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There is a recent
Chatham House-Lloyds 360 Risk Insight White Paper written by
Antony Froggatt and Glada Lahn, June 2010 entitled
“Sustainable Energy Security: Strategic Risks and Opportunities
for Business” highlights the growing threats to security of
Energy Supply and the importance and urgency of developing
alternative energy solutions.
There is a
short video introductory interview of Antony Froggatt that
does summarise the white paper.
http://www.chathamhouse.org.uk/publications/papers/view/-/id/891/
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capable of meeting people’s energy needs more efficiently, more
sustainably and more cheaply than electricity generated from
fossil fuels. In the long run, it expects that its nGen Systems
will do for energy what the PC did for computing - put it where
it is needed, at the point of use.” |
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CHEAPER POWER
SOLUTIONS
Bill Gates believes the most important innovation
required to avoid climate change will be a way of producing electricity
that is cheaper than coal and that emits no greenhouse gases. "What
we're going to have to do at a global scale is create a new system... So
we need energy miracles,” Mr Gates says. “We now have that miracle Mr
Gates talks about and it’s a kiwi company that’s developed it. It’s an
exciting time for our company,” Dr Arnoux concludes. nGen Systems are
not engines, or mere cogeneration or tri-generation units. Instead they
are just that – systems. They are made of individual modules that can be
integrated on site in a variety of...
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'OFF THE BEATEN
TRACK' TECHNOLOGY
The world is plunging into an
energy crisis of unprecedented proportions compounded by ecological
degradation and climate change. These issues
are not just “An Inconvenient Truth” (Al Gore a few years ago now),
rather
“A Harsh and Dangerous Reality” (the emerging realisation).
IndraNet’s technology enables energy from varied
sources, primarily solar, to be extracted, stored and used cleanly and
sustainably at the point of use whether this is a home, office, boat,
bus, truck or car. It will deliver a part of what we need to
survive that energy crunch in the longer term.
IndraNet has created something that addresses many of
the energy problems of our times and overcomes important constraints.
This has been because it has NOT gone down the beaten
track.
The
beaten track is what got
the whole of humankind into trouble in the first place!
Since IndraNet’s inception, its mission has been to
come up with ways to deliver energy differently, safely and sustainably,
starting with the advanced communications that are foundation for what
is now known as “distributed generation”, in other words, many small
generators networked together rather than a few very large power
stations.
Like IBM and Apple with the PC two decades ago,
IndraNet started with a clean sheet and then designed and built a series
of breakthroughs that enable power, heat, light, cooling communications
and even recycled water to all be available at the point of use,
i.e. peoples’ houses or places of work, even on the transport they use.
It is about delivering a set of solutions humankind
now desperately needs and showing how IndraNet's “off the
beaten track” technology can
work to everyone’s benefit.
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Matt Simmons
Author
"Twilight in
the Desert"
Power Point
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THE REALITY OF 'PEAK OIL'...
WILL TAIL SPIN THE WORLD INTO CHAOS!
Energy expert Matt Simmons says that
the day Saudi Arabia hits its energy peak, that's the day the rest
of the world
will wake up to the reality of "Peak Oil"...
by tail spinning into chaos!
Saudi Arabia currently supplies about
73%
of all the worlds new oil.
No matter what anybody tells you — or
what you want to believe — we're not heading into
a "recovery." Rather, we're plunging headlong into what
could easily be the most vicious and unpredictable
financial cycle of the past 150 years!
Out of the 65 biggest oil-producing
countries, 54 have already slammed into the wall of peak
production. That's serious.
When Dr. Hubbert first revealed his "Peak
Oil" predictions, he explained that just before and
after the "peak," there would be short plateau of FLAT
oil production... followed by a steep collapse.
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Smart Grids, Micro Grids, Intelligent Power
Networks
- What is the
difference?
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Smart grids
refer essentially to the use of advanced forms of electricity
metering that enable better management of electricity use on site
(DSM - Demand Side Management), better pricing of power according to
time of the day and seasons, load levels on the grid, and better
management of existing grids.
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Microgrids
are modern, small-scale versions of the centralized
electricity system. With the reliability, carbon emission reduction,
diversification of energy sources, and cost reduction, established
by the community being served. Like the bulk power grid, smart microgrids generate, distribute, and regulate the flow of
electricity to consumers, but do so locally - examples of Galvin
Power Initiative smart microgrids
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Microgrids create grids of limited size.
