Monthly Archives: April 2009
Where federal energy research money should go (CNET)
The Energy Department’s new ARPA-E program aims to find “transformational energy technologies” beyond fossil fuels. Here are some offbeat ideas on how it could get started. Continue reading
The “Hydrogen Effect” Making 100% Safe Nuclear Dump Sites
By Ovidiu on April 28th, 2009 Although they provide us with clean electricity, nuclear plants are often criticized, among others, for their residues after the primary radioactive material is spent. Normally, they are buried in depleted uranium mines, and thus their impact is minimized, but there are lots of situations when things could get dangerous as the radioactive material could infiltrate deep inside the earth, and pollute the underground springs. Chances for that to happen are Continue reading
Drumbeat: April 25, 2009
Richard Heinberg: A beguiling veneer of normalcy Are we at the beginning of an epic Depression, or at the bottom of a nasty recession with brighter days only months away? It would seem to be a matter of perspective. Recent bank earnings reports and stock market activity have led many analysts to claim that the economy has indeed reached the bottom of the trough, and that while the recession is not over the worst has passed. …The indicators to which I pay attention lead me to a different c Continue reading
Drumbeat: April 28, 2009
Has “Peak Oil” Peaked? It is always interesting to watch what happens when the media latches onto a given issue and then, as the reality on the ground evolves — sometimes radically — the media fails to catch up to, or even monitor, the changes. This means the public is stuck with an outdated version of conventional wisdom which, even if it were true in the first place, is no longer so. With oil prices falling by more than two-thirds last year before a slight rebound, the “peak oil” frenzy s Continue reading
Can You Save money Using A Water 4 Gas Device
by Ron C George The Hydrogen Conversion Kit is one of the well known devices which converts water to gas and is considered one of the safest devices which works as hydrogen generators. The names of the devices may differ but they are all basically of similar nature – HHO conversion kit, Brown’s Gas kit, and water to fuel transition kit, these are only a few on the market but they will help you save money on your fuel bill. A commonly used and safer method of fuel conservation is a Hydrogen Continue reading