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Why are you interested in Alternative Energy?: I have been interested in alternative energy ever since the early 1970's
when we used lantern at our cabin in the woods. We also used battery powered flaslights and the batteries didn't last real long so you had to save using them for when it was necessary. I started dreaming about a better way to light the cabin. The best solution at the time was a single candle and going to bed early. The radio we had seemed to work for two weeks on a set of batteries why not a light like the dome lights found in vehicles. This got me to thinking in 12 volts and reading about wind generators. By 1979 I had the idea I would have a wind turbine power a bank of 12 volt batteries. Since I had helped build the cabin and we had land I thought alot about building my own place and studied component building systems. Mostly these where geodesic domes. I dreamed of fabricating all the peices in my back yard then loading all my building components onto a fourwheel drive dumptruck we had at the time and unloading it all on the mountain side ready to fasten together. I also thought of how to heat and what sort of lighting to have. It was in the early ninghties that I came across American Ingenuity domes in popular science magazine. I loved the idea I could erect my building components and fasten them all together with morter mix hawk and trowel. This system is still superior to current house construction methodes. I promote the company because I belive it to be a superior effecient structure that can save you half the heating and cooling bills you currently paying plus it has great potential to beat everything else out there in the hybrid house competitions. Super insulated thermal shell,rodent and insect proof. hurrican proof it's really worth considering. These domes have been built in all fifty states. What do domes have to do with energy well how about everything. 40% of all energy expended is used to heat and cool structures. I would love to combine alt energy and alt housing a hybrid system zero emmision net gain!

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IS IT ME OR IS THE BANDWAGON GETTING FILLED UP BY EVERY CONCEIVABLE HOCKSTEER SELLING CLEAN GREEN ENERGY PRODUCTS INCLUDING COMPANIES SELLING THE DIRTY GRIMY COAL POWER AND THE MESSY CRUDE GUNK WE CONVERT TO FOSSIL FUELS TELLING US IN MESSAGES THAT THEIR SOMEHOW GOING GREEN ALL THE SUDDEN. BIG POLLUTING COMPANIES BUYING A GREEN IMAGE BY BUYING SOME SMALL PART OF THEIR POWER FROM A CLEAN RENEWABLE SOURCE. MAKING CHEMICAL PRODUCTS USING LANDFILL GAS IS STILL MAKING CHEMICALS NO MATTER HOW YOU PORT… Continue

Posted on July 29th, 2008 at 10:41pm — 1 Comment (Add)

energy markets

I wonder what effect the following is going to have on global markets for energy. When China shuts down it's coal fired power plants so the smog can clear for the olympic games this has to require a lot of people either conserving energy of doing without it. China is doing a market manipulation using the games as a marketing tool to sell the world on their ability to produce alternative enery products cheap the games is their chance to put their product in the spotlight for close to free. China… Continue

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our energy usage

When it comes to our energy use this is how it breaks down according to recent reports we use about 50% of our energy we consume for transportation. That covers every mode and to reduce this use and increase the effeciency of the fossil fuels we are using I've been promoting the idea of under the hood hydrogen generation using 12 volt power from the autos alternator to run an electrolyser and the hydrogen gas thus produced is directly consumed by the internal combustion engine increasing milage… Continue

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worlds first portable fuel cell generator by VOLLER.COM

VOLLER.COM HAS ANNOUNCED IT HAS PRODUCTION FUEL CELL ROLLING OFF THE ASSEMBLY LINE IN THE UK. tHESE ARE THE FIRST EVER IN THE WORLD OF THIS TYPE THEY ARE TARGETED AT THE CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY BUT WOULD HAVE A APPLICATION IN MARINE USE MILITARY USE AND BACKUP POWER AS IN A GREAT STAND BY GENERATOR FOR ALTERNATIVE ENERGY APPLICATIONS

THIS WOULD BE GREAT TO HAVE IN YOUR SYSTEM. sOLAR CELLS ON A TRACKING ARRAY ALONG WITH A POLLUTION FREE FUEL CELL BY VOLLER . THE DESIGN LOOKS GOOD DOESN'T…

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On the main page there is an article about nano solar a company who has developed a printable solar panel.

