Venturi Wind Ventures

New energy inventions from nanotechnology

2011-11-21T12:46:00.000-08:00

Interesting stuff, let us know in the comments what you think!

Self contained urban energy source

2011-11-14T09:40:00.000-08:00

I really like this concept, I would love to see this expanded upon.
The weight of the batterie(s) would def be enough to allow this thing
to continue to sit upright, unless of course there is gail force winds
or above.

I think the idea is to pull this out of a garage or shed at the time of an emergency.

For this to be viable you would need some stronger panels for sure.

Limonene

2011-11-13T11:55:00.001-08:00

A relatively new biofuel is called d-Limonene and it has many essential uses,
such as pest control, as a solvent and as a terpene based fuel or gas.

The wikipedia article has some insightful information:
Limonene Wiki Entry

Image Source:
buy-lemons-online.com

I hope to be able to post some more resources about this fuel here soon.
I understand it can be synthesized so that may be one way of cheaply producing
this fuel without affecting food prices or sources.

Here is a good video for those of you familiar with organic chemistry and wish
to make their own limonene extraction for experimentation:

The green method of extracting:

New Inventions: Machine Reverts Plastic Back To Oil (English subtitles)

2011-08-28T05:18:00.000-07:00

New Mass. Offshore Wind Farm

2011-04-19T09:07:00.000-07:00

BOSTON – A federal agency has approved a construction plan for a wind farm off the Massachusetts coast, clearing the way for work to begin on the nation's first offshore wind farm as early as this fall.
U.S. Secretary of Interior Ken Salazar made the announcement about the Cape Wind project in Boston on Tuesday. He says the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation and Enforcement has approved the plan.
Cape Wind plans to build 130 wind turbines in Nantucket Sound. But the wind farm still could face legal action from opponents who question the cost to ratepayers and the potential impact on wildlife.
Gov. Deval Patrick says in a statement that federal approval moves the region a step closer to benefiting from the clean energy and jobs that will be created by the project.

Source:
The associated press
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110419/ap_on_re_us/us_cape_wind

Japan

2011-04-07T07:31:00.000-07:00

BANGKOK – Worldwide calls to curb nuclear power amid Japan's plant crisis could be bad news for the fight against global warming — unless nations finally go all-out to tap wind, solar and other clean, renewable energy, climate change negotiators and activists say.

If countries scrap nuclear plants, which emit no greenhouse gases blamed for global warming, they may turn to the fossil fuels that experts call the main culprit behind climate change. Environmental activists say the tragedy could provide an opportunity to strike a decisive blow against both.

"It's a false choice to give the public an alternative between a climate change disaster or a nuclear disaster. We need renewable energy," said Tove Maria Ryding of the environmental group Greenpeace. "Now, we can either have a kick back or a leap forward."

Christiana Figueres, the U.N.'s top climate change official, said that all countries are reviewing nuclear policies in the wake of Japan's crisis.
"It remains to be seen what they decide," she said at a 173-nation conference running through Friday in Bangkok. The gathering aims to build on a climate summit held last December in Cancun, Mexico.

Figueres and others are concerned that pledges made by governments to reduce greenhouse gas emissions so far equal only 60 percent of what scientists say is required by 2020 to keep temperatures from rising more than 2 degrees Celsius (3.8 F) above preindustrial levels.

A swing back to fossil fuels presumably would worsen the effects of climate change, which many scientists say causes a melting of polar ice caps and glaciers, a rise in sea levels and extreme weather.

Before a tsunami ravaged Japan's Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear complex last month, the Paris-based International Energy Agency had estimated that nuclear plants would add 360 gigawatts of generating capacity to the global inventory by 2035.
After the accident, that projection has been cut in half, agency chief economist Fatih Birol said, citing the pressure to halt new nuclear plants and phase out older ones sooner than planned.

The gap is likely to be filled equally by renewable energy, coal and gas. The result will mean an additional 5 percent — or 500 million tons — of carbon dioxide emitted globally by 2035, Birol said in an interview.

"The doors are fast closing on the 2-degree target, and with a decrease in nuclear energy it makes it even more difficult," Birol said. "It's all bad news — cost of energy will increase, energy security and diversification decrease and carbon emission will go up."

Experts wonder whether countries really will slash nuclear power as much as their initial reactions to the Fukushima tragedy suggest, and if so, whether they will they speed toward renewables or simply burn more coal.

Ryding said she is concerned that several governments, already backtracking on earlier pledges to reduce emissions, may use Fukushima as an argument to do even less.

Birol of the IEA, which advises governments on energy policy, says some world leaders may have been "too abrupt" in moving away from nuclear energy in wake of the Japanese disaster.

"When we have all the input from Fukushima, I am sure that policy makers will take another look, especially given the big economic stakes," he says.
The scene is hardly uniform around the globe, where there are currently 507 nuclear power plants in operation or under construction and where oil, coal and gas still
provide the bulk of energy in most countries.

In Japan, climate negotiators expect a greater, short-term reliance on fossil fuels to fill the nuclear power gap and are concerned the country could reduce its pledge to cut emissions by 2020 — from 25 percent down to 20 percent.
But Prime Minister Naoto Kan said alternative new energy would become "a major pillar" after the Fukushima accident.

"Taking this as a lesson, we will lead the world in clean energy such as solar and biomass, as we take a step toward resurrection," he told lawmakers last week.
China, the world's no. 1 emitter of greenhouse gases, has ambitious plans to move away from coal plants that provide 70 percent of its energy and go toward clean alternatives. It may also scale back its nuclear program in light of the Japan emergency, Chinese climate envoy Xie Zhenhua said.

"I believe this accident will have some impact on the development of nuclear power not only in China, but also the rest of the world," he told reporters in Australia last week.

U.S. President Barack Obama has defended nuclear energy, but also strongly supports development of solar cells, clean coal and biofuel technology.
The most dramatic developments are likely to occur in Western Europe. Germany had planned to phase out nuclear power over 25 years. But the Fukushima crisis — which Chancellor Angela Merkel called a "catastrophe of apocalyptic dimensions" — has accelerated those plans.

The government almost immediately took seven of its 17 reactors offline for three months of safety checks. Most of Germany's leaders now seem determined to swiftly abolish nuclear power, possibly by 2020, and are willing to pay for intensive development of renewable energy, already a major industry in Germany.