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Intelligent Power
Network
are highly efficient and cost-effective point-of-use
energy systems
enabling the matching of grades of primary energy inputs and energy
use (such as electricity, hot water, process heat, air conditioning,
chilling and refrigeration), recycling of waste heat, recycling of
grey water, and energy storage, with extremely low capital,
operation and maintenance costs.
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IPN's create
new infrastructure and a new form of distributed intelligent power
networks.
This is a new approach to highly distributed computerised power management and distribution.
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| The Verdict on the BLOOM
BOX & the 60 Minutes Coup
 Is the Bloom Box Energy's Holy Grail?
No!
- The Bloom Box is a mini power plant based on fuel cell
technology.
- The main effect of the device would be to transfer some of the
power generation load off centralized coal plants and onto
natural gas distribution networks.
- Global
natural gas peaking in the 2020-2025 and it may be that moving significant
loads to natural gas just as supply starts to flatten out may not be
practical.
- In short, I view the Bloom Box as a modest gain over the status
quo in natural gas fired power supply. A world-changer it is not.
- The suggestion that it will "replace the grid"
is simply
nonsense.
- The Doomsday clock is ticking. It's time to put aside childish
things, retire the phrase "Holy Grail" permanently,
and get real
about energy.
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FROM DISRUPTIVE TO CREATIVE TECHNOLOGIES
Occasionally
new technology developments emerge that completely eliminate
existing markets, products and services, replace them with new ones
and transform the very rules of doing business and competing. The
advents of the transistor, PC, Internet and World Wide Web provide
vivid examples of such developments that are often referred to as
“disruptive technologies”.
Globally
there is an acute awareness of the requirements to urgently reduce
greenhouse gas emissions (GHGs), to stop and repair major ecological
damage, and to find sustainable and affordable substitutes for oil,
gas and coal. However, to date, in spite of massive investments in
renewable technologies and other R&D such as concerning “Clean
Coal” or CCS (carbon capture and sequestration), not one set
of solutions has emerged that can be readily implemented at pace, on
a large scale and in affordable fashion. In the main, “green”
technologies are expected to cost more and be more cumbersome to
use than legacy ones based on fossil fuels.
In other words the disruption is already being done
for us. Instead of concerning
“disruptive technologies”,
the opportunity is for
Creative Technologies, that is, technologies able to fill the vacuum
and facilitate a rapid transition to 100% sustainable ways of life,
at costs that are substantially lower than legacy ones, with ease,
and leading to renewed prosperity.
 Currently,
in any country, we estimate that about 80%
(and often more) of the primary energy we use is wasted. This is like burning money
to no effect.
To achieve
the 80% efficiency objective, a new class of
infrastructures is required that integrates coherently the
energy generation, supply, distribution, storage, transport and
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Bill Gates:
We need global 'energy miracles'
Bill Gates suggested researchers spend
the next 40 years
perfecting and implementing clean-energy technologies. |
Long Beach, California
(CNN) -- Microsoft Corp. founder and philanthropist Bill Gates on Friday
called on the world's tech community to find a way to turn spent nuclear
fuel into cheap, clean energy.
"What we're
going to have to do at a global scale is create a new system,"
Gates said in a speech at the TED Conference in Long Beach, California.
"So we need energy miracles."
Gates called climate change the world's most vexing
problem, and added that finding
a cheap and clean energy source is more important than creating
new vaccines and improving farming techniques, causes into which he has
invested billion of dollars. The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation last
month pledged $10 billion to help deploy and develop vaccines for
children in the developing world.
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The world must eliminate all of its carbon emissions and cut energy costs in half
in order to prevent a climate catastrophe, which will hit the world's poor hardest, he said.
"We have to drive full speed and get a miracle in a pretty tight timeline," he said.
Gates said the deadline for the world to cut all of its carbon emissions is 2050. He suggested that researchers spend the next 20 years inventing and perfecting clean-energy technologies, and then the next 20 years implementing them.
The world's energy portfolio should not include coal or natural gas, he said, and must include
- carbon capture and storage technology
- nuclear
- wind
- solar photovoltaics
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solar thermal power.
"We're going to have to work on each of these five [areas] and we can't give up on any of them because they look daunting," he said. "They all have significant challenges."
Gates spent a significant portion of his speech highlighting nuclear technology that would turn spent uranium -- the 99 percent of uranium rods that aren't burned in current nuclear power plants -- into electricity.
That technology could power the world indefinitely; spent uranium supplies in the U.S. alone could power the country for 100 years, he said.
