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Sunday, May 31, 2009

Orgone / Bio-Energetics / Weather Control >
Wilhelm Reich and the Orgone Energy (video) - Dr. James DeMeo provides a brief overview of Dr. Wilhelm Reich's work and findings on the orgone energy, or life-energy, which have been subjected to careful scientific scrutiny and evaluation, being verified and confirmed in their major aspects, even while his malicious critics continue to ignore or distort this record of accomplishment and discovery. (YouTube; May 11, 2009)

Nanotechology / Solar Machines >
Tiny boats made of nanomaterials are powered directly by sunlight - Researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, are using carbon nanotubes to build small, simple waterborne machines propelled directly by sunlight. In theory, they say, these machines could be scaled up to make energy-generating pumps directly powered by the sun. (MIT Technology Review; April 13, 2009)

Saturday, May 30, 2009

Featured: Magnet Motors >
Poll: Do you think an all-magnet motor (no electrical input) is possible? - We've posted a poll to get your input on this question, with the following answer options: - Impossible - Maybe - Quite sure - Someone I trust says they've built/seen one - I've personally built or seen one. Comment as you like. (PES Network via 99Polls.com; May 30, 2009)

Nuclear > Fusion
Giant Laser Reactor Unveiled in California - The $3.5-billion-dollar National Ignition Facility at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory will focus 192 laser beams on a hydrogen pellet the size of a bead, heating it to incredible temperatures in an attempt to recreate the power of the sun, in an event that could light the entire country for a split second. (Fox News; May 29, 2009) [Like trying to harness a hurricane?]

Friday, May 29, 2009

Free Energy >
World renowned physicist challenged over free energy machines - Nuclear physicist, Dr. Robert Koontz, has written an open letter challenging Dr. Michio Kaku who recently called free energy machines "impossible" in a recent interview on Coast to Coast AM, saying he needs to reconsider their feasibility based on unknown principles such as alternate dimensions. (Examiner; May 29, 2009)

Solar > Largest
The race to build the world's biggest solar power plant heats up - The race to build the world’s largest solar power plant continues with Arizona Public Service and Starwood Energy Group Global LLC unveiling plans for a 290-megawatt concentrating solar plant west of Phoenix. Named Starwood Solar, it will produce enough electricity to power more than 73,000 homes and is scheduled for completion by 2013. (GizMag; May 26, 2009)

Thursday, May 28, 2009

Featured: Magnet Motors > Mylow > Data >
Jose E. Concepcion, aka Mylow magnet motor a hoax - Recent evidence suggests that "Mylow" of Chicago was fibbing from the beginning when he claimed to have successfully replicated Howard Johnson's all-magnet motor; and that he has never actually produced a single working unit. (PESN; May 28, 2009) (Comment at Examiner.com)

Waste-to-Energy >
Waste Management joins with with InEnTech to convert waste to energy - Waste gasification, a process for converting garbage into fuel and electricity without incinerating it, may be a step closer to large-scale commercialization. Industry heaviweight, Waste Management, has entered into a joint venture with InEnTec of Richland, WA to commercialize its plasma-gasification technology, forming S4 Energy Solutions. (MIT Technology Review; May 27, 2009)

Wednesday, May 27, 2009

Solar > Vehicles >
Plans to build Arizona bullet train fired by the sun - Solar Bullet LLC is developing a bullet train that will be powered by the sun. At 220mph the train could travel from Tucson to Phoenix in just 30 minutes. The system would need 110 megawatts of electricity to run, generated by solar panels mounted above the tracks, and is slated for operation beginning in 2018. (GizMag; May 26, 2009)

Tuesday, May 26, 2009

Nanotechnology / Storage > Capacitors >
Print-on-Demand Power - Flexible carbon-nanotube supercapacitors could give more power to cell phones and other electronics. Researchers have made the first printable supercapacitor. This high-performance energy-storage device performs better than conventional supercapacitors currently on the market. (MIT Technology Review; April 27, 2009)

