Editorial: Uncle Sam play venture capitalist? See Solyndra
• www.usatoday.comIn March 2010, the accounting firm PricewaterhouseCoopers issued a standard but stern warning about Solyndra, a California solar panel manufacturer:
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Solyndra loan: White House pressed on review of solar company now under investigation
• www.washingtonpost.comThe Obama White House tried to rush federal reviewers for a decision on a nearly half-billion-dollar loan to the solar-panel manufacturer Solyndra so Vice President Biden could announce the approval at a September 2009 groundbreaking for the company’
U.S. unable to account for 35,000+ pounds of exported enriched uranium
• RawstoryThe United States could only account for 1,160 out of 17,500 kilograms of Highly-Enriched Uranium (HEU) -- weapon-usable nuclear material -- exported to 27 countries in response to a 1992 congressional mandate, according to a Government Accountabilit
Emails: Obama White House Monitored Huge Loan to 'Connected' Firm
• ABC News (video)Newly uncovered emails show the White House closely monitored the Energy Department's deliberations over a $535 million government loan to Solyndra, the politically-connected solar energy firm that recently went bankrupt and is now the subject of a c
Lightweight Cable Made of Braided Nanotubes Could Replace Copper Wires
• Popsi.comnanowires could be just as efficient as the copper cables we’ve been using for more than a century, but at a fraction of the weight, according to a new paper. Braiding billions of carbon nanotubes into a nanowire cable can efficiently replace copper
The great polar oil rush begins
• Terrence Aym - HeliumAs the top of the world melts and the Arctic Sea becomes ice free, northern countries are scrambling to claim trillions of dollars of oil and rare minerals. Locked under the ice for thousands of years, the icecap is melting quickly, but not as quickl
Power out for millions in Calif., Ariz., Mexico
• APA major outage knocked out power in a region of almost 6 million people in the Southwest and Mexico on Thursday, bringing San Diego to a near-standstill and leaving people in the surrounding desert to swelter in late-summer heat. Two nuclear react
FBI Raid Obama's Embarrassing Solyndra Headquarters
• NBC News (video)Solyndra filed for bankruptcy last week, shocking both workers and the Obama administration, which had given the startup $535 million in low interest loans. Congress has demanded a hearing into the matter. There are no reports of any arrests at t
GEARTURBINE PROJECT Atypical InFlow Thermodynamic Technology Submission Innovative (TURBO-ROTARY)
Written By: • LetterGEARTURBINE PROJECT Atypical InFlow Thermodynamic Technology Submission Innovative (TURBO-ROTARY) Fueled Motor Engine Type *The Gearturbine comes from the contemporary ecological essential global needs of a efficient power plant fuele
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Japanese breakthrough will make wind power cheaper than nuclear
• mnn.comImagine: no more dirty coal power, no more mining deaths, no more nuclear disasters, no more polluted aquifers as a result of fracking. Our entire society powered by the quiet "woosh" of a wind turbine.
Smart Meters -- they know when you've been sleeping
• lovelycitizen.comPlans also call for antennae to be installed in appliances and electronics so they can communicate wirelessly with the smart meter. Naysayers say this would mean that you will not be the only one who knows how often you make toast or...
High Demand - by Alan Korwin
Written By: • Letter[Note: Gun author, Alan Korwin submitted this LTE to Gannett's AZ Republic in response to a front page article on energy. Whether they publish it or not you can read it here. [-Powell] Dear Editor, We're all being sold a scam an
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Wind Power Construction Rebounds
• arcleinIn December of 2010, Congress extended the 1603 program for another year, through the end of 2011. A part of the 2008-09 stimulus program, the 1603 program allowed developers who could get construction underway promptly to take the value of a project
Advanced Electrodes for Better Li-Ion Batteries
• Prachi PatelNanotube anodes could lead to higher-energy, faster-charging batteries for cell phones and notebooks.
Getting ready for a wave of coal-plant shutdowns
• http://www.washingtonpost.com/Over the next 18 months, the Environmental Protection Agency will finalize a flurry of new rules to curb pollution from coal-fired power plants.
