Archive for the 'Alternative Energy' Category

I was enthusiastic about The Pickens Plan. It felt as if an entrepreneur was trying to make a change.
His legislative agenda seemed to be about removing barriers to innovation.
It should be about him investing his and his investors private funds in the hope of gain.
But there’s already monkey business afoot … $5 billion in California […]

Forbes’ article on solar energy breakthroughs is another one of a series of technological advances relating biological research to human energy production: “Solar Energy All Night Long” is about how plants transform sunlight into electricity.
Because, says the article,  there’s enough energy deposited on the earth in one hour to meet our planet’s energy needs for […]

Update:  After reading this, I’m  sick of “entrepreneurs” who want to raid the public till to finance their  plans.  For me the “Pickens Plan” is quickly becoming about “Picking Your Pocket”.
I have to admit, I was wrong about biofuels. I thought they were viable, but I’m no longer sold.
I don’t have all the answers […]

We’re in this mess for many reasons, but two that were human error and will take years to resolve were1) Our own politicians’ failure to allow US drilling
2) Our own politicians’ failure to encourage US refinery building
The Air Force, at least, has taken a concrete step to help the situation. Do we have the […]

This is an amazing article on Making Fuel from Algae.
This process takes the Carbon Dioxide generated by power plants and “grows” fuel via algae.
The man who perfected the process is an Israeli who was saddened that terrorists were invading his homeland and they were financed by petrodollars.
He equates this development to the human transformation that […]

You can find all sorts of cool gadgets here at Trend Hunter.
One break through that caught my attention is this: Inkjet Printed Solar Cells
In an advancement that could radically reduce the cost of making solar panels, Massachusetts-based Konarka Technologies has developed and successfully demonstrated the ability to print solar cells with an inkjet printer. By […]

Since gas prices seem to remain high, even when ordinary consumers are using less defying free market theory (which only holds if the market is free by the way, that increasingly leaves ours out) consumers are at the end of their rope. Using less hasn’t worked.
The price of gas has been spread through the entire […]

This is really more of a question than anything else.
First of all, the Senate voting to require autos to get 35 mpg in the name of setting the United States free from the power of the OPEC Cartel is like trying to put out a raging fire with a thimble of water. But really, what […]

I used to have a largely solar powered home and would love to have one again some time. So I couldn’t help but notice this entrepreneur who wants to see whole neighborhoods switch to solar power!
When 40 or 50 homes switch in a short period of time, that brings down the cost of installation for […]

It sounds like a “Disintegrator Ray” from a 1940’s cartoon strip, but it’s real… it’s the “Plasma Melter” .
It can turn a used tennis shoe into a little ball of glass like substance suitable for road paving and create an alternative fuel gas as a carbon energy source.
If commercially viable, it could solve many landfill […]