Energy

Beginning in 1988, and until a Republican Congress approved mandates and subsidies for biofuels in 2005 (at which point every Democrat and environmental activist irrationality extolling ethanol must…

New X-ray imaging capability at Sandia's Z accelerator may help remove an obstacle in efforts to harness nuclear fusion to generate electrical power from sea water.  More accurate simulations…

The big knock on huge wind or solar farms in developed countries is whose back yard the new power lines will run through.   Off-shore wind farms or solar farms in remote deserts may be a…

Continuing my series on the history of batteries, we now more on to batteries with nickel-based electrodes. 1899 saw the development of the nickel-cadmium battery by Waldemar Jungner. He also…

The debate on biofuel vs. food is more of less like the suggestion of a person when we were taking plantion in a park area near our home some 25 years ago. We planted 400 trees almost at the…

Spanning the Kill Van Kull tidal strait and first opened in 1931, the Bayonne Bridge was the longest in the world until 1978 and is currently the fourth longest steel arch bridge in the world. …

Many alternative Bio Diesel fuels have been shown to have better exhaust emissions than traditional Diesel fuel. Jatropha Bio diesel holds promise as fuel alternatives for diesel engine because :-…

Lithium-ion batteries are commonly regarded as promising for the cars of the future (at least until hydrogen fuel cells are ready for prime time) but environmentalists interested in electric or…

Energy storage optimization takes a great deal of wisdom, such as the proper trade-offs between energy density or power density.   Batteries, which store energy by separating chemicals and are…

See Nuclear Reactions for Beginners to get an introduction to the basic concepts It should be clear by now that both the fusion and fission processes can generate energy - the trick is to make…