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Weekly Consciousness Tune Up-Yehuda Berg 6/29/08-7/5/08

Published on June 29, 2008

Kabbalists differentiate between two types of jealousy.

The first is the one we’re all familiar with, whether we want to admit it or not. It’s the pinch in our hearts when our friend gets what we want. That part of us that says, “why him, why not me?”

This is the worst type of jealousy we can ever have.

When we question why someone else is getting something instead of us, that’s it, we’re cooked. Why? Because when we question why our friend would receive something, we actually disconnect from our friend.

We create division. What happens the moment we create division with our friend? We create a separation between us and the Light. The Light, of course, being the best, most reliable, loving friend we could ever have.

Not only do we not have what we want, but we’re also not happy with our friend; we’ve created a wall between us and them - and ultimately between us and the Light. This keeps us from getting what we want.

It’s a vicious circle. Nothing good comes of it.

What shall be done?

Kabbalists explain there is a form of jealousy that is very positive. It’s that voice that says, “Wow, I’m so happy for my friend, I’m glad he has that ! You know what, I want that too! I’d be glad to work for that!”

The first type of jealousy emanates purely from the realm of ego and separation. The second is motivational, and it empowers us to work with the law of cause and effect. It shows us the reason we want what our friend has is because they were sent into our life to make us want what they have - to show us that we can have it too!

Of course, we have to work for it, but when we’re chasing down our dream, there can’t be a consciousness of lack.

In fact most of us wear the Red String to protect us from evil eye, but do we know where evil eye comes from, and what its effects are? Evil eye is the very consciousness of lack. It’s the automatic thought that fires off the second we envy someone, “why don’t I have that? They don’t deserve it - I do!”

Spiritually, it is equated to stealing energy from a person.

This week, find the things you are jealous of. Realize the reason you are seeing these things is to show you - you can have it too!

Next time you’re jealous, go positive.
All the best,

Yehuda

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How to tame a tornado/Atmospheric Vortex Engine

Published on June 26, 2008


Wind power is for wimps. Louis Michaud wants to turn twisters into the renewable energy source of the future.

Of all the natural phenomena that wreak havoc on planet Earth, tornadoes are perhaps the most fearsome. With wind speeds reaching upward of 300 miles (500 kilometres) an hour and funnels often exceeding two miles (three kilometres) in width, the most violent tornadoes can flatten neighbourhoods and mow down trees as though they were flimsy corn stalks. Now one scientist is trying to tame tornadoes, and use their awesome power as a renewable energy source.

Louis Michaud, a retired Exxon petrochemical engineer who lives in Ontario, Canada, has proposed using the wind of twisters to power turbines, which in turn could shuttle energy to thousands of homes, or power plants and factories. Farfetched as it may sound, Michaud has won some reputable backers, including noted hurricane expert Kerry Emanuel of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the U.S. “Conventional wisdom says that forces of nature are way too great for us to be able to control a process like a tornado or a hurricane,” Michaud says. “But if you realize a tornado is actually a source of energy, then it’s just a matter of learning how to control it.”

Michaud’s method isn’t to chase twisters down, but to create them in what he calls an atmospheric vortex engine. The engine will work, Michaud says, much like the fireplace in your living room. Warm air will be drawn into a circular central chamber and allowed to rise up a vortex. As the warm air ascends, it draws air through turbines located on the periphery that convert the energy of the air’s motion into electricity.

The force with which the air rises is determined by the temperature difference between the rising warm air and the surrounding cooler air. The elegance of the atmospheric vortex engine, Michaud says, is that as the warm air enters the central chamber, it continually passes through angled ducts that cause the air to rotate like a natural tornado. The air can then twist its way into the upper atmosphere, creating what Michaud calls “a virtual chimney” in which the temperature difference between the top and the bottom is enough to generate energy.

