Archive for the 'Energy' Category
China Is Reaping Biggest Benefits of Iraq Oil Boom
June 3rd, 2013For to win one hundred victories in one hundred battles is not the acme of skill. To subdue the enemy without fighting is the acme of skill. -Sun Tzu, The Art of War The Chinese had nothing to do with the war, eh? Attention Michael Makovsky: China bought hundreds of billions of dollars worth of […]
Google Acquires Wind Power Firm Makani Power
May 28th, 2013Via: PCMag: Google is known for putting its resources into some novel technologies like self-driving cars and wearable computing devices. Now, the Web giant is moving into yet another field—wind power. After previously investing in the company, Google has agreed to acquire Alameda, Calif.-based green energy startup Makani Power. Financial terms of the deal were […]
South Korea Halts Operations at Reactors Over Faked Certificates
May 28th, 2013Via: New York Times: South Korea was forced to turn off two nuclear power reactors on Tuesday and delay the scheduled start of operation at another two, after its inspectors discovered that the reactors used components whose safety certificates had been fabricated. South Korea’s nuclear power industry has been plagued by a series of forced […]
Japan: Particle Accelerator Accident
May 26th, 2013Via: Japan Times: At least six researchers suffered internal radiation exposure when an experiment involving elementary particles went awry and up to 24 more are feared to have been similarly exposed, the Japan Atomic Energy Agency said Saturday. Radioactive substances leaked following the accident Thursday in the Hadron Experimental Facility of the Japan Proton Accelerator […]
Third Party Testing Of Rossi’s E-Cat: ‘Energy Was Produced In Decidedly Higher Quantities Than What May Be Gained From Any Conventional Source’
May 21st, 2013Via: Giuseppe Levi, Evelyn Foschi, Torbjörn Hartman, Bo Höistad, Roland Pettersson, Lars Tegnér, Hanno Essén: The two test measurements described in this text were conducted with the same methodology on two different devices: a first prototype, termed E-Cat HT, and a second one, resulting from technological improvements on the first, termed E-Cat HT2. Both have […]
Funnel Shaped Wind Turbine
May 19th, 2013Via: Discovery: The Chaska, Minn.-based company Sheer Wind thinks it has a design that could bring the cost of wind power down to a price competitive with natural gas. Daryoush Allaei, Sheer Wind’s chief technical officer, told DNews that a utility-scale system of these wind turbines — that is a 100 to 500 MW power […]
‘Al-Qaeda’s Syrian Wing’ Takes Over Oilfields Once Belonging to Assad
May 19th, 2013Via: Telegraph: Al-Qaeda’s Syrian wing is helping to finance its activities by selling the product of oilfields that once helped to prop up the regime of Bashar al-Assad. Up to 380,000 barrels of crude oil were previously produced by wells around the city of Raqqa and in the desert region to its east that are […]
‘Petrol Price Rigged for a Decade’
May 15th, 2013Via: Telegraph: MPs and energy experts tonight raised fears motorists have been “taken for a very expensive ride”, after officials searched the offices of BP and Shell for evidence of price-rigging. The companies are suspected of distorting the oil price since 2002, meaning drivers have potentially been ripped off for more than 10 years. Over […]
TEPCO Seeks Permission to Dump Groundwater from Fukushima Plant Into Ocean
May 14th, 2013Via: Japan Today: Officials from Tokyo Electric Power Co (TEPCO) on Monday met with a Fukushima fisheries cooperative to seek its members’ permission to dump groundwater from the stricken Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant into the ocean. The contaminated water storage has been a problem since early in the accident. TEPCO officials acknowledged last month […]
Hanford Nuclear Waste “Cleanup” Disaster
May 10th, 2013Via: Scientific American: The most toxic and voluminous nuclear waste in the U.S.—208 million liters —sits in decaying underground tanks at the Hanford Site (a nuclear reservation) in southeastern Washington State. It accumulated there from the middle of World War II, when the Manhattan Project invented the first nuclear weapon, to 1987, when the last […]
