Archive for the 'Energy' Category
Leaked Report Suggests Long-Known Flood Threat To Nuclear Plants
October 22nd, 2012Via: Huffington Post: An un-redacted version of a recently released Nuclear Regulatory Commission report highlights the threat that flooding poses to nuclear power plants located near large dams — and suggests that the NRC has misled the public for years about the severity of the threat, according to engineers and nuclear safety advocates. “The redacted […]
Fresh Air Into Petrol
October 19th, 2012Energy returned on energy invested (EROEI)? Nope, nothing along those lines is mentioned. Via: Independent: A small British company has produced the first “petrol from air” using a revolutionary technology that promises to solve the energy crisis as well as helping to curb global warming by removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. Air Fuel Synthesis […]
Belgium: Exxon-Mobil Manager Shot Dead
October 16th, 2012BBC, Finally: British Oil Executive Shot Dead in Belgium Reader A noticed this. Via: BBC: A senior British oil executive has been shot dead in a suburb of the Belgian capital Brussels, it has emerged. Father-of-three Nicholas Mockford, 60, who worked for Exxon Mobil, was attacked as he left a restaurant with his wife nearly […]
TEPCO Admits It Could Have Prevented Fukushima Disaster
October 13th, 2012Via: Epoch Times: TEPCO, the Japanese utility in charge of the Fukushima Daiichi power plant that melted down last year, admitted on Friday that the disaster could have been averted. So why did it fail to act accordingly? Fear. The utility said it could have done more to prevent the earthquake and tsunami-triggered disaster that […]
‘Hand-Made Humans May Hold the Key to Saving the World’
October 9th, 2012This one is a keeper. Via: Brisbane Times: Human-induced climate change is one of the biggest problems that we face today. Millions could suffer hunger, water shortages, diseases and coastal flooding because of climate change. The latest science suggests that we may be near or even beyond the point of no return. … Here are […]
SOME CALIFORNIA GAS STATIONS SHUT AS OIL REFINERS RATION SUPPLIES
October 5th, 2012Via: Bloomberg: Gasoline station owners in the Los Angeles area including Costco Wholesale Corp. (COST) are beginning to shut pumps as the state’s oil refiners started rationing supplies and spot prices surged to a record. Valero Energy Corp. (VLO) stopped selling gasoline on the spot, or wholesale, market in Southern California and is allocating deliveries […]
Valero: Suspending Gasoline Sales in California Spot Markets
October 5th, 2012Via: NASDAQ: Valero Energy Corp. (VLO) said Thursday it temporarily stopped selling gasoline in California’s wholesale market as a string of refinery outages resulted in a regional gasoline shortage. Analysts fear the scramble for the motor fuel will send prices in the state close to $5 a gallon and force some gas stations to close. […]
Traders Spy on Oklahoma Hub With Satellites, Sensors and Infrared Cameras
October 2nd, 2012Via: NPR: The bottleneck of crude stored in Cushing, Okla., has become the country’s “biggest bank vault of oil,” Businessweek’s Matthew Phillips writes. And it’s only getting bigger. The clog — which is pushing down the price of West Texas Intermediate crude from Oklahoma, creating a gap with its international rival, Brent — is making […]
OPEC Countries Pouring Billions of Dollars Into Solar Power… To Export More Oil And Gas
September 21st, 2012Via: Wall Street Journal: Middle Eastern members of OPEC are finally diversifying their energy base, pouring hundreds of billions of dollars into harnessing that other resource they feature in vast quantities: sunshine. But it isn’t what you think. The Saudis, Abu Dhabi and Iran aren’t racing to burnish their green credentials by reducing their carbon […]
Nanostructured Thermoelectric Material Breaks Record for Turning Heat Into Electricity
September 20th, 2012Definitely don’t hold your breath while you wait for this one to power your flux capacitor, but it’s interesting anyway. Via: Nature: A scrambled-up material has broken the record for converting heat into electricity. Findings published today in Nature suggest that disorder may be the key to creating a new generation of energy-harvesting technologies. … […]
