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Managing director of Ebono Institute and major sponsor of The Generator, Geoff Ebbs, is running against Kevin Rudd in the seat of Griffith at the next Federal election. By the expression on their faces in this candid shot it looks like a pretty dull campaign. Read on

  • They are still not making sense
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    Dear NEVILLE,

    They’re still not seeing sense. Reports have surfaced that in the last 24 hours the Liberal Democrats Senator David Leyonhjelm is counting votes with yet another plan to destroy solar and the Renewable Energy Target*.

    These out of touch politicians are going to extraordinary lengths in their attempt to destroy solar, but we can go even further to keep our sunny future strong.

    That’s why Terry is travelling 1,298km from Buderim on Queensland’s Sunshine Coast to our nation’s capital to tell our politicians: “Don’t Block Out the Sun”.

    In a few days’ time Terry will be one of 20 Solar Citizens volunteers from all over Australia who are heading to Canberra to step up our campaign to protect the Target.

    They’ll be meeting with representatives in Parliament House on Monday December 1 – the first day of summer and the opening day of the final week that Parliament sits for the year. It’s a critical moment when we can show our MPs what real community support for solar looks like. Will you help them get there?

    Here’s why Terry wants to go to Canberra:

    My wife and I moved to the Sunshine Coast in 2007. We found our electricity bills going up each year with little hope of stabilising. In 2011 we invested in rooftop solar and we’ve been very happy with every electricity account since then. 

    I want to go to Canberra to ask our decision makers if they have a vision for the massive benefits of solar for the economy and the planet. My questions are simple: Do you want Australians to have clean cheap electricity? And what is your plan to move into the future of electricity generation? 

    With negotiations between the major parties over the future of the Target stalled, and an unstable Senate peppered with cross bench senators, thousands solar and renewable energy jobs are grinding to a halt. This is our chance to step into Parliament House and influence what happens next.

    But we need your help to pull this off. Solar Citizens is an independent community organisation relying on the generous donations and support of people like you who know that solar is the sensible solution for our country’s energy future. Will you donate $50 or whatever you can afford today to help Terry and the rest of our volunteer team get to Canberra to deliver their message on the first day of summer?

    While we’re in Canberra we’ll make sure we get the attention of politicians and media with an eye-catching display on the lawns of Parliament House. Beach towels, umbrellas and a giant bottle of “Abbott’s Sunblock” will be the flavour of the day, but the message couldn’t be more serious. Don’t destroy solar and renewables. 

    Your donation will go towards travel and accommodation costs for our team of solar advocates who are giving up their time to come and deliver this powerful message on behalf of millions of Aussie Solar Citizens all over the country. Chip in $50 or whatever you can afford to help us get Terry and other solar representatives to Canberra at this key moment before Parliament wraps up for the year.

    After they return from meeting our leaders at Parliament House, we’ll be sure to send you a full report back on everything that our fantastic team of Solar Citizens representatives achieves.

    Thanks so much for your support,

    Terry, Taegen and the Solar Citizens team

    P.S. While we’re in Canberra we’ll also be putting our team of 20 volunteers through their paces and training them up to become skilled community organisers in their states, so that together we can keep building an unstoppable Solar Citizens movement around the country. We know that investing in this training will help us protect the Renewable Energy Target and realise a strong solar future for Australia in 2015 and beyond. But the costs of getting the team to Canberra all add up, so please back us if you can by making your donation today.

  • US patent windmill 1000 time more efficient per cost/watt than other windmills

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    US patent windmill 1000 time more efficient per cost/watt than other windmills

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PvaL8eVvU60
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LNXTm7aHvWc

    http://www.patentauction.com/patent.php?nb=3576

    Industrial design windmill for Wind farms very low cost easy to assemble by unskilled workers.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2vvbmGa0XVY&feature=youtu.be

     

    My US patents 7780416 &  8702393 windmills the energy it generates is tens of times more than the present windmill for a windmill which costs tenth the cost of the present windmill.

    Therefore this windmill is hundreds of times more efficient than the present windmill per cost/power generated

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    The blinking sail windmill generates so much electricity due to its large size let’s say the 20 meters by 20 meters that the owner will get his money back in 142 days and that will never happen in any windmill even when they dream of one, the owner of the blinking sail windmill will get his money back in 142 days when he use it to generate electricity or make distilled water in desert countries or when making hydrogen from water to use it in cars instead of using petrol.

