Archive for the 'Energy' Category
France to Increase Troops in Central African Republic
October 15th, 2013Via: Reuters: France will boost its troop presence in the Central African Republic by the end of the year under a forthcoming U.N. resolution to help prevent the country from spiralling out of control, Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius said on Sunday. Fabius and the European Union aid chief, Kristalina Georgieva, are in the country to […]
Arizona Solar Plant Keeps Producing Electricity Hours After Sundown
October 14th, 2013Via: PhysOrg: Abengoa’s Solana plant in the desert near Gila Bend, Arizona, passed commercial testing this week The 280-megawatt Solana solar thermal power plant producing electricity without direct sunlight made the announcement on Wednesday. Abengoa said Wednesday that the facility, about 70 miles southwest of Phoenix, can store the sun’s power for six hours via […]
Japan Finally Seeks International Help with Fukushima Crisis
October 9th, 2013Via: CBS: Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said Japan is open to receiving overseas help to contain widening radioactive water leaks at the crippled nuclear plant in Fukushima, with leaks and mishaps reported almost daily. Abe made the comments Sunday in a speech at an international science forum in Kyoto in western Japan. “We are wide […]
Nuclear Fusion Milestone Passed at U.S. Lab
October 7th, 2013Via: BBC: Researchers at a US lab have passed a crucial milestone on the way to their ultimate goal of achieving self-sustaining nuclear fusion. Harnessing fusion – the process that powers the Sun – could provide an unlimited and cheap source of energy. But to be viable, fusion power plants would have to produce more […]
Jellyfish Force Nuclear Plant Shutdown in Sweden
October 2nd, 2013Via: AP: It wasn’t a tsunami but it had the same effect: A huge cluster of jellyfish forced one of the world’s largest nuclear reactors to shut down — a phenomenon that marine biologists say could become more common. Operators of the Oskarshamn nuclear plant in southeastern Sweden had to scramble reactor number three on […]
World Record Solar Cell with 44.7% Efficiency
September 24th, 2013Via: PhysOrg: German Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems, Soitec, CEA-Leti and the Helmholtz Center Berlin announced today that they have achieved a new world record for the conversion of sunlight into electricity using a new solar cell structure with four solar subcells. Surpassing competition after only over three years of research, and entering the […]
Fukushima Forever
September 21st, 2013Via: Huffington Post: Recent disclosures of tons of radioactive water from the damaged Fukushima reactors spilling into the ocean are just the latest evidence of the continuing incompetence of the Japanese utility, TEPCO. The announcement that the Japanese government will step in is also not reassuring since it was the Japanese government that failed to […]
Gas Prices Set Record: 1,000 Days Above $3 a Gallon
September 17th, 2013Via: USA Today: Well, AAA has come up with a sobering statistic: the average price of gasoline will surpass $3 per gallon Tuesday for the 1,000th consecutive day. That’s never happened before, the motoring organization says.
Fukushima: Tritium Levels Up 15X Over Three Days
September 12th, 2013Via: Reuters: The operator of the wrecked Fukushima nuclear plant said levels of tritium – considered one of the least harmful radioactive elements – spiked more than 15 times in groundwater near a leaked tank at the facility over three days this week. Tokyo Electric Power Co (Tepco) said tritium levels in water taken from […]
The RAR Energia Gravity Motor
September 11th, 2013When one follows “free energy” inventors, a lot of times, the path leads to madness. The machines in question (that don’t work, by the way) are usually very small—table top scale—bicycle tires and JB Weld sorts of things. Knowing all of this, I nearly fell out of my chair when I looked at what RAR […]
