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Umer Farooq, Super Magnet is Pure Gold for Green Energy

You have to respect the hard working people in Pakistan for constantly surprising the world with ingenious new inventions. They are particularly strong in electrical engineering.  One inventor Umer Farooq, the author of ‘Limitlessness’, now claims to have invented a super efficient permanent magnet which, if scientifically explored could tranform electrical engineering and seriously boost the green energy revolution. Indeed it would help all mankind the world over by lowering energy consumption in almost all new electrical motors. 

Umer Farooq is no dummy. He received a B.E in Electrical Engineering from University of Engineering and Technology Lahore, Pakistan in 2004, the M.Sc degree from Université de Nice Sophia Antipolis, France in 2007. He completed his PhD from System on Chip (SoC) department of Laboratoire d'Informatique de Paris6 (LIP6), Université Pierre et Marie Curie (UPMC), Paris France in july 2011. During his PhD, he worked on the exploration and optimization of application specific heterogeneous tree-based FPGA Architectures.

Mr Farooq is now gaining world attention with his claims... but are they true? Has he indeed come up with a breakthrough in the form of a highly efficient new magnet?  One that is designed especially for electric motors? And one which Farooq claims, can do a lot of work with a much lower consumption of energy because of a new type of magnetic interaction?

A new type of magnetic interaction?

According to Farooq, modern electric motors use about ten horsepower worth of electric energy for yield a mechanical output of about nine horsepower worth of work, while electric motors built with his new super efficient permanent magnet will need only five horsepower input of electricity, while the mechanical output of this motors will remain nine horsepower. This is a bold claim in our energy based economy - this could really help Pakistan and the entire world.

Dr. Muhammad Kamran has also handled responsibility evaluating Laboratories in other universities. He is supervising 4 PhD students working on advanced compression techniques and interharmonics evaluation. He says the magnet shows a lot of promise in early testing but more experimentation is required to prove the merets of this magnetic innovation.

Dr. Muhammad Kamran joined University of Engineering and Technology, Lahore in February 1994 as Lecturer. After getting PhD in July 2007 from Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing, China, he is appointed as Professor and Chairman of Electrical Engineering Department, UET, Lahore, KSK Campus. Dr. Kamran taught course at undergraduate and graduate levels of the curriculum in Electrical Power and Computer Engineering.

ORIGINAL VIDEO SHOWS IT WORKING

Talking about the newly developed magnet, Farooq said that the breakthrough uses super efficient magnetic interaction. ‘It provides far more repulsion force than ordinary permanent magnet,’ he observed. ‘In totality, that is why it provides more than 100 per cent additional mechanical output force than that of the electromagnet,’ he added.

Super magnets are used in engines and many other devices. All applications where permanent magnet motors are used would be affected by this invention, including elevators, electrical scooters, air crafts, hobby crafts, textiles, CNC machines, industrial power tools, printers, etc.

Vancouver Gold Buyer uses super strong magnet to assay gold jewelry

Gold buyers use magnets to determine the quality of the metal being offered for purchase. Magnets are part of the advanced assaying process detailed. Vancouver gold buyer with super strong magnet writes on his website, ...the first thing we do is sort out items that are clearly not gold or silver. To do this we use a super strong Earth Magnet. This is not a refrigerator magnet, but an incredibly powerful permanent magnet made from alloys of rare earth elements. The reason we use this is because gold and silver are not magnetic. This helps us quickly sort out some imposters...

 

Bill Watson Remote Controlled Helicopter Cameraman

The Fuel Ghoul has a friend named Bill Watson who goes by the nickname ve3bnw, and who runs RC Perspective, a remote controlled helicopter camera / aerial video company in the Hamilton / Niagara region of Ontario.

Bill will take pictures (or videos) of your house or business from the air, and he offers clients a fresh 'remote controlled' aeriel perspective on their property.

Recently Bill Watson drove out to Whitby Ontario and did some work for a solar power company specializing in the Ontario MicroFit program, putting solar panels on environmentally friendly peoples' homes. The property seen below was recently featured in a local green investing TV show. Bill's footage to be used behind a voice track of Calum Ross Toronto mortgage broker detailing exactly how participating in the Ontario MicroFit program and adding solar panels to your investment property can improve resale prices. Homeowners should be aware, this is something they can do to dramatically heighten the value and interest of property buyers without a lot of time and money and mess and inconvienence. Modern solar panels are lightweight and durable and you can add them the roofs of new and old houses - consider this another option in your list of possible ideas for value added improvements. They look great too, and even better when photographed from above!

