New interview with John “Plasma Boy” Wayland.

An unassuming electric car that can not be beat at the drag strip… leaving the oil sucking muscle cars in their own smoke.

In six parts: Jazz Composer and Performer Dr. Nelson Harrison explains the Metaphysics of Music. Music can be “a metaphysics based on the cooperation between what we know and what we don’t.” Dr. Harrison holds a Ph. D. in Clinical Psychology, and has toured as a trombonist with the Count Basie Orchestra. He also holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Zoology. Host is Pittsburgh Theosophical Society President Andy Nesky.

How do you regard silence?…

I would like to share a poignant story with you about how a people from a very small and humble village benefited from upgrading to solar power. And how the delays in getting their solar panels were met with patience, grace and wonder.

This story can give another perspective upon our own feelings about our delays in funding and launching of what I feel is the most important opportunity for the solar industry. And through our broader vision of the world, impact millions of lives.

This is “where the radiant light of the universe meets the inner light of wisdom, compassion and tolerance”.

The video is in two parts, so I put the second part first, just in case you don’t have time for both.

Part 2

Part 1

Less than one per cent of what the world spent every year on weapons was needed to put every child into school by the year 2000 and yet it didn’t happen.

85% of our world is without electricity. Nearly a billion people entered the 21st century unable to read a book or sign their names. And even if they had a book to study, they had no light to read by at night, or in their homes.

We are about to shift the world with our solutions!

In appreciation,
Bruce

honorearth.org …
“Our mission is to create awareness and support for Native environmental issues and to develop needed financial and political resources for the survival of sustainable Native communities. Honor the Earth develops these resources by using music, the arts, the media, and Indigenous wisdom to ask people to recognize our joint dependency on the Earth and be a voice for those not heard.”

This ingenious, simple and amazing invention uses, otherwise wasted, plastic bottles to cleverly harvest the sun light to illuminate windowless rooms in poor countries.

Well done!

Back in December we reported on RSi-Solar announces the world’s first, transparent, photovoltaic-glass window which generates 80 to 250 watts of electricity. Here

It was hard to top that exciting news but this new announcement shines new light into silicon wafer efficiency. At the GoGreen EXPO (Los Angeles)… RSi-Solar just unveiled the most powerful solar panel in the world. The DSO SUPER-PV™, a 60-cell, standard-size, mono-crystalline photovoltaic-module with a 350 watt-OUTPUT rating, an incredible 160 to 200% power-output over industry’s top 220 watt-peak modules.

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From (Business Wire) Rainbow Solar Inc. (RSI)
2009 Production capacity of 120 megawatts, at conventional Photovoltaic pricing. RSi believes this will become the standard for all future photovoltaic systems. RSi plans to license the SUPER-PV™ technology to PV and module companies globally.

DSO is working with LEED-AP and AIA professionals to realize ‘self-powered-buildings’ (SPB), by converting the entire building surface into an energy-collector, utilizing advanced technologies such as the PV-Glass-Window and SUPER-PV™.

DSO, the BIPV division of RSi, is dedicated to the realization of a gridless future, where power will be embedded into buildings and freely accessible, like air - wherever there is sunlight, there will be power.

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Full story

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(1.8.09 - Reuters) - President-elect Barack Obama on Thursday said an economic stimulus package should include building a new electricity “smart grid.

“Smart grid” describes a more efficient, cost-saving method of moving electricity along major long-distance transmission lines to local distribution power lines and disparate end-users in homes, businesses and schools.

The estimated cost of creating a nationwide “smart grid” by investor-owned utilities in the United States is $50 billion over 10 to 20 years, said Ed Legge, an analyst with the Edison Electric Institute, a power industry lobbyist. Adding federally and locally owned utilities, the full cost would be about $65 billion.

Smart grid advocates say utilities and customers will realize cost savings in the long run, despite the high roll-out costs.

In a smart grid, computers and sensors, installed at power plants, substations and along power lines, would signal control centers that would better manage the flow of electricity. For instance, computers would detect transmission bottlenecks and direct power around them.

