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AB 306 – powered roadways

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ASSEMBLY COMMITTEE ON TRANSPORTATION
Bonnie Lowenthal, Chair
AB 306 (Gatto) – As Amended: April 27, 2011

SUBJECT : Piezoelectric technology: roadways

SUMMARY : Requires the California Energy Commission (CEC) to
conduct research on piezoelectric transducers. Specifically,
this bill :

1)Requires CEC to conduct research on generating electricity
using piezoelectric technology under roadways and railways.

2)Requires the CEC to collaborate with the California Department
of Transportation (Caltrans) to establish a pilot project or
projects that would employ piezoelectric-based harvesting
technology if the CEC finds, based on initial research, that a
pilot project is appropriate.

3)Requires the CEC to include in its Integrated Energy Policy
Report to be adopted in 2013, a report on the findings of the
research performed pursuant to the provisions of this bill.

4)Authorizes the CEC to expend money in the Public Interest
Research, Development, and Demonstration Fund, upon
appropriation by the Legislature.

President Seizes Control Over All Food Production in America

On March 16, 2012, President Obama issued an executive order entitled, “NATIONAL DEFENSE RESOURCES PREPAREDNESS.” (http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2012/03/16/executive-order…)

This executive order states that the President alone has the authority to take over all resources in the nation (labor, food, industry, etc.) as long as it is done “to promote the national defense” — a phrase so vague that it could mean practically anything.

The power to seize control and take over these resources is delegated to the following government authorities:

(1) the Secretary of Agriculture with respect to food resources, food resource facilities, livestock resources, veterinary resources, plant health resources, and the domestic distribution of farm equipment and commercial fertilizer;

(2) the Secretary of Energy with respect to all forms of energy;

(3) the Secretary of Health and Human Services with respect to health resources;

(4) the Secretary of Transportation with respect to all forms of civil transportation;

(5) the Secretary of Defense with respect to water resources; and

(6) the Secretary of Commerce with respect to all other materials, services, and facilities, including construction materials.

This takeover is designed, in part, to “stockpile supplies” for the U.S. military. Authority for this total takeover of all national resources is granted with nothing more than the writing of a single statement that claims these actions are necessary to “promote the national defense.” As stated in the order:

the authority delegated by section 201 of this order may be used only to support programs that have been determined in writing as necessary or appropriate to promote the national defense:

(a) by the Secretary of Defense with respect to military production and construction, military assistance to foreign nations, military use of civil transportation, stockpiles managed by the Department of Defense, space, and directly related activities;

What all this means is that the U.S. government now claims the power to simply march onto your farm with guns drawn and demand all your crops, seeds, livestock and farm equipment.

Think I’m exaggerating? Read it yourself!

And for those living in denial who refuse to accept the reality of what’s happening in America, remember the following:

• When NaturalNews reported on the existence of the NDAA, we were told our reporting was misleading because Obama opposed it and wouldn’t sign it.

• When Obama betrayed America and signed the bill, we were told our reporting was misleading because “it didn’t apply to Americans.”

• When Obama admitted it did apply to Americans, he announced that he would choose “not to use it on Americans” but only by the grace of his restraint. Nobody who previously accused us of misleading the public had the integrity to offer us an apology and say, “Gee, you were right, it DOES apply to Americans!”

• Now Obama has seized control over all food, farms, livestock, water and transportation across America. How many brain-dead Americans will continue to live in denial and try to convince themselves this is not happening? Sticking your head in the sand does not make this go away…

NRC to send in more inspectors to failing San Onofre nuclear plant

Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2012 21:45:01 -0700

Subject: Nuclear Inspectors descend on San Onofre – NRC will have
meeting open to public to discuss preliminary findings

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission plans to discuss preliminary
findings with Edison at a meeting that will be open to the public,
with inspection team members available to answer people’s questions.
A date for that gathering won’t be set until much of the inspection
is completed. A written report with more extensive findings will be
issued within 30 days of the site visit.

