Aug
23
Hydrogen Fuel Pellets
August 23, 2007 | 1 Comment
The Pacific Northwest National Laboratory Monday issued a news release about research that offers the possibility of hydrogen fuel pellets. The news release is quoting Dave Heldebrant and Don Camaioni. See: http://www.pnl.gov/news/release.asp?id=264 The goal of the research is stated as coming up with methods to safely store, dispense and reload the storage carrier. Their product [...]
Aug
22
It’s All About The Price
August 22, 2007 | 2 Comments
I read lots of articles on sites and blogs for news and views that will amuse, abuse or simply entertain my readers. With that premise there is a basis for making consumer choices and in considering what investments one might choose. There is one stunning theme that is overlooked enmass. That is the price, of [...]
Aug
22
Brian Bloom’s 6Th Article Is Up
August 22, 2007 | 3 Comments
Yesterday, 321energy posted Brian Bloom’s 6th article on “Migrating to New Energy Paradigms.” http://www.321energy.com/editorials/bloom/bloom082107.html This time he is focused on the importance of inclusion of the part of the world’s people who are still outside of the high energy and fuel use group and why they will need to be included. I found his thoughts [...]
Aug
21
Don Gay’s “The Bussard Fusion Concept”
August 21, 2007 | 11 Comments
Here at last is the often quoted but not yet published paper by Don Gay. Here Don explains what goes on inside the Bussard Fusion Reactor. As is often the case the best explanations are the hardest to find, so Don has kindly allowed it to be published here. The explanation Don offers is really [...]
Aug
21
Another Leap For Photovoltaic Solar Cells
August 21, 2007 | Leave a Comment
Munir Nayfeh at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign whose work is covered by a university news release has shown a nice evolution in solar cell development. The link is: http://www.news.uiuc.edu/news/07/0820solarcells.html The most newsworthy aspect of the report is the leading remark “Placing a film of silicon nanoparticles onto a solar cell can boost power, [...]
Aug
20
Fixed The MS Internet Explorer Issue
August 20, 2007 | 1 Comment
I am admitting that I had not checked the site viewed with Microsoft’s Internet Explorer. As the webstats were showing that during the first few weeks that Firefox was more than 90% of page views I just didn’t catch on. But I had to catch on today, though. Tom Ligon checked his paper for the [...]
Aug
16
Tom Ligon Explains Developing The Bussard Fusion Reactor With an Analogy
August 16, 2007 | 3 Comments
Tom has been kind enough to offer his paper “Inertial Electrodynamic Fusion and the Internal Combustion Engine” for publishing. Its, well, just fun. Tom is a professional and accomplished writer and to have him offer this here is a huge compliment. My thanks to Tom. Really. Seriously. Enjoy! On the other hand, after you enjoy [...]
Aug
15
Why New Fuels and Energy Are Important
August 15, 2007 | 6 Comments
My first obligation is to credit Brian Bloom as his series published at 321energy for the spark that triggered my spontaneous thoughts and drive this posting. Brian’s work is a series of 5 articles (6th reported to be coming, and I’m not waiting for it to review) in series starting at: http://www.321energy.com/editorials/bloom/bloom081507.html I have some [...]