Welcome!
The dawning of a new age
We are fast approaching a
new age. An age when families will be able
to generate their electrical needs at home via solar and store it in batteries
for when they need it. They will also
make an additional income by selling excess electric back to the utility. Imagine being self-sufficient from the
utility? When power is unavailable to
your neighbors you will still have electric.
In a hot summer you will still be cool and on the coldest days you will
have heat. Even though electric is critical to so many most think little of it. We are coming upon the age of renewable
electric, an age that will see significant changes in the world. Every country will become energy independent
and spread the wealth so that people will have the electric power to drill and
pump water for irrigating fields. Pumps will also help to vacuum excess water
from fields and many people will revert back to farming. They will farm
electric in addition to their other crops and people will embrace the era on
new farms. Environmental rules will change cars from fossil fuels to electric
and people will seek out a career of generating clean renewable energy for
resale to the local utilities via the power grid. Families will seek education
on a continuous basis over the Internet.
They will not only be able to get college degrees like they already do
but their children will be able to attend grammar and high school from the
convenience of their homes.
Imagine running your home
based business with controls over the Internet, attending vocation school and
college anywhere in the world over the Internet on a 24/7 basis.
Solar energy can provide
electric on sunny days and store it in batteries for when it is needed while
sending excess electric through the utility lines as an income and to pay for
the expansion of the site. Wind can
generate electric anytime the wind is blowing day or night. Water can generate
electric continuously when it is flowing.
Biomass can also generate electric continuously as long as it is
fed. So a combination of the previous
resources can be used to generate electric and thus allow for a continuous
income and flow of electric from the site to the utility. We need researchers, corporations and
incentives to bring about this changeover from fossil fuels. Many fourth world countries are currently
leading the world in the adoption and development of renewable electric so that
they aren’t using funds that they sorely need on oil to generate electric.
While our country continues
to support major oil and coal companies, citizens refuse to allow the
exploration and drilling for oil and our economy suffers since we our almost
fully dependent of fossil fuels and oil from other countries.
If we become independent from
foreign countries our economy will improve.
If we make a major effort to develop renewable energy we will have
electric for now and the future and create thousands of jobs while improving
the environment and the health of the country.
We are also aware of the many scientists that believe global warming
does exists and that it is from fossil fuels and that it must be reversed
before major natural disasters become common place around the world.
Hurricane Katrina
Relief Organizations
Please contact one of the following and send a gift:
-American Red Cross, www.redcross.org
or (800) HELP
•Operation Blessing,
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•Adventist Community
Services,
•Catholic Charities, www.catholiccharitiesusa.org,
•Christian Reformed World
Relief Committee,
•Church World Service, www.churchworldservice.org,
•Convoy of Hope,
•Episcopal Relief and
Development, http://erd.servicenetwork.com/Donate/Donate.asp,
•Lutheran Disaster
Response,
•Presbyterian Disaster
Assistance,
•Salvation Army, www.salvationarmyusa.org,
(800)
•Southern Baptist
Convention — Disaster Relief,
•United Methodist
Committee on Relief,
Another New Department: Demo homes – sites for energy saving designs, renewable energy communities and tips
Also next month we will introduce another new section – RE Stocks (if you have suggestions send them to editor@ENERGYFARMS.ORG)
As always please feel free to send this to others who might like it, without spamming them! We are open to all comments/suggestions/ideas/input/products.
If you have a product that should be high lighted for the new Product of The Month please send it to editor@energyfarms.org
With this months newsletter we start a new section that will highlight a specific product. For the initial product we have chosen a Vertical Windmill Model and maker.
(Comments and specs are from www.pwtcbattery.com)
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NEW BATTERY TECHNOLOGY - Power Technology, Inc. Has Developed Breakthrough
Technology For A Power Current Collector Structure That Can Be Used To Build
Superior Batteries With These Advantages:
Smaller Sizes, Less Weight, More Power, Increased Energy Density, Less Lead,
More Environment Friendly, Superior Recharge Capabilities and Longer Life.
Power Technology batteries have a
unique internal structure and electrochemistry. These features give the Power
Battery significant advantages compared to conventional batteries, such as the
common lead-acid automobile battery.
It is our mission to create environmentally friendly, inexpensive power sources
for use by industry and individuals, including the creation of the ultimate
battery, characterized by superior power, higher capacity, lighter weight, and
minimal acid and lead content - for a range of automotive, aerospace, power
storage and other industrial and personal applications.
Conventional lead-acid batteries typically use lead molded into a grid pattern as a current collector. The surface area of a conventional lead current collector is approximately 4.6 cm(2) per cm(3). Our battery employs a high specific surface area, 18 cm(2) per cm(3), open-cell, reticulated vitreous carbon electrode structure coated with a lead-tin alloy to advance the reliable lead-acid chemistries to new performance levels by significantly increasing the utilization efficiency of PAM.
