Archive for the 'Energy' Category
57 MPG? That’s So 20 Years Ago
December 20th, 2007Via: CNN: Car makers are confident they can meet new government rules calling for a national fleet average of 35 miles per gallon. But it will take a big technological push, they say. You might wonder why, since twenty years ago the car that got the best mileage in the nation was a real techno-wimp […]
Nanosolar Shipping Inexpensive Panels: Solar Now Cheaper than Coal
December 19th, 2007Via: New York Times: Nanosolar, a heavily financed Silicon Valley start-up whose backers include Google’s co-founders, plans to announce Tuesday that it has begun selling its innovative solar panels, which are made using a technique that is being held out as the future of solar power manufacturing. The company, which has raised $150 million and […]
UN: World Food Stocks Dwindling Rapidly
December 18th, 2007If you look at the ongoing crises involved with food production, you see not just a perfect storm, but multiple perfect storms. — Cryptogon November 28, 2007 Via: International Herald Tribune: In an “unforeseen and unprecedented” shift, the world food supply is dwindling rapidly and food prices are soaring to historic levels, the top food […]
Electric City Bus Has 200KM Range
December 16th, 2007Via: AutoBlogGreen: I can assure readers that the electric bus – named “Tindo”, which is the local Aboriginal word for “sun” – is a pure EV. It will be recharged using a unique solar PV system installed on the roof of the new Adelaide Central Bus Station. This system generates 70,000 kilowatt hours of zero […]
No More Solar & Wind Tax Breaks… Thanks Congress
December 15th, 2007The point here is to make sure that individual clean power systems remain expensive and out of reach for most people. There’s going to be utility scale clean power, and you’re going to pay dearly for it. As for being able to call up your power company to tell them that their services will no […]
Microwave Machine Recovers Natural Gas and Oil from Any Hydrocarbon Based Material
December 14th, 2007I didn’t initially post this Popular Science piece because I already posted a story about Global Resource Corp. back in June. But it just hit the front page of Reddit and seven of you submitted it. Guys, I check Reddit too. 😉 Via: Popular Science: Green Tech THE MICROWAVE MAGICIAN Frank Pringle has found a […]
Toshiba Finally Releasing Revolutionary Battery; Three Years After Initial Announcement
December 13th, 2007Flashback to 2005: New battery offers unsurpassed recharge performance and high energy density And now… Via: Engadget: How does this sound: a battery capable of recharging to 90% in under 5 minutes while remaining useful (i.e., 5,000+ recharges) for 10 years or more? Sounds like the stuff of jetpacks and food replicators right? Nope… March, […]
The Final Frontier for Solar Energy: An Absurd Boondoggle in Space
December 12th, 2007Scientists in the U.S., Europe and Japan want to build a massive solar concentrator in space to beam gigawatts of power down to the surface of the planet. (The idea has been around, on paper, for years.) Clean, green power, They say. Absurd? Maybe not, if we consider some of the cast of characters, and […]
Windpower to Supply Electricity to All of Britain’s Homes
December 10th, 2007“You won’t have the clean technology without a total, fascist lockdown. I’ve said it from the beginning, and I’m saying it now. The technology to build the techno green utopia has been around for easily thirty years. Sorry folks, that’s not how it went, and that’s not how it’s going to go. The primacy of […]
Possible Assassination of Alternative Energy Researcher
December 6th, 2007Via: PESN: On Nov. 11, inventor of a revolutionary, affordable, clean energy technology, M. DeGeus was found slumped in his car, totally unresponsive, in the long-term parking lot of the Charlotte Douglass International Airport in North Carolina. He was taken to the hospital and died a short time later. The autopsy suggested heart failure, so […]
