Comments on: Branson, Gore Announce $25 Million ‘Virgin Earth Challenge’ http://www.environmentalleader.com/2007/02/09/branson-gore-announce-25-million-virgin-earth-challenge/ The Executive's Daily Green Briefing Sun, 22 Nov 2009 11:37:46 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: jeff kinkade http://www.environmentalleader.com/2007/02/09/branson-gore-announce-25-million-virgin-earth-challenge/comment-page-1/#comment-141776 jeff kinkade Sun, 16 Aug 2009 22:21:23 +0000 http://www.environmentalleader.com/2007/02/09/branson-gore-announce-25-million-virgin-earth-challenge/#comment-141776 make all roads&roofs to reflect instead of absorbing make all roads&roofs to reflect instead of absorbing

]]> By: Dave Carlson http://www.environmentalleader.com/2007/02/09/branson-gore-announce-25-million-virgin-earth-challenge/comment-page-1/#comment-54474 Dave Carlson Sun, 18 May 2008 15:34:42 +0000 http://www.environmentalleader.com/2007/02/09/branson-gore-announce-25-million-virgin-earth-challenge/#comment-54474 Well, the government has been preventing technology from being produced for over 30 years that would give us the ability to travel for free without burning oil. Ali mentioned one solution below The Government needs something to tax, so I say we take it right to the step beyond perpetual. Take the magnetic drive system to move the vehicles and add generators to create energy during it's travels. Imagine pulling into a filling station and getting paid to discharge your battery... It gives the Government something to tax so they would have to allow it to move forward. The oil companies don't need to worry, they are at the peak of production and demand will continue to rise from those who don't care about the future of this planet. There are many ways to reach perpetual, toss out the formulas because they will tell you it can't be done... I already have a working prototype... Get me some funds and keep the government and oil companies away while I perfect it. We could have them coming off the lines at GM by the end of next year... no pollution, no gas... Well, the government has been preventing technology from being produced for over 30 years that would give us the ability to travel for free without burning oil.

Ali mentioned one solution below

The Government needs something to tax, so I say we take it right to the step beyond perpetual.

Take the magnetic drive system to move the vehicles and add generators to create energy during it’s travels.

Imagine pulling into a filling station and getting paid to discharge your battery… It gives the Government something to tax so they would have to allow it to move forward. The oil companies don’t need to worry, they are at the peak of production and demand will continue to rise from those who don’t care about the future of this planet.

There are many ways to reach perpetual, toss out the formulas because they will tell you it can’t be done…

I already have a working prototype…

Get me some funds and keep the government and oil companies away while I perfect it.

We could have them coming off the lines at GM by the end of next year…

no pollution, no gas…

]]> By: lluju guju http://www.environmentalleader.com/2007/02/09/branson-gore-announce-25-million-virgin-earth-challenge/comment-page-1/#comment-46353 lluju guju Fri, 04 Apr 2008 07:34:26 +0000 http://www.environmentalleader.com/2007/02/09/branson-gore-announce-25-million-virgin-earth-challenge/#comment-46353 Increase and promote growth in the oceans like algae and other co2 reducing plants or organisism which might and has dual function Increase and promote growth in the oceans like algae and other co2 reducing plants or organisism which might and has dual function

]]> By: lluju guju http://www.environmentalleader.com/2007/02/09/branson-gore-announce-25-million-virgin-earth-challenge/comment-page-1/#comment-46347 lluju guju Fri, 04 Apr 2008 07:21:51 +0000 http://www.environmentalleader.com/2007/02/09/branson-gore-announce-25-million-virgin-earth-challenge/#comment-46347 Government supported house exchange. The plan is to give tax breaks for those change house so they could be closer to work. Government supported house exchange. The plan is to give tax breaks for those change house so they could be closer to work.

