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Cellphone Business Ethics

Thu, 05 May 2011 03:54:14 +0100

Water Memory

Mon, 25 Apr 2011 23:28:22 +0100

Polaroid

Wed, 20 Apr 2011 17:06:48 +0100

“Marketing is what you do when your product is no good”

''If you dream of something worth doing and then simply go to work on it and don't think anything of personalities, or emotional conflicts, or of money, or of family distractions; ... it is amazing how quickly you get through those 5,000 steps.”

“Every creative act is a sudden cessation of stupidity.”

“Science is a method to keep yourself from kidding yourself”

“Politeness is the poison of collaboration”

“The most important thing about power is to make sure you don't have to use it.”

“Its not that we need new ideas, but we need to stop having old ideas.”

“Any problem can be solved using the materials in the room.”

-Edwin Land

Although he led the Polaroid Corporation as a chief executive, Land was a scientist first and foremost, and as such made sure that he performed "an experiment each day". Despite the fact that he held no formal degree, employees, friends, and the press respected his scientific accomplishments by calling him Dr. Land. The only exception was the Wall Street Journal, which refused to use that honorific title throughout his lifetime.

Land often made technical and management decisions based on what he felt was right as both a scientist and a humanist, much to the chagrin of Wall Street and his investors. From the beginning of his professional career, he hired women and trained them to be research scientists. Following the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. in 1968, he led Polaroid to the forefront of the affirmative action movement.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edwin_H._Land

Holistic Change

Sat, 28 Apr 2012 12:48:36 +0100

"Jacque Fresco is an engineer, a designer and an innovator, that deals with physical structures, towards an attainable future! Jacque Fresco does not and has not shown the capacity, to understand the role of the social cultural movement, in this period, of our history, his comments amplifies it, in fact, his mechanical view impedes him, to grasp the oneness of this project!"
- Hans Roy

As some of you already know, that has been one of my concerns. The lack of understanding not just from Jacque Fresco but, from other coordinators who not only do not know the work of people on "the ground" and more so have little capacity to show genuine appreciation for others. Many of these reasons why people are concerned now are similar to why I stopped coordinating (since January) and no longer advocate the movement but, simply share the ideas and I continue to work with those who embrace a sense of community or as mentioned, "oneness". Although I feel that’s a crucial part of change, I understand that this “oneness” concept was only implied in some of the methodology behind a holistic approach to possibly resolving our social issues via The Venus Project but, this subjective and abstract beauty that some felt and had translated that into how well we treated each other is not something that was pushed by the movement by definition of its coordinating manuals.

This is an example of why The Venus Project and ideas like these are a part of what is needed to make change more so from a technical standpoint but, what happens to the relevance of emotional motivations or what I consider the focus of energy and the perpetuation of "oneness" that some of us bring up regularly and addressing the “fan” mentality? This is not the movement for those concepts and has been considered counter to the movements efforts. As some of you may have heard over and over again "we are not here to make friends" meanwhile Peter Joseph has stated that its "real" relationships that will really bring change. So you have an artist (Peter Joseph) and as an artist one develops methods of evoking reactions and actions that are usually without directly stating they wish to have you feel in that manner and not needing credentials to be good at it, which is the reason most of us know of The Venus Project. Meanwhile who have Jacque Fresco who's analogies are often technical and clearly do not relate to most of our realities.

The very foundation of this was conflicting - the emotions and opinions of an artist to serve as a bridge for change meanwhile, you have the stigmatizing of opinions and the disconnect of a technician towards the advocates and a disconnect between online coordinators and those who have a better capacity to regurgitate whats on The Venus Projects websites and manuals of The Zeitgeist Movement, who embrace this disconnect as a method towards progress absent of emotion towards those who are interacting in real life with real people with real emotions.

