Apr
4
How To Be Smart About Energy and Fuels
April 4, 2011 | 1 Comment
Here you’ll learn how to be smart about energy and fuels, such that what makes it to stories, articles, media pieces and blog posts can be assessed. It’s coming up on four years since those early posts on the fundamentals here were written and they’ve slowly gone away into the mists of search engine relevance. […]
Jan
11
Please Lord Set My Economy Free
January 11, 2011 | Leave a Comment
Considering the state of the economy a little divine intervention might be worthwhile. In view of the trends in politics a little divine intervention might be worthwhile, too. Believer or not, a little introspection can’t hurt. A driver or an idea to light off something big for the economy doesn’t seem to be out there […]
Dec
28
A Look At The Ethanol Lies
December 28, 2010 | 52 Comments
Let’s start with a lie, albeit most likely the lowest level of lie, everyone is lying about ethanol. It has gotten so that the lies are pervasive, even such that John Stossel at Fox News is making quotes and suggesting that ethanol is a huge political boondoggle. Admired bloggers like Robert Rapier have allowed emotional […]
Oct
5
Get a Grip On Scale
October 5, 2010 | Leave a Comment
For most people, perhaps excluding mathematicians, having a realistic sense of scale is hard to do. Numbers with the thousand, million, billion and trillion tacked on makes it much easier to communicate without scrutinizing the commas and counting up the zeros. Its handy, but it leaves out the sense of – well, scale. Whether the […]
Aug
2
A New Source Of Magnetism Discovered By Accident
August 2, 2010 | 6 Comments
A new magnetic effect was discovered by accident when a UC Berkeley postdoctoral researcher and several students grew graphene on the surface of a platinum crystal. Graphene is a one atom-thick sheet of carbon atoms arranged in a hexagonal pattern, that looks like chicken wire. Examination showed when grown on platinum, the carbon atoms do […]
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