Archive for the 'Energy' Category
Breakthrough In Solar Panel Technology Wasn’t Expected for Another Decade
May 6th, 2013Via: Sydney Morning Herald: Australian scientists have found a way of hugely increasing the efficiency of solar panels while substantially reducing their cost. The University of NSW researchers have come up with improvements in photovoltaic panel design that had not been expected for another decade. The breakthrough involves using hydrogen atoms to counter defects in […]
Texas: Company Collects Half Billion Dollars in Bogus Taxes from Customers
May 5th, 2013Via: CBS: CBS 11’s I-Team has obtained a study that says Oncor, the giant electric utility company in North Texas, is collecting hundreds of millions of dollars from customers for federal taxes that don’t exist. “Since 2008, they have collected $500 million for the purpose of paying taxes on their income,” said Randy Moravec, executive […]
‘Plastic Bags, Tape, Broomsticks Fix San Onofre Nuclear Power Plant Leak’
April 30th, 2013Via: 10 News ABC: An inside source gave Team 10 a picture snapped inside the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station (SONGS) showing plastic bags, masking tape and broom sticks used to stem a massive leaky pipe. San Onofre owner Southern California Edison (SCE), confirms the picture was taken inside Unit Three, but did not say […]
The Iter Fusion Reactor
April 27th, 2013Fusion power has been 20-years-away since the 1950s. And now, “Commercial reactors could not realistically be built until the second half of the century.” As I was chortling about this, it reminded me of a song from the olden days. The pursuit of this pipedream makes sense, though, if the goal is to keep masses […]
Corexit: Countless Gulf Residents with Symptoms Resembling Something from a Sci-Fi Horror Film, Bleeding from Nose, Ears, Breasts, Anus; Others Complain of Cognitive Damage
April 26th, 2013Via: Huffington Post: Three years ago, when BP’s Deepwater Horizon began leaking some 210 million gallons of Louisiana Crude into the Gulf of Mexico, the U.S. government allowed the company to apply chemical “dispersants” to the blossoming oil slick to prevent toxic gunk from reaching the fragile bays, beaches, and mangroves of the coast, where […]
Shots Fired Overnight at Watts Bar Nuclear Power Plant
April 21st, 2013[???] Via: WBIR: TVA Police along with other authorities are investigating after a shooting involving a TVA nuclear security officer at their Watts Bar plant. Officials at the plant say the shooting happened early Sunday morning just after 2 a.m. on the Tennessee River side of the plant property. The incident is being labeled as […]
World’s largest Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion Power Plant Planned for China
April 20th, 2013Via: Gizmag: Lockheed Martin has been getting its feet wet in the renewable energy game for some time. In the 1970s it helped build the world’s first successful floating Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion (OTEC) system that generated net power, and in 2009 it was awarded a contract to develop an OTEC pilot plant in Hawaii. […]
Shocker: Solar Panels Could Destroy U.S. Utilities, According to U.S. Utilities
April 14th, 2013Via: Grist: Solar power and other distributed renewable energy technologies could lay waste to U.S. power utilities and burn the utility business model, which has remained virtually unchanged for a century, to the ground. That is not wild-eyed hippie talk. It is the assessment of the utilities themselves. Back in January, the Edison Electric Institute […]
Boeing Subsidiary Spectrolab Sets World Record for Solar Cell Efficiency
April 11th, 2013Via: Boeing: A Spectrolab solar cell recently set a world record by converting more energy from the sun into electricity than any other ground-based solar cell without solar concentration. The Boeing [NYSE: BA] subsidiary’s achievement in ground-based solar cell efficiency was verified by the U.S. Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory in Golden, Colo. […]
Band-Aid on Band-Aid: All 104 Nuclear Reactors Currently Operational in the U.S. Have Irreparable Safety Issues
April 10th, 2013Via: Russia Today: All 104 nuclear reactors currently operational in the US have irreparable safety issues and should be taken out of commission and replaced, former chairman of the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Gregory B. Jaczko said. The comments, made during the Carnegie International Nuclear Policy Conference, are “highly unusual” for a current or former […]
