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A Singaporean Research team has come up with a novel and highly efficient energy storage system which looks certain to replace all known forms of energy storage once manufacturing is underway. Based on deposited polystyrene-based polymer technology, the soft, foldable fabric can, when charged by two metal plates, store charge at 0.2 farads per square centimeter.
Not only is the membrane made from organic waste materials but it is also bendable and foldable which means that it can be used in almost unlimited shapes and sizes unlike Lithium Ion batteries. However the project is partly funded by MIT so we have to be cynical that the technology will actually be brought to market or achieve anything like it is claimed to in real world tests. One thing going for it is that it is also being funded by the Singaporean Government. Surely a nation where energy consumption and efficiency is a very hot topic. After all necessity is the mother of invention and in Singapore they certainly need a way out of the quagmire that is the inevitable global energy crunch as the fossil fuels are completely consumed.
As usual there is no mention of how much energy it takes to create the membrane. However we can assume that it will scale fairly significantly based ont eh description of the base ingredients.
MIT scientist Daniel Nocera has released new publicity around his solar leaf concept. The basic idea is that instead of converting sunlight to electricity and storing it in a battery, use the electricity to split hydrogen from water allowing the hydrogen to be used in a hydrogen fuel cell. An inherently lossy process which will require a system to keep hydrogen and oxygen separated until it can be directed into the fuel cell for conversion back to electricity. Theoretically it could provide an almost permanent supply of electricity and stored energy if combined with a rain water capture system. However due to the lossiness of the conversion process it does seem to be running at a significant disadvantage to normal electricity storage in the form of a Lithium Ion battery. However as it is using a fuel cell that probably requires at least some rare earth elements during the manufacturing process which will of course contribute greatly to the amount of energy consumed to completely make the system.
In the meantime a Japanese company has already taken the process to it’s inevitable conclusion and produced a full scale home sized hydrogen conversion system. They claim that with a solar panel, 1500 cc of water and their hydrogen conversion and storage system they can provide 5000 KwH of electricity which is around that amount that an average home would use during a night. 5000 KwH is approx enough stored energy to provide 16 hours of electricity to an average home PC with a 300 watt power supply. However if you add a refrigerator or washing machine into the mix you start to see some significant decreases in energy supply time. The main benefit of this system is that it can be run simply on water and solar. Once the investment is made it will provide around 50 years of constant supply of energy as long as you don’t need to use more than 5000 KwH of energy between charges. If connected to a rain water capture system it is theoretically a 50 year life cycle version of a perpetual mobile. It will no doubt be very useful as a replacement for fossil fuels in low energy consuming households. Combined with a larger solar hot water and electricity storage system and you would be able to live with a degree of energy security.
If Nocera has a better and cheaper more energy efficient system up his sleeve he is keeping the details to himself at the moment. No doubt he is still waiting for approval from MIT to do something actually useful for a change. The general rule of thumb with anything from MIT is that it never actually gets anywhere other than securing more funding for the scientists involved in the projects.
This footage just released show the view from a crane as it passes over the Fukushima reactors 2 and 3 where Radioactive steam is clearly observed and the degradation of the structure is evident after 6 months exposure to the internals of a reactor core.
Of course this upsets the powerful nuclear industry who were expecting many years of lucrative rebuild contracts as they aimed to replace the ageing stations with third generation technology. The possibility that the wealth will instead be spent on the less powerful Solar industry is causing a lot of hand wringing by the Nuclear Village.
The writing is on the wall though as the Japanese people realise the true extent of the damage that has now been done to their country after 6 months of Toxic Nuclear radiation has been spread throughout the nation be the Toxic Cloud of Death continuing to stream forth from the Fukushima facility. Latest estimate are that ove 100,000,000 cubic meters of topsoil will have to be replaced if they want to reclaim the land around Fukushima Facility Number One.
