Jan 22
Solar Energy
posted by: admin in Energy on 01 22nd, 2012 | | 25 Comments »

Hank explains the power of solar energy and describes how it may fit into our diversified Energy future.

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Dec 22
Renewable Energy Specialists video.mov
posted by: admin in Renewable on 12 22nd, 2011 | | No Comments »

Film about renewable Energy training in UK & Europe run by not for profit company Embrace Cooperation Ltd, who’s headquarters are based in Brixton, London.

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Duration : 0:3:6

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Dec 20
Hiroko’s Weekend – Anti-nuclear rally
posted by: admin in Nuclear on 12 20th, 2011 | | 25 Comments »

Came across this anti-Nuclear protests near Yoyogi Park. It sounded sort of uplifting and happy but they are yelling “No more nuclear power! Stop the nuclear!”.

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Dec 1

http://www.PirateLifestyle.com Episode for the Pirate Lifestyle TV Show. We live without power company electricity with our Off Grid electrical system.

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Ahoy, I’m Capt Rob Lee and welcome to Pirate Lifestyle TV! Arrr

Today’s episode, too much important information for a quickie, is about you generating your own electricity.

I have always been interested in what most people like to call, “alternative living and alternative power.” Aye, we be livin’ on a frickin’ sailboat and we lived for 11 continuous months completely self-sufficient with our Off-Grid electrical system.

In an earlier video we discussed the basics of, why and how you go Off-Grid. I’ll make it a video response so you can watch it later.

This video will be more hands on.

In today’s crazy unpredictable world generating your own renewable electricity for your sailboat, motorhome, remote camp, and even your current home will make you independent of big power companies. No more worrying about price increases and power outages.

OK, let’s get to it.

A “Hybrid” system is a combination of solar, wind, and generator. The sun shines and the wind blows at different times of the day and year. Many times your needs might be greater than the solar and wind can produce. Systems that use several types of power generation have the advantages of each one.

Solar panels convert sunlight directly to electricity any time the sun is shining. The amount of electricity generated depends on how much of the sun’s Energy hits it. They produce electricity without noise or air pollution from a clean, renewable resource, the sun. Solar panels never run out of fuel.

Wind turbines convert the energy in wind into clean electricity. The wind spins the turbine’s blades which spins a generator producing the electricity. The amount of electricity generated depends on how hard the wind blows. Like solar, they produce electricity from a clean, renewable resource, and never run out of fuel.

Good deep cycle batteries are very important because they store the electricity your hybrid system generates for use at a later time. They are designed to provide a lower amount of power over a longer amount of time. We currently have a house bank of three group 29 batteries.

An inverter is needed to run standard household appliances. They convert DC battery current into 120 volt AC house current.

I strongly suggest you get a battery monitor. It is too easy to ignore your batteries and they are expensive to replace. With a specially designed battery monitor you can maintain your batteries and optimize their performance. These monitors include many features that can be displayed at the press of a button. Variables like voltage, amp usage, total amp hour’s, time to recharge, and more.

A small electric generator makes a great part-time source of electricity. There may be times when you need a larger amount of electricity than your hybrid system can supply. A generator makes up the difference when electrical demand exceeds the combined output of the solar panels, wind turbine, and the batteries. They of course convert some type of non-Renewable fuel into electricity.

Whatever your reason, with a little planning you can design and build an off grid electrical system. Yes, you can build a reliable pollution free system that will generate clean electricity for many years.

Remember that any idea whose time has come, was once an idea ahead of its time.

I hope you enjoyed this pirate lifestyle TV episode. Keep the great ideas coming, and please, share these videos with your friends.

Aye, livin’ the pirate lifestyle be about bein’ happy and self-sufficient.

With ye help, me goal be ta motivate and stimulate YE friends ta be livin’ the pirate lifestyle!