The country currently gets 23 percent of its energy from nuclear power — about as much as the U.S. Germany's Environment Ministry says that in 10 years, renewable energy will account for 40 percent.

That kind of plan would not work for countries such as France, which relies on nuclear for 70 percent of its power and has no intention of shifting, but could provide a map for other countries, activists say.

Sven Teske, Greenpeace's renewable energy director, said Germany was able to fill its energy gap left by idled nuclear plants with wind and solar power, though it has had to import some energy from nuclear-reliant neighbors.

"Switching to renewable is a matter of years, not decades," Teske said.
The International Panel on Climate Change, a scientific body set up by the UN and winner of a Nobel Peace Prize, says a global phase-out of nuclear power plants is feasible at moderate costs and without taking away from climate change efforts.
Artur Runge-Metzger, a European Union climate change official in Bangkok, said the issue is often seen in terms of "two kinds of evils."

"On the one hand you say we can't use nuclear energy because we might have nuclear disasters, but everybody at the table is also saying if we have climate change it is also going to lead to disaster," he said. "So we have to find a way forward."

Source:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110407/ap_on_re_as/as_nuclear_climate_change

Solar Collectors

2011-03-03T11:20:00.000-08:00

A wiser way to use your solar system.

Further proof the car companies just don't get it.

2011-03-01T19:38:00.000-08:00

Consumer Reports: GM's Volt 'doesn't really make a lot of sense'
David Shepardson / Detroit News Washington Bureau
Washington — Consumer Reports offered a harsh initial review of the Chevrolet Volt, questioning whether General Motors Co.'s flagship vehicle makes economic "sense."The extended-range plug-in electric vehicle is on the cover of the April issue — the influential magazine's annual survey of vehicles — but the GM vehicle comes in for criticism.

"When you are looking at purely dollars and cents, it doesn't really make a lot of sense. The Volt isn't particularly efficient as an electric vehicle and it's not particularly good as a gas vehicle either in terms of fuel economy," said David Champion, the senior director of Consumer Reports auto testing center at a meeting with reporters here. "This is going to be a tough sell to the average consumer."
The magazine said in its testing in Connecticut during a harsh winter, its Volt is getting 25 to 27 miles on electric power alone.
GM spokesman Greg Martin noted that it's been an extremely harsh winter — and as a Volt driver he said he's getting 29-33 miles on electric range. But he noted that in more moderate recent weather, the range jumped to 40 miles on electric range or higher.

Champion believes a hybrid, such as the Toyota Prius, may make more sense for some trips.
"If you drive about 70 miles, a Prius will actually get you more miles per gallon than the Volt does," Champion said.
But GM has noted that most Americans can avoid using gasoline for most regular commuting with the Volt, while its gasoline engine can allow the freedom to travel farther, if needed.
The magazine has put about 2,500 miles on its Volt. It paid $48,700, including a $5,000 markup by a Chevy dealer.

Champion noted the Volt is about twice as expensive as a Prius.
He was said the five hour time to recharge the Volt was "annoying" and was also critical of the power of the Volt heating system.
"You have seat heaters, which keep your body warm, but your feet get cold and your hands get cold," Champion said.
Consumer Reports will release a full road test of the Volt later this year and will update it.

Champion praised the heater on the all-electric Nissan Leaf - which Consumer Reports borrowed from the Japanese automaker -- but said it also got very short ranges in very cold weather.
On one commute, his range in a Leaf was at 43 miles when he turned onto an eight-mile stretch of highway, but it fell from 43 to 16 miles after eight miles at 70 mph.
"If it keeps on going down at this rate, will I get to work," Champion said.
Champion said in an interview he thinks the Volt "will sell the quantity that they want to sell to the people that really want it."

Despite his criticism of the Volt, Champion praised its acceleration and acknowledged that under certain driving cycles, consumers could mostly avoid using gasoline. The magazine noted the Volt is nicely equipped and has a "taut yet supple ride."
But he said there are a lot of trade-offs.
"They are going to live with the compromises the vehicle delivers," Champion said. "When you look at it from a purely logical point of view, it doesn't make an awful lot of sense."

From The Detroit News: http://detnews.com/article/20110228/AUTO01/102280401/Consumer-Reports--GM’s-Volt-‘doesn’t-really-make-a-lot-of-sense’#ixzz1FPTmnCmT

Energy Cartell

2010-11-26T11:54:00.001-08:00

Language: Deutsch, English

The Cartel between Energy Producers and Power Grid Providers
How electricity suppliers pocket high yields at the expense of consumers. -
and how they block the expansion of alternative energy.

As Mr. Roland Heineck discovered an innovative quotation of SenerTec in summer 2003 he was absolutely avid. Their equipment was able to heat houses of every size could reduce the CO2-emissions to 47% and save thousands of euros per year. The mystery about it was a coupling of heat and electricity production. That raises the effectiveness in comparance to a normal large power plant merely producing electricity from 60% to full 80% or even 90%. Unfortunately the Chemnitzian electricity supplier Enviam, a subsidiary of RWE, did not like it like this and sued Heineck without further ado. He would operate a public electricity supply because he also supplied his renters but had no concession for it.

However this is just one of many examples of a comprehensive blocking strategy of power suppliers against environmentally friendly and renewable energies. Connection refusal and buying out with low prices are just two further methods in preventing private equipment owners to contribute in power supply. The previously described lawsuit could fortunately be settled in the meantime although it took two years to examine the test case.

Since the year 2000 the federal government of Germany funds solar, wind energy, biogas and geothermal energy with 20 years guaranteed reimbursement rates which decrease on from the date of construction. This law makes the construction of equipment for renewable energies among any also for private people interesting while the big energy suppliers have favored to keep their already expensed coal and nuclear power plants in operation generating higher yields than new investments. The reimbursement rates for private energy infeed are apportioned over all power customers. That way the price for a kilowatt hour of electricity has rosen at 0,75¢ while the wholesale price has dropped by 10-20¢ by the increased competition of small energy producers. Finally enterprises as well as private households could save from 2 up to 3 milliards of euros at an increase of just 1,1 mrd. euros in cost.

