In recent news there has been a lot of discussion of various announcements coming out of the World Future Energy Summit being held in Abu Dhabi this week. The primary sponsor of this event happens to be Masdar which is owned by Mubadala Investments. Mubadala also happens to be a prime investor in several other “companies” that have dubious ties in the world of global finance and power. The very interesting thing about these announcements is not the number of projects that are being planned but the shear size of the budgets that are being forecast.

There is talk of plans for 48 sq km facilities in Dubai by 2030 generating 1GW of electricity, plans are underway to do similar large scale projects in Oman and Saudi and of course the same companies want to go all the way and install large Photo Voltaic and Concentrated Solar Power installations across the entire MENA (Middle East North Africa) region. These plans are fantastic and forward thinking except for one small problem. The costs for these projects are phenomenally out of bounds. The timescale of the projects (upto 20 years) are way over what is considered necessary to setup and install a large facility. After all The tallest building in the world was built in only 5 years and a Concentrated Solar Thermal Tower doesn’t even go up to 10 stories high with the entire solar array on ground level. Considering what has already been spent by these same companies on very mediocre attempts at Solar energy supply there is a serious disconnect between what is required in terms of resources and effort to build an industrial scale Solar energy facility and what is currently required in terms of budget to pay for the opportunity of bringing a facility online.

The answer to this mystery appears to be related to the financial crisis and the worlds Fossil Fuel addiction. If Solar energy is priced at the real market value. The true cost of building industrial scale facilities and connecting them to the grid and not the price that is current being forced on the market by the entrenched Oil industry we would see that Solar power is phenomenally cheaper than any of the competing energy sources. In other words the only reason the Solar has not already reached price parity is because the Elite are holding the industry to ransom to prop up the price of the other fuel sources for as long as possible.

The real reason for companies like Solyndra to be going bankrupt is because they were never intended to actually succeed. The entire industry knows full well this dirty little secret. The price of Solar when done correctly and at utility scale is ridiculously low compared to any of the other energy sources. Concentrated Solar power has the potential when combined with Solar Thermal to provide all the energy required for any of the cities that have a regular supply of sunlight. Therefore the entrenched players in the energy industry are quietly but assuredly doing their best to disrupt and stall the transition to the Solar economy for as long as possible.

By keeping the “true cost” of utility scale Solar energy artificially high through the use of excessive budgets on projects where they are essentially paying themselves excessively large sums of money to build pitifully low yield Solar installations Companies like Masdar are manipulating the cost of Solar energy on the world market thereby pushing up the price of oil as the markets continue to bid up the price of the dwindling reserves and keeping the other players like coal and gas satisfied with the status quo while they continue to rake in the profits received from sales of their product to the global market.

In other words, Utility scale solar is massively over priced. The big players know this full well and are controlling the market to keep things that way. In much the same way that they control the production of electric cars to ensure we all rely on petrol they are also drip feeding the world Solar energy to keep their profit margins high. The end result is wasted time, opportunity and resources.

The sad truth is that the word could already have an abundant supply of fresh drinking water and electricity simply by using relatively modest resources to build Concentrated Solar Thermal Desalinisation and Electricity production plants for every major city in the sunny parts of the world. This would free up remaining resources for the countries which are not as sundrenched and lower the price of energy and the global carbon footprint. Now that would just be rational and logical which as we already know is not possible while the Elite of the world remain in charge.

Either that or they really are just idiots over there at Mubadala and have no idea how bad they are getting ripped off.

Just flip a coin to decide…

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With the forthcoming decision by the US govt to increase the money supply by another 1.2 Trillion dollars for the coming year the inevitability of Weimar Hyperinflation on the Global Economy is rapidly approaching.

Due to the cost of everything rapidly rising because of the crushing force of inflationary expansion we are now at the point where we will see a rapid acceleration in the cost of living over the coming months. When it happens we will all be left with the tide out and our pants down. So get used to the idea of everyone else knowing if the carpet matches the drapes.

