Category Archives: Energy

Gasification Indoors!

From YouTube: A way cool Top Lit Updraft Gasifier (TLUD) that requires no power. It is a lightweight, portable natural draft chimney stove designed for both indoor & outdoor use! The ability to cook indoors under shelter is a key … Continue reading

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FUKUSHIMA RADIATION ALERT: Iwaki City, Roughly 30 Miles South Of Damaged Reactors Measured 21,000 Nanosievert Per Hour At NETC Station

Independent monitoring in Iwaki City, Japan reported to the Nuclear Emergency Tracking Center (NETC) logged a huge spike in radiation with a reading coming in at 21,000 nSv/hour, versus a baseline average reading of 226. According to the International Commission … Continue reading

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Fire Power! Organic Rankine Cycle

From YouTube: My goal for 2014 is grid independence by converting heat into electricity. This is a New Year’s resolution to stay on this project when ever I have free time to build an ORC ( not like in the … Continue reading

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Wave of Radiation from Fukushima Will Be 10 Times Bigger than All of the Radiation from Nuclear Tests Combined

There was no background radioactive cesium before above-ground nuclear testing and nuclear accidents started. Wikipedia provides some details on the distribution of cesium-137 due to human activities: Small amounts of caesium-134 and caesium-137 were released into the environment during nearly all nuclear weapon … Continue reading

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A Potato Battery Can Light Up a Room For Over a Month

Here are some good news: Researchers have discovered that a potato boiled for eight minutes made a battery that produced ten times the power of a raw one. Haim Rabinowitch, an agricultural science professor, and his team found that using … Continue reading

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TEPCO: Not all pumped-in water reached overheating Fukushima reactors

Fire engines were used in a desperate, and ultimately futile, attempt to pump water to cool overheating reactors during the early phase of the 2011 Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant disaster, Tokyo Electric Power Co. said. According to a … Continue reading

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Highest Radiation Level Ever, Lethal In 20 Minutes, Recorded Outside Fukushima Reactor

With all the excitement about Japan’s soaring stock market (if plunging wages), crashing non-digital currency (leading to soaring energy prices), recent passage of an arbitrary secrecy bill (“Designed by Kafka & Inspired By Hitler”), and ongoing territorial spat with China, … Continue reading

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IRAN SANCTIONS BITES THE US IN THE A** AS IRAN RESPONDS WITH PETRO GOLD SYSTEM!

Since June of 2012 I’ve been talking about Iran circumventing SWIFT and though it hurt their economy, initiating devastating inflation and great harm to the Iranian people, Iran has taken the hits from the sanctions but founded what could now be called … Continue reading

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Staying Charged Up! A Battery Strategy

From YouTube: From communication to security, having a way to keep your gear at peak power is very important. Whether it is during a storm, an accident, or a long term power outage finding ways to ensure your equipment is … Continue reading

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Keystone XL Construction

“I think the goal of the country ought to be, ‘How do we grow the private sector?’ If private-sector growth is the goal and Keystone pipeline creates 20,000 new private-sector jobs, build the damn thing.”  George W. Bush November 18, … Continue reading

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The Coming Bust of The Great Bakken Field

As with all oil fields, there are only so many sweet spots and areas to drill.  The 63,000 bd decline rate at the Bakken only has one way to go — and that’s higher.   If the present trend continues (highly likely) … Continue reading

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EPA Reduces Ethanol Requirement

The Environmental Protection Agencyslashed the amount of ethanol that oil refiners must blend into the country’s gasoline supply for the first time Friday after months of intense lobbying by the biofuel and oil industries. The EPA had increased the amount of … Continue reading

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CNN: Fukushima children pay the price of nuclear energy gone wrong

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We’re In The Most Dangerous Moment Since the Cuban Missile Crisis

Scientists Warn of Extreme Risk We’ve long said that the greatest short-term threat to humanity is from the fuel pools at Fukushima. The Japanese nuclear agency recently green-lighted the removal of the spent fuel rods from Fukushima reactor 4′s spent fuel pool. The operation is scheduled … Continue reading

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Batista’s OGX Files Bankruptcy: Largest Ever In Latin American History

In line with what we discussed last night, once cajillionaire Eike Batista’s net wealth has now collapsed to less than -$746.5 Million according to Bloomberg as Veja notes, his “take over the world” company OGX has declared bankruptcy following the breakdown of … Continue reading

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