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New Energy Congress -- Latest Developments -- 2005 ARCHIVE

Archive listing of the latest developments listing of the New Energy Congress for the year 2005.

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2005

December

Dec. 7, 2005

• Vote commenced, concludes Dec. 21: Approve mission statement as follows (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEC-Forum/surveys?id=12206868) (members only): The New Energy Congress is an association for the purpose of reviewing the most promising claims to up-and-coming clean, renewable, affordable, reliable energy technologies, in order to come up with a weighted list of recommendations of the best technologies.

Dec. 5, 2005

• Congress:Member:Kenneth M. Rauen - NEC member profile page created.

Dec. 4, 2005

• What technology to review next (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEC-Forum/surveys?id=12197739) (members only) - Poll concluded, with Stirling Power Systems Inc. coming out on top with 12.5% of the vote, which ran from Nov. 27 - Dec. 4. (See: Technologies to Review)

Dec. 2, 2005

• Terry Sisson - Profile page created.

Dec. 1, 2005

• Focus Fusion survey by NEC members results posted (http://www.pureenergysystems.com/NEC/vote/2005/focus_fusion/NEC_results/) - PUBLIC VERSION
• Focus Fusion Survey (http://www.pureenergysystems.com/NEC/surveys/focus_fusion_051127.htm) - OPENED TO THE PUBLIC

November

Nov. 29, 2005

• VOTE: Should NEC serve as the referring agent for the funding entity interested in Focus Fusion technology? (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEC-Forum/surveys?id=12201089) - Poll closes Dec. 7. (See dialogue at NEC-forum (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEC-Forum/message/121))
• Congress:Reports page created
• Approved "Priorities" for technology review (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEC-Forum/surveys?id=12193878) as set forth at: http://peswiki.com/energy/New_Energy_Congress#Priorities. 100% of 10 voters who participated.

Nov. 28, 2005

• Congress:IT:Blueprint#Outline substantially revised

Nov. 27, 2005

• VOTE: (Nov. 27 - Dec. 4) Next technology to do survey on, similar to the Focus Fusion survey (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEC-Forum/surveys?id=12197739). Based on "other technologies (http://www.pureenergysystems.com/NEC/private/vote/2005/focus_fusion/NEC_results/index.html)" answers given.

Nov. 26, 2005

• Focus Fusion vote ended. full results: Focus Fusion , and other technology survey, other NEC matters (http://www.pureenergysystems.com/NEC/private/vote/2005/focus_fusion/NEC_results/) - First official action of the Congress in regard to a specific technology.

Nov. 24, 2005

• Results announced from 'membership' vote; present vote reminders; begin bylaws (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NE_Congress/message/33) (members only) - All members but one were confirmed.

Nov. 22, 2005

• Vote (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEC-Forum/surveys?id=12193878) (members only) - Approve "Priorities" for technology review as set forth at: http://peswiki.com/energy/New_Energy_Congress#Priorities

Nov. 21, 2005

• Membership vote completed. Results tabulation pending.
• Congress:Bylaws - page commenced

Nov. 19, 2005

• VOTE: Focus Fusion, and other technology survey, other NEC matters (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NE_Congress/message/31) - Vote ends midnight (mountain) Nov. 26. First official action of the Congress in regard to a specific technology.

Nov. 18, 2005

• Draft: IMPORTANT NEC item: Focus Fusion funding possibility, with proposed NEC endorsement (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NE_Congress/message/30) - Action: your input requested. Regarding: review/endorsement of specific technology for promise of funding. (NE_Congress, members only)

Nov. 15, 2005

• William Alek withdraws from membership (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEC-Forum/message/76) - (Intalek.com (http://intalek.com)); Highland, Indiana, USA; "I'm much too busy."
• John Earle withdraws from membership (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEC-Forum/message/77); Engineer; Sweet Home, Oregon; USA; Member since Sept. 29, 2005

Nov. 14, 2005

• Membership Vote now live (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NE_Congress/message/28) - The original memberships were by invitation and by application. In order to make the Congress membership official, we are now going through the step of confirming the memberships by this initial group. Vote ends midnight Nov. 21.

Nov. 13, 2005

• Membership vote -- draft copy review (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NE_Congress/message/27) - Please review the following page to see if you have any comments regarding its content. If you feel the terms of the vote ought to be brought to a vote, or at least discussed, please say so. Otherwise, we will commence the vote to confirm New Energy Congress members probably beginning Monday evening, Nov. 14. Discussion of this matter should take place on the nec-forum discussion list.

Nov. 11, 2005

• New member: Troy Helming, CEO of Krystal Planet
• Approved: "Required Activities for Continued Membership"

Nov. 3, 2005

• Vote: Approve "Required Activities for Continued Membership" (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEC-Forum/surveys?id=12177967) as set forth at Congress:Tasks#Required_Activities_for_Continued_Membership - list of required activities for continued membership. (Nov. 3-10; members only; nec-forum)
• Membership withdrawn: Tim Renfro; <tarenfro {at} yahoo.com>, member since Oct. 6, 2005 (letter of resignment (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEC-Forum/message/71))

October

Oct. 25, 2005

• Action Page - A listing of active items and pending items for Congress members.
• Congress:IT:Blueprint - For designing the programming needs for the receiving of technology review requests, screening those, and then honing in on a few technologies in detail.

