Science And Oil

Science And Oil

Summertime, and the livin' is easy, wrote Ira Gershwin and Du Bose Heyward in 1933. The current gasoline prices are not easy on the budget because they are rising again. According to…
SunCatcher - Better Dish, Better Solar Energy

SunCatcher - Better Dish, Better Solar Energy

Stirling Energy Systems (SES) and Tessera Solar recently unveiled four newly designed solar power collection dishes at Sandia National Laboratories’ National Solar Thermal Test Facility (NSTTF).…
T. Boone Pickens Bait and Switch Wind for Gas

T. Boone Pickens Bait and Switch Wind for Gas

lol. Once a oil man always a oil man. T.B. Pickens pulls the plug on his windmill scheme now supporting drilling for natural gas and oil. With over a million supporters of his energy plan based on…
Wind Over Water: An Untapped Power Source?

Wind Over Water: An Untapped Power Source?

As a kid, there were few things more satisfying to me that being given a helium balloon... and then almost immediately letting it go for the pure enjoyment of seeing it float out of sight into the…
Organic Semiconductors And Biological Fuel Cells

Organic Semiconductors And Biological Fuel Cells

University of Georgia researchers have developed a successful way to grow molecular wire brushes that conduct electrical charges, a first step in developing biological fuel cells that could power…