The current grid structure is quite outdated and built for a single direction flow of energy, from the resource to your home or office. That flow of energy is changing dramatically. Green technology is intermittent due to its source, wind, solar, hydro. These creates a demand for dynamic solutions to capture energy while still maintaining the energy flow in the right direction and accountability of new energy put into the grid. In addition to this added energy directional flow issue, demand is also growing greater and our current infrastructure is being stressed to its limits.

Another growing burden on energy management is the growing consumer demand for accountability. The current system provides no way of knowing your energy consumption until after you receive your bill. This is coupled with the expensive burden of replacing currently installed equipment that does not have reporting capability.

What’s needed now is a new concept in how we get and use energy. The US has allocated approximately $4 billion in economic-stimulus dollars on smart-grid initiatives, but this doesn’t mean a smart grid for every home. In California utilities alone are spending about $4.5 billion over the next few years on smart meter installations. This would indicate a cost of approximately $50 billion nationwide. This would require hundreds of billions more poured into conventional grid infrastructure to meet US growth over the next decade.

The solution is a dramatic change in how we manage energy form the source of draw, our homes. This change will take effect within the consumer market and not from the energy companies themselves. As consumers purchase off-grid generated energy they require smart equipment to tie them into their home and businesses. As these off-grid system become grid-tie solutions the technology plugged into the grid at the source will become the next generation of the Grid.

Smart grid-tie power management devices will provide information to consumers about their usage and help utility companies more effectively control energy flow without substantial costly infrastructure upgrades to the community. These devices will empower consumers with the ability to manage their internal energy consumption at each source by allocating power as needed. This is very similar to how a landscaping sprinkler system would work. During low energy days the power can be dialed back, during a vacation it can be turned off in particular areas or managed remotely via the web, during high demand hours efficiencies can be implemented just by being aware via simple easy to ready power consumption displayed data.

Just by being aware of your power consumption through these smart home display devices our energy usage will go down dramatically. This additionally will drive the overall price of energy and provide consumers with a very effective means of price management through demand. Very similar to fuel prices.

Smart power consumption devices will add another efficiency to our near future power consumption trends. Power devices will draw less or even no power when not in use. High power consumption devices such as air-conditioners will incorporate power management technology, small portable devices will power remotely from ambient power, it will become more common to see lights & water faucets automatically turn off, and most homes & businesses will plug directly into the alternative energy they produce.

Smart meters and grid-tie inverters are about $500 to several thousands. The solution for the future home will be a combination of these devices and smart appliances. Demand for these products in our near future should bring the costs down to about $200 or no more than a DVD player.

Around the world billions of dollars are being invested in “green” energy technologies, but how many of these technologies are really green? If your concept of “green” has a few presidents on them, then quite a bit of these projects are very green. Investment and government checks are being written faster than they ever were back in height the dot com craze. Does that mean this bubble will too eventually pop?

If we simply spend the same amount on education of green living habits we could reduce our carbon footprint and dependency on harmful energy by over 40%! The concepts are simple yet our consumption habits are not. We would have to radically change our living environments to make any significant impact on our environment such as turning off the TV, the video games, taking cold quick showers, no heat or air-conditioning, turning off the lights when you leave a room, really recycle, buy local, ride a bike to work and sell the car, plant a garden, install 30 solar panels, etc… Some might be practical in moderation, but most are completely unrealistic in our culture.

Companies cashing the billion dollar stimulus checks, promoting products & concepts that most likely won’t make it to market until 2020 if at all, would like you to believe we can create a green planet by building acres of wind and solar farms, tapping thermal energy from the planet, harvesting wind in the stratosphere or even free-unlimited energy from a parallel universe. But when the bubble pops these concepts will be what they really are – quick ways to make money for a few individuals. 1998 Business plans are being dusted off, re-written and being submitted for a quick buck. Not a lot of new anything has been put into them. Simply change the name with something “green” in the title, add a byline “saving the planet”, and the next millionaire is made.

What accountability has been placed on these companies? Did we learn much from the dot com crash? We’re pounding hard on GM, banks and other companies that requested stimulus dollars but have we put any similar expectations on “green” funded technologies? The buzz word green is truly green, but not the green they are promoting.

No corporation is going to sell you “green”. Green is a personal responsibility, not so much for the planet because I’m quite sure it will outlive us, as the next stage in our evolution. Green is tied directly to the quality of our social & environmental growth as a society. Ending wars, starvation, and providing every human with basic freedoms, education, and a quality of life is as simple as “green” gets.

SAN MARCOS, CA, June 5, 2009 – DyoCore Smart Solutions today announced the July availability of its SolAir wind/solar hybrid generator. Sporting a breakthrough design with a small blade-span of less than 52 inches and integrated solar fin to maximize directional flow and electrical output, the SolAir is the first hybrid alternative energy source designed for consumer residential, small business and local government markets.

