Slides from my Talk at Future Salon

1. Selling Ice in the Refrigerator Age?
Reinventing Regional Renewable Energy Resilience

2. “ I know that most men — not only those considered clever, but
even those who are very clever and capable of understanding
most difficult scientific, mathematical, or philosophic,
problems — can seldom discern even the simplest and most
obvious truth if it be such as obliges them to admit the falsity
of conclusions they have formed, perhaps with much difficulty
— conclusions of which they are proud, which they have
“
taught to others, and on which they have built their lives.
—Leo Tolstoy
Opening to Ch 14. Translation from: What Is Art and Essays on Art (Oxford University Press, 1930, trans. Aylmer Maude)
What I’m going to talk about today is simple, truthful, and somewhat obvious.
However, to some, the things I say seem controversial or improbable. So I’d like to start my talks with this timeless reminder from Tolstoy.
Today I’m gonna share a simple truth about the gap between the conception of technical solutions and making them available to all. We are living with countless examples of them right now...textiles, manufacturing, and just about
everything in our daily lives had a critical mass tipping point many years after their invention before they could be widely available.

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Today its ice.
Would you pay a monthly bill for how many ice cubes you used?
Pay more on hot days over cooler days?

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Of course not!
We can get ice from the fridge whenever we want.
But not having to think about the price of ice cubes is a pretty new thing.

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See, even though making ice has been around for over 3000 years...

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Harvesting, making, storing and delivering ice around for about 300 years, and the first working refrigerator for about 150 years...

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The first working refrigerator was invented in 1877. The idea for it has been around even longer. Here’s John Gorrie’s ice machine from 1841

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it wasn’t until the 1950s before most people could imagine getting ice cubes whenever they wanted.

9. Why?
What changed?
Why did it take so long?
What does this have to do with our use of energy today?

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EVERYTHING!
I’ll tell you why it took almost a century from the invention of the refrigerator to ice in your cup in a bit,

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but before I do that I’ll tell you about the amazing breakthroughs we are discovering with renewables today.

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Just like refrigerators, the locally resilient distributed energy technologies that have been in development for years are here. Now.

13. We think with the ideas we have
They require us to think about things a little differently

14. 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
Let’s start with how we think about how much we need versus how much we need to produce to meet the current demand...
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...

15. Biochemistry, Heat, Pressure, Motion, Kinetics, Light,
Friction, Electromagnetism, Materials & More...
Image:Flickr
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?

16. 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
Right now, we can make unlimited hydrogen fuel from wastewater nanofiltration
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.

17. Pressure
We already know about wave powered ships, but have
Tom Broadbent, Inventor of HydroPower in the
you thought about the ongoing pressure differential
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
make energy from the pressure in our plumbing, Tom Broadbent, Inventor of HydroPower in the
UK uses the pressure from existing plumbing in buildings to generate enough energy to power the
pump and then some.

18. 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
unlimited electricity from plain water using artificial photosynthesis, 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.

19. 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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capture most of the sun’s energy and transfer it line of sight with nanophotonic glass, Nanophotonic glass can capture photons by an instant state change from clear to cloudy to power buildings and transfer line of sight
to another.

20. Rubber piezoelectric surfaces can generate energy from pressure.
Image: ACS publica
Motion
Friction Motion from foot traffic can power streetlights, escalators & more.
Image: PopSci
print piezoelectric circuits on flexible surfaces to capture energy from traffic or touch,

21. 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
power gadgets from friction and movement, even capture vibrations into usable energy like the sound of my voice in this room.
Vibrations

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Even the technical information around the mythical energy technologies of the past

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are now demystified

24. Fantastic!
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Image: Pubmed
Science fiction is now science fact across many applications!
Sean Elliot of Boston University, can infuse 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 this
breakthrough research was made available?

25. HALO IPT Induction Charging
Unbounded Fujitsu Magnetic Resonance Transfer
Image Courtesy: Pop Sci
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.

