Pipeline Leaks In Alaska’s Oldest Oil Field
Thursday, 22 July 2010 8:37AM
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (Reuters) - An estimated 630 gallons of oil has leaked from a buried pipeline in Alaska's oldest operating oil field, state environmental officials said Wednesday. The leak was discovered at the Swanson River oil field in the Kenai National Wildlife Refuge south of Anchorage, the Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) said. The field, which produces both oil and natural gas, is operated by Chevron Corp. Chevron has shut in the two wells that feed the affected pipeline, said Steve Russell, an environmental program specialist with the DEC.
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Quantum wins contract from Fisker for solar photovoltaic systems
Quantum Fuel Systems Technologies Worldwide, an alternative energy company, has received a contract for engineering and implementing production tooling for the Fisker Karma solar photovoltaic roof module. Under this contract, Quantum and its German solar affiliate Asola Advanced and Automotive Solar Systems will design and procure production tooling to enable production of solar roof modules beginning in the fourth quarter of 2010.
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Business Groups Ask Obama for New Electric Vehicle Task Force
Zach McDonald
A coalition of business interests yesterday called for the creation of two new government groups to facilitate efforts to get one million plug-in cars on the road by 2015. In a letter to president Barack Obama, the Electric Drive Transportation Association, the Alliance of Automobile Manufacturers, and two other trade groups praised the White House for its efforts to promote EVs but said that "the critical, immediate next step for the Administration is to provide the necessary coordination of the growing federal, regional and private efforts."
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the Promoting Electric Vehicles Act (PEVA), voted out of committee today
By Nick Chambers
On a 19-4 vote - with broad bipartisan support - the Promoting Electric Vehicles Act (PEVA) of 2010 was voted out of committee today and is now awaiting scheduling for a vote on the floor of the Senate before passage. The House also has its own version of the bill, which would have to be passed by that body before the final bill would be signed into law.
The bill's sponsors, Senators Byron Dorgan (D-ND), Lamar Alexander (R-TN), and Jeff Merkley (D-OR), hope that if the bill is passed it will "put the nation on a path to electrify half its cars and trucks by 2030," lowering U.S. demand for oil by about one-third.
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Volkswagen taps Tesla co-founder for electric vehicle push
Volkswagen laid out its plan for electric vehicles as well as industry domination yesterday. The company hopes to sell 10 million cars per year, worldwide, by 2018, which would put them right at the top of the sales charts. So how are they going to do it?
Interestingly, VW has partnered up with a pioneer of electric vehicles to achieve their goals. The company is relying on its Electric Research Lab in Palo Alto, CA to improve battery tech. That lab is headed by none other than Martin Eberhard, the co-founder and first CEO of Tesla Motors. He’s been working for VW for a year and a half now, pushing the automaker to use off-the-shelf lithium ion batteries.
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UPS trucks go hydraulic hybrid; 60-70% better fuel economy!
"Who killed the electric car?"
"Who killed the hydraulic truck?" (write Obama)
Since they are so much more efficient, smaller electric motors can be used with the batteries lasting longer. No gas/diesel engines needed!
* The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and its industry partners unveiled an innovative new technology vehicle – the first-ever delivery van with a full series hydraulic hybrid drivetrain in a UPS vehicle.
* EPA is leading the development of hydraulic hybrid vehicles. This breakthrough technology can cost-effectively reduce emissions and drastically reduce fuel consumption while maintaining or improving performance.
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Honda to bring plug-in electric cars to U.S. in 2012
by Martin LaMonica July 20, 2010
Once considered a step behind in hybrids and electric vehicles, Honda on Tuesday outlined plans to introduce a range of plug-in electric vehicles to the U.S. and Japan. Honda said it will introduce both a battery-electric and a plug-in hybrid to the U.S. in 2012. It also said that it plans to use lithium-ion battery technology in the next-generation hybrid Civic, which will be introduced in 2011. Among the planned models are an all-electric, or battery-electric, "commuter vehicle" and a plug-in hybrid system for mid-size and larger vehicles, both of which will be introduced to the U.S. in 2012. Honda plans to deliver all-electric cars for demonstration programs with Stanford University, Google, and the City of Torrance, Calif., where Honda's U.S. operation is based.
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Volkswagen to develop new hybrid and electric vehicles
VW Targets Green Market With Hybrid, Electric Lineups for 2012 and 2013
By ALEX P. KELLOGG PALO ALTO, Calif. JULY 20, 2010,
CEO Martin Winterkorn said VW plans to launch a gas-electric hybrid version of its Touareg sport-utility vehicle in the U.S. market later this year, and will follow up with a hybrid version of its Jetta sedan in 2012. A fully electric vehicle powered by a battery pack is planned to arrive 2013, Mr. Winterkorn told reporters. "I'm deeply convinced that Volkswagen will play a key role" in the electrification of vehicles, he said.
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Tesla Roadster goes the distance at European road rallies
Electric carmaker gets top prize in Brighton-London celebrity rally and will compete in Spain, Alps and Denmark.
19 de julio de 2010
The Roadster won first place last weekend in the Bridgestone Eco Rally, an 89-kilometer (55-mile) sprint from Brighton to London. With Britain's racy Energy Secretary Chris Huhne at the wheel, the Tesla Roadster took a detour through a London traffic jam and claimed the chequered flag at Waterloo.