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Dubai has thrown it’s hat into the ring with a massive 48 square kilometer commitment to solar energy launched today in the UAE capital. The project seeks to have a first phase development completed by 2013 with a target of 1 Giga Watt capacity by 2030. With the excess of low cost solar panels now on the market thanks to massive Chinese production this looks like it will be a serious infrastructure achievement once completed.

The reasoning behind this is given below:

The President, His Highness Shaikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan, spelt out the country’s goals in tapping alternative sources of energy. ‘‘The UAE is striving to develop and boost its rich resources and expertise in the international energy markets and enhance its leading role as a world centre for renewable energy research and development,” he said.

This can be translated as “we have realised that we can make more money by selling the remaining reserves of oil to foreign powers and we would be stupid if we continued to use it as our primary energy source. The cost in energy of taking remaining oil out of the ground means we are consuming more energy every day in order to keep our power supply steady. Transitioning to a Solar Economy makes perfect sense as we receive some of the most powerful rays from the Sun everyday that make it to the earths surface. Continuing to burn our precious resources when we can sell them tom someone else instead is fiscally irresponsible and damaging to our future wealth potential.”

Given the proximity to the ocean it is highly likely that they will add on a Solar Thermal Water desalinisation plant so they can provide the region with a constant supply of fresh water. Watch for the French to get involved directly in that stage now that Areva have shown their hand with the recent completion and connection to the grid of the Gemasolar project in Spain.

Of course we should not forget that the work will be carried out by slave labour from Pakistan, India, Sri Lanka and the Philippines. The Kingdom is renowned for it’s lack of resolve to provide fair working conditions for the crews of men that have been duped into leaving their families for a better wage only to find out that they have lost all their rights and are permanently trapped.

The systemised abuse and greed in Dubai due to excessive credit built around the construction industry by psychopathic bankers and a selfish ruling class gives us a very modern perspective of what the Egyptian, Roman, Aztechs and Ankor Empires must have been like. A society where the elite drink the blood of the unfortunate and feast on the bones of their dead. A truly Vampiric society sucking the life force from anyone who gets too close.

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There is a strange anomaly in the reporting of space journalists in regards to the affects that Cosmic Radiation and Cosmic Rays have on the human body. Particularly the eyes where it is well understood that they cause blinding flashes of light even with the eyes closed.

According to wikipedia

Cosmic rays compose a part of natural background radiation on Earth, averaging about 10-15% of it. However, persons living at higher altitude can obtain several times more cosmic radation than at sea level, and long distance airline crews can double their yearly ionizing radiation exposure due to this source. Since the intensity of cosmic rays is much larger outside the Earth’s atmosphere and magnetic field, it is expected to have a major impact on the design of spacecraft that can safely transport humans in interplanetary space.

Cosmic rays can have energies of over 1020 eV, far higher than the 1012 to 1013 eV that Terrestrial particle accelerators can produce. In the history of particle physics, cosmic rays were the source of the discovery of the positron, muon, and pi meson.

Where the disconnect occurs is when space journos discuss the possibility of sending humans to the moon or even further out into the galaxy like for instance to colonise Mars. The problem is that they rarely take into account the massive amounts of shielding that will be required to protect human space travellers from the extremely detrimental affects of constant exposure to the Cosmic Background Radiation. We can get an idea of what kind of level of shielding we would need by simply looking at the Large Hadron Collider which is buried under the Swiss Alps and completely surrounded by concrete.

As we are all well aware it would require a very large rocket to power it’s way through the atmosphere with a payload of hundreds of tonnes of concrete shielding onboard so it sure seems strange that nearly every news article these days conveniently leaves out the fact that we have not yet found a way to transport that much shielding into space let alone the vehicle, supplies and people to go inside the shielding.

It’s bad enough that the astronauts on the Space Station suffer from cataracts caused by the Cosmic Rays they are exposed to inside our magnetosphere. What would be the result of a couple of hours/days/weeks/months of constant exposure to the depths of space without the kind of shielding that they have surrounding the LHC?