13-Year-Old Designs Super-Efficient Solar Array Based on the Fibonacci Sequence
• popsci.com/On a bleak winter hiking trip to the Catskill Mountains, the 7th-grader from New York noticed a pattern among tree branches, and determined (as naturalist Charles Bonnet did in 1754) that the pattern represented the Fibonacci sequence...
13-Year-Old Notices Fibonacci Sequence In Tree Branches, Creates Revolutionary Solar Panel Design
• Maximum PCHe had an idea, and tested it by building two solar panel arrays; one in the typical flat-panel design, and another modeled after the branching of trees. The results were amazing. The "solar tree" collected 20 percent more electricity, or roughly 2.5
GE Invests in Solar Thermal Company
• Tyler Hamilton via TechnologyReview.comThe company thinks adding solar-thermal technology to its natural-gas plants will make them run more cheaply and efficiently
Will Canadian oil go to China instead of the US? Stefan Molyneux on RT America
• YouTube RT.comThe US imports approximately half of its oil from Canada, Saudi Arabia, Mexico and Venezuela. The US is Canada's biggest purchaser of crude oil, but now Canada has a potential client, China. Is Canada looking to the future on behalf of its economy? I
Could Hemp Cure Our Energy Crisis and Pollution
Written By: • Letter-- An Open Letter to -- CORINNE LE QUÉRÉ, THE IPCC,ET AL, ON THE CBEE FORMULATION, FUEL-ENERGY, CO2 & CLIMATE. Sent to Professor C. Le Quéré, Contributor to the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change; Strategic Allianc
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It’s Official: Plug-In Cadillac Is Coming
• Chuck Squatriglia via WIRED.comGeneral Motors has confirmed what we already told you: It will build a Cadillac plug-in hybrid using the Chevrolet Volt’s drivetrain, a move that further underscores its commitment to cars with cords.
Devvy: My Fight Against The Smart Meter
• devvy.com/"Those wireless meters on every home and building will emit huge pulses of microwave radio frequency radiation as often as every few seconds throughout the day and night, seven days a week.
Coal Generation Drops to 30 Year Low
• arcleinThere are various reasons for the decrease in coal. One reason is that as coal prices have steadily risen in many areas of the U.S., natural gas has stayed relatively cheap. Even the coal-rich Midwest is using less of its prized resource, although it
Cadillac Converj Plug-In Hybrid Is Back. Maybe
• Chuck Squatriglia via WIRED.comThe on-again, off-again story of the super-sexy Cadillac Converj is on again.
CONNECTING THE DOTS
OUR ENERGY PREDICAMENT AND THE SILENT LIE
Frosty Wooldridge"The United States cannot afford to wait for the next energy crisis to marshal its intellectual and industrial resources. Our growing dependence on increasingly scarce Middle Eastern oil is a fool's game."
How an Electric Motorcycle Made Record Time
• WIRED.comSan Francisco startup Mission Motors made a little history when factory rider Steve Rapp lapped Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca in 1 minute, 31.3 seconds. That number is amazing for several reasons.
Sam’s Exchange: Iran’s Oil Bourse. Who is next?
• en.rian.ruIf you look at a map of the Middle East, you will notice that Iran is totally surrounded by American military bases. Full spectrum dominance from the United States military industrial complex is alive and well in the region.
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Sustainability in All Things except Rational Thinking
• Magazine Article Sartre BatrFew words stir up passion and polarization like sustainability. The EPA offers up this description. "The traditional definition of sustainability calls for policies and strategies that meet society’s present needs without compromising the ability of
Pentagon’s Lightning Gun Sold for Scraps on eBay
• Noah Shachtman via WIRED.comThere was a time, not all that long ago, when the Pentagon sank tens of millions of dollars into remote-controlled lightning guns that it hoped would fry insurgent bombs before they killed any more troops.
Swedish man caught trying to split atoms at home
• http://hosted.ap.orgSTOCKHOLM (AP) -- A Swedish man who was arrested after trying to split atoms in his kitchen said Wednesday he was only doing it as a hobby.
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