Jun
18
The Riposte Worth Reading
June 18, 2008 | Leave a Comment
Last month the Wall Street Journal alleged Vinod Khosla was advocating subsidies for food-based ethanol. The WSJ story opined that Mr. Khosla should “take a vow of embarrassed silence,” in that Mr. Khosla has a position of claiming that ethanol is “overblown” in its role to the food price and rice and wheat shortages. Mr. [...]
Jun
17
Bussard’s Machine Runs Great!
June 17, 2008 | 2 Comments
I should have read the emails sooner – last Thursday night saw Alan Boyle put up his report about his conversation with Richard Nebel at EMC2. Quoting Mr. Nebel saying, “We’re fully operational and we’re getting data. The machine runs like a top. You can just sit there and take data all afternoon.” Whew, what [...]
Jun
16
Pointing Out The Guilty
June 16, 2008 | 8 Comments
Oil prices, gasoline prices, diesel prices, jet fuel prices, everything oil based is in a swirl of disinformation,, misinformation and general purposeful ignorance. While lots of press and opinion makers, regular citizens, businesses, politicians and even the post office are making the point that the hardships of a fast increase in oil and its derived [...]
Jun
13
How Much at What Pressure and Temperature?
June 13, 2008 | 35 Comments
The American Petroleum Institute had me out for a tour of the premier oil refinery in the U.S. Located out or up in Billings Montana, depending on where you are, this refinery is in a truly beautiful and picturesque location smack in the middle of a mid sized city. It’s an easy walk from the [...]
Jun
12
Catching the Free Energy That’s Everywhere
June 12, 2008 | 3 Comments
A stunning abundance of energy is available in the form of heat. It’s everywhere, literally, as there remain a few degrees in microwave form from the big bang or something, from more than 15 billion years ago. Heat is a product from the solar activity of every sun, most any chemical reaction, nuclear reactions, gravitational [...]
Jun
11
Flying Powered by a Fuel Cell
June 11, 2008 | 4 Comments
It’s a really small helicopter, small enough that it would be workable inside of buildings or overlook land that’s unsafe for humans to occupy. But the news is the diminutive size of the fuel cell. Weighing 30 grams and delivering 12 watts, it compares to a common battery at 1.5 volts. 12 watts will get [...]
Jun
10
How Would You Like Your Advice – Common Sense or Expertise?
June 10, 2008 | 1 Comment
Sitting down and just talking with really smart people can be a terrible disappointment. On the other hand, sometimes the really smart people surprise you with down to earth, sensible, insightful and carefully reasoned commentary. I found one. There is a dichotomy between being educated and having common sense. Education, as practiced in the U.S. [...]
Jun
9
Get ‘Er ALL! And Then Use It
June 9, 2008 | 1 Comment
A team of researchers at Boston College and Duke University have developed a highly engineered metamaterial capable of absorbing all of the light that strikes, to the point of a scientific standard of perfection. The metamaterial uses geometric surface features to capture the electric and magnetic properties of light in the shorter spectrum share of [...]
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