Energy

Green Energy- Back To A 13th Century Future

Green energy technologies like wind, solar and biomass presently constitute only 3.6% of fuel used to generate electricity in the U.S.   Energy expert Vaclav Smil calculates that achieving Al Gore's renewable energy goal in a decade would incur buildi ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Nov 1 2011 - 11:32am

How can you produce bio-diesel in your country?.

Several times this question has been raised: How can we produce bio-diesel? Which plants can provide bio-diesel? What is bio-diesel? Some of the quick answers are: 1. What is biomass which you want to use to produce bio-diesel: Generally there are three ca ...

Blog Post - Ashwani Kumar - Apr 16 2011 - 11:32pm

Will The Tax Increase On North Sea Projects Decimate The UK Oil And Gas Industry?

LONDON, April 18, 2011 /PRNewswire/-- The tax increase imposed by the UK government has invoked wide spread condemnation from the oil and gas industry with the threat of major North Sea projects being halted. SMi Group's Taxation in Oil and Gas confe ...

Article - Anna Ohlden - Apr 18 2011 - 9:04am

Fukushima: Could A Similar Disaster Strike Closer To Your Home?

If you're not one of the 172,000 Japanese people living within a dozen miles of the Fukushima Daiichi plant who have been advised (read: forced) to leave, you are breathing a sigh of relief while you hope things turn out okay. But a new analysis carri ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Apr 21 2011 - 2:56pm

Lebork S-1 Drilling Results

BNK Petroleum announced today that the Lebork S-1 well, on the Slupsk concession in Poland has been drilled, cased and cemented to its total depth of 3,590 meters. The well was originally drilled to 3,517 meters and 223 meters of whole core were recovered ...

Article - Anna Ohlden - Apr 26 2011 - 6:53pm

What Oil Prices Say

Oil has been the strategic asset since it was discovered.  The price of oil reflects everything from the underlying value of the US dollar, to the general level of industrial economic activity and development at any given time in aggregate for the world. ...

Blog Post - Ed Chen - May 9 2011 - 10:11am

Splitting Water To Make Renewable Hydrogen Energy Just Got Easier

Could the key to our hydrogen future be a black stain on rocks? Using sunlight to split water in a cheap, efficient way is the goal of true renewable energy that won't involve ghastly wind vanes or porkbarrelled government funding of ethanol.  The obs ...

Article - News Staff - May 16 2011 - 2:20pm

Wave Power Inspired by Squid?

This is totally cool! Scotland's leading marine energy test centre has opened its doors to a new generation of developers to test prototype machines, one of which is aiming to harness wave energy using a design based on the humble squid....  SQUID, w ...

Blog Post - Danna Staaf - May 18 2011 - 5:54pm

Three Gorges Oops

We've been skeptical of the Three Gorges Dam project for a number of years.   It isn't that dams are a bad idea, they are a great idea, it's just the the ecologists who endorsed the thing invented the absolutely perfect outcomes and assumed ...

Article - Hank Campbell - May 19 2011 - 12:14pm

Natural Gas Takes Some Heat

A cold turkey approach to energy is a ridiculous idea endorsed only by the truly militant but it is clear we have to migrate from high-pollution solution fossil fuels while science advances on energy generation that is clean and cost-effective enough that ...

Blog Post - Hank Campbell - May 26 2011 - 4:43pm