Oct. 19, 2005

• VOTE: The primary domain name for the New Energy Congress shall be (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEC-Forum/surveys?id=12164684) - Closes midnight Oct. 26. Can change vote until then. Voter identity displayed. (members only; nec-forum)

Oct. 18, 2005

• Newest member: Joseph B. Martin

Oct. 16, 2005

• New Energy Technology Review Submissions compiled by Ken Rauen (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEC-TechRev/message/51) - Brief synopsis of 6 technologies with prototypes and two compelling theories. (TechRev message 51; Oct. 16)
• profile page for Bob Colvin of BackUpPowerSystems.com (http://www.backuppowersystems.com/24-7powersystem.html)

Oct. 15, 2005

• Newest member: Carmen Miller
• Results for Congress vote on organization name: "New Energy Congress". PESWiki pages updated to reflect the new name.

Oct. 14, 2005

• newest members: Renrick A. Tulloch, Leslie R. Pastor

Oct. 13, 2005

• Tech Review Docs posted
  • Energy Inventions Advocated by IRI.doc (http://www.freeenergynews.com/Directory/Technology_Review/Energy_Inventions_Advocated_by_Integrity_Research_Institute.doc) by Tom Valone
  • CATALOG - list of IRI technology review documents.doc (http://www.freeenergynews.com/Directory/Technology_Review/CATALOG_IRI_resellers_list.doc) by Tom Valone
• newest member: Francis Giroux of Hydrogen Boost (http://www.hydrogen-boost.com/)
• profile page created for Ken Rasmussen

Oct. 11, 2005

• newest member; Paul Noel (http://www.pureenergysystems.com/about/personnel/PaulNoel/); PES Network Inc, Oil Industry advisor.

Oct. 8, 2005

• newest member: James N. Downing Jr.; retired plasma physicist from Los Alamos National Laboratory.

Oct. 7, 2005

• VOTE: org name; email volume at techrev (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NE_Congress/message/14) (members only FE_Congress) - Vote for Congress name - Present tasks/priorities for FE Congress - Changed email settings.
• newest members: Dave & Sue Oakes of Alternative Energy Institute (http://altenergy.org/)

Oct. 6, 2005

• newest members: Devon O'Shea, Tim Renfro

Oct. 5, 2005

• criteria; priorities; tech compendiums; priorities (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NE_Congress/message/13) (members only; FE_Congress) - First two items pertains to important foundational matters. Please review.
• 'IT'/database matters for New Energy Congress (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEC-Forum/message/27) (members only; FEC_Forum)

Oct. 4, 2005

• new founding member: Gary Vesperman

Oct. 3, 2005

• new founding member: Nick Cook (who helped catalyze the founding of this congress)
• brainstorm: Congress name and domain name (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEC-Forum/message/16) (FE_Forum, members only)
• The following domain names have been registered to be associated with and forward to this New Energy Congress project.
  • FreeEnergyCongress.org
  • EnergyCongress.org
  • WorldEnergyCongress.org
  • GlobalEnergyCongress.org
  • PureEnergyCongress.org
  • CleanEnergyCongress.org
  • RenewableEnergyCongress.org
  • NewEnergyCongress.org
  • AltEnergyCongress.org

Oct. 2, 2005

• Tai Robinson - profile page posted

Oct. 1, 2005

• Congress:Member:Sterling D. Allan - profile page at PESWiki
• Congress:Technology Review Protocol - protocol for submitting and reviewing individual technologies.
• Meet James, student in Germany (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEC-Forum/message/12) (FEC_Forum, members only)
• New Energy Congress -- Operations - Let's implement the relevant operational procedures here
• Congress:Models of Operation - Deriving operational guidelines based on the operational models of other professional scientific organizations such as IEEE
• Sepp Hasslberger - profile page at PESWiki

September

Sept. 30, 2005

• The beginnings of a private membership profile document has been posted to the files (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NE_Congress/files/Member%20Profiles/) section of FE_Congress.
• Patrick Bailey joined the congress today. He did a project quite similar to this a few years back. He will be composing a report for us of what they did, and will be giving us links to where we can still view the results of their efforts. It will be great to have him aboard and to tap his wisdom from years gone by. We will be leaning heavily on him.

Sept. 29, 2005

• Technology Criteria scale (http://www.pureenergysystems.com/os/criteria.htm) - composed last year for an open source project. Has quite a bit of applicability to our task at hand.
• Created Congress:Technologies_to_Review page
• Created Congress:Technology_Criteria page
• Created Congress:Tasks page with list of tasks to be accomplished, assignments.
• Created Congress:Latest page
• Created Congress:Committees page
• Created http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEC-TechRev - Private discussion of technologies under review. Because this is a non-moderated, high volume list, you might want to have your settings to digest or email only. But each member needs to be able to access the archives.
• Publicly announced (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/fe_updates/message/654) New Energy Congress
• Created FEC temporary icon

Sept. 28, 2005

• Sent out private announcements of FEC and invitations to join founding membership.

Sept. 27, 2005

• Procured http://freeenergycongress.org
• Sterling D. Allan founded New Energy Congress

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