July 27, 2009 CHP Electricity Powers Cars 22 Times Farther Than Ethanol! by Thomas R. Blakeslee, Clearlight Foundation Cheap fossil fuel has allowed us to waste the majority of our energy, filling the planet with pollution and waste heat. Our car engines are only 25% efficient and coal power plants are not much better. Corn Continue Reading →
Anyone interested in reading a detailed report compiled by W.Shawn Gray? It deals with problems we will encounter with the approaching Peak-Oil Crisis and other associated issues. It is very comprehensive and Shawn has tried to deal with them in a PDF Document of some 42 Pages. It is well worth downloading from his URL and Continue Reading →
Ethanol fuel is ethanol (ethyl alcohol), the same type of alcohol found in alcoholic beverages. It can be used as a fuel, mainly as a biofuel alternative to gasoline, and is widely used by flex-fuel light vehicles in Brazil, and as an oxygenate to gasoline in the United States. Together, both countries were responsible for Continue Reading →
Water power Main article: Hydropower Energy in water (in the form of kinetic energy, temperature differences or salinity gradients) can be harnessed and used. Since water is about 800 times denser than air,[26][27] even a slow flowing stream of water, or moderate sea swell, can yield considerable amounts of energy. One of 3 PELAMIS Continue Reading →
The Geysers From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation, search The West Ford Flat power plant is one of 21 power plants at The Geysers The Geysers, a geothermal power field located 72 miles (116 km) north of San Francisco, California, is the largest geothermal development in the world. It is currently outputting over Continue Reading →
From the UK Guardian via Sydney Morning Herald
This week the US Census Bureau announced that, within 10
years and for the first time in history, old people will outnumber
children under five across the globe. It was careful not to be too
judgmental about this – there being so little we can do about it anyway
– and concentrated not on consequent problems but on the “challenges to
policymakers”.
And yet whenever this demographic shift
comes up, it is presented in terms of a crisis on one hand and a burden
on the other. Pensions are always in turmoil and dependency ratios,
particularly in developed economies, are always dangerously skewed.
Various newspapers talked about the bureau having “sounded the alarm”
about the “burden on carers and social services” and “intense pressures
on individuals and families”. These are the terms of any discussion
about an ageing population – that it represents a calamity.