Offering a radical departure in design from traditional wind generators, DyoCore’s SolAir can be stacked and strategically placed in a residential home environment as an alternative energy source. The unit incorporates the latest in thin film transistor solar panels, providing a continuous flow of energy, even with low-exposure to the sun. Furthermore, the company’s supplied DC/AC inverter actually recycles unused electricity back into the local grid, dramatically reducing consumer dependency on the nation’s power resources, while providing true money savings to environmentally-savvy home owners.

According to DyoCore’s co-founder and VP of Sales, Moe Green, the SolAir represents the first time anyone in the industry has addressed the high cost and low performance of single install wind and solar energy resources. “DyoCore’s dynamic and unique approach to this market sector provides a low cost, high performance and reliable building block solution. The average homeowner can start slow and build an entire home solution over time that strategically solves specific power needs and performance issues with our unique and cost-efficient solutions,” explained Mr. Green.

The on/off-grid, plug-n-play hydro hybrid requires simple installation by homeowners, features an appealing stackable design, and delivers a complete return on initial investment within two to five years. Unlike other wind and/or solar systems, the SolAir has the potential to convert up to 70% of wind power into electricity, double the current average, and can operate in as little as 2mph to >25mph.

According to David Raine, company co-founder and chief engineer, it’s all about developing cleaner and leaner technologies, thus improving the way products are designed, made, delivered, and used. “At the end of the product’s life cycle, even the materials the product is made of can be recycled. The goal is to provide greater consumer value, performance and choice as well as reduce environmental impacts. DyoCore’s product line meets this goal and will lower the cost of energy for the end consumer," explained Mr. Raine.

Available in two configurations, 300-watt and 800-watt versions, the SolAir I and II will be available in July 2009 at a suggested retail price of $4,800 for a complete system, including inverter system, high-performance rechargeable batteries and mounting brackets. In many states, the SolAir qualifies for local, state and federal tax credits of up to 80%.

About DyoCore Smart Solutions

DyoCore’s focus lies within the development and distribution of simple, low cost residential energy solutions based on hybrid wind and solar alternatives. The Company's technology objective is architected to make alternative energy resourcing simple, reliable, cost effective, and flexible for customers. A key aspect of DyoCore's vision is that its product line helps customers avoid the cost, hassle, and reliability issues of maintaining a large, high cost, high maintenance current market product.

DyoCore products present a dramatic change over traditional turbine designs. DyoCore turbines have been specifically tooled for low wind and the SolAir has been created specifically for both low wind and obstructed areas, ideal for the average
home roof. The company’s first two products, the SolAir I and Solair II will be available in July, 2009. For more information, visit the company’s web site at www.dyocore.com.

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Contact: Moe Green
(347) 617-2140
moe@dyocore.com

When it comes to technology we like our complex solutions and have run the gamut with alternative energy these past few years. Everything from the collection of atmospheric static energy to 300 foot turbines on tethers . The complexity of these concepts is so great they require tens of millions in development testing to even consider them practical yet alone to build someday in our lifetimes.

A recent publication, Metropolis Magazine, challenged its readers to present a solution to fix our energy addiction. Though thousands of ideas were thrown into the mix of all but a few well thought out propositions the winner was so simple it’s dumbfounding we don’t already do it!

Three French designers proposed the concept to simply place turbines right directly on existing power infrastructure towers. How many electricity towers are in the US? I couldn’t seem to find the answer to that question but I’m sure it’s an immense number in the hundreds of thousands. In my search I did find this great page of some interesting tower pictures from a photographer. Add cellular towers to the mix and the number of available generator towers for simple plug and play wind generators almost doubles.

Unfortunately the response to this simple solution was bombarded with structural integrity issues, tie in to the transformer problems and more importantly who then maintains them. But in my opinion these burdens are substantially less than those faced by most alternative energy solutions with millions in government funding being spent daily.

For the full article: http://www.metropolismag.com/nextgen/ng ... le_id=3824

Or… simply more taxes for Californians already faced with the highest state taxes in the nation. We are all alternative energy fans but to what extend does it get out of hand? A start-up company BrightSource is under contract by PG&E for the installation of 1.31GW deal in California. Their alternative energy solution is plucked right out of the Sci-Fi books. BrightSource will build a “Power Tower” that uses a field of mirrors or heliostats, to concentrate sunlight to heat water atop a central tower to generate electricity from a steam turbine. All they need now is 007 dangling from the side in a tooth and nail battle for the safety of all mankind.

California has been a leader in alternative energy initiatives producing over 10% of its energy from green resources currently with an aggressive goal of 33% by 2020. Though 33% seems quite impressive it could be achieved by 2012 with proven technology and smart planning.

The Renewable Energy Atlas of the West estimated the annual wind electricity generation potential in California to be 45 billion kWh providing California with an abundant very inexpensive, substantially less than solar, resource for alternative energy.
Are we in such a crunch to produce energy that we need to fund start-up companies with unproven technology at a cost of hundreds of millions when in an economic state of crisis? California is underway to be the first state to go bankrupt – this state’s investment in these types of startup solutions is exactly why.

Saving energy through efficiency is the only realistic economic solution and substantially less expensive than building new technology power plants.