The original use of wind was to move ships across vast expanses of water. Here they get back to that premise. Of course, a sail will help move a cargo ship. Why wouldn’t it, and with fuel savings of up to $1,000 a day, any ship could...
Category - alternative energy
Phosphate is used as fertilizer. And it comes from the ground. As fertilizer prices increase and as the areas that mine phosphate become less productive, this could trigger even larger increases in ethanol prices and in food prices. And with...
Pip Coburn is a technology investment guru who wrote a whole book on how technology companies usually fail and how the successful ones succeed. I recommend this book to anyone trying to sell, create or implement alternative technology. The book is...
A report co-written by a Worldwatch Institute senior fellow says that “China will likely achieve—and may even exceed—its target to obtain 15 percent of its energy from renewables by 2020”. If China’s commitment to...
I recently read an article in the New York Times where the author stated that alternative energy would not reduce terrorism. The basic tension would still be there, even though the Muslim oil producing states would have less income to divert to...
