Archive for the 'Energy' Category
Hillary Clinton Was a Director of Lafarge, a Company That Does Business with ISIS
August 5th, 2016Via: The Canary: Documents obtained by several journalistic investigations reveal that Lafarge has paid taxes to the terror group to operate its cement plant in Syria, and even bought Isis oil for years. … Lafarge also has close ties to Democrat presidential candidate Hillary Clinton. Apart from being a regular donor to the Clinton Foundation, […]
Mercedes Is About to Unveil an Entire Fleet of Electric Vehicles
August 5th, 2016Via: Bloomberg: Mercedes-Benz is planning its own distinct line of electric vehicles, challenging BMW and Tesla Motors Inc. in a bet that alternative-fuel cars have the potential to become profitable. Mercedes will add two electric sport utility vehicles and two sedans, according to two people familiar with the plan, who asked not to be named […]
World’s Largest Solar Power Plant Planned for Chernobyl Nuclear Wasteland
August 2nd, 2016Disclosure: I sell solar power systems in New Zealand. — Via: Electrek: The world’s most famous and damaging nuclear meltdown is now being considered for the world’s largest solar power plant. The Ukrainian nuclear power station Chernobyl had a nuclear meltdown on April 26, 1986. Since then 1,600 square miles of land has been deemed […]
Tesla and SolarCity to Combine
August 1st, 2016Disclosure: I sell solar power systems in New Zealand. Via: Tesla: Just over a month ago, Tesla made a proposal to purchase SolarCity and today we are announcing that the two companies have reached an agreement to combine, creating the world’s only vertically integrated sustainable energy company. Solar and storage are at their best when […]
Breakthrough Solar Cell Captures CO2 and Sunlight, Produces Burnable Fuel
July 30th, 2016I’ve posted lots stories about similar technologies and the main problems are, very low yields, scalability, short lived and/or expensive catalysts. But who knows? Maybe it will become viable before the Mr. Fusion. Via: University of Illinois: Researchers at the University of Illinois at Chicago have engineered a potentially game-changing solar cell that cheaply and […]
Mercedes-Benz shows Off the First Fully Electric Heavy Urban Transport Truck
July 27th, 2016Production is still many years away. Via: TechCrunch: Daimler isn’t about to let Tesla own any more ‘firsts’ in electric transportation; the German company revealed the Mercedes-Benz Urban eTruck today in Stuttgart, an all-electric truck with a total admissible weight capacity of 26 tonnes (29 U.S. tons), which makes it the first clean energy big […]
Tesla: Master Plan, Part Deux
July 20th, 2016Musk’s hopes and dreams may or may not happen, but I enjoyed reading this anyway. While some people out there seem to have full time jobs bashing Tesla, I think of Musk as a hero. There would be virtually no movement toward mass adoption of electric vehicles if it wasn’t for Tesla. Now, the whole […]
Photographer Sneaks Into Fukushima Exclusion Zone
July 13th, 2016Via: Daily Mail: More than five years after the devastating tsunami and the 8.9-magnitude earthquake struck north-eastern Japan, causing the explosion of the nuclear power plant in Fukushima, the Japanese town remains abandoned. Since April 22, 2011, an area within 20km (12.4miles) radius of Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power plant has been cordoned off from the […]
Hague Rules Against Beijing on South China Sea Claims
July 12th, 2016…China throws toys. Via: Guardian: China has lost a key international legal case over strategic reefs and atolls that it claims would give it control over disputed waters of the South China Sea. The judgment by an international tribunal in The Hague is overwhelmingly in favour of claims by the Philippines and will increase global […]
Doctors Issue Warning About LED Streetlights
June 22nd, 2016Why not just use warmer LEDs? I don’t know about higher output units, but I’ve replaced all of my bulbs with 10 watt LEDs that are 2700k and they’re great. They cost only NZ$9.99 each. Are high output/warm LED units more expensive than cool ones? I’ve seen some of these cool spectrum LED street lamps […]