I can remember reading about a Japanese company who had the printing technology in the mid nighties it printed solar collectors by the cell on a ceramic media. This made for heavy solar panels and was not competative with silicon solar cells. But printing technology has come a long way in twenty years. And technology has a way of not getting fully developed. Once a certain process…

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At 2:01pm on August 15th, 2008, Jay said…: I WOULD LIKE TO SAY THAT I APPERCIATE THE TIME YOU ARE TAKING TO READ MY PAGE. I APPLOGIZE FOR ANY INCORECT SPELLING AND LET'S JUST LEAVE IT AT THAT. i TRY TO CONVEY MY THOUGHTS AND IDEAS. THEY ARE UNSCRIPTED. I'VE REVIEWED THE ARTICLES I'VE PUBLISHED HERE AND I NEED IMPROVMENT SURE I'M A WORK IN PROGRESS. THREE THINGS HIT ME AS BEING PARAMOUNT TO ACCOMPLISHING THE ULTIMATE GOAL THAT IS AFFORDABLE ENERGY. IT SHOULD BE FROM A CLEAN SOURCE. SOLAR IS THE ANSWER AND SOLVING THE EFFECIENCY AND AFFORDABILITY TESTS ARE BOTH A SIMPLE MATTER OF WIDESPREAD ACCEPTANCE AND MASS PRODUCTION. FOR TRANS PORTATION PURPOSES WE NEED TO GET THE GOOD TO MARKET CURRENTLY LIQUID FOSSIL FUELS ARE THE MEANS. BECAUSE OF SUPPLY AND DEMAND FOOD PRICES HAVE RECENTLY REFLECTED THE ADDED COST TO GET PRODUCTS TO MARKET. ADDING HYDROGEN TO DIESEL FUEL AND GASOLINE JUST BEFORE THE COMBUSTION CYCLE EFFECTIVELY DOUBLES GAS MILAGE AND REDUCES POLLUTION BY 90% I BELIVE THE UNDER THE HOOD TECHNOLOGY TO BE THE SOLUTION TO THE OIL CRISIS AND GLOBAL WARMING. NO ADDITIONAL REFINING CAPACITY NEEDED
NO ADDITIONAL INFRASTRUCTURE NEEDED. OWNERSPIH OF THE TECHNOLOGY SHOULD BE OPEN SOURCE ALLOYING ANY COUNTRIES SIENTIFIC COMMUNITY TO WORK ON FURTHER DEVELOPING THIS TECHNOLOGY AGAIN MASS PRODUCTION OF THE CATALYST ELECTROLYZER ALLOY. ELECTRIC VEHICLES CHARGED BY SOLAR ARRAYS SO YOU EFFECTIVEL OWN AND CONTROL YOUR OWN ENERGY SOURCE. 30K FOR THE ARRAY INSTALLED AND 12K FOR THE CAR IN FIVE YEARS GET A NEW ONE OLD ONE READLY RECYCLES.
ONCE AGAIN HOME HEATING NO FORCED AIR THEY SIMPLY WASTE HEAT BY LEAKING INTO CRAWL SPACES AND ATTICS THIS IS UNACCEPTABLE GROUND SOURCE HEAT PUMPS ON THE OTHER HAND USE THE GROUND AVERAGE TEMPERATURE TO TRANSFEER THE HEAT FROM IT TO YOUR INTERIOR OR VIS-A-VERSA FROM THE HOUSE TO DISSAPATE HEAT AND THERE BY COOL OFF YOUR HOME.
CHEAP TO RUN AND COULD MATCH NICELY WITH POWER OUT PUT OF YOUR ARRAY. NEXT FUEL CELLS SOMEDAY SOON FUEL CELLS WILL BE AS COMMON AS DISHWASHERS AND MAYBE EVEN SMALLER THEN ONE BY THE TIME YOU ACTUALLY GET ONE. THEY CAN RUN OFF NATURAL GAS OR PROPANE SO EFFECTIVEL NOW YOU CAN PURCHASE ONE AND USE IT ANYWHERE EVEN IN THE GARAGE AS FUEL CELL ONLY MAKE PURE WATER AS A BY-PRODUCT. PURE WATER WILL BE A COMODITY IN THE FUTURE OUR DRINKING WATER IS BECOMING POLLUTED EVER SO GRADUALLY. WATER TECHNOLOGY TO PURFIY OUR DRINKING WATER MAY RUN OFF OF AND SOURCE OF ENERGY INCLUDING SOLAR DISTILLERS,ULTRA VIOLET LIGHT DISINFECTION,REVESE OSMOSIS AND CARBON FILTRATION. PUMPS WILL BE UTILIZED TO BRING GROUND WATER TO THE SURFAVE SAVING WOMEN AROUND THE WORLD THE DRUDGERY OF HAULING ALL THAT WATER HOME SOMETIMES USING UP 30% OF THEIR TIME. SOLAR WATER PUMPS,HAND PUMPS AND WINDMILLS
WIND TURBINES (LOOK AT MY PHOTO) THINK PUMP WATER FROM WELL AT LEAST PUPM WATER TO TANK. COMPRESSED AIR STORAGE MAYBE FLYWHEEL SOME MASS PRODUCED SPINNERS LIGHTWEIGHT STYROFOAM COVERED WITH POWDER COAT WITH THE WHOLE RIG SHIPPING FLAT AND ASSEMBLED WITH ADHESIVES. IT'S DOABLE THERE ONCE WAS A MAN WHO MADE A MOULD THAT HE PACKED TO AFRICA WITH THIS MOLD HE MADE A PEANUT SHELLER AND THE EFFORT THAT WAS ONCE SPENT SHELLING PEANUTS WAS REDUCED. THE ONE MOULD PROUDUCED A HUNDRED PEANUT SHELLING DEVICES MADE WITH SIMPLE CONCRETE MIX POURED ON SITE INTO A MOULD SAVING THOUSAND OR HOURS LABOR. WATER HAULING COULD BE REDUCED BY SIMILAR MEANS.

