Alternative power for the future

Our focus is on Photovoltaic grid-connected Solar Power, along with grid-connected Maglev Wind Turbines and Maglev high-speed rail. Click and view the tabs below to learn more about our exciting alternative power and transportation options.

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Enough Solar Energy reaches the Earth’s surface in a single day to provide 27.3 years’ worth of electricity and heat, yet we use Solar Energy to provide less than 1 percent of Earth’s needs. Thanks to massive growth in this field, coupled with global governmental participation, manufacturing costs are plummeting and sales in this field are growing exponentially as demand soars. Industry growth is exceeding 20 percent annually, while another 6 gigawatts of capacity is in the works for U.S. commercial solar plants.

• Cost: continues to drop, with several large photovoltaic manufacturers reporting costs now under $1/watt, and ROI continues to climb while projected break-even periods are falling
  
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• Safety: not an issue. Zero emissions. Zero by-products beyond power,
  
• Jobs: 440,000 American jobs are expected to be created in this industry alone between 2009 and 2016, nearly 37% of projected U.S. job growth during this period.
  
• Land-usage impact: typically at 4mw/acre, depending on format,
  
• Long-term costs: well made panels last 20-25 years and require very little maintenance.

As Earth’s population continues to climb from the 3 billion inhabitants in 1960 to the 9 billion projected by 2040 , scarcity of land and material resources will increase in magnitude as issues we must address.

While the primary drawback of required capital investment is being addressed with an increasingly eager private and commercial investment community, the technology itself has several advantages:

 

 

• Safety: None of the lethal waste that comes with nuclear power, and none of the health-threatening emissions and global-warming carbon emissions of coal-fueled power plants.
  
• Efficiency: Maglev technology allows power to be generated at wind speeds as low as 6.7mph, bringing the projected cost per kwh to below 1 cent per kwh and making it the low-cost leader.
  
• Land usage impact: a single large-scale turbine will consume no more than 100 acres (including storage and transmission equipment) and provide more power than a conventional wind farm consuming 46,000 acres, allowing this technology to be placed closer to population centers and greatly reducing power lost and wasted in long-distance transmission.
  
• Jobs: U.S. jobs in this industry grew by 70 percent in 2008, and despite a global recession the American Wind Power industry is exceeding a 12 percent growth rate in 2009.

MagLev Wind Turbine

Maglev technology, first patented by German Hermann Kemper in 1937, eliminates most of the drawbacks of passenger rail travel and rail freight shipments.

• Safety: intrinsically designed to eliminate accidents. Derailments cannot occur.
• Efficiency: far less energy consumed than diesel locomotives, lowering the cost of transporting passengers and freight while reducing travel and transport time by over 50 percent,
  
• Environmental: far quieter than diesel trains running on conventional steel rails, while generating zero carbon emissions. Most planned systems will be powered by electricity provided by clean, renewable sources,
  
• Long-term costs: substantially lower, as there is minimal contact between the trains and their guidance systems.
  
• Future potential: initially most maglev high-speed rail systems will move passengers and freight on distances of up to 400 miles, greatly reducing the need for nearly 60 percent of air traffic and substantially reducing aviation fuel demand. Eventually the technology will be implemented within evacuated tunnels and at speeds that will far exceed commercial aviation.