The Science – Fusion 4 Freedom

Comment on “Staged z-pinch modeling of high and low atomic number liners compressing deuterium targets using parameters of the Z pulsed power facility“

September 13, 2022 by F4F

[Phys. Plasmas 28, 112701 (2021)] Irvin R. Lindemuth Affiliation: Retired, formerly Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico August 2022 This comment and a response by Ruskov, Ney, and Rahman have been accepted for publication in the Physics of Plasmas. Publication is tentatively scheduled in August or September 2022. This preprint is provided with … Read more

Energy Basics

January 23, 2021January 5, 2021 by F4F

By: Tom Tamarkin Founder Fusion4Freedom & President EnergyCite and ClimateCite Where does energy on our planet come from? There are three primary sources of material amounts of energy on Earth. The word material means an amount of energy greater than 2 % of total worldwide energy demand combining all sectors of transportation, industrial, commercial residential, … Read more

Integration of Home Area Network with Smart Metering for Consumer Empowerment

May 24, 2016 by

Energy Central Posted on November 26, 2014 Posted By: Trilochan Sahoo, Mukul Sarkar Topic: Metering Introduction: Smart Grid connectivity continues to gain momentum as global utilities embrace the technology and invest in the infrastructure. Bulk of the investment is seen in replacing manual read, AMR meters with Smart Meters, capable of two-way communication. According to … Read more

What is the Smart Grid?

May 23, 2016 by

smartgrid.gov The Smart Home How will the Smart Grid affect your home? It won’t look very different, but behind the scenes a lot will be happening. Even right now, in many cities across the nation, new equipment, appliances, and software are available that use emerging Smart Grid technologies to save energy, seek out the lowest … Read more

Going Solar – System Requirements For 100% U.S. Solar Generated Utility Baseload Electricity

September 13, 2022March 4, 2016 by F4F

An examination of the economics and practicality of grid scale solar power Download this article as a PDF By Barrie Lawson, UK Forward by Tom Tamarkin Key Concepts By 2060 88% of current on-line utility scale generation capacity will be retired due to plant age and life cycle considerations Solar Photovoltaics require 3 … Read more

How Much Oil Have We Used?

February 21, 2017February 21, 2016 by

Science Daily May 8, 2009 Summary: Estimates of how much crude oil we have extracted from the planet vary wildly. Now, researchers have published a new estimate in the International Journal of Oil, Gas and Coal Technology that suggests we may have used more than we think. New calculations suggest that experts have grossly underestimated … Read more

OIL – WILL WE RUN OUT?

February 19, 2017February 19, 2016 by

By Andy May “Prediction is very difficult, especially about the future” (old Danish proverb, sometimes attributed to Niels Bohr) In November, 2016 the USGS (United States Geological Survey) reported their assessment of the recent discovery of 20 billion barrels of oil equivalent (technically recoverable) in the Midland Basin of West Texas. About the same time … Read more

The Physics and Molecular Biology Implications of Widespread Smart Meter Deployments

January 18, 2016January 16, 2016 by

Tom D. Tamarkin Updated January 18, 2016 Abstract The electrical utility industry sells power to approximately 125 million small single phase accounts. For over 100 years the industry has billed customers for their power based on the numeric dial readings of electro-mechanical kilowatt hour meters. These meters are typically read once a month by a … Read more

Christiana Figueres Discusses Need For Worldwide Population Reduction

November 9, 2015November 9, 2015 by

Christiana Figueres, executive secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, discusses the need to attempt to limit worldwide population and thereby reduce worldwide energy demand. Ms. Figueres insists that even todays population of roughly 7.3 billion people is too large and therefore unsustainable.

The Energy Trap

January 12, 2017October 26, 2015 by

By Tom Murphy, Ph.D. USCD Department of Physics, Oct. 18, 2011 Many Do the Math posts have touched on the inevitable cessation of growth and on the challenge we will face in developing a replacement energy infrastructure once our fossil fuel inheritance is spent. The focus has been on long-term physical constraints, and not on … Read more