May 6th, 2011
This year Russia will begin to supply natural gas to Denmark after Nord Stream pipeline operations start. Copenhagen has extended full support to Russia in the execution of additional energy projects….
June 29th, 2006
by Ben Kenney, theWatt.com, theWatt Podcast
In 2005, China added 170 GW of coal power generating capacity. That's the equivalent of a new 1GW coal power plant every 2 days. Coal now supplies 70% …
June 27th, 2006
Dateline China – China is damming the Yangtze river with a 24 billion dollar hydroelectric dam. The yet to be Three Gorges Dam, scheduled for completion in 2009, will produce over 18,000 MW of power t…
June 26th, 2006
When it comes to a living system the nuclear submarine is the pinnacle of technology. In a strong sense any nuclear submarine mimics a living system. I.e. the submarine must provide energy to accompli…
June 19th, 2006
This week I participated in a popular podcast sponsored at the The Watt.com
The panel included:
Ben Kenny phd – The Watt
Ed Thomas – The Watt
Jeff McIntire-Strasburg – Treehugger
Michael Olivo – Ife…
June 18th, 2006
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratories' Advanced Energy Technologies Department conducts research focusing on converting and storing energy (batteries and fuel cells), processes to reduce the env…
June 17th, 2006
The energy field has it's basis in physics. Most to the time physics has it's basis in natural law. One of the more simplistic yet elegant laws is Zipf's law. Zipf's law states that fo…
June 16th, 2006
Eric Lerner and his team of leading scientists say they are five years away from having a fusion reactor capable of a 5 Mega Watt (MW) or greater output at a estimated cost of $1,000,000 per generatio…
June 15th, 2006
The International Whaling Commission is meeting later this week , and one of the items on their agenda is the development of 'whalanol' , a gasoline additive derived from whale blubber.
Acco…
June 14th, 2006
We all are aware of the well-funded campaigns to discredit the science of global warming, and I'm the last one who wants to add more uncertainty to the mix. However, as someone who is not a climat…