A "traveling wave reactor" would burn uranium waste slowly, meaning a 60-year supply could be added to a reactor at once and then not touched for decades, he said.
Gates also called for innovation in battery technology.
"All the batteries we make now could store less than 10 minutes of all the energy [in the world]," he said. "So, in fact, we need a big breakthrough here. Something that's going to be of a factor of 100 better than what we have now."
Gates called for more investment in climate-related technology. He said he is backing a company called TerraPower,
which is working on an alternate form of nuclear technology that uses
spent fuel. Money that goes into
research and development will pay bigger returns than other investments,
he said, especially if money goes into energy sources that will be cheap
enough for the developing world to afford. Clean energy technologies
must be installed in poorer countries as they develop, he said.
"You'd be stunned at the ridiculously low costs of
innovation," said Gates, who received a standing ovation for his
remarks. If he could wish for anything in the world, Gates said he would
not pick the next 50 years' worth of presidents or wish for a miracle
vaccine.
He would choose energy that is half as expensive as coal and doesn't
warm the planet.
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 THE
AGE OF STUPID
The movie
"The Age of Stupid" was set in 2050 it asks
the question "Why didn't we save ourselves
when we had the chance" saying blame is ultimately
laid at the feet of our culture of consumerism. Maybe
IndraNet has part of the
Miracle Technology
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OUR LIFESTYLE IS BUILT ON OIL
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Is this the end of our free lunch?
It is said that peak oil will be like the tide racing in.
A warning wave before the relentless incoming tide. And the
first wave broke across our feet was July
11, 2008, the day that fuel spiked to an all time high and
then fell back again.
The surging price of fuel hit us from all
directions. Food prices went through the roof. Inflation shot to
a 13-year high. Just the warning of a first lapping wave, a
first price spike! But then came the credit crunch and a
recession and prices prices fell back. However, July 11, 2008,
could have been the day that the world changed forever. The
tide will have come in!
Read Full article from The Press, Christchurch, NZ - 11 July,
2009
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NO PROSPECT OF RECOVERY
WITHOUT RE-ENGINEERING*
 Global and National Financial Systems,
away from the present US$-Debt
syndrome
Energy,
Transport &
Communication Infrastructures
away from the present 100% dependence on oil
and
other fossil fuels and
towards high net energy solutions based on
renewable sources,
i.e. the sun
This must be
achieved before oil supplies collapse over the next 10 years and
must address
medium to long term impact of the ecological avalanche
already underway
*(a radical
redesign of business processes and organisational structure in order to
achieve significant improvements in performance, such as productivity,
cost reduction, cycle time, and quality. There are usually four major
components) |
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DEVALUATION OF CASH RESERVES
There seems to be no such thing as risk free
investment
Every self-respecting investor should regard at least 10% invested in
disruptive technology in the energy field such as IndraNet
Technologies and its associated companies, as a calculated protection
against devaluation of cash reserves |
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GLOBAL CRISIS IS UNPRECEDENTED
The global economic order is structured and run as a
dreamlike perpetual-motion machine in total ignorance of thermodynamics
and systems dynamics.
A key issue is
NET ENERGY.
Net energy is the amount
of energy that is available to power the global economy when all the
direct and indirect energy costs of mining, processing, transporting and
distributing energy resources has been deducted.
The essential technologies and know-how required
for a transition to sustainable ways of living and doing business are
known. The transition is feasible without the massive costs and
without heavy-handed government policies.
This is a matter of cognitive failure; that is to say, the cognitive and
cultural inability to figure out how to successfully meet the challenges
within the necessary time frame despite the required knowledge and
expertise being readily available. When
cognitive failure happens to a given society, as it has
happened many times historically in various localised fashions,
that society simply crashes and usually never
recovers.
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100% SOLAR SUSTAINABLE FUTURE
Went to the IndraNet briefing at the Heritage
Hotel, Auckland, New Zealand at 6pm. Dr Louis Arnoux gave his expert opinion on the current
situation from a very broad perspective (his background is the analysis
of Complex Systems), encompassing the financial crisis and how it is
entwined with Peak Oil and the so called energy crisis (zero net energy
by 2018 apparently, which you hardly ever hear about) and the ecological
crisis (global warming, ecological collapse possibly akin to the
Permian
Mass Extinction- gulp!).
He has a very interesting viewpoint on many things and
obviously has done a huge amount of research and thinking over the
years, although I thought there was an element of spin to promote his
ventures/products. The audience were all ears for over an hour and a
half as Louis tried to move his shareholders from "myth to reality".
