Google announced today that it is investing .25 million in an energy technology called Enhanced Geothermal Systems (EGS). According to an MIT report on EGS, only 2% of the heat beneath the continental US between 3 and 10 kilometers (depths… Continue Reading
We taxpayers have dumped $Billions into wind, solar…etc. and have gotten no return. Shouldn’t we allow the Free Market determine what forms of energy we use? From the Wall Street Journal: "Congress seems ready to spend billions on a new… Continue Reading
1. What is the potential for developing more hydroelectric power in North America vs. developing countries, and what would be the environmental impact of such development? 2. What should be the energy policy of the United States, based on the… Continue Reading
Wake Up, America. We’re Driving Toward Disaster. By James Howard Kunstler 26/05/08 "Washington Post" — – Everywhere I go these days, talking about the global energy predicament on the college lecture circuit or at environmental conferences, I hear an increasingly… Continue Reading
So now we have Iran which refuses to curtail it’s uranium enrichment activities because it claims to need to pursue nuclear energy for it’s people. Israel is nervous and threatening to attack Iran. Iran, in turn is threatening to attack… Continue Reading
The President reiterated a campaign viewpoint to revive nuclear power in the United States in his State of the Union Address, and this is expected to be made tangible by a reservation of billion in the 2011 budget for loans… Continue Reading
bit.ly Thin-Film Solar Startup Debuts With Billion in Contracts A startup with a secret recipe for printing cheap solar cells on aluminum foil debuted today, in what could end up a milestone for the industry. Nanosolars technology consists of sandwiches… Continue Reading
Then why haven’t we colonized the whole Solar system since then? Because it took mankind only several thousand years to rise from stone tools to industrial society, nuclear power, space flights, etc. So either something kept human beings from developing,… Continue Reading
We see a lot of comments around here about how solar power is too inefficient and expensive, and nuclear power is the only solution to our energy issues. However, there’s already one Silicon Valley start-up producing thin-film solar panels at… Continue Reading
Say you needed to transport Terraforming supplies to mars and it is a very large ship, so Nuclear power? Ionic Engines? Solar Sails? Solar Power? A combination of those technologies?