Alternate Energy Sources

by Jimboot on June 30, 2011

I haven’t updated here for a while because I have been flat out with work but I thought I’d give you an overview of some of the alternate energy developments that have caught my eye recently. There’s some pretty exciting stuff going on.

Overunity

Over the last 18 months I have been building pulse motors  and messing about with other devices that seem to have the potential of new clean energy sources. Think of a world where you didn’t need to burn fossil fuels or split the atom to boil water. Cool huh? A bloke has to have a hobby right? I have a wonderful wife so I have been able to setup a work bench in the lounge.  I have been replicating others’ devices for the most part and I have seen things work that I did not know were possible.  I am a fan/follower/amateur in this area and I make no extraordinary claims except what I have built and measured for myself.

In the last couple of weeks Professor Steven Jones has demonstrated an overunity circuit. Over unity simply means more power out than in. Theoretically an OU device would produce more energy than what you give it. In the case of Steven Jones you get 8 times more out than what you put in. This is a VERY big deal. Think of using a 12v car battery to power your home, that is the promise of over unity. There are a lot of people around the world now building their own versions of this device. I built one a couple of days after the announcement. I was very happy with the results. The measurements I took were no where near as good as Steven Jones but they confirmed for me that he really has something.

Most people familiar with the laws of thermodynamics, will tell you you’re a nut when you start talking about overunity. In the case of the device above though, the Professor eludes that the energy is coming from the aether rather than being created out of nothing.

Cold Fusion

In Italy we have recently seen a cold fusion device demonstrated and go into commercial production. Cold fusion is the name given to low energy nuclear reactions previously thought impossible. This is not fission, which is what nuclear reactors are and produce lots of nasty radioactive waste. Cold fusion in theory is cheap, clean and portable. It looks pretty promising.

Wireless energy

At the moment I’m having some fun lighting about 24 white LEDs wirelessly, lighting a 1200mm old fluorescent tube wirelessly, creating plasma and all off 7VDC 200ma. That’s pretty good but there are a lot of people doing far more than I am.

wireless LED

This is a 240V house LED lamp simply sitting next to a transmission coil. No wires

Creating some amazing plasma effects in a xenon tube wirelessly off the same coil.

This is a small torch globe held next to the coil

The 1200mm fluoro tube in the video below is lit wirelessly

This is me demonstrating the Fester effect :)

We live in exciting times.

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Carbon tax 4 questions.

by Jimboot on March 8, 2011

So our current federal Government wants to introduce a carbon tax so we can reduce CO2 and thus reduce “global warming”

So much of this debate seems to be about what side of politics you’re on. For the record I’m on neither. I like to think my personal principles override that of any politician i may vote for. For the record I consider myself an environmentalist but I think the global warming debate has very little to do with what I would consider real environmentalism

As is my way, I’ve got involved in a few squabbles online the last couple of days re the carbon tax hysteria. So here are a few questions I’d like answered to understand how an Australian tax can save our planet.

1. How will a tax modify behaviour?
My understanding is that “working families” will be compensated for the tax so it will have nil effect. However that means they will not change their current co2 consumption patterns. So the net effect will be inflation as business passes the cost onto their consumers. If my business has higher electricity & petrol bills I will have to pass those costs on like every other business.

2. If co2 production is pollution why don’t we fine the polluters like other forms of pollution?

I’m not allowed to pollute the waterways or dump my garbage on the side of the road. Littering is fined, why not co2 production. My guess is that you have to prove it is actually pollution and that would be very difficult in a court of law as anyone who exhales will be polluting.

3. Why is so much data excluded in the “climate change” debate when we are talking about a tax that will fundamentally change how much money a government takes from it’s people.
The “climate gate” emails
Solar activity
A new ice age

4. And finally, from the Green Left, carbon trading is easily manipulated and profited from by corporations. CFC gases were said to hurt the ozone layer so we banned them in aerosols. We didn’t introduce a tax on them.

If you are serious about living in a cleaner greener world, reduce, reuse, recycle but don’t campaign for a carbon tax that will do nothing for the environment and hurt our economy and you’ll have less money in your wallet at the end of the week. I beg of you, don’t make this a left vs right issue. Research the data objectively, don’t shoot the messenger and make up your own mind. With the net, you have the power.

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The Internet & free markets.

January 20, 2011

Ooops.  Mark Pesce thinks I smoke crack. If you don’t know Mark he is a very smart bloke. Someone whom I respect and really enjoy hearing what he has to say and following him on Twitter. Doesn’t mean I agree with him on everything though. It all started by me responding to a link he [...]

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Ice Age coming? Deleted from NASA

January 18, 2011

I tweeted about this article on the 15/12/2010. It was here on the NASA site but that page is now gone and it is no longer in the Google index. Oddly though it is still being linked to within the NASA site itself here http://science.nasa.gov/missions/acrimsat/big-questions/. I think NASA need a better CMS if they intend [...]

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Twitter subpoenaed, Facebook & Google too?

January 11, 2011

I wrote an article last year about the proposed Australian Internet filter called, Facebook Google & Twitter say goodbye. Some at the time said that a Government would never use a filter to block services like those.  Then Wikileaks began the release of 250,000 US diplomatic cables. Wikileaks was basically performing a service that our [...]

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Retail Sales & Google testing redirect warning

January 5, 2011

Happy New Year Rankers For my first vid of 2011, I’m following up on my last story of 2010. Our major Australian retailers are claiming that online retailers are somehow scamming the system by avoiding the GST and thus negatively effecting offline sales. Aussie retailers still bitching & whingeing In the early days of ecommerce [...]

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Retail sales vs online sales.

December 22, 2010

There has been a fair bit of talk recently about the slump this Christmas in Australian retail sales. One of the main protagonists has been Gerry Harvey of the retail chain Harvey Norman. A bit of a war of words has sprung up though, with online retailer Ruslan Kogan. Today I have a look at [...]

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Holla Christmas Promotion

December 16, 2010

One of our clients, The Holla Agency is doing one of the most awesome Christmas promotions for their brand. Holla is one of many advertising agencies in Sydney but they certainly seem to punch above their weight with their campaigns. They were the agency behind the Razamatazz social media campaign this year. It was that [...]

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Wikileaks mirror & keyword selection

December 15, 2010

First let me apologise for my profanity in this week’s vid. If you were attacked by  staff armed with a Nerf Vulcan EBF-25 modded to shoot 500RPM though, you may feel the same way. Following on from last week’s examination of the SERPs and how Wikileaks was fairing after having its DNS withdrawn, this week [...]

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Wikileaks Mirror

December 15, 2010

I was doing some keyword research earlier on Wikileaks and I noticed a lot of the Google Insights breakout phrases were around the phrase “wikileaks Mirror”. I setup an Australian Wikileaks Mirror about 5 or 6 weeks ago before it lost it’s DNS as I believed attempts would be made to shut it down. As [...]

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