Nuclear Moves
AEman's not talking about Iran, he's talking about the US. More info in today in the Boston Globe about Iran, he's talking about the US. More info about the increasingly warm economic climate (warm climate?) for new nuclear power. Note the final paragraph on recent stealth generation expansion.
posted by Andy Bochman at 7:40 AM
 
Brazilian BioFuel Beauty
Yeehaw! When it rains AE it pours AE. Hold on to your wind turbines, solar cells, and hybrids. Now announcing Ethanol from Sugar Cane ... metric shitloads of it, from that little country down under. Brazil is making tons of ethanol, and is putting infrastructure in place to make tons more. And the market is working too. Cars that can run on ethanol blends and even pure ethanol are a big hit in Brazil, where the price of the stuff is much lower than gas. And guess what: ethanol even packs a bigger energy punch per gallon than gas. And its emmissions are much better. And it helps farmers, and cures aids, and makes a great dessert topping, and ...
OK, you get the point. AEman's on a suger high this morning. Anyway, check it out for yourself.
posted by Andy Bochman at 10:48 AM
Honda Evolves Hydrogen Another Notch
Honda FCX Hydrogen Car 
Honda's FCX is its latest generation full hydrogen car. It's got issues for sure, but fewer of them than previous generations and the one's it has are growing increasingly minor. That's the way technology works, you know. Sort of like evolution ... or is that intelligent design ???!!!
posted by Andy Bochman at 11:05 PM
Everyone Knows its Windy
From the Director of the National Wind Technology Center in Golden, Colorado, a few fun facts on the current state of wind power capacity and tech:
- 2004 global wind energy capacity: 47.3 Gigawatts
- 2004 US wind energy capacity: 6.7 Gigawatts (mostly in CA and TX)
- Average utility-sized wind turbine produced today: 1.2 Megawatts
- Largest currently produced by US manufacturor: 1.5 Megawatts (GE Energy)
- Estimated wind energy potential offshore of New England: 100 Gigawatts
- Estimated wind energy potential in the US Great Plains: More than enough to power the US
posted by Andy Bochman at 7:26 AM
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