Archive for the 'Energy' Category
Facebook Censored Live Stream Video Posted by Dakota Pipeline Protesters
September 15th, 2016Via: The Verge: Facebook has admitted to censoring a video posted by activists protesting the Dakota Access pipeline, with the social network blaming the removal on its automated spam filter. The live stream video, published on Tuesday by the media collective Unicorn Riot, showed police arresting around two dozen protesters at a Dakota pipeline site. […]
Thousands Protest North Dakota Pipeline
September 9th, 2016Via: CBC: Thousands of people have joined the Standing Rock Sioux Nation’s fight against construction of a contentious oil pipeline, a showdown Indigenous leaders in North Dakota warn won’t end anytime soon. They’re opposed to the Dakota Access Pipeline, a multimillion-dollar project that’s supposed to transport light sweet crude oil from the Bakken oilfield near […]
MIT Spinout’s Lithium Metal Battery Doubles Power Density vs. Lithium Ion
August 19th, 2016Batteries for the drone market ship in late 2016. Consumer electronics, early 2017. Electric cars, 2018. Via: MIT News: Putting these new batteries in electric vehicles as well could represent “a huge societal impact,” Hu says: “Industry standard is that electric vehicles need to go at least 200 miles on a single charge. We can […]
Nissan: Variable Compression Gasoline Engine
August 14th, 2016Via: Reuters: Japanese automaker Nissan Motor Co has come up with a new type of gasoline engine it says may make some of today’s advanced diesel engines obsolete. The new engine uses variable compression technology, which Nissan engineers say allows it at any given moment to choose an optimal compression ratio for combustion – a […]
EV West Shop Off Grid with DIY Powerwall
August 12th, 2016Disclosure: I sell solar power systems in New Zealand. — Guys who refuse to wait. Via: Jehu Garcia: Related: EV West
A Big Leap for an Artificial Leaf *
August 11th, 2016* “Commercializing the technology will likely take years.” Indeed, there are posts about Nocera’s various artificial leaf iterations on Cryptogon going back almost a decade… Via: MIT Technology Review: Daniel Nocera, a professor of energy science at Harvard who pioneered the use of artificial photosynthesis, says that he and his colleague Pamela Silver have devised […]
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 […]
