On the 17th of November I published the post Step One to the TOTEM, here is the continuation, step two. The first part treated Wind Energy. As can be seen at the examples from Youtube Wind Turbines already exist for rural as well as urban areas. The topic of this post is Solar Panels. In general there are two different kind of Solar Panels, the Photovoltaic Solar one and the Thermal Solar Panel. In this post we want to concentrate on the...

I have been repeatedly asked to explain how to build a TOTEM System. Just the last comment of Terence Karn shows how eager people are to employ alternative energy in their homes. Terence asked me  not about the TOTEM per se, but about how to employ wind energy in his home. I looked up Youtube and found some interesting  video clips regarding wind energy in urban areas. Here are some of the most interesting ones. The first one deals...

It is summer again, at least in the northern hemisphere, and it is hot, very hot indeed. In the southern part of France, a couple of weeks ago, a devastating flood occurred. 19 people died. Now floods are always happening and in some parts of the world it is totally normal for floods to happen during the summer, but not in southern France with it’s Mediterranean climate. In the south of France it should be quiet dry in the summer. It...