Now its being seen on a global scale, issues that have been present since the beginning of this but, often that as been ignored or dismissed as irrelevant, since often what is considered as important to a movement like this one, is if its coming from someone who is recognized as having a valid opinion or is more relevant due to some form of credentials/proof or popularity amongst the movements leaders...in a leaderless movement (not coincidentally another contradiction) and now the dismissing of these opinions and the “little” voices has blow up in the movements face. Although in words/text, this was a horizontal structure, it is clear that in action, it is a vertical one and one that was generated on the emotions it evoked through creative expression, not proof or a scientific method. I hope some of you will see that The Venus Project’s concepts and ideals like these are part the tools that can be used to create a better society but, clearly not all of the tools. The relevance of human energy (emotions), oneness, critical thinking, mass empowerment, embracing of the abstract/ideas/opinions and real science - this is a more holistic and a more all inclusive approach towards a better tomorrow...in my opinion.

- Roberto Enamorado

http://remaker.org/remaker-blog/holistic-change

Air Car

Thu, 07 Apr 2011 04:01:11 +0100

What powers you can power machines.

GASLAND Screening (Free and Open to the Public)

Thu, 07 Apr 2011 13:54:54 +0100

I'm taking my first steps in organizing around the issues of hydrofracking. Join me for Sundays screening. If you cannot make Sunday, I strongly recommend you check this out Tuesday. This is an issues the directly affects everyone in New York as it has done to people all over the world.

April 10, Sunday, 2pm-5pm
April 12, Tuesday, 6:30pm-9:30pm
J.A.S.A.
200 East 5th Street (corner of 3rd Ave.)
New York, NY
Stop Hydraulic Fracturing Now! Before it contaminates our water supplies, destroys our precious ecosystem and poisons us and future generations.
Following the film a discussion will be led by a speaker from United for Action (http://www.unitedforaction.org).

To RSVP visit http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=201995006489305 or email me at REmaker.org@gmail.com...walk-ins welcome :) Bring anyone and everyone. Thanks for your time hope to see you there.

There Is No Energy Crisis

Thu, 07 Apr 2011 03:58:28 +0100

Our technical reality…

There is no energy crisis * Energy is more than abundant * What we have on our hands is a human development crisis!

*This document is simply to create awareness on energy options. The Zeitgeist Movement is not claiming to develop or have an affiliation to the companies or technologies mentioned below.

Sphelar - Unlike conventional flat solar cells, Sphelar® takes on a spherical shape, which makes it capable of power generation with greater efficiency and flexible applications. This tiny solar cell measuring a mere 1.8 mm across holds huge potential, standing ready to contribute to the realization of everything from ubiquitous network society to clean-energy society. See-through Solar Modules for custom design inspiring the next generation of PV applications There is no hidden side: Both sides generate electricity wherever located is the light source. High transparency from 20 to 80 %; Varied shapes from curved surface to pliable sheet.

http://www.kyosemi.co.jp/product/pro_ene_sun_e.html

PowerSat Corporation.- Space-based solar power is a method of collecting solar energy so that it can be distributed for use all over the earth. With this amazing technology, space-based solar power is the future of power generation. The first benefit of solar power satellites or powersats is the fact that space-based solar power collection is virtually unaffected by the day and night cycles of the sun, with only minor effects from orbital eclipse. On the earth’s surface, solar panels can only collect solar energy for a maximum of 9 hours per day and when there is cloud cover this number is even lower. Space-based solar power can be collected 24 hours per day for the majority of the year and this means at least 5 times more space-based solar power can be collected than that collected by solar panels on the surface. That’s 5:1 in favor of space-based solar power. In areas where it is frequently cloudy, this number jumps to 25:1. Space-based solar power is a method of using solar power satellites to collect solar energy so that it can be distributed for use all over the earth. With this amazing technology, space-based solar power is the future of power generation. What else makes space-based solar power a viable energy source for the future? It is fast. The energy can be transmitted from the solar power satellites to the receiving stations and then between receiving stations in just seconds. This is all accomplished via a wireless transfer of the energy and the result is dispatchable, baseload power, which can then power homes and businesses as effectively as the more traditional forms of power generation.