Monday, May 25, 2009

Featured: Suppression / Movies >
Race to Witch Mountain -- a Metaphor - This new Disney film is amazingly on point when it comes to depicting how the BlackOps control advanced technologies via off-budget, huge projects, in cahoots with certain elements within the U.S. government, often in blatant disregard for the large picture in favor of some myopic agenda. (PESWiki; May 25, 2009) (Comment at Examiner.com)

Cold Fusion > Sonofusion >
Explaining how collapsing bubbles can get so hot - A new paper published in the New Journal of Physics proposes a model explains much of the sonofusion heating process, including a possible route towards heating the interior of the bubble further, making the process more potentially practical. (ARS Technica; May 14, 2009)

Biomass > Ethanol >
Cellulosic Ethanol on the Cheap - Mascoma, a cellulosic biofuels company based in Lebanon, NH, reports significant advances in its goal of simplifying the cellulosic ethanol process by skipping the use of costly enzymes, which could potentially reduce cellulosic ethanol's production costs by 20 to 30 percent. (MIT Technology Review; May 12, 2009)

Sunday, May 24, 2009

Featured / Papers: Cold Fusion >
Cold Fusion explanation using the Y-Bias model of scalar dynamics - An ‘out-of-the-box’ explanation of the quantum electrodynamics attendant to the phenomenon referred to as Cold Fusion, by one a revered theorist and leaders in the field of exotic, breakthrough energy research. (PESN; May 24, 2009)

Saturday, May 23, 2009

Featured: Tools >
The New Jersey Corporation for Advanced Technology (NJCAT) - A private/public partnership that pools the best talents and diverse resources of business and industry, entrepreneurs, university research centers, utilities and government to promote the development and commercialization of exciting, new energy and environmental technologies. (PESWiki; March 6, 2009)

Biomass / Plastic / Alt Fuels >
Plastic and Fuel That Grow On Trees - Chemists have learned how to convert plant biomass directly into a chemical building block that can be used to produce not only fuel, but also plastics, polyester, and industrial chemicals, cheaply and efficiently. (GizMag; May 20, 2009)

Friday, May 22, 2009

Featured: Magnet Motors >
Swiss Ring Magnet Motor - DISPROVED. Site claims: "A current is produced in the ring because of the magnetic field of the magnet, this current creates a secondary magnetic field around the ring that is little delayed from the primary magnetic field of the magnet..." However, the rotation is merely a function of magnetic pull on the twisted threads. (PESWiki; May 22, 2009)

Thursday, May 21, 2009

Featured: Magnet Motors > Mylow > Forum >
What's your take on Mylow and his magnet motor? (deactivated 5/29 with 736 votes) - Poll posted by Sterling, with the following range of answer options: - Will soon be vindicated (4%) - Sincere inventor scared by MIB (23%) - Psychotic faker from the beginning (53%) - Planted to discredit FE movement (5%) - Don't know / none of the above (14%). (99Polls.com; May 21, 2009)

Featured: Magnet Motors > Mylow > Correspondence >
Did the MIB force Mylow to fake his later all-magnet motors? - The specter of a working magnet motor technology coming on to the scene to disrupt the oil-based support system of the powers-that-be is indeed plenty of motive for them to play dirty tricks to maintain their supremacy. Wednesday's communications from Mylow. (PESN; May 21, 2009) (Comment at Examiner.com)

Air / Batteries > Lithium Ion
Future air-fueled battery could store 10 times more power - The new idea the researchers are examining is to replace the lithium cobalt oxide electrode in today's rechargeable lithium batteries with a porous carbon electrode. This allows lithium ions and electrons in the cell to react instead with oxygen in the ambient air. (CNet; May 19, 2009)

Wednesday, May 20, 2009

Wind > High Altitude Wind Power >
Harnessing High Winds With Giant Kites - On overview of various companies and groups seeking to develop viable, reliable methods of harnessing energy from high altitude winds, which carry hundreds of times more energy and are more constant than those near the ground. A look at Delft University of Technology's Laddermill; Google-supported Makani; University of Sussex; and Kitegen of Italy. (Alternative Energy News; May 20, 2009)

