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Wind Powered Brewery

Rob Holliday takes us to Kill Devil Hills to the Outer Banks Brewing Station. It is the first facility of its kind in the nation to produce a frothy brew by using “breeze” power. INTRO: People on the Outer Banks use the ocean winds for all kinds of uses – para-sailing, hang-gliding and kite-flying come […]

Efficient way to boil water with low voltage?

i am looking for a way to boil water at low voltages (around 10 volt DC) steam would be used to power a steam generator connected to a dynamo. i need around 125 psi what method should i use to heat up the water? i was thinking of using. nicrome or induction we currently have […]

Trying to understand the different nuclear powered spacecraft?

Quote there are more nuclear powered spacecraft than you think. ion propulsion is being used on at least one craft as we speak. i think you,re confusing cooled power generating reactors with space craft equipped with nuclear electrical generating power sources. these have radiation cooling, but i don,t think they need liquid cooled cores. nuc […]

Infoclip: Geothermal Energy

+++THIS VIDEO ORIGINATED FROM THE EUROPA AUDIO/VISUAL SERVICE WEBSITE+++ To illustrate the decisions on the energy package presented to the European Commission on 23/1/2008, the EC’s audiovisual service has produced an infoclip on geothermal energy. The “Sustainable Energy Europe” campaign sets out new objectives for geothermal energy production to be reached between 2005 and 2008, […]

Algae Biofuel

Michael Fischer Stanford University mfischer at stanford.edu Two major problems facing the physical world today can be broadly categorized into (1) how to increase the amount of consumable energy available for the worlds needs and (2) how to decrease the amount of greenhouse gases produced. Of course, these problems are negatively linked together inasmuch as, […]

Agora – Nuclear Energy: friend or foe to the environment?

Bruno Comby and Frédéric Marillier are both French environmentalists who believe global warming is real, dangerous, and has to be stopped. But Marillier heads the anti-nuclear campaign of Greenpeace France. He advocates renewable energies rather than a nuclear industry that he argues is expensive, dangerous and unreliable. Bruno Comby is president of Environmentalists for Nuclear […]

Southface Provides Online Tour of its Atlanta-based Eco Office; Offers the Building’s Extensive Performance Data to …

Southface Provides Online Tour of its Atlanta-based Eco Office; Offers the Building’s Extensive Performance Data to … The new Online Tour of the Southface Eco Office, a LEED® Platinum building located in Downtown Atlanta, provides virtual building access to researchers who wish to study the building’s energy- and water-use metrics. It also includes detailed photos […]