I have been reading the latest issue of TIME magazine which features a number of remarkable people who, almost single-handedly are making enormous progress in changing the world for the better. A great example is Mette Lykke, CEO of the “Too Good to Go” dot com worldwide movement who aims to slash food waste by enabling their 54 million app users in 17 countries to order unsold or soon-to-expire food from grocery stores and restaurants for about a third of the usual cost. The company’s success can be counted by the 124 million meals saved from landfills since 2016 as its revenue went up 87% last year. In the US, the site is https://toogoodtogo.com/en-us/movement.

Another TIME innovation is https://www.blocpower.io/, a Brooklyn-based company offering all-electric heating, cooling and hot water to building owners for NO money down, while lowering operating costs, which just decarbonized 6,000 buildings in Ithaca NY with solar panels, electric heat pumps, and other 40% emissions-reducing technology, with Goldman Sachs backing.

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Story #1 has an advance notice of my London radio show appearance on the Rob Simone Talk Show coming up next week. It will also be available on his website www.RobSimone.com afterwards, which may be more convenient for those in the United States. My topics were quite a broad range of energy, propulsion, and a lot of bioelectromagnetics. Hope you enjoy listening to the 45-minute MP3 version after May 4^th.

Story #2 is another true energy breakthrough, with carbon nanotubes. Published in Nature Communications, Solvent-induced electrochemistry at an electrically asymmetric carbon Janus particle | Nature Communications MIT discovered that when part of a nanotube gets coated with a Teflon-like polymer, it generates an asymmetry that makes it possible for electrons to flow from the tube's coated and uncoated part, generating electricity. Available as an “Open Access” article, a solvent is required to activate the thermopower waves in the nanotubes without the polymer, to generate an electrical current. A video also helps explain this exotic discovery.

Story #4 takes off where my friend and colleague, Dr. Garret Moddel, from the University of Colorado has specialized in for years: thermal (IR) radiation solar PV modules with “rectennas”. Now Stanford seems to be taking the lead with a prototype that takes the heat flow from night time cooling PV panels to produce a small 50 mW per square meter, with a grant from the US DOE and published this month. Nighttime electric power generation at a density of 50 mW/m2 via radiative cooling of a photovoltaic cell: Applied Physics Letters: Vol 120, No 14 (scitation.org)

Story #5 is a really entertaining article for the near future. It features “EVTOL Companies That Are Worth Billions” along with “Who Are the Key Players? And what are they flying?” from the IEEE Spectrum which is a bonus from my membership dues. From the Airbus Multicopter in France with a range of 80 km to the Kittyhawk Vectored Thrust in the US with a range of 160 km, the field is wide open. In my mind however, the Beta Technologies “Lift and Cruise” type in the US with a range of 460 km seems to be a clear winner. The list of electric vertical take off and landing (EVTOL) aircraft is impressive: the companies include Uber, Mercedes-Benz, Airbus, Boeing, Toyota, Hyundai, Honda, JetBlue, American Airlines, Virgin Atlantic, and many more.

Sincerely,

IRI President, Dr. Tom Valone will be appearing on the Rob Simone Talk Show on May 4th to discuss his latest research into free energy, future propulsion and bioenergetics. Tom also unveils Integrity Research Institute's new invention, the healing and anti-inflammatory PEMF (Pulsed Electromagnetic Frequency) device.

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Engineers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) recently discovered a new material made from carbon nanotubes that can be used for generating electricity. A SciTechDaily report said the new material can generate electricity by hunting energy from its environment. Electric generation is possible through the use of tiny carbon particles that can produce a current simply through interaction with a surrounding liquid. The MIT engineers said an organic solvent, the liquid in this case, pulls electrons out of the particles, producing a current that can be used to initiate chemical reactions or to power micro- or nano-scale robots.

Sodium-ion batteries are emerging as a viable alternative to lithium-ion technology. Industrial heavyweights CATL and Reliance Industries, following the acquisition of UK-based sodium-ion specialist Faradion, are bent on bringing the technology out of the lab and into mass production. Against a backdrop of soaring prices and predicted shortfalls of lithium-ion battery materials, sodium-ion chemistry has never been more tantalizing.

https://carnewschina.com/2022/01/13/catl-new-patent-allows-anode-free-sodium-ion-battery-density-to-go-above-200wh-kg/?msclkid=39410d41c45c11eca6a8cba5d8be8204

The electromagnetic spectrum is comprised of thousands upon thousands of frequencies. Sound and light are all part of the spectrum, as are the frequencies that make radio and television broadcasts possible. Today’s solar panels harvest light waves from a small part of the EM spectrum and turn them into electricity, but there are many other frequencies like thermal radiation that could someday stimulate new kinds of photovoltaic cells to generate electricity as well.

“HARDWARE IS HARD,” venture capitalist Marc Andreessen famously declared at a tech investors’ event in 2013. Explaining the longstanding preference for software startups among VCs, Andreessen said, “There are so many more things that can go wrong in a hardware company. There are so many more ways a hardware company can blow up in a nonrecoverable way.”

Even as Andreessen was speaking, however, the seeds were being sown for one of the biggest and most sustained infusions of cash into a hardware-based movement in the last decade. Since then, the design and construction of electric vertical-takeoff-and-landing (eVTOL) aircraft has been propelled by waves of funding from some of the biggest names in tech.

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