Slides from my talk at the BIL conference 2012

1. Ray Podder
The BIL 2012 Talk

2. Ever regret an expensive purchase?

3. What if that purchase was an idea that was no
longer serving your best interests?

4. What I thought I was buying...
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5. What I actually bought!
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6. What I think I’m working towards...
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7. $0.16/day $4,583,333.33/day
What I’m actually achieving!

8. Why?

9. Is Energy Really Scarce?

10. What if...
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11. Energy was Abundant?
Accessible Everywhere?
Empowered Everyone?

12. ...but is $40-75k over
20-30 years the only option?
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13. Why is this option promoted... ...while this is still hard to find?
$41,000 -$65,590 $500 -$1500
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14. Or this?
Did you know that you can now make solar powered
hydrogen fuel from biowaste in your backyard, or
the solution from Point Source Power, a startup of
Berkley National Labs that can take biomass and
heat it over cooking fire that generates the gas
needed to make a hydrogen fuel cell.
Even the volatility of hydrogen fuel tanks have been
addressed with nanoparticles of magnesium
sprinkled through a matrix of polymethyl
methacrylate, which is a plexiglass polymer. It
basically means that it can access the hydrogen at
modest temperatures without oxidizing the metal of
the tank. You can shoot a bullet through it and all it
will do is smolder...
It may solve the EV infrastructure problem now that
can’t keep up with demand, but you don’t hear too
much about this other than in rural areas where
people can’t afford the $5 gas!
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15. Promise?
$250 Billion+ Space Solar Program to capture photons from orbit and microwave them down with minimal loss

16. Image Courtesy: Wikimedia Commons
Reality!
Continue to spend billions to survey and prop up rotting poles installed over 100 years ago

17. ...and so the distractions continue...

18. ...while ignoring the realities...
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19. Image Courtesy: Wikimedia Commons
Ignore!
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20. Ignore?
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21. Ignore?
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22. $1,000,000,000,000+
Ignore?
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23. It doesn’t have to be this way!

24. Energy is Abundant
Accessible Everywhere
Empowering Everyone
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25. Energy is Abundant
Everyday, 500,000+ self propelling, dynamic power plants come online...

26. Less is More
Our hearts use only 0.2v to pump over 2000
gallons of blood through its 4 chambers daily.
The only battery it needs is a biochemical
reaction of Potassium, Sodium and a little bit
of Calcium. No wires, no batteries, and no dirty
energy plants. We now have the technology
to mimic this process and much, much more...
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Source: Banner Lassen Medical Center

27. Biochemistry, Heat, Pressure, Motion, Kinetics, Light,
Friction, Electromagnetism, Nano Materials & More...
A half degree temperature or pH differential between inner and outer cell walls are enough for most biochemical
processes to generate energy. For example, The pH differential between the soil and the tree generates enough
energy to fill a coconut 60-100 feet above with water. So how come our pumps don’t work this way?
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28. Penn State’s Bruce Logan and Younggy Kim, developed
a microbial reverse electrodyalysis electrolysis fuel cell
with a nanofilter that can take everyday wastewater and
generate unlimited Hydrogen Fuel using less than 1%
of the energy generated.
Image: Bruce Logan | Penn State
Biochemistry

29. Pressure
We already know about wave powered ships, but have
you thought about the ongoing pressure differential
Tom Broadbent, Inventor of HydroPower in the
between the water and the ship even when its docked. UK uses the pressure from existing plumbing in
There are thousands of ships docked worldwide, that can buildings to generate enough energy to power the
not only generate its own power, but actually produce pump and then some.
a surplus just by sitting on the water. Image: PopSci
Image: Suntory

30. Simple motion can now capture energy for personal electronics and more.
Image: Earthtechling
Body heat can power electronics like the SkinnyPlayer here. Kinetics
Heat
Image: PopSci
Noise and sound can now generate enough energy to power buildings.
Image: PopSci
Vibrations

31. Rubber piezoelectric surfaces can generate energy from pressure.
Image: ACS publica
Motion
Friction Motion from foot traffic can power streetlights, escalators & more.
Image: PopSci

