Bloom Box: Bloom Energy Powers Your Whole House with a Box
The Bloom Box: Energy Breakthrough
March 4th 2010
At a news conference attended by Gov. Schwartzneger and former Secretary of State Colin Powell, K.R. Sridhar, founder of Bloom Energy Inc., launched what he describes as the next generation of electricity, The Bloom Box.
Financial News, Technology by Pradeep Kolla
February 26th, 2010
Bloom Energy Stock and Stock Price Among Bloom Box Buzz: Fuel Cell Energy Technology Explored. Bloom Energy is a Sunnydale, California start up company that just unveiled their brain-child, the Bloom Box. The invention uses state of the art fuel cell technology in order to convert fossil fuels into electricity, allowing a business or homeowner to create their own energy without tapping into the electrical grid.
The servers will not allow you total energy independence, as you will still rely on natural gas or propane to fuel the generator. However, the company hopes that within the next decade they will be able to create a server that uses solar energy to provide electrical services to homes.
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Ferrari: unveils 200mph electric hybrids
Ferrari goes green: Italian car builders unveil eco-friendly 200mph electric hybrid
By Ray Massey In Geneva; Last updated on 02nd March 2010
Supercar maker Ferrari has ditched its famous red livery and gone 'green'.
The legendary Italian car-maker and F1 racing stable has unleashed a 200mph eco-friendly electric hybrid vehicle that aims to cut pollution and fuel consumption - while still giving breathtaking acceleration and performance.
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Nuclear Reactors, Dams at Risk Due to Global Warming
Christine Dell'Amore; National Geographic News; February 26, 2010
This story is part of a special series that explores the global water crisis. For more clean water news, photos, and information, visit National Geographic's Freshwater Web site.
As climate change throws Earth's water cycle off-kilter, the world's energy infrastructure may end up in hot water, experts say.
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Short-term Canadian boost in global Natural Gas supplies
Natural Gas, not Oil, becoming more cheaply available in the US and Canada
Shale Drilling Moves North, Upending Canada Gas Forecasts
by Edward Welsch; Dow Jones Newswires; Tuesday, February 23, 2010
OTTAWA (Dow Jones), Feb. 23, 2010
An unconventional drilling technique that sparked a boom in U.S. gas production has made its way north.
Companies in Canada, the world's fourth-largest natural gas producer, are turning their attention to gas trapped in shale rock. In the U.S., the emergence of horizontal drilling and high-pressure liquid injections into these formations helped fuel the boom in gas supplies and subsequent bust in prices.
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the Recovery Act has helped pull us back from the brink of economic disaster
[ The Republicans say the Recovery Act isn't working; They lie. ]
Schwarzenegger Calls Out GOP On Stimulus Hypocrisy, Praises Recovery Act For Creating Jobs In California
- 2 Million Jobs: Public and private forecasters ranging from the Council of Economic Advisors to Moody’s Economy and IHS Global now say the Recovery Act is responsible for about 2 million jobs nationwide.
- Economic Growth: We recently learned that our economy grew 5.7 percent in the fourth quarter -- the biggest gain in six years that many economists say is largely due to the Recovery Act.
- Tax Relief: The Recovery Act provided over $100 billion in tax relief for American businesses and families.
- Aid to Small Businesses: This past year, the Recovery Act supplied over 42,000 small business loans that provided nearly $20 billion in much-needed capital.
- Building a New Foundation: The Recovery Act funded tens of thousands of projects nationwide this year that are not only creating jobs right now, but also laying a long-term foundation for economic growth, including investments in high-speed rail, health technology, broadband, a smarter electrical grid, clean cars and batteries, and renewable energy.
What Arab Nations do when their oil is running out
Arab Nations Want a Piece of the Green Energy Pie, Too
Feb 17th 2010
Europe, North America and Asia have been the primary drivers of the green tech industry thus far, especially in the realm of wind and solar power. Meanwhile, Arab countries have maintained their dominance over oil and gas exports, controlling 45 percent of oil and roughly one quarter of all gas reserves globally. But now, either to claim their stake in a burgeoning industry or to prepare for life after [their] oil and gas [is gone], several Arab states are making aggressive moves to develop their own domestic renewable energy industry.
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Nuclear Loans Have 50 Percent Risk of Default
US Energy Sec Steven Chu Unaware That Nuclear Loans Have 50 Percent Risk of Default
02-16-2010
The Obama administration on Tuesday announced a loan guarantee for the first new nuclear reactor to be built in the US in decades--part of a planned $54.5 billion program to kickstart a nuclear revival using government-backed loans. Yet Chu said he was not aware of a Congressional Budget Office study showing that the chances of default on these loans are "very high--well above 50 percent."
"I don't know of the CBO report," Chu told reporters during a conference call on Tuesday. "We don't believe the chance of default is 50 percent. We believe it's far less than that." The first loan guarantee, worth $8.33 billion, was awarded to two proposed reactors to be built by Southern Company at Plant Vogtle in Burke, Georgia.
