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Stan Ovshinsky and the Hydrogen Economy:

Creating a Better World - George S. Howard, Ph.D.

Stanford R. Ovshinsky (born November 24, 1922, in Akron, Ohio) is an American inventor and scientist who has been granted approximately 400 patents over the last fifty years, mostly in the areas of energy or information. Many of his inventions have had wide ranging applications. Among the most prominent are: an environmentally friendly nickel-metal hydride battery, which has been widely used in laptop computers, digital cameras, cell phones, and electric and hybrid cars; continuous web multi-junction flexible thin-film solar energy laminates and panels; flat screen liquid crystal displays; rewritable CD and DVD computer memories; hydrogen fuel cells; and nonvolatile phase-change electronic memories. Ovshinsky opened the scientific field of amorphous and disordered materials in the course of his research in the 1940s and 50s in neurophysiology, neural disease, the nature of intelligence in mammals and machines, and cybernetics. Amorphous silicon semiconductors have become the basis of many technologies and industries. Ovshinsky is also distinguished in being self-taught, without formal college or graduate training. Throughout his life, his love for science and his social convictions were the primary engines for his inventive work.



In 1960 Ovshinsky and his soon-to-be second wife, Iris Dibner, founded Energy Conversion Laboratory in a storefront in Detroit, dedicating the laboratory to the solution of important societal problems using science and technology. Focusing on the critical areas of energy and information, their new company, reconstituted in 1964 as Energy Conversion Devices (ECD), went on to become a forefront invention and development laboratory whose products have built new industries, many of them aimed at making fossil fuel obsolete. ECD continues (through joint ventures and license partners) to be a leading solar energy and battery production firm.

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Holoscience
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Thunderbolts of the Gods
A top quality site that is very extensive because of its graphical presentations.

The Universe
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Plasma Resources
A multi-dimensional site that is a great resource for learning about Plasma Cosmology and the Electric Universe.

Plasma Cosmology
This site offers a straightforward yet multi-dimensional  introduction to the Plasma Universe. An excellent source for newcomers.

Electric Cosmos
Don Scott's site that is currently announcing his book, The Electric Sky

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Philosophy Articles

www.quackgrass.com/time.html
Good fundamental philosophy on the nature and reality of what we mean by the word "time". Currently, "time" is reified by scientist-speculators as an actual dimension of what is called the space-time continuum. Author Michael Miller uses a very clear, yet painstaking approach to sorting out the issue.

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