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Alternative Energy

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The Ultimate Alternative Energy
Off shore wind facility near Sweden
Photo credit:
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Alternative Energy
This section was
created to help everyone find ways
to save Energy and
Money, while moving America
towards freedom from our dangerous addiction to Oil.
Keeping Mother Earth healthy will be our reward.
I am
retired now, but for years I have looked for ways
to help others
understand the benefits of a
better kind of Energy, Alternative Energy.
Working together, we can
bring Alternative Energy
to the whole World, one
home at a time.
Al Gore and a few thousand of his closest friends would
like
to move America away from Fossil Fuel dependency.
We Can Solve It
And Robert Redford wants us to vote
those into office who
will lead us out of the dark ages of Energy and
into the future.
We
Can't Drill Our Way Out of This Mess
Many Energy ideas
will be explained on these pages about:
saving on
gasoline, natural gas, propane, electricity, nuclear and
coal power
plants, radiant heat, fuels for vehicles, science, the sun,
hooking
up motor homes, boats and campers with battery power.
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The Future of Alternative Energy
Offshore electrolysis-hydrogen generation unit.
Cell using light energy to produce Hydrogen from water.
Photo credit: USDOI
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We all need
to rethink Energy and Power and how to find better more
energy
efficient ways to bring them into our homes and into our lives.
Going Green is not free, it will
require an investment to begin with,
but the return will be future generations
released from
the bondage of Fossil Fuels, or
non-renewable energy.
Eventually these fuels will all run out, so
we need to wean ourselves
from this Energy dead end before that
happens.
As your new Energy Saving Systems begin to
do their job,
your Energy savings will also begin to grow.
In time, this new kind of Energy will pay for itself
and
you will help make the Planet a little greener while you
do it.
You won't need to do everything all at once,
so let's take baby steps.
The fastest and least expensive system to
begin
with would be one that heats water.
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Parabolic trough system
Photo credit:
USDOE |
In the hot summer, have you ever left your
garden hose
out on the ground until the next day,
thinking you'll finish the watering tomorrow?
If you go back in a couple of hours, the
water
now coming out of that hose is really hot.
This is something like what happens in
a solar panel,
only the sun hits the pipe holding the water,
then hits the sand,
bounces back and hits
the pipe again, producing lots of hot water.
Pipes in the sand work great and today there are
products that work even better
and are lighter.
But for
now, let's go with the old sand box Idea.
This box
with the intense sun rays on it is the reason
you can and will get hot
water even in the
colder weather and from the moon most nights.
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Earth and Moon
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You can
run a hose from this panel down to a tank
and another hose from the tank
back up to the panel.
Then, you
will start getting free hot water,
not much and not fast or efficient, but soon,
you will get hot water because heat rises and
will push until the colder
water also gets hot.
During this planning stage, you can build
the box called a solar panel.
Adding a valve to force the water in one
direction,
a low voltage pump and some piping will make this
last a lot
longer than your garden hose.
And, it will
give you a lot more hot water without the use of the
power company and for a
much longer period of time.
This is a
very crude application just to show you a basic
system that
does not cost a lot of money.
Before going through the expense of installing this system,
you
will want to learn about other ideas for producing
hot water much
faster, for not much more money.
An example would be, a solar panel that
would heat water
and produce electricity and also have a circulating
pump
that would run off of this electricity.
For free!
Another example, a holding tank that does not lose heat,
to store this hot water in until it is
needed.
Places to learn more:
Action EDF
Energy Innovation
Alternative Energy News
News Headlines
This web site is as close as it gets to "truth in
reporting" and
exposes those who continuously fail to protect Mother
Earth.
Alternet
Environment
Energy Current: Emerging and Alternative Energy News
News for the
Business of Energy
Events Focused on Renewable Energy
Green Power Conferences
NESEA
Northeast Sustainable Energy Association
New Scientist
Nuclear Power Plants Hazards
See many more ideas about:
Alternative Energy
University of Michigan
Center for Sustainable Systems
Washington Post
Clean Coal?
For
further information about any
of
these and other energy saving ideas,
please
contact me.

In Memory
My brother Joe, who died soon after
retiring from Electric Boat,
a Nuclear Submarine Builder, was the
motivation for these web pages.
He was exposed to these conditions for 39
years.
You
may contact Sachem Walkingfox at:
sachemuncas at centurylink.net

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Uncas at Tripod
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