WIRELESS Electricity : Can RI think systematically and innovationally about the future?

What would you do if you could walk into your home or office and automatically recharge your electric appliances with out plugging into the wall sockets? Park your electric car in the garage overnight and it recharges automatically? Move your HDTV from room to room without a bunch wires? Or even drive along the highway on free energy?

WHAT IF ALL YOU NEEDED WAS ONE DEVICE IN YOUR HOME TO PLUG INTO AND IT WOULD GENERATE ALL OF THE ELECTRICITY YOU NEEDED AT NO ADDITIONAL COST?

This could be the future here in RI, if only we had a creative and forward thinking legislature and state government.

Gov. Carcieri has been pushing for an off-shore wind farm to help the state overcome its energy dependency. But simply generating more electricity is not the solution to the energy or economic problems. We need to move further and faster if we are ever to catch up with the future. That future is wireless electricity.

And you ask, What the heck is that? And how does it apply to RI?

Check out this article by Paul Hochman at FastCompany.com


Wireless Electricity Is Here (Seriously)



Once we produce electricity from our wind farm, what are we going to do with it?
Sell it to National Grid to sell where ever it wants at whatever price?

What if instead, we sell to homes, buildings, and municipalities to power their wireless electricity generators (inductive devices mentioned in the article). These would recharge batteries on mobile devices and create electricity on any wireless equipment within the immediate range of the generator. For example, have an induction device implanted in your garage and on your electric car and recharge the batteries at night without plugging in. Wild thought but it is possible.

Just up the road in Massachusetts, people are already working on the basic engineering. Is anyone in Rhode Island thinking or planning along these lines?

Check out this video




Once Rhode Island was the manufacturing capital of the United States because we took advantage of the tremendous resource of water power on the Blackstone River. Samuel Slater changed forever the textile industry in America when he captured the power of the river. He changed the nature of energy production and use in his industry by replacing animal and people power with water power to spin thread and weave cloth. The use of water power was extended to a wide range of industries thereafter and served as the basis for Rhode Island's manufacturing industry in the early 19th century.


Today we are exploring the possibility of producing electric energy based on our wind resources. But the money and jobs are not to be made in the harvesting of the wind. The money and jobs will be found in transforming that free energy into electricity, it will be made producing products and systems that people can easily use and in more cost effective energy products.


Wireless electricity has the same potential of radically altering the nature of the commercial use of electricity and competing with traditional generating technologies.

As we ponder the bankruptcy of the state in the short term, are we going to forgo the future and long term? Here is an area which offers potential and is directly related to our needs for generating a new economic base.

Give it some thought and let me know what you think. It might bring back the Lively Experiment that has been RI.

Change is Possible in Times of Crisis

Change is Possible in Times of Crisis

Rhode Island is facing a significant short fall in it 2009 Budget. It is time for all vested interests to recognize that that their interests are sub-ordinate to our collective interests.

Governor Cacieri fireside chat on January 7th outlines the problem and proposed solutions.




My feels are that this is long overdue.

Rhode Island has been a leader for liberal ideals but Rhode Islanders have been very conservative in their willingness to take the long term steps to implement those ideals. The Legislature and their constituents are unwilling to give up their own privileges to achieve their alleged ideals. instead they find have spent the past quarter century squandering the state's resources for a quick fix.

If the public can not come to some agreement to make the necessary sacrifices then there maybe another alternative, Option 2

There are certain advantages for all parties if Rhode Island were to unincorporated, and split into two separate units, east and west. These units would be free to unite with their respective neighboring state. Among the reasons

· Economies of scale arising from a county system of government.

· The geographical benefits that would come from adding coastline to each of the neighbors, bringing the Taunton River Watershed under a single jurisdiction.

· Western Rhode Island shares a strong economic interest with Eastern Connecticut, while Eastern Rhode Island shares interests with Southeastern Massachusetts.

Of course, there is a downside such as the loose of 2 Senatorial seats in the U S Congress. This might be offset by stronger Congressional representation in the House.

The real issue is what do the people of Rhode Island do if their insistence on 19^th century local government causes the State which makes that structure possible goes bankrupt?

CRISIS IS AN OPPORTUNITY TO THINK OUTSIDE THE BOX. This is what the lively experiment is all about!