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Energy-Backed Currencies. From ( "once you have a company generating local energy, you have an asset that you can use to back up a local currency.

Energy-Backed Currencies

The problem with many local currencies such as LETS is that they can’t be exchanged for things in shops, and are not much use to business. Lietaer said you have to start with the idea that the currency can be used by business, and then also by the community. A currency backed by energy achieves this. Then people can part pay their bills in the local money, which would liberate the workpower needed to start to implement localisation in other areas such as land use and community development.

Solar-powered battery woven into fabric overcomes hurdle for ‘wearable electronics’ Convenient, wearable, solar-powered electronics could be on the way soon, incorporated into watchbands (as above) or woven into clothing fibers.

Solar-powered battery woven into fabric overcomes hurdle for ‘wearable electronics’

(Credit: American Chemical Society) Moscow Subway Ticket Machine Accepts Squats As Payment. Power JMD. From PESWiki "E pure si muove / And yet it moves.

Power JMD

"-- Galileo said of the Earth Compiled by Sterling D. Allan Pure Energy Systems News June 18, 2013 A French company, Power JMD, appears to have an exotic free energy device that is getting close to market (some time in "2013 or 2014"). From what I can gather, it uses some kind of rotational mechanism that is able to self-loop and provide excess energy; and it is fairly bulky and fairly well engineered.

Pavegen Projects showreel. It’s Not a Fairytale: Seattle to Build Nation’s First Food Forest. Forget meadows.

It’s Not a Fairytale: Seattle to Build Nation’s First Food Forest

The city’s new park will be filled with edible plants, and everything from pears to herbs will be free for the taking. Seattle’s vision of an urban food oasis is going forward. A seven-acre plot of land in the city’s Beacon Hill neighborhood will be planted with hundreds of different kinds of edibles: walnut and chestnut trees; blueberry and raspberry bushes; fruit trees, including apples and pears; exotics like pineapple, yuzu citrus, guava, persimmons, honeyberries, and lingonberries; herbs; and more.

Solar Roadways: The Prototype. Driverless cars, pilotless planes … will there be jobs left for a human being? Suddenly a robotised, automated economic reality is moving off the science fiction pages and into daily life.

Driverless cars, pilotless planes … will there be jobs left for a human being?

The growing use of unmanned battlefield drones is encouraging the growth of pilotless commercial aircraft – the first ever flew in British airspace last month. Google's driverless car is completing ever more trials ever more successfully: the world's major car companies are all hot in pursuit, working on their own prototypes of their own versions. The automated checkouts at supermarkets are becoming as familiar as bank cash machines.

After Your Job Is Gone. Do you have a job?

After Your Job Is Gone

Do you like having a job? Then I have some bad news for you. The Guardian is worried “today’s technologies are going to remove people from economic activity completely.” Plug into a plant: A new approach to clean energy harvesting. New technology out of the University of Georgia allows energy generated by plants through photosynthesis to be captured before the plants can make use of it (Image: Shutterstock) Image Gallery (3 images)

Plug into a plant: A new approach to clean energy harvesting

The Etive kinetic energy charger gives power walking a whole new meaning. Etive kinetic energy charger harnesses your energy to create a power source for recharging your personal electronic devices Image Gallery (20 images) May 20, 2009 Hiking has its share of highs and lows.

The Etive kinetic energy charger gives power walking a whole new meaning

Power inverter. An inverter for a solar-mounted free-standing plant in Speyer, alongside the Rhine.

Power inverter

Overview of the solar inverters A power inverter, or inverter, is an electronic device or circuitry that changes direct current (DC) to alternating current (AC).[1] The input voltage, output voltage and frequency, and overall power handling, are dependent on the design of the specific device or circuitry. Coin Battery Project. More fun with electricity for kids!

Coin Battery Project

A coin battery is similar to fruit battery experiments, except that the fruit's part is replaced by a small amount of salt water. It's an easy science project to do, especially if a project like the lemon battery has already been performed. Power to the people: Generating your own electricity could make you money. By Mark Hughes-morganUPDATED: 16:18 GMT, 30 April 2010 Could your own mini power station be the answer to going commendably green? The Government thinks so, with feed-in-tariffs (FiTs) that came into effect on April 1. Power by the People: Generating Electricity From Human Activity. “Small Is Beautiful,” proclaimed economist E. F. Schumacher in his 1973 book of that title, extolling the virtues of a decentralized economy.

And when it comes to power generation, what could be more decentralized than the harvesting of energy from everyday human activities? LED Styled Solar Cell Breaks Efficiency Record. A high-efficiency Alta Devices solar cell. Credit: Joe Foster, Alta Devices. Solar cell technology continues to advance and new research from the University of California, Berkeley demonstrates a new record breaking technique.

Designed to be more like and LED, the Berkeley engineers designed a solar cell that is able to emit light as well as absorb it, breaking the efficiency record along the way. WASHINGTON, April 19 – To produce the maximum amount of energy, solar cells are designed to absorb as much light from the Sun as possible. Documents/Conference_proceedings.pdf. Stick the Solar-Powered Window Socket on Glass and Watch it Charge. Here’s a design that rivals the light bulb in its ingenuity: the Window Socket. The disc-like socket designed by the Korean duo Kyuho Song and Boah Oh has a base of mini solar panels and a suction cup that ensures effective adhesion to virtually any transparent glass surface that is exposed to the sun.

The panels absorb solar energy, which is then converted into electric energy by an embedded converter. The End of Paying for Electricity by the Kilowatt-Hour. At the Bloomberg New Energy Finance Summit in New York City, a German utility questioned how long customers would continue to pay by the kilowatt-hour for electricity. “I think we’ll see something similar to telecom,” said Urban Keussen, SVP of technology and innovation at E.ON, one of the world’s largest investor-owned utilities. Instead of paying per minute or byte, many phone plans have moved to flat fees for services. Germany has more than 30 gigawatts of installed solar, the bulk of which is rooftop PV. Even with diminishing feed-in tariffs, the cost of electricity (about $0.35 per kilowatt-hour) still makes solar a good choice for many electricity customers.

And that leaves everyone else to absorb the cost of the electrical grid system. Learn More. Energy Backed Money. From An Energy-Backed Currency to a Consciousness-Backed Culture Th... Energy currency. Energy-Backed Currencies. Electricity-Generating Rental Bikes Fuel Hybrid Buses. If you live in a place with variable seasons, bike commuting can be a bit of a problem when the weather turns cold or wet.

Most people who choose not to own a car solve this problem by using mass transit when riding a bike isn’t practical. Designer Chiyu Chen has dreamed up a transit system that would let you bike when the weather is nice, earn credits for other methods of transportation, and use those credits when needed. The system, called Hybrid, essentially uses electricity created from riders of rental bikes to power public buses.

Public rental bikes are already available in some cities, and Chen’s idea would be able to retrofit on those bikes already in use. When the bikes are used, they would generate electricity that is then stored in the bike until the bike is returned to its station. The next time the user needs to take the city bus (which is an electric hybrid, of course), they can use the stored energy credits on their ID card to pay for the ride. Eddie's Blog on Energy & Physics: How to Implement an Electricity Backed Currency. Eddie's Blog on Energy & Physics: Questions & Answers about an Electricity-Backed Currency.

This Q&A session is an immediate follow up from the previous post. I wanted to put this in a separate article rather than attach it at the end of the last one so that it didn't get lost in the post on How to implement an electricity backed currency. In this Q&A discussion, I often reference Method#1, Method#2 and Method#3 from the earlier post today.