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NZ-made climate saving technology picked up by Dutch entrepreneurs Info News .co.nz   Media People NZ  19 Mar 2010
NZ pioneer sells first overseas clean-tech rights - Carbon News NZ   19 Mar 2010
Funds sought for 'high-risk' solar power system Stuff.co.nz  Energy “miracle” to go commercial Info News .co.nz

An Interview with
Russell Fitts,
 Chairman of IndraNet Technologies
on
New energy technology to go commercial
with James Samuel

 

Peak Oil Will Dwarf Financial Crunch Soon
Peak Oil occurred in 2005 and is now in decline at rate of 9% per year

This is frightening, there is real urgency to find alternatives and time is short!  Read More

Australia and New Zealand must expect severe supply disruptions before by 2013 as the supply gap between global demand widens. The super powers, the USA, the EU, Russia, Japan and China are already taking measure to ensure their needs and Australia and New Zealand are extremely vulnerable and are likely to be among the first of the industrialised countries to experience severe supply disruptions.  Read More
 

NZ - COUNTRY OBLIVIOUS TO THE NEXT OIL SHOCK

The spike in oil prices to US$147 a barrel last winter helped trigger the global recession.

Where do we think oil will be trading when economic recovery and oil demand returns? The price may be volatile but the trend will be ever upwards. Have we learnt the lesson that global Gross Domestic Product is inextricably linked to cheap and abundant oil? As prices rise, global GDP falls.

New Zealand governments have always treated the oil projections of the OECD's International Energy Agency as gospel. The agency's chief economist Fatih Birol has issued a stern warning that there is now a real risk of a crunch in the oil supply after next year when demand picks up because not enough is being done to build up new supplies. Source

PEAK OIL - THE END OF CHEAP OIL

New Zealand is in a similar position to Austraila, where the Government has no policy for the coming peak oil and end of cheap oil.

In a collapsing post-oil world, what chance would there be for our re-supply oil tankers making it past Papua New Guinea or even Tasmania? A sharp reassessment of the true cost of oil would hurt us anyway. Nowhere is harder to reach by ship or plane, so an era of permanently higher fuel prices could devastate our tourist industry, cripple our food exports.

Read Full article from The Press, Christchurch, NZ - 11 July, 2009    Part 1   Part 2   


IT Mainland Limited : Towards preserving & enhancing kiwi lifestyles...
Solar energy is the intended prime source of energy for all the IT Mainland technology package
of solutions, products and services. ...

Period of New Growth
In contrast to many New Zealand companies, IT-Mainland is positioning itself for a sustained period of growth. It will concentrate on manufacturing of Power Generation equipment, the deployment of energy and communication networks and transport solutions -  "green" vehicles.

(IT Mainland Ltd is the Commercial Operating Company of IndraNet Group of Companies in New Zealand)
 
Progress in development and integration of the FraMe Network in Christchurch, New Zealand
Minders being made ready for installation Aerial being adjusted                                       

AUDIO INTERVIEWS

An Interview with
Dr Louis Arnoux - Early October  08
- on Radio NZ News Talk ZB
Presentation on Climate Change, Peak Oil, Plan B and IT MDI-Energy Solutions by Dr Louis Arnoux at Parliament House, Canberra, Australia-1 March 07

Media Releases in NZ

Air powered car, but how eco is it? TV3 News -New Zealand - 14 October 2008
Air-powered car travels 100km for $2 - Otago Daily Times - 11 October 2008
Compressed air in cars in NZ before Christmas
  TV3 News - New Zealand -11 October 2008
Compressed air cars coming to NZ Stuff.co.nz - New Zealand - 11 October 2008
Puff-power keeps wheels turning New Zealand Herald - New Zealand - 11 October 2008
 

IT MDI-Energy has the licence for AIR Car licence for Australia, New Zealand & Pacific Islands        

ADVANTAGE                                       

Tata Motors agreement with MDI, strengthens IndraNet - MDI joint venture for Australasian markets and potential exports of combined IT-MDI distributed electrical power generation technology package.

 

AUSTRALASIA'S FIRST DEMONSTRATION (info courtesy IT MDI Energy Website)

A demonstration of the MDI Power Generator and Presentation of the IT MDI - Energy industrial development plans in Australia and New Zealand was held in Melbourne during the week of 5 - 9 November and in New Zealand (Christchurch and Queenstown) during the week of 12 - 16 November 2007. Attendance was by invitation only.

