Dec

19

Wringing Fusion From A Twist

December 19, 2008 | 12 Comments

Eric Lerner may well twist a few bands of electric arc and their magnetic fields to wring fusion for a lot of energy output with Focus Fusion. As an admirer of Dr. Bussard I have a “heads up” for fusion alternatives to ITER with its tokamak built out of an old Soviet idea that would [...]

Dec

18

Impossible Blacklight Gets the First Customer

December 18, 2008 | 7 Comments

All across the Internet this past Thursday and Friday was the announcement that Blacklight of the soon to be very famous Dr. Randell L. Mills signed its first paying customer. Based in a press release, the news sounds great to start. But the details such as payments, installation dates and other sundry items are well, [...]

Dec

17

Bussard’s Fusion Experimental Test Confirmed

December 17, 2008 | 6 Comments

Richard Nebel, the leader of the team testing Robert W. Bussard fusion concept variously called polywell, inertial electrostatic confinement (IEC) and others, has had the peer review panel check completed making their report to the funders – positive. Nebel is quoted today by Alan Boyle as saying, “There’s nothing in there that suggests this will [...]

Dec

16

Is Uranium Based Fission About to Take Off?

December 16, 2008 | 5 Comments

Applications by utilities to build uranium fueled reactors is deep into a growth phase. So much so that the companies that supply construction have already started expansion. This is in the face of just a year ago when the utilities were angling for federal support for the projects in a fight with the alternatives of [...]

Dec

15

Predicting the Oil Price Bottom

December 15, 2008 | 1 Comment

About 40 years measures the current period of the oil market being repeated shifting from a buyers market to a sellers market and back. We’ve been swinging back and forth with increasing extremes at both low and high prices and the peaks and valleys have started to be more frequent. At high prices the fundamental [...]

Dec

12

Contrasting Intelligence With Irrational Thinking

December 12, 2008 | 7 Comments

People are blessed and cursed in my humble view with intelligence. But intelligence seems to be a widely varied thing. Admittedly this field is completely out of my area of know how, and lots of people who are in the energy and fuel field exceed me by far and some are strikingly good at thinking [...]

Dec

11

Hope And Progress for Combined Heat & Power Generation

December 11, 2008 | 2 Comments

The U.S. Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory has released their report on the potential of combined heat and power (CHP) deployment in the U.S. and concludes that it is one of the “most proven and effective near-term energy options” available to reduce CO2 emissions, improve energy security, relieve grid congestion, make industry more [...]

Dec

10

An Algae Update

December 10, 2008 | 2 Comments

New Zealand’s Aquaflow Bionomic Corporation and UOP LLC, a Honeywell company, have signed a memorandum of understanding to convert wild algae into fuel products using UOP’s processes and to develop a carbon dioxide sequestration storage model for Aquaflow’s algal oil production facilities. They are trying to simplify the algae to bio crude oil process used [...]

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