Nov
18
Where to Make The Big Money In Energy
November 18, 2008 | 1 Comment
Many believe that buying equities, stocks, oil well drilling project shares and bonds in companies that work in finding and producing oil plus the companies that are researching and expecting to produce alternatives are the investments positioned for great future growth. That’s a near sure thing as energy use is going to be volatile over [...]
Nov
17
The Big Facts About Climate Change
November 17, 2008 | 11 Comments
One can fairly expect that the media, pseudo science, muckrakers, financial goblins and other players are going to try to have climate change pave the way to their holy nirvana. It’s enough to make taxpayers and consumers recoil in horror. It bad enough that we support an amazing array of “research” paid to prove global [...]
Nov
14
An Innovative Take on Managing the Incoming Light
November 14, 2008 | 8 Comments
Solar photovoltaic cells have a big cost barrier to get to widespread adoption. Paired up with difficult weather like hail and wind much of the world remains completely out of bounds. So when something really clever and innovative shows up, its worth a close look. Morgan Solar’s whiz, John Paul Morgan came up with a [...]
Nov
13
Ultra Supercritical Steam Generation
November 13, 2008 | 11 Comments
We might want to know what this is, its going to affect your electricity rates. Ultra supercritical (USC) steam generation is a derivation on the definitions of the temperature and pressure at which water vapor and liquid water are indistinguishable, aka the “Critical Point.” At that critical point of water some 705 degrees F/3208 psi, [...]
Nov
12
A Biomass Breakthrough
November 12, 2008 | Leave a Comment
While the plants that will be the world’s carbon recycling tools and biomass to fuel feedstocks are under intense examination one research group has an entirely fresh take on how genetics can be researched that could lead to a very different route on how we might harvest airborne CO2 and grow biomass for fuel. Fascination [...]
Nov
11
It’s A Race!
November 11, 2008 | Leave a Comment
“We put a lot of pressure on them to be out there first,” said Peder Holk Nielsen, head of Novozymes‘s enzymes unit. “This is one of our must-win battles.” The enzyme business surely sees the coming technologies using heat such as gasification and Fischer-Tropsch units to convert biomass to fuels. Novozymes is also joining the [...]
Nov
10
A Study That Matters In Important Biomass Research
November 10, 2008 | Leave a Comment
Cornell University’s College of Agriculture and Life Sciences is in its second year of their Bioenergy Feedstock project. So far I know it’s the first and only project to explore the crops most suitable as sources for biofuels in the U.S. (There are similar, but not economically driven ones.) Donald Viands, professor of plant breeding [...]
Nov
7
Four Economic Mistakes
November 7, 2008 | 11 Comments
While America is filled with joy and consternation over the election and the results I’ve been thinking about what should be done about the economy. The more obvious thing is to list the “For God’s Sake, Don’t Do This List.” It’s a rather short. Founded in hard experience by America’s economy, visible to any student [...]
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