Questions tagged [power-generation]
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Does Africa have to choose between renewable energy and economic growth?
Speaking at an energy conference in Moscow, Russia's president Vladimir Putin was critical of renewable energy. He seems to claim that it is a choice between fossil fuel driven economic development or renewable energy.
People in Africa and in…
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Can Hemp free us from oil dependency?
Within this article it makes the claim that hemp oil is a viable alternative to crude oil. It doesn't go into any detail. It only states that hemp oil is a "clean fuel" while listing in the title "Hemp could free us from oil", among other things.
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Is there a viable design for a thorium car that can run for 100 years without being refueled?
This article and included video from Young Turks claims that Laser Power Systems has produced a "concept for a car" which can run for 100 years on 8 grams of thorium without needing t be refueled. While I believe a car powered by thorium may be…
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Did researchers create a graphene device that drew "free" power from the ionic thermal motion?
A 2012 pre-print, Self-Charged Graphene Battery Harvests Electricity from Thermal Energy of the Environment claims that a graphene device was used to generate a voltage of 0.35V by capturing some of the energy of ionic thermal motion in a solution…
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Can electricity be obtained from neutrino radiation, like a solar cell?
Power Technology magazine published a 2019 article *Neutrino energy: harnessing the power of cosmic radiation.
It describes a new energy technology - making solar panels, but for neutrinos instead of light.
In principle, harvesting neutrinos as an…
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Will the Solar Wind Energy's Downdraft Tower plan produce more energy than it uses?
Gizmag (largely directly reproducing the claims of Solar Wind Energy Inc) explains that the proposed new $US1.5m+ power station project works by:
using a series of pumps to carry water to the top of a tower standing up to 2,250 ft (685 m) tall,…
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Are there major negative health effects from living next to a coal power plant?
EnergyJustice writes:
Health Impacts & Coal Plants: There’s no shortage of data to show that individuals living near a coal plant are at higher risk for health problems than those who do not live near a plant.
In Delaware, years after residents…
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Does turning off a light truly help the environment?
I have heard that a power plant will produce the same amount of power no matter what amount of electricity is being used. If this is the case, turning off a light bulb would not help reduce the production of green house gases. If you turned many…
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Has Brilliant Light Power developed a new source of energy from water molecules?
Brilliant Light Power is a company that claims, on their web-site, to have:
developed a new commercially competitive, non-polluting, plasma-based primary source of massive power from the conversion of hydrogen atoms of water molecules to dark…
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Are remote self-powered implanted devices with transmitters practical?
There is an article about a research in nanogenerators and transmitters used to make a self-powering implant which can transmit wireless signals to receivers over a distance. It is claimed that
A new generation of battery-free surveillance devices…
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Is over-reliance on wind energy the real reason PG&E is cutting power?
It's been widely reported that to mitigate the risk of power lines sparking wild-fires in California, Pacific Gas and Electric (PG&E), the largest utility in California, has been preemptively de-energizing power lines that run through fire-prone…
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