Jan
31
A Great Geothermal Design Is Running at Low Source Temperatures
January 31, 2008 | 3 Comments
Gwen Holdmann has answered her community’s call for a solution for the rise in oil prices with her own ingenuity and common sense. When the local electrical generators daily diesel costs at $1,000 and the local grid 32 miles away across the Alaska wilderness, the investment for a geothermal answer looked especially good.
The problem [...]
Jan
30
Fact Checking the LEDs and Compact Fluorescents That Will Replace Your Light Bulbs
January 30, 2008 | Leave a Comment
Nothing is so alarming than a government mandate to force you to do something. The latest Energy Bill out of the U.S. Congress and signed by the President does just that – cancels the availability of the familiar incandescent bulb and for the most part consigns them to the junk bin of history.
Right off [...]
Jan
29
More Efficiency From the Solar Panel to the Grid
January 29, 2008 | 2 Comments
Solar photovoltaic panels that may be in the affordable range and what is expected to be shipping soon are not great efficiency tools for getting the solar energy into electrical potential. As it improves the next step of inverting the panels direct current into the commonly used alternating current has received an upgrade in [...]
Jan
28
Checking the Facts on Competition of the Shipping CIGSSe Solar Panels
January 28, 2008 | 2 Comments
While the U.S. investment community is all stirred up by the photovoltaic solar thin films said to be coming to market, a design out of South Africa by Vivian Alberts working at the University of Johannesburg is “in the box” now in Europe. The solar panel competition is heating up.
The CIGSSe panels are reputed [...]
Jan
25
A Sign of the Times to Come
January 25, 2008 | Leave a Comment
On Wednesday PFC Energy released their latest list of 50 top capitalized “energy companies.” For the first time a non petroleum company made the list. And not just barely either, Iberdrola came in at number 36 ahead of such notables as Halliburton, Hess (Formerly known as Amereda Hess), and Anadarko. Remarkable. Astonishing. Very pleasing.
Before everyone [...]
Jan
24
Does It Hurt Enough Yet?
January 24, 2008 | 5 Comments
Are the world’s largest consumers of oil products feeling the oil price stress enough to adapt or has living large gotten to be such an important personal identity prize that U.S. consumers will plunge on driving the oil market to higher prices?
There are suggestions offered that the fueling costs are close to being at the [...]
Jan
23
Big Yellow Hybrid School Buses?
January 23, 2008 | Leave a Comment
Now they’re on site in Iowa, at Sigourney Community School District and Nevada Community School District. At work since January 3rd, the news broke last week from Iowa State University which is studying the performance on behalf of Advanced Energy, a non profit based in Raleigh, N.C. The Iowa buses are two of 19 [...]
Jan
22
Reality Check on Lithium Batteries Enhanced with Nano Silicon Wire Anodes
January 22, 2008 | 3 Comments
Lithium Ion batteries have a reputation of heating and cooling over the course of their charge and discharge cycles. With several new chemical innovations in trial for improving the activity in Lithium-ion batteries as the heating issue is addressed, one stands out not for the control of the heating and potential trouble that causes, [...]
Jan
21
Cheap Fusion Energy Lost To the Atmosphere
January 21, 2008 | 1 Comment
You were thinking wind turbines right off. This is a more serious atmosphere that as I learned more over then past few weeks has been saddening and distressful. It’s the atmosphere in the science community and the press that watches and writes stories about developments. Just a few weeks ago I too [...]
Jan
18
It’s Time to Kick the Oil Companies Butts
January 18, 2008 | 2 Comments
Yesterday morning I spent over an hour on a conference call with representatives of the American Petroleum Institute and a long list of bloggers. There were four API people, Jane Van Ryan, the API moderator and organizer, Red Cavaney, API’s President and CEO, John Felmy, API’s Chief Economist, and Ron Planting, API’s Manager of Statistics. [...]
