Brian Westenhaus, - OilPrice
Stephan: This is a new entrant into the emerging LENR technology and, perhaps, the one that is going to make it commercial. An energy revolution is struggling to be born.
The new leader is Brillouin Energy with a new process named the Hot Tube Boiler. Sterling Allen at PESN interviewed Brillouin’s Robert W. George II, CEO; and the inventor, Robert Godes, the Chief Technology Officer. Mr. Allen learned Brillouin has had two significant independent validations of their scientific model and claims. One of those was by Los Alamos National Laboratories. The other was by Dr. Michael McKubre of Stanford Research International (SRI), who subsequently joined their board of advisors.
What puts Brillion out in front first is the temperature output. Brillouin expects the test of the new Hot Tube model at SRI will be capable of delivering steam at temperatures from 400ºC to 500ºC (750-932ºF). These kinds of temperatures are called superheated or deliver ‘dry steam
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STEPHEN C. WEBSTER, - The Raw Story
Stephan: This is actually an ancient idea. The Egyptians used to build structures like large beehives which operated on the same principle. Old idea or new this could be very helpful for areas with water problems.
What if your source of electricity also gave you clean drinking water?
That’s the promise of new technology developed by the French engineering firm Eole Water, first conceived in the late 90s by a man who collected water from his air conditioner. He reasoned that if an air conditioner could help him accumulate water, so could other types of machines, so he set about merging the production of electricity and water.
Today, that dream is alive and well. Eole’s turbines are currently undergoing rigorous tests in Abu Dhabi following months of development and fine tuning in France. The company says that each turbine is capable of producing up to 1,000 liters of clean drinking water per day, or about 62 per hour, simply by filtering moisture out of the air and funneling it to a storage tank below.
Thibault Janin, Eole’s director of marketing, told CNN reporter Eoghan Macguire that the turbines can cost up to $790,000, and that the company is targeting poor, water-starved regions like Africa, South America and Indonesia first.
‘We have just started the commercial aspect of this product but the price is not that expensive when you compare it with the long term solution that it gives,
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JAMIE ODOM, - Cleantech Authority
Stephan: Nothing much new on Rossi, but LENR research continues and becomes more and more real. I think LENR as an energy source is on the horizon.
Grecian company Defkalion has reported that they plan to launch their new Low Energy Nuclear Reaction (LENR) system in July/August of 2012. Through their various tests, Defkalion’s design has been shown to produce as much as twenty times the amount of heat more than non-cold fusion systems.
Their system, which contains nine different reaction vesicles, is able to last around six months without recharging. Each vessel is able to produce 5 kW of heat. Thus, the system as a whole is able to produce a total of 45 kW of continuous power.
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The crux of Defkalion’s design is that they’ve been able to lower the amount of energy required for a nuclear reaction to occur, thus lowering the price of the system. They’re calling their version of LENR device The Hyperion, after the legendary man who is said to be the father of the Greeks.
In order to be secure in their findings, however, Defkalion has announced that they will have their system tested independently by seven different well-known organizations world-wide. The company has yet to release the names of six of these organizations and the time in which the system will be tested. The first group to test […]
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ALAIN SHERTER, - CBS MoneyWatch
Stephan: This is an extraordinary new trend or perhaps more accurately a reversion to discredited policy from early America. It constitutes further evidence concerning the breakdown of American society.
How did breast cancer survivor Lisa Lindsay end up behind bars? She didn’t pay a medical bill — one the Herrin, Ill., teaching assistant was told she didn’t owe. ‘She got a $280 medical bill in error and was told she didn’t have to pay it,’ The Associated Press reports. ‘But the bill was turned over to a collection agency, and eventually state troopers showed up at her home and took her to jail in handcuffs.’
Although the U.S. abolished debtors’ prisons in the 1830s, more than a third of U.S. states allow the police to haul people in who don’t pay all manner of debts, from bills for health care services to credit card and auto loans. In parts of Illinois, debt collectors commonly use publicly funded courts, sheriff’s deputies, and country jails to pressure people who owe even small amounts to pay up, according to the AP.
Under the law, debtors aren’t arrested for nonpayment, but rather for failing to respond to court hearings, pay legal fines, or otherwise showing ‘contempt of court’ in connection with a creditor lawsuit. That loophole has lawmakers in the Illinois House of Representatives concerned enough to pass a bill in March that would make […]
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AGOSTINO BONO, - Catholic News Service
Stephan: Here is some clarifying data on the extent of the priest sexual abuse of children crisis. There is some good news here, molestation seems to be on the decrease. But for the 10,667 individuals abused their lives were forever changed, and the cover up and lack of accountability continues.
WASHINGTON — About 4 percent of U.S. priests ministering from 1950 to 2002 were accused of sex abuse with a minor, according to the first comprehensive national study of the issue.
The study said that 4,392 clergymen-almost all priests-were accused of abusing 10,667 people, with 75 percent of the incidents taking place between 1960 and 1984.
During the same time frame there were 109,694 priests, it said.
Sex-abuse related costs totaled $573 million, with $219 million covered by insurance companies, said the study done by the John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York.
It noted, however, that the overall dollar figure is much higher than reported; 14 percent of the dioceses and religious communities did not provide financial data and the total did not include settlements made after 2002, such as the $85 million agreed to by the Boston Archdiocese.
The study, released in Washington Feb. 27, was commissioned by the U.S. bishops’ National Review Board, which also released its own report at the same news conference on the causes of the clergy sex abuse crisis that has rocked the church for the past two years.
The review board, named by the bishops and composed of prominent lay people, is monitoring compliance with […]
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