Wired Magazine has a fascinating article on the wind energy potential in the United States. The article sites a US Dept. of Energy report stating that the wind energy generating potential in our country is 3 times the previous estimate. So how much energy could we really harvest from the wind? (Hint: A LOT!)
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Ranking Obama’s Energy Ideas
Obama had a lot to say on energy during his State of the Union address yesterday. He mentioned energy efficiency, clean coal, new nuclear power plants, new offshore drilling, and an energy and climate bill. Some of his ideas were great and some weren’t. Read on for my rankings of his ideas from best to [...]
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Green Nuclear Power? Maybe!
I just read an interesting article in Wired Magazine on nuclear power plants fueled by thorium. Thorium is a close cousin to uranium and can produce a sustained fission reaction and therefore energy. A thorium power plant would create significantly less volume of waste that is also much less radioactive than the waste from a [...]
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