 The main message I took away is that we cant afford to
sit around waiting for Governments and big business or the Kyoto
Protocol or Emissions Trading Schemes and the like to do anything
significant in time. Governments and big business don't even want to
acknowledge that the situation we face is longer BAU (Business As
Usual)- Louis is very fond of acronyms. He says there is a widespread
"disconnect" from the reality of what we are facing. The media is still
amplifying the message from Governments etc that this is just a
recession and soon we will be back to BAU as soon as the recovery
occurs. Louis's opinion is that it will be individuals and
entrepreneurs
who will lead the change to a "100% Solar sustainable future" and that
there is no return to BAU.
Dr Arnoux is quite a visionary and some would
say a radical, but he is not just full of talk and he has shown that he
has the connections, inventions and nous to back up what he talks about.
I had nearly written IndraNet and the likes off over the years when
nothing concrete seemed to be emerging from them but I now have a
renewed confidence that they are on track. I will definitely be
downloading and reading his
free e-book "Peak Oil, Climate Change & all
that Jazz" (not sure about the title though).
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"GETTING REAL" -
Learning to SEE things in new ways....
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What will be the price of petrol at pump on say 22 May
2012 |
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$0.00 - due to erratic supply disruptions; whatever
you may be prepared to pay,
" you can't get it because there ain't any"
on that particular day or another |
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What is humankind largest energy system? |
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Farming: ~12,000 TW installed vs. transport (~100 TW)
and Electrical Power (~20TW) |
We must all begin to learn that things are actually now how we
have got accustomed to see them.
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4 Elements of Survival |
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Our survival requires rapid change and finding new ways of
doing things.
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"PEAK OIL" HAS GONE
12 August 2009
‘Peak Oil’ is the biggest threats to a
sustainable economic recovery.
According to the BP Statistical Review of World Energy, out of the 54
oil producing nations and regions in the world, only 14 are still
increasing production. Alarmingly, 30 oil producing nations and
regions are definitely past their peak output and the remaining 10
appear to have modestly declining production rates. Put another way,
when weighted by production, ‘Peak Oil’ is already a grim reality in
61% of the oil producing world!
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Global crude oil production has probably
peaked,
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New discoveries have dried up
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There
is a shortage of capital for investment purposes
Accordingly, I suggest that all my readers
allocate a meaningful proportion of their investment portfolio
to upstream energy companies and to businesses in the
energy services sector.
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DECLINING OIL SUPPLIES
There are signs that large economies will take
moves to ensure they their supplies e.g. China moves to stockpile oil
while it's cheap
Source Supplies are now declining at
rate of 9% per year, who will be first the feel the energy crisis - the
small countries!
We are coming to an age when Peak Oil is already past us (2005) and the
squeeze on fossil fuels is just coming online. New Zealand and Australia
are in a precarious position because they are some of the first areas to
be directly affected by this prospect, and that is why there is such a
focus in that area of the world to develop the air car, a transitional
engine technology primarily based on pneumatics…
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A Crude
Awakening - The Oil Crash
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"Deal With Reality or Reality Will Deal With You" |
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Watch this Online now
We're not
prepared for what's around the corner, and that's the
message of the film
Now available on DVD |
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Peak Oil Crash
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A
Crude
Awakening
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Oil - who needs
it? We do, obviously. Or we think we do!
Oil makes the world go around.
It heats our homes, runs our cars, powers our societies,
finances economic development - and triggers international
wars. But the world's oil supplies are running out - fast.
Some think the global supply of oil has
already "peaked"; we are already using up the second half of
the planet's supply. With a fast-growing global population,
how much time do we have before the demand for oil vastly
outstrips supply? Some analysts think we will face resource
wars in our own lifetime, and a global economic depression
provoked by our dependence on oil. The result, according to
A Crude Awakening, a new documentary,
could be a petrochemical apocalypse. Hydrocarbon Man is
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AUSTRALIAN BUSH FIRES
According to newspaper reports some of the bush fires
were started by trees falling on transmission lines and sparking fires.
The logistics of restoring all this damage is enormous with the whole
infrastructures needing to be rebuilt. In a disaster area such as this a solution would be to install iPower units in each property and
underground cables between houses, the would give small communities
independence by forming
Network of Networks (NoN's) and not need to rely
on long distance transmission for power supplies. |
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Will Solar and Compressed Air
Fuel the 21st Century? |
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