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Welcome to the deep end,
Glad To Have You Here
...where we find shorter spaces between us.
-- Bobby Ocean

Wednesday, July 13, 2011

USING NEW ENERGY SOURCES NOW

TWO BLOGS IN ONE:

Fresh Approach AND/OR Old Defenses...
I love cool, new advances in science
. Like that unreal scanning, printing replicator I recently blogged about!

Well, here goes again.
Socket To Me
This time, scientists from the National Physical Laboratory, an organization that slipped under this blog jockey's radar, have discovered a heretofore unused energy source. If you didn't know it was there before, it's a discovery, right? Well, close enough.

As reported everywhere, including here in Views and Ways, an entire neighborhood in a San Bruno suburb exploded. The Gas Energy Provider, it turns out, couldn't find records of the latest maintenance. In fact, it has pretty much nothing reliable in its maintenance records at all. Your neighborhood could be next. Or mine. No records...

The keen minds at NPL have researched ways to harness energy unused in its first attack, or initial effort. It's the runoff stuff that our fellow bright minds have taken a second look at. They have scrutinized its source for energy that is otherwise wasted - dissipated as vibration, motion, uncaptured heat, even the vibrations of sound.

One of the ways mentioned, in a recent report on harnessing unused energy, is the use of a thermoelectric generator. A researcher explained, "...if you warm two metal plates up by rubbing your hands, getting friction and thus generating heat," he said, "it then will be turned into electrical power,"

            "If it is ultimately determined that we were
            responsible for the cause of this incident, we will
            take accountability," a Gaseous Explosion Person
            said. "Our thoughts go out to everyone affected by
            this terrible situation."
            
            Thoughts?


Other basic actions were sorted out
as examples. "The second device is somebody pedaling on a bicycle connected to a generator, and a third system is a piezoelectric device - if you squeeze it or bend it, you put a strain on it and it produces an electrical signal and you can capture that."

None of these technologies are new, but today, it is becoming more and more economically important to capture energy instead of wasting it.

And some forward thinking companies are already doing it.

            Here's what those thoughts amount to. In what must
            be a new low in the preoccupation of becoming a
            limbo lawyer, it was suggested that the Giant,
            Gaseous Energy monopoly's legal firm will sue its
            own customers, somehow holding the grieving San
            Bruno residents responsible for those horrifying gas
            pipeline explosions that disintegrated their
            neighborhood.


Volkswagen, for instance, is using a piezoelectric generator connected to the exhaust to capture the heat produced by a car's engine.

At two train stations in Tokyo, power-generating mats have been installed under the floors to capture the vibrations from tens of thousands of commuters and then renew this energy as electricity.

Getting more from less. That's another way of saying it and not a new idea, either. But discovering ways to do tap energy unused so far can happen all the time, any time.
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Friday, July 8, 2011

HAVE YOUR SCAN PLAN READY?

YOUR FUTURE'S STILL WAY AHEAD OF THE GAME
I love emailing back and forth with my good friend, Bill Young, who heads up the outfit I just joined. He is so ahead of the curve it's almost uncanny.

Bill's book, "Dead Air - The Rise And Demise Of Music Radio," chronicles the amazing voyages and people his choices brought through him in radio's Airwave Carnival as he operated from the land he loves so much, Houston Texas.

Rather than go on and on about the sci-fi nature of our current existence, I'll just beam you aboard the very latest discovery to which Bill alerted me as you click on the cartoon that anchors this particular blog.

Besides, all I can say right now is, "Wow!"