    My windmill has all these three properties it cost 10% only of the cost of the present windmill and this low cost BLINKING SAIL WINDMILL generates ten time more electricity than the present windmill therefore it is 10 x 10 = 100 times more efficient than the present windmill, in view of the cost. Besides that it has much less maintenance cost since the generator is not 170 meters above the ground like the present windmill because the blinking sail windmill generator is few meters above the ground .

    therefore no lightening can damage the generator of the blinking sail windmill

    .

    More energy is used to produce present wind turbine than it will ever generate

     

    Blinking sail windmill only uses 14.8 tons of steel. All of it can be packed in one single track and assembled by unskilled workers without the use of any crane. It cost %1 of the cost of the present windmill.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2vvbmGa0XVY&feature=youtu.be

     


    This windmill does not need a proto type to prove its magical capability since the sails which move boats and ships is the proto type for this invention.

    This windmill has one of the sales blocking the wind all the time. Therefore it generates power. While all the other sails letting the wind to pass through freely without any obstruction, so as if they do not exist. The result is one sail like in the ship generating power capable of moving a big electrical generator or a big water pump.

    The sail boats race which takes place every year where the boats travel around the world and all the power is supplied to these boats for this very long trip comes from a piece of cloth its price equivalent to some gallons of petrol. If changed to an engine boat it will need tons and tons of petrol to complete the journey around the world besides the spare parts and the initial high cost.

    When you watch these boats you can really see them moving at a high speed and cutting through the water with real force and big power and all of this is coming from a peace of cloth practically worth’s nothing.

    TP52 Quantum Racing on the edge downwind in big breeze

     

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mYKTXsRLY9Y

    my solo transatlantic trip 2012

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5zjZH-0oZmA

      


    If we make the electrical generator of the Blinking Sail Windmill having multi coil so when the wind is week only one coil activated then when the wind gets faster the second coil is activated so we get more electrical power and if the wind gets stronger the third coil activated and so on.

    when the wind gets much stronger the spiral spring of the horizontal bars starts to act so the horizontal bars start to swing to the other side, so even the active sail ( the sail which is blocking the wind) starts to let some of the wind to pass through the active sail so the wind do not damage the sail and as the wind gets stronger the gap gets bigger, therefore  all the time the Blinking Sail Windmill is safe and generates electricity at the strongest winds besides generating electricity at the weakest wind near to stand still speed.

    Jasim Al-azzawi

    brysam2@yahoo.co.uk

    Giant manufacturers have to scrap all their factories & make new once. Therefore they don’t 
    want this breakthrough Blinking sail windmill.

    Plus it will cancel all their contracts for new wind farms which they have now they will lose billions

     

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uJBFAAJXH4c

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Chtr76jJyA

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rkGXoE3RFZ8

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZbMO7ufATBc

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LNXTm7aHvWc

     

    This new windmill can be made by any one it is so simple design. And can be assembled by any one with no cranes at all

     It’s rare to see that clearly how much concrete there’s in an offshore wind turbine, this is just for 30MW

    And it can be assembled in very short time by very unskilled people. see this vidio..

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2vvbmGa0XVY&feature=youtu.be

    The video above shows step by step how it is made and assembled that is the 20×20 meter windmill

    It can be assembled by any unskilled people it is so cheep so efficient so easy for maintenance.

    The solution to energy problem of this planet is this breakthrough windmill

    Which is 1000 times more efficient than present windmills in view of cost to the energy production

    Where with this Blinking sail windmill if we build offshore huge windmills with a cost of one billion dollars

    They will give us power equivalent to one trillion dollars windmills of the types used to day.

    It may sound unbelievable but the calculations prove it without any doubt.

    Send me an email I will send you the calculations which proves that.

     No one can argue with calculations because math’s is a constant thing no one can proves it wrong no one at all.

    brysam2@yahoo.co.uk

    US patent 7780416 blinking sail windmill fast wind 

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PvaL8eVvU60

    US patent 7780416 blinking sail windmill gentle wind 

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_HM5CcUvD98

    Blinking sail windmill

    Patent Number: 7780416

    http://patft1.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PALL&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsrchnum.htm&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=7780416.PN.&OS=PN/7780416&RS=PN/7780416

    Blinking sail windmill with safety control

    Patent Number: 8702393

    http://patft1.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PALL&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsrchnum.htm&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=8702393.PN.&OS=PN/8702393&RS=PN/8702393

    http://pdfaiw.uspto.gov/.aiw?docid=20120045333&SectionNum=1&IDKey=0A8AF2F09E2F&HomeUrl=http://appft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1%2526Sect2=HITOFF%2526d=PG01%2526p=1%2526u=/netahtml/PTO/srchnum.html%2526r=1%2526f=G%2526l=50%2526s1=20120045333.PGNR.%2526OS=DN/20120045333%2526RS=DN/20120045333

    Blinking sail windmill, BSW

    The rotational surface area for a BSW which has frames 20 meters by 20 meters is:

    40m x 20m = 800 square meters

    Since only one frame is active therefore:

    We have %50 of the surface area is generation power which is:

    800 x %50 = 400 square meters.

