I had been following this energy crisis (Peak Oil) since “Wake Up Singaporean” Blog that I had started in July 2006 and this blog up till now and had experimented with many alternative energy for HDB. I had now some solar panels for my LED lights for almost a year now but it’s unable to charge enough to sustain a computer for long period of time.
Those Coke cans battery with copper tubes and acidic bleach works fine for 24 hours with 12Volts output however it melted the coke can’s aluminum and leak acid all over my study room.
Now I am experimenting a brand new source of energy by converting natural magnetic flux energy into kinetic energy and induce electricity similar to wind turbine. This is not a new idea but I bet nobody bother to make one for themselves.
Yes, the secret is out…government is racing ahead for anyone who can implement a wide spread alternative energy to become a “energy hub” or simply to avert a energy crisis. If my experiment can just get more funding…
The question is, what will it takes to get the government to fund my projects? Qualification? Phone book thick proposals? Great presentation on power point?
I do have plenty of ideas how to make Singapore self sustainable…but do have other problems that I cannot find any solutions.
Energy can solve water problem but not food. Global energy crisis will cause the price of food to increase substantially as more land are converted into bio-fuel and palm oil and huge amount of fertilizers (Natural Gas) and Pesticides (Oil) will be used increasing cost. Combine with global warming climates caused by natural increasing of solar heat in green house gases (CO2, Methane, H2O vapor), more food crops will yield less and less.
Global transportation will be more costlier if Oil are not replaced quickly with alternative source of fuel for Sea, Land and Air travel. Electricity by natural gas will be so much more expensive that most middle income will be struggling to pay up their monthly bills.
Solutions is now currently needed quickly for electricity generation as it will solve the water treatment, desalination, “renewal of waste water” and even power possible Air to Water appliances to produce water for the population.
Electricity produced by renewable energy will substantially cleaner and cheaper compare to the rising cost of fossil fuels (Oil, Natural Gas, Coal, Uranium, Tar Sands).
The problem with solar panels in high rise HDB will inefficiency due if placed on the sides of the building or insufficient if placed only on the roof of the buildings to make any impact to the house owners utilities. In fact any upgrade to solar panels to the HDB just sufficient to light the corridors might cost the home owners more money to upgrade the building with this “green” energy.
The fact that energy is all around us but we human are unable to tap it efficiently and in great quantity. For examples are vibration of sound frequencies, radio frequencies, wave, wind, sun light, gravity, magnetic flux, earth magnetic, water density, water displacement pressure, air pressure, atom splitting, atom combining, particles vibration and other non-proven yet probable ideas in the realm of sci-fi alien technology and scams.
The problem is too many gullible investor put in too much money for unproven theory and did not ask the fundamental EROEI (Energy Return Over Energy Invested) value. There is also problems of cost and ROI (Return of Investment) to ponder if the cost of the technology is worth the while, for example the hydrogen fuel cell may cost too much as one of the key component (platinum) are too expensive and hydrogen is just an energy carrier and not an abundant resource. It will take energy to electrolysis the water into hydrogen and oxygen and not fast enough to supply the fleet of vehicles of any country.
Recent discovery of high frequencies can break water into Hydrogen and Oxygen and burst into flames is great provided the electricity used to produce the high frequencies is low to achieve higher EROEI.
I will write more when I have good result in the experiments…
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