Dear Readers,

What an opportunity for a major power to make a statement to the world about the future of its energy supplies, that is, the way it supplies its energy.

The triple disaster in the Miyagi/Iwate/Fukushima region of Japan has been a tragedy not seen in Japan since the WW2. It has exposed the fragility and the risks of building Nuclear Power stations in an earthquake zone and especially near the waterfront.

Nuclear Power is an incredibly useful source given the alternatives of oil and coal but the dangers have shown themselves to outweigh the advantages. The true potential of this disaster will not be realized until maybe 30 years from now when some of the children and young adults start to show signs of the various diseases that are brought on by the exposure to radiation. The mental states of some will be irreparable.

What can we do about it? Unfortunately it is too late for those already exposed but not for the remainder.

Hopefully the government and various political and business leaders can learn and change the way we have our power delivered to us.

I have been in contact with a company in China for a few months now with regards to helping them market solar panels in the world. We use so little of the one major sustainable power source available to us. The sun provides enough energy to supply the foreseeable needs of more than 100 Earths every year. The biggest problems are harnessing and distribution. The methods of capture and processing of that power are already available. Future equipment designs are going to improve the efficiency and lessen the cost and even now there are many solar panel users that have spare capacity and contribute to the national grid.

We need a concentrated effort by our forward thinking scientists, physicists, engineers, inventors and then the politicians and industrialists, to make this happen. Already there are users of solar power panels contributing excess energy to the Electricity grid so why not have every building with mandatory solar panels to supplement the national supply?
Some of the modern buildings in Tokyo even have methods of harvesting electricity from movement and pressure. Running machines, staircases, rotating doors, pressure pads in the street all are proven areas where electricity can be generated. Just imagine, if a durable type of pressure strip could be introduced on the expressways around Tokyo, how much power could be delivered to the grid. Probably enough to cut the cost of everyone’s journey in half. And if you were using an electric car in the first place travel costs could almost be zero. Just think of the saving in oil/gasoline usage that could mean. As Japan is a heavy importer of oil this could mean a huge saving in national costs. This type of energy is clean energy and does not pollute the atmosphere so we then get another bonus for our planet.

I have just mentioned solar and pressure pad energy production but add to that energy from water movement from streams to rivers to the tides at sea. This technology has been around for over one hundred years, probably over 2000 years if you take some of the ways water has been used to supplement energy. If you take air as another ‘water’ type source and use it to turn turbines you have another source of energy which has already been developed but not popularized in a small way.

An underground train pushes a wall of air in front of it and drags airflow after it in a captive wind tunnel. If there were small wind turbines under every platform part of the cost of running the subway system could be recovered. Add that to the output from pressure pads fitted at the doorways to every train plus a pressure pad at every alighting point and there could almost be an excess of energy available to run the system.

The huge windmill machines that we see are very noisy and costly to set up but what about small ones on every building.

Anywhere there is movement there is the opportunity to ‘capture’ some energy-the problem is in processing, storage and delivery. These are areas where our bright young minds should be working on. I am sure a lot of them are but I feel that many bright ideas in these areas are squashed through
everything from development costs to vested interests.

Currently there is a lot of research into wireless energy transfer ie power supplies and already there are some very spectacular demonstrations of this. Walking through a magnetic field and thus charging a battery.

Using the ideas and inventions of Tesla and Faraday gives us another power source, magnetism, where we are still only scratching the surface in our ability to use it and yet it is around us all the time and is one of the most abundant sources of energy in our world.

We progress in our ability to make memory chips and processors smaller and smaller physically and to store larger and larger amounts of information and very soon, when quantum computing becomes the norm, all that will be obsolete and we will head off in another direction.

If the combined efforts of those super brains had been applied to magnetism and solar energy for the same period of time we would probably have the ability to teleport people and items and communicate along magnetic lines.

There could even be a spread of wealth in such a way that a lot more people get to eat every day and have clean water to drink but I doubt it – human nature being what it is. However it would be nice to try.

If these disasters in Japan cause some of these things happen in the future rebuild, what a testament to the people of Fukushima, Iwate, and Miyagi and a way forward for Japan.

Kind Regards,

Tony

Duglen International

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