Archive for the 'Energy' Category
Super Soaker Inventor May Hold the Key to Affordable Solar Power
October 13th, 2010Take this graph into consideration as you read the piece below. Via: The Atlantic: From his childhood in segregated Mobile, Alabama, to his run-ins with a nay-saying scientific establishment, the engineer Lonnie Johnson has never paid much heed to those who told him what he could and couldn’t accomplish. Best known for creating the state-of-the-art […]
Google to Invest in Offshore Wind Power Project
October 12th, 2010Via: AP: Google is investing in an extensive network of deepwater transmission lines worth billions for future wind farms off the East Coast, the company said Tuesday. The transmission lines, which could cost up to $5 billion over the next 10 years, would run as far as 20 miles offshore from Virginia to New Jersey. […]
China Stakes Claim to South Texas Oil, Gas
October 12th, 2010Via: Houston Chronicle: State-owned Chinese energy giant CNOOC is buying a multibillion-dollar stake in 600,000 acres of South Texas oil and gas fields, potentially testing the political waters for further expansion into U.S. energy reserves. With the announcement Monday that it would pay up to $2.2 billion for a one-third stake in Chesapeake Energy assets, […]
Hal Lewis: My Resignation From the American Physical Society; Global Warming, “Is the Greatest and Most Successful Pseudoscientific Fraud I Have Seen in My Long Life as a Physicist”
October 11th, 2010Via: The Global Warming Policy Foundation: From: Hal Lewis, University of California, Santa Barbara To: Curtis G. Callan, Jr., Princeton University, President of the American Physical Society 6 October 2010 Dear Curt: When I first joined the American Physical Society sixty-seven years ago it was much smaller, much gentler, and as yet uncorrupted by the […]
White House Blocked Government Scientists from Warning American Public of the Potential Environmental Disaster Caused by BP Oil Spill
October 7th, 2010See floridaoilspilllaw.com for full time coverage of the ongoing disaster in the region. Via: Guardian: The White House blocked government scientists from warning the American public of the potential environmental disaster caused by BP’s broken well in the Gulf of Mexico, a report released by the national commission investigating the oil spill said yesterday. The […]
Passat BlueMotion Enters Record Books: Travels 1,527 Miles Without Refueling
October 6th, 2010This is impressive, but you don’t need to own a fancy car to improve mileage by slowing down: Slow down. Air resistance goes up as the square of velocity. The power consumed to overcome that air resistance goes up as the cube of the velocity. Rolling resistance is the dominant force below about 40 mph. […]
How Elon Musk Turned Tesla Into the Car Company of the Future
September 29th, 2010What I found most interesting about this piece was how Toyota and Daimler got on board with Tesla. It seemed like those organizations saw Tesla as a catalyst that could help overcome their own bureaucratic inertia. Toyota’s involvement with Tesla is definitely interesting. Toyota made a big miscalculation with its long insistence that hybrid technology […]
Wind Will Power Fossil Fuel-Free Denmark by 2050?
September 29th, 2010Via: Guardian: The falling cost of renewable energy and rising cost of oil and gas will allow Denmark to develop an energy network entirely free of fossil fuels by 2050, according to a report published by the government’s climate commission. The committee predicted that wind and biomass energy could meet the bulk of the country’s […]
Japan to Drill for Methane Hydrate
September 28th, 2010Via: Guardian: In a bid to shore up its precarious energy security Japan is to start commercial test drilling for controversial frozen methane gas along its coast next year. The gas is methane hydrate, a sherbet-like substance consisting of methane trapped in water ice – sometimes called “fire ice” or MH – that is locked […]
Court Dismisses Shell Human Rights Abuse Case
September 24th, 2010Via: TCE Today: A US appeals court has dismissed a case against Shell in which it was accused of assisting the Nigerian government to commit human rights abuses in its attempts to suppress local groups protesting against oil activities in the 1990s. In a written ruling, the three-judge panel of the US Court of Appeals […]
