Apr

30

The Biggest Electricity User Is . . .

April 30, 2008 | 1 Comment

The past few years have seen the U.S. State of California come up short on electrical power generation. Not a huge, but a seriously annoying and disruptive set of events. More illustrative might be the events currently going on in South Africa. While rich in hard minerals like gold, palladium, platinum, coal, diamonds and others [...]

Apr

29

BIG Miles Per Gallon Options for Toyota Prius Owners

April 29, 2008 | 5 Comments

Hymotion, a division of A123Systems has announced the availability of a high capacity battery called the L5 Conversion Module for the Toyota Prius that will ship to customers in July of 2008. At $10,395 delivered and installed, it’s a lot of money, equal to 2772 gallons of $3.75 gasoline. With only three years of warranty [...]

Apr

28

An Activist Guide to Energy Policy Points

April 28, 2008 | 1 Comment

The post here this past Friday makes the main point that electrification over fueling needs to be the long-term policy for a successful economy. For Americans, where this blog is written and the inputs of knowledge, wisdom and the suspicions of many converge, there remains from some people a concern that America has lost its [...]

Apr

25

The Survivors Guide to Energy Policy Points

April 25, 2008 | 5 Comments

Emails and conversations reveal the need for people to have worthy information to base their opinions on. Today we’re not going to get into details or particular technologies but for new visitors we’ll cover the largest scale circumstances and for the regular readers a review more concise than going through dozens of prior posts. The [...]

Apr

24

Now Sunlight CO2 and Bacteria Equals Ethanol

April 24, 2008 | 12 Comments

  A new bacterium, a cyanobacterium that is energized by sunlight and excretes the sugars glucose and sucrose with some cellulose has been created by Dr. R. Malcolm Brown and Dr. David Nobles at the University of Texas at Austin. The life of the bacteria based in the production of cellulose and the sugars could [...]

Apr

23

A Breakthrough in Fuel Supplying From Methane Hydrates

April 23, 2008 | 15 Comments

Canadian and Japanese researchers have managed to efficiently produce a constant stream of natural gas from ice-like methane gas hydrates from a remote drilling rig high in the Mackenzie River Delta on Richards Island in the Northwest Territories of Canada. Called the Mallik drilling program, for the first time, Canadian and Japanese researchers have managed [...]

Apr

22

Bits Hit the Rock In Oregon Geothermal Plays

April 22, 2008 | 1 Comment

The weekend saw the local Oregon press let loose with the news that the Oregon Department of Geology and Mineral Industries has issued three geothermal drilling permits so far in 2008 with another application in processing. These are the first geothermal permits seen in more than 10 years. Bob Houston, Oregon State Geologist says, “(these) [...]

Apr

21

A New Automotive Business Model Opens Up to the U.S.

April 21, 2008 | 2 Comments

Last Tuesday Ford Motors of the U.S. and the U.K. company Tanfield Group’s division Smith Electric announced the coming sales of the Ford chassis “Transit Connect” with a full electric drive train equipped with Smith’s newest version of iron phosphate lithium ion batteries. At double the capacity and 35% lighter than lead acid, the batteries [...]

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