Michaud’s idea has earned a $30,000 grant from Ontario’s Centre for Energy, and serious attention from private companies looking to invest. Michaud is also in the process of applying for a larger grant, some $3 million, from Ontario’s Ministry of Innovation. He has already built working models of his vortex engine, though none to full scale. (A finished engine will be on the order of 500 feet—150 metres—in diameter and 120 feet—35 metres—tall). Chief among Michaud’s concerns is proving he can control the tornadoes he wants to create. His first demonstration is slated for this spring in Sarnia, Ontario.

“What’s necessary at this point is to do proofs of concept,” says Emanuel, the hurricane expert at MIT. Michaud’s “idea is pretty simple and elegant. My own feeling is that we ought to be pouring money into all kinds of alternative energy research. There’s almost nothing to lose in trying this.”

Others agree. “His basic idea really works,” says University of Michigan Assistant Professor Nilton Renno, who has devoted his career to studying tornadoes and water spouts. “But it becomes sticky when you think about the issues of control. If a strong wind comes along while you’re trying to keep a vortex in place, what happens?”

Michaud has a number of responses to such a question, the most obvious being that, were conditions to become unsafe, he could shut off the air supply at the base of the engine. Other options include “vortex quenching”—dousing the twister with cold water—or the injection of air with reverse rotation. Besides, Michaud envisions his contraptions being most useful in a setting like the cooling tower of a power plant, where the waste heat from the plant’s operations could provide the warm air the vortex engine needs at its base. Were a strong wind to come along, an operator could switch the waste heat off, terminating the twister’s source. “Most power plants are in fairly isolated locations, and just by switching over to our concept they could derive 40 percent additional power,” Michaud says. “A 500-megawatt plant could increase its electrical output to 700 megawatts [enough to power a city of 500,000]. Now that’s the power of renewable energy.” If trying to tame tornadoes sounds silly, the prospect of harnessing their power certainly is not.
Ode Magazine, by Andrew Tolve, illustration by Charles Floyd, March 2008

Atmospheric Vortex Engine

Mechanical energy is produced when heat is carried upward by convection in the atmosphere. A vortex-engine-charles-floyd-small.jpgprocess for producing a tornado-like vortex and concentrating mechanical energy where it can be captured is proposed. The existence of tornadoes proves that low intensity solar radiation can produce concentrated mechanical energy. It should be possible to control a naturally occurring process. Controlling where mechanical energy is produced in the atmosphere offers the possibility of harnessing solar energy without having to use solar collectors.
The Atmospheric Vortex Engine (AVE) is a process for capturing the energy produced when heat is carried upward by convection in the atmosphere. The process is protected by patent applications and could become a major source of electrical energy. The unit cost of electrical energy produced with an AVE could be half the cost of the next most economical alternative.

A vortex engine consists of a cylindrical wall open at the top and with tangential air entries around the base. Heating the air within the wall using a temporary heat source such as steam starts the vortex. The heat required to sustain the vortex once established can be the natural heat content of warm humid air or can be provided in cooling towers located outside of the cylindrical wall and upstream of the deflectors. The continuous heat source for the peripheral heat exchanger can be waste industrial heat or warm seawater. Restricting the flow of air upstream of the deflectors regulates the intensity of the vortex. The vortex can be stopped by restricting the airflow to deflectors with direct orientation and by opening the airflow to deflectors with reverse orientation. The electrical energy is produced in turbo-expanders located upstream of the tangential air inlets. The pressure at the base of the vortex is less than ambient pressure because of the density of the rising air is less than the density of ambient air at the same level. The outlet pressure of the turbo-expanders is sub-atmospheric because they exhaust into the vortex.

The Atmospheric Vortex Engine has the same thermodynamic basis as the solar chimney. The physical tube of the solar chimney is replaced by centrifugal force in the vortex and the atmospheric boundary layer acts as the solar collector. The AVE needs neither the collector nor the high chimney. The efficiency of the solar chimney is proportional to its height, which is limited by practical considerations, but a vortex can extend much higher than a physical chimney. The cylindrical wall could have a diameter of 200 m and a height of 100 m; the vortex could be 50 m in diameter at its base and extend up to the tropopause. Each AVE could generate 50 to 500 MW of electrical power.