Tuesday, May 19, 2009

Featured: Magnet Motors > Mylow > Data >
Fish line mechanical drive discovered in Mylow magnet motor - Some keen observers have pointed out a cheater device, which when noticed becomes blatantly obvious: a drive mechanism via fish line. Was Mylow forced to do that as a ploy to discredit the entire operation which actually had some legitimate stuff, or was it all a strange hoax? (PESN; May 19, 2009) (Comment at Examiner.com)

Featured: Events >
2009 Jarboes Mill AEPC Energy Show n’ Tell Event - Come and see who and what shows up in Maryland May 30-31 this year. It's the second annual Woodstock of free and renewable energy. Covering both conventional and exotic clean energy technologies -- mainly the latter. Bring your own tin foil hat. (PESWiki; May 19, 2009)

Sunday, May 17, 2009

Featured: Magnet Motors > Mylow > Version 2.1 >
How does Mylow get his all-magnet motor to work? - Despite having posted a video showing his motor running using readily-available magnets, along with photos and caliper measurements of the spacing, no one yet has been able to replicate his work four days later. New information provided may change that soon? (PESN; May 16, 2009) (Comment at Examiner.com)

Secondary Oscillations > Milkovic Two-Stage Mechanical Oscillator >
Milkovic Output/Input Measured at 1.46 (0.5 Mb; PDF) - Ronald Pugh, a Canadian machinist, reports on the pendulum-lever system efficiency measurement he conducted. Once again, he confirms the super efficiency of Milkovic's Two-stage Mechanical Oscillator. (VeljkoMilkovic.com; May 17, 2009)

Saturday, May 16, 2009

Featured: Magnet Motors > Mylow > Plans > V2.1
Mylow Magnet Motor Version 2.1 Plans Available - We've completed the updated plans for the most recent all-magnet motor shown by Mylow, which appears to run using just six bar magnets on the rotor, using magnets that we sent him which are readily available in today's market. (PES Network, Inc.; May 16, 2009)

Funding >
Secretary Chu: Calling All Cold Fusion Inventors—and Other Revolutionaries - The U.S. Department of Energy is accepting proposals for energy R&D projects that “disrupt the status quo." The $400 million program is part of the Energy Department’s new emphasis on breakthrough technologies. Small thinkers need not apply: “We are not looking for incremental progress on current technologies.” (Wall Street Journal; May 12, 2009)

Friday, May 15, 2009

Magnet Motors > Howard Johnson >
Bedini Posts Video of Howard Johnson's Devices - John Bedini and Rick Friedrick post a video showing Howard Johnson's linear track magnet train and original magnet motor that John has in his possession, received from HJ years ago. He addresses the video to Mylow to encourage him in his efforts to carry on the work of the late H.J. (YouTube; May 15, 2009)

Magnet Motors > Mylow > OS:MYLOW:Theory >
Mylow's gate - "I have explained that the switching is very important and you must understand that first. I don't care how many magnets you glue on that disc it's not going to work until you understand the switch and where the energy is coming from." -- John Bedini (Mylow_Magmo; May 15, 2009 11:57 am Mountain)

Electromagnetic > Bedini SG >
Spinning Magnet Using Bedini Circuit (video) - I found this looking for a back-up copy of Bedini's video about Howard Johnson's linear track and magnet motor. A cow magnet is seen spinning vertically on top of a plate over a Bedini coil powered by a 9-V battery on the input side, powering a 9-V on the output. (YouTube by Pirate88179; May 03, 2009)

Clean Coal >
Phoenix Firm Offers Nation 'Clear Coal' Solution - A new company, Phoenix-based CoalSack Energy's Clear Coal™ technology makes it possible to convert any type or grade of coal into three basic by-products — char, synthetic oil and synthetic gas — through one integrated process, and it produces one barrel of crude per ton of coal processed. (Bob McCarty Writes; May 14, 2009)