At 1:30pm on August 15th, 2008, Jay said…: I'M PROMOTING SEVERAL IDEAS. COMPUTERS THAT HAVE NO MOVING PARTS RUN STRICTLY ON FLASH TYPE MEMORY. UNDER THE HOOD ELECTROLYZERS THAT ADD HYDROGEN TO GASOLINE.
LEVITATING SAVANIOUS WINDTURBINES THAT USE GENERATORS MADE WITH RARE EARTH ELEMENTS. BATTERY PACKS THAT STORE AND USE 48 VOLTS AND THEIR ACESSARIES THAT USE THIS 48 VOLT
POWER AS A KIND OF HALF WAY MEASURE TO USING SINGLE 12 VOLT APPLIANCES THEIR HEFTY COUSINS WHO UTILIZE 48 VOLT POWER GET REAL WORK DONE. I'M ADVOCATING THE USE OF INDUSTRIAL HEMP FOR FUEL AND FOR IT'S THOUSAND OTHER USES INCLUDING MEDICAL MARIJUANA. I'M USING MY VIOCE ON THIS SITE TO SPREAD THE KNOWLEDGE I HAVE TO OTHERS ABOUT WHATS POSSIBLE. WHAT HAS NOT BEEN CONSIDERED OR HAS LONG BEEN OVERLOOKED. TECHNOLOGY CAN MAKE A HUGH DIFFERENCE. OUR LIVES MAY DEPEND ON THE GLOBAL COMMUNITY COMING TOGETHER AND TRYING THE IDEAS IN COUNTRIES WHERE IT CAN BE CULTIVATED HEM COULD MAKE A VERY FINE BIO FUEL FEEDSTOCK
OUR EARLY PIONEERS PASSED A LAW WHERE HEMP MUST BE GROWN. THEY DID THIS BECAUSE WHALE OIL WAS RUNNING OUT FROM OVER UTILIZING IT FOR OIL LAMPS. OIL LAMPS WERE THEN USING HEMP SEED OIL FOR FUEL BEFORE KEROSEEN REPLACED IT.

