Freeing Energy from the Grid

November 16th, 2011 by Zachary Shahan

This is a pretty fascinating video of Justin Hall-Tipping talking about the world’s greatest challenges — global warming, energy security, and water security– and nanotechnology’s potential for solving these. Below the video is more on Justin.

More on Justin from his TED author page:

Some of our most serious planetary worries revolve around energy and power — controlling it, paying for it, and the consequences of burning it. Justin Hall-Tipping had an epiphany about energy after seeing footage of a chunk of ice the size of his home state (Connecticut) falling off Antarctica into the ocean, and decided to focus on science to find new forms of energy. A longtime investor, he formed Nanoholdings to work closely with universities and labs who are studying new forms of nano-scale energy in the four sectors of the energy economy: generation, transmission, storage and conservation.

Nanotech as a field is still very young (the National Science Foundation says it’s “at a level of development similar to that of computer technology in the 1950s”) and nano-energy in particular holds tremendous promise.
He says: “For the first time in human history, we actually have the ability to pick up an atom and place it the way we want. Some very powerful things can happen when you can do that.”

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Tags: carbon nanotechnology, carbon nanotubes, nanotechnology, quickies, TED, ted talks

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What is being done to unmask, wiretap, collect proofs, jail, control, etc people who will threaten our sons when they get older and try to find alternative sources of energy thinking of the planet and people in it, as we raise them?
When I hear (and see, thanks to Youtube) the testimonials (not legends anymore) of those who have working prototypes of electric cars which batteries are never recharged (free energy from air), the testatica machine, (if that was the name), water fueled cars… all being told to “keep quiet about that” or appearing dead by an DUI accident (person who doesn’t drink)… I feel like telling my sons “f_ _k the planet” and study something else that keeps you alive.
Please I’d appreciate info about that to join the right group of people who care the world but ALSO think ahead that mafia.
Excuse my english.