32. Light
Dan Nocera and his
team at MIT have
developed an artificial
photosynthesis leaf
that can generate
10X the storage
within 1/100 of the
volume of commercial
fuel cell. A swimming
pool full of water
(3.2 million liters)
for example can
generate over 43TW
(Terrawatts) per
second using his
solution.
Image: MIT

33. Materials
Organic photonics and nano
electronics like these nano scale
solar cells can be sprayed as
dust on clothing or other porous
surfaces to generate enough
power for proximal appliances
like lights and electronics.
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34. From Namib beetle inspired nano-mesh technology that can collect water
from even the driest atmosphere on the planet, and help grow food in the
desert and many other applications. Self-replicating nano materials
that can help create the next breakthrough batteries and resilient
materials for everything from computing to construction
Image: MIT, Georgia Tech

35. Accessible Everywhere
If every place can be a living power station, is the centralized grid still necessary?

36. HALO IPT Induction Charging
Unbounded Fujitsu Magnetic Resonance Transfer
Wireless transfer via WiTricity
is now real. From inductive
charging becoming standard
for electric cars to reapplying
Tesla coil principles to
distribute without wires at the
last mile, the gridless grid is
real and available now.
Image Courtesy: Pop Sci
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37. Direct Nanophotonic glass can capture
photons by an instant state change
from clear to cloudy to power
buildings and transfer line of sight
to another. One of many nano
innovations for energy from
nanoholdings.com
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38. Fantastic!
Sean Elliot of Boston University, can use light
sensitive pigments into certain heme proteins
into darkness dwelling microbes to produce
hydrogen fuel.
Your body is now the power station. What would
innovation like this do in developing nations if the
tech was made available?
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Image: Pubmed

39. Empowering Everyone
Ingenious people do amazing things with next to nothing.
What if innovation could be shared for the common good?

40. Simple
2 Liter plastic bottles with bleach
and water placed through holes in
the roof can supply the light of a
50w bulb and last for upto 5 years!
Access is about innovation with
what is available. Innovation that
can be accessible to many...
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41. Resourceful
Rural Africans are using discarded
bike parts to make local wind energy.
What would happen if the latest IP
that is now shelved by big Oil and
Gas could be made openly available
to these innovators?
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42. Self Powered Air Car
Fuel Cell for Water
Powered Car Design
Water Powered Car
Engine (peswiki.com)
Inventive
A real Air Powered
Perpetual Engine*
(*generates energy
from its own process)
developed by a 15 yr
old kid student from
Uzbekistan in 2008!
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43. Can we really do this?

44. This is what we did with $300
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45. This is what we do with 1/100 the water in 1/1000 the space!
Local grow technologies that use
1/100th of the water, 3-5 times the
weight of the plant to wattage used
(most indoor growers can use 1/1000
of the space of mass agriculture) and
a simple solar powerered LED bulb to
generate enough yields to never pay
for produce or a supply chain again!
Images: Omega, Pods, & Aeroponic technologies via Treehugger

46. This is what we make with just an idea and the generosity of friends!

47. Localized manufacturing technology with 3D printing
is starting to eliminate supply chains altogether and even
print most of the replacement parts for these printers.
Soon, buying a product will no longer mean shipping,
but downloading the file to print where you are...
Images: MIT Solar cells, Cornell 3D Labs, Origo Toy Printer and more
This is what we can make without a supply chain or economies of scale!

48. ...and even this!
Up next, your entire house
now printed with a 3D
printer. Enrico Dini has not
only envisioned the
possibilities, but actually
created the prototype of
off-grid energy efficient
dwellings to come...
Images: The Man Who Prints Houses

49. So what’s keeping us from true abundance?
Not the extrapolation of the past paradigm of infinite growth on a finite ecology, but true
abundance where we each have more than enough to live the highest quality of life...

50. Oil = $$$

51. The reserve value of
money is based on the
price of oil.
Oil is priced mostly in dollars, and has more direct effect
on the value of currency and the direction of investment
than any other resource. The dollar is inextricably linked
to crude oil. What will cap and trade really do, if the real
value of money is tied to oil?
What’s the point in investing in solutions that will make
oil obsolete, if it can also make your money obsolete?
Which investor will actually opt for that?
Is it any wonder why real value on human terms is
overlooked in favor of market valuation?

52. Valuation Now Trumps Value

53. That Explains a Lot!
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54. ...and we are now running out!
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55. Escalating the Insanity!

