Archive for the 'Energy' Category
The Best Farmland in the U.S. Is Flooded; Most Americans Are Too Stupid to Panic
June 19th, 2008The best commentary I could offer is a link to a previous story: World’s Largest Maker of Crop Nutrients: Famines May Occur Without Record Harvests But I’ll ramble on a bit more about this, anyway. As soon as I became aware of the flooding situation in the American Midwest, I posted the story with the […]
Scientists Engineer Organisms That Eat Waste and Excrete Petrol
June 18th, 2008Oh sure. The little GMO oil bugs will never escape their containment systems! HAHA! What could possibly go wrong? Also, the article states that sugarcane feedstock produces oil at $50 per barrel. It doesn’t mention what the lower sugar feed stocks yield. Hint: It’s going to be MUCH more expensive than with sugarcane. This sounds […]
The Electric Car Lives
June 18th, 2008Via: Business Week: Clean, quiet, and relatively profitable to produce, electric vehicles have had a rough start in the U.S.: Five years after General Motors (GM) nixed its innovative EV1 electric car program, just a handful of automakers have committed to making and selling electric vehicles on a mass scale any time soon. Enter Think […]
EvoLux Review
June 16th, 2008UPDATE: May 31, 2009 Both of the EvoLux lights that I purchased are now dead. One of them failed several months ago. The second one just died tonight. Buyer beware. —End Update— When the news about the Advanced Lumonics EvoLux made headlines recently, I wanted to order a couple of the units to test out […]
Oil Surges to Record High Near $140
June 16th, 2008I guess the Saudis should have said that they were going to buy dollars instead. Via: Reuters: Oil surged to a new record high on Monday of nearly $140 a barrel, propelled by weakness in the U.S. dollar which offset the bearish impact of plans by Saudi Arabia to boost output. U.S. light, sweet crude […]
Plan Would Lift Saudi Oil Output to Highest Ever
June 14th, 2008What does one have to do to get on the list of traders who receive Saudi planned oil production numbers before the information is announced? Actually, I don’t want to know. It will be very interesting to watch how this unfolds on Monday. Via: New York Times: Saudi Arabia, the world’s biggest oil exporter, is […]
No Market for Electric Cars? Auction for Used Toyota Rav4 EV Bids Over $45,000
June 14th, 2008Why buy this old Toyota when the Phoenix Motors SUT will be available this year, and for around the same money? Feral madness is the best explanation. Via: eBay: Vehicle for Sale Description: 2003 Rav4 EV (purchased from Cabe Toyota in Long Beach 12/28/02) Silver with gray interior Original Owner, non-smoker, bought new (no lease) […]
Japanese Invent Car That Runs On Water
June 14th, 2008Via: Nikkei Business Publications: Genepax Co Ltd explained the technologies used in its new fuel cell system “Water Energy System (WES),” which uses water as a fuel and does not emit CO2. The system can generate power just by supplying water and air to the fuel and air electrodes, respectively, the company said at the […]
Who’s More Innovative When it Comes to Electric Vehicles? The Soviet Ministries of Ford and GM, or a Besieged Palestinian in Gaza?
June 13th, 2008Ford and GM are asking for subsidies to accomplish a fraction of what Fayez Annan has already done… under siege conditions. Never mind Think, Phoenix, Aptera and all the rest. Let’s look at Ford and GM vs. a man living under siege conditions to see who can produce a better EV. Story 1: DOE Awards […]
British Mercenary to Stand Trial for Attempted Coup in Equatorial Guinea
June 13th, 2008Via: Reuters: British mercenary Simon Mann will go on trial on Tuesday for leading a failed 2004 coup in Equatorial Guinea, the West African state’s public prosecutor said on Friday. Jose Olo Obono said that Mann, arrested in 2004 in Zimbabwe with 70 mercenaries en route for oil-rich Equatorial Guinea, will face three main charges: […]