The near universal ignorance of this issue by space journalists offers only tow possibilities. Either they are completely clueless and should not be reporting or they are purposefully ignoring the issue because the can of worms that it signifies is just too big to open and the pay packet they receive by carefully ignoring the issue is worth more to them than their integrity.

Of course all these problems and more could have been well on their way to being conclusively solved by now if the Elites hadn’t decided to squander the past 20 years by continuing to have pointless energy consuming wars. If they had instead used the scarce finite energy resources and directed the support of the masses into building space vessels we could actually be travelling around the galaxy by now.

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The XCore suborbital reusable horizontal launch rocket is a new contender for the space tourism crown. Taking off from a normal airstrip and being able to launch 4 times a day for 10 days before requiring servicing. They are pitching to sell the vehicles throughout the world. The idea looks like a neat toy for a wealthy Adrenaline junkie. It would also be a very quick way to get around for globe trotting adventurists who could effectively island hop their way around the globe in a matter of hours by launching themselves into sub orbit and letting the earths rotation do the hard work. Add on a couple of extra pounds of fuels and they can increase the burn time to make the distance covered longer and the over all trips shorter.

In a way it is surprising that the US have decided that it is time to allow this technology to be exported off their shores. But given the decline of the US dollar and economy it makes perfect sense that one of the ways they expect to work their way out of the global recession is by selling expensive toys to wealthy consumers.

The only thing missing from this technology is a way to stop the blinding flashes of light caused by cosmic rays that plague humans as soon as they get outside of the Earths magnetosphere. Once that has been solved we should be able to fly anywhere we want in the solar system. Holidays in moon craters may well become a viable tourism destination.

One interesting aspect of this venture is the way the industry has been designed. The scientists at NASA seem to have found a way to take their knowledge and commercialise it without having to depend on Elite Politicians for their funding. Now that they have split NASA into several commercial ventures and the best minds have made their bets on the direction they want to travel the Banksters will be less able to control them through their lobbying efforts. This by itself bodes well for the future as it will become fashionable to become intelligent, well read and educated. Hopefully that will translate into a more open minded and rational society where decisions are made based on logic and science rather than wishful thinking and passing the buck.

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The SOPA act is another stage in the War on Freedom that is being carried out by the American Political Elite and Corporate interests. Effectively giving corporations and govt the power to shutdown any website they want with no legal process at a moments notice. This legislation represents complete fascism in action.

It just shows how far down the path of suppression the American leaders are prepared to travel. We have already seen the results of 10 years of war in the Middle East. The incredible waste of finite energy resources that have forced up the cost of living, brought the banking system to it’s knees and hastened the inevitable spiral into a post depression global war of attrition as the Elite seek to preserve their status and power in the coming energy crunch.

Now they are attempting to remove the first Amendment right of free speech from their constitution in order to suppress the truth that can readily be found on the internet as the knowledgable ones share their wisdom with the masses bypassing the Mainstream Corporate Media and providing instant enlightenment for those who care to read.

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Like Elvis, Burt Rutan just keeps delivering hit after hit. With the announcement of the decision to commit his own personal wealth earned from the Microsoft empire to funding the next phase of Burt Rutans Scaled Composites Space launch system Paul Allen has jumped back into the space industry with gusto. Forming a new company called “Stratolaunch Systems” and including the former Chief of NASA Michael Griffins on the Board of Directors is a bold move on his part. Given his history of making ridiculous amounts of personal wealth by “leveraging” the work of others before him this move is not out of character. However at least in this case he was one of the initial backers for the first space launch system that allowed Scaled Composites to win the Ansari X prize.

