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This is a non-commercial attempt to highlight the fact that world leaders, irresponsible corporates and mindless ‘consumers’ are combining to destroy life on…
Turn up the sound, sit back, breathe and enjoy the wonder.
Mother Earth is trying to tell us something. I hope that this will open your eyes to her beauty.
Breathe …. as the green future unfolds.
They Took Green Advantage Of Their Natural Energy
Founded in 1867 Klamath Falls, Oregon, population 42,000, is located in the south central region of Oregon bordering northern California. It sits on the southern shore of the Upper Klamath Lake, nestled in the Klamath Basin on the eastern slopes of the Cascade Mountains.
Here in this timber and ranching town when snow falls it accumulates, as usual, on everything except the nice, toasty, dry sidewalks. Well, that’s different, very nice, but different! (more…)
Too Good To Be True? Not With MIT On Our Side
MIT researchers have a simple, inexpensive, highly efficient process for storing solar energy.
Daniel G. Nocera, the Henry Dreyfus Professor of Energy at MIT, developed a simple method to split water molecules and produce oxygen gas, a discovery that paves the way for large-scale use of solar power.
The researchers developed a new catalyst, consisting of cobalt metal, phosphate and an electrode. When the catalyst is placed in water and electricity runs through the electrode, oxygen gas is produced. When another catalyst is used to produce hydrogen gas, the oxygen and hydrogen can be combined inside a fuel cell, creating carbon-free electricity to power a house or an electric car, day or night.
With Daniel Nocera’s and Matthew Kanan’s catalyst, homeowners could use their solar panels during the day to power their home, while also using the energy to split water into hydrogen and oxygen for storage. At night, the stored hydrogen and oxygen could be recombined using a fuel cell to generate power while the solar panels are inactive.
More engineering work needs to be done to integrate the process into existing photovoltaic systems, but Nocera said he is confident that such systems will become a reality.
Nocera hopes that within 10 years, homeowners will be able to power their homes in daylight through photovoltaic cells, while using excess solar energy to produce hydrogen and oxygen to power their own household fuel cell. Electricity-by-wire from a central source could be a thing of the past.
But like the old saying goes ….. “an internet video clip from LiveScience.com is worth a thousand words“, so……
Courtesy of Cascade Engineering
The Swift Wind Turbine was developed by Renewable Devices in Scotland. With
installations worldwide, this design icon has been quietly generating clean energy
for homeowners, community groups, and commercial customers, for over four years
* Quiet, vibration-free rooftop operation
* Simple installation
* Safe, efficient and autonomous operation
* Visually appealing design
* Sustain, harm neutral design – allowing the Swift to become carbon and energy
positive within four years
* Zoning – operates below maximum noise levels and eliminates the pole fall height
restrictions
The Swift turbine is mounted on an aluminum mast with a minimum blade-roof clearance of (more…)
U.N. scientist say we only have 10 years to mend our ways, because if we do
not clean up our act, mother nature has some nasty surprises:
Storms – insured losses from weather events have increased 15 fold in the
last 30 years.
Floods – U.N. scientists predict 200 million climate refugees in the next
40 years.
Drought – Land stricken by severe drought has doubled in 30 years. (more…)
A young Jewett, Texas mother told me her 7 year old son came home from school with a
packet of wildflower seeds stapled to a letter. The letter was dated April 22, Earth
Day. It was from a company called Nucor, and it said (not quoting here), that it was
giving these wildflower seeds to all the young school children to experience their
first occasion to participate in Earth Day, and watch the wonder of beautiful flowers
grow from seeds they planted with their own hands. (more…)
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