WITH SOLAR TRACKING ARRAYS CHARGING A BATTERY PACK A SOLAR ELECTRIC SYSTEM CAN BE INSTALLED FOR ABOUT THIRTY THOUSAND DOLLARS. NEWER UP COMING TECHNOLOGY WILL FURTHER REDUCE THE COSTS. ORGANIC SOLAR CELLS HAVE THE POTENTIAL TO GREATELY REDUCE THE COST OF SOLAR. PRINTABLE SOLAR CELLS ALSO HAVE THE POTENTIAL TO REDUCE COSTS BY ALLOWING MASS PRODUCTION. WHILE ORGANIC AND PRINTABLE CELLS WILL GET CHEAPER AS THEY ARE MASS PRODUCED OTHER MORE EXPENSIVE ALTERNATIVES ARE BEING DEVELOPED. CONCENTRATING CELLS THAT FOCUS THE SUNS RAYS TO THOUSANDS OF DEGREES AND USE SPECIAL TECHNOLOGY TO ELIMINATE THE HEAT AND EXTRACT THE INCREASED ELECTRICAL POTENTIAL FROM THE CONCENTRATE LIGFHT WAVES. AMAZING TECHNOLOGIES LIKE CONCENTRATORS FOCUSING THE SUNS THERMAL ENERGIES ON STERLING ENGINS THAT IN TURN RUN GENERATORS. THE GENERATORS BEING MADE WITH HIGH TECH MATERIALS LIKE NEODYNIUM MAGNETS. MATERIALS LIKE LAMTHIUM USED TO EFFECTIVELY STORE HYDROGEN AND ALSO ELECTRICITY
TANTALUM AND COBALT IN STORAGE BATTERIES THESE RARE EARTH ELEMENTS BECOMING EFFECTIVELY USED AND RECYCLED. TECHNOLOGIES TO WATCH AND WE ARE NOT THE ONLY ONES
ADVANCES IN TECHNOLOGY WILL SEEM TO COME OUT OF NO WHERE AS COUNTRIES REALIZE THEY TO CAN PARTICIPATE AND
EXCELL AT THIS GREEN REVOLUTION. WHATEVER WORKS!

At 1:07pm on August 15th, 2008, Jay said…: I HAVE NOTICED ALOT MORE INVOLVMENT IN THE UNDER THE HOOD HYDROGEN MOVEMENT LATELY. THATS GOOD PEOPLE ARE WILLING TO GET BACK UNDER THEIR HOODS AD TINKER WITH THE FUEL SYSTEMS TO SQUEEZE THAT EXTRA GAS MILAGE OUT OF A TANK OF GASOLINE.(WATER FOR FUEL) MEANS PRODUCING HYDROGEN GAS FROM ELECTRICAL CURRENT ADDING THE GAS PRODUCED TO THE GASOLINE ALLRIGHT EVERYTHING ELESE WORKS THE SAME EXCEPT WHEN THEY PUT SENSORS ON THE NEWER CARS THAT TELL THE FUEL SYSTEM THE ENGINES NEEDS MORE GAS THEY MADE IT HARDER TO APPLY THIS TECHNOLOGY. i SEE GREAT BENIFIT POSSIBLE EVEN THE SOLUTION TO GREEN HOUSE GAS EMISSION BY
VEHICLES WORLDWIDE. HERE ARE SOME AMAZING STATISTICS DOUBLE YOUR CURRENT GAS MILAGE. IF THERE WAS A SIGN GAS FOR HALF PRICE YOU MIGHT WANT TO STOP AND FILL UP AND YOU MIGHT TELL YOUR FRIENDS TO HELP THEM SAVE MONEY TOO.
IF THIS SAME DEVICE COULD REDUCE POLLUTION BY 90%
THAT JUST BE ALL IT TROOK TO SELL IT DOUBBLE YOU GAS MILAGE AND REDUCE POLUTION BY 90% MUST BE A SCAM RIGHT. WELL HERE IS THE PROBLEM. A LOCAL REPORTER WHO I WON'T SHAME (YOU KNOW WHO YOU ARE ) ASKED THE LOCAL ATTORNEY GENERAL IF THIS WATER FOR FUEL WAS A SCAM. AND QUESS WHAT WITHOUT EVEN LOOKING AT THE SCIENCE BEHIND THE CLAIM HE SAID THEY ALL ARE SCAMS

