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Transparent Spray Film Solar Nano Paint EnSol AS has developed a new method to generate green energy out of a thin layer. It doesn’t require any special panel anymore as SolarWindow is a transparent spray film that you can spray to any glass surface to generate electricity.

The benefits:

Paint-able solar cells will indeed bring a revolution in alternative energy arena. Today, we put relatively expensive and uncomfortable solar panels on roofs to produce alternative energy. The new spray-on solar cells will reduce the cost as well and increase the comfort in setting up solar power technology. It can be painted on all surfaces where sunlight is available. You can spray the ultra-thin solar cells on your wall, rooftop, vehicle’s body, aircraft and ships.

According to the researchers, nano-particle inks can generate more energy than traditional solar powers. The South Florida University scientists say such solar cells will be five times efficient than the conventional solar panels. Moreover, many more people will go for green power, thanks to the simplicity in establishment of solar cells. Electronic vehicles can reap the required power while moving.

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Mitsubishi Electric Corporation and IHI Corporation will develop a space-based solar power source within the next 30 years.

 

Space-based solar power systems convert sunlight to microwaves outside the atmosphere.

Introduction to Spaced Based Solar Power Transmission

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More than twice the height of the Empire State Building.

Roger Davey is the CEO of listed company EnviroMission,
is on track to build a $750 million electricity generator.

HOW IT WORKS:

The Technology is made up of three components.

The Tower

The Tower is the thermal engine of the Solar Tower technology. In it, heat is transformed into
mechanical energy. The updraft inside the tower, produced by the rising lighter, hot air, is
essential for this. The higher the Tower, the greater the velocity of the column of air is and
the stronger the updraft. Therefore, a high-capacity power plant should have the highest Tower
possible.

The Canopy

The canopy converts a large percentage of the insolation into heat, which in turn, heats the air
trapped under the canopy roof or is stored in the ground soil thermal storage system. One of the
main objectives of the canopy is to lose as little heat as possible into the ambient.

The Turbines

The Turbines transform the energy from the heat and pressure of the air into mechanical energy
and the generator converts it into electricity. They work like the well known Kaplan Turbines
used in hydro-electric power plants.

EnviroMission Limited is developing Solar Tower renewable energy technology on a global scale.

The sun’s radiation is used to heat a large body of air under an expansive collector zone,
which is then forced by the laws of physics (hot air rises) to move as a hot wind through
large turbines to generate electricity.

A single power station development will have the capacity to supply renewable energy to more
than 100,000 typical American households or remove the equivalent of 220,000 typical motor
vehicles from the roads.

“Subject to mutual agreement of the project schedule and Guaranteed Maximum Price,
Hensel Phelps will be contracted to deliver the Construction Phase Services for the first
200MW Solar Tower power station development in La Paz, Arizona. Hensel Phelps is an
employee owned construction management, design builder and general contracting
company,established in the United States in 1937 with over 2,100 employees today
and annual construction revenues exceeding US $3 Billion, and bonding capacity
that exceeds US $5 Billion.” Source>>>>

THEMIS mission was originally a constellation of five NASA satellites to study energy releases from Earth’s magnetosphere, and found a major hole in ours. Life on Earth developed and is sustained under the protection of this variable magnetosphere.


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Terra Power claims huge amounts of depleted uranium, useless to today’s reactors, already exist in stockpiles around the world, nearly 700,000 metric tons and using a Terra Power Wave Reactor, an 8-metric-ton canister of depleted uranium could generate 25 million megawatt-hours of electricity – enough to power 2.5 million U.S. households for one year.

Depleted Uranium as Fuel Cuts Path to Less Waste

TerraPower’s traveling wave reactor (TWR) will offer a path to zero-emission, proliferation-resistant energy that produces significantly smaller amounts of nuclear waste than conventional nuclear reactors. After an initial start-up with a small amount of low-enriched material, this innovative reactor design can run for decades on depleted uranium – currently a waste byproduct of the enrichment process. An established fleet of TWRs could operate without enrichment or reprocessing for millennia. TerraPower has explored the advanced physics of this concept in detail with 21st-century computational tools and is moving forward with the overall plant design.

Huge amounts of depleted uranium, useless to today’s reactors, already exist in stockpiles around the world. Stocks of this material grow as uranium is enriched for the refueling of conventional reactors. The TWR directly converts depleted uranium to usable fuel as it operates. As a result, this inexpensive but energy-rich fuel source could provide a global electricity supply that is, for all practical purposes, inexhaustible.

There are currently 700,000 metric tons of this low-level nuclear leftover product in the United States. Using a TWR, an 8-metric-ton canister of depleted uranium could generate 25 million megawatt-hours of electricity – enough to power 2.5 million U.S. households for one year.

The traveling wave reactor uses the simplest nuclear energy fuel cycle – a once-through cycle. The reactor converts fissile material to its own nuclear fuel where it needs it, when it needs it. Once a wave is started with enriched material, a traveling wave reactor never needs fissile material and will continue producing power as long as depleted uranium is supplied. This means more stable and sustainable nuclear power than exists today.

A TWR can sustain a fission chain reaction given only non-fissile fuel such as depleted uranium because it sets up a slow-moving wave in which neutrons produced by fission reactions in the power-producing region convert adjacent fuel from fertile isotopes (such as U-238) into fissile isotopes (such as Pu-239).

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Intellectual Ventures is a private company notable for being one of the top-five owners of U.S. patents, as of 2011. Their business model has a focus on developing a large patent portfolio and licensing these patents to companies that infringe on them, or more controversially, potentially filing lawsuits against these companies if they refuse to take a license. This methodology has been referred to as “patent trolling” by detractors, although Intellectual Ventures defends their model by claiming credit for helping to build a liquid market for invention and aiding the small inventors who might otherwise be at the mercy of large corporations.