Oct
19
Weekend Link List
October 19, 2007 | 1 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 Humanity.” I [...]
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 [...]
Oct
17
Reality Check – Space Based Power
October 17, 2007 | 19 Comments
Are you thinking that this post is a reality check on the viability of the space based power system? Nope. It’s a reality check of the stories in the press about what is in the report so you and I can learn something worthwhile. The report is titled “Space-Based Solar Power As an Opportunity for [...]
Oct
16
Algae Answers the Call
October 16, 2007 | 2 Comments
Its time to get ready for a strong set of stories and information articles proposing that algae will be the crude oil of the future. There are some strong indicators that the algae industry my have the strongest set of resources for displacing crude oil as the prime source of high density fuel sources. Leading [...]
Oct
15
Is a Ball of Silicon the Super Solar Collector?
October 15, 2007 | Leave a Comment
We’ve all seen the common photovoltaic solar collector, a flat plate of gray silicon with small gray or reddish lines dividing and carrying the current. Their main cost is that silicon sheet which in most configurations requires the sheet to collect the sunlight directly and as straight on to perpendicular to the sunlight as possible. [...]
Oct
12
The Weekend Link List
October 12, 2007 | Leave a Comment
Grow Your Own! It’s a bit of a shock to realize what grim life styles would come when oil for fuel to grow food for 6 billion people becomes cost prohibitive. This article doesn’t really address the alternatives that will over time to displace the oil use; rather it just dives in to describe what [...]
Oct
11
Its Peak Everything Now, Toto!
October 11, 2007 | 1 Comment
That satirical headline is more true than you might think. I found Mathew Maavek’s article “We Are In A Bad Fix” here: http://www.maavak.net/maavak/maavak076.html In this article Mr. Maavek has explored the “peaks” that are now in the news or will be. Topping his list is the “peak” of financial irresponsibility shown in the upper echelons [...]
Oct
10
Farm Electricity On Your Roof
October 10, 2007 | Leave a Comment
Photovoltaic solar panels might well be in for a dramatic drop in price. The contributor “Engineer-Poet” posted an article on The Oil Drum Monday October 8th 2007 titled Photovoltaics: From Waste to Energy-maker. The article starts off considering the course of waste from doing one thing becoming the tool of something later. Its refreshing to [...]
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