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  1. Terpenes are hydrocarbons synthesized by plants. The 'pine smell' is something called α-pinene. There are a dozen others, mostly that contribute aroma or flavor...
      


  2. Why not nuclear?  The articles below discuss the Pros vs Cons, and the Pros, at least as presented, far outweigh the Cons.  From what...


  3. "SPARC is a compact, high-field, DT burning tokamak, currently under design by a team from MIT and CFS.  This timeline could mean that the team...
      


  4. Why solar PV is given high subsidy? Now for the world solar PV is becoming a god sent messenger to save the earth. Look...


  5. A recent OilPrice article discusses the "NDB battery". https://oilprice.com/Energy/Energy-General/The-Nano-Diamond-Battery-That-Lasts-For-28000-Years.html The article and the company's web site go to great lengths to avoid discussing the actual nature...


  6. An interesting video presentation of ways to use ALL available clean energy technologies for now, and continue heading for Nuclear Fusion, which, they say,...


  7. The German government has said a coronavirus vaccine may not be widely available to the public until the middle of 2021. It's warned people...
      


  8. http://nautil.us/issue/19/illusions/five-ways-to-lie-with-charts We need to learn to analyze charts carefully. We can easily be fooled by them, if we are not careful! Reuters has a great reputation,...
      


  9. In today's article: https://oilprice.com/Energy/Energy-General/The-Next-Step-In-The-Electric-Vehicle-Evolution.html the author states that EVs are not "revolutionary" replacements for ICEV, and repeats the assertion that "EVs are an alternative technology...


  10. Two years ago was published a report on exploration of giant oil and gas fields. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s13202-018-0553-1    The predictions made 30 yers ago about the...


  11. The Northampton (USA) fluidized-bed power station burns high-ash coal waste and some biomass at around 900 degrees Celsius. The large quantity of hot ash...


  12. Something a bit different from Nature dot com popped up in my feed today.  A compressed PDF of the entire 11 page article is attached...


  13. Japan project trials international hydrogen supply chain   A Japanese consortium has started a power generation plant running on hydrogen imported from Brunei. The so-called AHEAD project...
      


  14. Japanese majors form consortium to develop, commercialize zero-emission electric ships     Seven Japanese companies have joined forces with the goal of establishing new ocean shipping infrastructure...
      


  15. "Our data centers now work harder when the sun shines and wind blows"https://www.blog.google/inside-google/infrastructure/data-centers-work-harder-sun-shines-wind-blows/


  16. Some unusual reading material.  Good for poking one's grey cells a bit, if you are bored.  Good graphics, too. Ask Ethan: Can We Extract Energy...


  17. Some ongoing research info from Physics dot Org.  Involves natural gas, coal, hydrogen.  Lower cost graphene as a useful byproduct.  Excerpts below: Reducing greenhouse gas emissions...


  18. Media still insists there is only anecdotal evidence for HCQ effectiveness. These research papers should put that objection to rest. For the prepper crowd lurking here,...


  19. https://oilprice.com/Energy/Energy-General/Nuclear-Energy-Could-Power-The-Trillion-Dollar-Space-Race.html Going back too the days of Apollo; NASA and specifically Dr. Von Braun foresaw a day when mankind would travel across the cosmos. To...


  20. https://oilprice.com/Energy/Energy-General/Trump-Backs-Moon-Mining-Initiative-With-Executive-Order.html   From day one the President has been an active, vocal Leader of & for US Manned Space action.  He reconvened the National Space Council...


  21. https://archive.is/ONUmi A New Paradigm for Treatment  of Covid 19
      


  22. I am a bit worried regarding the current news that stomach acids etc will kill the virus if its on food, so how do...
      


  23. https://www.defensenews.com/smr/nuclear-arsenal/2020/03/09/pentagon-to-award-mobile-nuclear-reactor-contracts-this-week/ What could possibly go wrong? Maybe a rocket propelled grenade, mortar, IED, drone strike? RCW
      


  24. https://www.autoblog.com/2020/03/08/hunstable-electric-turbine/
      


  25. Cement manufacture produces carbon dioxide from decomposition of calcium carbonate and also from the combustion of fuel that is burned to drive that endothermic...


  26. Interesting developments could happen soon in the EV battery industry.  Tesla is in "advanced talks" with Chinese battery producer CATL and a new low...


  27. Keyword search 'Real Graphene' to find a company that makes actual graphene batteries which consumers can buy. What are for sale right now are...
      


  28. Some newer experimentation for steam reforming for manufacturing hydrogen from natural gas.  Some of you may be surprised to know that one of the...


  29. A decade a ago, I installed a proprietary leak detection system on Emergency Shutdown Valves on a number of offshore oil platforms.  Sound frequency...


  30. With nuclear power in decline around the globe has RR hit upon a leaner greener concept to traditional nuclear power generation? https://www.rolls-royce.com/products-and-services/nuclear/small-modular-reactors.aspx#/ https://oilprice.com/Energy/Energy-General/Luxury-Carmaker-Looks-To-Disrupt-The-Nuclear-Industry.html As @Jan van Eck stated...

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