As presented here, I’m glad to see the Saudis implementing CSP (concentrated solar power) as a significant portion of their energy plans. It looks like MIT and Siemens have crafted a “hybrid” of CSP and fossil fuels, to create higher …
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Regarding my piece earlier on cold fusion, my old school friend Duke Brooks writes, “I thought the idea of cold fusion died in the 1990s with Pons and Fleischmann.” Cold fusion, while fantastically controversial, is definitely not dead. To summarize …
Perhaps the greatest single threat facing mankind today is our failure to apply reason to effect solutions. In fact, we appear to openly defy and ridicule the findings of our scientific community, writing them off as so many liars and …
Wally Rippel, whom I interviewed for both my last book and current effort, led a team of college kids at Cal Tech in an electric vehicle race against MIT – in the 1960s! That’s not just yesterday, is it? Fortunately …
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2GreenEnergy Business Director George Alger sent me this interview in which Bill Gates speaks on renewable energy. George: Yes, he makes some good points, and he’s a fan (as am I) of Donald Sadoway’s work at MIT. But as you …
Dan Nocera at MIT is amazing, in my opinion. I have written about him before: Dr. Nocera is a chemist and Dreyfus Professor of Energy at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) also runs the SunCatalytix company. He has been working …
[The Vector] Solving the World’s Energy Problem, with a Little Water? Read More »
As a part of our recent discussion on energy storage, Larry Sobel wrote in, calling my attention to this fabulous lecture given by a brilliant and thoroughly entertaining chemistry professor at MIT, who calls upon his students to think differently and go …
The press office at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) announced this week that a team of researchers has made a breakthrough on battery technology in the form of lightweight lithium-air batteries could have three times the energy density of current …