The capability of a battery is directly related to the surface area of its current collectors which are in contact with paste and our r technology increases the surface areas of the current collectors without compromising their strength or resistance to vibration, erosion and loss of material. Our technology also increases the energy density for both the weight and size of the battery. The size of our battery is significantly reduced compared to a traditional lead-acid battery of the same amp-hour capacity.
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For a detailed discussion of the technology, CLICK HERE to read the Journal of Power Sources, peer reviewed, scientific article : "Electroplated reticulated vitreous carbon current collectors for lead-acid batteries: opportunities and challenges"
Power Technology owns award winning battery technology. The technology has the potential to replace standard lead-acid batteries and other chemistry based batteries. The Company is currently developing improved technology for batteries to be used in all energy industry applications. The battery technology has passed from the proof of principle stage to prototype development and testing stages. The Company's battery technology will serve the $14 billion annual industrial battery market.
Numerous applications exist for this advanced battery technology. The Company has multiple avenues to pursue to develop, commercialize and profit from this technology. These include: In house development, licensing rights to develop specific applications, joint venture partnerships to accelerate commercialization, selling patents and applications of the technology.
Short
Notes for March
Recent
Short Notes
Seeking Comments
http://www.energyfarms.org/trinity/
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The Energy Plan still being debated in
the Congress.
Send your comment(s) via http://action.foe.org/campaign.jsp?campaign_KEY=1031
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National
Center for Photovoltaics
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Reading
Materials
North
American Windpower
"Covering the world's fastest growing energy source in the most
promising geographical market"
Alternative Energy Retailer
"The Leading Resource for Sellers, Installers Designers"
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More on Education - Making Energy
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It is important for everyone to do something for us to become energy independent. The longest journey starts with the first step, take a step.
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The Energy Plan is still in Congress
Get on the bandwagon for renewable
energy!
Support the Petition for Renewable
Energy
http://www.nirs.org/petition/index.php?r=sb
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School promotes energy education
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Recent Outages
(What happens to you
and your family during an outage?)
(What if it happened during
extreme hot or cold weather)
Not to mention the many caused by Katrina
Indonesian outage leaves 100m without electricity
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Oil has now hit over
$70 a barrel!!!
How is it affecting
you and your family?
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Energy Information
Administration
This explosion in demand for oil is NOT going to abate
anytime soon.
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My home state of
Getting closer
Wind
Farm family building wind farm for
$100k for supporting 8 homes,
We can use more research funds,
incentives, large scale
manufacturing, economy of scale and long term funding support from the SBA
What the world needs is more attention spent on developing a
supply of clean electric from renewable sources. Resources that are available throughout most of the world. Rather then heaping praises on actors and
those in sports we should be honoring those that make life better for
everyone. Those who can make the
quality of life better for all. What we
need are home designs and government incentives that create homes that not only
supply their own electric needs but can also place excess electric out onto the
power grid.
What if:
It costs Homes
$10,000 to install systems for supplying their own electrical needs and
A owner could
generate electric for 10 homes for $100,000 and if
A person could
generate electric for 100 homes for $500,000
The average home
electric bill was $100
The person
producing electric for 10 homes would make $1,000 per month
The person producing
electric for 100 homes would make $10,000 per month
Millions of people would elect to get an SBA loan or other
business loan to create a small business to generate electric from solar, wind,
water or other
form of clean renewable electric. The idea would act as a motivator for corporations to do more
research and development in the energy sector.
The country would have exportable technology that would help the entire
world.
It would help the
Interesting Links:
Renewable Energy Policy Project
Wind Energy For Electric Power
We need you to
push manufacturers and dealers to send in their product information so we can
present it here!
We are also seeking
a non-profit as our sponsor so that we can seek foundation and public funding
together.
We hope you enjoy
this issue and welcome your comments and suggestions.
Future Section(s)
Energy Patents – Latest Energy Ideas
Safety – How to stay safe around electric
AGAIN:
The difference with our group is that we are promoting and encouraging energy independence using clean renewable sources and promoting jobs and incentives for the creation of Energy Farms. We will also cover becoming independent and how best to run it as a small business thus it is not just to support your personal energy needs but for an income-producing career.
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We are promoting companies to send in their best designs for a small Energy Farm in the $200,000 to $500,000 range. If we can put together a site that generates a good income and a sustainable career for people we can replicate it across the country and create jobs for thousands of people. As part of the effort we will cover various products, home design and independent living ideas. Feel free to send your ideas to mailto:editor@energyfarms.org
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I also included the contents from previous issues and a link to it on the web
This newsletter promotes energy independence, independent living and environmental stewardship.
Some near terms growth plans.
Note: Stop the telemarketing calls and spend more time on the web doing
RE work, go to www.donotcall.gov
the online registry site and stop those marketing calls during supper!
To keep the Newsletter short we try to provide links to most
items, just double click and you should be taken to the item. Please send this Newsletter to others!
Prior to sending out the Newsletter all links are checked BUT since they are on other sites there is no assurance that they will work nor will they work in the future!
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