New energy generator
I have an idea for a generator that runs off of itself.
It has a motor that turns a generator that can produce energy for the motor and extra to be used. I have researched this and seen that it is possible
I have an idea for a generator that runs off of itself.
It has a motor that turns a generator that can produce energy for the motor and extra to be used. I have researched this and seen that it is possible
I was recently stuck in a traffic jam heading into the Lincoln Tunnel, travelling eastbound from NJ to NYC. When I was stopped for more than a minute or two, I shut off my engine. When the traffic started to move again, I discovered that I did not have to turn my engine back on because the incline of the road, in the last mile leading to the tunnel, is steep enough so that when I simply let off my brakes, my car began ...more »
I was recently stuck in a traffic jam heading into the Lincoln Tunnel, travelling eastbound from NJ to NYC. When I was stopped for more than a minute or two, I shut off my engine. When the traffic started to move again, I discovered that I did not have to turn my engine back on because the incline of the road, in the last mile leading to the tunnel, is steep enough so that when I simply let off my brakes, my car began to move on its own. And, from a full stop, it accelerated quickly enough (and traffic was moving slowly enough) that I was able to keep up with the car in front of me (and even the notoriously impatient NYC-area drivers behind me did not honk at me). I continued this way, through stop-and-go traffic, for about 30 minutes, until I arrived at the toll gate. So, instead of moving slowly with my engine on, unnecessarily burning gasoline for half an hour, I was able to glide down the incline with my engine off.
It occurred to me that a significant amount of gasoline could be saved every day if, during rush hour, a lane were dedicated to drivers using this method. A quick search on the internet tells me that 120,000 cars use the Lincoln Tunnel every day. I suspect that the majority of these approach the tunnel during rush hour. If, for example, 10,000 drivers were to voluntarily use this designated lane and “glide” the last mile to the entrance with their engines off, this would save 1,200 gallons of gas. (This assumes a 30 minute delay, with the average car using one-eighth of a gallon of gas when idling for 30 minutes. I do not have real figures on the average delay at the tunnel but I often hear of delays of this length, or more, on the morning traffic report).
I also do not have any figures on the regularity of the time-of-day when these traffic jams occur. But whether they usually occur between 7 AM and 8 AM, for example, or if they occur more randomly or at other times, a sensor could be used to determine the speed of traffic. If the average speed is, for example, under five miles per hour, the sensor could light a sign above the start of the designated lane that would indicate that it is reserved for drivers using this gas-saving measure. (During other times, the lane would be available to all drivers).
There are two or three drawbacks with this concept but I believe they could be overcome. First, a car loses its power brakes when the engine is off. I had to exert a significant amount of force on the brake pedal to stop. But I was able to stop safely since I was moving so slowly, which would usually be the case when the traffic sensor activates the program. (In the event that traffic were to suddenly ease up after cars had entered this lane with the program in active mode, a speed limit of 10 mph could be in place to mitigate the braking issue. At a steady 10 mph, one would arrive at the entrance in no more than five minutes).
Also, a car loses its power steering when the engine is off. But this has a negligible effect at slow speeds. And there are gradual turns only when leading up to the tunnel entrance.
Finally, cars lose other electrical features when the engine is off, such as air conditioning and heating. So this may not be feasible in really hot or cold weather.
Even if this concept were to entail some inconvenience for drivers and even if it could not be used in inclement weather, I believe that a savings of several hundred gallons of gasoline (or more) a day, along with the resulting savings in pollution and greenhouse gases, would make it well worth the small sacrifices.
If you’ve read this far and you don’t think this is a crackpot idea, I have an extension of the concept: This could be used at other locations where drivers have to wait for significant amounts of time (if the entrance or exit is on a steep enough incline), such as drive-thru windows or parking lots. Further, perhaps future bridges, tunnels, parking lots, etc., could be engineered with such an incline at the entrance or exit, so that this concept could be put in place. Basically, this concept takes advantage of the cleanest and most readily-available energy resource on the planet: gravity.
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Create a game (for all ages) where you compete to use as few resources as possible, and enlist some popular recognizable faces to help promote it. A few opportunities for a younger person to experience actively reducing resource use will get them thinking and creating on their own. At our house, we play "living at sea on a sailboat", so we think of how much water and electricity we use, and how to make healthy dried food ...more »
Create a game (for all ages) where you compete to use as few resources as possible, and enlist some popular recognizable faces to help promote it. A few opportunities for a younger person to experience actively reducing resource use will get them thinking and creating on their own. At our house, we play "living at sea on a sailboat", so we think of how much water and electricity we use, and how to make healthy dried food meals, primarily vegan. There are many variants on this, play for a few hours to a day.
