Feb
6
Hydrinos and Zero Point Energy Devices Get More Real
February 6, 2009 | 18 Comments
The concept of a hydrino, a hydrogen atom with a reduced orbiting electron is something that Randell Mills at Blacklight Power has managed to engineer such that researchers and customers are beginning to quietly line up especially now that Rowan University has confirmed that the device yields energy output. Cal Tech’s Bernard Haisch and Colorado […]
Feb
5
A New Nuclear Reactor Company
February 5, 2009 | 3 Comments
Nathan Myhrvold the ex-Microsoft chief scientist who started Intellectual Ventures, a group think tank, has the firm spinning out a company named TerraPower to enter the new nuclear market with reactors that run on natural or depleted uranium. The idea is that with un-enriched fuel, the reactors could be loaded up with fuel and sealed […]
Feb
4
A Totally New Way to Build a Hybrid Drive
February 4, 2009 | Leave a Comment
Lino Guzzella, Professor of Thermotronics at the ETH Zurich Machinery Laboratory of Zurich Switzerland (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology) doesn’t think the electric hybrid is the only solution. Guzzella explains, “The apple must be ripe but still hang just low enough to stay within reach.” The idea is a pneumatic hybrid drive. The new hybrid […]
Feb
3
Chevron Challenges Peak Oil
February 3, 2009 | 3 Comments
The oil people tend to think that “peak oil” is a strange concept. With the innovation, management skills and capital at hand there is good reason to think they are right. Which is not to say that peak oil can become real due to the absence of the very same qualities. The graph above is […]
Feb
2
Addiction Economics
February 2, 2009 | 8 Comments
It’s not “voodoo economics” anymore. The U.S. Congress with an army of special interests bent on getting their losses covered by anyone other than their own capital have already cleaned the whole economy out of $700 billion and are busily setting up for spending hundreds of billions more if not more than another trillion dollars. […]
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