Aaoy Interested Real Tech Of Infrastructure And How We

are any of you interested in the real technologies of infrastructure,
transportation especially, but also electrical energy?

and how we can make them both more environmentally sustainable, AND useful at the same time?

this to me, is what i find interesting, more so then anything to do with the ambient human soap opera.

that doesn't mean i worship existing technologies over people. i don't.

but i am absolutely fascinated that we can do things in a small clean manor, and get even more out of doing so.

there is rather a great deal we have thrown out with the bath water too,

the electric interurban railway and the narrow gauge, and small dams up in the mountains generating electrical power.

at one time it was possible, and we almost reached to point of doing so, to get all our electrical power from dams.

today we have advances in energy storage and solar power that would enable us to get as much or more then we will ever need that way.

i can of course, go on forever about the real reasons we aren't doing things this way, and how we are stabbing ourselves in the back by how we are.

but this is open so other people can say how they feel, and perhaps satisfy my own curiosity by doing so.

i've only repeated my usual spiel to fill the op space as required.

 

Hybridize Micro Concentrated Solar power, making Steam to spin a turbine / distill wastewater or desalinate,
2 birds one stone.

These are an option too, no need to block the waterways off for Hydropower
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p4scG3cuL7I

 

well, for starters advertisers could stop producing so much paper waste by sending out junk mail ...

 

But how would Sweden keep it's lights on?

http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2014/09/02/sweden-recycling_n_5738602.html


And speaking of waste conversion, this Guy keeps a good listing of all the various waste to energy / closed loop lifecycle efforts all over the globe

http://www.terutalk.com/

 

It's an interesting area of stuff. Getting more for less reminds me of Buckminster Fuller. And actually, I quite like many of his ideas.

We could perhaps replace a lot of existing tech and infrastructure with better and more sustainable options. Basically it's the vested interests of big corporations that ensure this isn't actually happening. Also I think many people are addicted to existing technologies, such as the internal combustion engine car, and the whole 'throw away' ethos of modern consumerism.

 

Their bread and butter seems to be VAWT turbines
http://www.greenenergy.li/performances%20hybrid.htm

But they're not the only folks working with the concept so hopefully we'll see more options on the shelf eventually
http://www.builditsolar.com/Projects/Hydro/FlowOfRiver/FlowOfRiver.htm

Not sure how much longer we'll be hardwiring grids together, WiFi is picking up popularity.

http://spectrum.ieee.org/energywise/green-tech/solar/japan-demoes-wireless-power-transmission-for-spacebased-solar-farms

 

The little company in which I bought some stock is attempting to commercialize their see through, electricity producing windows and they may just make it. It was NENE, but they changed their name recently, although NENE would probably get one there. (gonna' have to go off and check the new name.)

It's SOLAR WINDOW TECHNOLOGIES.

 

If I were in to buying stock, I'd probably have to grab some of theirs.
Still not vertical farming or making Biochar but they expressed some interest in the idea once their core system is fully refined and commercialized

http://www.algenol.com/

 

I received a letter from them yesterday----a very good letter.I believe in what they are doing, for sure.

 

Heres another floating turbine.

I can see some interesting variants of the platform for seaweed farmers

http://www.smart-hydro.de/en/product/turbine.html

http://greenwave.org/3d-ocean-farming/

 

In other news,

http://www.fastcoexist.com/3044037/forget-desert-solar-farms-we-can-get-more-than-enough-solar-energy-from-cities?utm_source=facebook