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Have an X style contest that offers patent support, purchase contract grants and cash rewards (say twelve, one million dollar prize/grants). The Winners design the most energy affordable, scalable, device/array system or bio-filter that removes carbon and, secondarily, particulate pollution from urban atmosphere areas. Criteria: -Least grid sourced electricity used -Least Water used. -Least expensive material construction ...more »
Have an X style contest that offers patent support, purchase contract grants and cash rewards (say twelve, one million dollar prize/grants). The Winners design the most energy affordable, scalable, device/array system or bio-filter that removes carbon and, secondarily, particulate pollution from urban atmosphere areas.
Criteria:
-Least grid sourced electricity used
-Least Water used.
-Least expensive material construction cost.
-Least maintenance required per month of constant operation.
-Easiest to install in a variety of locations/ climates.
-Does not contribute any net harm or pollution to water and air.
-Fastest to completion of ten functioning units.
-Largest volume per unit of carbon/particulates captured.
-Pollutants to be cache-able on site or with no net transportation cost of new pollution.
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Provide awareness to consumers who buy homes in cleared land that is not in proximity to established infrastructure. Building roads to desolate areas is so detrimental to our planet in so many ways. It's so prevalent in Central Florida where developers rule.
These take forever to degrade - like almost never. What if we had enclosed areas on the ocean where they are floating on the water - in a net so that ocean life and birds can't eat them, but they reflect back the heat that the ocean normally absorbs. We could put these on land as well. As long as they are contained by a net, they will help reduce climate change. Even a little helps when everyone's ideas are adopted.
Right now - most trashcan sized liners and leaf bags are black. They should be white so they reflect the sun's heat back off the planet. I'm thinking of hundreds of thousands of these bags at the dumpsites - all black and all absorbing heat into the earth because black absorbs more heat. If they were all white, they would contribute a little to the reduction of global warming.
Improve the economy with practical changes. Read this and demand your leaders to investigate it! Global Mining and Manufacturer’s Corporate Agendas Understanding the current base and precious metal mining industry is something that many people think they know. Mining is conducted in underground and surface mines, what more is there to know. Understanding there are two types of mining, would it be ‘historically’ plausible ...more »
Improve the economy with practical changes. Read this and demand your leaders to investigate it!
Global Mining and Manufacturer’s Corporate Agendas
Understanding the current base and precious metal mining industry is something that many people think they know. Mining is conducted in underground and surface mines, what more is there to know.
Understanding there are two types of mining, would it be ‘historically’ plausible to think that global mining machinery manufacturers could restrict underground mining in order to increase the number of high sales value surface mining operations worldwide?
It is a serious thought to think, considering that there are only really three dominating underground base and precious metal mining machinery manufacturers globally.
My name is Brendon Butler and I have spent over seven years researching this very topic. It has seen me into jobs and self-funded research that has allowed me access to all relevant areas of research. I have spoken with regional manufacturer managers, mining contractor general managers, mine managers, project managers, many internationally experienced underground mining operators, manufacturer distributers, etc. In all of the interactions undertaken, not one person has said or implied that this topic is indeed incorrect. Many have said it does hold merit.
If many industry members each understand that, there are fundamental inefficiencies in the mining industry. Then how has the underground mining industry still been allowed to be restricted, and who may have supported it? Legitimate questions to be asked and answered.
The complexities of this topic need to be understood in a global scale. If you restrict underground mining (where most high value ore is located) then you essentially lock that supply away. This in turn increases the value of the metals globally (over many decades) thus increasing the number of surface mining operations using large efficient mining equipment.
High commodity prices would benefit the manufacturers that make the underground mining equipment, the surface mining equipment and the exploration mining equipment. However, because this may have been slowly played out over many decades, it will have also increased the margins made by mining companies on the value of metals sold.
It is an extraordinarily powerful concept that could only be proved by calling the practice out or getting the protagonists to prove it is not true.
This task is now upon us all. A publication containing years of research on how to prove, call out, fix, and improve mining is now available in the following link: http://www.scribd.com/doc/109637671/Interference-Anomalies
Understanding the effect on the global economy, considering the influence commodity prices have on global growth. Is it advisable that all who read this article read the new publication and demand your economic leaders to respond, considering the current economic conditions?
Written by, Brendon Butler.
