Top 100
Since April, 2006, the New Energy Congress has been systematically voting on the following
energy technologies, reviewing a new technology every 2-4 days, and weighing it against the
criteria they established. The reports (http://www.pureenergysystems.com/NEC/reports/top100/)
of their assessments are published monthly, and are reflected in the sequence shown below.
Top 10
(Needs to be no less than 1 year to commercialization to be listed here)
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Directory:Electrolysis > Joe Cell - Apparently harnesses Orgone energy via electrically charged water as the "gate" or medium through which the aetheral energy is drawn. Allegedly able to power a vehicle, with no fuel line connected. Numerous installations claimed.
Additional Top 100
(Needs to be at least less than 2 years from commercialization to be listed here)
[Note: This numbering should continue with "11" not "1"]
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Directory:Solar > International Automated Systems - Utility scale solar presently in process of being commercially installed for first time; alleged to produce electricity at 3-5 cents per kilowatt-hour. Highly-efficient bladeless turbine has wide range of waste-heat-harnessing applications. Methanol production technique will draw CO2 out of the environment, reversing global warming. ( http://iaus.com/)
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Directory:Engines > Gun Engine - Canadian inventor, Kazimierz Holubowicz, has come up with an environmentally friendly and transmission-free engine based on the same mechanics as how a bullet is shot from a gun. Initial test results showed 92% efficiency.
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Directory:Wind > TMA Vertical Axis wind turbine
(http://pesn.com/2005/11/07/9600201_TMA_vertical_axis/) - Design creates pull on the back side contributing to 40%+ wind conversion efficiencies, doesn't kill birds, runs more quietly, doesn't need to be installed as high, blends better with landscape. Generating costs estimated at 2.5 cents per kilowatt-hour. Production prototype Spring 2006. ( http://www.tmawind.com/)
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Directory:Solar > SA thin film solar eclipses others - South African solar panels consist of a thin layer approximately five microns thick (a human hair is 20 microns thick) of a unique metal alloy that converts light into energy at a fraction of the cost. The photo-responsive alloy can operate on virtually all flexible surfaces. Expected in market in 2007.
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Directory:Wind > Offshore Wind (http://www.freeenergynews.com/Directory/Wind) - Winds are stronger and more stable; economy of scale. (GE)
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Directory:Wind > Wind Farms (http://www.freeenergynews.com/Directory/Wind) - economy of scale. Produces in range of grid prices. (GE)
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Geothermal (http://www.freeenergynews.com/Directory/Geothermal) - Needs to be large to be economical in range of grid cost.
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Directory:Tidal Power > Water Wall Turbine - Massive paddle wheel turns close to the speed of the water, not endangering the fish, while efficiently converting tidal flow into electricity. Installation cost in the range of 1000 USD/KW for a 40 MW unit, with 1 year to production. Energy production in range of 3 cents / kW-h. Moving parts are ~4 m above water. ( http://www.wwturbine.com/)
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Deep in R&D but Promising, in top 100
Once fully developed and ready for commercialization, these are likely to emerge into the top 10.
- Directory:Nuclear >
Randell Mills "hydrino" device - New field of novel hydrogen chemistry.
BlackLight Process generates light, power, plasma, and a vast class of new
compositions of matter. (http://www.blacklightpower.com/)
- Sines Reluctance Generator (Potomac Energy Project) -
Electrical generator involves superconductivity, magnetic energy,
and flux gates for harnessing Zero Point Energy. (NEC Specialist: Eddie Sines)
- Directory:Nuclear >
Colliding Plasma Toroid Fusion - Electron Power Systems Ltd.
is developing a process that remains stable without magnetic confinement,
by using background gas pressure for confinement instead, could provide clean,
non-polluting energy technology at one-tenth the cost of present energy generation. (http://electronpowersystems.com/)
- Directory:Nuclear >
Focus Fusion -
Purports to be a far more feasible and profoundly less expensive approach to
hot fusion, in contrast to ITER. Lawrenceville Plasma Physics' is developing the
Plasma Focus Device for hydrogen-boron nuclear fusion. 4-7 years to commercial.
1 cent / kWh anticipated energy generation cost. (http://www.focusfusion.org/)
(NEC Specialists: Thomas Valone)
- Directory:Nuclear >
Dr. Bogdan Maglich's aneutronic MIGMA fusion process
(http://www.google.com/search?q=Bogdan+Maglich%27s+aneutronic+MIGMA+fusion+process)
- was highly praised by MIT and actually closer to overunity than any other fusion system,
inexpensive (in economy of scale), and non-radioactive.
- Directory:Electromagnetic >
EV Gray Motor -
Gray motor was the first market-ready prototype replication of
Nikola Tesla's radiant energy phenomenon. Never made it to market
for reasons that his nephew described as "paranoia, secrecy, and greed".
Numerous attempts to resurrect the technology.
- Directory:Electromagnetic >
Godin & Roschin (Searl-like)
(http://www.freeenergynews.com/Directory/Roschin_and_Godin/)
- Directory:Electromagnetic >
Bearden's MEG -
Electromagnetic generator without moving parts which includes a
permanent magnet and a magnetic core. (http://cheniere.org/)
(NEC Specialist: Leslie R. Pastor)
- Directory:Electromagnetic >
Wingate Lambertson solid state system
(http://www.google.com/search?q=Wingate+Lambertson+solid+state+system)
- Directory:Batteries >
Nanotube Super Capacitor Battery -
MIT researchers are developing a battery based on capacitors that
utilize nanotubes for high surface area, enabling near instantaneous charging
and no degradation. Estimating ~5 years to commercialization.