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Global Warming Brings More Snow to some, More Rain, not Snow, to Others
Global warming causes an increase in moisture evaporating into the atmosphere, and more snow and rain falling in the, overall, warmer winters and summers, something that is easy for the news media and politicians to forget and to lie about when informed:
"Scientists have been warning for decades that global warming would increase the severity of winter storms.” And a recent National Wildlife Federation report has found that winter storms are getting fiercer even as the season gets warmer."
When you see lawmakers like Senator Jim DeMint of South Carolina tweeting that "it is going to keep snowing until Al Gore cries 'uncle,'" or news that the grandchildren of Senator James Inhofe of Oklahoma are building an igloo next to the Capitol with a big sign that says "Al Gore’s New Home," you really wonder if we can have a serious discussion about the climate-energy issue any more. - THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN, February 17, 2010, NYTimes
[how much have the oil co.'s been paying theses elected idiots? -editor]
reliance on fossil fuels could have “severe consequences”
feb. 11 2010
Bloomberg -- Climate change and U.S. reliance on fossil fuels could have "severe consequences," including potential surges in oil prices and risks to national security, the White House Council of Economic Advisers said today.
"Continued reliance on fossil fuels is leading to the buildup of greenhouse gases in our atmosphere and is changing our climate," the CEA said in its annual report to President Barack Obama. "Left unaddressed, these trends will have increasingly severe consequences over time."
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the DOE’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory gets additional funding
NREL Battery Testing Capabilities Get a Boost
by Heather Lammers, NREL; Feb. 11th 2010
Batteries are the heart of today's advanced electric drive vehicles and many manufacturers have their own preference for specific battery geometry and chemistry including their choice of materials for cathodes and anodes. However, all of the manufacturers are concerned about the performance, life, safety and cost of lithium ion batteries even though their designs are varied. The U.S Department of Energy (DOE) is looking to help the U.S. battery industry with a simple goal -- to mass produce better batteries domestically while addressing safety, affordability, life, and performance.
As a result of DOE's support, more work and funding for battery research is coming to NREL via both indirect and direct avenues thanks to the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA). In March, President Obama announced $2.4 billion to help drive the development of the next generation of electric drive vehicles in the United States. As part of that announcement, DOE released a competitive solicitation for up to $1.5 billion in federal funding for manufacturing advanced batteries and related drive components.
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Mexican Oil still in decline
Mexican Oil: World's 3rd largest oil reserve
Bloomberg -- Petroleos Mexicanos, the state-owned oil company, may pump 2.3 million barrels of oil a day this year, Standard & Poor’s analyst Jose Coballasi said.
“This reflects a dose of reality that in general Pemex has had to lower its forecasts in previous years,” Coballasi said today at an event in Mexico City. S&P’s crude forecast would represent an 11.6 percent decline from 2009, according to Bloomberg calculations.
25% US Renewable Electricity Standard Will Create 274,000 Jobs
Washington, D.C., United States [RenewableEnergyWorld.com]
Navigant Consulting, Feb. 8th 2010
A new study released by Navigant Consulting finds that a 25% by 2025 national Renewable Electricity Standard (RES) would support hundreds of thousands of new American jobs and prevent a near-term collapse in some industries. Job growth in the wind, solar, biomass, waste-to-energy and hydropower industries would particularly benefit the Southeastern U.S. and manufacturing states whose Congressional delegations have had a history of voting against incentives and other measures designed to support the renewable energy sector.
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BMW hybrid-electric Vision to begin production in 2013
62 mpg; recharge in 44 minutes; travel 31 mi. on batteries alone; and, a top speed of 155 mph.
Jan 29, 2010 Inside Line
LISBON, Portugal — As proof that car companies no longer make showcars just for giggles, a senior BMW authority out of Munich has assured Inside Line that the Vision EfficientDynamics plug-in pure hybrid 2+2 concept car rolled out in September at the 2009 Frankfurt Auto Show is earmarked for production. No ifs, ands or buts.
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The Plug-in Electric Karma, by Fisker Automotive
travel 50 miles on Lith-Ion batteries alone, and an additional 250 mi while recharging; 0 to 60 in 6 sec.; & top speed over 125 mph; 1500 on order 
updated 1-15-2010
The Karma, developed by American automaker Fisker Automotive, can travel 50 miles emission-free on a single charge of its Lithium-ion battery, and an additional 400km (250mi) on a range extending generator turned by an efficient four cylinder gas engine. Economy is 2.4L/100km and emissions of just 83g/km CO2 - better than today’s best hybrids. Still, the Karma can reach 100km/h (62mph) in about 6 seconds and exceed 200km/h (125mph).
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American oil money is now pumping Global Warming denials world-wide
Climate Change Deniers Without Borders
American oil money is pumping up climate change skeptics abroad. Could they kneecap a post-Copenhagen accord?
By Josh Harkinson, Tue Dec. 22, 2009 3:59 AM PST
Writing two weeks ago in Poland's most popular tabloid, the Super Express, an economic analyst named Tomasz Teluk [funded by ExxonMobil] claimed that a potential climate agreement in Copenhagen might double Poles' electricity bills, hobble his coal-dependent country, and even lead to one-world government. "Fortunately," he wrote, the "global warming scare" has been hugely overblown: "As each of us learned in elementary school, carbon dioxide is a gas essential to the development of life, not a poison, so you do not have to eliminate it at any price."
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