May
1
Another Horror For Energy Consumers
May 1, 2012 | 1 Comment
Brad Harstad argues that buying and holding extraction rights to fossil fuels is a more effective means of curbing their use than legislating to reduce demand. Harstad, who is associate professor of managerial economics & decision sciences at Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management, said, “Both on the demand-side and the supply-side the result is [...]
Apr
20
Get Yourself an Asteroid Week
April 20, 2012 | 1 Comment
Brian Wang’s NextBigFuture has posted four compelling articles on asteroids this week. That’s getting hard to ignore and the potential is substantial. The reason why is the resources asteroids contain. There will be metals of considerable interest, lots of water, and perhaps some methane. Plus a lot of what many will consider junk. Still, with [...]
Feb
29
Too Many Cars – A Good Starting Answer
February 29, 2012 | 1 Comment
William Clay “Bill” Ford Jr., the executive chairman of Ford Motor Company and great grandson of Henry Ford has an eye on the forthcoming gridlock problem, already an existing problem for some – with the answer cars must talk to each other and to the road. “If we do nothing, we face the prospect of ‘global [...]
Feb
6
How to Charge Your Car While Driving
February 6, 2012 | 2 Comments
Out at Stanford University a research team may have solved the problem of range anxiety with wireless charging technology that one day could create an electric highway. The team follows research work from 2007 at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology getting magnetic resonance to light a 60-watt bulb. That experiment demonstrated that power could be [...]
Dec
28
Where The R&D Money Is At
December 28, 2011 | 2 Comments
Battelle with R&D Magazine has its annual Global R&D Funding Forecast out suggesting global research and development (R&D) spending will grow by about 5.2%, to more than $1.4 trillion in 2012. Battelle/R&DMag has it that R&D funding growth will largely be driven by the Asian economies that will see an increase in spending of nearly [...]
Dec
12
The Energy Future
December 12, 2011 | 2 Comments
ExxonMobil has their 2012 Outlook out for anyone to see and its different from what the government agencies are saying by some pleasing measures and some measures that will disappoint some folks. The variance comes from ExxonMobil being in business where careers, investors and consumers have to live with the results. As the world’s largest [...]
Sep
23
A New Advocate For Alternative Fuels
September 23, 2011 | 1 Comment
In Washington, a coalition called FuelChoiceNow has opened for business. With gasoline and diesel priced near $4.00US and a record year in progress for the average fuel costs, fuel costs are giving the world’s largest transport fuel market a serious case of personal and business budget realignment and a national economic recession. FuelChoiceNow believes the [...]
May
18
Clean Green Chemistry
May 18, 2010 | 3 Comments
The press may howl the politicians take stands and the consumers wonder but the chemistry needed for life isn’t going away. The chemical market from the raw material producer to the end user all have a need for standards, the way things are described and disclosed so decisions can be made. Chemical companies and manufacturers [...]
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