http://www.powersat.com/

Geothermal - Mannvit Engineering is a leader in geothermal power development with decades of experience developing geothermal resources. The company offers a comprehensive suite of design and consulting services that can take a project through from start to finish.
Mannvit’s geothermal energy projects involve harnessing high-temperature geothermal fields and designing power plants that produce electricity and hot water (combined heat and power), as well as designing geothermal power plants that produce electricity utilizing low-temperature geothermal fields via binary cycle. Geothermal power plants utilize heat energy from the Earth to produce electricity and sometimes for combined heat and power (CHP). They are cost effective, reliable and environmentally friendly. And, though previously restricted to certain geographic locations, technological advances in drilling and plant design allow for the development of what were once thought to be non-viable resources. As a result, more and more public and private entities are looking into geothermal power as part of their strategy to mitigate global warming while still meeting growing energy demands.

http://www.mannvit.com/

As fuel prices soar, Alaskan officials announced the exploration of the state's volcanoes, saying they could be exploited to provide energy for thousands of homes. Companies are being invited to lease the rights to explore geothermal resources beneath Mount Spurr, a snowcapped 11,070-foot volcano that most recently erupted in 1992 showering much of Anchorage with volcanic ash. According to experts, America is only just waking up to the ancient power source lying beneath dozens of states that has the potential to supply as much as 25 percent of the nation's energy needs.

OTEC (Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion) - is a unique technology to generate electric power by converting thermal energy accumulated in the ocean.
Due to its characteristics, OTEC is now being regarded as one of the most hopeful means to contribute to the today's energy issues; renewable and environmental-friendly energy supply. Power Generation from Waste Warm Water and Heat

http://www.xenesys.com/english/index.html

http://www.voith.com/index_e.php

Wave Power - are generated by wind passing over the surface of the sea. As long as the waves propagate slower than the wind speed just above the waves, there is an energy transfer from the wind to the waves. Both air pressure differences between the upwind and the lee side of a wave crest, as well as friction on the water surface by the wind, making the water to go into the shear stress causes the growth of the waves.^[4]

WindFloat - The innovative features of the WindFloat dampen wave and turbine induced motion, enabling wind turbines to be sited in previously inaccessible locations where water depth exceeds 50m and wind resources are superior. Further, economic efficiency is maximized by reducing the need for offshore operations during final assembly and commission.

Regenedyne Wind Turbine Demo CGI for proposed 2GW Magnetic Levitated wind Turbine. Efficient Frictionless Power Generation with less maintenance, compared to VAWT. No oil change or replacement of the bearings, gears. Since, MAGLEV does NOT require such. Current bearing technology has forced wind turbine designers into horizontal spindle three bladed wind turbines. In this design the huge blades are connected to a spindle in the center. The bearings that support the spindle and control the pitch of the blades (which can be hundreds of feet long) see huge pitch-moment loading, some of which is manifest as torque energy that is focused through the center spindle. The target speed for the spindle is 18 or 20 rpm and the bearings holding the spindle are mounted in a huge casting which also contains a large gearbox stepping the speed up to 1800 to 2000 rpms which allows for the proper surface speed relationship between the coils and magnets. It is necessary to invert or condition the current, which is expensive. This gearbox is full of many large bearings, gears and castings; for a 2 MW turbine the gearbox can easily weigh 30 tons. This gearbox needs to be mounted on the top of a pole more than 150 feet in the air and be able to support the turbine blades under full-force wind conditions. MAGLEV Power Generation, the pitch moment ratio is closer to 1-to-1 then the 100-to-1 as with a horizontal spindle design.

http://www.regenedyne.com/

Bloomenergy - built with our patented solid oxide fuel cell technology, Bloom's Energy Server™ is a new class of distributed power generator, producing clean, reliable, affordable electricity at the customer site. Fuel cells are devices that convert fuel into electricity through a clean electro-chemical process rather than dirty combustion. They are like batteries except that they always run. Our particular type of fuel cell technology is different than legacy "hydrogen" fuel cells in four main ways: Each Bloom Energy Server provides 100kW of power, enough to meet the baseload needs of 100 average homes or a small office building... day and night, in roughly the footprint of a standard parking space. For more power simply add more energy servers.

