Tesla to Use High-Energy Batteries from Panasonic
• Technology ReviewA new partnership could help the automaker increase the range of its vehicles.
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Solar Shingles See the Light of Day
• Technology ReviewDow Chemical is moving full speed ahead to develop roof shingles embedded with photovoltaic cells. To facilitate the move, the U.S. Department of Energy has backed Dow's efforts with a $17.8 million tax credit that will help the company launch an ini
PetroBank Ramps up THAI
• arcleinWe have now revised our maximum target production for the Conklin pilot to 1500 bopd and we anticipate reaching this production level in mid 2010.
Iraq Oil Optimism
• arcleinMoO had hoped to get commitments for 6 million bbl/day of production; instead, they got 12 million bbl/day, even though less than all of the fields were awarded.
Putin urges prompt elimination of energy failures
• Itar-Tass.comRussia's Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has urged power engineering specialists to fix energy failures without delays, Itar-Tass quotes him saying during a meeting with the regional development minister, Viktor Basargin, on Monday.
High-Tech Glitter to Create Flexible Solar Panels
• LiveScienceResearchers have unveiled super-small solar cells no bigger than the pieces of glitter on your holiday ornaments and cards. These highly efficient photovoltaics could be game-changers in the burgeoning field of solar power, allowing arrays of microce
U.S. govt wants farmers to spread toxic powder from coal plant scrubbers on their food crop fields
• Washington Post via Natural NewsThe federal government is encouraging farmers to spread a chalky waste from coal-fired power plants on their fields to loosen and fertilize soil even as it considers regulating coal wastes for the first time.
Baylor professor turning cow manure into fuel-grade ethanol
• Tribune-HeraldTo critics who object to making ethanol fuel out of grain, Larry Lehr has an ecology-minded answer: Run it through a cow first. He is planning to build a manure-to-ethanol demonstration plant to turn the manure from a dairy's 400 cows into pure etha
Horizontal Development of Cardium Oil
• arcleinhas been produced. The scale of the remaining prize continues to draw plenty of interest The new Cardium oil play in Alberta is rapidly approaching the stature of Saskatchewan’s famous Bakken play. Both the Bakken and the Cardium are “tight” or
Maliki makes his move on Kirkuk issue
• Asia TimesIraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki will soon visit the northern district of Kurdistan, aiming to sign a deal with Kurdish President Massoud Barzani regarding the future of the Peshmerga, the Kurdish militia. According to the deal, the Baghdad gover
Iraq's oil auction hits the jackpot
• Asia TimesFormer US vice president Dick Cheney, ex-defense secretary Donald Rumsfeld and assorted US neo-cons will have plenty of time to nurse their apoplexy. One of their key reasons to unleash the war on Iraq in 2003 was to seize control of its
How Fuel Cells Work
• http://auto.howstuffworks.comSo what exactly is a fuel cell, anyway? Why are governments, private businesses and academic institutions collaborating to develop and produce them? Fuel cells generate electrical power quietly and efficiently, without pollution. Unlike power sources
Oil Creation Theory Challenged by Fuel-Making Fungus
• livescience.com/A newfound fungus living in rainforest trees makes biofuel more efficiently than any other known method, researchers say. In fact, it's so good at turning plant matter into fuel that researchers say their discovery calls into question the whole theor
Steorn's free energy magnet motors demo Tuesday 12/15
• http://Steorn.com/orboIrish company Steorn Ltd. starts a 6 week long public demonstration of their free energy technology 12/15 in Ireland, with live a live video feed. This'll be the end of the Oil cartels, carbon credits, Solar and Wind endeavors, and energy utilitie
Batteries Made from Regular Paper
•Ordinary paper can be turned into a battery electrode simply by dipping it into carbon-nanotube inks. The resulting electrodes, which are strong, flexible, and highly conductive, might be used to make cheap energy storage devices to power portable el
Paper-Thin Batteries To Juice Self-Powered OLEDs
• PopSiOrganig LEDs hold large promise for efficient, thin and flexible lighting elements (as well as razor-thin TVs), but low-tech power sources continue to constrain more creative uses of the lights. After all, what good is a shirt of woven LEDs if you ne
Solar power coming to a store near you
• APSolar technology is going where it has never gone before: onto the shelves at retail stores where do-it-yourselfers can now plunk a panel into a shopping cart and bring it home to install.
Tiny Nuclear Batteries to Power Micro Devices
• LiveScienceTypical chemical batteries just don't cut it when a device needs to run for years without fail. Enter the betavoltaics, or tiny nuclear batteries that harvest energy from radioactive sources such as tritium. Now a company called Widetronix has dev
Making Powerful, Lightweight Batteries From Nothing But Nanotube Ink and Paper
• PopSiPaper Batteries It turns out making lightweight, bendable, foldable batteries is as easy as putting ink to paper.
Solar Airplane a Step Closer
• Technology ReviewSolar Impulse's HB-SIA, which was finished this past summer, taxied down a runway using power from the 11,000 solar cells covering its wings and did a series of acceleration and braking tests. The next test will be revving up the plane to its 35km/ho
Origami Solar Cells
• Technology ReviewResearchers at the University of Illinois have now come up with self-assembling spherical solar cells capable of capturing more sunlight than flat ones.
Yokohama replaces petroleum in tires with orange peel oil
• Natural NewsThe Super E-spec tire is made from vulcanized rubber just like other tires replacing 80 percent of its petroleum use with orange oil. They get the orange peels from an orange juice factory next door.
Paper-thin Batteries Made from Algae
• LiveScienceImagine wrapping paper that could be a gift in and of itself because it lights up with words like "Happy Birthday." That is one potential application of a new biodegradable battery made of cellulose, the stuff of paper.
Electric Dragsters Burn Rubber, and Volts
• Technology Review"EVs are more than glorified golf carts," says Chip Gribben, the NEDRA's PR Director. "Our whole mantra has been to dispel the myth that EVs are slow and we have been pretty successful."
New Norway power plant uses salt to make electricity
• AFPNorway unveiled the world's first osmotic power plant on Tuesday, harnessing the energy-unleashing encounter of freshwater and seawater to make clean electricity. "While salt might not save the world alone, we believe osmotic power will be an imp
PetroBakken THAI Update
• arcleinThis project will highlight the applicability of the THAI technology in Saskatchewan's conventional heavy oil resource base. We believe that a significant portion of the Province's estimated 20 billion barrels of unrecovered conventional heavy oil
Thin-Film Solar with High Efficiency
• Technology ReviewSolar cells made from cheap nanocrystal-based inks have the potential to be as efficient as the conventional inorganic cells currently used in solar panels, but can be printed less expensively. Solexant, a company in San Jose, CA, is currently manufa
The (Slightly) Poorer Man's Tesla: ECOS Harbinger
• PopSiFor around 13 grand, Electric Cars of Springfield (ECOS) will turn your old beater into an all-electric commuter car. But for a few bucks (around $77,000) more, they'll build you an entire, turn-key sports car. It's called the Harbinger. It hits an e
A 25-Year Battery
• Technology ReviewBatteries that harvest energy from the nuclear decay of isotopes can produce very low levels of current and last for decades without needing to be replaced. A new version of the batteries, called betavoltaics, is being developed by an Ithaca, NY-base
Modified Algae Produce Clean, Easy Hydrogen
• PopSiCreating Hydrogen From Algae By isolating the photosynthesizing parts of a certain thermophilic blue-green algae and catalyzing it with light and platinum, researchers have produced clean, sustainable quantities of hydrogen that could one day power o
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