Sep
9
Making the Most of Your Energy Density
September 9, 2009 | 7 Comments
Some studies have demonstrated that a simple parallel connection of an ultracapacitor to a low-cost alkaline battery can duplicate the performance characteristics of a lithium-ion battery. Now on the market is an ultracapacitor kit for forklifts using lead acid for the energy density storage and Ioxus ultracapacitors for the power density. Better yet in many […]
Sep
8
AltaRock Loses Its Geothermal Hole
September 8, 2009 | 3 Comments
AltaRock Energy, the company pursuing an advanced geothermal energy technology has had to suspend its first attempt to drill a deep well in Northern California. The effort was funded by Google and venture capital company Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers with partial funding by a Department of Energy grant. Some part of the $17 million […]
Sep
7
So, You Wanna Fight About Health Care?
September 7, 2009 | 9 Comments
The U.S President is expected to hack away at opposition this week to the Democratic Party’s health care reform bill in an evening ‘everybody better listen’ talk to Congress and the citizens. Meanwhile, the whole health care fog and the effort invested in it are threatening to use up the capital of the democrats before […]
Sep
4
Seeing Superconductivity
September 4, 2009 | 3 Comments
Researchers at the Brookhaven National Laboratory at Cornell University and the Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Japan, in a paper published in Science August 28th, 2009 show for the first time that the spectroscopic “fingerprint” of high-temperature superconductivity remains intact well above the super cold temperatures at which these materials carry current with […]
Sep
3
Another New Small Fission Reactor Joins the Group
September 3, 2009 | 17 Comments
Sandia National Laboratory’s team has announced their new reactor design. The output is projected to be in the range of 100 to 300 megawatts of thermal power sized at “about the size of half a fairly large office building,” as the press release puts it. Sandia has now joined the market for the small factory […]
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