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Thomas Blakeslee
Thomas R. Blakeslee is president of the Clearlight Foundation and the author of several books that have been published in nine different languages. He earned a degree from the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, California in 1962. After working for IT&T in Antwerp, Belgium, he moved to Silicon Valley in California where he helped found several startup companies as Engineering Vice President. In 1980 he used his own money to found Orion Instruments Inc. He served as President and then Chairman of the Board until he retired in 1998. A prolific inventor, he holds patents in such diverse fields as photography, hydraulics, electronic circuits, information display, digital telephony, instrumentation and vehicle guidance. Since retiring from Orion, he has focused on managing his own and others investments. After years of successfully investing in oil and gas stocks, he came to the realization that the burning of fossil fuels was ruining our planet through pollution and global warming. His search for practical solutions led him to geothermal energy, where he found an amazing gap between it's potential and present reality. The Clearlight Foundation is his vehicle for change using his own and friend's personal savings for the good of the planet.
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Articles by Thomas Blakeslee: 19
January 5, 2010
Importing Solar Power with Biomass
Every six hours the sun bathes the lands of the earth in as much energy as the world consumes in a year. If we could just find a way to collect and distribute that energy our energy problems would be solved....
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November 12, 2009
Energy Saving: Much Cheaper Than Building Power Plants!
On an electrical grid, supply must always exactly equal demand or the voltage goes unstable. Our utility laws very effectively encourage building of power plants to meet an ever-growing demand. This seemed like wise policy in the days of almost free...
October 20, 2009
Biomethane as an Energy Carrier
Methane is a better long-distance energy carrier than electricity. Its storage and transportation is much cheaper and easier than electricity. Natural gas pipelines cost half as much to build as electric towers and have about one fourth as much transmission loss....
September 16, 2009
Free as the Wind
Wind power is a way to indirectly harness the power of the sun. Landmasses absorb the sun’s energy, smoothing it out and concentrating it based on terrain features. Mountain passes and cool water can create amazingly windy places that are easily...
August 18, 2009
Solar Power: A Gift from Space
At noon on the equator our sun gives us one kilowatt of free energy per square meter! This gift from space is ultimately the basis of all of our power sources except nuclear and geothermal. Wind, hydro, biomass and all fossil...
July 27, 2009
CHP Electricity Powers Cars 22 Times Farther Than Ethanol!
Cheap fossil fuel has allowed us to waste the majority of our energy, filling the planet with pollution and waste heat. Our car engines are only 25% efficient and coal power plants are not much better. Corn ethanol is one of...
June 25, 2009
Can Biomass Replace Coal?
Wind and solar power are clean and free but they only work part of the time. When the sun goes down and the wind dies, coal is still the workhorse for generating baseload power. But coal is killing us by warming...
May 7, 2009
Clean Coal: Here Now!
Coal, which started out as the cheapest of fuels, is a victim of its own success. The more coal we burn the more expensive it becomes as we are forced to deal with more and more unintended environmental consequences. A clean...
April 22, 2009
Biochar: The Key to Carbon-Negative Biofuels
The world is losing its battle against global warming. Even in Europe, where they have valiantly fought to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, the imbalance gets worse every day. Biofuels are the biggest disappointment. They still emit CO2 when burned and require...
March 10, 2009
Invisible, Underground HVDC Power Costs No More Than Ugly Towers
Clean, renewable power is running into transportation problems. To deliver renewable power from remote areas to where the people need it, we need to add a lot of transmission capacity to the grid. If we follow our traditional practice of building...
February 18, 2009
Drill Baby Drill! For a Clean, Safe Energy Future
We have work to do. The time has come to modernize our power grid and phase out polluting coal power plants. In their place we can build a clean, renewable electric infrastructure that needs no fuel. When the wind blows and...
January 8, 2009
Beijing's Showcase "Clean Coal" Power Plant
About six months ago, I presented a paper at the The China Power & Alternative Energy Summit. It was the first time that geothermal was represented at this important conference, which has so far been dominated by wind and solar presentations....
November 17, 2008
Electric Cars Make Fuel-Free Power Grid Practical
Internal combustion engines are inherently inefficient due to friction and pumping losses. After a century of evolution gasoline engines in cars are still typically only 21% efficient! Electric motors have no such limitations and are actually capable of 98% efficiency including...
October 14, 2008
Nuclear Power: The Safe and Easy Way
Nuclear power is a gift from nature. It can be harnessed cleanly and safely but an accident of history got us started down a path that is dangerous and unnecessarily complicated. Today's nuclear power plants were adapted from reactor designs originally...
September 2, 2008
The Elephant Under the Rug: Denial and Failed Energy Projects
At the World Renewable Energy Conference in Glasgow I recently witnessed the strange phenomenon of group denial first hand. After a paper about hydrogen-fueled cars, some embarrassing questions were asked about the practicalities of storing and delivering hydrogen to the cars....
July 24, 2008
Heat is Power. Let's Stop Throwing it Away!
High gasoline prices have forced us to make painful adjustments, which may, unfortunately, be just the beginning. The world's dramatically growing energy demands are affecting all energy prices. Coal, Uranium and natural gas prices have all risen dramatically in the past...
May 12, 2008
The Folly of Fueled Power Plants
The Earth comes to us with a safe and clean nuclear power plant built in that can provide all of the energy we need. We learned how to tap this geothermal energy decades ago, yet we still seem to prefer gathering...
April 17, 2008
The Coming Baseload Power Crisis
The explosive growth of worldwide energy demand has made it painfully clear that that our traditional sources of electricity can no longer be expanded without creating a major environmental tragedy. Coal burning during the industrial revolution created localized disasters but the...
February 19, 2008
Free Power from the Earth 24/7
From our home on the earth's thin crust, it's hard to believe that 99.9% of the earth's volume is hot enough to boil water. Atomic decay inside of the earth heats its molten core to a temperature that is hotter than...
