Wind Turbines of Today

Wind turbines at ground level produce at a rate of 20-25%, but when placed at altitudes from 600-1000 feet, energy output can double. Ottawa-based Magenn Power is in the prototype stages of the world’s first floating wind turbine.

The Magenn Air Rotor System or MARS is a stationary blimp kept afloat with helium and tethered into place on an electrical grid. Centrifugal blades on the MARS can generate up to several megawatts of clean, renewable energy at a price well below our current grounded wind turbines.

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(Full Article: http://www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2008/06/the-promise-of.html)

One of many videos on wind energy generation. Others can be found here: http://peswiki.com/index.php/Videos:Wind

One of many videos on wind energy generation. Others can be found here: http://peswiki.com/index.php/Videos:Wind

Hokei MINATO – Magnet Motor

This is another neat motor created by Hokei MINATO – The Magnet Motor

A maverick inventor’s breakthrough electric motor uses permanent magnets to make power — and has investors salivating

When we first got the call from an excited colleague that he’d just seen the most amazing invention — a magnetic motor that consumed almost no electricity — we were so skeptical that we declined an invitation to go see it. If the technology was so good, we thought, how come they didn’t have any customers yet?

We forgot about the invitation and the company until several months later, when our friend called again.

“OK,” he said. “They’ve just sold 40,000 units to a major convenience store chain. Now will you see it?”

In Japan, no one pays for 40,000 convenience store cooling fans without being reasonably sure that they are going to work.

The Maestro ~

The streets of east Shinjuku are littered with the tailings of the many small factories and workshops still located there — hardly one’s image of the headquarters of a world-class technology company. But this is where we are first greeted outside Kohei Minato’s workshop by Nobue Minato, the wife of the inventor and co-director of the family firm.

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(Full Article: http://www.rexresearch.com/minato/minato.htm)

Google Prepared to Spend More on Green Energy than U.S. Gov’t!

Since the government won’t do it, Google Inc is prepared to invest hundreds of millions of dollars in big commercial alternative-energy projects to end the nation’s reliance on dirty energy like coal and oil. While the Bush Administration has made some token statements and gesture to support green energy, real change is far from their main agenda. With a grossly disproportional amount of our national budget invested in warfare, it seems there’s no money left over for creating a livable future. In reality, the Feds are in happily in bed with big oil and the torrid love affair looks set to continue—that is, until innovative corporations like Google step up to the plate.

According to Reuters, the Internet giant says it will invest in researching green technologies and renewable-energy companies, and is eager to help promising technologies amass scale to help drive the cost of alternative energy below the cost of coal.

“There are a lot of technologies that get to the pilot scale and look promising, but the first few large commercial projects deploying those technologies, financing those can be extremely difficult,” Dan Reicher said in an interview at the Clean-tech Investor Summit in Indian Wells, California.

“Often the usual equity and debt players will say come back to us when you’ve demonstrated this at scale,” said Reicher, director of climate and energy initiatives for Google’s philanthropic arm, Google.org.

The stage between successfully developing a new technology and amassing scale is referred in the industry as the “Valley of Death,” Reicher said. Venture capital firms will traditionally pour tens of millions into developing new technologies, Reicher said. But even then it’s not nearly enough to build a utility-scale solar thermal plant, for instance, and that’s where Google thinks it can be helpful. They’ll step up to get the little guys off the ground.

“When you get to building a commercial-scale project in the energy world, you can be looking easily at hundreds of millions or even across the billion dollar threshold,” Reicher said. “Over years we’ll be looking at hundreds of millions of dollars. So we’re very mindful of the Valley of Death.”

In addition to considering project finance, Google has already committed $20 million to funding start-up firms researching solar-thermal and high-altitude wind power. It is also looking closely at several companies with enhanced geothermal systems, Reicher said. Enhanced geothermal systems, or EGS, create power by pumping water into hot rocks in the ground rather than harvesting hot water already there.

“We arrived at these three technologies because we think they have real promise to move down the cost curve and to be competitive with coal and to get to very large scale,” Reicher said.

