Multi-directional wind turbines for the home. Vertical Axis Wind Turbine VAWT

Vertical Axis Wind Turbines VAWT.  These have been around for a while but no one design or company has really taken off. The most efficient ones are generally shaped like a helix so that it spins no matter what direction the wind is blowing.  One significant problem with the standard large windmill design is they [...]

The future of energy storage

What is the best way to store energy in the long run? and by long run I mean after all the fossil fuels have been used up. Batteries It is safe to say that eventually the power we get will originate as electricity whether from geothermal, solar, or wind (I exclude bio-fuels because it is [...]

Solaren and Pacific Gas and Electric take on Space based Solar Power

These two companies are implementing the proven along with some mysterious new technology to make Space based Solar economically feasible.  I wrote a post a while ago about this subject and now with a serious commitment (albeit without the space elevator), I’m very excited to see how well it works.  Have to wait until 2016 [...]

Richard Cory

Richard Cory by Edwin Arlington Robinson, 1869-1935 Whenever Richard Cory went down town, We people on the pavement looked at him; He was a gentleman from sole to crown, Clean favored, and imperially slim. And he was always quietly arrayed, And he was always human when he talked; But still he fluttered pulses when he [...]

Tree Found in Man’s Lungs

Poor Guy Imagine if we could just produce oxygen internally?

Diatoms and Solar Nanotechnology

Article HERE Microscopic algae called diatoms could help triple the electrical output of experimental, dye-sensitized solar cells, according to researchers at Oregon State University and Portland State University. I won’t bother to summerize…

The Carbon cycle

Go back two hundred years The carbon cycle has been occurring for four billion years.  Plants take carbon from the air and store it in themselves. When the plants die the carbon is either composted or trapped underground to become coal. Animals take carbon from plants and become oil in death. As a result the [...]

Who will stop burning coal? Transferring our Carbon footprint to the Third World

Nobody. By most estimates we have used about a third of the coal deposits on the planet. Led by western Europe, industrialized nations are moving towards a sustainable future.  Unfortunately this may mean that developing nations will reject sustainable technology in favor of the technologies we left behind. With the rise of Nanosolar it may [...]