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Archive for July 2007

Oil Prices

They’re not going to stop, OPEC is going to bleed the rest of the world for everything they can get. I’d like to draw your attention to this article in the Guardian. The long and short of it is that OPEC has seen that the worlds economy didn’t totally collapse under the high pricing so… (read more)

Green Water?

Green waves at Alki Close-up of green water at Alki It wasn’t like this twenty years ago. I used to bring my kids down here and they’d go out in the water. Now it’s just gross as are many other bodies of water in the Puget Sound region. I used to go swim in Green… (read more)

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JP said… “You obviously know what you are talking about regarding Tokamak research. What are your views on Inertial Confinement Fusion driven by lasers?” I believe that Tokamak fusion could be brought online as a power source feeding the grid easily within ten years and perhaps as few as five if we were willing to… (read more)

Algae Biodiesel

If the claim made in this video is true, this is very good news. It is claimed that the yield of biodiesel from algae is 217 times as much per acre as from rapeseed, a preferred crop for the purpose in the US. What is more it doesn’t need food producing land nor high quality… (read more)

Scary Stuff

This guy scares me. He writes this long entitled, “A new dawn for nuclear power”. In this article he states, “To keep this process under control most reactors require a moderator – usually made of graphite or water because their light atoms are good at absorbing the kinetic energy of the neutrons.” For those who… (read more)

Accelerate ITER

In light of the worlds pressing energy needs and the demonstration of working superconductive magnetic plasma confinement at China’s EAST reactor, the United States and other member nations should enter into negotiations to accelerate the construction of the ITER fusion reactor. I also believe we should start work on a second international test reactor project… (read more)