Sep
28
The Weekend Link List
September 28, 2007 | Leave a Comment
Here are some links that will entertain, amuse, stimulate and perhaps astonish you over the weekend.
Jeremy Faldi offers some insight on how we might view our own thinking as we examine the possibilities of oncoming technology. Think of it a perhaps a guide to think skeptically rather than cynically. See:
http://www.zpenergy.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=2556
Graham Toquer writes about [...]
Sep
27
Is Energy For Free Possible?
September 27, 2007 | 1 Comment
For nearly two hundred years mankind has relied on Maxwell’s principles of electromagnetism for transforming fuel sources into transmittable electricity. The basic idea is that electrons move along pushed or pulled by a magnet in a conductor until the conductor passes them by another magnet that responds to the moving electrons. Then the electrons [...]
Sep
26
Fuel vs. Food
September 26, 2007 | 1 Comment
Perhaps the glow of alternative fuels might need a little tarnishing. Actually the last person on earth that might be doing that would be me – I pride myself in being a strong proponent for alternative fuels and energy resources. All over the world the effects of the run up in petroleum prices [...]
Sep
25
Butanol – The Coming Alternative Fuel or “Peak Ethanol”
September 25, 2007 | 8 Comments
For a couple of years we’ve been slaves to the ethanol run up into the fuel market. Federal programs geared to support it, protect it and promote it have hidden a far better choice. Butanol is also an alcohol as is ethanol, but it’s a different molecule with very different properties. The [...]
Sep
24
Twin Hurricanes – Debt and Oil Prices
September 24, 2007 | 3 Comments
Gail the Actuary is a good writer and her skill shows in the second installment of “Economic Impact of Peak Oil.” This article pulls together the oil price issue and the debt issue that are the two most worrisome concerns in the contemporary economy and she starts exploring the relationship between the two.
For years [...]
Sep
21
The Weekend Link List
September 21, 2007 | Leave a Comment
Here are some links that will entertain, amuse, stimulate and perhaps astonish you over the weekend.
Perhaps like me you have some experience cutting materials and have had the chatter issue intrude on your work. Its not a fuel related link, but has to do with energy input. I’ve had chatter from twisting on [...]
Sep
20
Magnesium For Fuel
September 20, 2007 | Leave a Comment
The idea of using magnesium for fuel is a new concept for me. MIT’s Technology Review has posted a story about researchers at Tokyo’s Institute of Technology that describes the effort they’re making to use lasers “to make a powerful laser capable of combusting the magnesium content of seawater. In the process, large amounts of [...]
Sep
19
Understanding Oil in the Economy
September 19, 2007 | Leave a Comment
The Oil Drum has posted the first of three articles by “Gail the Actuary” today September 19, 2007. Having read it and the comments I have to say Gail left the premier issue out of the title. Its more basic and on the point of understanding the role of oil in our economy. It’s a [...]
Sep
18
Understanding Cap And Trade Plans
September 18, 2007 | 3 Comments
Last night Tucker Eskew at Terra Rossa posted with a video from youtube that explains the “cap and trade” system to contain and reduce unwanted stuff in an economy. I go to some lengths to avoid political bias in what I post and Terra Rossa is clearly a “conservative” sort of site. Although [...]
Sep
17
Thorium Reactor Guide and Link List
September 17, 2007 | Leave a Comment
It’s really easy to overlook the subtle but strongest trends in energy production when relying on news, articles, blogs and so forth. But some trends have more legs in genuine science that’s already researched and have known paths and clearly observed obstacles along the way.
Thorium nuclear reactors are one of the leading proven science [...]
