Three Inventors Who Tried to Bottle the Ocean’s Power
• wired.comThis imaginative turn-of-the-century drawing predicted that wave-energy generators, like Duffy's Wave Motor, would be "a source of power for various purposes."
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Particle Discovery Has Physicists Abuzz
• livescience.comIn a development physicists are calling "huge," "tantalizing" and "unexpected," researchers have measured a signal that could herald a new kind of particle or force of nature.
Hans Rosling and the magic washing machine
• Ted.comWhat was the greatest invention of the industrial revolution? Hans Rosling makes the case for the washing machine.
Gas Prices Climbing Toward $5 Per Gallon
• chicago.cbslocal.comAt one time, $5 per gallon gas seemed like a farfetched idea, but that is no longer the case.
Willis Tower in Chicago to Become Vertical Solar Farm
• arcleinChicago’s iconic Willis Tower (formally the Sears Tower) is set to become a massive solar electric plant with the installation of a pilot solar electric glass project. The high-profile project on the south side of the 56th floor will replace the wind
Drivers Starting to Cut Back as Gasoline Prices Keep Rising
• CNBC.comAbout 70 percent of the nation's major gas-station chains say sales have fallen, according to a March survey by the Oil Price Information Service. More than half reported a drop of 3 percent or more -- the sharpest since the summer of 2008...
Gas Jumps 19 Cents In Two Weeks, Less Than 10% Below All Time High
• ZeroHedge.comIt's not even peak driving season, which typically sees a seasonal jump of at least 15-20% from early spring levels. Per Reuters: " The Lundberg Survey said the national average price of self-serve, regular unleaded gas was $3.765 on Friday...
Cold fusion process confirmed by Skeptic Society
• Terrence AymTwo Italian scientists—Andrea Rossi and Sergio Focardi of the University of Bologna announced to skeptical colleagues that they successfully tested a new cold fusion process in January 2011. They claimed they created 12,400 watts of thermal power wit
Gas Prices Are Now $1.00 Higher Than Last Year...
• EconomicPolicyJournal.comAll major cities in Southern California are now posting averages of $4.10 and above, according to Automobile Club of Southern California’s Weekend Gas Watch
Washington nuclear plant evacuated after minor incident
• The Raw StoryWashington state's only nuclear power plant evacuated about 25 workers after a small amount of hydrogen sprang from a pipe and ignited in a six-inch flash, plant officials said on Friday.
Renewables Power Grid Study for Israel
• arcleinThe paper is based on an hour-by-hour analysis of the country’s electricity consumption in 2006. Faiman’s group studied the baseline power, intermediate baseline and spinning reserves. Solar plants, without storage, could only generate around 3 perce
Obama's Advice To Those Complaining About Surging Gas Prices: Suck It In And Cope
• ZeroHedge.com"If you're complaining about the price of gas and you're only getting 8 miles a gallon, you know," Obama said laughingly. "You might want to think about a trade-in."
Will a Saudi Collapse Translate Into Soaring Gold and a Falling Dollar?
• dailybell.com"If something happens in Saudi Arabia it (oil) will go to $200 to $300 (a barrel). I don't expect this for the time being, but who would have expected Tunisia?" – Former Saudi oil minister Sheikh Zaki Yamani 4/5/11
Paul Craig Roberts: Denying China Access To Libya's Oil Reserves
• LewRockwell.comChina is relying on Africa, principally Libya, Angola, and Nigeria, for future energy needs. In response to China’s economic engagement with Africa, Washington is engaging the continent militarily with the US African Command (AFRICOM)...
The Long Term Impact of Fukushima
• Kevin Bullis via TechnologyReview.comThe journal Nature is publishing several articles today looking at the long term impact of the nuclear disaster at Fukushima in Japan. They're all available to the public. One news report considers what it will take decommission the damaged plant
Rapid Testing Yields High-Energy Battery Materials
• Kevin Bullis via TechnologyReview.comWildcat Discovery Technologies, a startup in San Diego, California, has developed new materials that could boost the storage capacity of lithium-ion batteries for cars and portable electronics by more than 25 percent.
Russia, NASA to Meet This Month to Discuss Collaboration on Nuclear-Powered Spacecraft
• Clay Dillow via PopSci.comIn the last century, Russia and the United States engaged competitively in both a space race and a nuclear technology race. In this century, it appears the two are considering collaborating.
Saudi Oil Minister Says Oil To Hit $300 If Turmoil Spreads To Saudi Arabia
• ZeroHedge.comThe former Saudi oil minister Sheikh Zaki Yamani told Reuters on Tuesday that "Oil prices could leap to $200 to $300 a barrel if Saudi Arabia is hit by serious political unrest."
Gasoline Prices: Until Bernanke Is Brought To Heel
• Market-ticker.orgOur economy will not "withstand" these oil and gas prices. Not without a massive contraction. I am already seeing it - again - on the roads around this area. Less traffic, fewer shoppers. The so-called "recovery" that was spiked through all...
Oil Rises to 30-Month High on Libya Conflct; Kuwait Says Price Is Too High
• bloomberg.comOil climbed to the highest level in 30 months in New York on speculation that U.S. economic growth may support demand and a protracted conflict in Libya will curtail supply.
Bloom Box K.R. Sridhar-Part 1
• youtube.comThe future is here and the possibilities are infinite.
‘War for Libyan oil planned long ago, no one cares about people’
• PrisonPlanet.comSusan Lindauer, a journalist and author specializing on American interventions, has never believed the allied forces intervened in Libya out of humanitarian reasons.
Can a Country Get 90 Percent of Its Power From Renewables?
• Michael Kanellos via WIRED.comRenewable energy is often intermittent and unreliable, but with the right storage technology, it can become a substitute for baseline power.
Wind Power Cheaper Than Nuclear
• arcleinOffshore wind energy has long been seen as an expensive way of generating power, costing about two to three times more than erecting turbines on land, but the expense is likely to come down, while the costs of nuclear energy are opaque, according to
Six Ways Bio-Inspired Design is Reshaping the Future
• popsci.comFrom harvesting energy to building networks, nature has been solving problems for billions of years longer than humans have
Endgame: Divide, rule and get the oil
• atimes.comWithout cutting through the fog of war it's impossible to understand what's really going on in Libya.
Elektra One All-Electric Plane Makes Successful Maiden Flight
• popsci.comMeanwhile, jet contrails found to be a worse climate-change culprit than carbon
Obama calls for deep cuts in U.S. oil imports
• www.reuters.comPresident Barack Obama on Wednesday proposed to cut U.S. oil imports by a third over 10 years, a goal that eluded his predecessors and seen as extremely ambitious by analysts skeptical it can succeed.
Using Wind to Stabilize the Grid
• arcleinOne of Kansas' most abundant natural resources may hold the key to preventing major power outages. A team of Kansas State University engineers is researching ways to use Kansas wind and other distributed energy sources to avoid cascading failures.
Worker Loses a Laptop With Data on Thousands Who Filed Claims
• online.wsj.comBP PLC said Tuesday that a company laptop containing personal information on thousands of people who filed claims related to the Deepwater Horizon disaster has been missing for about a month.
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