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May 29, 2008 Apollo Feedback this week includes dispatches from readers across the country who note new innovations in clean energy generation, describe events in their communities, and also explore the world of work, for themselves and their clean energy companies. Just as coal produced the tools and toys of the 19th century economy, and oil the tools and toys of the 20th century, so will the various clean energy technologies power the 21st century way of life. Portions of that promising future are becoming easily visible in the United States. In a disorienting era, the development of clean energy is one piece of economic and cultural geography that makes sense. Innovations in Clean Energy Some of this electricity can be used to produce borohydride for fuel for vehicles. A way to reduce the consumption of oil is to develop hydrogen fuel cells where the hydrogen is generated from ocean water. Natural energies can be used to generate hydrogen from water in a process to recycle inactive borate to active boro-hydride by ultrasound-powered hydrogenation that drives this energy-absorbing reaction rapidly to completion. This is a commercially viable process. Borax is the raw material for the recycle module. Borax is safe, available in southern US states, and inexpensive. Our abundant ocean water would be the source of hydrogen. This technology must be developed to reduce the need for expensive dams. Hydrogen vehicles can significantly reduce pollution. Note that Finland has hydrogen fuel cell centers to use hydrogen to fuel vehicles. Trinity Power From The “Stirling” Concept You can see many examples on www.youtube.com when you look under “Stirling.” I have created a web site to describe my idea, www.energyfarms.org/trinity/. Basically it consists of an array of motors, to maintain the cold and heat chambers, and generators that produce electric.†Since the array contains hot pluggable units, the power supply continues to operate while you can replace units that have a problem. The output is based on the number of units, the sizes, and the difference in temperatures. The two chambers are super-insulated to better maintain their operational temperatures and each one can be assisted by other external means like solar or wind to further increase the output when then are available. As technology improves units can be exchange for better ones. Electricity would be available anywhere in the world without importing oil or using polluting fossil fuels. Bio-fuels could be eliminated and crops used again to feed the world population and lower the cost of food to the hungry world. Cars could implement the idea and thus have an internal electric power plant that could be driven across the country without external energy supplies and it could be plugged into the grid at night to produce income. Food could be grown year round in greenhouses that use electric to keep the needed temperatures. Shift DOD Dollars I am presently on long-term disability from my tenured position at University Hospital at Stony Brook New York as a Medical Physicist. My education is in the field of policy analysis and management. I am about to go back to work at Stony Brook but we have a contract that allows us to work for other organizations for a specified period of time. I would like to offer my services to the Apollo Alliance and work on a campaign of forming a public-private cooperative to help accelerate the Green Revolution. Pass this memo on to others in your organization and I hope to hear back from you in the near future. Geothermal Net Metering I couldn't see anything wrong with that -- it yielded about a 50% saving on the net -- but there still seems to be some kind of problem with the bill. Therefore what I think is most important for solar development is a federal net-metering law as part of the bill. If real estate developers can put grid-inter-tied solar panels on every roof, there will be great economy of scale and the cost will just be part of the mortgage rather than a separately visible expense. Concerns About Ethanol I am concerned about the push toward ethanol with the world food and grain crisis. I would dearly love to hear what the reaction of the Apollo Alliance and friends has been to the recent book by Gwyneth Cravens “Power to Save the World” ((2007; Knopf), which deals with a safe nuclear-power option as a non-greenhouse-gas way of filling in, without (in this moment) taking food from anyone’s mouth. Senator Obama has apparently been open to the possibility, as part of our national balancing act on this over-all issue. Anyhow, hoping we all balance this out correctly ultimately. AlternativeEnergy.com is doing something unique that hopefully will interest you. We are hosting live chats and talk radio shows by energy experts for the general public, 20 hours a week, every week, starting June. Please read a recent New Energy News article about Solar Entrepreneurs in Malawi that may be of interest to you: Hire Me I also have an undergraduate degree in biology so I get the science, and am looking for†a job in this area in the bluegreen world of creating good green collar anti poverty/stop climate change jobs in exactly the framework that you have laid out in Green-Collar Jobs in America’s Cities. I have been in touch with Governor Rendell recently and the Steelworkers and Communications Workers of America's health/safety/environment guys, Mike Wright and David LeGrande, and am keeping up with the Apollo Alliance, the BlueGreen Alliance and their March conference about Good Green Jobs. I am aware of what the mayor is doing in Washington, DC, and watching for†opportunities there. Do you have any suggestions about where there might be jobs in the labor movement or in federal agencies that work on climate or jobs where people are helping to build this effort in the Washington, DC, and nearby Maryland area? Or where there are already green jobs in union shops in Maryland? I am both looking for a fulltime job and looking to encourage more of the local and international unions in this area to get involved. In any case, it's wonderful to know you are both there, will pass on the email to other colleagues, and look forward to meeting you at some point in this big project that lies ahead of us. PV Solar Company Needs Employees Jobs Needed in Oregon Questions Looking For Answers Wind Turbines For Homes Bio-Fuel Do you have any plans or a place to direct your readers to help them make their own fuel? Something other than using recycled french fry oils? The $1.01 tax credit per gallon of biofuel: Can I collect that if I
make my own fuel or is that only for resale on a manufactured level selling wholesale? Solar .
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