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- It’s Time to Kick the Oil Companies Butts
Yesterday morning I spent over an hour on a conference call with representatives of the American Petroleum Institute and a long list of bloggers. There were four API people, Jane Van Ryan, the API moderator and organizer, Red Cavaney, API’s President and CEO, John Felmy, API’s Chief Economist, and Ron Planting, API’s Manager of Statistics. [...]
Fri, 18 Jan 2008 12:09:20 +0000 - Why Can’t I Buy It?
“Nobody ever got fired for buying XXX,” a famous phrase indeed. One late story is the battery sets bought by AT&T from Avestor. With 17,000 of these lithium metal polymer backup sets in hand you would think the AT&T guys knew what they were doing. But it turns out that when one [...]
Thu, 17 Jan 2008 12:07:19 +0000 - Getting the Power to the Pavement
Engineers know that to design a device you need to build beyond the anticipated peak load so the device doesn’t just break the first time it gets used at peak load. For the rest of us that means we’re always buying a safety margin that assures that our investment is worthwhile and long lasting. [...]
Wed, 16 Jan 2008 12:13:12 +0000 - Checking the Facts In the EEStore Lockheed Agreement
Last week Lockheed Martin and EEStor announced an agreement to pursue production of EEStor’s design of electrical storage. This has opened a wide-ranging debate about what EEStor is up to and what the results could be. The EEStor technology is described across the board from battery to ultra capacitor, as having 10 times [...]
Tue, 15 Jan 2008 12:06:39 +0000 - Watching the Small Stuff for the Big Results
When we’re looking into energy and fuels we tend to overlook the size of the products at work. Most of the press attention and technology news tends to be huge numbers like millions of barrels, billions of mega joules, trillions of quads and so forth. The endless parade with such numbers gets a [...]
Mon, 14 Jan 2008 12:05:59 +0000 - A Nomination For Nobel and Other Important Prizes
For a couple days I have been just haunted, yes, haunted by an insight by Al Fin and his commenters on the nano antenna array we both covered early this week. Humanity loses an incredible amount of energy in heat loss in our energy systems. An automobile, truck, electrical generation plant, virtually everything we do [...]
Fri, 11 Jan 2008 12:43:06 +0000 - The Four “Salvation” Themes of Energy and Fuel
Yesterday’s post about Stephen DuVal’s salvation scenario based in fission offers the notion that other connections of technologies can solve the energy and fuel demand questions. When one clearly looks at energy and fuels one unassailable fact emerges followed by obvious trees of connections. Other than humankind’s freeing of energy from heavy atomic elements by fission [...]
Thu, 10 Jan 2008 12:02:38 +0000 - One Track to Salvation - Methanol and Uranium?
Robert Rapier posted a guest essay on R-Squared Energy Blog, yesterday 8 January 2008. I credit Mr. Rapier on his boldness to post this essay and pass my admiration to his guest Stephen DuVal. The essay and its introductory letter are posted in full at R-Squared Energy Blog. I was a little [...]
Wed, 09 Jan 2008 12:19:48 +0000 - A Nano Technology Payoff That Should Be Huge
Nano solar radiation collectors were awarded two Nano50 Awards to the research team at Idaho National Laboratory and partners Microcontinuum, Inc. and the University of Missouri. The approach uses a novel manufacturing process to stamp square spirals of conducting metal onto plastic sheets. The spirals are 1/25th the diameter of human hair. The spectacular [...]
Tue, 08 Jan 2008 12:19:38 +0000 - The Effect Of $100 Crude Oil
The spot price for crude oil hovering close to $100 has gone on long enough that the consequences are going to come in more strongly and widespread than many had expected. It’s a big shift in cost to enroll into budgets whether you’re running a business or household. In just 48 months, the [...]
Mon, 07 Jan 2008 12:27:05 +0000