    .

    Three blades windmill

    The blade length is 20 meters therefore it rotates in a circle its radius is 20 meters.

    Surface area for this windmill is:

    2Πr2

    2 x 3.141 x 20 x 20 = 2513 square meters

    The blade width is one meter therefore its surface area is:

    1 x 20 = 20 square meters

    We have three blades therefore their total surface area which is responsible for generating the power is:

    20 x 3 = 60 square meters

    So the Three blades windmill has surface area of 2513 square meters of which only 60 square meters are active.

    Therefore the efficiency of this windmill in surface area wise is:

    60/2513 x 100 = %2.388

    .

    If the blade is 2 meters wide the three blades surface area will be:

    2 x 60 = 120

    Therefore the efficiency of this windmill in surface area wise will be:

    120/2513 x 100 = %4.78

    Conclusion

    The blinking sail windmill efficiency in surface area wise is %50.

    The Three blades windmill efficiency in surface area wise is %2.388

    Therefore if we divide the efficiency of the blinking sail windmill by the efficiency of the Three blades windmill :

    %50 / %2.388 = 20.9

    Therefore the blinking sail windmill is more efficient than the Three blades windmill in active surface area wise by 20.9 times.

    If the Three blades windmill has blades 2 meters wide then:

    The blinking sail windmill is more efficient than the Three blades windmill in active surface area wise by %50 / %4.78= 10.5 times.

     

    If we take cost and efficiency in consideration then the 20 x 20 meters Blinking sail windmill is more efficient than the 170 meter three blades windmill

     

    The blade length is 170 meters therefore it rotates in a circle its radius is 170 meters.

    Surface area for this windmill is:

    2Πr2

    2 x 3.141 x 170 x 170 = 181549.8 square meters

    The blade width is one meter therefore its surface area is:

    1 x 20 = 170 square meters

    We have three blades therefore their total surface area which is responsible for generating the power is:

    170 x 3 = 510 square meters

    So the Three blades windmill has surface area of 181549.8 square meters of which only 510 square meters are active.

    Therefore the efficiency of this windmill in surface area wise is:

    510 /181549.8 x 100 = %0.281

    The blinking sail windmill efficiency in surface area wise is %50.

    The Three blades windmill efficiency in surface area wise is %0.281

    Therefore if we divide the efficiency of the blinking sail windmill by the efficiency of the Three blades windmill :

    %50 / %0.281= 177.93

    Therefore the blinking sail windmill is more efficient than the three blades windmill in active surface area wise by 177.93 times per cost/ power generated.

     

    Industrial design windmill for Wind farms very low cost easy to assemble by unskilled workers.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2vvbmGa0XVY&feature=youtu.be

     

    Industrial-size Blinking Sail Windmill can easily be manufactured, packed, transported and quickly assembled at site by unskilled people in a very short period of time.

    This video step by step shall outline the manufacturing process of the Frame Unit, one of the key components of the Blinking Sail Windmill.

    Which consists from very simple parts which can be made by any small factory in any country, even the poorest country in the world.

    These parts are perforated steel flat bars, steel Angle, Mounted Bearings,

    Swinging Window, Sail, Sail Shaft, very small Spiral Springs, Vertical Post.

    The Sail can be made of two thin layers of plastic or synthetic materials,

    ratenge, sandwiching a mesh of fine steel wires, such as piano wires. The result is a tough, yet light sail that can easily be moved by a light breeze

    The Vertical Post made in 0ne or two meters parts then assembled on site. Where each of these parts is made to be assembled on site therefore it is easily manufactured, packed, transported and quickly assembled at site.

  • Colin Barnett’s shocking decision:

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    NEVILLE – There’s a new petition trending on Change.org, and we think you might be interested in signing it:

    Colin Barnett: Stop the closure of the homelands. State and Federal governments must fund services in remote Aboriginal communities.

    Sarah Jay
    Australia
    Sign Sarah’s petition
    Western Australian Premier Colin Barnett has announced the state will close 100 to 150 of the 274 remote communities in WA. He has stated that the WA government will not pick up the shortfall once Federal funding ends in July 2015.

    The Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara (APY) lands in South Australia are also under threat due to the withdrawal of federal funding.

    Communities in the Northern Territory have already been closed, having devastating consequences on those who have been removed from their lands.