That is a lot of earth to move, and where do they expect to put it? If a hectare is 10000 square meters that means they have to relocate 1000 hectares of dirt. A hectare is a square that measures 100 meters x 100 meters. So the dirt would make a 100mx100m block of earth 1 km high or 100×1000/10 which equals 10000 km long.
Either way no one will want that earth placed next to their house so it looks like they are going to have serious issues with decontaminating the areas that have already been irradiated let alone the ares that are going to be irradiated as the radiation continues to spread outwards from the Fukushima Facility.
The numbers of people in Japan attending anti nuclear protests are getting bigger for every event. We can expect to see the numbers continue to increase as the true impact of the constant stream of radionuclides emitted for over 6 months at the Fukushima Facility creating a Toxic Cloud of Death is observed.
It’s nice that Al Gore is so invested in getting people to open their minds. It is a noble endeavour especially in countries where the population has been effectively made stupid from years of abusive manipulation by the media and educational elite.
There is a serious issue with making global warming the focal point for why we need to conserve energy. Calling it the truth is falling far short of the acceptable mark for what is considered fact. Sure there is a problem with consuming all the fossil fuels and increasing the overall temperature of the Earth. It will result in massive geological movements as the polar caps shift their weight and melt into the ocean.
However the real truth is that by consuming all the resources we have we run out of energy to continue enjoying the results of industrialised society. Once that happens we face the problem of how to progress as a globalised civilisation. The real inconvenient truth is that we will be forced to die off in great numbers which will be a terrible period of human suffering.
Already it is in progress as we look at the wars throughout the OPEC region and the suffering at the Horn of Africa. The main problem we have to contend with is global blackouts of the power grid. This is already happening in America and Japan. Other countries like Yemen and Cyprus are already unable to provide enough power to their populations. The trend will get worse rather than better as consumption of fossil fuels has already increased significantly this year due to Japan and Germany replacing their nuclear power stations with fossil fuel.
The next problem to come from the lack of energy infrastructure is the inability to sustain and support the infrastructure as it ages. Already the issue has become obvious in states like California which have been bankrupt for several years. We see massive explosions of gas mains, complete blackouts along the entire west coast and massive sewerage spills due to the inability to cope with complete blackout.
The Disaster in the Gulf of Mexico was also a symptom of the malaise. The quest to find a new source of energy positive fuel inspired greedy BP executives to attempt to tap a Methan Hydrate reserve. Of course they did it entirely on the cheap, using engineers who were out of their depth, in a corporate culture where passing the buck and avoidance of direct responsibility are the way to progress up the ladder which inevitably ends in the results that were predicted by the people who actually know what they are talking about.
Now the quest is on to achieve ignition at the ITER project. The fact that they have an exploding sun in a magnetic bottle doesn’t bother them in the slightest. In much the same way that the nuclear industry lies about the dangers of uranium/plutonium reactors they also insist that Fusion in inherently safe and there is nothing to worry about. We can master the problem of getting more energy out of the process than we need to start it off but can we really be certain that we can master the issue of keeping the whole thing contained permanently once it has kicked off? Do you want to be around to see the aftermath when the first industrial Fusion accident occurs?
Fusion should be left for the stars and deep space. We can find other ways to tap the abundant energy of the earth without putting the whole planet at risk of annihilation.
While speculation about interruptions to the power supply caused by long lasting solar flares are a serious concern for the health of humanity a more pressing issue is the inevitable blackouts predicted by the Olduvai Theory once the major energy resources have been consumed. Within the next 40 years we will see the results of 100 years of industrialised consumption of fossil fuels and the collapse of the energy infrastructure that was built around the constant supply of electricity. In the process we will have to contend with the Fukushima problem. When the backup energy supply fails to provide enough energy to continue cooling the ‘spent’ fuel rods at the many nuclear facilites around the world how will we ensure that the human race will survive the nuclear fallout from the Toxic Cloud of Death that will emit from the facilities entrusted with keeping the fuel rods cool?
