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A boom in shale gas? Credit the feds.

…$535 million in federal loan guarantees, many have concluded that government efforts to promote energy technologies are doomed to fail. Critics cite the abandoned synthetic fuels program, attempts to capture

Ask Mr Grammar Person

…choices made because of the tax code are inefficient. The same people who generally denounce tax expenditures, propose new tax based incentives including say a carbon tax. Yet somehow the…

What to do with GM during bankruptcy

…the auto industry into a carbon copy of the PC industry! There is an underlying set of features & capabilities (the “chassis” offered by AMD or Intel) that incorporates various…

Militarism and Oil…some thoughts

…Iran. So, why NOT make war on Iran? The carbon swelling products need to get to China, India and Japan. A more interesting issue is; what about Georgia? There are…

Money = Wind, Bush and Fox News?

…Public Utility Commission puts the cost of power from new nuclear plants at 15 cents per kWh. It also puts the cost of coal (without carbon capture and storage) at…

Same lithium battery, new connection X10 power

Reader ddrew2u sends this post: Readers of December’s Popular Mechanics know that Stanford University scientists have already engineered a lithium ion enhancement that promises to multiply charge capacity ability about…

Energy control

…a statement Tuesday, however, the White House demanded that the bill be amended to make the industry-friendly Transportation Department solely responsible for regulating fuel economy as well as carbon dioxide…

Another restroom post? Intellectual conumdrums

…to global warming (methane, nitrous oxide, perfluorocarbon, hydrofluorocarbon and sulfur hexafluoride) to get what is called a CO2 equivalence. … Anyway, the hand dryer would seem to be the wise…