    “We see this as the biggest threat to our people since the shocking events of the 1960s … we assert the right of people to live in and on their traditional country, for which they have ancient and deep responsibilities”

    “We assert the right of people to live in and on their traditional country, for which they have ancient and deep responsibilities. To be talking of relocating people off their traditional country does indeed take us back 50 years in a very ugly way.”  Fitzroy Valley traditional owners and native title holders.

    By raising their families on homelands, Aboriginal people are able to maintain their deep spiritual and economic connection to their land. They can raise their children within cultural context, away from the discrimination that often still exists in larger towns. With proper services like health, education, water and shelter, people can be healthier and live longer on homelands.

    Homelands are widely understood to have lower levels of social problems, such as domestic violence and substance abuse, than more populated communities. According to reports, the health of Indigenous people living on homelands is significantly better than of those living in larger communities. Homelands are also used effectively as part of substance abuse and other programmes for at-risk Aboriginal youth living in more populated or urban centres.” (UN Special Rapporteur on Indigenous Rights)

    STOP the closure of the Homelands. It is essential that federal and state governments provide these communities with the services they require.

    The funding of remote Aboriginal communities must not end.

    Aboriginal communities MUST be allowed to live on their land, and must be provided the same services that other Australian’s take for granted.

    “It’s smacks of the assimilation policies over the early 60s, it’s horrendous. This is a diabolical, in my view, highly racially motivated agenda.”

    Greens MLC Robin Chapple

     

     “How can it be that everyone in the state except Aboriginals get the funding, that’s where my anger is. It’s almost like an infrastructure apartheid system. He (Barnett) is moving into a very dangerous area. My argument is that if they are supplying services to communities of the same size of Aboriginal communities but they are not providing them to Aboriginal communities, I call that infrastructure apartheid. This has been going on for decades from state and territory governments and it has got to stop.’’

    Warren Mundine

     

    For more information on the Homelands: http://www.amnesty.org.au/indigenous-rights/comments/26411
    Sign Sarah’s petition

  • Renew Economy Daily Update

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    Daily update: Networks told they need to play fair with local energy, solar

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    Networks told they need to play fair with local energy, solar; RET under new threat as Lambie quits PUP; Tech guru says battery storage is disruptive; Peak coal in China already?; Wind energy tops new US power generation; Why did China/Australia FTA ignore environment?; Montreal Protocol nearly delivers a climate present n Paris; BHP’s short-lived climate cuddle; US utility giant commits to halve emissions; Wind energy app; Walmart’s dirty energy secret; and World’s first power-to-liquids production plant opened in Dresden.
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    The Parkinson Report
    Push by utilities to slash tariff for solar, and to increase fixed charges, is going to accelerate grid defection rather than stop it. New study recommends new tariffs that could encourage solar and storage by putting a proper value on their network benefits.
    The former Palmer United Party’s new turn as an Independent means the RET is even more likely to be sliced and diced, but not by Abbott’s Coalition.
    Australian battery maker RedFlow caps off a year of successful commercialisation and fund raising with appointment of top tech investor Simon Hackett.
    The share of coal in China’s electricity market has shrunk more than 6 per cent in a single year, and imports have shrunk dramatically.
    Report highlights rise of renewables – and demise of new coal – in US as wind power provides nearly 70% of new generating capacity in October.
    Of all the FTAs China has signed to date, Australia’s is the only one that does not have a dedicated section on the environment and its massive market opportunities.
    Tackling CO2 emissions is undoubtedly the main game in climate action, but urgently phasing out HFCs offers a contribution we cannot afford to pass up.
    The climate-friendly bonhomie of BHP Billiton’s Chairman, Jac Nasser, didn’t last long into question time at the company’s AGM in Adelaide late last week.
    NRG Energy sets target of cutting its carbon emissions 50 percent by 2030 and 90 percent by 2050.
    Francesco Paraggio has developed a wind farm locator app. It’s quite simple, but a lot of fun and actually has a few neat features.
    Walmart’s dirty energy secret Stacy Mitchell & Walter Wuthmann
    US retail giant committed to 100% renewable energy, but its slick greenwashing hides its massive coal consumption.
    A Power-to-Liquids demonstration rig which is the first of its kind in the world was officially inaugurated on 14 November by Dresden-based sunfire GmbH.