The events were fully covered on IT MDI Energy Website.
PDF New Zealand review (132 KB)

This is a prelude to the unveiling of the OneCAT car by MDI, planed for January 2008 in Nice, France and to a road show demonstrating the OneCAT car and the Power Generator in all the Australian and New Zealand metropolitan centres
towards the end of  July
Source

IT Mainland Ltd was Incorporated in August 2005 to commercialise under licence
 IndraNet Communications Technology in New Zealand.

PAIN AT THE PUMP 

In May 2008 Petrol Prices in New Zealand topped $2.00 mark for the first time!   Yet few people realise we have reached
"Peak Oil"
and prices will only continue to rise.
The world need to address this urgently and seek, new and sustainable, environmentally friendly solutions.

Think Compressed Air for Transport

and Electricity Generation!

A New Zealand perspective –


Want cheaper, environmentally,
sustainable Power?

Do you want it:

  without all the red tape of resource consents?
•   without more unsightly pylons and transmission lines?
•   without a huge carbon footprint
(e.g. for Te Apiti Wind Farm the turbines
     were made in Denmark, the blades the Isle of Wright and the towers in Vietnam
     and Australia)?

•   without polluting the environment?
•   initially the cost 25% less than current power prices?
•   to eventually achieve 80-90% efficiency compared to today’s
     20% efficiency?
•   to be independent of power outages and blackouts?

If your answer is YES to any of the questions above, then read on

Consider nGen Sustainable Energy Systems

Revolutionary Electricity Generation, Supply and Distribution System using new nGen Systems which use compressed air as the energy carrier and energy storage medium & integrated into power grid through IndraNet Minder.

Generate your own power at home with a unit not much bigger than an air conditioner and link this unit to the power grid through an IndraNet Minder (communication device) and any excess you generate goes back into the gird.

There are larger units for offices, businesses, shopping malls, hospitals, schools, built in scale to suit your needs. And yes they run on compressed air!

nGen Systems will be used  replace and increase power generation for the planet, they will be run at point of use, minimising the carbon footprint, as well as being environmentally friendly - Power generated from AIR yes AIR!
P.S. The power supply solution is a combination of compressed air driven power generators and IndraNet Minder which form meshed networks that synchronize the power within the existing power grid.

  • The generating capacity of New Zealand's power stations is 8,600 MW.

  • Tongariro Hydro Power Scheme with Tokaanu and Rangipo (North Island, NZ) power stations  that have a combined output of 360 MW

  • The Te Apiti wind farm near Palmerston North, New Zealand has 55 turbines and a capacity of 90 MW.

  • There are seven wind farms in New Zealand, with a combined capacity of 167 MW

  •  Waitaki River (South Island, NZ) Hydro Power station Generating capacity

  • Tekapo-A    25 MW

  • Tekapo-B 160 MW

  • Ohau-A     264 MW

  • Ohau-B     222 MW

  • Ohau-C     222 MW

  • Benmore  540 MW

  • Aviemore  220 MW

  • Waitaki     105 MW

According to an article in NZ Herald 10 May 2008 for the third time in seven years, rain at the wrong time or in wrong place has left the country facing possible power shortages leaving hydro lakes lower than usual. This has meant the diesel-fired 155 megawatt power station at Whirinaki north of Napier has been used - burning over 7.6 million litres of diesel in the first 3 months of this year. It can burn up to a million litres of diesel a day of this precious finite resource and with soaring fuel prices this is an expensive exercise. Just over 6mths production of iPower generators would permanently give the same generating capacity. It’s food for thought!

Huntly Power Station
The boilers can burn 3.6 million tonnes of coal per year. 50% locally mined coal and 50% imported from Indonesia  Source

Currently, e.g. in New Zealand, most power is produced in central power stations where 60% to 75% of the primary energy is wasted, then the power is then sent down transmission line where a further 10% is wasted. With a combination of the MDI power generation technology and the IndraNet networking technology this will be enabled by point of use generation which is more efficient, because it avoids transmission losses, generates far less waste heat and enables recycling any waste heat produced. A much lower grade of energy is needed for hot water and air conditioning and this can be achieved in part by recycling waste energy for initial power generation. Sounds good to me!

  • Coal pollutes.....

  • Oil is running out and expensive.....

  • Wind not reliable.....

  • Hydro depends on sufficient rainfall.....

  • Nuclear Power - uranium is running out - waste takes 1000 yrs to dispose of.....

  • Air is abundant as is solar, once we learn to use it efficiently & zero pollution......

It is time to consider new complimentary power sources that are environmentally friendly, cheap to set up and produce. This opens the way to fully sustainable lifestyles for less than current power prices.

nGen Sustainable Energy Systems  will be obvious to everyone within a decade.
 It will be main stream within two decades.
 

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