26. 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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water powered cars and frictionless perpetual engines, zero point generators and more, that have been around for decades but suppressed or discredited in the past are now accessible.

27. The community based collaborative production of these ideas are also becoming widely accessible.
Open Hardware. Marcin Jakubowski

28. This is what we did with $300
Image Courtesy: Ingersol Rand
...and we don’t need a lot to do it.

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This is what we can make without a supply chain or economies of scale!
From 3D printers just a step away from being the replicators from Star trek

30. ...and even this!
Images: The Man Who Prints Houses
Even your entire house can now be 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...

31. This is what we do with 1/100 the water in 1/1000 the space!
Images: Omega, Pods, & Aeroponic technologies via Treehugger
We have 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 powered LED bulb to generate
enough yields to never pay for produce or a supply chain again!

32. to collaborative economic models like crowdfunding, crowdsourced innovation...

33. Sharing
Access
sharing resources more efficiently, and more…
Life cycle of a drill is 15 minutes.
Most cars sit idle 90% of the time...

34. The Abundant Energy
Revolution is Here.
the abundant energy revolution is happening now right below the surface.

35. Simple
Image: Cleantechnica
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People around the world are already working with what they have
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!

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Resourceful Image: FastCoDesign
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?

37. Vibrations Materials Kinetics
Friction Heat Motion
What would happen if these innovations could scale enough to be affordable to all?

38. Pressure Biochemistry Light
Or the knowhow from these efforts made publicly accessible to citizen innovators everywhere?

39. Materials
Image: Georgia Tech
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I’ve not even touched on materials. One can write a whole book on them and their impact on energy innovations. 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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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.
We now have the tech to grow food in the desert, but that’s not what we do with this...

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That’s not the renewable energy we all have access to, nor is it the vision we are being sold.

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we are sold grand centralized visions like this...

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or just blatant lies.
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!

44. This has been the headline as long as we can remember.
Energy is still expensive and the demand is 14 Terra watts a year and growing.

45. Poisoning Our Water! Image: Naturthink
Image: Thinkprogress Image: Gasland
So we do a lot of this nonsense.

46. Upsetting the Earth’s Delicate Balance!
Image: Wikimedia Commons
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and this

47. “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
...and don’t even get me started on this!

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just contrast this with...

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with a solar energy spill

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yet that’s not the case.
Oil is in everything we use, and renewables are less than 2% of all we use!

51. ...and we are obviously running out!
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you don’t go looking for change in the cracks of your couch if your fridge is stocked. oil is going to double in price in 5
years!

52. Oil = $$$
worse than that, oil is now in our money!

53. The reserve value of
money is based on the
price of oil.
Image Courtesy: oildrum.com
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?

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so that’s why we show this.

55. 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
and don’t talk about this...
2.4 million tons of manufacturing CO2 dumping in India & China per annum
21.6 billion gallons/year from Sierra Nevada Mountains in a region experiencing years of ongoing drought

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and we show this.

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and hide this.
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.

58. ...but is $40-75k over
20-30 years the only option?
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Yes, we could all go out and invest in $60K solar panels for our homes

59. Why is this option promoted... ...while this is still hard to find?
$41,000 -$65,590 $500 -$1500
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and $50K for our electric cars

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...but most of the world still lives on less than $1 a day!

61. Promise?
$250 Billion+ Space Solar Program to capture photons from orbit and microwave them down with minimal loss
The truth is that most of our commercialized renewable strategies now are a lot like the strategies our ice sales companies had 60 years ago.

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Reality!
Continue to spend 100s of millions to survey and prop up rotting poles installed over 100 years ago
Your utilities and energy companies are not much different than ice salesmen in the age of refrigerators.

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You have a choice
YOU DON’T HAVE TO LISTEN TO THEM.
Do you wanna know what really made refrigerators in every kitchen possible?

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TELEVISION.
By 1951 TV had reached critical mass. Almost everyone in the developed world had seen one. TV showed us a lifestyle with refrigerators and...