With the passing of the 10 year anniversary of the events of 9/11 2001 there is a lot of recollection from various intellectuals discussing the tragedy that has been the past 10 years and the inevitable continuation that will be the next 10.
What seems to be missing from the dialog is a frank discussion of the real problem that made the events of 9/11 possible. Simply that by allowing the Bankster Elites to control the media, politics and money supply we are ensuring that the excuses used to justify “The Big Lie” will continue to play out in perpetuity. We are seeing an actual “perpetual mobile” in action. A self fulfilling and self generating feedback loop that creates more toxicity than it consumes and consumes more energy than it creates.
The unfortunate truth about the events that led to “The Big Lie” is the elephant in the room when it comes to media analysis. Everyone knows the truth but no one wants to discuss it directly in public. The consensus is that by discussing it directly they are putting their own necks on the line. People have their careers to think about and with the current economic outlook so gloomy that is the most pressing issue on most peoples minds.
The truth is left off the agenda while the rest of the world is fed out right lies by the corporate mainstream press as they seek to glorify the tragedy and frame it in the light of the big fight against terrorism. Forget about the fact that the world is running out of energy resources to exploit and the Elites are simply trying to control the consumption of what is left to maximise the profits they can reap from society while doing so.
As a civilisation we are on the verge of collapse. We have almost exhausted our main source of energy. The population of the world is continuing to grow exponentially while the remaining energy resources continue to decline at the same exponential pace. We are now in the winter years of energy decline. As we approach the precipice of rapid descent the remaining resources are being fought over more viciously than ever before. The inevitable result from continuing escalation of resource conflicts is total destruction of modern society.
As a global community we are allowing our Financial Elite to have too much control of the direction of our societal agenda. Financial Elites base their decisions on irrational monetary goals that have no direct relation to human needs or even scientific process of efficiency. A financial leader will be quite at ease with consuming existing energy resources in order to gain control of less energy efficient resources if they see more value in the acquisition due to the laws of supply and demand. This simple and core value which defines the goals of the Financial Elite is the only reason that we find ourselves in the middle of this mess which they have purposefully created.
Former Japanese Prime Minister Kan is being quite frank as of late. Now that he is off the hook from having to maintain public order he can sow the seeds of doubt by confirming that the possibility of half of Japan becoming permanently radioactive crossed his mind more than once in the past 6 months. His worst fear of all of Tokyo having to be evacuated have not so far been realised. However the idea that most of Japan is now a deadzone is now being floated blatantly in the global press. Considering that they have still not stopped the Toxic Cloud of Death spewing forth from the Fukushima facility and given the process of revealing more and more damaging information over the past 6 months this latest attempt at media manipulation is equivalent to the major leap forward represented by the iPhone when it was first released. The rest of Japanese society may be only just waking up to the fact that they are all now radioactive humans. This latest news will confirm to them that there is no point panicking now as the damage has already been done.
The Japanese authorities have done their best to control the flow of information in relation to the immense tragedy that is continuing to get worse every day that they facility remains uncapped. With the concrete so badly damaged that it is forming cracks, the radioactive water that is continuing to spill into the environment and the emmissions into the air from the Toxic Cloud of Death there is absolutely no doubt that much more than the 30 million people of Tokyo have been affected by the radionuclides still streaming forth 24 hours a day.
One thing that continues to amaze onlookers is the seeming unwillingness to associate the fact that if the rice, vegetables and livestock are radioactive than means the humans are too! It seems that the mainstream media refuses to accept that anyone living in the vicinity of a Toxic cloud of death permanently emitting for 6 months has become irradiated. Preferring to wait for doctored reports with misleading use of scientific data to be released through official channels before they will report in detail on that issue.
Two important things that Kan did admit directly are that the Japanese were too proud to accept direct assistance from other countries and that they do indeed intend to keep a few facilities alive for the purpose of nuclear proliferation.
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