Full article:

NRC to send in more inspectors to Edison’s failing nuclear plant
http://www.utsandiego.com/news/2012/mar/15/nuclear-inspectors-descend-san-onofre/

eEARTH

1861 Was the peak of the whaling industry and the discovery of kerosene as a fuel.

In 1896, armed with Tesla’s AC patents, George Westinghouse won the contract (against Edison and D.C.) to build the ancestor of today’s power generation facilities at Niagra Falls. (The War of the Currents)

Edison’s campaign to discredit AC power:

Our Earth behaves like an enormous electric circuit. Our atmosphere is actually a weak conductor and if there were no sources of charge, its existing electric charge would diffuse away in about 10 minutes. There is a ‘cavity ‘defined by the surface of the Earth and the inner edge of the ionosphere 55 kilometers up.

Schumann Resonance - Earth as a Capacitor

At any moment, the total charge residing in this cavity is 500,000 Coulombs (1Coulomb = 1A/second). There is a vertical current flow between the ground and the ionosphere of 1 – 3 x 10^-12 Amperes per square meter. The resistance of the atmosphere is 200 Ohms. The voltage potential is 200,000 Volts.

The Schumann Resonances are quasi standing wave electromagnetic waves that exist in this cavity. Like waves on a spring, they are not present all the time, but have to be ‘excited’ to be observed. They are not caused by anything internal to the Earth, its crust or its core. They seem to be related to electrical activity in the atmosphere, particularly during times of intense lightning activity. They occur at several frequencies between 6 and 50 cycles per second; specifically 7.8, 14, 20, 26, 33, 39 and 45 Hertz, with a daily variation of about +/- 0.5 Hertz. So long as the properties of Earth’s electromagnetic cavity remains about the same, these frequencies remain the same.

Given that the earth’s atmosphere carries a charge, a current and a voltage, he presence of electromagnetic waves is expected. The resonant properties of this terrestrial cavity were first predicted by the German physicist W. O. Schumann between 1952 and 1957, and first detected by Schumann in 1954. Much of the research in the last 20 years has been conducted by the Department of the Navy who investigate Extremely Low Frequency communication with submarines.

In 2012, NASA satellites recorded the sounds from our magnetosphere
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TESLA

A farad is the charge in coulombs which a capacitor will accept for the potential across it to change 1 volt. A coulomb is 1 ampere second. Example: The voltage across a capacitor with capacitance of 47 nF will increase by 1 volt per second with a 47 nA input current.

Voltas_Electroscope

The average lightning bolt contains 30,000 amperes.

The maximum voltage V induced in a coil of wire whose wire turns intersect a changing magnetic field is given by:

V = A x N x dB/dT

V = generator output voltage (volts)
A = cross sectional area of the coil of radius r (A =πr² in meters²)
N = number of turns of wire in the coil
dB/dT = the rate of change of the magnetic field (Tesla / sec)

The way I understand things, the voltage (V) generated by my construction is proportional to the strength of the magnets (M – tesla) and the rate at which they are spun (dM/dt tesla per sec), the area (A – m2) of the coil(s) and the number of turns of wire (N), so V = N x A x dM/dt so if you have N = 1000 turns, magnet surface strength (for 1 magnet) = 1 tesla, rate of turning = 5 turns a sec (so dM/dT = 5 tesla / sec), area A = 0.001m2 then V = 1000 x 0.001 x 5 = 5 V (peak).

The Magnets used in this construction are rated by the manufacturer at 13,200 Gauss or 1.32 Tesla.
The magnetic strength of the earth (stronger at the poles, weaker at the equator) is measured in nano Teslas.

After building and testing the electrical energy gathering coils (?), I’d like to look at Lenz’s Law.When Jeff showed our class a demonstration of power generation, I was impressed by the visible effects of Lenz’s law when an electrical load was placed on the hand-cranked generator.