http://www.bloomenergy.com/

Kinetic energy generator - Researchers at the University of Southampton have developed a kinetic energy generator which derives electrical energy from the vibrations and movements that occur within its environment. Developed by Dr Steve Beeby and his team at the University's School of Electronics & Computer Science (ECS), the tiny generator (less than 1 cubic cm in size) is 10 times more powerful than anything yet developed in the field and could form the basis of technology for self-powered pace makers and other embedded applications that require periodic replacement of batteries. The generator produces electrical energy using an arrangement of four magnets on a cantilever with a wound coil located in the magnetic field. The magnet size and coil properties are designed to produce energy from low vibration levels and the device has been shown to convert 30% of the power supplied from the environment into useful electrical power.

Stirling Engines - The Stirling engine is a heat engine that is vastly different from the internal-combustion engine in your car. Invented by Robert Stirling in 1816, the Stirling engine has the potential to be much more efficient than a gasoline or diesel engine. But today, Stirling engines are used only in some very specialized applications, like in submarines or auxiliary power generators for yachts, where quiet operation is important. Although there hasn't been a successful mass-market application for the Stirling engine, some very high-power inventors are working on it.

This engine can run using only the heat from your hand.

A Stirling engine uses the Stirling cycle, which is unlike the cycles used in internal-combustion engines.

The gasses used inside a Stirling engine never leave the engine. There are no exhaust valves that vent high-pressure gasses, as in a gasoline or diesel engine, and there are no explosions taking place. Because of this, Stirling engines are very quiet.
The Stirling cycle uses an external heat source, which could be anything from gasoline to solar energy to the heat produced by decaying plants. No combustion takes place inside the cylinders of the engine.

There are hundreds of ways to put together a Stirling engine.

Radio Wave-Powered Cell Phone

Solar-powered cell phone prototypes and rumors abound, but Nokia has a battery-less alternative power source for our cell phones lined up: radio waves. The company told MIT's Technology Review that it is working on technology to suck up enough power from ambient radio waves emitted by Wi-Fi transmitters, cell phone antennas, and television masts to keep a cell phone charged.

Solar Panels With Nanoantennas

Conventional solar panels have only 40 percent efficiency, meaning they can only convert 40 percent of the total solar energy they receive into usable electricity. More recently, however, a new variant of solar panel with 80 percent efficiency is being developed. This solar panel is designed to work even after sunset. In this new technology, solar energy is harnessed by using nanoantennas i.e. the square spirals of conducting metal embedded into a sheet of plastic which can be easily folded. The earth absorbs the infrared energy of the Sun and releases it after sunset. The new solar panels absorb this infrared energy released by the Earth at night and direct energy from the sun during the day. Thus they harness energy during the day as well as at night. At a size of 1/25th of the human hair diameter, they are very small, but when it comes to efficiency, they overshadow their conventional counterparts with immense ease.

Scientists at the University of Wisconsin-Madison may have discovered a new, somewhat strange way to efficiently produce hydrogen fuel without the need for "dirty" catalysts like oil.

The new ingredients: water submersion and noise pollution.

The team has made piezoelectric crystals of zinc oxide that, when immersed in water, absorb vibrations and develop areas of strong negative and positive charge. These charges rip apart nearby water molecules, releasing hydrogen and oxygen gas.

"This is like a free lunch," says lead researcher Huifang Xu. "You are getting energy from the environment just like solar cells capture energy from the sun.

Harnessing sound power - You know how everyone's talking about using solar panels and wind turbines to Go Green. While thats good and all, those aren't the only sources of renewable energy; there's another one that is almost never used: sound. Although it does take a fair amount of noise to generate a descent amount of electricity, but if you think about it, say you harness all the noise from a football game or the hustel and bustel of a large city, by the end of the day you have a lot of power, and some stranger unknowingly will have given you free electricity.

Self-propellant vehicles - had been in the offing since late 1700s in Europe, and by the middle of 1800, engineers had come out with models that ran on steam, combustion as well as electrical energy. While the steam powered cars lasted only till the 1920s, and production of electric cars too ceased beyond the first decade of the twentieth century, combustion engines caught on and underwent development at various stages, to contribute to the progress of the automobile industry.

