New Energy Advances

Solar:
http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2008/oxygen-0731.html

Nuclear (or “Nuceelar”, if you’re GWB):
http://earth2tech.com/2008/08/01/hyperions-nuclear-in-a-box-ready-by-2013/

If you live in San Diego or north Orange County, I don’t want to hear any complaining about nuclear because you already live next to a nuclear reactor (or 30, in SD) and nothing bad has happened to you.

Our politicians are dragging their feet on any sort of recognizable energy policy (and I have my theories on that), but it looks like the problem will take care of itself due to the wonders of capitalism.

One more thing. This new technology should kill Al Gore’s new religion in its infancy, which will be great for the global economy.

I found this one kind of interesting:

Maglev based wind turbine that moves at wind speeds of just 3 mph. The maglev system does not require power like electromagnets do, but still eliminates the friction.

One of these creates the same energy as 1000 of the current wind turbines.

And here is an ad for the thing:

(Not sure if this website is connected to the business or not.)

I really like this one:

http://www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2008/06/mit-solar-dish.html

What’s the Sahara good for?
http://www.environmentalgraffiti.com/sciencetech/03-of-saharan-sun-enough-to-power-europe/1421

[quote]PRCalDude wrote:
What’s the Sahara good for?
http://www.environmentalgraffiti.com/sciencetech/03-of-saharan-sun-enough-to-power-europe/1421

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One of the comments: [i]

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