Another area of application are wind power stations on the open sea. On the ocean the wind blows more than twice as strong; an almost inexhaustible source of power with an eight times higher energy revenue. In difference to windmills situated on the mainland the construction of wind power plants in deep water only pays off in high quantity. In the search of financially sound associate partners it was easily possible for Eon to buy up all important German projects for offshore wind energy like in the Arkona-basin SouthEast, 35 kliometers in the North of the island Rügen, in front of the Holsteinian Baltic Sea coast and another one in front of the island Amrun. At first the managers of Eon gave the impression that they would really be interested in an early implementation; in reality they have just acquired these projects to let them rest. That way Eon was free of disagreeable competitors.

Although the European energy markets are formally liberalized since 1999 a few oligopolys can largely prevent true competition. Only that way it was possible that in the years from 2000 to 2007 in Germany the energy companies could mark up prices up to 40% while the costs for energy production stayed almost the same. Consequently the revenue of the big power providers have straightly exploded. The Eon AG f.i. could triple their earnings to 7 milliards of euro.

That could mainly happen because the oligopolists kept their control over the power grid as well as power production preventing true competition. They simply needed to provide low energy infeed pay rates so that power production for third party suppliers did not pay off as they should. In the Netherlands where the power grid is in the hand of the state more than 40% of all electricity is also produced in power plants that supply with calefactory; in Denmark the rate is about 50%. In Germany the fraction of combined heat and power is just no more than 12%. In front of the Holsteinian North Sea coast the EON-trust denies the pressingly necessary upgrading of the power grid so that total wind power plants need to be shut down on strong wind.

If the proposals of the Dutch economic politician and officiating EU-commissioner for competition Neelie Kroes as well as her colleague Andris Piebalgs competent for energy could be accomplished then power companies would have to sell their power grid for electricity and petroleum gas EU-wide to the state or some other neutral company which are not involved in power or gas production. That way it seems completely inscrutable that even the climate-chancellor of Germany, Angela Merkel and her vice president, foreign minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier have thwarted the plans of the EU protecting the powerful of the energy-trusts by making use of their veto-right. Many EU-countries have been defending the energy trusts against the interest of their voters who are paying too high energy prices and out of all also against a responsible environmental politic.

To the astonishment of the trust lobbyists EU-commissioner Neelie Kroes could not be overawed by the resistance in EU member states. In deed EU-appointees could find massive offenses against anti-trust law by search missions in four German energy companies. As a penalty of milliards of euros had been impending to the EON-trust at the beginning of 2008 they agreed on a compensation which obligated EON to sell part of its power grid and a few power plants. Unflinchingly chancellor Angela Merkel announced thereupon she wanted to save the other power companies from a spin-off of their power grid.

Furthermore multiple former SPD economics ministers and permanent secretaries have been in the attendance of RWE or EON and have actively been involved in developing their monopolic power. At the same time labor unions close to the SPD like IG Bergbau, Chemie, Energie und ver.di eisern have been defending the old conglomerate structures. In February 2007 service labor union organized a demonstration with 2000 employees of coal mining companies in Berlin against climate protection. That even though alternative energies have created countless jobs and additional value in their own country.

The backing of the energy-trust seems even less understandable as even the German bank has taken a firm stand by demanding "a full separation between power production and power grid". Given the fact that high yields could only be achieved by the monopolic market power of the trust the question of property must be seen from a different viewpoint. The double control over power grid and power production has endowed the trust with a power that has caused continuing ecological and economical damage.

Independent power grid suppliers would also rectify the present bottlenecks at country borders; in their own interest. If the access to the power grid were free the "Desertec-Plan" of the Club of Rome would have a real chance of realization which allots the construction of solar-thermical power plants in Northern African states. The transmission technique for electricity over long distances is available.

In contrast to the claims of trust lobbyists it would be absolutely possible to achieve a power production rate of 100% for alternative energies. Once the lobbyists have claimed that at most 4% of all energy production could be covered by alternative energy which has already been refuted by renewable energy rate of 14% in the year 2007. On the one hand a Europe wide aggregation of solar and wind power producers could balance peaks and calms in energy production, on the other hand we do also have the possibility to store electrical energy. Already in operation are reservoir power stations which can pump up water if less energy should be consumed than produced at the moment in order to let it flow down again as soon as more energy is needed. Subterraneous compressed air reservoirs, H20 electrolysis for fuel cells or flywheels could serve a similar function. With increasing proliferation of solar panels the production price falls so that we can expect solar energy not to be more expensive than other electricity by 2015 provided that the current growth continues. Critics claim this point could even be reached much earlier thinking that solar industry would defer lowering their prices in order to profit from subventions for a longer time. An EU-wide consistent law for supporting solar industry would be desirable in this regard.

Lobbyists often claim that windmills would destroy the landscape although the surface mining of coal in Germany is nothing better in deed destroying cultivated land and causing inhabitants to be dislodged. In the 90ies responsible managers have tried to obviate the alternative energy infeed law in vain up to the European Court of Justice. Renewable energies simply don`t seem to fit into their business conception.

Lars Göran Josefsson, chairman of Vatenfall likes to pretend environmental awareness, points out the threats of global warming and engages as advisor of Angela Merkel in climate change policy. Simultaneously he adopts a hard line as second largest climate pest in Europe with his firm. Three of his East German power plants burn especially polluting brown coal and thereby release per kilowatt hour more than twice as much CO2 as a petroleum gas power plant would do. In spite of this one further brown coal power plant in the Sachsian Boxberg is in construction; two hard coal power plants are planned. If these plans would be realized Germany failed its goals in emission reductions for the year 2020 merely because of these plans. Even environment minister Sigmar Gabriel had to confess this after Greenpeace kept asking toughly. Even a replacement of both brown coal plants currently in operation by the newly planned ones, which is not discussed at all, would increase the capacity per about one third.

A technique which is not yet available serves as excuse for the new coal power plants. This technique would increase the coal consumption and would likely double production costs. The CSS-technology (Carbon Capture and Storage) allots the separation of up to 90% of all arosen CO2 by transporting it to a disposal repository. Apart from the fact that we will never be able to make sure that the CO2 will stay stored forever in the geological target formation (time bomb?!) an enormous safety problem would arise when it comes to backfit already built coal power plants with this technology. CO2 is heavier than air and on from a fraction of 8% in breathed air lethal. Not to imagine what could happen on a leak in the CO2-pipeline. One possible solution for this problem would be to regulate that new coal power plants need to be equipped with the CSS-technology right when they are built so that they will be built on the geological formation that should serve as disposal repository so that no risky line network or even a CO2-transport by trucks is necessary.

