Archive for the 'Energy' Category
RUSSIA CUTS OIL EXPORTS TO GERMANY BY ONE THIRD
August 26th, 2007Via: International Herald Tribune: Russian oil supplies to Germany have dropped by as much as one-third in recent weeks, Russian and German officials said Friday, sharply pinching supplies at two major German refineries. The Russian oil-pipeline monopoly, Transneft, blamed most of the drop on the Russian oil giant Lukoil. Oil traders suggested it was yet […]
Chip Turns Waste Heat Back Into Useful Electrical Power; Promises to Significantly Extend Laptop Battery Life
August 11th, 2007I’m not even going to say it. Via: Computing UK: Eneco, a US-based chip development firm that claims to have developed a “solid state energy conversion/generation chip” capable of turning a proportion of heat energy directly into usable electricity, has claimed that it is in talks with both Dell and Apple about how the technology […]
Think Pure Electric Vehicle Is Coming Back
August 6th, 2007Well, maybe not totally pure EV. Dean Kamen is working on a stirling engine addon to assist with battery charging. But how is he running the stirling engine? Can anyone fathom out the answer to that? I’ve read about his stirling engine burning cow dung to produce electricity, but that fuel will be in short […]
Geothermal Power Could Meet World’s Annual Energy Needs 250,000 Times Over
August 6th, 2007Amount of taxpayer money that the U.S. Government has allocated to this deep, “hot rock” geothermal research: $2 million. Amount of taxpayer money flushed down the toilet of U.S. military operations in Iraq PER DAY: $200 million. Via: Yahoo / AP: Scientists say this geothermal energy, clean, quiet and virtually inexhaustible, could fill the world’s […]
The Chinese “Miracle” Will End Soon [sic]
August 4th, 2007Yesterday wouldn’t be soon enough. Via: Spiegel: The world has been dazzled in recent years by the economic strides being made by China. But it has come at a huge cost to the country’s environment. Pollution is a serious and costly problem. Pan Yue of the ministry of the environment says these problems will soon […]
Low Power HHO Fuel Generator for Off Grid Energy Needs
August 4th, 2007Electricity costs in New Zealand are absurd. A criminal cartel just bends us all over a barrel here. Wolves are in charge of watching the chicken coop. Take your pick of descriptive metaphors. Oh well. But that’s not the point of this post. I started looking at ways of dealing with the situation myself by […]
DARPA’s 42.8% Efficiency Solar Cells
August 2nd, 2007Do you get it yet? Via: Treehugger: Narrowly edging out the previous record set by Spectrolab late last year, two scientists at the University of Delaware have just created a new device that can convert 42.8% of the light striking it into electricity. The solar cell, built by Christina Honsberg and Allan Barnett, splits light […]
Oil Settles Above $78, Setting Record
July 31st, 2007Via: Yahoo / AP: Oil futures settled at a record high above $78 Tuesday on expectations that crude inventories fell last week and reports of new violence in Nigeria, a large oil producer and key supplier to the U.S.
The One Gigawatt Wind Turbine
July 28th, 2007Via: Treehugger: It’s a vision of a magnetically levitated wind turbine that can generate one gigawatt of energy (enough to power 750,000 homes). This is the device proposed by a new Arizona-based company, MagLev Wind Turbine Technologies. The company claims that it can deliver clean power for less than cent per kilowatt hour using this […]
Chevron Plans to Build Wave Power Farm Off California Coast
July 22nd, 2007“When you’re one step ahead of the crowd you’re a genius. When you’re two steps ahead, you’re a crackpot.” — Rabbi Shlomo Riskin Then what am I? HAHA! Yep, it’s all tinfoil, crackpot, lunatic fringe antics here on Cryptogon; until it actually happens weeks, months or years later. But that’s ok. If most media/bloggers were […]