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with Contextually Relevant Solutions for Energy
and Economic Abundance
Suddenly the era of centralized ice production and distribution was over!
So what does that have to do with our use of energy?
The same thing that it has to do with our use of ice!

66. Because today, we have something much more powerful than TV.
YOU HAVE ACCESS TO IT RIGHT NOW!

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The stuff that once filled buildings, tethered to time, place and cost barriers are now dematerialized and free to move at the speed of thought, from the palm of your hand. More than just creating demand by broadcasting information, The
Internet enables us to create the solutions.

68. Radio Television iPhone YouTube
40 Years 10 Years 3 Years 6 Months
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and it’s gonna happen faster than ever before...

69. It also enables us to discover new ways to share resources, develop solutions contextually and collaboratively work together.
So just like TV brought refrigerators to our kitchens, the Internet is now enabling resilient local energy generation knowhow, now taking place in garages and workshops everywhere.

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In fact, every time I talk about this stuff, people come up to me and tell me about some cool distributed energy solution they’ve either been working on or know somebody who is.

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In other words, while the ice salesmen are trying to figure out new ways of selling you ice, the refrigerators are already here!

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THIS IS A BIG DEAL!
and it can make a huge difference...cause the clock’s ticking on us now...
40% of the Phytoplankton responsible for 50% of the oxygen has vanished since the 1950s
50% of forests dead. 80% of fish dead since 1900. 38% of amphibians dead. 90% of big predator ocean fish dead. 33% bees dead. 50% of coral reefs dead. At this rate...90% of all life dead by 2050!!!

73. Everything is Energy
Everything ultimately is energy.
Matter is simply energy we can measure on this three dimensional reality with the limits of our consciousness.
The way we use energy is supported by our economic model which is supported by our education.

74. 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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When the dominant energy strategy is about extraction without accounting for biospheric costs,
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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economics are also about extraction by inequity in our social design.

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The education that support our economics now again focuses on extracting facts faster and faster without much consideration for developing true understanding or wisdom.

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But just like TV gave us access to ice cubes...

78. HALO IPT Induction Charging
Direct + Unbounded
Fujitsu Magnetic Resonance Transfer
We now have ACCESS
to the innovations to change the way we use ENERGY.

79. Simple Resourceful
Affordable Inventive
simple. resourceful. affordable. inventive.

80. Pressure Biochemistry Light
pressure differential, pressure, biochemistry, light,

81. Vibrations Materials Kinetics
Friction Heat Motion
vibrations, materials, kinetics, friction, heat, motion

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Everything you need is already here.
visual map of Internet over a 3rd of the planet has access to it.

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We just have to think about using what we already have differently...
we can all do something.

84. wisdom!
ideas! tools!
expertise knowledge!
connections!
Funds!
Engaging, Integrating & Rejuvenating Commnities
Image Courtesy: Flickr
This is what I’m working on now... this is what it does... this is how it does it.

85. investor / innovator / integrator
Reinvesting the Flow
& Rejuvenating Equity back into Returns.
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this is the outcome..

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so we can make this

87. Vibrations Materials Kinetics
Friction Heat Motion
this and more

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accessible to all

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...and I’m not the only one

90. When we change the way we use energy

91. $0.16/day $4,583,333.33/day
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it changes ECONOMICS and it changes EDUCATION.

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It changes the way the world works from scarcity to abundance.

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From competition to collaboration

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from desperation to inspiration.

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We focus on the highest quality of life instead of highest bank balance.

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There is no us versus them. You don’t need to be angry activists to do this.

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It’s here now. I wrote this book to show you why and how, and I’m now working on the web application I just mentioned to manage dynamic equity based projects to make those ideas easy to access.
It’s our world. It’s your time.

98. “
“ The world is not run by those who are right,
but those who convince others that they are right.
—Jamshid Gharajedaghi
Author, Systems Thinking
The one thing you can do today is spread the truth.