Energy

Singlet Fission May Solve The Solar Efficiency Problem

In lab tests, solar often seems to work great, yet in actual use its efficiency drops sharply. A phenomenon known as singlet fission can help but it is hindered by unexplained energy losses during the reaction. Basic research is needed because solar energy ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 10 2021 - 4:33pm

Perovskite Oxides: New Material For Solar Panels Could Make Them Cost-Effective And Efficient

A new solar panel design and ceramic material points the way to potentially providing sustainable power that can be price competitive and efficient. It also reaches a four-decade-old goal of discovering a bulk photovoltaic material that can harness energy ...

Article - News Staff - May 3 2021 - 6:34am

More Natural Gas Replacing Coal Could Mean Far Less Water Usage

A new study has found that the switch from coal to natural gas hasn't just reduced greenhouse gas emissions from energy, it has reduced water usage. That is even factoring in water used during hydraulic fracturing- fracking- and shale gas generation. ...

Article - News Staff - May 3 2021 - 2:17pm

A Call For Natural Gas And Nuclear: PPCA Coal Reductions Won't Slow Climate Change

The Powering Past Coal Alliance(1) wants to phase out coal power but are hampered by limited membership who don't have to face economic realities. Finland has different energy sources available than China has. And China is not going to be bullied by ...

Article - Hank Campbell - May 3 2021 - 2:18pm

New York City Hates Nuclear Power And Natural Gas- Now They Have To Turn Off Their Air Conditioners

New York's Indian Point nuclear power plant was banned on April 30th of this year- because the ruling political party and the environmental lobbyists who guide decisions convinced themselves that solar was ready to fill the gap. Now the mayor of New Y ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Jul 1 2021 - 6:46pm

Dark Mode On Your Phone Doesn't Save Much Battery Power

Smartphones tout 'dark mode' as an energy-saving feature, because darker-colored pixels use less power than lighter-colored pixels. It's mostly an intellectual placebo, finds a new study, because of the way most people use their phones on a ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 2 2021 - 10:35am

Al Gore accepts science at last: Corn ethanol "was not a good policy"

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 have realized there was something wrong), Al Gore insiste ...

Blog Post - Hank Campbell - Aug 20 2021 - 2:14pm

EPA Is Lowering The Ethanol Mandate Below 2020 Levels- They Should Lower It To Zero

I am not running for President so I don't have any need to cater to Iowa corn farmers and voters, as former Vice-President Al Gore admitted he was doing when he broke a tie in the Senate and forced ethanol mandates on Americans. ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Aug 21 2021 - 1:43pm

California Hurt Themselves With Solar Power The Way Sri Lanka Did With Organic Food

Just a few weeks ago, Sri Lanka underwent a meltdown. The price of food had skyrocketed and it was all because instead of believing scientists they believed Russia or Pesticide Action Network or whoever claims the organic process "is ready" to fe ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Sep 11 2021 - 8:23am

Environmental Campaigns Against Nuclear Science Limits Its Acceptance, Even In Thought Experiments On Reducing CO2

Can all nuclear energy be weaponized? It could, according to US politicians in the 1990s, when President Bill Clinton and Senator John Kerry mortally wounded nuclear energy development, to the cheers of their constituents. It was all based on claims by env ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Sep 23 2021 - 12:41pm