Energy

Lithium-Ion Batteries Need Help To Enter The 21st Century, Manganese May Be It

With a 4th generation nuclear plant finally getting built in the U.S., 30 years after the federal government blocked all advanced energy research, there are so few old environmentalists still in power that alternative energy wishful thinking can make way f ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Sep 25 2024 - 1:51pm

Knee Point Prediction And Battery Capacity Degradation

Electric cars and solar and wind energy alternative schemes have a few crippling limitations; low energy densities and unavailability when people need energy most. Batteries could help with that second one except current batteries are legacy technology tha ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 3 2024 - 11:48am

If The World Bank Stops Banning Nuclear, Boomer Environmentalism Is Over

Greenpeace is facing bankruptcy after a $667,000,000 judgment. For the first time ever, the number of U.S. federal employees declined. Democrats have begun to consider they might be wrongly defending terrorists. They even became pro-vaccine for the first t ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Mar 24 2025 - 2:16pm

Duckweed: Pest Has Potential To Become Biofuel Powerhouse

Duckweed is a tiny floating plant  that often becomes a hard-to-control weed in ponds and small lakes. Yet these ecological lemons might become energy lemonade. It's not all bad, duckweed has been used to clean contaminated water and to produce pharm ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 7 2025 - 12:55pm

American CO2 Is Below World War II Levels But We Keep Emissions High In Poor Countries

In politics, one way to make your belief in alternative energy seem feasible is to make its competitors expensive. President Obama did that when he began to subsidize the domestic solar energy industry at unprecedented levels.(1) He brought in Dr. Stephen ...

Article - Hank Campbell - May 6 2025 - 9:54am

The Renewable Energy Paradox- When Everyone Gets It No One Will

Unlike US environmentalists, Belgian greens didn't flip and suddenly regard hydropower as a bad thing, they regard it as a viable part of their renewable energy strategy. All options are on the table, 50 percent of their electricity is even nuclear.   ...

Article - Hank Campbell - May 6 2025 - 10:05am