The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
SR has been covering the rise of Oklahoma earthquakes since they first began, and it has been fascinating in a macabre kind of way to watch the people of Oklahoma vote again and again for politicians who support Fracking, even as their homes are falling down as a result of Fracking.
This is a breakthrough that will require some science book re-writes…
The Alchemy of Cold Fusion Revealed
The presentation caused quite a stir but it was when Nobel Prize winner Barry Blumberg approached Mr. LeClair and told him that he believed his theory was the most sound that he had heard yet, that Mark had gotten the jolt he needed to see an old problem with new eyes.
Yes, we should learn how to use hydrogen as a clean fuel…
Water splitter produces clean-burning hydrogen fuel 24/7
An inexpensive renewable source of clean-burning hydrogen fuel for transportation and industry
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“We have developed a low-voltage, single-catalyst water splitter that continuously generates hydrogen and oxygen for more than 200 hours, an exciting world-record performance,” said study co-author Yi Cui, an associate professor of materials science and engineering at Stanford and of photon science at the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory.
The resource crisis is bigger issue than global warming. Water-energy-food nexus is critical.
Review: Other Inconvenient Truths Beyond Global Warming
Continue reading “Al Rozich: Beyond Global Warming — Other Inconvenient Truths with Focus on Water”
Yet another new breakthrough on solar. This one has huge implications.
UCLA discovers how solar cells' charges can last for weeks
A team of UCLA chemists, for instance, have developed a way that will allow solar cells to keep their charge for weeks instead of just a few seconds like current products are capable of. According to Sarah Tolbert, UCLA chem professor and one of the study's authors, they looked into plants' nanoscale structures that can keep negatively charged molecules separated from positively charged ones. “That separation is the key to making the process so efficient,” she said. The team has discovered that in order to mimic those nanoscale structures in plastic solar cells (which are potentially cheaper to make than silicon-based ones), they need to use two components: a polymer donor and a nano-scale fullerene acceptor.
David Roberts' report is about the best I have read on the issue of the existing grid and the transition to noncarbon energy. It raises most of the major relevant issues. See the SR archive for the previous piece referenced.
Why wind and solar power are such a challenge for energy grids
Yet another creative variant of solar. Japan is a country where only 11.65% of the land is really suitable for agriculture. They don't have the land to spare for big installations. Particularly with the loss of the Fukushima area, a loss that was both physical and psychological. Solution: take solar to sea.
Japan is building huge solar power plants that float on water
Here is another electricity generating technology I first covered in SR about 11 years ago. It made a splash at the time then disappeared. Now it has come back, and it has fascinating implications. This is yet another example of what happens where carbon energy is no longer thought of as the only way.
