Energi

[simon]

Scientists at the University of Kentucky and the University of Louisville discovered that a new alloy could be used as a catalyst to harvest hydrogen from water using sunlight.

http://www.tomsguide.com/us/hydrogen-re ... or=RSS-993

HT til Klaus..

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The Global Warming Policy Foundation, September 21, 2011: UK junior Cuadrilla Resources today claimed it is sitting on 200 trillion cubic feet (cf) of shale gas from just two wells drilled in northwest England. Cuadrilla’s shale gas estimate dwarfs Norway’s huge Troll gasfield, which has recoverable reserves of 33 trillion cf, and Ormen Lange, which holds 8.6 trillion cf of recoverable gas. And it even overshadows the 187 trillion cf of technically recoverable shale-gas reserves that the US Energy Information Administration believes Poland possesses. Cuadrilla hopes to start commercial production by mid-2012 - Cuadrilla Unveils Huge UK Shale Gas Resources

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Vakkert:

Sandia National Laboratories, October 31, 2011: With a muffled “pop,” a flash of blue light and a few ripples through 14,000 gallons of deionized water, Sandia National Laboratories’ Annular Core Research Reactor (ACRR) recently conducted its 10,000th operation. “The ACRR has been a real workhorse for Sandia, and labs leadership and the nation rely on these experiments and other weapons component testing done at Sandia to support certification of the nuclear weapon stockpile,” said Lonnie Martin, an ACRR operator - Sandia’s Annular Core Research Reactor conducts 10,000th operation

[André Risnes]

Dokumentarfilm om Thorium-reaktorer:

Motherboard TV: The Thorium Dream

I think it's always been the right time for Thorium. I think it's been the right time ever since the research was cancelled in 1974 ... The United States would probably have achieved energy independence around 2000. Our fossil fuel usage would be diminishing every year. We wouldn't have nuclear waste issues like we're facing today. Fukishima wouldn't have happened. Three-mile Island wouldn't have happened.

The amount of Thorium it would take to provide all the power to run you entire life is about the size of a marble

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Reuters, December 7, 2011: China is set for a shale gas revolution which will surpass that seen in the United States, the chairman of Sinopec, the country's second-largest oil company, said a day after Reuters revealed Royal Dutch Shell Plc had begun shale gas production in China - China shale gas boom could surpass U.S. - Sinopec

[simon]

http://www.ostlendingen.no/nyheter/sitt ... -1.6708201

Dag Antonsen har gjort oppfinnelsen som kan redusere strømforbruket på elektromotorer med opptil 60 prosent. Nå er oppfinnelsen patentert i Norge, og er på veg til å bli det i ytterligere 47 land. SINTEF bekrefter at oppfinnelsen virker.

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Leonardo Maugeri, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, June 2012: Contrary to what most people believe, oil supply capacity is growing worldwide at such an unprecedented level that it might outpace consumption. This could lead to a glut of overproduction and a steep dip in oil prices. Based on original, bottom-up, field-by-field analysis of most oil exploration and development projects in the world, this paper suggests that an unrestricted, additional production (the level of production targeted by each single project, according to its schedule, unadjusted for risk) of more than 49 million barrels per day of oil (crude oil and natural gas liquids, or NGLs) is targeted for 2020, the equivalent of more than half the current world production capacity of 93 mbd - Oil: The Next Revolution