Archive for the 'Energy' Category
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. … […]
Keshe Foundation
September 19th, 2012Many of you are submitting the one about the Keshe Foundation’s alleged energy technology. Click through to that link if you haven’t heard about this. Briefly, because this one is very definitely in the put-up-or-shut-up category: I emailed them and asked why they were dealing with governments when, in fact, the governments, in service to […]
Warp Drive Might Be Possible
September 19th, 2012Via: Space: A warp drive to achieve faster-than-light travel — a concept popularized in television’s Star Trek — may not be as unrealistic as once thought, scientists say. A warp drive would manipulate space-time itself to move a starship, taking advantage of a loophole in the laws of physics that prevent anything from moving faster […]
Panetta: China, Japan Heading Towards War
September 17th, 2012Via: AFP: CHINA and other Asian countries could end up at war over territorial disputes if governments keep up their “provocative behaviour”, US Defence Secretary Leon Panetta has said. Speaking to reporters before arriving in Tokyo on a trip to Asia, Mr Panetta appealed for restraint amid mounting tensions over territorial rights in the East […]
Armada of British Naval Power Massing in the Gulf as Israel Prepares an Iran Strike
September 16th, 2012Via: Telegraph: Battleships, aircraft carriers, minesweepers and submarines from 25 nations are converging on the strategically important Strait of Hormuz in an unprecedented show of force as Israel and Iran move towards the brink of war. Western leaders are convinced that Iran will retaliate to any attack by attempting to mine or blockade the shipping […]
Offshore Wind Energy Could Power Entire U.S. East Coast
September 15th, 2012Most JFK assassination literature doesn’t mention the Passamaquoddy tidal power project: Each day, over a million kilowatts of power surge in and out of the Passamaquoddy Bay. Man needs only to exercise his engineering ingenuity to convert the ocean’s surge into a great national asset. That’s JFK from July 16th, 1963, four months before the […]
Super-Cars Split $10 Million in X Prize Race
September 15th, 2012Via: NBC: A four-seat car that gets 102 miles per gallon is the top winner in a $10 million contest designed to encourage the development of ultra-efficient automobiles. Edison2, a team of racing engineers from Lynchburg, Va., won the $5 million prize in the mainstream-vehicle category of the Progressive Insurance Automotive X Prize. The winners […]
