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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

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 Intelligent Power - iPower

Revolutionary - distributed power generation, decentralised energy - using MDI’s CAE (Compressed Air Engine) & integrated into power grid through IndraNet Minder = iPower.

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!

So how much is 300 MW? 300-megawatt is enough to power a city of 175,000 people

• 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!

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.

Intelligent Power will be obvious to everyone within a decade.
 It will be main stream within two decades. 

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