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Tim Kelley NECN November 30, 2011  

When a government can regulates what kind of light bulb you can buy, it becomes rather apparent just exactly how much might and power it has over its people.  The government also regulates what kind of toilet and shower faucet you use in an effort to save water.  For more than a hundred years,  incandescent light bulbs have lit up our homes and business just fine.

  

The Jobs Council’s October report to the President-http://www.jobs-council.com/2011/10/10/jobs-council-releases-taking-action-building-confidence-interim-report-to-the-president/  

The report includes five major initiatives to increase employment while improving competitiveness:

1. Measures to accelerate investment into job-rich projects in infrastructure and energy development;…

 

Plug into reality here.  American jobs have left for China to produce mercury laden light bulbs to bring good things to life back here in America.  You see those mercury-containing CFLs will never be made here under strict environmental regulations and the unions. CFLs made in India and China have environmental standards that are virtually non-existent. https://ahrcanum.wordpress.com/2008/12/17/obamas-cold-day-in-hell/

 

 

The Jobs Council guru has moved even more GE infrastructure to China.  

 

Are the very people that have been entrusted with solving the unemployment crisis shipping jobs out of the country? In a New World Order, is America going to be last and sit in the dark with these crap light bulbs, with our new lamps designed to fit the funky base sizes and with proper ventilation?

 

 

The constituent materials in a typical CFL vary widely, because there are many technologies that can achieve the same (or at least similar) results. In general though, the basic ingredients are …http://sound.westhost.com/articles/incandescent.htm

• glass
• steel
• silicon (in ICs, transistors, MOSFETs, diodes, etc.) *
• mercury + mercury vapour **
• fibreglass and epoxy resins (PCB, semiconductor cases) *
• aluminium (electrolytic capacitor) *
• various plastics (main housing, film capacitors) *
• ferrites / ceramics (resistor bodies, choke cores) *
• copper wire and PCB traces *
• phosphors **
• a small amount of high temperature plastic insulation
• (lead free?) solder
• plating material for exposed metal, probably nickel

 

You can’t just throw away an CFL bulb.  Because mercury is cumulative, you have to dispose of it in a toxic waste depot.  Right.  Got one right next door.  If you happen to break a bulb, look out for the mercury vapor and mercury containing phosphor powder.  The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has a HAZMAT sheet for instructions,   http://www.energystar.gov/ia/partners/promotions/change_light/downloads/Fact_Sheet_Mercury.pdf

 

The EPA claims the new CFL use less energy than incandescent bulbs, and will actually result in less mercury being released because the power plants won’t have to make as much energy.  We’re pretty sure we only pay for actual energy used, but power companies still have to provide the full voltage and current.  Coal supplies around 50% of the electricity in the U.S., but  there is no mention of clean coal, instead focusing on an award winning new light bulb and five million smart meters. 

 

Why is it the governments job to install smart meters on our power grids?  Wouldn’t the private sector do just as good of job and create private sector jobs?  So help me…are those smart grids manufactured in China? At least not all of them are–

 

Obama Solyndra: Corporate Crony Capitalism

 

Like Solyndra, a number of “smart grid” companies have received taxpayer backing. But federal financing was not enough to keep Beacon Power, a manufacture of flywheel energy storage technology, from going bankrupt. They may not be the last smart-grid company consigned to that fate.

Beacon received a $43 million loan guarantee from the same stimulus-funded Energy Department program that financed Solyndra. Late last month the company filed for chapter 11 bankruptcy protection…

Ener1, which, with subsidiary EnerDel, has received more than $120 million in federal grants, announced early last week that it had replaced its president, its chief executive, and its top financial officer. The company manufactures lithium-ion batteries for smart-grid energy storage.

That move came about a week after NASDAQ delisted Ener1 for a failure to comply with SEC filing requirements.  http://blog.heritage.org/2011/11/17/smart-grid-manufacturers-the-next-green-sector-under-fire/

  Meanwhile from energy dot gov-

 

The Coal Industry has gotten better in the U.S. Is it a perfect means of energy production? No.  Obviously some smart grids are in trouble and some are smarter than others.  Oil, gas and the recent shale and sands drilling have there own drawbacks.  Still politicians have no problem accepting money. http://www.opensecrets.org/lobby/induscode.php?id=E1210&year=

 

Total For Alternate energy production & services: $22,655,301

The taxpayer is footing the bill to the green economy, companies, lobbyists and light bulbs that don’t work very well.  No wonder we’re going broke.