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Duration : 0:5:59

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Nov 13
Nuclear Graveyard: Fukushima lets journos in
posted by: admin in Nuclear on 11 13th, 2011 | | 25 Comments »

Japan has opened the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant to journalists for the first time since the disaster of last March. RT has obtained a video of the inside of the crippled complex. ­On Saturday, representatives of the Japanese and international media — more than 30 reporters, photographers and cameramen — were taken on a tour of the facility which was the site of the world’s worst nuclear disaster in 25 years. Despite TEPCO’s assurances that the radiation leaks pose much less danger now, the visitors had to wear a full set of protective gear during the tour. The Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear power plant, some 225 kilometers northeast of Tokyo, was severely damaged by the March 11th earthquake and tsunami, and spewed large amounts of radioactive materials onto the surrounding countryside, much of which remains off-limits. Since then, the authorities have struggled to contain the crisis, with pledges being given in the summer that it would be resolved by the end of this year. However the Japanese government has admitted that it will take up to 30 years to completely neutralize the radiation released from the reactors.

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Nov 11
New, Clear Energy: Russia’s Atomic Revolution
posted by: admin in Energy on 11 11th, 2011 | | 3 Comments »

With rising demand for energy, especially electricity, the world is in need of new resources. Fossil fuels produce harmful carbon emissions and green technology may never be able to provide a reliable source of Renewable Energy. Despite ongoing concerns about the safety of nuclear power, it’s likely going to play an increasingly large role in satisfying our needs. Several projects being developed in Russia will hopefully help make nuclear’s enlarged role as safe as possible. Fast neutron reactors look to be the future of the industry, while an advanced gas-cooled reactor design could have benefits beyond electricity generation. And Russia’s plans for a fleet of floating Nuclear power stations will bring electricity, heat and fresh water to isolated populations.

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Oct 30

http://www.ted.com What would happen if we could generate power from our windowpanes? In this moving talk, entrepreneur Justin Hall-Tipping shows the materials that could make that possible, and how questioning our notion of ‘normal’ can lead to extraordinary breakthroughs.

TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and performances from the TED Conference, where the world’s leading thinkers and doers give the talk of their lives in 18 minutes. Featured speakers have included Al Gore on climate change, Philippe Starck on design, Jill Bolte Taylor on observing her own stroke, Nicholas Negroponte on One Laptop per Child, Jane Goodall on chimpanzees, Bill Gates on malaria and mosquitoes, Pattie Maes on the “Sixth Sense” wearable tech, and “Lost” producer JJ Abrams on the allure of mystery. TED stands for Technology, Entertainment, Design, and TEDTalks cover these topics as well as science, business, development and the arts. Closed captions and translated subtitles in a variety of languages are now available on TED.com, at http://www.ted.com/translate.

Duration : 0:12:46

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Oct 18

http://www.naturalnews.com/ Forget about the 2012 Mayan calendar, comet Elenin or the Rapture. The real threat to human civilization is far more mundane, and it’s right in front of our noses. If Fukushima has taught us anything, it’s that just one runaway meltdown of fissionable nuclear material can have wide-ranging and potentially devastating consequences for life on Earth. To date, Fukushima has already released 168 times the total radiation released from the Hiroshima Nuclear bomb detonated in 1945, and the Fukushima catastrophe is now undeniably the worst nuclear disaster in the history of human civilization.

But what if human civilization faced a far greater threat than a single tsunami destroying a nuclear power facility? What if a global tidal wave could destroy the power generating capacities of all the world’s power plants, all at once?

Such a scenario is not merely possible, but factually inevitable. And the global tidal wave threatening all the nuclear power plants of the world isn’t made of water but solar emissions.

The sun, you see, is acting up again. NASA recently warned that solar activity is surging, with a peak expected to happen in 2013 that could generate enormous radiation levels that sweep across planet Earth. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has even issued an urgent warning about solar flares due to strike in 2012 and 2013. IBtimes wrote, “With solar activity expected to peak around 2013, the Sun is entering a particularly active time and big flares like the recent one will likely be common during the next few years. …A major flare in the mid-19th century blocked the nascent telegraph system, and some scientists believe that another such event is now

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Oct 8

DigInfo TV – http://diginfo.tv

1/9/2011

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Oct 4

this was part 1 we could not upload yesterday. where still real sick. looking for a place to crash to get well or any meds. like anti boitic

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