The possible construction of the intended coal power plants would even worse have been the wrong example to the international community as Germany could already establish as a leading nation in climate protection. The ability to retrofit power plants with CSS is simply no excuse for the construction of new coal power plants. Possible subventions of CSS-technology are better saved for programs like Desertec which has in the meantime luckily been recognized. It allots the construction of solar-thermical power plants in Northern Africa for Europe. The advancement of domestic alternative energy, a higher efficiency or cogeneration of power and heat are also important issues. Today it is already possible to build houses that save more energy than they consume. Housing advancement should be adjusted to climate protection.

If we had only used the same high subventions for renewable energies as we have used them for nuclear power production they could even today take competition with fossil energy carriers. A crucial point in the enforcement of renewable energies are not so much subventions or the many possible technical improvements but also an effective anti trust policy including the separation of power grid and power production resulting in better energy infeed pay rates which allow everyone to participate in power production. In the USA customers have even been raped by intentionally shutting down power plants to make energy prices rise.

Nonetheless chancellor Angela Merkel has highly merited in climate protection as it was her who first put the global climate change on the agenda of the G8-summit in 2007 after years of harmful climate political cessation. Only by her commitment the climate change deniers could be defeated. Angela Merkel has studied physics and therefore knows what she is doing.
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[1] Harald Schumann, Christian Grefe: Der globale Countdown .- Kiepenheuer & Witsch 2009
[2] bspw.: Sharon Begley: Global-Warming Deniers: A Well-Funded Machine .- Newsweek, 13.August 2007
[3] Artikel bei ZDF
[5-N] verschiedene aktuelle Artikeln im Internet zum Thema, September 2009.
[4] Ökostrom Initiative von Google
more information: look for links in other articles at www.elstel.com, Weed Online
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The Coalition of Climate Change Denyers:

It was the year 1987 as the German Parliament founded a commission with the title "foresight to protect the atmosphere of the earth " with regards to the greenhouse effect. In 1992 a document of UNO-conference in Rio de Janeiro warned against a "dangerous perturbance of the climate system". It remains to put at question how the following 15 years have been lost which would have been so important for a proper climate protection.

During this time the oil, coal and automotive industry of the USA could block any policy for reducing commodity usage by the expense of milliards. This is comprehensively documented [2]. Lobbyists succeeded to make the issue disappear via disinformation and pseudo-science very similar to the way the tobacco industry has succeeded to play down the risks of smoking although they must have known studies from before of World War II which have unambiguously documented the risks of smoking.

Corrupted and blind-stitched deferred or self claimed climate scientists have secretly distributed bloodcurdling but imaginative counter thesis to climate change. The lobbyists could win distinguished news papers in the USA like the New York Times or the Washington Post describing climate change as a thesis instead of as a fact with marginal uncertainties. Staged interviews with environmental advocates were just one of many methods to bias public opinion. At least they succeeded to put a bagman of the oil industry into the White House who censored scientific publications. Not even today in the year 2009 lobbyist resile from sending falsified documents in the name of well known organizations to Congressman to sabotage Obama`s climate politic.

Renowned Potsdam Institute for Climate Research says CSS is no solution:

Q19: Could we not just burn all available fossil fuel reserves, provided that we capture and store the CO2 with carbon capture and storage (CCS) ?

A: If the carbon is safely and permanently sequestered using CCS technology, then about 85‐90% of emissions from burning fossil fuels could be avoided. Thus, the early large scale deployment of carbon sequestration and storage (CSS) would increase the allowable fossil fuel extraction.

Word of caution: However, this technology is as yet unproven on a commercial scale, entails risks and has significant infrastructure requirements with multi‐year lead times. Thus, further investment into fossil fuel exploration and extraction (rather than into renewable energies and energy efficiency) will either (i) be stranded (as retrofitting the plant with CCS turns out to be a less viable option than anticipated), or (ii) push cumulative emissions beyond the point where avoiding dangerous climate change could become impossible or (iii) lock in the need for future large scale deployment of technologies to extract CO2 from the air.
PIK-Potsdam: 26 questions about GHG emission targets

New charger harvest ambient wireless signals

2010-09-04T22:17:00.000-07:00

This new device can grab ambient wireless signals and then
use that harvested energy to charge up cell phones and other
small devices.

Source:
WiFi View

The New Energy Race

2010-08-16T09:35:00.000-07:00

If America keeps taking a back seat to the
alternative energy initiative, we will have
a real difficult time getting out from under
this rock.

Hydraulic Ram Pump In Action

2010-08-15T23:17:00.001-07:00

In Afghanistan they are making use of hydraulic ram pumps
to help provide water in formerly difficult places.

The Amazing Air Powered Motorcycle

2010-07-14T12:39:00.000-07:00

Engineering students in India have managed to transform a standard
100cc motorcycle into an Air Powered bike.

Source:
Youtube

ECONOL

2010-07-08T00:19:00.000-07:00

Paul Stamets who is a mycologist (fungi researcher). During his presentation he presented that we’re more closely related to fungi than any other kingdom. The sequence of microbes on rotting mushrooms are essential to the forests of the world.

A very interesting solution which he developed consisted of infused burlap bags filled with natural material and mycelium. These would then be placed in drainage areas near or on farms to reduce presence of E. coli in runoff.

The research hasn’t ended and now we are seeing treatments for viruses using rare fungi only found in old growth forest. He’s even using mycelium as pest control which is pretty cool. (Check out the Video when it gets on TED)
Even better he believes generating cellulose from mycelium to create a fuel known as ECONOL

Source:
fryktinngytende.com

More information and video:
TED Information
TED Video

Light from Algae

2010-06-30T19:47:00.000-07:00

Algae photosynthesis process that can produce small electrical currents have been translated by Mike Thompson to turn on his work of Latro hanging lamp and storing electrical energy generated in an onboard battery.

In fact this technology is a development of technology that has been developed by scientists at Yonsei University and Stanford University. The research has revealed that we can take a bit of electric current from chloroplasts of algal cells.

