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POPSWeb pioneer Gross revitalized by green energy Bill Gross is the Ron Popeil of Internet entrepreneurs...or perhaps the failed car man and innovator Preston Tucker ;) I am excited to see what he will do with his alt energy incubator. Maybe he will once again innovate enough to help shape the green economy. But, with regard to his claim of becoming more disciplined than he was in the 90's...I'll take the under. Good luck Bill, i'm pulling for you!
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POPSDemocrats And Gasoline that they must have some gall to criticize creationism when they in fact subscribe to its economic equivalent. But as I wrote last week, I don't really think they are this ignorant. They're providing a rhetorical distraction to the fact that they want high gas prices, probably higher ones than we have right now. Meanwhile, in order to deflect and even harness consumer anger in the political arena, they can send out Chuck Schumer to put on this dog-and-pony show about the phantoms that are secretly directing the economy from behind closed doors. It's a smokescreen. As an energy consumer, you should be a lot more concerned about what Democrats are doing in the open Senate chamber. The gas crisis finally hit Capitol Hill with full fury this week, and Senate Democrats have launched a plan that sounds ambitious: Take on Wall Street speculators, OPEC, price gougers and Big Oil. http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0408/9967.html
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POPSOil price puts solar in spotlight It is amazing that the enormous power plant in the sky, the sun, has remained mostly untapped despite serious concerns about our energy security, health, and economy. Today, only a fraction of a percent of the world's electricity generation comes from solar energy. The good news is that the promise of solar energy, particularly solar thermal, is extraordinary as it can be used to generate electricity in large quantities.
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POPSThe DRILL Act (Drill here, drill now!) "Where better to drill than the NATIONAL Petroleum Reserve. That is what it is for. That is why it was set aside. The National Petroleum Reserve. "My colleagues, situated on the North Slope of Alaska, this Reserve is no pipe dream like ANWR - which is a bumper sticker approach of our energy woes. 10.6 billion barrels of recoverable oil! "Far more than ANWR, which is not open to leasing. And if opened, would be far behind bringing energy to Americans than the National Petroleum Reserve. "In Alaska, 35 trillion cubic feet of natural gas has been stranded - think about that - 35 trillion cubic feet of natural gas - because there is no pipeline to bring it to market. Elsewhere, there is 68 million acres of federal lands. Onshore and offshore in the Outer Continental Shelf. Under oil and gas leases. That are not producing. May be subject to speculation. Being warehoused. "I say drill it! Drill it.
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POPSHey Al, turn down the AC, Sheesh! Hypocrites, all of them. How does the guy who wins a Nobel Peace prize for predicting our demise due to global warming actually increase his energy consumption and thus his carbon footprint while telling the little people to reduce theirs? The better question is now do the environ"mentalists" not hold him accountable and why does the liberal media ignore it?
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POPSBlood oil This is the choice our government is making our citizens make by refusing to drill, dig, enrich. That iis, of course, no excuse for the people who take the blood oil, but still.
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POPSWorld 1st: Wave-powered Boat Completes Journey from Japan to Hawaii
This guy is my hero! Horie told reporters in Japan: "The sea was so calm, and the weather was so great throughout my journey. That's why it took me so long," Kenichi Horie said of his historic voyage. The vitals are that Kenichi left Honolulu March 16th, arrived in Wakayama, Japan last night (which by our calculation makes 110 days), and covered over 3,400 nautical miles via wave power. "When waves were weak, the boat slowed down. That's the problem to be solved." !n 1996 Ken-ichi Horie has already set a world record for the fastest crossing of the Pacific Ocean in a solar-powered boat, preceded three years earlier when he pedaled a boat for 4,660 miles from Hawaii to Okinawa, setting the world record for the longest distance traveled by a pedal-powered boat. Posted by Jason McManus. Source links: http://www.solarnavigator.net/kenichi_horie_voyages.htm http://www.tsuneishi.co.jp/english/horie/index.html http://yachtpals.com/kenichi-horie-1991 http://www.environmentalgra
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POPSWater-fuel car unveiled in Japan Japanese company Genepax presents its eco-friendly car that runs on nothing but water. The car has an energy generator that extracts hydrogen from water that is poured into the car's tank. The generator then releases electrons that produce electric power to run the car. Genepax, the company that invented the technology, aims to collaborate with Japanese manufacturers to mass produce it.
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POPSWestinghouse AP1000 Nuclear Reactors seven of nine approved across the US (no Borg jokes please). Plus Westinghouse/Shaw corporations have been given the thumbs up to build these same reactors in China. It is what is called a generation III+ reactor, and its stats are amazing. Five percent enriched uranium oxide (far less than what is concidered weapons grade: 98%+) which is an amazing improvement to previous plants The coolant pumps are proven designs that are used in warships for cripes sake (and they are huge and impressive). Go to the address below for full info on it. www.energetics.com/pdfs/nuclear/ap1000.pdf
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POPSBionic bra: Victoria's circuit Looking for a better way to charge her iPod on the go, Adrienne So had an idea – could she invent a bionic bra to harness the energy of her bouncing breasts?
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POPSPelosi What is President Bush's approval rating? What is congress's approval rating? Sorry Nancy, you lose.
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