Energy sources in nature
Petrol tree
Babasu palm
Methane into petrol
John Davies OBE
Coastal Pilot - algae
Eutectic salts – Autonomous housing
Heat Chutes – solar plates, chimneys 1st floor southern walls.
ALGAE
Power stations, local, cooling towers, winter lighting with surplus electricity.
Liquid form for turbines & diesels.
As winter heating logs,
300 types, compressed, yield oil.
Phytoplankton oceanic fossil fuels (600 million years) but 2 or 3 days unfossilised.
Brushwood compost for central heating
Regenerative Breaking –bicycles etc.
Solar Ponds – for steam power.
Yin Yang Ponds – Martin Farnell
Solar Breeders – cement.
New solar concentrators – from garden size to villages and towns. Melt metals, Cooking, hot rock stores, make cement, etc.
OTECs – Ocean Thermal Energy Converters.
Solar Chimneys – generate electricity.
Diesel fuel crops – various including sunflower oil. Using G. Eco. methods.
Solar ovens,
Fluid Flywheels
Solar cells on car roofs for air/cons
Spinning Earth as an armature
OBVIOUSLY, (known processes):
Wind, wave, tidal, river bores, solar –great range very large to small, geothermal, reservoirs, Power Towers (USA & Spain), Twickenham sewage works runs on methane, organics crops and wastes, metal hydrides, biomass, elephant grass – yearly cropping, heat exchangers, earth-heat systems photovoltaics, Trombe walls, flat plate collectors, parabolic troughs and dishes, zinc for hydrogen, salt heat storage. Numerous hi-tech proposals of uncertain effects.