Challenges For The Hydrogen Economy
If the fuel cell is to become the modern steam engine, basic research must provide breakthroughs in understanding, materials, and design to make a hydrogen−based energy system a vibrant and competitive force.
Renewable Energy
Renewable Energy Markets (US)
Analysis of how US customers buy into biomass energy technologies, examples of renewable power suppliers, how Renewable Energy Certificates work, and where providers are now operating.
Peak Oil – Peak Technology
As the energy crisis intensifies, a myriad of technical solutions are being proposed. Governments, corporations and scientists are not offering new creative solutions, not because they are failing to make strong efforts, but because energy itself is a very mature industry.
War and cold have depleted Armenia’s only natural resource: trees
Its isolation and lack of hydrocarbon reserves has lead to some innovative ideas about alternative energy sources, in contrast to its two Caucasus neighbors, Georgia and Azerbaijan, whose policies have been dominated by a geopolitical tug-of-war for pipelines, electricity cables and global alliances.
Germany shines a beam on the future of energy
Nation gambles on amped-up push for renewable power
Fuel Cells in the Deep Freeze
AMONG the many hurdles to be overcome before we’re all driving fuel-cell cars with exhaust that is baby’s-breath-pure – superyacht purchase prices, an almost nonexistent refueling network and some public concern about the wisdom of carrying hydrogen pressurized at 10,000 pounds per square inch – is a more basic challenge: winter.
Women pioneers in Biofuel
Women are pioneering the emerging biofuels industry, which uses recycled vegetable oil to power vehicles that produce far fewer emissions than diesel fuel.
Clinton Urges Effort to Address Energy
Former president Bill Clinton chided supporters to stop “bellyaching and whining” about the political obstacles and begin a new effort to address the intertwined problems of energy dependence and global warming.
The Hydrogen Economy
The gap between the present state of the art in hydrogen production, storage, and use and that needed for a competitive hydrogen economy is too wide to bridge in incremental advances. It will take fundamental breakthroughs of the kind that come only from basic research.
E-ON Wind Report 2004
E-ON Netz, a corporation which controls much of Europe’s electricity grid, has produced a report on the problems associated with the fluctuating availability of wind energy.
Rise of the DIY movement / Collapse of the petroleum delusion
To see ahead, we have to understand what we are in the midst of. I pronounce this pre-collapse phase as the beginning of the grand nightmare. Mind you, there will be a dawn, but an unrecognizable one to myopic dwellers of consumer civilization.
Australia: Biomass can’t save us.
Most people assume that renewable energy resources can be substituted for fossil fuels. It takes only a glance at some basic figures re the production of liquid fuels from biomass inputs to show that this vision is totally mistaken.
