I recently received the following press release from Solar One, a non-profit organization that specializes in solar energy awareness and advocacy. Since I am passionate about solar energy, I am happy to call attention to […]
More Calls for Nationalization
As I have been saying, expect more of this: That’s pretty scary, but not unexpected. As oil prices continue to rise, governments will make desperate moves that will probably worsen the situation. Can you imagine […]
Bill O’Reilly is an Idiot
It is simply amazing to watch someone authoritatively pontificate on something that they clearly know nothing about. One of the major reasons we have such an energy problem in the U.S. today is that people […]
Bill O’Reilly is an Idiot
It is simply amazing to watch someone authoritatively pontificate on something that they clearly know nothing about. One of the major reasons we have such an energy problem in the U.S. today is that people […]
Fire from Water
Based on some of the comments following my post on the “water car”, I think several people misunderstood the point. It was not to debunk the water car. You can in fact run a car […]
LS9 Stock
There was a major story a few days ago about LS9 in the Times Online: Scientists find bugs that eat waste and excrete petrol I have previously written several articles that mentioned LS9, including: LS9’s […]
How Oil Prices Impact Almost Everything
There is a very informative story in the Dallas Morning News today covering what I recently discussed in The Ripple Effect: Shoppers pay as oil costs trickle down Ripple effect, trickle down effect – it […]
How to Run a Car on Water
Oh, it can be done. There are no scientific laws that say you can’t run a car on water. In fact, I have personally made fire from water on a number of occasions. A Japanese […]
Suggestions for ASPO Talk?
I have been asked to give a talk at ASPO this year in Sacramento. Ditto last year for the International ASPO Conference in Ireland, but I couldn’t make it (even though I lived in Scotland […]
Prediction on Corn Futures Fulfilled
Last year, with corn bouncing around $3.70/bu, I wrote an essay called The Mythical Ethanol Threat. I noted the number of new ethanol refineries under construction, and predicted that overbuilding would lead to additional ethanol […]