar cooker, winner of the Financial Times' Climate Change Challenge, was made by placing insulation (straw or newspaper) in between the two boxes; placing foil inside the first box and painting the inside of the second box black, both to help with heating; an acrylic cover goes over the top. (TreeHugger; April 9, 2009)

Magnet Motors > Mylow > In the News
Magnetic Motor Experiment - The inventor, who calls himself Mylow, originally loaded up a number of videos to YouTube detailing the construction of his motor which apparently was an effort to duplicate a magnetic motor originally built by Howard Johnson back in the 1970s. (X-Journals; Apr. 13, 2009)

Monday, April 13, 2009

Top 100 / Featured: Events > Breakthrough Power >
Video Report: Breakthrough Power Presentation at SJSU - On April 2, Jeane Manning, Joel Garbon and Sterling Allan, along with Raphial Morgado gave a presentation to some students at San Jose State University. Raphial demonstrated his Massive Yet Tiny (MYT) engine and said a few words about the inventive process to those assembled. (PESWiki; April 13, 2009)

Sunday, April 12, 2009

Electromagnetic >
Planes Could Be Brought Down By DIY 'E-bombs' - Electromagnetic pulse weapons capable of frying the electronics in civil airliners can be built using information and components available on the net. All it would take to bring a plane down would be a single but highly energetic microwave radio pulse blasted from a device inside a plane, or on the ground and trained at an aircraft coming in to land. (New Scientist; April 1, 2009)

Magnet Motors > Mylow > Variants
Mylow Rotor Magnet Spacing and Howard Johnson Stator Magnets - Rickoff posts some ideas that might help in the Mylow magnet motor open source project. Shows source for banana-shape neo magnets (can be shaped however through NeoForm bonding).

Saturday, April 11, 2009

Magnet Motors > Mylow > Replications >
Queue's Mylow Magnet Motor Rotor-Stator Testing - "Found an interesting array configuration today while doing some testing. This [arrangement] is the best I have found so far in my tests. .. Next a full disk using that array. 16-3 maybe 16-4. So far none of the original Mylow disk configs have worked with any of the magnets I have on-hand." (YouTube; April 10, 2009)

Solar / News Resources >
Solar Power Blog - Hot news and articles related to solar energy. "We try to agitate people to use power of sun in all spheres of their life."

Friday, April 10, 2009

Magnet Motors > Mylow > Replications > Bob/Sterling
Ideas for Timing Magnets on Mylow's Motor Replication - A video for those replicating Mylow's magnet motor suggesting how to more easily try different magnet combinations to try and find something that works. Near the end of the video are some interesting preliminary results. Who will be the first to successfully replicate Mylow's motor? Mylow? (PESWiki; Apr. 10, 2009)

Fuel Efficiency > Vehicles >
A lesson for Detroit - Tata Nano - Three innovations make the Nano huge. 1) A modular design enables a knowledgeable mechanic to assemble the car in a workshop, making on-demand assembly possible. 2) It has a no-frills design and uses lighter components, giving it 67 mpg. 3) While it is only 122 inches long it still has ample interior space. With a base price of $2,000, this "poor man's car" is gaining momentum. (San Francisco Chronicle; March 31, 2009)

Thursday, April 9, 2009

Magnet Motors > Mylow > Correspondence
Rotor stopped this morning; Why I believe in Mylow - Mylow just phoned me and said that his motor stopped at around 7:15 Central this morning; so it had run nearly 12 hours since last night when we talked. He said that as it came to a stop it did not cog, but just gradually slowed to a stand still. (OverUnity; Apr. 9, 2009; 11:26 am Mountain)

Magnet Motors > Mylow > In the News
New Energy Invention Goes Open Source, Gets Confiscated - Mylow has been very open and transparent in revealing everything that he is doing. He has posted detailed videos on exactly how he made this magnetic motor and allowed Sterling to publicize it widely. This particular article I wrote on Mylow's invention suppression did not and does not show up in a Google news search. (WantToKnow; April 9, 2009)

Nanotechnology / Solar Innovations >
A Hybrid Nano-Energy Harvester - Researchers have combined a nanogenerator with a solar cell to create an integrated mechanical- and solar-energy-harvesting device. This hybrid generator might be used, e.g., to power airplane sensors by capturing sunlight as well as engine vibrations. (MIT Technology Review; April 09, 2009)

Lighting > Compact Fluorescent > Downsides
CFLs Causing Utility Woes - EDN reports that compact fluorescent bulbs use more energy than claimed due to their poor power factor, in the range of 0.45 to 0.50. While consumers are only charged 13 Watts for a 60-Watt incandescent equivalent bulb, the utility has to generate 28 watts. (Slashdot; Apr. 8, 2009) (Discussion)

Wednesday, April 8, 2009

Featured: Fuel Efficiency > H Injection > HAVC >
Dateline Accuses Dennis Lee of Fraud - Citing credible third-party testing of an HAFC installation on a Honda Accord, a Dateline special paints Dennis Lee as a charlatan preying on good people who want to see fuel economy improvement, and who believe that a conspiracy keeps these technologies from going forward. (PESWiki; April 8, 2009)

Magnet Motors > Mylow > Correspondence
New horseshoe stator magnet works - Mylow's 3rd and 4rth reassembly to a functioning device described. The most recent one uses an elongated horseshoe magnet. Now rotor magnets are growing weak. MIB incident still giving nightmares. (Mylow_Magmo; Apr 8, 2009 9:13 pm Mountain)

Tuesday, April 7, 2009

Conspiracy >
Active Thermitic Material Discovered in Dust from the 9/11 World Trade Center Catastrophe - “Based on these observations, we conclude that the red layer of the red/gray chips we have discovered in the WTC dust is active, unreacted thermitic material, incorporating nanotechnology, and is a highly energetic pyrotechnic or explosive material.” (911Blogger; April 4, 2009)

