Solar Breakthrough: Cheap Quantum Dot Solar Paint
• Oilprice.comResearchers have reduced the preparation time of quantum dot solar cells to less than an hour by changing the form to a one-coat quantum dot solar paint. How?
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Oil plunges on strong dollar, profit taking
• The RawStory.comWorld oil prices sank in volatile year-end deals on Wednesday, as traders took profits and eyed the strong dollar, new concerns over the eurozone debt crisis and fresh equity falls on Wall Street.
The Year in Energy
• Kevin Bullis via TechnologyReview.comSurprising successes helped offset disappointing failures in solar, biofuels, and nuclear power.
Power failures disrupt Uganda grasshopper harvest
• The RawStory.comStanding in the glare of a 250 watt light bulb in the yard of his uncle’s house, Hilary Turyamugumya peers hopefully into the night sky in search of grasshoppers.
The Cool Energy House Project Demonstrates U.S. Department of Energy’s Building Program Innovations
• Yahoo! NEWSThe Cool Energy House Project in Windermere, Florida, showcases energy innovations generated by the U.S. Department of Energy’s Building America program. The project will be shown in February in conjunction with the 2012 International Builders Show.
Brazil's environment agency fines Chevron for oil spill
• Yahoo! NEWSBrazil's Environment Institute on Friday ordered US oil giant Chevron to pay another fine related to the early November oil spill off the coast of Rio de Janeiro.
Tilting at Water Turbines
• TechnologyReview.comA collection of weird and wonderful devices designed to harvest energy from the ocean.
To Survive, Some Biofuels Companies Give Up on Biofuels
• Kevin Bullis via TechnologyReview.comGevo, a prominent advanced-biofuels company that has received millions in U.S. government funding to develop fuels made from cellulosic sources such as grass and wood chips, is finding that it can't use these materials if it hopes to survive.
Nano-Engineered Bioconstructs Perform Photosynthesis Faster Than Nature Does
• Rebecca Boyle via PopSci.comScientists have been trying for a while now to recreate the process of photosynthesis, using sunlight and water to spark chemical reactions.
Blacked Out: Power outage delays Steelers, 49ers
• hosted.ap.orgTwo power outages delayed the Niners' 20-3 Monday night win over the Pittsburgh Steelers, first just before kickoff and again early in the second quarter after the stadium moved to a backup power source.
Chemicals and Biofuel from Wood Biomass
• ScienceDailyA method developed at Aalto University in Finland makes it possible to use microbes to produce butanol suitable for biofuel and other industrial chemicals from wood biomass.
Uranium Mining Debate in Virginia Takes a Step
• New York TimesThe report’s release marks the start of what is certain to be impassioned debate over whether to lift a nearly three-decade moratorium and permit landowners in southern Virginia to extract ore from a vast underground deposit, as they first sought to
A Solar Trade War Could Put Us All in the Dark
• Martin Green via TechnologyReview.comThe brewing solar trade war between the United States and China sullies what should be a triumphant moment in the global photovoltaic (PV) industry: the arrival of affordable solar electricity.
Earthquakes, Water Pollution and Increased Greenhouse Gas Emissions? Fracking - Strike Number Three?
• oilprice.comThe last decade has seen a sustained campaign by the hydraulic fracturing (‘fracking”) industry against its critics, as the fracking industry in the U.S. alone was worth an estimated $76 billion in 2010 and is projected to grow to $231 billion in 203
Dozens missing as Russian oil rig sinks in storm
• Thomas Grove and Melissa Akin via Rawstory.comA drilling rig with 67 crew on board capsized and sank off Russia’s far eastern island of Sakhalin on Sunday while being towed through a winter storm, leaving more than 50 dead or missing in the icy Sea of Okhotsk.
A Brighter Way to Make Solar Cells
• Kevin Bullis via TechnologyReview.comA manufacturing method that uses light instead of heat wastes less energy and makes the cells more efficient.
The Death of Range Fuels Shouldn't Doom All Biofuels
• Kevin Bullis via TechnologyReview.comThis month, Range Fuels, one of the first companies in a wave of startups that promised cheap biofuels made from sources such as wood chips rather than corn, shut its doors for good and was forced to auction off its assets.
GOP leaders: Pipeline stays in payroll tax bill
• USA TodayA dispute over a Canada to Texas oil pipeline threatened to complicate efforts in Congress to pass legislation that would avert a New Year's tax increase for millions of Americans and extend government benefits to the unemployed.
Republicans Cynical Plan to Force Work to Begin on the Keystone XL Pipeline
• Oilprice.comThere’s cynicism, and then there’s Congress.
Rush for Gas Rights Ignites Battles for Control of Land
• New York TimesAs energy companies move to drill in densely populated areas from Pennsylvania to Texas, battles are breaking out over who will have the final say in managing the shale gas boom. The fight, which pits towns and cities against energy companies and st
Guess What The #1 Source Of Energy Was In 1800
• Business InsiderThis chart is also fascinating, as it shows where our energy came from every year since 1800 - The answer? - Biomass (so, basically, burning wood chips, animal blubber, and any other organic product that can be turned into energy). Click thru for cha
How silver 'dust' is poised to revolutionize battery power
• Terrence AymResearchers have been laboring towards a quantum leap seeking to meet the soaring demand for smaller, more powerful, longer-lasting batteries. Some thought achieving such a thing would be nothing short of magic. The magic began in a small way during
VIDEO: Now Internet Reformation Demands Tesla's Research on Limitless Energy
• The Daily BellIs the American bureaucracy holding deep insights and papers of Nikola Tesla? That's the argument this video (below) is making. The makers of the video advocate a day of protest demanding the release of Nikola Tesla's research to take place on Jan. 7
India Believes Solar Power Will be Cost Effective with Fossil Fuels in Five Years
Staffoilpricedotcom ErikEconomic South Asian superpower India has firmly embraced solar power, advancing the target date by five years for selling solar-generated electricity at the same rate as electricity generated by fossil fuel plants, from 2022 to 2017.
Pakistani Editorial Says Nuclear War with India “Inevitable” as Water Dispute Continues
• Oilprice.comNawa-e Waqt bluntly commented on India’s Kashmiri water polices and Islamabad’s failure up to now to stop New Delhi’s efforts to construct hydroelectric dams in Kashmir, “India should be forcibly prevented from constructing these dams. If it fails to
Could War Flare Again Between Iraq and Kuwait?
• Oilprice.comWhile Iraq and Kuwait are now at peace, many of the border issues that led to conflict two decades ago remain, which no amount of diplomatic bonhomie can completely paper over.
New Wind Turbine Design for Offshore
• arcleinBut he and colleagues Kenji Tanaka and Kiyoshi Uzawa from the University of Tokyo found that "discarding the idea of 'stable and upright' might lead to a new low-cost wind turbine concept".
Mexico - Rising Natural Gas Superstate?
Staffoilpricedotcom ErikAmericans looking south of the Rio Grande tend to forget, if they ever knew, that Mexico is, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration, now America’s second largest source of imports. Of the United States’ total crude oil imports averag
Capturing Electricity with a Shoe
• Tom Krupenkin via PopSci.comHumans are not very efficient. When we walk, we waste close to 20 watts of energy per second. Instead of turning all calories into lift or forward motion, we turn most of them into heat that’s quickly dissipated.
Smart Meters - Facts that I bet you didn't know
• YouTube.comVIDEO - Use the letter below to forbid smart meter installation (or modify the letter to demand the meter be removed).
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