Home heating from asphalt road
A Dutch firm has figured out how to extract heat from roads warmed by the sun and is using it to heat homes.
Politics in the Zeros
"A republic, if you can keep it." Vegas, taxes.
Politics in the Zeros
"A republic, if you can keep it." Vegas, taxes.
Category Energy
Does capitalism need a dose of socialism?
Occasionally, however, capitalism requires a good dose of diluted socialism to keep it kicking, and the capitalist elite may well be hankering for a bit of socialist economics to straighten out the neoliberal disaster engineered by ideologues with fanciful derivatives…
Wave energy for California
Pacific Gas & Electric Co of California is now the first U.S. utility to commit to buying electricity generated from wave power. Finavera Renewables of Canada will build and install the systems off the Humboldt shores. While the amount of…
Algae farm for biodiesel
Shell Oil plans to farm algae off the coast of Kona, Hawaii to create biodiesel in a test project. Yes, the OilCos live in both worlds. But even ExxonMobil is now making serious moves into renewables. Good. Moving to clean,…
Serious recycling
Chicken fat into biodiesel Hydrogen power plant fueled by garbage. That’s a whole lot of blorp that won’t be clogging up landfills but will instead be turned into energy.