Archive for the 'Energy' Category
Air, the Best Clean Vehicle Battery We’ve Got for Now
February 24th, 2007If you’ve got the electricity, why not? Until the Eestor thing moves out of the vaporware phase, this looks simple and viable. Hmm, well, the MDI aircar is still pretty much in the vaporware phase too. An aircar in vaporware phase. Ha. Thank you, I’ll be here all week, please tip your waitress. And for […]
Cheap Solar Power Poised to Undercut Oil and Gas by Half
February 20th, 2007Via: Telegraph: Within five years, solar power will be cheap enough to compete with carbon-generated electricity, even in Britain, Scandinavia or upper Siberia. In a decade, the cost may have fallen so dramatically that solar cells could undercut oil, gas, coal and nuclear power by up to half. Technology is leaping ahead of a stale […]
Natural Gas Storage with Material Derived from Corncob Waste
February 17th, 2007Via: Sietch Blog: The National Science Foundation reports of a very interesting breakthrough. Using corncob waste as a starting material, researchers have created carbon briquettes with complex nanopores capable of storing natural gas at an unprecedented density of 180 times their own volume and at one seventh the pressure of conventional natural gas tanks. This […]
Modified Bedini Cole Window Motor
February 17th, 2007UPDATE: Bedini Shows Mike Motor Is a Fraud John Bedini wrote that Mike must have hidden a 9v battery in the switch: The Final Word – 2007/02/28 23:46 Everybody, Here is the final word from ME!!! I have spent all day duplicating every variation of Mike’s circuit and SS Relay switch. I did find a […]
Amazing Stirling Engines
February 15th, 2007Insane! More: YouTube User Mdevink More: Mdevink’s Home Page
Direct Correlation Between Computing Power and Doom?
February 13th, 2007An 80 core CPU? Massively parallel home computers? I don’t know whether this news is more absurd or obscene. Oh sure, better games, HDTV, AI. Notice how none of this crap has anything to do clean air, food and water? How many cores will a CPU need in order to provide people with clean air, […]
NSA Electricity Crisis Gets Senate Scrutiny
February 9th, 2007Via: Baltimore Sun: The National Security Agency’s impending electricity shortfall is “sort of a national catastrophe,” Sen. John D. Rockefeller IV, the chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, said yesterday. Rockefeller, who took over as head of the panel when Democrats regained control of the Senate this month, called the power shortage a symptom of […]
Oil Over $59
February 3rd, 2007WARNING: This is not a recommendation to buy, sell or hold any financial instrument. See this post from a couple of weeks ago. Like I said, only insiders, crackpots and lunatics would have tried to catch this move… Via: Business Week: Oil prices settled above $59 a barrel Friday, finishing the week at its highest […]
Matt Simmons: Peaked Oil
February 2nd, 2007Via: The Oil Drum: Related: Energy Scarcity vs. Cost of the War in Iraq
China’s Energy Sinkhole
January 29th, 2007Via: Economist: Now there really is a giant sucking sound—not one made by the flight of jobs, but by China ferociously hoovering up commodities and raw materials. Although it accounts for roughly 4% of global GDP (measured at market exchange rates), China consumes 30% of the world’s supply of minerals and other raw materials. This […]