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Hello My name is Dean Carroll.I am a normal workimg 24 year old living in Australia. I care for the environment and worry about global warming.I believe people especially young people are not educated enough on these major issues facing humanity.I recently watched two very good documentaries called Surviving Progress and the 11th Hour.These programs are show on TV but not enough.Al Gore also has a good documentary ...more »
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My name is Dean Carroll.I am a normal workimg 24 year old living in Australia.
I care for the environment and worry about global warming.I believe people especially young people are not educated enough on these major issues facing humanity.I recently watched two very good documentaries called Surviving Progress and the 11th Hour.These programs are show on TV but not enough.Al Gore also has a good documentary called An Inconveniant Truth.These three documentaries and others like them should be subsidised by government so the can be aired on national TV stations more often so most people can watch them and get people talking about this very real issue.
Also a big step to changing attitude is to show these types of documentaries to the youth of society while they are in high school classes.It will promote recycling, encourage the reusing of items and objects.Hopefully curb and discourage the greedy capitalist and wasteful societies that we have become.This school program scheme is a very good way of raising awareness amongst the young masses.
Another simple advert or program that could be shown on TV or in schools is about turning off the tap as one brushes ones teeth,simply topic but one that wastes millions of water each year.
Thank you for your time and I hope as an influential department you can try put these schemes or similar into motion.
Dean Carroll
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Hello My name is Dean Carroll.I am a normal workimg 24 year old living in Australia. I care for the environment and worry about global warming.I believe people especially young people are not educated enough on these major issues facing humanity.I recently watched two very good documentaries called Surviving Progress and the 11th Hour.These programs are show on TV but not enough.Al Gore also has a good documentary ...more »
Hello
My name is Dean Carroll.I am a normal workimg 24 year old living in Australia.
I care for the environment and worry about global warming.I believe people especially young people are not educated enough on these major issues facing humanity.I recently watched two very good documentaries called Surviving Progress and the 11th Hour.These programs are show on TV but not enough.Al Gore also has a good documentary called An Inconveniant Truth.These three documentaries and others like them should be subsidised by government so the can be aired on national TV stations more often so most people can watch them and get people talking about this very real issue.
Also a big step to changing attitude is to show these types of documentaries to the youth of society while they are in high school classes.It will promote recycling, encourage the reusing of items and objects.Hopefully curb and discourage the greedy capitalist and wasteful societies that we have become.This school program scheme is a very good way of raising awareness amongst the young masses.
Another simple advert or program that could be shown on TV or in schools is about turning off the tap as one brushes ones teeth,simply topic but one that wastes millions of water each year.
Thank you for your time and I hope as an influential department you can try put these schemes or similar into motion.
Dean Carroll
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Humanity can aggressively address aquatic warming, simply by imposing much stricter regulations against continued aquatic thermal contamination. Taxes and tax incentives can be imposed. All weapons testing and other unnecessary thermal sources should be banned around the globe. All sea going vessels, nuclear reactors, city sewers, factories, industry, agriculture etc…on the open waters and along the shoreline should have ...more »
Humanity can aggressively address aquatic warming, simply by imposing much stricter regulations against continued aquatic thermal contamination. Taxes and tax incentives can be imposed. All weapons testing and other unnecessary thermal sources should be banned around the globe. All sea going vessels, nuclear reactors, city sewers, factories, industry, agriculture etc…on the open waters and along the shoreline should have their BTU contributions estimated and evaluated, as to their ability to reduce their various contributions. Other methods would then naturally have to be imposed to create compensation for that contribution that cannot be quickly removed. This would have to include the harvesting and or venting of natural thermal sources, such as; thermal vents, and stable volcanic fishers. This effort would also have to be supplemented with ocean based solar structures in regions, where the electricity can be utilized, and where the seas are always calm. The solar structures would absorb and convert the suns solar contribution, while shading the surface of the water creating cold-spotting, which would also promote the venting of the hotter surrounding surface waters. Elevated desert based solar farms would also greatly compliment this effort, by doing the same thing, except the shading under the structures could be used to grow crops, if water is available. This would create a reduced solar contribution in these locations. The larger the systems the more cooling we’ll get.
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In tropical regions where the waters are extremely hot, yet very calm. Elevated solar structures can create surface cold-spotting, thus venting, while also converting the suns solar contribution into valuable electricity. Also, desert based elevated solar electric structures also promote cooling, in a cost effective manner, while allowing the potential for crops to be grown in the shade of the structures. These are just ...more »
In tropical regions where the waters are extremely hot, yet very calm. Elevated solar structures can create surface cold-spotting, thus venting, while also converting the suns solar contribution into valuable electricity. Also, desert based elevated solar electric structures also promote cooling, in a cost effective manner, while allowing the potential for crops to be grown in the shade of the structures. These are just a couple of good ideas. Collecting and storing fresh water in oceans based ponds and lakes is also a viable idea to solve our fresh water problems, while also creating aquatic cooling, by using solar structures to power the pumps used to pump the water from pond to lake, and lake to shore.