I THOUGH WHAT A DISERVICE TO NOT RECOGNIZE THAT THERE IS GREAT POTENTIAL HERE FOR NEEDED INOVATION IN FUEL ECONOMY TO HELP THE ECONOMY AND TO EFFECTIVELY DOUBBLE THE AMOUNT OF AVAILABLE FUEL WORLDWIDE BY INTRODUCING THIS TECHNOLOGY TO THE GLOBAL ECONOMY FOR WIDESPREAD USE AND BENIFIT. INSTEAD IT HAS TO BE STOPPED IT MUST NOT BE TRUE AND SOMEONES GOING TO GET SCAMMED. YES I WILL ADMIT THAT CERTAIN OTHER ELEMENTS ARE GOING TO SEIZE THIS OPPERTUNITY TO SELL COPY CAT VERSIONS THAT DON'T EFFECTIVELY WORK AS CLAIMED. THIS IS THE VERY REASON NO ONE SHOULD OWN IT. IT SHOULD BE KEPT OPEN SOURCE AND SCIENTIST AROUND THE WORLD SHOULD REFINE THE TECHNOLOGY SO IT'S EFFECTIVE SAFE AND CHEAP. AN AFTERMARKET DEVICE THAT CAN GO ON ANY GASOLINE ENGINE LIKE A FUEL FILTER COULD CLEAN UP THE ATMOSPHERE AND MAKE ARE CURRENT OIL SUPPLIES LAST INDEFINATELY. WITH THE EXTRA TIME AND SCIENTIFIC EXPERTEASE WORKING 24/7 IT WOULDN'T SUSPRISE ME IF CLEAN FUEL CELL RUNNING OFF OF SOLAR COULD BE ADVENTUALLY REALIZED.
FOR NOW LIQUID FUELS LIKE DIESEL AND GASOLINE,BIODIESEL AND NATERAL GAS AND PROPANE ALL BENIFIT FOR THE HYDROGEN UNDER THE HOOD ELECTROYLZER.

At 12:46pm on August 15th, 2008, Jay said…: WELL I'M THINKING ABOUT ALL THE ENERGY COMPUTER USE TODAY.
I THINK A SOLUTION TO MODIFY THE HUGH POWER CONSUMPTION MIGHT BE DEPENDANT UPON REPLACING ALL THE CURRENT MEMORY IN USE WITH OTHER MEMORY TECHNOLOGY. IF CHEAP MASSIVE MEMORY WE TO BECOME AVAILABLE IN THE NOT TO DISTANT FUTURE WE COULD HAVE COMPUTERS WITH NO MOVING PARTS. I THINK THEY CLAIMED THE CELL PHONES NOW HAVE MORE COMPUTING POWER THEN THE FIRST COMPUTERS CAN'T TAKE LONG FOR THE NEW CELL PHONES TO HAVE MORE COMPUTING POWER AND THEY HAVE NO MOVING PARTS. SEE WHAT I'M THINKING IS NO FAN,FIRST PROBLEM IS HEAT THATS WITH THE CURRENT TECHNOLOGY INTELL AND ADM CHIPS NEED COOLING OFF.
I HAVE NOT CHECKED INTO IT ENOUGH TO SAY BUT THERE IS OTHER MEMORY OPTIONS (OVONIC MEMORY) COULD REPLACE ALL ROM,RAM,OTHER! MEMORY FUNCTION. WITH OVONOIC MEMORY ESSENTIALL A HUGH FLAS BASED MEMORY IT COULD BE PARTITIONED SO THAT OPEWRATING SYSTEMS PERFEERABLE OPEN SOURCE OPERATING SYSTEMS COULD THEN RUN THE APPLICATIONS
USING THE FLASH MEMORY EXCLUSIVELY AND DO SO ON WAY LESS POWER MAYBE EVEN SOLAR POWER. I CAN SEE THE DAY WHEN WI-FI LAPTOP COMPUTERS RUN ALL WEEK ON THEIR BATTERY AND CONSTANTLY RECHARGE OFF THE AVAILABLE DAYLIGHT OR ARTIFICIAL LIGHT WHEN EVER THERE NOT ON THEY RECHARGE AND ARE NOT USING POWER FROM THE GRID SITTING ON STAND-BY.

