Sep
18
Are Appliances as Good as the EPA Rating?
September 18, 2008 | 3 Comments
The Environmental Protection Agency and the Department of Energy run the “Energy Star” program to award the labels that lead consumers to think one product is more efficient than another. They set standards, lay out the testing procedures and then manufacturers run self-done tests and sell based on their results. There isn’t any third party [...]
Sep
17
Checking Up On Low Temperature Geothermal By Raser and United Technologies
September 17, 2008 | 4 Comments
Raser Technologies, a publicly traded (NYSE Arca: RZ) Utah company involved in low temperature geothermal installations and alternating current electric motors is back in the press release business. With a stock price of about $5.50 ranging from $4 to over $18 in the past year the company has the volatility to be interesting. Barely a [...]
Sep
16
Power From Ball Lightning?
September 16, 2008 | 8 Comments
One of the most mysterious phenomena is ball lightning. If some scientist’s theories are correct it could be powering large-scale reactors and could go a long way to solving the world’s energy needs. The latest is the joint study group led by Gerd Fussmann at the Max Planck Institute and Berlin’s Humboldt University who has [...]
Sep
15
A Reality Check Of Space Based Power
September 15, 2008 | 15 Comments
Friday saw NASA’s former manager of Exploration Systems Research and Technology Program, John C. Mankin who is regarded as one of, or the foremost expert on space based solar power announce the results of demonstration of wireless power transmission. Space-based solar power, in which large satellite solar panels collect plentiful solar energy in orbit and [...]
Sep
12
Progess Check – Biomass and Coal to Gasoline
September 12, 2008 | 9 Comments
For all the bad feelings towards “Big Oil” they get some things done. One of the more effective investments they have underway and has been for years is the Gas Technology Institute near Des Plaines Illinois. With over 100 research scientists and engineers earning 13 patents in 2007 and filing for 18 more, this is [...]
Sep
11
Do Something Good For Yourself!
September 11, 2008 | 2 Comments
It’s said by governments and the media followers the main reason that energy prices, gas prices and oil prices are high is the markets fault. While that’s inaccurate, its consumption and of late, speculation that drives prices in part as well, government has a continuous role that is detrimental to the market and the prices [...]
Sep
10
More Oil Soon
September 10, 2008 | 4 Comments
The Norwegians have studied using seawater as an enhanced oil recovery process in chalk like formations. More than 50% of the world’s oil reservoirs are in these carbonate rocks. Crude oil likes to hang in there as the oil “wets” to the surfaces so making it strongly absorbed. Water injection has been used as a [...]
Sep
9
Reality Check – Where to Put All That Methane?
September 9, 2008 | 9 Comments
With natural gas production growing, landfills getting “drilled” for methane and the sure to come list of new research on making methane from organics the question coming up for fuel cells, motorcycles, cars and just huge storage and transport for methane is going to come rushing at us and soon. Today methane is simply compressed [...]
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