Dec
7
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December 7, 2007 | Leave a Comment
Lets start with Al Fin and his post of December 7, 2007 “Understanding Solar Wind.” Al discusses and quotes about data derived from the Japanese satellite Hinode. The satellite was launched to look at the basic mechanisms of solar structure and the wind of particles that the sun expels at a varying rates. [...]
Nov
30
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November 30, 2007 | Leave a Comment
First up is milestone news from Hawaii. The Kaheawa Wind Power project has 6 windmills operating that generate an average of 9% of the Hawaiian Island Maui’s power. With 14 more to go, the total average power should get to 17%. Reported by National Wind Watch on November 28th, the article covers [...]
Nov
22
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November 22, 2007 | Leave a Comment
The list is getting much more traffic with each passing week. New folks can look over to the Categories in The Weekend Link Lists for the back reports.
First up is a site that reports on the anhydrous ammonia for fuel group’s meeting. Now before you go all “Huh? How can that be?” here [...]
Nov
16
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November 16, 2007 | 1 Comment
Yesterday we discussed James Hunt and the background on the hydrogen generator system his company is developing. So this release at Penn State with a microbial electrolysis cell system that’s yielding either 1:1.44 or 1:2.88 depending on what the writer meant is a confirmation of sorts and now there is a biological solution, too. [...]
Nov
9
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November 9, 2007 | Leave a Comment
Sometimes I am just astonished at simple words giving great meaning. Investors’ Business Daily has an opinion piece that should be called educational for the larger population and a reality check for politicians. “The assumption behind each of these ideas is that government will take money from you in the name of “curbing global warming” [...]
Nov
2
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November 2, 2007 | Leave a Comment
Socialism has a hard time of it, naturally. One example is the ongoing shift of power from the democracy of Venezeula to the tyranny of Hugo Chavez. Just when the power hungry using socialism for cover think they have the economy worked out reality just keeps on going and going.
Victor Salmeron in El [...]
Oct
26
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October 26, 2007 | Leave a Comment
First up is Geoffrey Stiles blog on Tuesday October 23, 2007. Now Mr. Styles is one of the sharpest analysts and top communicators in the field and usually his posts run parallel to our points or sail way over. But not this one. Here Mr. Styles looks into the problems of fuel cell vehicles and [...]
Oct
19
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October 19, 2007 | Leave a Comment
A must read. In order to say, “I get it” this link(s) is required reading. Here Paul Chefurka has invested a great deal of effort to provide a highly readable, thought provoking and fact backed look into the future as fuel and energy will play a huge role in what may become “Peak [...]
Oct
12
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October 12, 2007 | Leave a Comment
Grow Your Own! It’s a bit of a shock to realize what grim life styles would come when oil for fuel to grow food for 6 billion people becomes cost prohibitive. This article doesn’t really address the alternatives that will over time to displace the oil use; rather it just dives in to [...]
Oct
5
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October 5, 2007 | Leave a Comment
Do you believe the argument about wind energy that it’s only useful when the wind blows? Don’t count on it not being there when its still. Those hardy folks in Iowa and their neighbors have started investing their money in saving wind energy for later use. It’s really interesting. See:
http://www.isepa.com/ and [...]
