Because I continually run across interesting inventions and discoveries that I cannot give my full attention to I thought I would create a weekly summary of items that have caught my eye. I’ll publish these headlines every Friday and hope, you, my readers find them as interesting as I do. Let me know if you
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The rising cost of fuel and energy impacts agriculture many ways. North American farms use lots of fossil fuel resources to produce incredible yields per acre of land. The same is true of farms in many other industrialized nations. In the developing world energy access is an inhibitor to creating increased crop yields. Fossil fuels
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The promise of unlimited nuclear energy using fission and fusion has been dealt several setbacks over the years. Accidents at fission reactors like Three Mile Island, Chernobyl and most recently at Fukushima have undermined the industry’s long-term viability. Germany recently announced the phasing out of its nuclear power plants as a direct consequence of the
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Renewable energy sources represent our best 21st century bet in replacing fossil fuels for generating electricity. Water, wind, waves and tides, solar and geothermal technologies have been in use in different forms for several centuries. Deriving new efficiencies through invention should dramatically alter the way the human species generates and uses energy in the 21st century and beyond.
Easily accessible oil and gas finds, usually referred to in the industry as conventional hydrocarbon reserves, are a thing of the past. Instead resource developers are increasingly turning to unconventional alternatives such as deep ocean exploration and extraction, the mining of bitumen deposits and oil shales, and the creation of oil products from biomass and
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What is the current state of fossil fuels on Earth? Are we facing an oil crisis in the near future? In Part 2 of Energy in the 21st Century we try to answer these two questions.
