May
20
The Next Fuel Craze May be Methanol
May 20, 2008 | 2 Comments
The week before last saw the Basques offer they have a fuel cell that can be fueled by methanol. With in a day I had received multiple notices that MIT in Massachusetts and Sharp of Japan were also in the hunt for methanol fuel cells. There is a lot of valuable “why” in those efforts. [...]
May
19
Buzzard’s IEC Fusion Lets Loose A Little Info
May 19, 2008 | 1 Comment
With masterstrokes of enthusiasm, diligence and genuine niceness, M. Simon who runs iecfusiontech.blogspot.com has enticed the best minds that are most knowledgeable about Dr. Robert Bussard’s inertial confinement technique to fuse atoms to participate with him in a forum. With the people like himself, the estimable Tom Ligon , and lately the leader at ECM2, [...]
May
16
A Gust Of Energizing Wind From Government
May 16, 2008 | 1 Comment
Wind power got a boost midweek with the U.S. Department of Energy report that condensed to the bare headlines is suggesting that the U.S. is ready to get to 20% of electrical power generation from wind in 2030 or just 21 years out. It’s kind of a landmark to get such notice. A Federal Energy [...]
May
16
Growth Markers For Biofuels
May 16, 2008 | Leave a Comment
This week saw the International Energy Administration release a statement that was picked up by the press agencies and pretty much overlooked by the mainstream press. The statement itself tries to differentiate the types of biofuels and the impacts of fuel production and food production. The statement points out that the “can do now” such [...]
May
15
Food For Fascination
May 15, 2008 | 3 Comments
This sort of thing drives physicists nuts. Today we’ll look at another electric motor that is engineered and constructed so that the electricity coming in added to what I suppose must be some of the atomic magnetic force of the permanent magnets, is alleged to put out more power than goes in. These things have [...]
May
14
Reasons to Worry About the Price of Oil
May 14, 2008 | 7 Comments
Some popular pages here are those about the why the price of oil is so high. I haven’t updated with a new post as the fundamentals haven’t changed other than the U.S. Federal Reserve has increasingly moved to protect the major banks and their management and stockholders instead of the American people by crushing the [...]
May
13
So, How Much Electricity to End Gasoline?
May 13, 2008 | 11 Comments
One blogger I admire is Robert Rapier who writes the R-Squared Blog who posted on Monday about the solar base of electricity needed to displace the equivalent of today’s gasoline use. It is an interesting concept that is rife with problems of equivalency. The U.S. is reported to be going through 389 million gallons of [...]
May
12
How to Play Benevolent Dictator
May 12, 2008 | 2 Comments
Family is an interesting and informative exercise in people watching. In conversation the informed, ill informed, intelligent, ignorant, and indifferent all can be seen in as a microcosm of the community as a whole. Conversation for holidays that lack a lot of traditions rituals and activities lead to discussions in my family and the talk [...]
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