Nikola Tesla, inventor of alternating current motors, did the basic research for constructing electromagnetic field lift-and-drive aircraft/space craft. From 1891 to 1893, he gave a set of lectures and demonstrations to groups of electrical engineers.

Cornwall-based Wave-tricity has secured £4m in EU funds through the Welsh Government to develop and test a new device called the Ocean Wave Rower

The latest project to develop and test a wave energy device off the Pembrokeshire coast will be launched today. The £5.8m scheme by Cornwall-based company Wave-tricity has secured £4m in EU funds through the Welsh Government. The money will be used to develop and test a new device called the Ocean Wave Rower.

It’s the latest investment in marine energy to be made in Wales, with EU funding of £12m already having been committed to projects including Minesto’s Deep Green tidal array being developed in Anglesey and Marine Power Solutions’ WaveSub technology which is due to be deployed in Pembroke Port in December.

Finance Secretary Mark Drakeford said: “Marine energy is an important sector and Wales has excellent natural resources which can be harnessed. I am delighted this investment will bring another significant energy project to Pembrokeshire.

“It’s very encouraging that this scheme, which has such potential is being developed in Wales, particularly as it will lead to good employment and business opportunities in the local area.”

The Ocean Wave Rower, like other wave energy devices, is designed to generate electricity by capturing the motion of the waves.

Two-year project

The two-year project aims to pave the way for full-scale deployment of the technology and the development of a long-term sustainable business in West Wales following the successful testing.

The EU funding, which will be matched by £1.8m from the company, is expected to lead to the creation of new jobs in engineering and operations at Wave-tricity in Pembrokeshire and supply chain opportunities for local businesses.

Matthew Fairclough-Kay, managing director at Wave-tricity, said: “This announcement marks a key milestone for the company. Everyone on the Wave-tricity team is looking forward to starting operations in Pembrokeshire and bringing the prospect of clean wave energy a step closer to commercial success.

“The support of the Welsh Government and EU funding demonstrates a clear commitment to sustainable economic growth. Allied to a strong base of local expertise, this signals a bright future for marine energy in Wales. It’s great to be on board.”

WaveSub tested in Plymouth

Last month Swansea-based Marine Power Systems announced it had completed scaled tank testing of its WaveSub device in collaboration with experts from the University of Bath. The testing took place at Plymouth University’s Coastal, Ocean and Sediment Transport (COAST) laboratory.

It has now engaged with Astute 2020 to research simulations that will allow it to de-risk the build and test stage of the WaveSub power take off float.

Professor Drakeford added: “Worth around £650m every year, EU funds are vitally important to Wales. This is yet another positive example of how we are investing EU funding to build a thriving marine energy sector which will deliver a range of sustainable, economic benefits.

“It is our priority to ensure Wales does not lose a penny of the EU funds we currently receive, following the UK’s withdrawal from the European Union. We are in on-going discussions with the UK Government about guaranteeing funds for projects agreed after the Autumn Statement.

“We will continue to maximise the use of our existing EU funds, approving schemes and projects over the next two years, to ensure Wales gets the full benefit of this important source of funding.”

By Chris Kelsey

(Source:  www.walesonline.co.uk; 6 Sept 2016; http://tinyurl.com/jtkelkg)

In many parts of the world, the only way to make germy water safe is by boiling, which consumes precious fuel, or by putting it out in the sun in a plastic bottle so ultraviolet rays will kill the microbes. But because UV rays carry only 4 percent of the sun’s total energy, the UV method takes six to 48 hours, limiting the amount of water people can disinfect this way.

Now researchers at the Department of Energy’s SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory and Stanford University have created a nanostructured device, about half the size of a postage stamp, that disinfects water much faster than the UV method by also making use of the visible part of the solar spectrum, which contains 50 percent of the sun’s energy.

In experiments reported today in Nature Nanotechnology (“Rapid water disinfection using vertically aligned MoS2 nanofilms and visible light”), sunlight falling on the little device triggered the formation of hydrogen peroxide and other disinfecting chemicals that killed more than 99.999 percent of bacteria in just 20 minutes. When their work was done the killer chemicals quickly dissipated, leaving pure water behind.

“Our device looks like a little rectangle of black glass. We just dropped it into the water and put everything under the sun, and the sun did all the work,” said Chong Liu, lead author of the report. She is a postdoctoral researcher in the laboratory of Yi Cui, a SLAC/Stanford associate professor and investigator with SIMES, the Stanford Institute for Materials and Energy Sciences at SLAC.

Nanoflake Walls and Eager Electrons

Under an electron microscope the surface of the device looks like a fingerprint, with many closely spaced lines. Those lines are very thin films – the researchers call them “nanoflakes” – of molybdenum disulfide that are stacked on edge, like the walls of a labyrinth, atop a rectangle of glass.

In ordinary life, molybdenum disulfide is an industrial lubricant. But like many materials, it takes on entirely different properties when made in layers just a few atoms thick. In this case it becomes a photocatalyst: When hit by incoming light, many of its electrons leave their usual places, and both the electrons and the “holes” they leave behind are eager to take part in chemical reactions.

By making their molybdenum disulfide walls in just the right thickness, the scientists got them to absorb the full range of visible sunlight. And by topping each tiny wall with a thin layer of copper, which also acts as a catalyst, they were able to use that sunlight to trigger exactly the reactions they wanted – reactions that produce “reactive oxygen species” like hydrogen peroxide, a commonly used disinfectant, which kill bacteria in the surrounding water.

Molybdenum disulfide is cheap and easy to make – an important consideration when making devices for widespread use in developing countries, Cui said. It also absorbs a much broader range of solar wavelengths than traditional photocatalysts.

Solving Pollution Problems

The method is not a cure-all; for instance, it doesn’t remove chemical pollutants from water. So far it’s been tested on only three strains of bacteria, although there’s no reason to think it would not kill other bacterial strains and other types of microbes, such as viruses. And it’s only been tested on specific concentrations of bacteria mixed with less than an ounce of water in the lab, not on the complex stews of contaminants found in the real world.

Still, “It’s very exciting to see that by just designing a material you can achieve a good performance. It really works,” said Liu, who has gone on to work on a project in Cui’s lab that is developing air filters for combating smog. “Our intention is to solve environmental pollution problems so people can live better.”

(Source:  www.nanowerk.com; Aug 15, 2016; http://tinyurl.com/ho47j9r)

THE QEG IS THE REAL DEAL!

There are over 100 QEG’s that are being built in over 40 countries and this is just  that we know of. We know this because one of the manufacturers that we work with that makes the QEG cores has sold over 100 of them. Also the QEG academy personally works with over 60 groups and individuals who are building QEG’s world wide.

There are highly skilled professionals who are building QEG’s  from the following backgrounds: NASA, Lockheed Martin, Los Alamos National Laboratory, and the United Nations. These people are building QEG’s because they understand what it is and they see its electrical potential. Of course we’ll never disclose anyone’s personal information or their names, (so please don’t ask!)

In case you thought that the QEG was “going away”, or maybe it “didn’t work out”,  or if you had any doubts about the project…

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There is no other energy project in existence that is like the QEG. Its open sourced, its being co-developed, it is grass roots, its accessible to the average person and its scaled large enough to power a home. The QEG is truly THE PEOPLES FREE ENERGY DEVICE and it has the ability to change everything.

Because of the nature of the QEG project, this makes us one of the biggest threats to the oil industry. And because of this, we receive more controlled opposition, and suppression attacks than any other free energy device on the planet. Bar none. The QEG is the highest targeted and most heavily trolled free energy project online. Why is this?

This is because the QEG is the closest that we have ever been to having free energy available to everyone.