Posted: 14 May 2013  

Here's an example of harvesting the Sun's heat on a massive scale. These solar towers could be used for more than just driving steam turbines, as suggested in this MindBullet scenario.

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14 May 2013

With BrightSource’s Ivanpah solar plant about to come online, the company looks to its next projects for the economics to improve.

Hydrogen will be the dominant fuel of the future

Dateline: 15 July 2017

After two decades of disappointment, hydrogen is finally becoming a viable fuel and source of energy for the world economy. The breakthroughs in innovation ...

Posted: 7 May 2013  

Elon Musk reckons that, with a new payment plan and some creative accounting, about 30 million Americans can afford a Tesla. That's a lot of electric cars, and would test Tesla's production capacity severely, seeing as they've been having trouble producing 5,000 per quarter.

But I think the point is, many more people could afford electric cars, as they become mainstream and costs decline, as ...

7 May 2013

The U.S. Department of Energy has been criticized for loaning money to Tesla Motors because the company makes cars that only rich people can afford. That’s ...

Despite the hype, the electric car has failed, again, to be a commercial success. Who is to blame?

Dateline: 8 July 2014

Remember the very first electric car, the EV1? They made a movie about its demise, and blamed the oil companies. Well, it's happened again. The electric ...

Dateline: 6 May 2015

The first commercial application of the Shockwave Engine has been piloted by Ford in their latest hybrid SUV. The brainchild of Norbert Mueller of Michigan State University, this innovative rotary engine uses a fraction of the fuel consumed by a normal piston engine, for the same power output. A cross between the Wankel rotary engine and a jet turbine, the Mueller engine is best suited to generating electric power at fairly constant speed, rather than driving a mechanical transmission. It runs on a ...

Dateline: 1 May 2040

As the 21st Century approaches middle age, prices are falling alarmingly. In real terms, everything from coal to electronics is cheaper than it was four decades ago, and steel is at its lowest price in 100 years. Deflation is the norm in the Old World, and the so-called Dynamic Markets are no longer so dynamic. Over the past century, we have seen global growth on an unprecedented scale, and average income per capita, worldwide, has never been higher. The economic superpowers of the previous century, ...

Posted: 8 April 2013  

Now here's an innovative energy idea! This might be just a bit of fun, but there is serious intent behind this kind of research. We keep reading about a looming energy crisis...but I am quite sure that human ingenuity will come to our rescue! Best foot forward, you might say!

8 April 2013

The energy exerted by runners at the Paris Marathon won’t be wasted. Here’s how.

Where's my solar power solution?

Dateline: 5 June 2016

In the last five years the world has seen ever more conflict over that basic resource, so essential to the modern industrialized economy, energy. Real wars ...