Renewables – Feb 20
Superiority of pragmatists over idealists
Wood makes a comeback
Turning a greenhouse gas into gasoline
Mike Huckabee on biofuels
Hydrogen
Transport – Feb 20
Stuart Staniford: Four billion cars in 2050?
Hydrogen-fuelled autos – no silver bullet
Ryanair: Oil prices could slash profits 50%
Peak oil – Feb 1
Satellite o’er the desert (Saudi oil supply)
IEA refutes ‘peak oil’, points to lack of investment
Minnesota legislators to hear from Simmons
Rifkin: Europe could make the third industrial revolution’
Energy industries – Oct 30
Dark side of a boom town (Alberta tar sands)
The iconic and ironic rural electric co-op
Opposition takes on coal plants
Rise in heavy oil refining could boost demand for hydrogen
U.S. military – Oct 13
Pentagon backs plan to beam solar power from space
Hydrogen uses in the military
Air Force reducing energy impact
Transport – Sept 5
Global warming might make rails sing again
EU climate flight plans ‘deluded’
Technical issues stall hydrogen vehicles
Get plug-in cars on the road
Hydrogen – Aug 29
Engineers perfecting hydrogen-generating technology
The hydrogen myth
Strange – May 30
Eating radiation: A new form of energy? (MIT)
Florida man invents machine to turn water into fire
Renewables & hydrogen – May 22
Energy from hot rocks- the hurdles for innovators
A who’s who of Indonesian biofuel
Biomass fuels are just one step
New process uses aluminum alloy to generate hydrogen
Nuclear reactions may produce phones’ power
For several years a Chicago entrepreneur has labored quietly building a company to create an alternative to batteries for powering cell phones and other small gadgets. The company deliberately kept a low profile because its core technology, first called cold fusion 18 years ago, has long been ridiculed by mainstream scientists. The phenomenon now is called low-energy nuclear reactions (LENR).
Renewables – March 30
Energy activists snipe at rivals
Tom Whipple on wind power
Hydro’s uphill battle
The hydrogen economy – energy and economic black hole
Hydrogen – Dec 24
Why a hydrogen economy doesn’t make sense
What’s wrong with hydrogen
Lovins: 20 hydrogen myths