Oct
31
Power From Silicon Valley
October 31, 2007 | Leave a Comment
Marianne Lavelle has written a very good overview in USNews titled “Power Revolution” that gives a look at the investments and some results of what Vinod Khosla and others have accomplished in finding and developing new energy and fuel sources.
Khosla is pretty well known as an innovator and investor in new forms of energy and [...]
Oct
30
The New Mafia – The America Banksters
October 30, 2007 | 2 Comments
I might as well go first, or beat another blogger to the punch. The new mafia in America isn’t what you would think. But wait – there is a bit of looking at what people do and not what they say that matters.
You might recall a theme in the series of movies the “Godfather,” [...]
Oct
29
Hydrogen Fuel From Nuclear Reactors
October 29, 2007 | Leave a Comment
Dr. Greg Naterer of the University of Ontario Institute of Technology is describing another new way to get hydrogen for fuel. Interviewed by Izabela Jaroszynski at newsdurhamregion.com Dr. Naterer talks about the idea to use the “spent” energy from nuclear reactions to mass-produce hydrogen in a sustainable and efficient way. Just what is [...]
Oct
26
The Weekend Link List
October 26, 2007 | Leave a Comment
First up is Geoffrey Stiles blog on Tuesday October 23, 2007. Now Mr. Styles is one of the sharpest analysts and top communicators in the field and usually his posts run parallel to our points or sail way over. But not this one. Here Mr. Styles looks into the problems of fuel cell vehicles and [...]
Oct
25
The Muscle Car Alternative Fuel Man
October 25, 2007 | 3 Comments
He’s Johnathan Goodwin of Wichita Kansas, famous for building the ’65 Chevy Impala running on biodiesel that creamed the Lamborghini in a drag race for the MTV show “Pimp My Ride.”
He just shows what a talented man with a passion can accomplish in America. Starting out he fixed up cars to help his mother with [...]
Oct
24
A New Way to Find Oil
October 24, 2007 | 1 Comment
Last week news broke that Per Arne Bjorkum, University of Stavanger, Sweden and Paul Nadeau and Olav Walderhaug at Statoil have developed a new theory for locating oil and gas reserves. After examining databases of 120,000 oil and gas fields they confirmed that the theory “The Golden Zone” is a fact that applies 90% of [...]
Oct
23
The Real Massive Geothermal Generator
October 23, 2007 | 4 Comments
Andy Kadir-Buxton has vigorously pursued his dream of deep well geothermal power plant installations for quite a few years and he’s still often commenting on articles and blogposts that mention or discuss the idea.
Andy seems to be well liked and passionate about the idea. The premise is to drill to the depth where the [...]
Oct
22
The Two Reasons Behind High Oil Prices
October 22, 2007 | 3 Comments
Many, especially those in the media and their followers believe that “the oil companies” are behind the high oil prices. With the oil companies controlling less than 20% of the world’s oil output that makes the theory pretty far from the facts, let alone the truth. It’s the OPEC countries and the others [...]
Oct
19
Weekend Link List
October 19, 2007 | Leave a Comment
A must read. In order to say, “I get it” this link(s) is required reading. Here Paul Chefurka has invested a great deal of effort to provide a highly readable, thought provoking and fact backed look into the future as fuel and energy will play a huge role in what may become “Peak [...]
Oct
18
Salvation for Corn Farmers and Taxpayers
October 18, 2007 | Leave a Comment
With the ongoing realization that feeding corn sugar to yeast is a pretty poor way to make a pretty poor fuel there are some interesting ideas being researched and discussed in science circles.
Getting past the fact that ethanol from corn is a “ because we know how” industry there is growing pressure to update the [...]
