Tag: Energy

Cleaner Power from Innovation: Creative Approaches to Renewable Energy

Cleaner Power from Innovation: Creative Approaches to Renewable Energy (via Global Warming is Real)

June 21, 2013
During Record Drought, Frackers Outcompete Farmers for Water Supplies

“There is a new player for water, which is oil and gas. And certainly they are in a position to pay a whole lot more than we are.”

June 21, 2013
Billionaire Tom Steyer Launches Campaign to Rally Obama Supporters Against Keystone XL Pipeline

To demonstrate the dangers of the Keystone pipeline to American communities along its proposed route, Steyer commissioned the first-ever chemical analysis of tar sands oil collected from the March 2013 spill in Mayflower, AR. An independent laboratory …

June 21, 2013
Too Green to be True — Literally? Researchers Develop Effective Method for Converting CO2 into Methanol

There is good news in the science community about a new method of converting carbon dioxide into the renewable fuel, methanol. Unfortunately, this methanol catalysis appears to be too expensive for consumer applications — at least right now.

June 21, 2013
Battery Made Of Wood Could Be Much Greener

There’s a lot of research going on in the realm of batteries these days. It seems like there’s a “battery breakthrough” announced almost every day. Clearly, all these battery breakthroughs won’t make it to commercialization, and it’s hard to identify which will. This new battery made of wood one could be promising… but would the…

June 21, 2013