Tag Archives : Energy Sources

The Corn (Ethanol) Conundrum

The Corn (Ethanol) Conundrum

While corn-based biofuel, particularly corn-based ethanol, has been touted to be the most viable alternative to petroleum and other fossil fuels, the production of such grain-based alternative has sparked many a debate as to its supposed environmental sustainability. Food crop displacement is just one of the trade-offs in the burgeoning ethanol industry. Nowhere [...]
Bill Gates: Climate Technology Miracles from a Visionary’s Imagination

Bill Gates: Climate Technology Miracles from a Visionary’s Imagination

Bill Gates is in touch with reality. He refuses to ride the global warming alarmist propaganda bandwagon. Bradford Plumer in The New Republic mentions the recent TED Conference in Long Beach where Gates ‘told the audience that climate change was the world’s most vexing problem, but that it would take “energy miracles” for the world to zero out [...]
Energy Mint Battery: Shake it, baby!

Energy Mint Battery: Shake it, baby!

Green energy is finding constant new ways and new avenues to harness power from, which can be then tapped into and used. Various new and seemingly odd sources and unusual designs are emerging with people already successfully using rotating doors and dance floors in a club to generate power and drive the energy needs of some buildings. But the constant [...]