It’s always nice to write about technological innovation coming from your own country. So today I’m happy to introduce you to Canada’s current and future contribution to the nuclear energy mix. Canada produced the CANDU reactor in the 1950s, its contribution to curre

I have called for a Manhattan Project effort on the part of the leading economies of the world to tackle the issue of weaning ourselves from fossil fuel dependency. Is $2 billion what I had in mind? No, far from it! But at least it’s a belated start, that is if it gets approved.

Known as carbon capture and sequestration or CCS, it is the answer that “clean coal” patronizers seek. It is an answer for the carbon intensive oil sands. It is the only answer for coal-fired power plants if they are continue to exist. By the beginning of 2014 many scienti

Transatomic Power is the name of the company and its contribution to the energy sector is a newly designed nuclear reactor that will be half the cost of competing technologies. It’s not a new idea. It was first proposed and tested for six years in the 1960s at Oak Ridge National

Dr. Dennis Cravens has taken the engine out of a 1928 Model “A” Ford he bought and will replace it with a cold fusion power source. He is looking to raise $20,000 using crowdfunding. In the video he posted on YouTube he states that if he can make cold fusion work a liter o

  This morning it was hard not to notice the coverage on Keystone in light of the Sunday protest by environmentalists on the Mall and in front of the White House in Washington, DC. I do not envy President Obama one bit as he wrestles with a decision to say  YES or NO to build the

Cold fusion enthusiasts are still looking for the holy grail. A new organization, formed in 2011 by Dr. George Miley, a Physics Professor at University of Illinois, announced in October 2011 at the World Green Energy Symposium held in Philadelphia, that he had developed a LENR device

China in its push to reduce its dependence on coal-fired power plants sees thorium liquid salt reactors (TMSRs) as an important step in developing clean energy technology. Not only will they provide electrical power, but also will provide hydrogen, methanol and other byproducts. China

This week’s five stories look at: Unrefrigerated Vaccine Makes its African Debut; What Can You Make with 3D Printers Here on Earth or Out on the Moon? Nuclear Industry Revival Based on Smaller is Better; Skylon Engine for Suborbital Flight Getting Closer to Reality; Will Magnesi

The IEA, the International Energy Agency, on November 12, 2012, released its forecast on the state of the world energy mix by 2035. For environmentalists seeking an energy world vastly different from the one today, there will be disappointment. Fossil fuels in the form of oil, coal an