Almost all inventions are the creation of a small team. Sometimes, it is one monomaniacal man like Charles Goodyear, or a duo of bike repairmen like the Wright Brothers. Who are alternative energy’s inventors? Who will have the ideas? Who will work and work on their ideas until each problem is solved?
We have had many such innovators already: The creation of bio-diesel from old fryer oil; The lighter-than-air windmill; Green roofs. But what are the next ideas? What are the next trends in alternative energy?
I think the next trend could be on increasing multiple sources of energy at a small scale everywhere. For example (and my scientist father-in-law laughed at this one and you can too), if we add a second battery to a regular gas-powered car and charge it as we drive around and then discharge it at home, do we not get some extra energy we would have wasted anyway? Or would the energy used to charge the second battery reduce the car’s miles per gallon so that it would be a wash?What if there was a way to use solar energy (like a solar oven) to preheat water going to our hot water heaters, then wouldn’t we use less energy? Sure, it may not be consistent, but I am sure the payback time would be fast especially since 20% to 25% of home energy costs are for heating water.
What other ideas are there and who will work them to success? As the inventors of the airplane and vulcanized rubber show, a small group with a dream and dedication can change the world. I will be looking for them.
Hey,
I like the idea. I have often wondered why we don’t embed some sort of lever in highways that would move slightly when a car ran it over. A series of these could be linked together to spin some sort of inverter which would re-coup some of the fuel energy spent by billions of commuters every day.
Another question, why not set up Stirling engine farms all over the country where real estate is less than ideal for development? For example on top of local landfills, warehouse rooftops etc. then feed this energy into the local grid to offset total consumption?
I understand it comes down to cost per unit but would there not be a huge advantage to taking a large financial hit upfront to reap the payoff later. Consider if we invested enough in alternative energy now, we would at some point realize a 100% return on investment and future energy costs would be extremely cheap. The US would undercut all other countries in the manufacturing sector.
Just a thought… or perhaps more of a ramble.
One problem I see in investing in alternative energy solutions is, you have to invest in them. As a country we are so shortsighted, it is easier to let Exxon come up with the solution. Our collective greed is to blame. Over the counter retirement plans rarely invest in alternatives, plus since many participate in employer run plans to get that 5% match, we have less options to provide the means for would-be inventors to find them.
Please keep mailing me latest innovation&inventions on alternative energy genaration,distribution,conservation including on alternative fuel for automobile industry like Hydrogen cell etc.
Thanks & kind regards
Suneel
(Envoirenment friendly person)
Energy is everywhere the whole planet swims in it. There are so many alternative sources that you cant see the trees for the forest…so to speak. People must change the way they view energy before they can see the simple answers. Many directions can be taken, but the solution can not start on 21st century technology. We need to go back and start over, pretend oil never existed. Would our industrial development ever have happened….I think it would have but the primary energy source would have been very different. There are easy solutions based upon real science but they do not fit into our gas tanks so we dismiss them . We are a people who have become lazy and if it’s not handed to us in a easy to use format we cant deal with it. Instant gradification…. the backbone of our world. That is why you cant get enough people to invest in alternatives. Although even the oil companies are begining to change the way they think. You see their time and control of the world is limited to the supply of oil. The supply is not infinite. Although the stone age did not end because we ran out of stones, the oil age will end when we decide to do something different. I’ve studied this problem for many many years and there are solutions easy ones. However it’s like the TV show survivor, it’s not the fact that you could not survive on a deserted island, the problem becomes can you survive the rest of the group and the back stabing and those who seek to control. We dont have an hydrogen economy because there is no way to tax or control the flow of fuel. Any high school student can produce hydrogen in many different ways. The push now is to create technology so complicated that the technology will be the controlling factor and not the production side. Hydrogen is easy but banging the square peg into the round hole is not very bright. Hydrogen in the energy sector is an excellent idea….but perhaps not so much for an automobile. Square peg round hole.
I’m just full of all kinds energy production ideas but who wants to listen?
Listen up people! I’m disappointed in a lot of people when it comes to energy research, development, deployment, utilization and the over all mind set. It is nearly impossible to change what people precieve and believe. Global warming is a wonderful idea to get the people off their butts and thinking about solutions and I believe it will work and is working. However, the image people still have in their heads is still being pushed. Green energy is a viable solution and there is more energy out there we just have to find a way to tap in to it cleanly.
Green energy people stop pushing the idea that we are all a bunch of hippies, I know that’s not polically correct but the truth is the truth. I agree it is a lifestyle change but what your selling most wont buy into.
Zero point energy people, get your head out of the UFO arena and the realm of magic from outer space! Just because you don’t know how it works doesn’t mean it comes from aliens. Nicola Tesla knew about the aether and now NASA calls it dark matter, whatever! We are the dominant spieces on this planet and we will solve our own problems, we don’t need UFO’s or alien intervention. We are quite capable of doing it ourselves. So stop pushing the crap and get serious about clean energy production.
Inventors of Free Energy devices, Joseph Newman and all the rest…(I know your out there, I’m one of them) Changing the world is easy changing their mind is whats hard. If you have such a product then lets have it. Everyone is worried about getting their piece of the pie…its about money. So you cant get a patent so what….document your findings, drawings etc,. and get on with it already. Make sure you have enough documentation to prove it’s yours and you invented it…..if there’s a problem you’ll win in court right, because you have the proof.
Here’s the idea: forget about commercialization and large scale production….convert one house at a time, one ranch, one business all you have to do is start. When the grid starts loosing customers or the customers start putting more back into the grid (and the power companies are paying us) people will start taking notice. Once this happens the NEWS will do all the advertising for you and the people will demand the new technology.
I like to call it “Power to the People”
Now don’t just sit there get to it!
J.Matthis
hello
i am going to say about an idea for utilisation of energy which is against newtons third law.
i have got this is idea from working principle of motor. whenever we are giving electricity to motor the motor rotates. If the motor is rotated there is electricity generated from motor. Now a days vehicles that are propelled by a battery and motor is in the market. My idea is to utilise the battery of vehicles very much. In vehicles there will be a battery and a motor instead of this two motors and a battery to be fixed. one motor will be running with battery while the vehicle is in operation and the other motor also be rotating with the force of vehicle while the second motor is running electricity will be produced from the motor and the battery will be charged . Thus utilisation of electricity from the battery by first motor will be compensated so the frequency of charge will be reduced very much.
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i have come up with an idea that could give renewable electricity without useing any foscil fuels or gases or even the sun , just water would run my power station the power station could be built on any scale from small to vast my idea is based on electric mountin in wales simaler princable but differant configeration i keep thinking to my self why hasant anybody built it before some times the most simple ideas are the best ones of all who could i tell my idea to or find out if it has ever been tried before
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