 

At least Ron Paul, “railed against government plans to transition from the incandescent light bulb to more energy saving light bulbs, citing Rand’s 1937 novel Anthem.  The similarity, according to Paul, is that “individual choice is banned and the collective basically runs society.” http://communities.washingtontimes.com/neighborhood/ad-lib/2011/nov/29/legacy-ayn-rand-rand-and-ron-paul-and-paul-ryan/

 

 

So if we pull out our tin foil hat.  Why are we being mandated into buying these new light bulbs?  Is it not only because it hurts the U.S.  industry as they emit light, but maybe to track your habits and internet connections? 

 

Think Nicola Tesla for a minute.

 

Did Tesla lay the ground work for Wifi through a light bulb with this patent? 

 

So Tesla is long dead and while he had a lot of patents, he died with little money.  Fathom this little dose of reality from companies looking to harness similar technology.

 

 

 

Emits sound and light? Cool!

 

Four years ago:    http://www.witricity.com/ 

 

Massachusetts Institute of Technology researchers announced  they had made a 60-watt light bulb. The breakthrough, disclosed in Science Express, an online publication of the journal Science, is being called “WiTricity” by the scientists glow by sending it energy wirelessly, potentially previewing a future in which cell phones and other gadgets get juice without having to be plugged in. http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/techinnovations/2007-06-08-mit-wireless-power_N.htm

Guess who invests in WiTricity?

 

GE! 

…WiTricity Corp were also winners. GE didn’t disclose the amount of the funds that came from its venture-capital partners. When GE announced winners of the first contest, with a prize pool of $55 million, it planned to contribute about half the total. GE projects the power grid technology market will reach $20 billion by 2015.

Who else invested?

FOLLOW THE $$$$

As the exclusive licensee of this MIT intellectual property, WiTricity Corp. was founded by Prof. Soljačić and several colleagues from MIT.  WiTricity Corp. received its initial venture capital funding in November of 2007 from Stata Ventures and Argonaut Private Equity.  Stata Ventures is a technology investment firm managed by Ray Stata, the founder, Chairman, and former CEO of Analog Devices.

Still got your tin foil hat on? 

Watch TeraDiode company. TeraDiode’s ultra-high brightness, direct-diode lasers enable many defense applications, including infrared countermeasures, target designators and directed energy weapons. http://teradiode.com/applications/defense/

DIRECTED ENERGY WEAPONS, like maybe HAARP?

Who may have invested in TeraDiode? On November 21, 2011 http://optics.org/news/2/11/19

The round was led by Argonaut Ventures – the same private equity firm owned by the George Kaiser Family Foundation that invested heavily in bankrupt solar firm Solyndra – while Stata Venture Partners, which invested $4 million through TeraDiode’s series A round in 2009, also took part. Camros Capital and others made smaller contributions to the latest financing.

The joint venture of Comcast and General Electric formed NBC Universal.  Imagine the company that sells a light bulb that delivers Wifi and TV, Radio, Internet, content.  Talk about an IPO.  Where is Apple?

And check out this old news- July 11, 2011- MediaTek Inc., a leading fabless semiconductor company for wireless communications and digital multimedia solutions and WiTricity, the technology leader in wireless power, today jointly announced that has entered into a technology transfer and license agreement. http://www.mediatek.com/en/News/news_content.php?sn=80

Sadly regarding patents-  according to John Hennessy, president of Stanford University–

We need to get the money. I mean, the backlog is over 600,000 [sic, patent]applications. Now, not all those patents were grant, but that’s three years worth of patents just to put it in perspective.  So we’ve got to invest in order to make this process work faster and that’s an American competitiveness issue for us….http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-10-07/patent-office-must-control-funds-mit-leader-says-transcript-.html

Wow. more than a half a million patents in backlog.  Wonder what the backlog looks like on those patents being stolen?  Have fun reading them by a CFL lamp.

For our readers in liberal land who are convinced that the lights aren’t going out http://mediamatters.org/research/201111280004

Will the last one out shut off the lights?

(copyrights by respective owners.  WiTricity is a proprietary technology of WiTricity Corporation, and should not be used to refer to wireless electricity in a generic sense.)

In keeping with full disclosure- some of the writers have and may own stock in Cisco, Western Digital and NBC Universal; not in the other above aforementioned companies-at least not yet!