Energy

Wood Heat: Why The Developing World Needs Centralized Energy, Even If It's Coal

A new study takes Norwegians to task for continuing to use wood stoves as part of their bucolic northern heritage. Drive outside cities and it is common to see stacks of wood lining the walls of houses and smoke rising from the chimneys, especially on col ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 14 2018 - 3:54pm

Former NRC Head Gregory Jaczko Says Union Of Concerned Scientists Is Wrong On Nuclear

Gregory Jaczko, Ph.D., has a degree in theoretical physics, a hatred for nuclear power, and a love for his former boss Senator Harry Reid of Nevada- which is why Reid lobbied so heavily to get him placed as Chairman of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commissio ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Apr 1 2019 - 12:33pm

America Leads The World In Controlling Energy Consumption And Emissions- We Should Be Exporting That, Not Solar Dogma

As the world's most powerful economy, we read a lot about how America needs to do more to use cleaner energy, and less of it.  ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Jan 28 2019 - 11:27am

In Experiments, Hen Solarium Increases The Vitamin D Content Of Eggs

Vitamin D helps keep bones strong and some diseases at bay. During the summer months, people are able to get about 90 percent of their daily vitamin D requirements through exposure to sunlight, but that is not the case during a northeast winter.  The remai ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 24 2019 - 4:00pm

The Amount Of Water Injected In Conventional Oil And Gas Production Exceeds Fracking By 10X

High-volume hydraulic fracturing, colloquially called fracking, injects water, sand and chemicals under high pressure into petroleum-bearing rock formations to recover previously inaccessible oil and natural gas. While it was experimented with since the 19 ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 15 2019 - 6:14pm

Prototype Reactor Turns CO2 Into Formic Acid, Pure Liquid Fuel

The prototype of a catalytic reactor, an electrolyzer, uses carbon dioxide as its feedstock and produces high concentrations of formic acid, pure liquid fuel.  In tests, the new electrocatalyst reached an energy conversion efficiency of about 42%. That me ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 3 2019 - 10:19am

How Does Solar Power Work?

How do solar panels work? – Nathan, age 5, Melbourne, Australia. The Sun produces a lot of energy called solar energy. Australia gets 20,000 times more energy from the Sun each day than we do from oil, gas and coal. This solar energy will continue for as ...

Article - The Conversation - Nov 5 2019 - 8:36pm

Biofuels Are A Negative For The Climate And We Can Thank Environmentalists For That

When Al Gore was Vice-President in 1994, he forced the U.S. EPA to mandate ethanol in gasoline by breaking the Senate tie in favor of environmentalists who had been pushing ethanol as 'sustainable biofuel' for decades. His vote forced gasoline ma ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Dec 6 2019 - 10:41am

Lithium-Sulphur Battery Can Power A Smartphone For 5 Days

Australian academics have a filed patent (PCT/AU 2019/051239) on the manufacturing process for a lithium-sulphur battery capable of powering a smartphone for five continuous days. Even better for them, they got $2.5 million in government funding and indust ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 7 2020 - 5:47pm

Solar Power Is A Manifestation Of Income Inequality, Solar Geoengineering May Instead Fix It

Solar panel proponents rave about their solar energy. They tout how low their electricity bills are, that the utility is forced to buy energy from them at the same price they sell it, and that they are helping the planet. ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 13 2020 - 5:28pm