Tesla also turned heads last week at the eSilvretta Rally, a modern take on Austria’s beloved Silvretta Classic Rally. The Roadster effortlessly completed the three-day, 159-kilometer (99-mile) rally in a single charge – with plenty of energy to spare for test drives with fans and prospective customers.
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Power from thin air
The Economist; Science and Technology; Jun 10th 2010 
A little over a century ago, the inventor Nikola Tesla drew up ambitious plans to transmit electrical power without wires. He carried out a series of experiments in which electric lights were illuminated ... by a distant transmitter. In 1898 he proposed a "world system" of giant towers that would form both a global wireless communications network
and a means of delivering "unlimited" electricity over large areas without wires.
Today several firms—including RCA, Fulton Innovation, eCoupled, WiTricity and Powercast - are pursuing various technologies that deliver electrical power without wires (though over shorter distances than Tesla had in mind). WiTricity has demonstrated the ability to send enough energy across a room to run a flat-screen television using its approach, called "resonant magnetic coupling". This is different from Tesla's approach, but the firm's founders have acknowledged his pioneering work.
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Knight and Day, Fun movie
Fun movie could have been about the free electrical energy that fills the universe.
Patrick O'Neill's fun, energetic, script involves a classic movie "MacGuffin", Hitchcock's famous name for the ultimately irrelevant plot element everyone on screen is after. Here it's the Zephyr, a tiny battery created by wacky Gyro Gearloose-type inventor Simon Feck (Dano) that is apparently "the first perpetual energy source since the sun."
Patrick O'Neill may vaguely remember hearing of an electrical power source so great that it can power any and everything if we just build the transformer needed to convert it. So, he dreams up a mythical tiny battery able to provide it.
Of course, the reality is that 60% of the universe is pulsating electrical energy and Tesla has given us his patents on how to access it, if we could only figure it out - and yet, it looks so simple....
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A Federal Court judge in bed with the oil co’s.!
Judge Who Struck Down Moratorium Has Owned Transocean Stock *
By Kate Sheppard; Tue Jun. 22, 2010
A federal judge in New Orleans on Tuesday sided with the oil industry, striking down the temporary moratorium on new offshore exploration and deepwater drilling the Obama administration imposed last month. That judge, it turns out, has in recent years had interests in Transocean—the world's largest offshore drilling company and the owner of the Deepwater Horizon rig—as well as other energy companies engaged in offshore oil extraction.
According to the most recently available financial disclosure form for US District Court Judge Martin Feldman, he had holdings of up to $15,000 in Transocean in 2008. He has also recently owned stock in offshore drilling or oilfield service providers Halliburton, Prospect Energy, Hercules Offshore, Parker Drilling Co., and ATP Oil & Gas. Feldman was appointed by President Ronald Reagan in 1983.
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Small-Scale, more efficient, Urban Wind Turbines
Virtually silent, fully enclosed, Tesla - bladeless wind turbines on the way
High efficiency wind turbine based on jet engine technology
Schooling fish inspire new approach to wind farming - to 10 times more efficient
Reno and Boston Put Wind Turbines on City Hall Roofs
Jun 3, 2010, By Russell Nichols, Staff Writer
From the roof of Reno's City Hall, two 1.5 kilowatt wind turbines designed with special hoops to reduce noise
This week, Reno became one of the first cities in the nation to install windmills on a city hall roof. Two years in the making, this project marks the latest stage in Reno's ongoing effort to plant small-scale turbines throughout the city to produce energy and save money, said Jason Geddes, the city's environmental services administrator. The city has already installed a turbine at the sewage plant and one at a park. In total, nine urban turbines are slated to go up, so city officials can test how they perform in various environments.
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Energy saving work being sabotaged!
IMPORTANT UPDATE 
THE ORION PROJECT
May 13, 2010
For the past two years, The Orion Project has worked to raise funds to build a facility where we can bring scientists and inventors together in a peaceful type of Manhattan Project for energy - to develop new sources of energy that will get us off the fossil fuel economy. We have also worked to identify scientists and inventors capable of this work. For the past hundred years, scientists such as Nicola Tesla have worked on such devices. The fact that many have tried, and we are still using predominantly fossil fuels - the same fuels used in the 1800s - can be illustrated by our recent experience.
We reported last December that we had under contract a very talented scientist who wanted to work with us. Because he still is doing work for a private company that is linked to the Intelligence Community, he preferred working with his identity concealed. A side note is that he had agreed to work with us in the fall of 2008. At that time, he met with the Board of Directors and took a contract home to read and sign, but called us within three days saying that he was being deployed abroad for fifteen months. We heard nothing else from him until a year later - precisely after Dr. Greer publicly disclosed the energy briefing he had put together for President Obama.
He resurfaced and said that he wanted to work with us to develop new energy technologies. He met with the Board of Directors again. He assured us that he was cleared by his "shepherds" in the Intelligence Community to work with us to build advanced energy systems, but he was not allowed to work on advanced propulsion systems - that is, he could build systems to power our houses and businesses, but he would not be allowed to reproduce the advanced propulsion systems he has developed in the past.
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Paul Pires’ geared Infinitely Variable Transmission and Steve Durnin’s D-Drive
Continously Variable Transmissions
Popular Science August 1992, page 30
Automotive Newsfront
Gearing For the Infinite
by Stuart Brown
IVT Invented by Paul Pires
Developed by Epilogics Inc.
Los Gatos, Ca
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