Category: Archive
Archived material from historical editions of The Generator
admin /19 January, 2006
Some analysts warn that oil prices could soon go past the all-time
inflation-adjusted record of $US70.85, set on 30 August after Hurricane
Katrina. Rising oil prices quickly translate into higher petrol prices.
Philip Flynn, a vice president and energy trader for Alaron Trading
Corp in Chicago expects the mix of political events to produce record
oil prices again this year, according to The Courier Mail (19/1/2006, p. 23).
admin /18 January, 2006
Computer manufacturers have three opportunities to earn their environmental stripes: during a machine’s manufacture, use, and disposal. From what I’ve read, the worst environmental legacy of computers will be toxic waste, rather than energy consumption. (Not to sneer at energy consumption issues, natch.) What we want to be able to start looking for in our Continue Reading →
admin /18 January, 2006
At the website http://www.cheniere.org,
we can read in copious detail about Tom Bearden’s Motionless
Electromagnetic Generator. This wonderful device, a package 10
centimetres long that promises to deliver 2.5 kilowatts of free energy
harvested from the quantum vacuum, must be real: it is the subject of
US patent 6362718.
What’s the holdup?: To our untutored eye, it looks like a
perfectly normal electrical transformer with a permanent magnet at its
centre. So what’s holding up the cornucopia of free energy? The lack of
$12 Million in development money, apparently, and the insistence of
potential funders on engaging conventional electrical engineers -who
everyone knows are blinkered. These engineers just don’t understand how
the “giant negentropy mechanism continuously replenishes the
A-potential as fast as energy is extracted from it”.
admin /18 January, 2006
According to CSIRO’s Chief of Energy Technology, Dr David Brockway, one
of the key initiatives being developed by CSIRO’s Division of Energy
Technology, known as Post Combustion Capture (PCC), could reduce carbon
dioxide (CO2) emissions by more than 85 per cent from existing coal and
gas-fired power stations when coupled with carbon storage.
How it works: PCC works by capturing greenhouse emissions after
the fuel is burnt in a power station. It can be retro-fitted to
existing power plants, integrated into new power stations and used in
conjunction with renewable systems such as solar power to minimise
efficiency losses from power stations.
admin /18 January, 2006
Sydney Water warned the State Government that a desalination plant was not a viable option to secure Sydney’s supply, reported The Daily Telegraph (16 January 2006 p1).
Desalination plays second fiddle to cheaper, more efficient alternatives:
The rejection of desalination by the government’s own water authority
was delivered in a letter from Greg Robinson to then Environment
Minister Frank Sartor. The letter ruled out desalination over other
cheaper and more efficient options available to the government.
Proof positive of expert point of view on desal: It is proof of
official advice to the government from its own experts that it would be
unwise to proceed. The memo warned it was feasible from neither a
financial nor environmental perspective.
admin /18 January, 2006
A victory for the whales Greenpeaace Argentine Ocean Defenders have hit Nissui in their pockets. Nissui own about one third of Kyodo Senpaku — the people who run the Japanese whaling fleet. Our cyberactivists have convinced a major Nissui client in Argentina not to buy from a corporation involved in the killing of whales. Read Continue Reading →
