Scott MacLeod's Pragmatic Sustainable Energy

Writings, Art and Research

Energy Autonomy Concept ~
& Abundance by Design

Friends,

To reduce carbon output greatly, let's produce worldwide Art Haines' SunneV - Infinity Miles per Gallon Solar Car -

Infinity Miles per Gallon: Art Haines and the Solar Car

Art Haines designed this solar car, which goes 20-30 mph, at home in Maine, and made it with high school kids.

And let's move much commerce and the economy into Second Life. Al Gore's "Inconvenient Truth" film projects a median ocean level rise projection of 20 feet (7 meters}. Clipper ships for commerce, too ...

Here are some examples of energy autonomous concepts for generation, buildings, vehicles and devices.

Energy Generation

Ted Talks: Bill Gross: Great ideas for finding new energy ~

ted.com/index.php/talks/bill_gross_on_new_energy.html

Energy Autonomous Concept ~ Buildings

Here's how to solar-power your house: science.howstuffworks.com/solar-cell5.htm

In general, deploy solar panels (and/or wind turbines), inverters, batteries (powerfromsun.com), and add a hookup for your hybrid car; ~ sell excess energy back to the electrical grid. For example:

Darmstadt Technical University's Louvered Panel Solar House
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Technische_Universit%C3%A4t_Darmstadt_-_Solar_Decathlon_2007.jpg

Solar Decathlon - U.S. Department of Energy
solardecathlon.org

Friends' Committee on National Legislation's Green Building in Washington D.C.
fcnl.org/building/

Energy Autonomous Concept ~ Transportation

I'd like to see an energy-autonomous Venturi Eclectic-like power system, in a Toyota Estima Hybrid (Japan only) vehicle, that goes 70 mph, for the U.S. Why doesn't the U.S. have 500 million of these, {or the world a few billion}?

Venturi Eclectic
venturi.fr/electric-vehicules-eclectic-concept.html

Solar cars: auto.howstuffworks.com/solar-cars.htm

And why not catamaran sailboat ferries and clipper ships, with solar panels for decks, and solar sails?

And, here are a solar bicycle and a recumbent solar trike.

Energy Autonomous Concept Devices

Solar home devices - solarhome.org/solaroutdoorlights.html

And here are Amory Lovins' "Rocky Mountain Institute's" 'abundance by design' core principles - rmi.org/sitepages/pid60.php.

And, why not create a solar-powered, virtual world Universe, converging and networking Second Life, OpenSim, Google Earth, Croquet, etc., in which to 'inhabit,' but also to replace carbon-producing processes which are causing global warming~climate change, as well as to replace, and thus reverse, other environmentally destructive processes, like deforestation or 'building developments,' on earth?

Warm regards,
Scott

home: http://scottmacleod.com