Nov
20
99.999% Pure (Black Ink) Gold
November 20, 2007 | Leave a Comment
Once in a while you can see really good work in the mass media. Probably the world leader is and remains the Wall Street Journal. Today on the front page is the most succinct and informative piece I’ve seen done to date on the oil supply situation. Sorry folks, Dow Jones, in their lust for [...]
Nov
20
Here Hillary, A Softball For You
November 20, 2007 | 4 Comments
Today Joseph B. White at the Wall Street Journal posted his Eyes On The Road column with the subtitle “Sen. Clinton’s Push to Double Autos’ Average Fuel Economy Is Possible But Complicated.” Mr. White is one of my more admired writers in the mainstream press. The Wall Street Journal is far from being a mass [...]
Nov
19
A Physicist Offers An Engine Design For Over 100 MPG
November 19, 2007 | 10 Comments
Kazimierz Holubowicz is a physicist skilled in quantum electrodynamics that was paralyzed by a stroke years ago. Now disabled and retired Mr. Holubowicz was challenged by his son to occupy his time with problems that would offer some solutions to the planet’s problems. In the course of eight years of thought, design and patent applications [...]
Nov
18
WEEE! A Freebie on the Oil Business
November 18, 2007 | 12 Comments
I was invited by the senior communications person at the American Petroleum Institute to tour the soon to be installed Blind Faith oil and natural gas production platform south east of New Orleans. It’s a multibillion dollar project, starting with buying seismic data for lease tracts, bidding for the leases out in 7000 feet of [...]
Nov
16
The Weekend Link List
November 16, 2007 | 1 Comment
Yesterday we discussed James Hunt and the background on the hydrogen generator system his company is developing. So this release at Penn State with a microbial electrolysis cell system that’s yielding either 1:1.44 or 1:2.88 depending on what the writer meant is a confirmation of sorts and now there is a biological solution, too. Even [...]
Nov
15
Who Is James Hunt and Why He Might Be Really Famous Soon
November 15, 2007 | 5 Comments
James Hunt is a man in his mid 30s who in the course of his studies at Carl Sandburg College in Galesburg Illinois engineered a portable hydrogen generator. As something of a leader Mr. Hunt set up an inventors club on the campus. It seems the generator is impressive enough that the college has assisted [...]
Nov
14
A Nearly Comedic Look at the US Economic Future
November 14, 2007 | Leave a Comment
Dmitry Orlov, bless ‘em, has a talk he made last winter archived at EnergyBulletin.net. As a man with an extensive history in dealing with Russians I can easily see that Mr. Orlov is trying in his way to warm our hearts and awaken our minds while not disturbing our souls. But I’m an American and [...]
Nov
13
A New, Safer, and Cheaper Material For Storing Hydrogen
November 13, 2007 | 1 Comment
I often wonder what it will take to get the hydrogen economy going full charge. Now one research group is claiming a very large gain in the storage area that deserves notice. Bellave Shivaram and Adam Phillips, physicists at the University of Virginia are discussing and disclosing their latest results at the International Symposium on [...]
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