Get fuel for your ears while getting fuel for your car

Fuel pumps are likely to take a big technological step forward in the near future. We can expect pumps to begin using touchscreen monitors to display maps, road conditions, news headlines and other information that could benefit travelers. Not to mention, inevitably,...

Philips Smokeless Stove Uses 80% Less Fuel, Saves Lives

Philips Smokeless Stove Uses 80% Less Fuel, Saves Livesby Lloyd Alter, Toronto on 03.15.06Design & Architecture (kitchen)stove.jpgWe usually think of Philips as a maker of LCD's and LED's but they have been cooking up other things in Eindhoven, including this woodstove....

Red Hook Biodiesel Plant Gets City Funding

"Time to dust off the wisecracks about how Red Hook is going to smell like a deep fryer. The biodiesel plant that has been proposed for a site near the Red Hook Ball Fields has gotten city funding."

Germany may retain nuclear power

"Senior members of Germany's government have suggested retaining nuclear power as a way of diversifying the country's sources of energy. It follows concern that Germany has become too dependent on Russian fuel. A year ago it was supplies of Russian gas to Germany which were...

Uranium vs. Thorium: Mining, Processing, Waste Generation

"I've taken a little time to do another comparison slide between the waste generated in a typical light-water reactor compared to a liquid-fluoride thorium reactor. For the light-water reactor waste calculations, I used the WISE Uranium Nuclear Fuel Energy Balance Calculator...

Khamenei ... Alive, and rejects UN resolution

"TEHRAN: Supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Monday emphatically rejected a UN resolution over Iran’s controversial atomic plans, vowing that the Islamic republic would not back down in its nuclear drive. Khamenei’s intervention on a major Muslim holiday, which also...

The Atomic Show #040 - Thorium power - interview with Kirk Sorensen

Alternative Energy fans want to take a listen to this podcast featuring Kirk Sorensen, a major proponent of thorium-based nuclear power"As someone once said, there is a word for interesting people that are one important step removed from crazy - that word is passion. Kirk has...

U.N. votes for trade sanctions on Iran's nuclear work

"UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - The U.N. Security Council voted unanimously on Saturday to impose sanctions on Iran's trade in sensitive nuclear materials and ballistic missiles, a move aimed at getting Tehran to halt uranium enrichment work."Today we are placing Iran in the...

UCF rules fuel debate on freedom of speech

Susan Jacobson Orlando Sentinal Tuesday, December 19, 2006 - One minute, members of Students for a Democratic Society were sitting in a breezeway, holding signs asking other students to discuss a possible war in Iran. ...

Is Thorium The Answer To Our Energy Crisis?

"It could power the planet for thousands of years, the reactors would never blow up and the waste is relatively clean. So is thorium the nuclear fuel of the future? Helen Brown reports It's a word that's been generating a steady, background hum in the scientific community...

Laying the Groundwork for a 'Cabinet Reshuffle' in Iraq

"A flurry of meetings in Baghdad and Washington suggests Iraq may be about to see another regime change. But will it do any good? Regardless of whether President Bush is more inclined to heed the recommendations of the Iraq Study Group or to listen to its skeptics, Iraqi...