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Because deforestation has greately contributed to atmospheric warming, humanity needs to insist that everyone involved in timber removal is properly taxed, to insure that reforestation and revegetation efforts are taking place. Also, all solar projects need to receive the best tax incentives and funding possible, because converting solar energy into electricity helps to cool the planet by reducing the solar thermal contribution ...more »
Because deforestation has greately contributed to atmospheric warming, humanity needs to insist that everyone involved in timber removal is properly taxed, to insure that reforestation and revegetation efforts are taking place. Also, all solar projects need to receive the best tax incentives and funding possible, because converting solar energy into electricity helps to cool the planet by reducing the solar thermal contribution to the degree of the surface area of the panels. And the greater the supply of available electricity, the cheaper it will become. Helping to reduce the overhead of our small businesses and workforce. Making them more competative.
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In our effort to address aquatic warming, humanity needs to tax, restrict, reduce, and redirect as much of the current source of aquatic thermal contamination. To help stop and reverse the effects of our human related aquatic thermal accumulation. Our thermal contribution has accumulated, because teh oceans have a predominant downwards direction of conduction. We need to seriously address this problem, just as aggressively ...more »
In our effort to address aquatic warming, humanity needs to tax, restrict, reduce, and redirect as much of the current source of aquatic thermal contamination. To help stop and reverse the effects of our human related aquatic thermal accumulation. Our thermal contribution has accumulated, because teh oceans have a predominant downwards direction of conduction. We need to seriously address this problem, just as aggressively as we're addressing the atmospheric CO2's.
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To help compensate for humanities massive aquatic thermal contribution that has accumulated. We should seriously consider a tax for every substantial identifiable aquatic thermal contributor, to fund the effort of either harvesting or venting off many of the natural sources of aquatic thermal contribution. Such as thermal vents and stabilized volcanic fishers. To help compensate for our human contribution. This can be ...more »
To help compensate for humanities massive aquatic thermal contribution that has accumulated. We should seriously consider a tax for every substantial identifiable aquatic thermal contributor, to fund the effort of either harvesting or venting off many of the natural sources of aquatic thermal contribution. Such as thermal vents and stabilized volcanic fishers. To help compensate for our human contribution. This can be done in a cost effective manner, simply by utilizing a large diameter anchored chimney style structure, placed above the thermal source. This would contain the thermal energy, allowing it to rise to the surface to be either vented on the surface, or to be harvested for human consumption, or power generation.
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I believe that ocean based fresh water collection and storage systems will become a reality, in the very near future. As will an ocean based waste management system for the shipping industry.
If elevated solar structures were placed in the deserts, then crops might be growable in the shade created by the structures, which could also hold the watering system. On a large scale this would create a cooling affect by converting the solar energy into electricity and by having the vegetation obsorb much of the remaining filtered light energy. This would be a very cost effective measure of compensation, for it's size. ...more »
If elevated solar structures were placed in the deserts, then crops might be growable in the shade created by the structures, which could also hold the watering system. On a large scale this would create a cooling affect by converting the solar energy into electricity and by having the vegetation obsorb much of the remaining filtered light energy. This would be a very cost effective measure of compensation, for it's size. We need thousands of square miles to become involved around the globe. With other types of systems to be build in stretegic locations on the oceans.
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To properly address "Global Warming" as quickly and aggressively as possible, and to do so in a cost effective manner. Humanity needs to start addressing "Aquatic Warming" just as aggressively as it has addressed CO2's, because it is at least as large a contributing factor that has even more potential to stabilize or moderate the climate. But before we can go any further and start implementing systems and measures, we ...more »
To properly address "Global Warming" as quickly and aggressively as possible, and to do so in a cost effective manner. Humanity needs to start addressing "Aquatic Warming" just as aggressively as it has addressed CO2's, because it is at least as large a contributing factor that has even more potential to stabilize or moderate the climate. But before we can go any further and start implementing systems and measures, we must insure that the extraction of oil from under the sea floor isn't potentially increasing the rate in which thermal energy is being transferred from the hotter planet surface into the colder waters. Because if this is happening, and we allow it to continue to escalate, nothing else that we do will matter. Up until now, the government simply has not required the oil industry to provide any such sensitive thermal data, needed to properly investigate this important matter. And if the oil industry is found to have created such a condition, then we must hold them accountable for the cost of compensating for the damage that has already been done.
