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Free Energy
THE HIDDEN REVOLUTION
» Thursday 5 August 2010 | 5 pm
» Bohemian Café, 524 Bernard Avenue, Kelowna
An informal afternoon hour showcasing ideas
and people in the Okanagan creative economy. Join us as author Jeane Manning shares her
explorations in alternative energy innovations and explains why they are good news for individuals,
the economy and our ecosystems.
» $2 at the door. Refreshments are available at a modest cost.
» Seating is limited, please reserve yours HERE
Author Examines the Global Hidden Energy Revolution
An innovative field of clean-energy research and development has gained strength globally, says author Jeane Manning. "They're still a minority, but more and more well-credentialed scientists are tapping into or harnessing a bit of the unlimited background energy of the universe. This is good news for everyone who wants abundant clean, low-cost power."
However, despite decades of breakthrough experiments by dedicated individuals, no game-changing electricity generators are on the shelves of any hardware store, observes Manning. "It's frustrating to have seen proof-of-principle prototypes of fuel-less energy machines running on inventors' work benches and having learned about dramatic advances worldwide, yet we're still burning fuel."
On Thursday, August 5th at 5 pm the ongoing weekly Okanagan Institute Express series at the Bohemian Café, Kelowna presents Free Energy: The Hidden Revolution. Join us as author Jeane Manning shares her explorations in alternative energy innovations and explains why they are good news for individuals, the economy and our ecosystems.
 Jeane Manning has been a Kelowna Daily Courier reporter and coordinator of Big Brothers of Kelowna. In 1987 she was editor of the Oliver Chronicle newspaper when she began traveling internationally to new-energy science conferences. Since her university degree is in sociology, she was curious about what a new energy source could mean to society and to regional economies, as well as how geopolitics interacts with technological breakthroughs. To find out, she interviewed scores of researchers and scientists for her books and magazine columns.
Her book The Coming Energy Revolution was published by Avery of New York in 1996. In 2008 she and industrial scientist Joel Garbon co-authored Breakthrough Power: How Quantum-leap New Energy Inventions Can Transform Our World. She also co-authored Suppressed Inventions and Other Discoveries, published by Auckland University Press in New Zealand. Manning's books are translated into six languages and she has been an invited speaker at conferences in North America and Europe.
In her books and presentations Manning discusses the reasons for the disconnect between invention and application, ranging from political to psychological factors. She was first introduced to the topic through meeting a Penticton inventor in 1981. He had an energy converter that involved the innovative use of magnets. Later she encountered other non-conventional energy inventions - ranging from hydrogen split very efficiently from water at point of use, to electronic circuits that use the principle of resonance to amplify a flow of electricity.
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Free Energy: The Hidden Revolution takes place at the Bohemian Café, Kelowna. This marks the 149th event the Okanagan Institute has held since the Express series got underway in July 2007.
Express is directed, convened and hosted by Doug Hodgkinson, Karen Close, Edward McLean, Neil McKay and Jan Kennett. It has played host to many Okanagan luminaries, including former deputy secretary general of Amnesty International Derek Evans, artists Lee Claremont and Gary Pearson, BC Book Award nominee Don Gayton, CBC Literary prize winner poet Harold Rhenisch, distinguished editor and author Jim Taylor, poet laureate and professor John Lent, creative entrepreneur Nikos Theodosakis, animator and filmmaker Jim Cliffe, community activist Don Elzer, dancer David LaHay, architect Jim Meiklejohn, culinary artist and writer Heidi Noble, broadcaster Marion Barschel and many others from a wide range of creative fields.
The Okanagan Institute is a group of creative professionals that has gathered around the goal of providing events, publications and services of interest to enquiring minds in the Okanagan. We partner with individuals, organizations, institutions and businesses to achieve optimal creative and social impact.
Our mission is to ignite cultural transformation, catalyze collaborative action, build networks and foster sustainable creative enterprises. We invite the participation by all members of the creative community.
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