Moon gas may solve Earth’s energy crisis
The moon contains 10 times more energy in the form of helium-3 than all the fossil fuels on the earth, but the fusion reactor technology may be decades away.
Technology
An energy college in Memphis? Private group sees 8,000 students
A secretive group in Middle Tennessee wants to build from scratch one of the biggest colleges in the Southeast, and the only college in the nation to be completely dedicated to energy.
Georgia Tech has minds with energy to burn
The Oil Age, defined by abundant and cheap petroleum that fueled a century of boundless economic growth for the United States and other industrialized nations, is coming to a close more rapidly than most Americans realize.
EU confident over fusion project
Europe could be about to win the race to host Iter, the world’s biggest nuclear fusion reactor.
Geosequestration: Burying carbon or burying our heads in the sand?
Climate change will impact every one of us. For this reason, governments all over the world are making moves to mitigate their greenhouse gas emissions. Geosequestration is the new kid on the block in energy technology research. It has become very popular politically, so much so that Australia’s Howard Government, following the lead of the US, is investing heavily in it. But at what cost?
Waving goodbye to oil
Soaring oil prices have convinced governments of the need for a change in energy technology – the race to build wave and tidal stream machines is on.
The technofix isn’t. On “greening the petroleum economy”
Renewable energy works almost solely on the basis of using local resources, and can’t contribute efficiently to a grid in the quantities desired. What Amory Lovins knows, deep down, is that the peak of oil extraction globally will not allow for a transition to a less-intensive energy diet. His plan would have made sense three decades ago, perhaps, when global warming seemed just a theory.
Killing germs, reducing waste, making oil: TDP might be the next big thing
TDP turns just about anything into oil and fertilizer. And when I say “anything,” I mean that: animal waste, medical waste, human waste. Used diapers, used computers, used tires. Anything that’s not radioactive can be tossed into the hopper.
CAT can stop global warming
The following article is NOT another energy conservation rehash. It is new and contains a substantial portion of energy conservation that has yet to be accounted for in the total energy conservation picture. These 4 new products represent a 50%+ savings in residential hot water. That is a lot of energy. This information needs to get out there.
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UK chemists seek hydrogen store
UK scientists think they have taken a major step forward in making hydrogen a practical replacement for petrol.
Japan-Power Aiming at Early Use of Fuel Cells for Power Generation
Japan’s Electric Power Development Co. aims to soon commercialize a new electric power generation system that combines fuel cells and coal-fired thermal power, President Yoshihiko Nakagaki said Thursday.
US developers see hope in abandoned oil wells
Production from “enhanced oil recovery” peaked at about 750,000 barrels a day in the early 1990s, and has fallen back slightly, with gas “flooding” now viewed as more economical than thermal methods, while chemical treatments have proved to be too expensive.
