Great essay on entropy, energy and confusing coincidental access to a resource endowment with economic, institutional or racial superiority.
The hard reality is that the minority of us who happened to have been born in a few powerful countries squandered half a billion years of stored photosynthesis to give ourselves a brief period of [...]
Engineers at the German Fraunhofer Institute have designed a water collector that can extract water from desert air, just like on Dune!
The principle of the process… hygroscopic brine – saline solution which absorbs moisture – runs down a tower-shaped unit and absorbs water from the air. It is then sucked into a tank [...]
Some charts to consider regarding the new energy supply vs demand balance. as oil is back above $70 per barrel today on data showing dwindling US inventories going into summer.
Production is falling away quite rapidly. The last time production was at this level the suppliers were getting about half as much for it – and [...]
China will invest $15bn to increase wind power generation from 12kMW to 30kMW by 2010.
The world’s third-largest economy will increase its wind power capacity by fivefold to 100,000 megawatts by 2020… five megawatts is sufficient to power about 1,000 households in China on average…
Healthy competition on fuel standards (and autos).
Chinese officials [...]
This windmill is big. This windmill is big. As Bernard says, find the person in the first picture.