At 8:53pm on August 6th, 2008, Mike Shepherd said…: On the comment about standardization on drives and controls for electric vehicles you may want to investigate the Society of Automotive Engineers. I am sure they have a group reviewing the technology. institute.sae.org.
Mike

At 10:38pm on August 5th, 2008, Jay said…: I though about the situation people are in california that have lost their house to wildfires. If they had insurance they may be truely lucky. Just think about your oppertunity to re-think your life to decide to get by the rest of your life without all that extra house and the taxes you pay. they are based on square footage of you house. with a foundation and utility lines and roads into these sites are half the value. so why not build an truely energy effecient house and maybe a solar array and an electric car. this could be done. I've looked at kit homes and one that I looked at went up in 5 1/2 hours for the frame of what is called a canadian wooden dome. their is a video of the project on youtube.
it shows earthquake tests and construction of the walls. impressive. The finished cluster of domes looks pretty cool too. I could see three or four domes and a couple tracking arrays on the same location where these half million dollar houses used to be. Every oppertunity could be used to reduce costs and future costs of energy and taxes. I'ts a good idea wish someone would do it and let me know how it works out for them in a year or two.

At 10:21pm on August 5th, 2008, Jay said…: The crude oil prices have decreased in the past few days and for a week the gas prices have been going down. lets hope this price stabalization does not stiffel innovation and out of the box thinking in terms of ways to conserve.

At 10:19pm on August 5th, 2008, Jay said…: I live here in Oregon we have a couple of interesting projects going in here. We have an Intel chip production plant in Aloha Oregon and Intel is putting in a new chip factory that is to make solar cells for a technology that uses a lens that focuses the waves of sunlight onto a chip collector. Intel had been working on technology to cool computer chips when their scientists realized the same technology might be applied to cooling the suns energy in focused light collectors. If you concentrate the light and then remove the heat you still have concentrated light that can then be collected. The reduction in cost comes from getting more electricity from smaller arrays. competing on the
basis of effeciency.

At 1:19am on July 15th, 2008, Jay said…: Interesting new energy effecient house on the internet. I was google searching domes when I came across a video on you tube about Canadian Wooden Domes. These dome houses use 50% less energy to heat and cool and can be built in a shorter time frame than conventional housing. Good solution for people who's houses were lost in the California wildfires. with foundation in place and building permits these units in fifty foot diameter size could be put up in a couple weeks. See the time lapse video 5 hours for 30 foot dome. wooden igloo of sorts looks likew hobbit village but that (green ) these days thats cool. And that insurence money the check could buy $30 grand in solar and 10 grand in radiant and ten grand in groundsource heat pumps. adds up to bought and paid for never to cost you that much again. average check was 250,000 but they couldn't rebuild because contractors quoted $500,000 who need that much house a fifty foot dome and an arch shaped two car garage to keep you junk in. oh yea your junk burned cars are designed to be left out in the weather and if you had house insurence your cars probably covered too. Could be the best thing that ever happen to you.
your neighbors will want to buy your place no dought.

