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 was a victim [...]
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. [...]
Jan
17
Why Can’t I Buy It?
January 17, 2008 | 3 Comments
“Nobody ever got fired for buying XXX,” a famous phrase indeed. One late story is the battery sets bought by AT&T from Avestor. With 17,000 of these lithium metal polymer backup sets in hand you would think the AT&T guys knew what they were doing. But it turns out that when one exploded Avestor was [...]
Jan
16
Getting the Power to the Pavement
January 16, 2008 | 4 Comments
Engineers know that to design a device you need to build beyond the anticipated peak load so the device doesn’t just break the first time it gets used at peak load. For the rest of us that means we’re always buying a safety margin that assures that our investment is worthwhile and long lasting. With [...]
Jan
15
Checking the Facts In the EEStore Lockheed Agreement
January 15, 2008 | 19 Comments
Last week Lockheed Martin and EEStor announced an agreement to pursue production of EEStor’s design of electrical storage. This has opened a wide-ranging debate about what EEStor is up to and what the results could be. The EEStor technology is described across the board from battery to ultra capacitor, as having 10 times the capacity [...]
Jan
14
Watching the Small Stuff for the Big Results
January 14, 2008 | Leave a Comment
When we’re looking into energy and fuels we tend to overlook the size of the products at work. Most of the press attention and technology news tends to be huge numbers like millions of barrels, billions of mega joules, trillions of quads and so forth. The endless parade with such numbers gets a little numbing [...]
Jan
11
A Nomination For Nobel and Other Important Prizes
January 11, 2008 | 1 Comment
For a couple days I have been just haunted, yes, haunted by an insight by Al Fin and his commenters on the nano antenna array we both covered early this week. Humanity loses an incredible amount of energy in heat loss in our energy systems. An automobile, truck, electrical generation plant, virtually everything we do [...]
Jan
10
The Four “Salvation” Themes of Energy and Fuel
January 10, 2008 | Leave a Comment
Yesterday’s post about Stephen DuVal’s salvation scenario based in fission offers the notion that other connections of technologies can solve the energy and fuel demand questions. When one clearly looks at energy and fuels one unassailable fact emerges followed by obvious trees of connections. Other than humankind’s freeing of energy from heavy atomic elements by [...]
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