Continuous and cost-effective monitoring of the electric transmission and distribution grid is the essential success factor of Smart Grid implementations. Increasing demand for power is forcing power utilities to load power cables to their physical limit, and safety and efficiency concerns are making it more and more critical for operators to understand what is happening [...]

If you write about, speak about, or talk with your family, friends and co-workers about peak oil, you’ve almost certainly been asked: “Well, who else is saying what you’re saying?”

It’s wise not to rely on just one source of information. Humans are fallible creatures. Knowing that, we feel much more comfortable when we [...]

Many people in the nuclear industry are looking to the new Congress and hoping for action in some key areas to help jump-start the nuclear industry.

Having lived and worked inside the Beltway for more years than I care to admit to any more, I’d like to caution everyone that the Washington scene is [...]

A 12-year battle over the future of one of the largest West Virginia mountaintop removal coal mines came to close earlier this month when the Environmental Protection Agency “vetoed” Spruce Mine No. 1.

Since 1998, the Sierra Club, along with Coal River Mountain Watch, WV Highlands Conservancy, the Ohio Valley Environmental Coalition, Public Justice and the [...]

On 30 December 2010 the US Department of Defense released its Strategic Management Plan (SMP) for FY 2011 which directly maps to Departmental strategic goals and objectives derived from the February 2010 Quadrennial Defense Review.

The SMP, the highest-level plan for improving DoD’s business operations, describes the business strategic aims and actions DOD will take in [...]

Every once in a while someone will contact me with a unique idea where I feel compelled to publish it on this blog. Kim E. referenced an earlier post about hydrogen cooperatives and wanted to put her own spin on this idea.

Kim E. “Co-op fuel stations, Co-op farm supply, farms, farms use the co-ops to [...]

The Turanor PlanetSolar is the largest boat powered by solar panels cruising the high seas today. This future boat that was built in just 14 months in Germany has 537 square meters of solar panels atop this ship.

Built as a catamaran the PlanetSolar can hold up to 40 passengers when it makes its different stops [...]

When most people think of fossil fuel supplies, they think in terms of barrels of oil, cubic feet of natural gas and tons of coal. But in evaluating how much energy in the form of finite fossil fuels the world has left, these are no longer adequate measurements.

In the 1930s when wildcatters in Texas were [...]

I’ve talked about the building of the Japanese Hydrogen Highway before and how this country that imports most of its raw materials could benefit by switching to using hydrogen cars. Now, it looks like Japan is getting serious about rolling out H2 vehicles by 2015.

Japan will be using some of its lower grade hydrogen targeted [...]