Energy
“Smart Grids” & Monitoring Your Power Use
As Americans continue to wonder what happened to the $787 billion in stimulus money and the economic recovered our leaders said would arrive...
Energy Dept. Funds Speculative Science
Have you been watching the nation’s economy continue to unravel and wondering where all of that stimulus money went? Another $400 million of...
Read moreLet’s Welcome Another Fan of Nuclear Power!
A few weeks ago, Energy Secretary Steven Chu surprised a National Public Radio interviewer with an unequivocal endorsement of nuclear power. In answer...
Read moreOil Industry Gushes With New Finds
If oil industry discoveries continue at this year’s current pace, 2009 will see the highest number of new finds in nine years. ...
Read moreDanish Wind Power Overblown
Two Danish experts in the field of wind energy will be in Washington for the next three days to speak on the subject...
Read moreSolar Panel Companies Face Financial Troubles
With the ink barely dry on the resignation letter of self-proclaimed one-time communist Van Jones as President Obama’s Green Jobs Czar, the USA...
Read moreTaxing Energy in the Name of Climate Change
The San Francisco Chronicle reported on June 25: “The climate-change legislation likely to win House approval Friday will produce ‘millions of jobs’ in...
Read moreEstimate of Natural-gas Reserves Jumps 35 Percent
The Potential Gas Committee, a group of academics and industry specialists supported by the Colorado School of Mines, reports the largest increase in...
Read moreU.S. Nuclear Site List Leaked
Steven Aftergood, a security expert with the Federation of American Scientists, reported on June 1 that “a compilation of hundreds of U.S. nuclear...
Read moreWind vs. Nuclear Power: Which Is Safer?
Nuclear power is portrayed by the major media and by environmental activists as dangerous and perhaps even sinister. Wind power, on the other...
Read moreThe Problem With Electric Cars
William Morrison of Des Moines is credited with building the first electric car in 1891. It was successful, except for two problems: the...
Read moreMaking Renewable Energy Practical
Can we reliably, efficiently, and economically store energy to make solar and wind power viable options to replace fossil-fuel or nuclear plants? ...
Read moreHouse Passes Non-drilling Bill
ITEM: On September 16, the House passed the Comprehensive American Energy Security and Consumer Protection Act (H.R. 6899). As described by CNN on...
Read moreAlgae May Be an Energy Answer
A modern society such as that in the United States requires personal transportation — cargo trucks, planes, and cars — to make a...
Read moreA Tale of Two Reactors
A nuclear power plant is arguably the most extraordinary product of engineering and scientific know-how in the history of mankind. Once every 18...
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