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Forum: General Efficiency Discussion
Posted By: Frank Lee
Post Time: 11-28-2009 at 12:52 AM
Energy/Transportation
Volkswagen
Jamais at Open the Future has a post on the dodgy rhetorical tactics used by climate skeptics and the underlying belief systems that guide them - Blasphemy . Superfreakonomics author Steven Levitt has been fighting against the myriad critics going after him for the many, many mistakes in (at ...
Energy/Transportation
Gizmag has an article on the world's first osmosis power plant - The world's first osmotic power plant from Statkraft . The principle of harnessing osmosis has the potential to produce enormous amounts of energy anywhere that salt water and fresh water meet. We looked at some of the approaches ...
Energy/Transportation
Wind Power
Forum: Aerodynamics
Posted By: CROSS CANADA WITH 8
Post Time: 11-27-2009 at 11:40 PM
Energy/Transportation
RT @daverag: @anandcv don't bother, the debate is over, #Globalwarming is a hoax, #climate change is natural, #Climategate rages on, car ...
Energy/Transportation
Speculators take most of the heat for the recent oil spike, but were they really to blame for last year's high prices? Probably not, says Dr. James Hamilton, who argues that supply and demand, not speculators, were behind oil's 2008 rise.
...Crigger: You've written quite a bit about oil ...
Energy/Transportation
Long one of Russia's most reliable energy customers, Bulgaria is now reconsidering its dependence in favor of diversifying suppliers and investors
Bulgaria's energy minister recently likened his country's energy sector to the way English football used to be played "with lots of energy, ...
Energy/Transportation
Bulgaria
Russia
Forum: EcoModding Central
Posted By: mikernet
Post Time: 11-27-2009 at 09:43 PM
Energy/Transportation
HONG KONG (Reuters) Better home insulation and ventilation and using electricity instead of fossil fuels could reduce indoor pollution and save thousands of lives, especially in low-income countries like India, a study has found.
Using mathematical modelling and case studies, researchers ...
Energy/Transportation
India
Hong Kong
The technology behind solar energy is constantly evolving. Portable devices that charge up gadgets from the sun are becoming smaller and more powerful.
There has been a steady growth in small-scale electricity production at home in recent years. In 2008 there was a considerable jump - the ...
Energy/Transportation
Wind Power
Alternative Energy
BASRA, Iraq (Reuters) - The state-run Iraq Drilling Company plans to drill 180 oil wells in 2010, and will be able to drill more than 250 new wells every year from 2011 onwards, the head of the company said.
Thirty of the new wells planned for 2010 will be in northern oilfields and 150 in the ...
Energy/Transportation
Iraq
The publication of damning emails about climate change could literally change the world.
The drab, drum-shaped home of the University of East Anglia's Climatic Research Unit is an anonymous little outpost, blending seamlessly with its chunky concrete neighbours on a windswept campus just ...
Energy/Transportation
The city of Saginaw is bidding to become home to a branch of the San Jose-based solar company GlobalWatt. If the Saginaw City Council approves a brownfield redevelopment plan, the company could receive ten million dollars in tax credits.
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Energy/Transportation
Michigan
Alternative Energy
Survey by ship finds satellite data about thicker Arctic ice was wrong
Arctic sea ice conditions are even worse than feared after a survey found that ice detected as older and thicker by satellites is actually thin and fragile, a prominent Canadian researcher reported Friday.
University of ...
Energy/Transportation
Everyone knows that $4 gasoline in 2008 finally led Americans to abandon their gas guzzlers and start buying gas sippers - right?
Turns out, everyone is wrong.
Energy/Transportation
Carbon capture and storage (CCS) - also known as 'clean coal' - could soon allow for a new generation of coal-fired power stations.
The UK is facing transformation of its energy generating system. The closure of end-of-life nuclear and coal power stations is coinciding with ambitious ...
Energy/Transportation
Advanced Clean Technologies (PINKSHEETS: ACTH) reported today that the Department of Energy and the Department of the Interior have proposed a total of $77.2 billion in new 2010 funding for Clean Energy projects. According to Business Green, the US renewable energy industry received a major ...
Energy/Transportation
The Department of the Interior
Steven Chu
Alternative Energy
New research by leading alternative energy research firm New Energy Finance finds that solar power will cost less by about 50% at the end of 2009 compared to the end of 2008.
The costs are pre-subsidy, so they could be much lower if you take better government subsidies into account.
But it ...
Energy/Transportation
Wind Power
Alternative Energy
In honor of Buy Nothing Day , here’s a little tale from Andy “Cotton” Sarjahani , whom you may remember from his work on food waste . Sarjahani told me recently that he had met an eccentric drifter who saw dumpster diving as an essential part of his life philosophy. I asked ...
Energy/Transportation
WASHINGTON Two years ago, Congress ordered the nation's gasoline refiners to do something that is turning out to be mathematically impossible.
To please the farm lobby and to help wean the nation off oil, Congress mandated that refiners blend a rising volume of ethanol and other biofuels ...