” Lenz’s law states that the current induced in a circuit due to a change in the magnetic field is so directed as to oppose the change in flux or to exert a mechanical force opposing the motion.” – Heinrich Lenz, 1834

We are surrounded by this effect – and the work that it does.

I have reading and visualizing about the physics and models of magnetic waves, induction, electro-magnetic fields (EMF), magnetic moments, which brought me to Lenz’s law.
The subject is complex and filled with calculus the nuances of which are difficult to comprehend.
Looking at the “Cliff Notes” version, the concept is straight forward:

Field energy

The electric field stores energy. The energy density of the electric field is given by:

In general the incremental amount of work per unit volume δW needed to cause a small change of magnetic field δB is:
    \delta W = \mathbf{H}\cdot\delta\mathbf{B}.

Conservation of momentum

Momentum must be conserved in the process, so if q_1 is pushed in one direction, then q_2 ought to be pushed in the other direction by the same force at the same time. However, the situation becomes more complicated when the finite speed of electromagnetic wave propagation is introduced (see retarded potential).

This means that for a brief period of time, the total momentum of the two charges is not conserved, implying that the difference should be accounted for by momentum in the fields … Maxwell called this the “electromagnetic momentum” … Wikipedia .

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Antenna site Clark Dry Lake – undated photo

Faraday

The maximum voltage V induced in a coil of wire whose wire turns intersect a changing magnetic field is given by:

V = A x N x dB/dT

V = generator output voltage (volts)
A = cross sectional area of the coil of radius r (A =πr² in meters²)
N = number of turns of wire in the coil
dB/dT = the rate of change of the magnetic field (Tesla / sec)

Voltage (V) generated by my construction is proportional to the strength of the magnets (M – tesla) and the rate at which they are spun (dM/dt tesla per sec), the area (A – m2) of the coil(s) and the number of turns of wire (N), so V = N x A x dM/dt so if you have N = 1000 turns, magnet surface strength (for 1 magnet) = 1 tesla, rate of turning = 5 turns a sec (so dM/dT = 5 tesla / sec), area A = 0.001m2 then V = 1000 x 0.001 x 5 = 5 V (peak).

The voltage induced in the coils will are an AC signal.

The Magnets used in this construction are rated by the manufacturer at 13,200 Gauss or 1.32 Tesla.  The magnetic strength of the earth (stronger at the poles, weaker at the equator) is measured in nano Teslas.

This conversion utility was useful.

LENR: “Something real is happening.”

Twenty years ago it appeared, for a moment, that all our energy problems could be solved. It was the announcement of cold fusion - nuclear energy like that which powers the sun - but at room temperature on a table top. It promised to be cheap, limitless and clean. Cold fusion would end our dependence on the Middle East and stop those greenhouse gases blamed for global warming. It would change everything. But then, just as quickly as it was announced, it was discredited. So thoroughly, that cold fusion became a catch phrase for junk science. Well, a funny thing happened on the way to oblivion - for many scientists today, cold fusion is hot again. "We can yield the power of nuclear physics on a tabletop. The potential is unlimited. That is the most powerful energy source known to man," researcher Michael McKubre told 60 Minutes correspondent Scott Pelley.
– CBS News, 60 Minutes
Several labs have blown up studying LENR and windows have melted
Bushnell writes, “indicating when the conditions are right prodigious amounts of energy can be produced and released.”
 Jeff McMahon, Contributor, Forbes
Jeff McMahon, Contributor, Forbes
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Source for above interview.