Monday, April 6, 2009

Featured: Suppression / Magnet Motors > Mylow >
Mylow's All-Magnet Motor "Not a Fake" - Mylow gives more info about how his motor works, how the recent episode with the MIB guy (NSA) rattled him, tells of non-symmetric polarity in his stator magnet, encourages replication attempts. (PESN; April 6, 2009)

EVs > Plug-In
Can GM's Volt Save the Company? - Last week, President Obama said that GM had failed to present a convincing plan to turn around its decline, and he warned that the automaker may face bankruptcy. GM's planned plug-in hybrid car is at the core of the automaker's attempt to reinvent itself. (MIT Technology Review; April 6, 2009)

Investment Resources >
Report: Global clean-energy investment falls 53% - The steep drop-off shows the global economy's continued deterioration despite a fresh emphasis on curbing pollution and promoting cleaner energy such as wind farms, solar parks and biofuels plants. (MIT Technology Review; April 02, 2009)

Sunday, April 5, 2009

Featured / Store: Magnet Motors > Mylow >
Mylow Magnet Motor Plans -- Version 1.1 - Sterling presents a concise and clear set of instructions of how to build a working all-magnet motor as described by Mylow, who is the first person we know of who has replicated Howard Johnson’s Stonehenge model from three decades ago. (MylowPlans.com; April 4, 2009)

Saturday, April 4, 2009

Featured / OS: Joe Cell / Fuel_Efficiency > H Boost >
The Moe-Joe Spherical Joe Cell - Moshe Daniel, inventor/designer of the Moe-Joe Cell, has placed his project here at PESWiki, sharing some of the special features of the Moe-Joe cell and how it is an improvement over the cylindrical-type cells in the Joe Cell technology world. (PESWiki; April 4, 2009)

Nanotechnology / Batteries >
Nanotech Batteries For A New Energy Future - Researchers at the Maryland NanoCenter at the University of Maryland have developed new systems for storing electrical energy derived from alternative sources that are, in some cases, 10 times more efficient than what is commercially available. (ScienceDaily; March 22, 2009)

Videos >
'Dancing in Paris' -- 80s Car Commercial - Totally stunning stunt car driving of the Isuzu Gemini. Best performance video I've ever seen along these lines. "'Bet you can't do this", every few seconds. (Google Video; Jan. 31, 2006)

Friday, April 3, 2009

Featured: Suppression / Magnet Motors > Mylow >
Mylow's lawyer brings MIB guy who takes his motor and papers - Mylow's lawyer brought an unidentified, intimidating man with him Thursday night, taking his motor, all his papers, leaving him with a note of warning -- only to return the items this morning. Mylow defiantly posts another video, calling it his last. (PESN; April 3, 2009)

Solar > Concentrated >
Home-Heating Mirrors - A new company called Practical Solar uses mirrors to focus sunlight where you want it via a computer-controlled heliostat system. One application would be to focus it on your home to keep it warm in the winter. (EcoGeek; March 20, 2009)

Thursday, April 2, 2009

Magnet Motors > Mylow > Correspondence
18 hours at 140 rpm; stator magnet cold - As of 7:10 pm, Mylow said his all-magnet motor had been running continuously since about 1:00 am last night, at around 140 rpm. Four minutes after he stopped the motor, the stator magnet was 13 degrees below ambient temperature. (Mylow_Magmo; April 2, 2009)

Electromagnetic > Pete's Zero Zamps Tech
Peter Sumaruck Demonstrates Apparent Closed Loop Power Production System - On March 30 a video was posted apparently showing Pete running his motor for three hours with no diminishing of input battery levels or generation of heat in the driving components, while the same set-up without his technology would supposedly only power the output for two hours, draining the batteries. (WorldOpinionView; Apr. 2, 2009)

Electromagnetic / Aether
Robert Distini’s New Electromagnetism and Ethereal Mechanics - New Electromagnetism consists of spherical field models for both Coulomb forces and magnetic forces, introducing additional terms to resolve anomalies and paradoxes. Ethereal Mechanics proposes a more coherent explanation of time, energy, matter and existence.

Wednesday, April 1, 2009

Featured: Magnet Motors > Mylow >
Mylow Gets His All-Magnet Motor Running Again - Mylow has received the alnico magnets I sent him. He said one of them worked so well that the centripetal force of rotation made some of the rotor magnets fly off. (PESN; April 1, 2009)

Featured: Fuel Efficiency > Animal-Powered >
1 HP Vietnamese Hybrid Runs on Hay - A couple of rural Vietnamese inventors have turned the world of physics on its head by achieving a COP (Cow-efficient of Performance) far in excess of what was possible even a century ago. (Free Energy News; April 1, 2009)

Featured: Biofuels > Human-Powered >
NatGeo Bus Powered by Passengers - The bussing authority in Atlanta in conjunction with NatGeo, a global biofuel research group, has been experimenting with a new approach to powering their bus fleet with the passengers that board the bus. Passengers enter through the jaws and exit through the tail pipe. (Free Energy News; April 1, 2009)

Flight > Aeroscraft >
Airship Company To Enter LSA Market - "The five-gallon fuel capacity proved the limiting factor," said our source. "That turned out to be just enough fuel to make two or three full turns, and required spending the rest of a flight just drifting with the wind. (Aero-News.net; April 1, 2009)

Human-Powered > Fuel Efficiency
Extraordinary Loads on Ordinary Bikes - A collection of 20 images from around the planet, primarily in the developing world, where amazing feats of stacking and balance are achieved, and powered by human locomotion and ingenuity. (TreeHugger; March 30, 2009)

March

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