Thursday, May 14, 2009

Featured: Magnet Motors > Mylow > Correspondence >
Mylow itching to go to TV; suggesting 3rd party test - In a couple of recent phone calls with Mylow, he mentioned that he plans to add more magnets to the version 2.1 (yin-yang rotor) device. Says rotor doesn't work with magnets N-down. (Mylow_Magmo; May 14, 2009)

Awards >
CleanTech Open - $1 million USD set aside by organization whose "mission is to serve as an innovation catalyst for ... entrepreneurs and early-stage companies creating clean, environmentally sustainable technologies. Any inventor, technologist or clean tech enthusiast is invited to submit a three-page Executive Summary by May 30th."

Wednesday, May 13, 2009

Featured: Magnet Motors > Mylow > Replications >
Mylow gets all-magnet-motor running using off-the-shelf parts - Since Saturday, Mylow has been posting a series of instructional videos to show how to replicate his motor using readily-available parts. Tuesday evening he got it spinning with just one set of six magnets on the rotor. The replication race will heat up for sure. Who will be first? (PESN; May 13, 2009) (Comment at Examiner)

Tuesday, May 12, 2009

Magnet Motors > Mylow > Data / Videos >
RPM Data of Mylow's All-Magnet Motor - LightRider has programmed some software that works with an external sensor to automatically perform an acceleration analysis of any of Mylow's videos. Analysis of his glass table video from May 2 shows rapid acceleration at first, then reaching an equilibrium speed at around 5 minutes, which is maintained to the end of the ~10-minute video. (PESWiki; May 12, 2009)

Monday, May 11, 2009

Books > Breakthrough Power >
Breakthrough Power book receives silver award - For 26 years, Independent Publisher has been recognizing the work of publishers who exhibit the courage and creativity necessary to take chances, break new ground, and bring about change, not only to the world of publishing, but to our society. This year they recognized Jeane Manning and Joel Garbon's book with one of their Outstanding Book of the Year awards. (IndependentPublisher.com; 2009)

Humor / Global Warming >
Two Sides of the Same Coin (video) - The Stuart David Show -- Episode 12 -- A Foothill in the Mouth, provides a good-natured poking fun at environmentalism and extremism from either end of the spectrum. (Vimeo; Apr. 2009)

Sunday, May 10, 2009

Featured: Magnet Motors > Mylow > V 2.0 / Videos >
Mylow Posting How-To Instructional Videos for his All-Magnet Motor - Having received a new rotor-stator assembly and magnets that are off-the-shelf available, Mylow is now posting a series of instructional videos for people wanting to replicate his bar magnet motor. (PESWiki; May 10, 2009)

Cold Fusion > Theories
QED cavity up conversion is relativistic confusing measurements re LENR - "I am proposing that the hydrino state of relativistic hydrogen inside a Casimir cavity can only occur if vacuum fluctuations twist on the temporal axis appearing to an observer in our plane as getting faster and taking all matter diffused in the field such as the hydrogen atom along for the ride leading to the fractional quantum hydrino." (ScienceBlog; May 3, 2009)

Saturday, May 9, 2009

Featured: Magnet Motors > Mylow > Videos >
High-Resolution Video Files of Mylow's Magnet Motor Available - On May 6, Mylow conveyed around 20 of his original mpg video files to us to make available for download. The spinning motor videos are especially valuable. In order to cover bandwidth costs and to provide additional revenue to support this project, we are making those available for a small fee. (PES Network; May 9, 2009)

Wind > Augmentation
Donut-Shaped Plastic Improves Turbine Output By 30% - Leviathan Energy has come up with a way to improve wind turbine efficiency that has nothing to do with the size or angle of the blades. The company's Wind Energizer is instead a donut-shaped structure made of plastic and steel that wraps around the base of the turbine to maximize wind velocity aimed at the blades. (EcoGeek; May 1, 2009)

