May
19
Cap And Trade Becomes Transfer of Wealth
May 19, 2009 | 6 Comments
The swindle of the decade called Cap and Trade, which is a dopey idea to reduce carbon dioxide emissions, has regressed into common transferring of wealth from some to everyone else. Or as Jack Gerard at the American Petroleum Institute put it on May 15th, “. . . its inequitable system of allocations will have [...]
May
18
The New Miles Per Acre Argument
May 18, 2009 | 10 Comments
A fact is there is always more than one way to look at things. Chris Field, director of the Department of Global Ecology at the Carnegie Institution has a new take on the bio sources for energy that actually makes sense –other than the meat of the argument isn’t on the land, its in how [...]
May
15
A team of German and Chinese scientists led by Johannes A. Lercher at the Technical University of Munich, Department of Chemistry has developed a new catalytic process for processing the liquid step of the components of bio-oil directly into petroleum type products and methanol. The paper in the journal Angewandte Chemie, the process is described [...]
May
14
A Richard Nebel and a Bussard Fusion Update
May 14, 2009 | 10 Comments
Sander Olson on behalf of Brian Wang’s nextbigfuture site managed to speak with Richard Nebel the leader of the Bussard founded EMC2 Corporation that’s working to get Dr. Bussard’s IEC fusion concept into working and productive function. The questions and answers are quite illuminating and the comments include input from Mr. Nebel and shed even [...]
May
13
The Hope In Ultra Dense Deuterium
May 13, 2009 | 10 Comments
Ultra Dense Deuterium has made news, blogs and articles for a couple of days now since Leif Holmlid from the Atmospheric Science, Department of Chemistry, the University of Gothenburg published in Science Direct asserting that his team has proven that an ultra-dense deuterium material exists. The University of Gothenberg press release is much more enthused [...]
May
12
A Hint of Hydrogen Hope
May 12, 2009 | 1 Comment
A hydrogen rich compound discovered by Yu Lin, lead author of a paper describing the work and a graduate student in geological and environmental sciences published this week in the online edition of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences might become a path to a hydrogen economy. The “newly” discovered material is a high-pressure [...]
May
11
A Brief History of Fusion Power Research
May 11, 2009 | 3 Comments
I take no credit for the following information. It was compiled by Chris M. Bradley for the forum users at Talk-Polywell.org and it’s so good that I just have to share it with all of you. That and having this work spread around and on more servers is worthwhile. The list is a naming of [...]
May
8
A Fusion for 1,445 Miles on a Tank of Gas
May 8, 2009 | 2 Comments
It wasn’t even a tanker truck either. A Ford Fusion hybrid could have been the new record holder for the pure stock “hypermiling” distance record with 15 more miles and would be the record holder for the gasoline powered mid-sized sedan had the Guinness Book of Records showed up. So Ford gets to bask in [...]
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