Aug

31

The Atomic Fission Industry’s Taxpayer Freebee Taken to Task

August 31, 2007 | Leave a Comment

Brian Bloom has written a very good piece about the nuclear fission construction prospects in the US.  See: http://www.321energy.com/editorials/bloom/bloom083007.html Brian starts off looking at two issues; the first is the inconsistency of US atomic fission power generation and how it seems contradictory to oppose development in Iran and the atomic fission industry’s attempt to catch [...]

Aug

30

A Response to Our Review

August 30, 2007 | 1 Comment

Brian Bloom has responded to our review last week about his 6th installment of the series “Migrating to New Energy Paradigms.” He’s real sharp. The full response is at: http://www.financialsense.com/fsu/editorials/bloom/2007/0824.html The paper is presented on two levels. The first is a direct answer to the question about keeping the technologies he hints at as “under [...]

Aug

30

Monetary Policy’s Impact on Future Energy Costs

August 30, 2007 | 3 Comments

“Gail The Actuary” asked “Shunyata,” both contributors at theoildrum.com, about the US global debt and the US balance of payments. Now let me say these two are pretty sophisticated people who know their stuff. Gail’s questions were pretty general yet quite on point for a major part of the price of oil. Shunyata in his [...]

Aug

29

Measuring the Fuel and Energy

August 29, 2007 | Leave a Comment

Bruce Dale at Michigan State University has pried open the door to an important and overlooked aspect about energy and its relationship to us. You may recall that on this site the target is and will remain to maintain or improve people’s standard of living and spread that improvement around. I tuned in to Mr. [...]

Aug

28

Portable Hydrogen Generation Gets Closer

August 28, 2007 | Leave a Comment

Jerry Woodall and his team at Purdue are back with developments of the aluminum gallium reaction for generating hydrogen in consumer volumes. See: http://news.uns.purdue.edu/x/2007b/070827WoodallNanotech.html The first news broke in May of 2007 and looked good at first. The concept was soon clobbered by some: http://forum.physorg.com/index.php?showtopic=14952 as the price of gallium used was prohibitive and the [...]

Aug

27

Fusion Futures

August 27, 2007 | 13 Comments

After a few days of relief that Dr. Bussard’s research has resumed a sense of reality sinks in followed on by thoughts on just what might happen. There are some thrills to be had when speculating on what this research could do. The reality dose is that the IEF device isn’t running steadily or reached [...]

Aug

24

The Plugin Hybrid Car Should Be Here Now

August 24, 2007 | 1 Comment

Mark Yates has written a superlative article laced with lots of links to his research that makes the case that the plugin hybrid car should be on the market now. See: http://europe.theoildrum.com/node/2883#more Mark gets going by pointing out that some small companies are making cars and soon pickups that are fully functional for most anyone’s [...]

Aug

23

Funding Continues for Bussard’s Fusion Reactor

August 23, 2007 | 64 Comments

The Bussard Fusion Reactor Is Set For The Next Research Stage.  Private emails are circulating reports that Dr. Robert Bussard has come to an agreement with the US Navy to resume fusion research.  M. Simon broke the “news” sometime after midnight last night August 22, 2007.  See: http://powerandcontrol.blogspot.com/2007/08/bussard-reactor-funded.html Other sources are saying the agreement closed [...]

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