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A University of Arizona engineering team led by Roger Angel has designed a new type of solar concentrator that uses half the area of solar (PV) cells used by other optical devices and delivers a light output/concentration that is over 1000 times more concentrated before it even hits the cells.

This comes as a result of a broader goal to make solar energy cost competitive with fossil fuels (target = 1$/W) without the “need for government subsidization.” *

Solar concentrators — optical systems of lenses, reflectors, and photo-voltaics — have been developed before, but for Angel and his team, their innovation was the result of rethinking the entire concentrator concept. This new “energy telescope” focuses incident light, via reflectors, through a ball lens, which then emerges 400 times more concentrated; a second series of funnels then triples this concentration (reaching concentration levels up to 1200 times the “geometric concentration”).

Astronomy professor Angel, who directs the Mirror Lab at the UA Steward Observatory, has been at the forefront of a technological renaissance in telescopes and large optics. His explorations include concepts for imaging and searching for primitive life on Earthlike planets and ways to cool the Earth with myriads of sunshades deployed in space. Most recently, he has developed a prototype of a photovoltaic system with the potential of revolutionizing solar power generation in a way that dramatically increases efficiency and lowers cost.

For the latest news on the REhnu website, the company Mr. Angel formed to get this idea to market click here:
http://www.rehnu.com/news

Grow 20 Square Feet of Vegetables in 4 Sq Ft of Space with the Phytopod Container Garden

Aeroponic Systems uses NASA aeroponics to grow food

A monk went to his master and said, “Master, it feels as if there are two dogs fighting in my heart. One is for all that is good in me. The other is for all that is evil. Master, tell me which dog will win?” The Master answered, “The dog that you feed.”

Love is the Way

The Way is the eternal substrate of the Cosmos. Also known as the Will of God, the muse, the Holy Spirit, reverse-entropy, Divine Order, implicate order - Grace. Wayseers are the ones who are most naturally open to receiving guidance from the Way. Due to their lack of neurological repression, Wayseer minds are exposed to the unconscious and the super-conscious through which they become sensitive to the Way. Recent fMRI brain scan studies reveal that Wayseers regularly have essentially the same bain scan patterns that most people only achieve when they are “falling in love”. Wayseers must continually tune in to love in order to express their full brilliance and overcome the traumatic effects of disociation associated with being a Wayseer in this day and age.

wayseermanifesto.com

Watch this with love and awareness to discern the truth for you at this time on the earth.
Interesting to say the least.

Birke Baehr -”what’s Wrong With Our Food System? And How Can We Make A Difference?”

www.tedxnextgenerationasheville.com/

One city in France was wide-awake early in the trend of going green. Located on the country’s west coast, La Rochelle now has an eco-transport system to be proud of.

La Rochelle in western France isn’t just a beauty spot, it’s a city whose green credentials leave others green with envy.

What’s become the city’s grand project all began in 1976 with hire bikes, an idea many other cities are only now beginning to adopt themselves.

These pick-up-and-drop-off bicycles are available all over town.

With a monthly subscription of 25 euros they’re free for the first half hour, then half a euro per hour.

Users simply swipe a card and off they pedal.

The swipe-and-hire system now includes electric cars.

Local resident Peggy Landon explains why she sold her car when she started using the system.

[Peggy Landon, Local Resident]:
”Well it’s obviously much, much cheaper. But I think also the other aspect that I really like is the sharing aspect of a car; everybody doesn’t need to have their own car.”

Next came electric boats … park and ride … and even deliveries.

To cut congestion goods are dropped outside the center and delivered by electric vans.

On top of keeping La Rochelle clean and green, local Vice President Denis Leroy is keen to transform the citizens as well as the city.

[Denis Leroy, Local Vice President]:
“The coming generation will not own their own car, it is less into cars than us, it is our generation that put the car everywhere. The car is a practical object so they use it for the time they need it and, seeing how much cars cost, they would rather spend their money elsewhere.”

The plan is to get people out of private cars, onto the streets and back into the community.

Peggy is certainly a convert.

[Peggy Landon, Local Resident]:
”To do something like this, to use these electric cars, what I feel is that it makes you want to do more for the environment. And to try and maybe explore other different possibilities where we can each do just one little thing to make a difference,” said Landon.

City authorities say this is more than just going green, it’s a philosophical vision.

La Rochelle is blazing a trail and those who are green with envy are keen to follow suit.

A very inspiring talk with real solutions from existing technology.

How can architects build a new world of sustainable beauty? By learning from nature. At TEDSalon in London, Michael Pawlyn describes three habits of nature that could transform architecture and society: radical resource efficiency, closed loops, and drawing energy from the sun.

A very nice presentation by Corning. But they did miss one very important use of glass in the not so distant furture…. SOLAR ROADWAYS!

1. Speaker: Indigenous Native American Prophecy, 0:00 - 1:22 Red Crow Westerman. 1:33 - 9:53 Oren Lyons

2. (Graphics “Planet Earth”) Award-winning BBC nature documentary series narrated by David Attenborough and produced by Alastair Fothergill

3. Soundtrack: From the movie Patch Adams. Contains Music by Various Artists, Marc Shaiman
Edited, synced and cut by: Anders Fredblad 4 december 2008 Sweden”

People are powerful and there is time to become the change you want to see in the world. Non-compliance will change the current global system.