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The reason that the planetary ice is melting ten times faster than the CO2 related predictions, is because the condition is actually being triggered by the neutralization of the normally predominant downwards direction of conduction within the planets colder regions. This is due to the aquatic thermal build-up created by mankinds massive thermal contribution into the oceans, which has accumulated due to the fact that ...more »
The reason that the planetary ice is melting ten times faster than the CO2 related predictions, is because the condition is actually being triggered by the neutralization of the normally predominant downwards direction of conduction within the planets colder regions. This is due to the aquatic thermal build-up created by mankinds massive thermal contribution into the oceans, which has accumulated due to the fact that 90% of the surface area has a downwards direction of conduction. This causes the oceans to hang onto our unnatural contribution, which is then added to the normal solar and planet related contribution. It is also feared that the extraction of oil from under the sea floor might also be increasing the considered normal rate in which thermal energy is being conducted from the hotter planet surface into the colder waters.
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It has been determined that "aquatic warming" is the key factor linked to the rapid decline of the planetary ice, and not just the atmospheric CO2 build-up. We cannot ignor this factor. The oceans are the greatest conductor of thermal energy on the planet. We must restore that which we've altered. We can do this in a cost effective manner by investing in projects that will create a return or substancial benefit. And there ...more »
It has been determined that "aquatic warming" is the key factor linked to the rapid decline of the planetary ice, and not just the atmospheric CO2 build-up. We cannot ignor this factor. The oceans are the greatest conductor of thermal energy on the planet. We must restore that which we've altered. We can do this in a cost effective manner by investing in projects that will create a return or substancial benefit. And there are many, but the investments are huge and new to investors. Thus they balk at the idea, because they have nothing to compare such to. This is why I've suggested the creation of an international funding agency to house the debt until many of these projects start to show a profit. Then investors will begin investing and paying down that debt, within that agency. This might be the only way to properly address the massive problem. And look at all of the long term jobs that it would create, while also reducing the world's dependancy on fossel fuels.
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Mitigation of Global Warming at this late date will be HUGELY expensive and need a three-prong approach:1 buy sustainable energy equipment and barter it with foo big to fail fossil fuel firms for fossil fuel reserves to be held underground for posterity, 2 Buy fossil fuel reserves, 3 carbon capture and storage
Carbon particulates up to three microns can be removed from flue gases. The process is to pass the polluted air through a duct where a solvent is sprayed across the flowing gas to lower than the saturation temperature at the pressure of the flue gas. Water can be used for most pollutans. Reactive fluids may be used to spray insoluble gases to precipitate the pollutants in the air. The suspended pollutants are dissoved ...more »
Carbon particulates up to three microns can be removed from flue gases. The process is to pass the polluted air through a duct where a solvent is sprayed across the flowing gas to lower than the saturation temperature at the pressure of the flue gas. Water can be used for most pollutans. Reactive fluids may be used to spray insoluble gases to precipitate the pollutants in the air. The suspended pollutants are dissoved into the spray as it is kept fluid at temperature lower than saturation. .
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Most neglected but of great potential are kenetic energies in rivers/stsreams, sea waves, and wind. Torque is amplified by multiple propellers in a common shaft to power gear pumps. Several gear pumps can be connected in series to increase water pressure to that required by a low head electrric generator. Several headers from sets of gear pumps can be accumulated into an accumulator with a relief valve. The system can ...more »
Most neglected but of great potential are kenetic energies in rivers/stsreams, sea waves, and wind. Torque is amplified by multiple propellers in a common shaft to power gear pumps. Several gear pumps can be connected in series to increase water pressure to that required by a low head electrric generator. Several headers from sets of gear pumps can be accumulated into an accumulator with a relief valve. The system can deliver a steady supply to an electric generator sized to util;ize available power of the stream section in a locality. Electricity can be stored in baterries for small communities. Wind power can accumulate gust energies by hydraulic feeder into its vertical vanes. The hydraulic fluid is feed by centrifugal force inducing flow from a reservoir through a syphon pipe.
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To have mist sprayers put up in arias were there is a hight population, so that it gradually spits mist during a dust storm, so that gradually the water particul adds wight to the dust particl causing it be heavy & drop to the ground...instead of the dust flying around right in to people's lungs
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