The house looks spectacular as solar panels are very in suburbia now.

Bill's helicopter is also electric. This sophisticated camera platform is possible today because of the battery powered motor capable of producing 2 HP , flight time of 6 mins. and capable of lifting gross weight of 14 lbs.  Bill works the remote controls of the helicopter, while his wife Debbie operates the pan and tilt and zoom and focus on the remote controlled camera mounted on the underside of the vehicle. It also has a video down link so the pair can see exactly what the camera sees.

And the video is majestic - this is how you show a potential investor what he's getting when he buys into the program. Yes there's a certain amount of prestige that comes with being the greenest house on the block, and this video captures that magnificence as it soars over solar install.

Untitled from Willyflyboy on Vimeo.

Its good to back here on Fuel Ghoul. Please comment of you remember my blog from three years ago and are surprised or delighted to see me back here writing content again.

What’s the Future of Toronto’s Trash?

Toronto is a big city that makes a lot of garbage. According to this municipal website, Toronto sent approximately 750,100 tonnes of waste to a Michigan landfill site in 2005.

In 2005, an average of 86 truck loads of Toronto’s garbage was transported 500 plus miles (round trip) into Michigan everyday – the only good news is that this amount was down from an all time high of 142 trucks a day in 2003.

TRASH COLLECTION DAY IN TORONTO

Fuel Ghoul can see the bins at the base of the apartment buildings along Jameson Ave. and below the towers on Trethway and at Jane and Eglington Avenue – these giant black industrial bins are usually overflowing with garbage by the weekend, and are heaped high by the time they are collected midweek. The low income residents of these low rent apartment buildings do not recycle their trash – and they eat a lot of fast food in Styrofoam containers and drink water out of small plastic bottle and then dispose of everything in their household garbage. They indiscriminately dispose of all plastics, newspapers and aluminum cans without giving any thought to recycling the goods as that would mean carrying the items downstairs and sorting them into the appropriate bins.

ALUMINUM CANS are the most profitable component of any modern recycling program- they simply must be recycled. Did you know that 95% less energy is used to make new aluminum cans out of old recycled cans? Throwing away a single aluminum can is like pouring out six ounces of gasoline.

Today, sending more of Toronto's trash to Michigan is not an option. Two US Senators recently brokered a deal to plug the hole and stop the flow.

The deal calls for waste shipments to be reduced by 20 per cent by the end of 2007, by 40 per cent by the end of 2008 and then fully eliminated by the end of 2010. Earlier this year, the government streamlined the environmental approval processes to allow dumps to be built faster.

Toronto and neighboring municipalities have developed a plan.

Toronto has an effective garbage plan designed to punish big polluters in the pocketbook. At the June 20, 2007 City Council meeting, Councilors approved a new plan to achieve 70% diversion from landfill by 2010. The plan includes a new funding system to pay for the additional programs and services.

New Garbage Cans and Custom

IN 2007 city council will be distributing new garbage cans while promoting a new waste disposal system.
The new plan is simply that every household will buy a new trash bin. The smallest size (about one and a half garbage bags every two weeks) is free. Larger bins are more expensive. Any solid waste that can't be fit into the containers will cost residents approximately $2.00 per bag extra upon collection.

Here's how it breaks down,

75-litre (one bag) - less than $209
(no charge on bill)

120-litre (1.5 bags) - approximately $250
($250 minus $209 = $41 on bill)

240-litre (3 bags) - approximately $310
($310 minus $209 = $101 on bill)

360-litre (4.5 bags) - approximately $360
($360 minus $209 = $151 on bill)

 

Fuel Ghoul believes the City of Toronto will be sending each resident four free passes in the mail.  READ MORE  Fuel Ghoul loves the idea and supports the new Toronto trash plan!

RECYCLING WORKS

75% less energy and 50% less water is used to make paper from recycled paper versus raw wood fiber. Recycling one tonne of old newspapers saves 19 trees. Toronto typically recycles 100,000 tonnes of newspapers annually; the city's recycling program saves more than two million trees annually.

30% less energy is used to make glass from recycled crushed glass cullet versus new resources.

74% energy reduction is achieved by reusing steel cans and every tonne of recycled steel cans saves 1.36 tonnes of iron ore.

 
A 33% energy reduction is seen when new products are made from recyclable plastics.

In 2007 polluters should be more aware of the trash they create and the trek that trash makes everyday - the transport of trash is tragedy.

Fuel Ghoul still says : Reduce Reuse and Recycle