Energy perspectives

Amazing sometimes how articles appearing on the same day in the media can set off thoughts and ideas in your own head. In the same way that the best innovations are often new combinations of existing ideas, so reading one article and then another can cause a greater effect than either on their own.

That's how I felt on my journey in this morning reading first that Sweden plans to be world's first oil-free economy. How marvellous, I thought, what a great forward-thinking attitude....only to turn the page to read that BP profits of £11bn disappoint the City. That's right, £11bn profits were disappointing; does anyone at the stock exchange read that and appreciate how absurd it is?

What stuck out to me in the article about Sweden was that their Minister for Sustainable Development (an innovation in itself) said that "A Sweden free of fossil fuels would give us enormous advantages"...by which she meant business advantages, because the country would be free from fluctuating oil prices and any future energy crises.

Obviously, the Global Ideas Bank has been a keen campaigner for progress being measured in terms of wellbeing, life satisfaction and happiness (see here)...but the fact is that there is a hugely powerful purely economic case for taking the lead from the Swedes. Even George Bush seems to be waking up to the fact that relying on oil from a region that is, in large areas, an antagonistically anti-American zone, is perhaps not a great long-term policy. So why are the governments dragging their heels? The UK is already behind schedule to reach 10% of renewable energy by 2012...and yet they continue not to address these issues. Businesses themselves are starting to lead government on such matters, in the knowledge that they will not be able to dodge the climate change bullet.

And these issues seem to connect like a Buzan mind-map for me across areas of social innovation: our short-termist political system leads to short-term thinking (and an underestimation, as Geoff Mulgan put it in a policy seminar, of what they can achieve in the long-term), so social innovations are needed to reform politics accordingly; the power of big business and corporations needs to be addressed; environmental innovations need to be given the chance to flourish and replicate; and the money:progress ratio needs to be broken, with a greater focus on life satisfaction and wellbeing....and so on and so forth.

The problems are out there; but so are the solutions. I'm optimistic, given the human capacity to imagine how things might otherwise be, that is to innovate and adapt, that we can overcome the obstacles that face us. But I might have to stop reading the paper to stay that way....

 

Comments

[Orlowski Zygmunt]

METOZ will be able to create A NEW KIND OF CLEAN ENERGY.
METOZ IN THEORY IS THE PERPETUAL MOTION MACHINE.
My idea is very difficult for understanding. It is not difficult for engineer - mechanic, who knows very good the Pascal’s law and even-arm lever.

THE CLEAN ENERGY
The entire world is looking for a source of clean energy. I have discovered a certain paradox basing on which a machine called METOZ can be built which by harnessing the gravitation of our EARTH can produce clean energy.
The energy producing process is demonstrated in:
http://www.nets.pl/~metozor/paradox.html
and can be very easily confirmed by an experiment.
I am also in possession of a set of calculations which prove that the METOZ machine:
1/ does not consume water / 39 A5-pictures /;
2/ does not consume compressed air / 39 A5-pictures /;
3/ produces energy to the outside = 4 839 kGm during a „swing cycle” /39 A5-pictures /;
/ this is a „weight cycle” = the centre of gravity of the water in the METOZ machine sinks ( downward movement ) /
4/ energy is produced / released to the outside = 44 600 kGm during the „straightening cycle” / 39 A5-pictures /.
/ this is a “pressure cycle” = the water mass centre of gravity inside the METOZ machine travels upwards (upward movement) /
Features: 1/; 2/; 3/; 4/, of the machine owing to appropriate dimensions of individual elements of the lever mechanism.
The METOZ has an even-arm lever of a 1.72 m length. The centre of gravity of the lever lies beneath the lever suspension point. The METOZ is equipped with two cylinders of a 1.6 m diameter each. Piston sidewalls do not contact directly with cylinder walls. The lever swing changes between 0 and 25 dgr
Figures ( 3 x 13 x 4 = 156 ) present temporary, consecutive action situations at intervals of . The middle figure presents the machine and the side figures the position of the left and right cylinder and the mathematical description of these situations.
In the past I have made two models, which confirmed the legitimacy of my theoretical assumptions concerning the METOZ machine. I have got photographs.
I am looking for a person who would be interested in my invention. I can offer ample information. I look forward to hearing from you.

http://www.nets.pl/~metozor/three_levers.html

13 - 03 -2005 Gdynia, Polska Zygmunt Orłowski
P.S. The term “gravitational paradox” use in this description relates to the mathematical and physical description of the action of the METOZ-machine.
THE EARTH GRAVITATION CAN BE THE SOURCE OF CLEAN ENERGY

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By
Orlowski Zygmunt
Poland 2005
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COMMENTS CONCERNING MACHINE “METOZ”
“METOZ” is able to realize the cycle “deflection” and the cycle “straighening.” Both cycles are in accordance with current physic’s laws. “METOZ” as machine can not work and hand over the energy because it would be inconsonant to the law of conservation of energy.
I propose to execute the following intelectual process:
we have found ourselves in the Europe of XVII century. We know the trigonometry in the scope of being occured for “METOZ.” We know what is the even-arm lever and moment of force too. Just appeears Mr. Baise Pascal / 1623–1662/ and he publishes his hydraulics law with adequated experiment. All thinkers are sure that this law is correct and quite real. This time someone invents machine “METOZ”. Now turn up the following questions:
1/ why the implementation of the cycle “deflection” is impossible?
2/ why the implementation of the cycle “straightening” is impossible?Both groups: opponents and followers of bulding “METOZ” live in XVII–th century and they not know that:
a/ the idea of an “energy” will be introduced into science scarlerly in mid. of XIX century,
b/ the law of conservation of the energy will be exist scarlerly after 1847 y.
QVESTION!!!
WHAT KIND OF RATIONALY ENTERELY / ARGUMENT/ CAN BE DREAMED UP THE OPPONENTS OF BUILDING THE MACHINE “METOZ’ IN XVII CENTURY.
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Please open GOOgle and klick metozor and after : index of metozor At is site that explains technical details in easy to understand language. example : http://www.nets.pl/~metozor/for_greenpeace.html or
http://www.nets.pl/~metozor/energy_for_everybody.html
Everyone is able to build just the model of METOZ machine and test it. Please, have a look at http://www.nets.pl/~metozor/supplement.html Perhaps METOZ is some duplicating machine of a clean energy.
I am inventor and owner of Metoz machine invention. Everyone can take absolutely and legitimate the METOZ invention and build the Metoz machine. I can help only. I can not build METOZ. I am moneyless. Thank you for your time and interest.