I just got off a Skype chat with a talented young engineering student who lives near Paris and wishes to perform an internship in which he will conduct research as the basis for articles on a range of clean energy …
Category: Renewables – Science
Can Whole Cities Go To 100% Renewable Energy?
Many people jeer the leaders of cities around the world who talk about moving to 100% renewable energy. But the folks I most respect among all this ridicule are those who are calmly making it happen. Here’s an article on …
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Clean Energy Concepts That Show a Misunderstanding of Physics
At an average rate of one or two a week, I get suggestions for clean energy concepts that demonstrate a lack of understanding of the laws of physics. The last 24 hours has represented a spike; I received both: • A …
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Discussions on the Trade-Offs Between Renewables and Fossil Fuels Shows Galactic Level of Stupidity
Here’s an excerpt article published last week by Reuters that illustrates how galactically stupid the debate on energy has become. Please read along and see where you think this goes completely off the rails for anyone with an IQ over …
Happy Birthday to the Large Hadron Collider
Today is the five year anniversary of the first experiments performed at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the centerpiece of CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research in the suburbs of Geneva, Switzerland. There, more than 10,000 physicists and engineers are …
A Clean Energy Future Is Inevitable
It’s always great to come across people who “get it.” The authors of this article begin their piece: While a clean energy future is inevitable, questions remain about how quickly we will get there. Exactly. I wish I had a dollar …
Renewable Energy Power Density
Here’s an article about renewable energy power density, i.e., the amount of power available in a certain area, measured perhaps in Watts per square meter. The article makes the point that, as the world’s population continues to move to the …
"Hydro Nano Gas"
A reader asks: What’s your take on Hydro Nano Gas? I think this could be a game changer if it really works. This strikes me as a fraud. The issue is one of chemistry. The reaction CH4 + O2 -> …
Planetary Wisdom and the Keystone XL Pipeline
Like everyone, I’ve always been impressed with the winners of the Nobel Prize. My favorite personal experience along these lines goes back to my younger days in which I chronicled the Nobel laureates in protein chemistry when I was a …
Tagged with: Barack Obama, Dalai Lama, Hewlett-Packard, Keystone pipeline, Linus Pauling, Nobel Peace Prize, Nobel Prize
Most Scientists Are Modest and Unobtrusive – But Not All
Why is it that scientists generally are quiet and demure, and so seldom even mention the field of politics? Perhaps it’s the very difference between fact and opinion, and scientists’ preference to the former over the latter. In any case, …
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