Engineair - The Di Pietro motor concept is based on a rotary piston. Different from existing rotary engines, the Di Pietro motor uses a simple cylindrical rotary piston (shaft driver) which rolls, without any friction, inside the cylindrical stator. The space between stator and rotor is divided in 6 expansion chambers by pivoting dividers. These dividers follow the motion of the shaft driver as it rolls around the stator wall. The motor shown is effectively a 6 cylinder expansion motor.

MDI Air Car - India's largest automaker is set to start producing the world's first commercial air-powered vehicle. The Air Car, developed by ex-Formula One engineer Guy NÃ¨gre for Luxembourg-based MDI, uses compressed air, as opposed to the gas-and-oxygen explosions of internal-combustion models, to push its engine's pistons. Some 6000 zero-emissions Air Cars are scheduled to hit Indian streets in August of 2008.

Thank for your time. I hope this introduces you to some different energy options. Please spread the word while you can.

A new reality that benefits everyone is possible...but it’s up to us to make it happen. Thanks again.

-Roberto Enamorado

2002 US Total health spending and compare that to the new cases of breast cancer in the US

Sun, 03 Apr 2011 21:16:08 +0100

I can see why doing fund raisers for benevolent causes can give people a wonderful feeling and is a wonderful idea in the intention but, there is something terribly wrong happening here.

Look at the total health spending and compare that to the new cases of breast cancer in the US. Also compare that to the Asian countries on the left. Although this problem has several factors that go unexplored in this example, I hope you can see the value in what this shows. www.bit.ly/hPBxQr

For a working graph, visit this link www.bit.ly/hPBxQr at gapminder.org

The NYC Premiere of “The Coca-Cola Case” at NYU School of Law

Sun, 03 Apr 2011 21:01:58 +0100

The NYU Coalition To Keep Coca-Cola Off Campus

April 26, 2010: The NYC Premiere of “The Coca-Cola Case” at NYU School of Law

Please join us for the New York City premiere screening of:

The Coca-Cola Case

Monday April 26 at 7:00PM – Doors open 6:30PM

Tishman Auditorium, NYU School of Law – 40 Washington Sq South, New York, NY 10012

The Coca-Cola Case, an award-winning documentary, focuses on the Coca-Cola Company’s human rights abuses and the powerful legal and organizing efforts to hold Coke accountable for its assassination of union activists in Colombia.

Coke has tried to censor this film and suppress its distribution. Barry Diller, a prominent NYU Trustee, is a member of Coke's board of directors.

The film will be followed by a reception with filmmakers Germán Gutiérrez and Carmen Garcia, Corporate Campaign boycott activist Ray Rogers, SINALTRAINAL de Colombia union member Camilo Romero, and NYU student activists working to reinstate the Coke ban at NYU.

Please RSVP at our facebook page: http://www.facebook.com/#!/event.php?eid=114104688613831&ref=ts

Sponsored by: The NYU Coalition To Keep Coca-Cola Off Campus in conjunction with Campaign to Stop Killer Coke; Coalition for Legal Recruiting (CoLR); Earth Matters; Graduate Student Organizing Committee -- GSOC/UAW Local 2110; Law Students for Economic Justice (LawSEJ); North American Congress on Latin America (NACLA); Students Creating Radical Change; Trade Unionists in Solidarity with Colombia; The Union of Clerical, Administrative and Technical Staff at NYU -- UCATS/AFT Local 2882; National Lawyers Guild; Oxfam NYU; LUCHA; Law Students for Human Rights; Por Colombia NYU. As of 4/18/10. List in formation.

Film Trailer: http://films.nfb.ca/the-coca-cola-case/medias/the-coca-cola-case-trailer_large.mp4

Free admission. Public attendance is welcome. For more information on this and future events: boycottcokenyu@gmail.com

Government to impose martial law?

Thu, 07 Apr 2011 03:51:58 +0100