PEAK OIL HAS PASSED - WHAT NOW?

We have now passed Peak Oil which began back in 1979 (some disagree with this date but all concede we have past peak oil) the decline is unavoidable. Few can conceive of what lies ahead. Complacency reigns. By far the great majority of people, including those at the very top in all strata of society, including governments, industry and the media, will be caught unawares.

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These times they are a changing…

Market research shows that a majority of people are growing very concerned by major changes all happening simultaneously:

Worst financial crisis and recession since the Great Depression without yet any clear prospect of sustained and sustainable recovery.
Oil peaking, with a number of energy market monitoring organisations acknowledging the danger that supplies may fail meeting demand within 3 years.
Net energy from oil and natural gas declining fast – expected to be close to zero within 10 years, 15 at most. Net energy from all fossil fuels expected to be close to nil before 2030.
Climate Change accelerating with prospects of substantial increases in extreme weather and the growing recognition that beyond Climate Change it is the entire ecology of the Earth that is now under threat. A fast increasing number of scientists are adamant that there are only about 10 years left to act in order to avoid the worst.
100-year plus drought and acute water shortages in Australia and many other countries – heavy-handed restrictions and severe costs of new water sources (e.g. sea water desalination).
Power supply brownouts and blackouts increasing in frequency.
Still no decent widely affordable broadband communications in spite of much political debate and massive tax paid subsidies.
Threat of endless political debates and inaction potentially leading to massive Government intervention with drastic and rather narrow-minded “cold baths by candlelight” conservation policies, including high carbon taxes, restrictions on car use, taking off the road cars that fail energy efficiency standards, substantial increases in fuel, electricity and communications prices, and the illusory trading of improvable carbon credits.
Threat of potentially wrecking economic growth. The above threats are daunting. Many would agree that they have begun to bite severely. In the face of a sense of powerlessness at business and individual levels, we seek to answer with our products and services the question we have heard so many times:

“How do we protect our hard-won livelihood and lifestyles?”
 

“Overcoming the intractable supply and pollution problems of fossil fuels while meeting growing energy demands will require the development of power sources that are abundant, renewable, and non-polluting.

Fortunately, these sources do exist, and some have even been used in limited forms for thousands of years. However, great breakthroughs in technology, efficiency, scalability, storage, and transport are necessary before alternative energy sources can begin to meaningfully replace fossil fuels.

Companies that solve these problems, and those individuals wise enough to have invested in them, will be richly rewarded.”   EuroPacific Capital Inc   - 

The companies mentioned above are taking a giant step to address these challenges!

From Inefficient Centralised Legacy Networks

Electricity is generated in large centralised facilities, then sent through transmission lines, this is the power grids - about 70% of all power generated is lost before it gets to the consumer.  There is evidence worldwide of more blackouts, the electricity supplies struggle to meet the ever increasing demands - coal, oil, nuclear and gas are all finite and have limited lifespan. The capital involved in infrastructure is enormous.

nGen Systems (Compressed Air, Power Generation Systems) - For Distributed Power Generation -  point-of-use power generators forming scalable Intelligent Power Networks  - IPN

The New Business Model has power being generated at point of use initially using compressed air and a small amount of gas, bio fuels or other alternative fuels, but eventually (3-5yrs) being fully solar augmented. With the clever use of the IndraNet Minder this can allow the generator to communicated with power grid in both times of high demand and excess generation. This is a  more cost effective way of getting cheaper power than is currently available.

Integrated with technology enabling re-use of waste heat, this translates into overall energy efficiencies of over 90% from primary source to end-use (instead of less than 20% and often less than 10% efficiency in current legacy systems).

This diagram illustrates how wireless mesh networks can self form and self heal. It one unit goes down it will redirect thus avoiding major disruption to the network.

Schematic - IndraNet FraMe
Wireless Mesh Network