  • The John James Newsletter No 31

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    The John James Newsletter 31

    23 November 2014. 

    “Happy Talk” About the Climate

    The non-binding deal which the US and China just signed will still allow the Earth’s atmospheric carbon dioxide concentration to rise to 500ppm by the end of the century, far past the current concentration of 400ppm. This deal does nothing to forestall a complete, total, unmitigated disaster that is likely to spell the end of agriculture, urbanized civilization, and may doom humans, along with most other large vertebrate species, to extinction.

    http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article40273.htm

    There’s growing evidence that global warming is driving crazy winters

    Watch the video – most interesting.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_nzwJg4Ebzo#t=34

    Ocean Dead Zones Are Getting Worse Due to Climate Change

    Researchers have known that low-oxygen, or hypoxic, areas have doubled every 10 years since the 1960s, largely due to increases in nutrient-filled runoff. But warming and other aspects of climate change will worsen the ability of the oceans to feed a growing planet. The map shows the existing dead zones.

    http://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/ocean-dead-zones-are-getting-worse-globally-due-climate-change-180953282/?no-ist

    Two successes for AVAAZ and for the rest of us

    After a nerve-wracking battle culminating in the delivery of the AVAAZ 1.1 million-strong petition, and hundreds of thousands of emails and calls to key MEPs, the EU Parliament voted for strong Net Neutrality rules. This stops a two-tiered Internet and ensures that all data traffic is treated equally.

    http://www.avaaz.org/en/internet_apocalypse_loc/

    President Obama has created the world’s largest marine reserve in the Pacific Ocean though he has been under enormous pressure from a powerful fishing lobby to water down the plan.

    https://secure.avaaz.org/en/ocean_of_hope_loc/

    Dependence On Government handouts Is Out Of Control In America

    In 1968, there were 51 full-time workers for every American on disability.  Today, there are just 13 full-time workers for every one on disability. This whole piece is well worth reading!

    http://endoftheamericandream.com/archives/21-facts-that-prove-that-dependence-on-the-government-is-out-of-control-in-america

    The Insatiable God 

    For the first time in 170 years, the UK parliament will debate the creation of money. Few people know that 97% of our money supply is created not by the government (or the central bank), but by commercial banks throughthe loans they issue. At no point was a democratic decision made to allow banks to do this. So why do we let it happen? This,is the source of much of the instability of our economies.

    http://www.monbiot.com/2014/11/18/the-insatiable-god/

    What happened to 20.8 tons of gold?

    In an interview on Ukraine TV, the head of the Ukraine Central Bank made the stunning admission that “in the vaults of the central bank there is almost no gold left.”. There was  a strange incident that took place just after the Ukraine presidential coup when “in a mysterious operation under the cover of night, Ukraine’s gold reserves were loaded onboard an unmarked plane, which took the gold to the US.”

    http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-11-18/ukraine-admits-its-gold-gone

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  • We are heading towards 2014 being hottest on instrumental record. CLIMATE CODE RED

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    We are heading towards 2014 being hottest on instrumental record

    Posted: 20 Nov 2014 01:35 PM PST

    We are heading towards 2014 being hottest on instrumental record, according to data from the leading US government climate agency for the first ten months of the year.

    According to data and charts released by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association through its National Climate Data Center, the first 10 months of this year are the warmest on the instrumental record, and it is projected to be the warmest year on the instrumental record based on five scenarios for November and December.

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    The NOAA explains that: “The graphic above compare the year-to-date temperature anomalies for 2014 (black line) to what were ultimately the five warmest years on record: 2010, 2005, 1998, 2003, and 2013. Each month along each trace represents the year-to-date average temperature. In other words, the January value is the January average temperature, the February value is the average of both January and February, and so on.” At the end of October, 2014 (black line) was the hottest for the first ten months of the year.

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    This second graphic zooms to what were ultimately the five warmest years on record, and shows several end-of-year results based on five scenarios. The anomalies themselves represent departures from the twentieth century average temperature. All five scenarios have 2014 being the hottest on the instrumental record

    These include:

    • Blue dotted line: Each month matches the average of its ten warmest values. Of the last 12 months, only February 2014 has not been at least this warm.
    • Green dotted line: Each month matches its tenth warmest value on record. Of the last 12 months, only February 2014 has not been at least this warm

    The NOAA notes that: “The years 2013 and 2014 are the only years on this list not to begin during a mature El Niño event. The years 1998 and 2010, each of which became the warmest year on record at the time, ended the year in a strong La Niña event, as evidenced by the relative fading of global average temperature later in the year.”

    By way of contrast, there are signs of an el Nino gathering strength, which would push up temperatures at year’s end.  The Australian Bureau of Meteorology this week raised its estimate of an El Nino occurring this summer to “at least 70 per cent” after temperatures in the tropical Pacific warmed further in the past fortnight, and warned that prospects of a hot and dry summer for much of Australia are increasing with “classic signs”.