Latro lamp designed in the form of jar-shaped which involving algae living, sunlight, carbon dioxide and water to provide illumination. The CO2 can be obtained from our breath through the handle of the lamp. The water is used as a place to live algae and sunlight needed for photosynthesis process.

Algae has been widely mentioned as an alternative super fuel with high concentration of lipid oils
which could be an alternative environmentally friendly fuel to substitute fossil fuels that produce high carbon footprint. Latro lamp has added the benefits of algae as producers of electricity that can be exploited for human needs.

Source:
http://alternativeenergyecogreen.blogspot.com/2010/06/algae-powered-latro-lamps.html

Some Words From A Great Man

2010-04-26T23:35:00.001-07:00

"It is not a dream, it is a simple feat of scientific electrical engineering, only expensive — blind, faint-hearted, doubting world! [...] Humanity is not yet sufficiently advanced to be willingly led by the discoverer's keen searching sense. But who knows? Perhaps it is better in this present world of ours that a revolutionary idea or invention instead of being helped and patted, be hampered and ill-treated in its adolescence — by want of means, by selfish interest, pedantry, stupidity and ignorance; that it be attacked and stifled; that it pass through bitter trials and tribulations, through the strife of commercial existence. So do we get our light. So all that was great in the past was ridiculed, condemned, combatted, suppressed — only to emerge all the more powerfully, all the more triumphantly from the struggle." – Nikola Tesla

Earth Hour

2010-03-27T15:10:00.000-07:00

It's that time again this year for Earth Hour.

Participate today or find out more here:
http://www.earthhour.org/

Fuel Cell for the home

2010-03-02T10:46:00.001-08:00

Bloom Energy is making a buzz with its Bloom Box technology being shown to the public,
but Panasonic already has a Fuel Cell for the home. I don't see anybody being able to compete with electronics giants, Bloom has one product, these big companies have hundreds of products on the market and multiple revenue streams from the other companies they own. (Such as Panasonics buy out of Sanyo, who makes solar cells).

Tragedy Today

2010-02-17T15:06:00.001-08:00

Tesla Motor Co. has lost 3 people from it's company as there plane crashed.

More at this link here:

3 Die in Plane Crash

This is a tragic accident and our thoughts and prayers go out to the Tesla Motor Co.
and their families.

Miami Conference

2009-12-03T12:12:00.001-08:00

Its no wonder that our project wasn't chosen in Miami to be funded,
it turns out that Ashoka who is a partner with Changemakers is
mostly funded by Exxon.

http://ashoka.org/

Space Solar Farm

2009-11-08T18:52:00.000-08:00

Japan wants to launch a solar energy farm in space, which would then use lasers or microwaves to beam down the energy collected.

Read all about it here:

Japan's space solar farm

Desoto FL Solar Farm

2009-10-23T17:32:00.001-07:00

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091023/ap_on_bi_ge/us_solar_power_plant

Rolling out new panels in 2010

2009-09-21T14:12:00.000-07:00

We are working hard to be able to start production on our latest panels, we are optimistic that if things work out, we should be able to show the fruits of our labor at some of the tradeshows coming up early next year.

New blog

2009-08-20T10:29:00.000-07:00

Energy can represent many things to many people, from a feeling, to a spiritual one.

We decided to combine a blog and co-blog with one of the leading energy workers
Hugo Fernando in order to present a very different kind of blog, not just the
technical side.

You can find it here:

All Things Energy

it is on the new Bay Words uncensored blog site.

New to Our Blog?

2009-06-14T15:35:00.000-07:00

Please go back to the first month, we have a lot of things we have blogged about
as far as what we are working on, and instead of taking time out every day to do
a blog update, we are only going to blog when we reach a milestone.

So if you are new here, you are going to miss out on a lot unless you backtrack
to the first post.

Thanks for visiting.

Global warming bill

2009-06-13T15:37:00.000-07:00

Good or bad?

Global Warming Bill on Yahoo! News

Some of the "right to pollute" profits instead of going back to help
us out, instead will profit the companies, as many of the bids will be
given away. These "rights" are for companies who cannot produce their
goods without some residual polluting (well at least without expensive
and cost prohibitive retrofitting of their factories.)

Exciting new developments

2009-04-14T00:27:00.000-07:00

We plan on releasing a youtube video soon of some of our newest discoveries.

One uses Solar Thermal to move a turbine in a hydraulic tube.

The other uses the polarity of water to act as a repelling force of normally
charged water, the Hydro Magnet is a radical development, it is still in its infancy.

Please RSVP

2009-03-15T00:24:00.000-07:00

If you are coming to the S.H.A.R.E. meeting the 15th, please let us know.

Here is our number at the office, leave a message if you are attending.

Ph: 352.621.3144

Our newest product

2009-03-12T00:47:00.000-07:00

I have invented a tobacco free snus, which
has several benefits over traditional stop smoking aides.

It does contain nicotine.
It is very tasty.
It is cheaper than the patch or the gum.
It is less dry in your mouth than other snus.
None of the expensive cigarette taxes apply to our products.

Contains 0% of the cancer causing agents in tobbacco products.*
Contains Nicotine.
Pleasant tasting.
No teeth staining tobacco juices.
Less dry pouch.
Little or no burning sensation from regular snus.

Did I mention it tastes good!?!

So now you can still get your Nicotine fix but do away with
the risk of getting cancer and other nasty illnesses you
would normally run the risk of getting from cigarettes.

I have some pictures I will be posting and setting up a
website for orders etc.

The price will be somewhere between $3 and $4 a can.
Like normal snus, each can will contain 15 pouches,
and last between 15 and 30 minutes.

I will have 2 different strength products. One for nomal
smokers and one for heavy smokers.

I will be meeting with potential investors this week
to try and get a small factory going.

So stop making your teeth brown and get back your
super smile and improve your breath. It will actually
make your breath more pleasant than normal non-smokers.

*******************
We hope to bring this product to the market within the
next 2-3 months internationally, in the meantime, we
will be producing small quantities for immediate resell.

Gas Hydrates in our own back yard

2009-03-08T19:32:00.000-07:00

Exerpt:

"A future energy source?

At the sea surface, decomposing hydrate feels like cold Alka Seltzer fizzing and popping on your skin. It's fun to light gas hydrates with a match and watch the hydrocarbons burn like a candle, leaving behind only slightly salty water. Watching gas hydrate burn and produce heat shows its value as an energy source. Right now there is worldwide interest in exploiting energy from hydrates."

