Archive for the 'Energy' Category
Peak Oil Video Game
January 24th, 2008“As U.S. Army theorist Ralph Peters wrote, the effect of media on young men, in terms of reaching national security objectives, ‘is destructive beyond the power of words to describe.’” —Maxim Participates in Israeli Intelligence Operation Targeted at U.S. Men Wow. In addition to the push by corporate media to sell the nonsense meme of […]
Solazyme Introduces Its First Algal Biodiesel, Enters Development Agreement With Chevron
January 24th, 2008Via: Green Car Congress: Solazyme, Inc., a synthetic biology company formed in 2003 to pursue biofuels from microalgae, is introducing Soladiesel, its first algal biodiesel, which has undergone road testing in a blend by powering a Mercedes-Benz sedan for long distances under typical driving conditions. Solazyme also announced that it has signed a feedstock development […]
Israel Is Set to Promote the Use of Electric Cars
January 21st, 2008Imagine my shock. Via: New York Times: Israel, tiny and bereft of oil, has decided to embrace the electric car. On Monday, the Israeli government will announce its support for a broad effort to promote the use of electric cars, embracing a joint venture between an American-Israeli entrepreneur and Renault and its partner, Nissan Motor […]
Costly Fuel Means Costly Calories
January 21st, 2008Mainstream media playing catch up… Via: New York Times: Rising prices for cooking oil are forcing residents of Asia’s largest slum, in Mumbai, India, to ration every drop. Bakeries in the United States are fretting over higher shortening costs. And here in Malaysia, brand-new factories built to convert vegetable oil into diesel sit idle, their […]
Lockheed Martin to Use EEstor’s Ultracapacitors for Military and Homeland Security Applications
January 13th, 2008“The military needs the energy density that this EEstor thing provides for weapon systems.” —EEstor: More Clues Emerge “For years, I wanted to believe that Peak Oil could bring this horror show down. My problem, of course, was that I couldn’t ignore simple, observable realities and the fact that evil people have many plans up […]
Oil Shipments Missing from Strategic Petroleum Reserve
January 12th, 2008Via: ABC News: How do you not notice when 308,000 barrels of oil go missing? That’s the question government auditors were asking after they looked into the Department of Energy’s management of oil received for the Strategic Petroleum Reserve, a critical program to assure energy stability in the U.S. in case of an oil crisis. […]
Mexico’s Pemex Stopping U.S. West Coast Oil Exports
January 11th, 2008Via: Reuters: Mexican state oil monopoly Pemex will stop shipping crude oil to the U.S. West Coast from February due in part to a shortage of infrastructure at Salina Cruz port, the company said on Wednesday. Pemex was only shipping a tiny 20,000 barrels per day of oil to the U.S. Pacific coast out of […]
Nanoantennas Could Collect 80% Solar Energy, Continue to Work at Night
January 9th, 2008Immediately after reading this story, I emailed the U.S. Department of Energy’s Idaho National Laboratory to find out how much money had been allocated to this research. The helpful INL media relations person wrote back: The INL has spent about $4 million to date on the energy management aspects of this project… The INL team […]
Super Soaker Inventor Aims to Cut Solar Costs in Half
January 9th, 2008Via: Popular Mechanics: Solar energy technology is enjoying its day in the sun with the advent of innovations from flexible photovoltaic (PV) materials to thermal power plants that concentrate the sun’s heat to drive turbines. But even the best system converts only about 30 percent of received solar energy into electricity—making solar more expensive than […]
New Power Meters in California Can Ration, or Cut Off Electricity by Remote Control
January 8th, 2008The Nanny State, for-the-children, technocratic control grid thermostat story doesn’t seem so bad, compared to the story below about the “new” new power meters that are being rolled out in California. The state is actually making asymmetric warfare much easier for those who will eventually try to fight. There will be a window of opportunity […]