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Anything that grows ‘can convert into oil’…Company finds natural solution that turns plants into gasoline

Published on June 4, 2008

By Joe Kovacs WorldNetDaily March 19, 2008

After three years of clandestine development, a Georgia company is now going public with a simple, natural way to convert anything that grows out of the Earth into oil.

J.C. Bell, an agricultural researcher and CEO of Bell Bio-Energy, Inc., says he’s isolated and modified specific bacteria that will, on a very large scale, naturally change plant material – including the leftovers from food – into hydrocarbons to fuel cars and trucks.

“What we’re doing is taking the trash like corn stalks, corn husks, corn cobs – even grass from the yard that goes to the dump – that’s what we can turn into oil,” Bell told WND. “I’m not going to make asphalt, we’re only going to make the things we need. We’re going to make gasoline for driving, diesel for our big trucks.”

Wood pulp is among the many natural materials that can be converted into oil and gasoline, according to Bell Bio-Energy, Inc., of Tifton, Ga.

The agricultural researcher made the discovery after standing downwind from his cows at his food-production company, Bell Plantation, in Tifton, Ga.

“Cows are like people that eat lots of beans. They’re really, really good at making natural gas,” he said. “It dawned on me that that natural gas was methane.”

Bell says he wondered what digestive process inside a cow enabled it to change food into the hydrocarbon molecules of methane, so he began looking into replicating and speeding up the process.

“Through genetic manipulation, we’ve changed the naturally occurring bacteria, so they eat and consume biomass a little more efficiently,” he said. “It works. There’s not even any debate that it works. It really is an all-natural, simple process that cows use on a daily basis.”

Naturally occurring bacteria used to convert biomass into hydrocarbons.

But does he think it will make environmentalists happy?

“They love this. We had one totally recognizable environmentalist from Hollywood say this is everything they ever had hoped for,” Bell said. “This could be considered the ultimate recycling of carbon. We are using the energy of the sun through the plant. We’re not introducing any new carbon [to the environment].”

The research has received strong support from the U.S. Department of Defense, Department of Energy, Department of Agriculture and committees in both chambers of Congress, and Bell plans further discussions in Washington, D.C., next week.

He expects to have the first pilot plant for the process running within two to three months, and will operate it for a year to collect engineering data to design full-scale production facilities. He thinks the larger facilities will be producing oil “inside the next two years.”

And just how much oil is in Bell’s bio-forecast?

“With minor changes in the agricultural and forestry products, we could create two to two and a half tons of biomass a year, and you’re looking at 5 billion barrels of oil per year. That would be about two-thirds of what we use now.”

Turning some of nature’s produce into energy has been done for years, especially when it comes to the conversion of corn and cellulose-based products into ethanol, used to extend gasoline volume and boost octane.

The Energy Information Administration says in 2005, total U.S. ethanol production was 3.9 billion gallons, or 2.9 percent of the total gasoline pool.

Bell admits his bacterial breakthrough has been kept under wraps until now, but he plans to explain it all once his website is fully operational.

Bell Bio-Energy, Inc., aims to use modified bacteria like this to convert biomass into oil and gasoline within two years.

“We’re actually gonna tell people how we do it, with streaming video. We’re to the point now with our patent that we can say more and we fully intend to.

“We want to develop public support so they can understand what we’re doing; to develop political support, because this is a combination of making the United States more independent from foreign oil sources; make [the country] healthier from an economic point of view; and it goes a long way to solving the environmental problems a lot of people are concerned about.”

When asked why he thought no one else has patented this process, Bell answered, “It literally is because it’s too simple. Everyone was looking for a real complicated mechanism. We looked at how it occurs naturally. But it’s now going to develop in a hurry.”

Recalling other great inventions, Bell cited on another person with his last name.

“Alexander Graham Bell put together stuff that was already on the shelf and made a phone. I don’t want to compare myself to the great inventors. I’m not there yet, but to be able to look at simple things and create things from them, that’s how we think in this company.”


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