Gas Hydrates article
Research Library entry

This very interesting information was sent to me by a correspondent of ours.

Server Energy

2009-03-07T18:09:00.000-08:00

A very interesting site if you are a technologist such as myself
and also have an interest in energy:

http://www.ddj.com/go-parallel/?cid=email_ms_entsoft_030609_v2

It is about Parallel Programming and how to make efficient use
of multi core processing.

How does this affect energy?

Power consumption.

More efficient use of power used for processing means less wasted
energy, and we can all agree that is a good thing.

This technology doesn't necessarily lower power
consumption, but it does however allow a more efficient use
of what you are already consuming. Smarter use of energy.

I think eventually that will help lower energy use,
if you can do your work more efficiently and waste less
power, you are less likely to add more processing power,
which means you will ultimately use less power.

Baby steps.

New Dynamism

2009-03-07T17:41:00.000-08:00

L'Avenir

Coming soon...

Biohydrogen- Worth a closer look.

2009-03-05T19:26:00.000-08:00

I spent today collecting new samples of strains of fast growing microalgae with Travis Leogrande one of our field researcher.

We are looking into a very insidious form of algae to "repurpose".

We also came across this interesting snippet courtesy of the Wikipedia:
"Algae can be grown to produce biohydrogen. In 1939 a German researcher named Hans Gaffron, while working at the University of Chicago, observed that the algae he was studying, Chlamydomonas reinhardtii (a green-alga), would sometimes switch from the production of oxygen to the production of hydrogen.[7] Gaffron never discovered the cause for this change and for many years other scientists failed to repeat his findings. In the late 1990s professor Anastasios Melis, a researcher at the University of California at Berkeley, discovered that if the algae culture medium is deprived of sulfur it will switch from the production of oxygen (normal photosynthesis), to the production of hydrogen. He found that the enzyme responsible for this reaction is hydrogenase, but that the hydrogenase lost this function in the presence of oxygen. Melis found that depleting the amount of sulfur available to the algae interrupted its internal oxygen flow, allowing the hydrogenase an environment in which it can react, causing the algae to produce hydrogen. [8] Chlamydomonas moeweesi is ... a good strain for the production of hydrogen.
Source:
en.wikipedia.org"

We believe we can create a similar effect from Lyngbya sp. but we need further consultation. We are going to attempt to verify some information with a USF professor.

I have not yet spoken with him, but intend on contacting him.

We also believe we are a good candidate for a particular grant with our Non-profit
side of Venturi Industries.

In The Lab

2009-03-03T10:57:00.000-08:00

This week some of our staff will be working on a special algae hybridization project,
if successful we could be one of the first Green companies that are producing our
own special algae strain for high oil production volumes.

The different approaches we are taking are:

1. Focusing on those micro algae we have found to contain an oil content of up to 70%+

2. Generation modeling

3. Hybridization of micro algae with high oil characteristics to produce larger
micro algae cells by volume.

Bigger truely is better, a larger surface area is a higher concentration of oil
per cm*. I don't know of any other labs focusing on becoming algae farms for the
specific purpose of selling seed plants.

We believe this will give us a definitive edge in these new markets.

We will be looking at data from Utah State University, in one of their projects
they state by using light more efficiently they can yield a 10 to 20x higher
surface area.

The specifics:
Upon analyzing Cladophora sp. with a surface area of (63.5 m2/g, N2 gas adsorption)
under an atomic force microscope, we surmise from our generation model that
the new strain Aerodifus sp. would have a surface area of roughly surface area (76.3 m2/g, N2 gas adsorption) after crystalization of cells in both cell structures
are allowed to take place.

This process would allow for the production of cellulose powder for easier processing.

This process would happen at the end of the life cycle before drying and gasification.

*per volume of occupied cylindrical container.

In The News

2009-03-02T10:04:00.000-08:00

Venturi Industries will be doing a short piece for FoxNews.

More details to follow.

Rapid growing micro-algae discovery

2009-03-01T19:40:00.000-08:00

We believe to have discovered a strain of micro-algae that grows at the highest rate out of all the different 30,000 or so types.

This particular algae may surpass the Spinulina in reproducing.

Current and ongoing projects

2009-03-01T17:33:00.001-08:00

Here are some of our current projects, as some of you may already know,
our sister company NetData invests upwards of 60-90%+ of its profits into Venturi Industries.

We are an Open Source Hybrid Commercial/Non-Profit Company, so this list is
an all inclusive list of open projects (although not an exhaustive list)

1. Citrus Green Map project
2. S.H.A.R.E. Community
3. Windbelt Mark II prototyping week
4. The Find Engine (A radically new search engine algorithm)
5. Kinderfun Toys (An online Toy & Game rental company for ages 4+)
7. Riverstone Realty (CMS Systems for Private Realty Investors)
8. Biofuel Research week
9. Biocentric (A biological network working with fertility clinics)
10. Centerpoint (A Social network integration technology site)
More To be announced...

Current Objectives:
Network leveraging to find Micro Financing opportunities and investment capital.
Further work to establish Fundlink a Micro-financing network.

We are also researching commercialization of the Hexayurt project, more details
to come.

Each commercial enterprise will be allotting a large percentage of
revenues towards the further research and development work here at Venturi Industries.

March Meetup Month!

2009-03-01T07:56:00.000-08:00

We are in the process of attending some meetups to help encourage the flow
of information and exchange ideas.

Meetup.com is one site we are looking at.

Code Green Community meetup:
http://www.meetup.com/Code-Green-Community/
March 10

If you know of any others in the Central Florida area
please let me know - lets get involved!

Venturi Wind Ventures to become Venturi Industries

2009-02-28T20:07:00.000-08:00

Venturi Industries and Venturi Heavy Industry will be the new name shortly
as we are progressing to include more technologies than wind power.

Algae "Oilfields"

2009-02-27T14:39:00.001-08:00

New Prototype Design

2009-02-27T10:42:00.000-08:00

Here is the Mark II of "The Breeze units"

THIS is the TRUE POWER of OPEN SOURCE, within ONE WEEK of the original prototype
(an improved windbelt) the old prototype is already obsolete.

We are trying to get green energy technology to advance as fast as computer technology.