56. Poisoning Our Water! Image: Naturthink
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57. Upsetting the Earth’s Delicate Balance!
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58. Devastating Living Lands!
There are over 6,000,000
abandoned drill sites in the
U.S. alone, not to mention
the tar sands, fracking pools
(like this one in Canada) and
the growing numbers of
decimated ecosystems and
most of the arable land mass
of the planet in the name of
big oil and gas profits!
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59. Killing Our Future!!!
“At present there is a preponderance of evidence that there is no
threshhold dose of ionizing radiation so low that it is safe or such that
the risk of damage (even serious damage such as leukimia) is zero”
—Karl Z. Morgan
Manhattan Project Scientist and Anti Nuclear Activist
Fukushima Reactor Fire: BBC.co.uk http://www.ratical.org/radiation/NRBE/NRadBioEffects.html

60. So we do a lot of...
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61. Dazzling the Debt
Photovoltaics are most effective in distributed contexts like solar film and solar thermal for homes and businesses. Generating utility scale power with solar is
actually more expensive than current dirty energy methods. Today, solar investments are already tied to dated tech that makes for a great show for investors,
but not so much benefit for the rest of us. China’s 54 percent share of the global panel-making market will grow, and we’ll remain locked into older technology.
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62. Hiding the Real Cost
2.4 million tons of manufacturing CO2 21.6 billion gallons/year from Sierra Nevada Mountains in a
dumping in India & China region experiencing years of ongoing drought

63. Dazzle the Debt

64. Hide the Cost
Wind farms disrupt delicate ecosystems and
communities where they are placed. They use oil
to drive the turbines and are already invested on
oild and gas for their existence. The noise and
vibrations are harmful to the biosphere, and the
tech is already old compared to bladeless Tesla
turbine inspired solutions at the local level. It’s
“Greenwashing” at its best.
© Dan Forbes via Wired

65. Dazzle
7.4 times the size of the
Empire State building is
used everyday to generate
electricity! 2,714,140 tons/
day. All “Clean” coal does is
direct the poisons into the
ground instead of the
atmosphere!

66. Hide
This is a picture of the mouth of a 7-year-old
boy named Ryan Massey who has the
misfortune of living in a coal mining area in
West Virginia. [Ryan's] entire family tries to
avoid any contact with the water. [His brother]
has scabs on his arms, legs and chest where
the bathwater — polluted with lead, nickel and
other heavy metals — caused painful rashes.
[Ryan's] teeth were capped to replace enamel
that was eaten away.
Neighbors apply special lotions after showering
because their skin burns. Tests show that their
tap water contains arsenic, barium, lead,
manganese and other chemicals at
concentrations federal regulators say could
contribute to cancer and damage the kidneys
and nervous system...

67. Dazzle

68. Hide
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69. ...but hide where?
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71. Energy is Abundant
Accessible Everywhere
Empowering Everyone

72. Image Courtesy: Free Your Mind and Think on Facebook
You have a choice

73. You Make the Rules
In fact, from crowdfunding, alternative currencies, crowdsourced innovation, digital trade
and barter economies, sharing cars, time, tools, and more, you are already doing it!

75. Sharing
Access

76. wisdom!
ideas! tools!
expertise knowledge!
connections!
Funds!
Including Everyone
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77. investor / innovator / integrator
& Rewarding All...
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78. Image Courtesy: The most beautiful things in the world
To put Value ahead of valuation

79. Source: Bed Zed Eco Village, UK
with Contextually Relevant Solutions for Energy
and Economic Abundance

80. with resilient communities
that groove to their own vibe...
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81. with Energy that is Abundant, Accessible Everywhere,
and Empowering to Everyone

82. Vibrations Materials Kinetics
Friction Heat Motion

83. Pressure Biochemistry Light

84. Nano Materials

85. HALO IPT Induction Charging
Direct + Unbounded
Fujitsu Magnetic Resonance Transfer

86. Simple Resourceful
Affordable Inventive

87. Energy is Abundant
Accessible Everywhere
Empowering Everyone

88. What about the business of scarce energy?

89. Opportunity or Obsolescence. You Choose.
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90. The Abundant Energy
Revolution is Here.

91. How will you lead it?
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