A friend in England and I were just talking about how easy it is to miss subtle cues in dealing with others, and thus irritate the people around us. I noted where I frequently screw up with people in general, …
Category: Renewables – Science
Electric Motors and Generators
A young reader hopes to replace wind turbines with an alternate source of energy. He writes: these generators are not very large to supply electricity to an ordinary home. Now the other power source: an electric motor.
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Does All Our Energy Come From the Sun?
A reader just asked me this: Doesn’t all our energy come from the sun? Fossil fuels are old sunlight, and anything else we burn is new sunlight. We have to burn this one way or the other, and that creates …
Advice on Inventing a New Source of Renewable Energy
A young reader asks for advice: My name is Cole, and I’m 15 years old. My future plan is to start a company named Nova. Nova supports renewable energy sources. I want to make a new renewable energy source that …
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Outrageous Energy Sources of the Future
Every week or so, someone sends me an article from a popular magazine that covers futuristic sources of energy. I’d sound rather like the Grinch if I said I objected to publications like this, though I have to confess that …
Discussion on “Free Energy”
A reader asks for my comments as follows: I am not a technician but a Free Energy lover – (I’ve spent) more than 30 years trying to understand Nikola Tesla patents as the first approach to free energy. (Now I’m …
Renewable Energy Technologies: New Concepts
I’m always happy to receive and comment on new ideas in renewable energy technology. If you happen to be sitting on a business plan, or just a raw idea, and you’d like my opinion on it (at no charge), please send …
Zero Point Energy
A friend sent me this article on Zero Point Energy, the theory that even empty space contains a non-zero amount of energy. This is ultimately a result of the fact that exactly zero energy would violate the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle. …
Storing Solar Energy with Supercapacitors
A reader asked if supercapacitors are a good solution for storing solar energy. The short answer to the question is no. Capacitors have cost-effectiveness only in high power-density applications, i.e., those in which a large amount of energy needs to …
A World of Great Possibilities
On the surface, this post is almost 100% off-subject, though I know readers who enjoy a good story will appreciate the Writer’s Almanac’s blurb on today’s 67th anniversary of the opening of “ A Streetcar Named Desire” on Broadway. For some …