- Directory:Tidal Power >
Tidal and River Turbine by University of Southampton -
The University of Southampton's minimalist design significantly reduces
the number of moving parts, and is fully assembled prior to installation,
reducing costs. Estimates five years to commercialization.
- Directory:Thermal Electric >
Spinning Power from Waste Energy
(http://pesn.com/2005/12/14/9600210_Atmosphere_Vortex_Engine/)
- Louis Michaud’s Atmosphere Vortex Engine - Tamed-tornado,
anchored-vortex concept said to offer a vast increase in electrical output
using waste heat from existing power plants. Small prototypes are promising.
(http://www.vortexengine.ca/)
- Directory:Engines >
Jirnov Vortex Engine
(http://pesn.com/2005/04/25/6900086_Jirnov_Vortex_Turbine/) -
25 kW prototype shown to have strong torque,
using half the energy, with half the emissions.
$1 million grant awarded General Vortex Energy by the Navy to build 125-kW prototype.
Nine U.S. patents.
- Directory:Solar >
Solar Tower - Solar Towers are like an inverted funnel, with a wide skirt to
collect air to then turn a turbine in the tower.
(http://www.enviromission.com.au/) (http://www.solarmissiontechnologies.com/)
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Speculative Concepts
Not in top 100 due to lack of adequate documentation, but worth mention.
- Permanent magnet motor systems
(http://www.freeenergynews.com/Directory/MagneticMotors/) -
Several companies and inventors percolating, some not public knowledge,
with possible release 2006, some possibly for open source. (NEC Specialist:
Sterling D. Allan)
- Deriving Power from Atmospheric Pressure
Differences over Geographically-Spaced Sites
(http://pesn.com/2005/10/27/9600188_Atmospheric_Cold_Megawatts/) -
New method of power generation proposes to harness the difference
in atmospheric pressure between locations 100 to 200 miles apart,
with reliability comparable to coal, nuclear, gas, and hydro,
but at a cost substantially lower, and with no pollution.
(http://www.coldenergyllc.com/)
(NEC Specialist: Sterling D. Allan)
- Wave Propulsion (http://pesn.com/2005/09/21/9600170_Wave_Propulsion/) -
Brief History identifying why the approach has been abandoned by major entities,
and suggesting how to revive this yet-to-be-fully-actualized approach.
(NEC Specialist: Sterling D. Allan)
Housekeeping
About
The above list is a working draft document by the New Energy Congress (NEC),
designed to come up with a listing the top 100 clean energy technologies,
continually updated to reflect new developments and innovations.
If you know of a technology that should be listed here, you may submit (http://www.pureenergysystems.com/submit/index1.html)
it for review.
The ranking is based on the criteria adopted by NEC.
A more rigorous method for determining ranking of technologies based
on those criteria is yet to be programmed
(http://peswiki.com/index.php/Congress:IT_Person_Needed).
This page was first approved
(http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEC-Forum/surveys?id=12265096)
by NEC on Feb. 28, 2006 as an official NEC working document
(not necessarily the contents and sequence at that time, but the page idea).
Subsequent to that, the Congress has begun to vote one technology at a time,
every few days, and began releasing a monthly report
(http://www.pureenergysystems.com/NEC/reports/top100/)
beginning May 1, 2006.
The first technologies listed are ranked according to those assessments
by NEC members.
Format
Please seek to use the following format when presenting a technology:
- Name of technology, with hyperlink to PESWiki index - Brief synopsis of the technology, the team promoting it, and its stage of development, in sentence form. 10-35 words. Hyperlink should preferably be to an index page at PESWiki that includes NEC commentary on the technology. (url of company) (NEC specialist: name)
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Guidelines
As a matter of a general guideline, NEC endeavors as a body to spend about 50%
of our collective attention and efforts on conventional renewable energy technologies,
and the remaining 50% on non-conventional, or "fringe" clean energy technologies.
(Approved March 10, 2006
(http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEC-Forum/surveys?id=12274171))
A Word to the Wise:
You've heard the saying,
"He who is one step ahead is a genius; he who is two steps ahead is a crack pot."
That saying applies to the world of ideas. In the marketplace, it can be rephrased as follows:
"He who is one step ahead is very rich; he who is two steps ahead is very dead --
or at least very persecuted." If you have a "two steps ahead"
technology that is nearly ready for introduction into the market,
you might consider purposely ratcheting it back a notch or two so that is resembles a
"one step ahead" technology. Then, once you have your foot in the door,
and your reputation established firmly, the "two steps ahead" will only be one step ahead.
Probably the only way a two-steps-ahead technology could be introduced would be through
open source, where a simple set of plans for an easy-to-build device are published openly
for the world, impossible to stop by the powers that be.
Related Lists
- The Top 10 Emerging Environmental Technologies
(http://www.livescience.com/environment/top10_emergingenvironment_technologies.html)
- LiveScience.com list includes #6 harness waves and tides; #5 ocean thermal
energy conversion;
#4 solar; #3 hydrogen power; #2 desalinization; #1 make oil from anything.
(June, 2006)
See also
- New Energy Congress main page
- PESWiki home page
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