Power outages are now monitored as customers call local utilities to report them. Smart grid computers would discover outages automatically.

“Smart meters” would be installed to replace conventional electricity meters. These would facilitate communication between utilities and their customers, letting them curb power use when demand peaks and prices are high.

Cutting demand during peak hours would reduce the need for capital spending on more power plants, substations and power lines. Proponents say it also will cut greenhouse gas emissions blamed for global warming.

The meters combined with smart appliances would make it possible to control and regulate appliances remotely.

Proponents say “smart” technology also will help renewable power sources like solar panels and solar power plants and wind farms integrate into the overall transmission system.

Conventional power grids have difficulty with the intermittent nature of solar and wind power.

Smart grid technology is in various forms of planning and implementation depending on the utility or state jurisdiction.

Investor-owned utilities account for about 70 percent of U.S. electricity use. Several utility companies have begun replacing conventional electricity meters with “smart meters” that receive signals from the grid and send signals back to grid operators.

After year-long study of smart grid technologies in the Pacific Northwest, U.S. officials and IBM estimated customers saved 10 percent on monthly power bills and cut power use by 15 percent.

If those figures could be realized nationwide, it could save between $70 billion and $120 billion in spending on new power plants and transmission lines, the study found.
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<a href=”http://www.reuters.com/article/politicsNews/idUSTRE50808B20090109″>Story link</a>

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The competition and fight for the strategic control of oil vs. the cooperative and independence inherent in renewable energy is an interesting comparison.

With this in mind… Anne Korin is a conservative worth listening too.  She is the Co-Director of the Institute for the Analysis of Global Security. She points out a few key questions that are missing from many discussions about climate change, oil, coal, nukes, drilling, etc.
-Does America have the time to wait for the market to provide to solutions for energy independence?
-Are there times when government should intervene, like cap and trade?
-Why are we fighting wars that we are supporting both sides of?

-What real solutions can we do right now?
–Here is part one of seven…

Click Here for the other parts on youtube…

And so…
-Will coal become less attractive because the Supreme Court has agreed CO2 is a pollutant and must be regulated by the EPA to mitigate climate change?  Cick Here

-Will government step in with Cap and Trade to give renewable more advantage over fossil fuels?
As Obama has mentioned. Click Here

-Or will new innovations come forward that are more competitive than fossil fuels?

Like this study from Ausra about how Solar thermal power could supply over 90 percent of US Grid Plus new electric vehile auto fleet.

Click Here

The answer… it’s the economy, it’s the economy, it’s the economy. Green baby, Green!

Most of the green sector is booming while the economy is faltering. Why is that?

Whatever the path the goal is the same… energy independence.

Time to work together toward a common goal that will benefit the next seven generations!

In-joy,

Bruce

From Physorg.com  11.3.08

Solar power game-changer: ‘Near perfect’ absorption of sunlight, from all angles

A new anti-reflective coating developed by researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute could help to overcome two major hurdles blocking the progress and wider use of solar power. The nanoengineered coating boosts the amount of sunlight captured by solar panels and allows those panels to absorb the entire spectrum of sunlight from any angle, regardless of the sun’s position in the sky. Credit: Rensselaer/Shawn Lin

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40-MPG, 450-Horsepower Hydrogen Scorpion Unveiled

Hydro Scorpion

A Texas startup has finally pulled the wraps off its 40-mpg, 450-horsepower Scorpion roadster, a hand-built hydrogen-burning “eco-exotic” that is sexier than Angelina Jolie and has the performance to provide more grins than nitrous oxide.
Ronn Motor Company unveiled the Scorpion today at the big SEMA, or Speciality Equipment Market Association, show in Las Vegas, which may be the perfect place to debut so flashy — and innovative — a car. The company hopes the Scorpion does for hydrogen what the Tesla Roadster has done for batteries.
“We want to build cool cars, just more responsibly”, company president Ronn Maxwell told Wired.com. “Our hope with the Scorpion is to implement a paradigm shift not only in how the industry looks at supercars but at cars in general.”

-Full article at Wired.com, written by Stuart Schwartzapfel