Guest post by David Archibald In May, WUWT kindly hosted a post with slides from a presentation I gave to the Institute of World Politics in Washington. Following are some…
Category: Energy
Turning CO2 into fuel
From the University of Illinois – Ionic liquid catalyst helps turn emissions into fuel University of Illinois chemical and biological engineering professor Paul Kenis and his research group joined forces…
Wind turbine FAIL – school left holding the bag for £53,000
It all started when the Gorran School got the bright idea that a wind turbine would solve all their electrical bills while doing some feel good environmentalism. The BBC was…
Just in time: shale oil use without creating carbon dioxide
From the American Chemical Society , something that will cause synapse arcing in Bill McKibben’s and Joe Romm’s brains. I guess Obama can build that Keystone XL pipeline after all.…
Future wind
From CSIRO Australia New energy in search for future wind Scientists are taking the first steps to improve estimates of long-term wind speed changes for the fast-growing wind energy sector.…
Batteries from the Carboniferous
Nature’s (Not-Quite) Perfect Battery by Indur M. Goklany The major drawback of solar power and other renewables is that they cannot be relied on to deliver energy at their rated…
Fuel cells get the dynamite treatment
From the University of Southern California a parallel for Alfred Nobel’s design of a stable substrate for dynamite (which at the time used unstable nitro-glycerin). This solves the collision problem…
Britain's Wind Farm Scam Threatens Economic Recovery
From Benny Peiser at The GWPF: In a sane world, no one would dream of building power sources whose cost is 22 times greater than that of vastly more efficient…
Hey – how much Thorium you got under the hood?
Much like “flying cars”, atomic powered cars were a campy futuristic meme of the 50’s, for example, there was the Ford Nucleon concept: From Wikipedia: The Ford Nucleon was a…
Further on Thorium
While Matthew Nisbet opines on peak oil being a uniting cause, this short essay on thorium power is instructive and relevant. – Anthony Guest post by David Archibald Early in…
Peak oil – platitude or pragmatism point?
From American University via Eurekalert, professor Matthew Nisbet demonstrates that the impact of peak petroleum on public health may be a way to unite conservatives and liberals in an effort…
The extraordinary collapse of Jatropha as a biofuel
Story submitted by Ronald C. Henry The current American Chemical Society journal Environmental Science & Technology has a most amazing story demonstrating the foolish, indeed outright dangerous, application of the…
Andrea Rossi's E-cat fusion device on target.
Guest post by Ric Werme Six months ago I posted, with Anthony’s consent and misgivings, Cold Fusion Going Commercial!?. It’s time to take a look at how Dr Rossi and…
Unique new building material self regulates heat
Scientific breakthrough: University invents heat-regulating building material In a major scientific breakthrough with important long-term environmental consequences, researchers at The University of Nottingham Ningbo China (UNNC) have developed a material…
UK Faces Anti-Green Backlash As Energy Prices Rise
Newsbytes from Dr. Benny Peiser at the GWPF: The British government faces a public backlash against its green energy agenda as consumers are unwilling to spend more on power and…
Wind energy -vs- wildlife, public comments sought
John Droz writes in with this today: Anthony: A US federal agency, the Fish & Wildlife Service, is currently debating whether or not there will be national wildlife rules for…
Solar industry on the rise
Via Slashdot Hugh Pickens writes: According to Rhone Resch, the last three years have seen the U.S. solar industry go from a start-up to a major industry that is creating…
Location location, location: Wind Turbine Power Output Increased 10x
Wind Turbine power output is increased ten-fold by careful spacing, and direction of rotation, when compared to existing best practices. Click image for video surveyGuest post by Roger E. Sowell…
The grass is greener on the ethanol model side
From the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Switch from corn to grass would raise ethanol output, cut emissions CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — Growing perennial grasses on the least productive farmland now…
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