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 [...]

Sep

27

Is Energy For Free Possible?

September 27, 2007 | 11 Comments

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 flow [...]

Sep

26

Fuel vs. Food

September 26, 2007 | 6 Comments

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 has pushed [...]

Sep

25

Butanol – The Coming Alternative Fuel or “Peak Ethanol”

September 25, 2007 | 9 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 quick explanation is [...]

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 rusted [...]

Sep

20

Magnesium For Fuel

September 20, 2007 | 2 Comments

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 | 1 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 [...]

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