Facebook Group

2009-02-27T10:40:00.001-08:00

Facebook group NOW open!

URL in the link section there on the right.

S.H.A.R.E.

WeMedia Presentation

2009-02-27T10:38:00.000-08:00

#wemedia

Note: This is not a transcript, this is the original presentation we prepared for the presentation in its original unmodified form.

The Venturi Wind Venturis
Allen Gagle

Hello my name is Allen Gagle from Venturi Wind Ventures, I am here to speak to you
today about our goals and current projects.

I do ask that you hold off all your questions until the end of the
presentation and I will try and answer your questions at that time.

Companies like Sony may have not invented the Television, but that has not kept them from
improving and innovating, which has allowed for their enormous success. Our business is
very much the same, like many other green technology start-ups, we are innovating
and are striving to become the industry standard.

I firmly believe that alternative energy is a viable business with room for rapid growth.

as recently mentioned in Business Week:
"The research firm New Energy Finance estimates that venture capital and private equity
investments in clean energy will grow at an annual compound rate of 17% through 2013."

Media will play an important part in this rapid growth of this new industry.

While most companies want to focus on maximum economic gain
we are looking at maximum social benefit.

The importance of Media in our project would be to
Establish Community driven website (S.H.A.R.E.)

S.H.A.R.E. is the Social Hub For Alternative Renewable Energy Club
A Community driven club with local chapters involving youth and
amateur electronics enthusiasts.

Community evolvement is essential,
Amateur Scientist Clubs, Rocket Builders Clubs, Robotics Clubs,
Ham Radio operator clubs and Computer Building clubs have spawned
countless innovations in electronics, radio and computer technologies.

However over the years interests in these organizations have declined.

We believe it is important to start grass roots organizations and clubs in communities throughout
the world- from schools, local organizations and local libraries involving communities directly.

Media will also play an important role in the sharing of ideas,
we will be the first Green Technology company to utilize Open Source
in our design and development process.

A new concept has been Open Sourcing, we feel
that this is an integral component of future innovations.

Many great minds outweigh the solitary
inventor, and I feel that this is a valuable resource which will allow
for a quantum shift in advancing of this technology.

I would like to talk about our business model for a moment.

Diversification is an important part of the overall business model,
diversification in an industry ensures that the business continues profiting throughout the wax and wane
of fickle new markets such as alternative energy.

In addition to using the power of media our business model also includes recycling electronics
components.

A successful business in our local area, Star Asset Recovery, have
been very successful with their business of recycling computer components that would have
ended up in landfills. We look to them as an important case study in how we should
pursue our recycling operations utilizing old electronics components.

Our principal plan includes further research and development of our Green Technologies
one of which is Venturi Wind Ventures "The Breeze" which recently this week we
have been developing the Second generation, which no longer uses a belt type design
but a membrane diaphragm, which we hope to be making public here in a few short
weeks.

What we do have to show you is the video from our Mark I unit, which we will show you now.

We have a very broad world view.

"Think globally - Act Locally" Is the general philosophy in any new
venture. However there comes a time to also act globally as well.

We have long term plans that include introducing new
industries to third world countries, that we believe would change
or perhaps even save lives.

[Successes:]

I want to take a moment to talk about the recent successes
There have been many successes recently in the field of alternative energy:

Florida Power has successfully converted the Wildlife Encounter Pavilion of the
Homosassa State Wildlife Park to Hydrogen power using Hydrogen fuel cells.

A company called Lebone in Africa is using fuel cells to provide much needed
lighting for emergency workers and residents.

China Energy Group has developed Solar Thermal technology that replaces Solar Cells
plants in the southwest have the capability of producing 3 Gigawatts of power, which
is enough power for 1 million homes.

We have improved existing Wind Belt technology to gain an additional efficiencies
and are seeking independent verification of our research.

[Barriers To Entry:]

Any successful business at one point or another requires analyzing the existing or potential
barriers to entry in their particular field. Our obstacles are educating the public, fickle markets
and resources. We firmly believe that we are overcoming these obstacles every day and
that success is imminent.

In Conclusion:

What awaits is a Paradigm shift - the great movement toward a common goal
of changing the very infrastructure of our current system, both in technological and economic
terms.

Although our goals are many, over the course of 5 years it is our belief that each and every
goal can be achieved if we work together to make these things a reality. Together we can
reduce our energy independence to 50% and perhaps altogether in the future.

We can accomplish this goal from help of strong communities and the power of media.

Website Launch Soon

2009-02-26T23:43:00.000-08:00

S.H.A.R.E. (Social Hub for Alternative Renewable Energy)
community to share Open Source designs for helping to create
a better world.

REAL change.

Radical Ideas from Radical People (the good kind of radicals).

Registration will be opening soon.

Keep posted for URL and more information HERE>

Presentation

2009-02-26T20:00:00.000-08:00

Our pitch guy Joseph Williams is still in North Carolina, so me being a Techie
that would rather write code, bombed the presentation awesomely. Woot.

I am thankful to wemedia for the opportunity to perhaps open at least one mind in the process.

But it seems like its popular to talk about change, oh its the trendy thing,
but its a little harder to actually make change happen.

Which is why we exist.

Period.

Here at the second day

2009-02-25T06:47:00.000-08:00

Watching the award ceremony for Game Changers, so far it has
been very enlightening, there have been many good things come
from the WeMedia experience.

Some Green and Environmental websites have spawned from the
WeMedia platform, all mostly focusing on those with a social
aspect.

Presentation Video

2009-02-23T21:47:00.001-08:00

If you cannot attend the conference, or if you have attended the conference
and wanted to watch our presentation video once again, here is the link:

http://www.4shared.com/file/89187005/1168841/VWV_quicktime.html

New discovery

2009-02-21T09:33:00.001-08:00

We might be onto something quiet large.

When I return on Feb 26th, I will be starting a very important experiment
on Feb 27th.

If it is correct it could be the Eureka! moment of the century.

It might also prove to be completely fruitless, but we need to know either way.

The potential knowledge gained would be worth risking a failed experiment.

Our 10 Year Plan

2009-02-19T13:29:00.001-08:00

The Venturi Wind Ventures
Allen Gagle

10 YEAR PLAN

From Business Week:
"The research firm New Energy Finance estimates that venture capital and private equity
investments in clean energy will grow at an annual compound rate of 17% through 2013."