What is slightly more interesting is the list of names that are associated with the new phase of development. First Paul Allen and Burt Rutan are obviously the driving forces behind the plan. Next up are Richard Branson and Elon Musk both of whom have contributed their own personal wealth to other aspects of the development process. In Branson’s case it is by committing his wealth and organisational benefits of his Virgin Empire to the second phase of the Space Launch System which has resulted in Virgin Galactic. For Musk it is his SpaceX rockets that will be launched by Allen’s Plane.

With the addition of Jeff Bezos who is independently developing a reusable ground launch system it is clear that the commercial space race is being lead by an elite group of wealthy Information Tech heads who having conquered the web are now directing their wealth and organisational skills towards conquering space.

The next question is where are they going to get all the energy required to build, fly and launch the payloads?

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A recent report from Russian Scientists studying the Permafrost surrounding the Arctic Ice Shelf has pointed out that massive amounts of methane are being rapidly released into the Atmosphere due to the increased warming of the Arctic. While the issue of permafrost warming releasing massive amounts of Methane directly into the atmosphere has been flagged as an issue for many years now most reports focused on the permafrost above the ocean as the assumption was made that methane would be converted to carbon dioxide as it escaped from the regions located under the sea.

The Scientists have noticed massive kilometer wide methane plumes that are escaping from the ocean floor as the rapidly warming ocean is also warming the submarine permafrost. Due to the speed with which the plumes are rising and the proximity to the surface the Methane is not converting to Carbon Dioxide and is instead just filling up the atmosphere. Given that Methane is significantly more powerful as a greenhouse gas at trapping heat in the atmosphere this is a serious increase in the speed of the changes that the planet is undergoing as the earth returns to the Eocene age of humidity and warmth.

From a visual perspective the sea floor around the arctic ice shelf is effectively boiling. From a Human perspective we can expect this rapid release of Methane to cause serious changes to the weather. We are already experiencing unseasonable cool in the South Pacific. How this will play out in the Northern climes is yet to be found out.

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The Japanese Leadership have found a way to rationalise the use of $30 million in Tsunami relief funds to pay for the Security flotilla to escort the fishing boats on the Antarctic “Whale” hunt. Once again proving that 10 the people in charge of the purse strings are clinically insane. How they can justify taking funds from people who need them after 10 months of continuous exposure to the Toxic cloud of Death emitting from Fukushima in order to hunt whales in the Antarctic sanctuary is beyond any decision that a sane person could possibly make.

In addition they will certainly be getting the attention of the Australasian Naval forces as a significant armed naval presence in Antarctic waters at this stage in the global crisis is a flagrant display of agression to all pacific peoples.

There are moves in play to make the Japanese leadership aware of the significance that this move on the international chess board has created. The initial response from all Major Pacific nations with significant Naval presence was that this is a very bad move on the part of the Japanese.

What is most incredible is that they have the spare energy resources available for such an expedition. Obviously it takes massive amounts of fuel to send a fleet of ships to the Antarctic from Japan and with the whole nation reeling from the continuing impact of the Twin Tsunami and Fukushima disasters they surely don’t have enough spare fuel to get this naval fleet all the way to Antarctica and back home again.

Which leaves the question. What is the real reason for Japanese Naval Agression in the Pacific Theater?

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The team at the Automotive Research Experiment Station from Michigan State University have been developing a new prototype engine system that they claim can get 60% efficiency from conventional fossil fuels. They also claim the weight of the engine is significantly less than a standard ICE which greatly increases fuel economy due to weight savings. They are currently in the process of building and installing a functional system in a vehicle.

The engine has a rotor that’s equipped with wave-like channels that trap and mix oxygen and fuel as the rotor spins. These central inlets are blocked off, building pressure within the chamber, causing a shock wave that ignites the compressed air and fuel to transmit energy.

The Wave Disk Generator uses 60 percent of its fuel for propulsion; standard car engines use just 15 percent. As a result, the generator is 3.5 times more fuel efficient than typical combustion engines.

Researchers estimate the new model could shave almost 1,000 pounds off a car’s weight currently taken up by conventional engine systems.

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