How Victoria's Secret Saved the National Guard During Hurricane Sandy. On Monday night, Hurricane Sandy hit the armory of the New York Army National Guard’s 69th Infantry Regiment, leaving the soldiers without power, hot water, or anything but the most rudimentary means of communicating with the outside world.
So the next morning, the Regiment’s officers made an emergency plea — to the producers of the Victoria’s Secret fashion show. As they had done for the last three years running, the lingerie company was holding its annual television event at the Regiment’s historic armory, located at 25th street and Lexington Avenue in Manhattan. For the show, the producers had hauled in eight massive 500 kilowatt generators.
Of course, the producers said, we’d be happy to help. Hours later, the lights flashed back on. “We were dead in the water until Victoria’s Secret showed up,” says Capt. It’s one of many unexpected turns the New York Army National Guard has been forced to take as it copes with the chaotic aftermath of Hurricane Sandy. But it worked. How Solar-Based Microgrids Could Bring Power to Millions. The village of Tanjung Batu Laut seems to grow out of a mangrove swamp on an island off the coast of Malaysian Borneo.
The houses, propped up over the water on stilts, are cobbled together from old plywood, corrugated steel, and rusted chicken wire. But walk inland and you reach a clearing covered with an array of a hundred solar panels mounted atop bright new metal frames. Thick cables transmit power from the panels into a sturdy building with new doors and windows. Step inside and the heavy humidity gives way to cool, dry air. Fluorescent lights illuminate a row of steel cabinets holding flashing lights and computer displays. The building is the control center for a small, two-year-old power-generating facility that provides electricity to the approximately 200 people in the village. Many of the corrugated-steel roofs in the village incongruously bear television satellite dishes. “Microgrids provide [a new way] to bring energy services to off-grid communities. Power Hungry. ‘Toilet Of The Future’ Sought By Bill And Melinda Gates Foundation, $370 Million At Stake. Toilet of the future wanted.
Reward — more than $300 million. The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation is on a mission to find a new model for the toilet that would reinvent the model for the 2.5 billion people around the world without access to modern sanitation, the Associated Press reported. The competition to find the toilet of the future has attracted scientists and inventors from across the globe, with models like one using microwave energy to transform human waste into electricity and another that captures urine to use for flushing. Another converts excrement into charcoal that can then be burned for energy. Facebook. ABB-73-WPO_Microgrids.pdf (application/pdf Object) Microgrids for the developed world? In places like India where the electric grid needs massive updating to reach its users and provide them with adequate power, microgrids, which are loosely defined as a systems of distributed power resources that can parallel or island from the grid, are proving an attractive alternative.
But it’s not just the developing world where many are asking whether microgrids could have value. Part of what is driving interest in microgrids in the developed world is concern about the reliability of the grid. In a recent Pike Research webinar, Horizon Energy Group CEO Steve Pullins cited data showing that in the U.S. the average outage duration is 120 minutes and getting worse. Brazilian Scientists Have Developed A Vacuum-Energy Motor, page 3. Originally posted by GoldenAge Originally posted by rickyrrr Well, conventional batteries are built to store or return electrical energy, either by pushing a current against its voltage (much like pushing against a spring) or allowing the battery's own voltage to push against some other load.
How come these guys found a new kind of energy that batteries not previously designed to handle are now seemingly capable of transforming? It would then appear that their vacuum energy converting batteries are the secret magic ingredient in their system wouldn't you think? -rrr rickyrrr, you have been raising a lot of excellent and important questions and I appreciate that. Keppean Scalar Motor. From PESWiki January 24, 2013 Update The Keppe Motor group is now in production of a fan that consumes on average 1/3 less electricity than a fan powered by a conventional motor.
They are made in a production facility Cambuquira, Brazil by a group of people who live together, sharing common meals, and socializing together. They work through their pathologies in weekly group meetings so that problems between them do not get out of hand. They love each other and the work they do. The Keppe motor runs cool, has very high and consistent efficiency across all speeds, is easy to make. This page was posted by Sterling D. Electromagnetism - Is the Keppe Motor "real"