]]> By: Darrell Caraway http://www.environmentalleader.com/2007/02/09/branson-gore-announce-25-million-virgin-earth-challenge/comment-page-1/#comment-25929 Darrell Caraway Thu, 06 Dec 2007 04:43:50 +0000 http://www.environmentalleader.com/2007/02/09/branson-gore-announce-25-million-virgin-earth-challenge/#comment-25929 Al Gore spoke in Silicon Valley shortly after receiving the Nobel Prize and expressed the importance of Techie transportation. This is really important, because even if we started Iron fertilization right now, we are unable to counter act the exhaust gas from our cars and trucks, etc. If we use a non-internal combustion method of powering passenger cars, for instance, we can start reducing the emissions that have got us in the trouble we are in. If we just keep producing gasoline powered cars and trucks, we will not be able to overcome the carbon emissions, since we are increasing our population on a J curve and increasing our automobile production to match it, with new cars and trucks. I drive a 40 year old car, and it runs on gas, but as an example, re-using a car by fixing it instead of throwing a car away after 5 or 10 years like most people do, we save natural resources. In this case, we are facing a matter of having started the concept that a new car is a sign of prestige. It is not. It is ruining our eco-system. We need to be able to replace our current internal combustion engines with non-fuel burning motors. Right now, there is a company in Berkeley, California that has produced a car that uses a battery similar to the ones used in a cel phone. This battery also has been managed to run longer and to allow the car to run at normal highway speeds. So progress is being made. Our challenge is to make these things mainstream. One company in a small town making a few cars won't be enough. If we can rally the major automobile manufacturers and also retrofit the existing cars with new safe emission or no emission power plants then we have a new industry to look forward to. The time has come. Also, the weight of the cars currently being made is too high. A Rover, for instance, weighs 8,000 pounds. On the case of power to weight ratios, take the second car I own, a 1969 Triumph Spitfire (from Coventry) - it weighs 945 pounds wet. The power needed then is 75 H.P. Al Gore spoke in Silicon Valley shortly after receiving the Nobel Prize and expressed the importance of Techie transportation. This is really important, because even if we started Iron fertilization right now, we are unable to counter act the exhaust gas from our cars and trucks, etc. If we use a non-internal combustion method of powering passenger cars, for instance, we can start reducing the emissions that have got us in the trouble we are in. If we just keep producing gasoline powered cars and trucks, we will not be able to overcome the carbon emissions, since we are increasing our population on a J curve and increasing our automobile production to match it, with new cars and trucks.
I drive a 40 year old car, and it runs on gas, but as an example, re-using a car by fixing it instead of throwing a car away after 5 or 10 years like most people do, we save natural resources.
In this case, we are facing a matter of having started the concept that a new car is a sign of prestige. It is not. It is ruining our eco-system.

We need to be able to replace our current internal combustion engines with non-fuel burning motors. Right now, there is a company in Berkeley, California that has produced a car that uses a battery similar to the ones used in a cel phone. This battery also has been managed to run longer and to allow the car to run at normal highway speeds. So progress is being made.

Our challenge is to make these things mainstream.
One company in a small town making a few cars won’t be enough. If we can rally the major automobile manufacturers and also retrofit the existing cars with new safe emission or no emission power plants then we have a new industry to look forward to. The time has come.

Also, the weight of the cars currently being made is too high. A Rover, for instance, weighs 8,000 pounds. On the case of power to weight ratios, take the second car I own, a 1969 Triumph Spitfire (from Coventry) – it weighs 945 pounds wet. The power needed then is 75 H.P.

]]> By: Darrell Caraway http://www.environmentalleader.com/2007/02/09/branson-gore-announce-25-million-virgin-earth-challenge/comment-page-1/#comment-25925 Darrell Caraway Thu, 06 Dec 2007 04:18:43 +0000 http://www.environmentalleader.com/2007/02/09/branson-gore-announce-25-million-virgin-earth-challenge/#comment-25925 This shot gun approach is not effective. We are looking at one solution that is natural to directly solve the problem. So far, Iron Fertilization is the closest thing we have found to do the job on such a massive scale without side effects detrimental to eco-systems. This shot gun approach is not effective. We are looking at one solution that is natural to directly solve the problem. So far, Iron Fertilization is the closest thing we have found to do the job on such a massive scale without side effects detrimental to eco-systems.

