One of the news stories this week was President Obama’s decision on whether to have his administration grant a permit for a private company to proceed with building the Keystone XL pipeline, a pipe that would run from the Canadian border to US refineries on the Gulf Coast. Obama denied the permit. That’s a quick [...]
Well, that don’t sound good: Would-be California automaker Aptera has announced that it is returning all of the deposits it currently holds for its two-seat, three-wheel electric car. According to GreenCarReports.com, the company sent out a note on August 12th to the people who had placed reservations for the Aptera 2e that reads “…as you [...]
One of the items of technology that’s been keeping my attention is the concept using thorium for a nuclear energy source. Click that link and take a look at my previous articles on the matter; it’s exciting stuff. Well, now comes this news, courtesy of Anthony Watts of WattsUpWithThat? Much like “flying cars”, atomic powered [...]
It’s interesting how candid our politicians get when they’re in front of foreign audiences. Al Gore, the global-warming oracle who has pushed the “climate change” agenda for years and who was instrumental in passing legislation creating government subsidies for the production of corn ethanol for fuel, is now on record saying that corn ethanol is [...]
Regular readers here will know that I’ve been following the story of a technology that has some exciting potential to change the playing field of our energy production and consumption. Proposed nuclear power projects based on thorium instead of uranium have really interested me and this latest report from Popular Mechanics adds even more to [...]
Interesting historical item, here. In 1912, Thomas Edison built 3 prototype electric cars based on the alkaline battery he had invested about 11 years earlier. The vehicles had an array of 15 batteries (2 volts each) and a 30-volt electric motor which could propel the car to about 25 mph. At the time, that was [...]
I note this story this morning that the relief well BP was drilling to permanently seal the blown-out Deepwater Horizon well has successfully hit its mark. They expect to execute the final seal on Sunday. I don’t want to ignore this event in a story that has had plenty of disastrous moments. This was a [...]
The headline on the FoxNews.com story is “Environmentalists Want Carter-Era Solar Panels Back on White House.” This is another one of those examples of a headline not really being accurate to the story it’s leading. First, the opening details: Environmental activists want President Obama to bring more sunlight into government — literally. Toting one of [...]
Earlier this year I reported on a link I got from Instapundit that told me about a concept for nuclear power generation that I’d not heard of before: thorium-based reactors. Thorium is a relatively common, radioactive substance with some interesting properties. The fact that it can be used as a power generation fuel and yet [...]
Working the customer base that I do (federal agencies) this time of year is especially busy. Adding to that is my company’s annual sales meeting, currently ongoing. That means I’m in a lot of meetings this week, often without any contact via voice or e-mail. One of my usual contacts told me that the Coast [...]