At 5:00pm on June 7th, 2008, Jay said…: I just wanted to talk a little about the potential of peco-energy this is where you generate more than you use in small quanities so you always have just enough energy to get done what you can with what available. In a sense it's sustainable and it's alternative energy as well because the alternative is to go out and earn enough money to just continue paying wath ever their asking. Everyone knows this can reach a threshold. Can you heat your house with the doors open I think not. In peco wind energy generation technology might lead us to use new lightweight materials,newer energy storage media or transmission materials such as superconducters,lightweight metal alloys or carbon fiber composits. In peco energy generation the machines or tools we are atempting to use need but little power to opperate. For instance cell phones by them selves may not consume much power but collectively worldwide comsume tremendious quanities of power and create waste materials. We have gone on a fast track with cell phone technology as the service providers have found a model that works for them make money off you then use it to make some more money off you. you know their plan they sell you is their plan it's their plan to make money off you and they are sucessful.
We have learned to expect more for our dollars,features,incentives,convience
these devices have really evolved and alot can be done on a trickel of electricity. If we wanted to we could charge our phones off a small solar array
maybe even the one advertised on the home page here. We could re-charge our phones off conventional AA batteries they sell an adaptor specfically for that purpose good idea to have one in the glove box just in case of emergency and say you forgot to pack your car charger and are running low on battery life and about out of gas wish you would of listened and bout one of each. Next generation peco devices may use even less juice as memory becomes cheaper in cell phones and other devices they may not need
as many energy consuming components. You knowby buying the phones with the tiny screens we are paying for the development of ever larger screens for devices. DVD,navigation,TV reception pretty soon the whole digital convergence will culminate in an all in one system you simply speak to and let it know what you want to do. going to lunch where the closest
place to grab a sandwitch,want to find your way there just ask the nav system
or call home no problem. I suggest that these systems will all end up in a frame hanging on the wall like in the jetsons cartoon an all in one entertainment,automation and energy conservation system one that meters electricity to you. Everyone will by then be on an energy diet will will have all cut back on our consumption some and we all should be using less anyways.
The days of wastefull leaking appliances will have ended gone the way fuel wasting SUVs and forced air heating. replaced by new confort zones where
the sweet spot is in front and center of the entertainment node or front and center of the on board on the way to work and back. It's been about the
radio about the eight track the cassette the CD and the Blue ray DVD the flash memory changer and the gps and navigation systems. it is on board computing handheld devices and bluetooth cordless and handfree and now sync yes you can tell it what to do and that pretty neat even though Ford didn't invent it like they like for you to think. So what could the future of Peco energy look like. They predicted we may not even be able to see it so built in and small are computer susposed to get that the next thing you know it's the size of the memory chip that used to slide into it. That be great if it were true because we surely could run that dime size unit off the sun. What else could we pray we could have the technology available to most everyone who wants it and the reason would be what they used to call the technology divide the have and have not's must after all learn to get along. We can have cheap available technology and simple is sometimes alot better than so sophisticated I just haven't learned how to operate the darn thing.
Peco energy would look like that it be like a phone card you could buy one with the minutes you can afford. Goverment doesn't seem to be able to reduce the cost we are paying for energy at the pump and in the grocery store
so I guess we will just have to learn to use less. We all ready have learned to do so much more with less because we had to. I propose that cars will go electric and up that voltage to 48 volt systems and we should be cutting our consumption at home of electricity back by buying devices that work in the car and at home. We are doing that how many people carry laptops and cell phones that surf the net. lighter computers and bigger screens better backlighting crisper sound more vibrant colors we are getting there and on a lot less juice than before. They claim 48 volt systems in cars and house will
arrive at a one size fits all energy source peco energy may be code for 48 volts at home and in the car solar powered maybe so,windpowered could be
battery powered maybe by then who can say. peco power is here today go to Voller.com generators that charge a laptop generate 120 volts AC with no fumes no noise and they make pure water. The world with less energy looks like a great place to be. beam me up scotty