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- One of two massive boilers makes it to campus (Gazette Times), a part of the new natural gas-fired, combined-cycle with cogeneration electrical power generating system at the Energy Center now under construction.
- Increasing the density of adsorbed hydrogen with metal-organic frameworks, perhaps a way to store hydrogen easily in fuel-cell vehicles.
- The Humdinger Windbelt, clever small scale wind-driven electrical generator, and a demonstration.
- Though interesting, the efficiency specifications for the BugE three-wheeled cycle-car are erroneously stated and unconvincing.
- The U. S. National Debt is about 9 trillion dollars, or about $30,000 per person, and each of us is paying interest on this amount.
- From the U. S. Geological Survey, 3 to 4.3 Billion Barrels of Technically Recoverable Oil Assessed in North Dakota and Montana' Bakken Formation, 25 Times More Than 1995 Estimate. What does a billion barrels of oil mean? Consider our current daily refinery input from the US DOE EIA.
- Tax credits for energy conservation and use of renewable energy are included in H.R.5351 Renewable Energy and Energy Conservation Tax Act of 2008 which has been approved by the House but not the Senate. However, the U.S. Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources has added these credits to H.R. 3221 without the replacement revenue source specified in H.R. 5351.
- High-Yield Hydrogen Production from Starch and Water by a Synthetic Enzymatic Pathway, PLoS.
- Popcorn-ball design doubles efficiency of dye-sensitized solar cells, research from the University of Washington Department of Materials Science and Engineering.
- Green talk and the bottom line, from the Eugene Register Guard.
- 2,843.3 mpg? Read about the utmost in fuel efficiency and solar efficiency achieved in the Shell Eco-Marathon Americas.
- New Ways to Store Solar Energy for Nighttime and Cloudy Days, from the NY Times. This idea is not new, to which this rusting tower in the Mojave Desert stands as a testament.
- Technology Smooths the Way for Home Wind-Power Turbines, but here in the Willamette Valley the wind resource is meager.
- Changing Jet Streams May Alter Paths of Storms and Hurricanes, from the Carnegie Institution.
- Though March in Corvallis was cooler than average, the month was almost the warmest March on record on a global basis.
- Bush Sets Greenhouse Gas Emissions Goal, from the NY times. He wants to stabilize our CO2 emissions at some unspecified rate greater than our current rate. The current rate of emission of CO2 from energy use in the U.S. is a staggering 5.890 Billion Metric Tons per year (2006 data from the EIA greenhouse gas emissions site).
- A Drought in Australia, a Global Shortage of Rice, from the NY times.
- VW Up! is said to be capable of 94 mpg and to cost only $8000.
- Leafonomics, from the NY Times.
- Recovering From Wyoming's Energy Bender, from the NY Times.
- Europe Turns to Coal Again, Raising Alarms on Climate, from the NY Times.
- Secretary Peters Proposes 25 Percent Increase in Fuel Efficiency Standards Over 5 Years for Passenger Vehicles, Light Trucks, from the U.S. government.
- Greenland Ice Slipping Away but Not All That Quickly, from Science Magazine
- Surviving the Ocean Acid Test, from Science Magazine
- EPA Scientists Unhappy About Political Meddling, from Science Magazine
- IPCC Tunes Up for Its Next Report Aiming for Better, Timely Results, from Science Magazine
- The Greening of Synfuels, from Science Magazine
- Sowing the Seeds for High-Energy Plants, from Science Magazine
- New Source for Biofuels Discovered by Researchers At The University of Texas at Austin
- Car of the Future, a Nova presentation on OPB, is certainly worth watching, and not just for the entertainment value of the Magliozzi brothers. The most important points seem to be the following: the very light weight design of Amory Lovins of the Rocky Mountain Institute; the argument that the most efficient use of a chemical fuel for transportation is to generate electrical energy in a large power plant and use that to charge batteries in a vehicle; generating ethanol from cellulosic biomass is sustainable as compared to using starch from corn; H2 as a fuel and the replacement of internal combustion engines with fuel cells makes sense but will take quite a while to reach practicality.
- Life Cycle Assessment of Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Plug-in Hybrid Vehicles: Implications for Policy, Environmental Science and Technology, April 2008. The pdf is listed below.
- A method to increase the Arctic sea ice cover, the Journal of Applied Physics. The pdf is listed below.
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