Google announced in November it planned to spend hundreds of millions of dollars to help drive the cost of electricity made from renewable sources below the price of power generated from dirty coal-fired plants.
The company has also pledged $10 million to Pasadena, California-based eSolar Inc to support research and development on solar thermal power, which concentrates heat from the sun to create steam and spin turbines. Another $10 million has been invested in Alameda, California-based Makani Power Inc, which is developing high-altitude wind technologies.

Google Power….Wow!

(Source: http://www.dailygalaxy.com)

Google Prepared to Spend More on Green Energy than U.S. Gov’t!

Since the government won’t do it, Google Inc is prepared to invest hundreds of millions of dollars in big commercial alternative-energy projects to end the nation’s reliance on dirty energy like coal and oil. While the Bush Administration has made some token statements and gesture to support green energy, real change is far from their main agenda. With a grossly disproportional amount of our national budget invested in warfare, it seems there’s no money left over for creating a livable future. In reality, the Feds are in happily in bed with big oil and the torrid love affair looks set to continue—that is, until innovative corporations like Google step up to the plate.

According to Reuters, the Internet giant says it will invest in researching green technologies and renewable-energy companies, and is eager to help promising technologies amass scale to help drive the cost of alternative energy below the cost of coal.

“There are a lot of technologies that get to the pilot scale and look promising, but the first few large commercial projects deploying those technologies, financing those can be extremely difficult,” Dan Reicher said in an interview at the Clean-tech Investor Summit in Indian Wells, California.

“Often the usual equity and debt players will say come back to us when you’ve demonstrated this at scale,” said Reicher, director of climate and energy initiatives for Google’s philanthropic arm, Google.org.

The stage between successfully developing a new technology and amassing scale is referred in the industry as the “Valley of Death,” Reicher said. Venture capital firms will traditionally pour tens of millions into developing new technologies, Reicher said. But even then it’s not nearly enough to build a utility-scale solar thermal plant, for instance, and that’s where Google thinks it can be helpful. They’ll step up to get the little guys off the ground.

“When you get to building a commercial-scale project in the energy world, you can be looking easily at hundreds of millions or even across the billion dollar threshold,” Reicher said. “Over years we’ll be looking at hundreds of millions of dollars. So we’re very mindful of the Valley of Death.”

In addition to considering project finance, Google has already committed $20 million to funding start-up firms researching solar-thermal and high-altitude wind power. It is also looking closely at several companies with enhanced geothermal systems, Reicher said. Enhanced geothermal systems, or EGS, create power by pumping water into hot rocks in the ground rather than harvesting hot water already there.

“We arrived at these three technologies because we think they have real promise to move down the cost curve and to be competitive with coal and to get to very large scale,” Reicher said.

Google announced in November it planned to spend hundreds of millions of dollars to help drive the cost of electricity made from renewable sources below the price of power generated from dirty coal-fired plants.
The company has also pledged $10 million to Pasadena, California-based eSolar Inc to support research and development on solar thermal power, which concentrates heat from the sun to create steam and spin turbines. Another $10 million has been invested in Alameda, California-based Makani Power Inc, which is developing high-altitude wind technologies.

Google Power….Wow!

(Source: http://www.dailygalaxy.com)

Time to join the Renewable Energy Business!

Looking for work!!!
You got it. I’ve been in the Gaming Industry for 10 years now. I had a blast, I worked for a great company, with great people. The Canadian Dollar is just too high and it’s difficult to sell our games down in the US now.

In June, I was let go and I took this as an opportunity to review what’s up ahead of me. Great opportunity to do greater deeds.

Here is what I feel like doing now, but just don’t know how to proceed. So you guys can write me and help me reaching my new goals. I’d like to assist this beautiful planet and the beautiful people to reach sustainability. No more oil, no more coal, no more Nuclear. Just clean energy.

I’m looking to join the renewable energy business, either solar or other forms, for any position. I’m a programmer, but I could fill any kind of roles and would be willing to follow any kind of training required. If you know anyone, close friend or through your network that has insiders in the Solar energy business, hook me up. I would be eternally grateful.

Regards,