 Although there is a quite long history of "anomalous" observations, including transmutations, the "recent" consideration of Low Energy Nuclear Reactions (LENR) began in the late 80's with the Pons/Fleischmann observations and assertions regarding what they termed "Cold Fusion." However, subsequent difficulties with experimental replication and an utter lack of convincing theoretical explication forced research in this arena "underground" with minimal financial support.  The current situation is that we now have over two decades of hundreds of experiments worldwide indicating heat and transmutations with minimal radiation and low energy input. By any rational measure, this evidence indicates something real is occurring. So, is LENR "Real?" Evidently, from the now long standing and diverse experimental evidence. And, yes - with effects occurring from using diverse materials, methods of energy addition etc. This is far from a "Narrow Band" set of physical phenomena.  The next consideration is "What is real? What is happening?" For NASA Langley, the epiphany moment on LENR was the publication of the Widom-Larsen Weak Interaction LENR Theory. It is currently under study and experimental verification (or not) at Langley. The theory appears to explain nearly all the various and often variegated experimental observations and shifted the LENR theoretical focus from some way of "fooling" Particle Nuclear Physics/The Strong Force to Condensed Matter Nuclear Physics, Collective Effects, The Weak Force and "Heavy Electrons."  Beta decay results in a significant release of energy  The Strong Force Particle physicists have evidently been correct all along. "Cold Fusion" is not possible. However, via collective effects/ condensed matter quantum nuclear physics, LENR is allowable without any "miracles." The theory states that once some energy is added to surfaces loaded with hydrogen/protons, if the surface morphology enables high localized voltage gradients, then heavy electrons leading to ultra low energy neutrons will form-- neutrons that never leave the surface. The neutrons set up isotope cascades which result in beta decay, heat and transmutations with the heavy electrons converting the beta decay gamma into heat.  The theory indicates several key issues/circumstances are required to enable-to-optimize LENR and explains the various experimental observations, including the often long initiation times required in some experiments. If the theory is experimentally validated in detail, it provides the understanding to shift LENR research from discovery into engineering development. The theory indicates energy densities, some several million times chemical. The current experiments are in the 10's to hundreds range. However, several labs have blown up studying LENR and windows have melted, indicating when the conditions are "right" prodigious amounts of energy can be produced and released. There are some six or so groups claiming device outputs in the 100 watt range and three others claiming kilowatts. Efforts are ongoing within NASA and other organizations to validate (or not) these claims. It should be noted that these devices are essentially "Edisonian," the result of attempts at experimental "discovery" vice ab initio design from the weak interaction theories per se.  Therefore, the LENR situation and outlook is the following:      Something real is happening.     The weak interaction theories suggest what the physics might be.     There are efforts ongoing to explore the validity of the theories.     There are continuing Edisonian efforts to produce "devices" mainly for heat or in some cases transmutations.     There are efforts to "certify" such devices.     NASA LaRC has begun LENR design studies guided by the Weak Interaction Theory  We are still far from the theoretical limits of the weak interaction physics for LENR performance and are in fact inventing (in real time) the requisite engineering, along with verifying the physics. When we concentrated upon nuclear engineering beginning in the 1940's we "jumped" to the strong force/ particle physics and leapt over the weak force/condensed matter nuclear physics. We are going "back" now to study and hopefully develop this arena.  The "precautionary principle" demands that we core down and determine realism for this arena, given the truly massive-to-mind boggling benefits – solutions to climate, energy and the limitations that restrict the NASA Mission areas, all of them. The key to space exploration is energetics. The key to supersonic transports and neighbor-friendly personal fly/drive air vehicles is energetics, as simplex examples of the potential implications of this area of research.  There are estimates using just the performance of some of the devices under study that 1% of the nickel mined on the planet each year could produce the world's energy requirements at the order of 25% the cost of coal.  No promises, but some seriously "strange" things are going on, which we may be closer to understanding and if we can optimize/engineer such, the world changes. Worldwide, it is worth far more resources than are currently being devoted to this research arena. There is a need to core down and determine "truth" and if useful, the need to engineer and apply.
by Dennis Bushnell, Chief Scientist, NASA Langley Research Center
Also:
NASA’s basement nuclear reactor, David Szondy gizmag