Solar > Concentrated > Largest >
Spain Plugs In World's Largest Solar Tower - The world's largest solar tower has started generating electricity in Seville, Spain. The PS20 plant has a capacity of 20 MW and will be able to power 10,000 homes. The plant is made up of 1,255 mirrors, each taking up 1,291 square feet, that focus solar radiation on a 531-foot tower. The heat boils water in the tower which creates steam. The steam then turns a turbine, making electricity. (EcoGeek; Apr. 28, 2009)

Friday, May 8, 2009

Featured: Magnet Motors > Mylow > In the News >
Mylow pays respects at Howard Johnson burial site - First known replicator of Howard Johnson's all-magnet motor designs visits his gravesite, picks up the torch to continue his work. Chicago media calling to get the scoop. Hopefully he'll wait for independent replications. (PESN; May 8, 2009) (Comment at Examiner.com)

Thursday, May 7, 2009

Zero Point Energy >
Conversion of the Vacuum-energy of electromagnetic zero point oscillations into Classical Mechanical Energy (93 pages, 1 MB, download for free) - Claus W. Turtur ahs published a complete overview of his work on the zero-point oscillations of the vacuum - from the beginning of the theory to final experimental verification, building a machine converting vacuum-energy in the lab.

Wednesday, May 6, 2009

Featured: Organizations > WITTS >
Timothy Thrapp of WITTS and the 'dominant energy' field (interview) - World Improvement Through The Spirit Ministries claims to have gravity motors, magnet motors, radiant energy devices, cars that run on water, inertial propulsion devices. It's director, Timothy Thrapp, sees promise in Mylow's magnet motor design. (PESN; May 6, 2009) (Comment at Examiner.com)

Tuesday, May 5, 2009

Featured: Magnet Motors > Mylow > Correspondence >
More Mylow videos, more witnesses, pilgrimage under way - Another non-boring day in the Mylow magnet motor saga, as it becomes more real, and the new world it paints begins to come more sharply into focus. What role will you play? (PESN; May 5, 2009) (Comment at Examiner.com)

Sunday, May 3, 2009

Featured: Magnet Motors > Mylow > In the News >
Mylow magnet motor crop circle; glass table video - On April 29, a crop circle was found in Wiltshire County, UK -- the same day Mylow posted his first video showing his bar-magnet motor. That and several other crop circles that showed up in that region seem to be commenting on Mylow's motor. See Mylow's long-awaited demonstration of his all-magnet motor on a glass table. (PESN; May 3, 2009) (Comment at Examiner.com)

Saturday, May 2, 2009

Featured: Magnet Motors > Mylow > Correspondence >
OverUnity.com Naysayers Spoil the Mylow Magnet Motor Show - Yesterday, Mylow said that now that the MIB pressure had subsided, he was ready to begin posting lots of videos again..., but then he encountered the barrage of extreme negativism over on a Free Energy forum where people should have been patient and helpful; so he pulled the plug. (PESN; May 2, 2009) (Comment at Examiner.com)

EV > Hybrids > Plug-in >
Raser Technologies Unveils 100+ MPG Plug-in Hybrid Hummer - Raser Technologies, Inc. unveiled a 100+ mpg Hummer H3 powered by Raser’s plug-in hybrid E-REV (Extended-Range Electric Vehicle) at the 2009 SAE International World Congress, Cobo Center, Detroit, MI. (Reser press release; ~Apr. 24, 2009)

EV > Hybrids > Plug-in >
100 MPG Bright IDEA Unveiled - The IDEA plug-in hybrid is designed specifically for commercial and government fleets. It has a 30-mile all-electric range before the hybrid engine takes over, which achieves 70 mpg. (EcoGeek; April 21, 2009)

Friday, May 1, 2009

Featured: Magnet Motors > Mylow > Videos >
NSA Guy Apologizes to Mylow; Motor Runs in Reverse - Mylow has posted yet another video showing his motor turning, this time in reverse as he swaps orientation of the stator magnets. Account of NSA agent coming back to his apartment to make amends. (PESN; April 30, 2009) (Comment at Examiner.com)

April

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