]]> By: Melissa Austin http://www.environmentalleader.com/2007/02/09/branson-gore-announce-25-million-virgin-earth-challenge/comment-page-1/#comment-14551 Melissa Austin Sat, 06 Oct 2007 23:12:39 +0000 http://www.environmentalleader.com/2007/02/09/branson-gore-announce-25-million-virgin-earth-challenge/#comment-14551 Maybe someone will create the 'Mother-load' invention that saves us from ourselves, but, in case not,- there are several things we should be doing right now while waiting for eureka. First of all, all chemical fertilizers should be removed and rendered harmless, if possible. Reason being that they eventually make it to the ocean and kill algae( greatest source of oxygen). Next, all the telephone/electric poles should be retrofitted to capture wind energy, connected across the country(ies) relaying and recharging bountiful free energy. Next, lands that were overgrazed and rendered barren should be reseeded by plane during monsoonal rainy seasons. Next, the billions of trees that are decaying because of the bark- beetle should be shredded and mixed with crops(?)to be pressed into somesort of building materials instead of decaying into more caron- dioxide pollution. I don't know which crop would create a binder like that of natural treesap. And, the land exposed, after harvesting the dead trees, should be replanted with seedlings. There are thousands of projects we should be doing for Earth's sake and man's. These are some ideas I hope you will add to you very well-intended list. Good-luck! Maybe someone will create the ‘Mother-load’ invention that saves us from ourselves, but, in case not,- there are several things we should be doing right now while waiting for eureka. First of all, all chemical fertilizers should be removed and rendered harmless, if possible. Reason being that they eventually make it to the ocean and kill algae( greatest source of oxygen). Next, all the telephone/electric poles should be retrofitted to capture wind energy, connected across the country(ies) relaying and recharging bountiful free energy. Next, lands that were overgrazed and rendered barren should be reseeded by plane during monsoonal rainy seasons. Next, the billions of trees that are decaying because of the bark- beetle should be shredded and mixed with crops(?)to be pressed into somesort of building materials instead of decaying into more caron- dioxide pollution. I don’t know which crop would create a binder like that of natural treesap. And, the land exposed, after harvesting the dead trees, should be replanted with seedlings. There are thousands of projects we should be doing for Earth’s sake and man’s. These are some ideas I hope you will add to you very well-intended list. Good-luck!

]]> By: Ronald Davenport http://www.environmentalleader.com/2007/02/09/branson-gore-announce-25-million-virgin-earth-challenge/comment-page-1/#comment-9304 Ronald Davenport Tue, 04 Sep 2007 15:49:14 +0000 http://www.environmentalleader.com/2007/02/09/branson-gore-announce-25-million-virgin-earth-challenge/#comment-9304 Sirs, There are plenty of articles announcing the prize and the rules but no where that I can find is the mechanism to sign up for the competition. Is this a joke or only limited to the inside elite? Please publish how to compete now. Thanks, Ronald Davenport Sirs,

There are plenty of articles announcing the prize and the rules but no where that I can find is the mechanism to sign up for the competition. Is this a joke or only limited to the inside elite? Please publish how to compete now.
Thanks, Ronald Davenport

]]> By: JOSE MA JIMENEZ http://www.environmentalleader.com/2007/02/09/branson-gore-announce-25-million-virgin-earth-challenge/comment-page-1/#comment-1878 JOSE MA JIMENEZ Sun, 24 Jun 2007 04:49:31 +0000 http://www.environmentalleader.com/2007/02/09/branson-gore-announce-25-million-virgin-earth-challenge/#comment-1878 IT LOOKS LIKE A FUNNY YOKE FROM AL GORE AND SIR BRANSON TO CATCH MEDIA ATTENTION. SINCE NO ONE SHOWS UP IN THE VIRGIN EARTH WEB-SITE TO INFORM, REGISTER AND SUPPORT CONTENDANTS. I GET OUT WITH MY PROYECT. IT LOOKS LIKE A FUNNY YOKE FROM AL GORE AND SIR BRANSON TO CATCH MEDIA ATTENTION.
SINCE NO ONE SHOWS UP IN THE VIRGIN EARTH WEB-SITE TO INFORM, REGISTER AND SUPPORT CONTENDANTS.
I GET OUT WITH MY PROYECT.

]]> By: Sid Sherman http://www.environmentalleader.com/2007/02/09/branson-gore-announce-25-million-virgin-earth-challenge/comment-page-1/#comment-815 Sid Sherman Tue, 29 May 2007 20:31:03 +0000 http://www.environmentalleader.com/2007/02/09/branson-gore-announce-25-million-virgin-earth-challenge/#comment-815 You are still looking to modify a propeller driven airplane when it's time for a jet engine ... in this case it's a Permanent-Magnet powered engine which the establishment has successfully kept off the market for decades. THINK OUT OF THE BOX. You are still looking to modify a propeller driven airplane when it’s time for a jet engine … in this case it’s a Permanent-Magnet powered engine which the establishment has successfully kept off the market for decades.
THINK OUT OF THE BOX.

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