Forward:

Companies like Sony may have not invented the Television, but that has not
kept them from improving and innovating, which has allowed for their enormous success. Our business is very much the same, like many other green technology start-ups, we are innovating and are striving to become the industry standard.

1. Consultancy: Providing valuable consulting to other green start-ups.

2. Wind Power: Researching, developing and producing of sub 100 watt and 100 watt+ systems (up to the Kilo Watt or Mega Watt range) relating to Wind Belt and Wind Turbine systems.

3. Water Power: Researching, developing and producing multi watt buoy systems which
is utilizing our "The Breeze" technology and is encapsulating it into a buoy form factor.

4. Dynamic Energy Systems: Utilizing Piezoelectric systems for building into roadway along with the normal aggregate for generating electricity from road traffic, researching gyroscopic energy generation systems (for later implementing into our Buoy systems.)

5. Solar Power: Recycling electronic components to produce solar power using a new system. We are currently researching the re-purposing recycled transistors into new solar energy applications.

6. Fuel Production: Algae Farming to produce bio fuels.

7. Open Source Engineering: A new concept of the century has been Open Sourcing, we feel that this is an integral component of future innovations. Many great minds outweigh the solitary inventor, and a necessary resource incorporating into a quantum shift in advancing of any new technology.

8. Acquisitions: We plan on acquiring other green technology businesses we feel are innovating in the field of alternative energy.

9. Community Involvement: Amateur Scientist Clubs, Amateur Rocket Builders Clubs, Robotics Clubs, Amateur Radio Societies, Ham Radio operator clubs and Computer Building clubs have spawned countless innovations in electronics, radio and computer technologies. What is missing are formal organizations for green technology from young and amateur experimenters. It is imperative to get the youth and more citizens interested and involved in future energy advancements.

We believe it is important to start grass roots organizations and clubs in communities throughout the world- from schools, local organizations and local libraries involving communities directly.

10. Recycling: Another successful business in our local area is Star Asset Recovery, they have been very successful with their business of recycling computer components that would have ended up in landfills. We look to them as an important case study in how we should pursue our recycling operations utilizing old electronics components.

Copper is a valuable commodity, currently at $1.43 USD per pound with a very good future outlook, is just one of the many benefits of recycling electronics components and producing new components for the production of Wind Turbines and Generators.

*Footnote relating to our recycling endeavors:
Reclaiming Energy: A large percentage of lost energy can be reclaimed again using
drainage turbines, parasitic turbines, Joule Thief circuitry, etc.. We have learned that we should not waste food, but we waste electricity every day in the form of lost energy. We can be making changes now for reclaiming all this lost energy.

Benefits would include: Improving energy efficiency, tapping unused energy sources and
keeping batteries out of land fills longer.

Business Plan:

Like any good business model, diversification is an important part of the overall business model, diversification in an industry ensures that the business continues profiting throughout the wax and wane of fickle new markets such as alternative energy.

Challenges:

What awaits us is achieving a Paradigm shift - the great movement toward a common goal
of changing the very infrastructure of our current system, both in technological and economic terms.

Keeping An Open Mind:

Like all new technology, it was once considered alien and obscure, now these inventions are common place. We must keep an open mind about new sources of power, there are new technologies of interest that may be fringe science now, but in the future may have its place in all our lives. Technologies such as Atmospheric Vortex Engines, Lenzless Generators, Bio Circuits, Nano Technology and Organic Solar cells merit much research and simply cannot be ignored.

Certain advances may not be currently feasible, but may become a possibility in the near future. Ignoring new technology would be ignoring the benefits to mankind.

Successes:

Florida Power has successfully converted the Wildlife Encounter Pavilion of the
Homosassa State Wildlife Park to Hydrogen power using Hydrogen fuel cells.

A company called Lebone in Africa is using fuel cells to provide much needed
lighting for emergency workers and residents.

China Energy Group has developed Solar Thermal technology that replaces Solar Cells
plants in the southwest have the capability of producing 3 Gigawatts of power, which
is enough power for 1 million homes.

We have improved existing Wind Belt technology to gain an additional 30% efficiency
and are seeking independent verification of our research.

Barriers To Entry:

Any successful business at one point or another requires analyzing the existing or potential barriers to entry in their particular field. Our obstacles are educating the public, fickle markets and resources. We firmly believe that we are overcoming these obstacles every day and that success is imminent.

In Conclusion:

Although our goals are many, over the course of 10 years it is our belief that each and every goal can be achieved if we work together to make these things a reality. Together we can reduce our energy independence to 50% and perhaps altogether in the future.

Our World Goals

2009-02-19T13:28:00.000-08:00

World View:

We have a very broad world view.

"Think globally - Act Locally" Is the general philosophy in any new
venture. However there comes a time to also act globally as well.

We have long term plans that include introducing new
industries to third world countries, that we believe would change
or perhaps save lives.

The current problem.

Engineers with MIT and other universities are working in poor countries such as
Hiati, in order to try and improve living conditions by introducing new technologies
and industries, such as LED lighting, solar water distillation and new forms of
cooking fuels - such as the recently developed bio mass charcoal briquettes.

However - The problem is that engineers are very good at engineering, but
unfortunately very poor at understanding economics. Our approach would be
to also involve economics experts to assist in developing micro economic
changes that could develop into a sustained improvement on the general
quality of life in these countries.

African Wind Power

2009-02-17T08:39:00.001-08:00

Even a poor African man can make a difference.

If not for the world, but for his family.

Moving Windmills

Watch the short film now.

African Wind Power

2009-02-17T08:39:00.000-08:00

Even a poor African man can make a difference.

If not for the world, but for his family.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=arD374MFk4w&eurl=http://williamkamkwamba.typepad.com/williamkamkwamba/

University Of Miami Conference

2009-02-06T23:39:00.001-08:00

We will be presenting our information at the University Of Miami on Feb 24-26.

More details to come.

Venturi Wind Ventures

2009-01-26T13:15:00.000-08:00

Welcome to our blog.

Here you will find current status updates on these current projects:

1. The Breeze - A "wind belt" type device, that produces electricity similar to a
Windmill.

2. PIC Laser Harp - A cheap and simple laser harp.

3. Optical Music instruments and midi controllers