How Russia Caused the World’s Preeminent Super Power To Lose 25 Years in Its Quest to Correctly Solve Energy

How Russia Caused the World’s Preeminent Super Power To Lose 25 Years in Its Quest to Correctly Solve Energy

By: Tom Tamarkin Founder Fusion4Freedom & President USCL Corp June 29, 2014 In 1980 the Magnetic Fusion Energy Engineering Act or MFEEA passed the House and Senate with virtually zero opposition and was signed by President Carter in October 1980. The goal was to demonstrate clean, cheap, safe, and virtually unlimited fusion power by 1995 … Read more

‘Global Warming Scare’ declared ‘Over’

by Bob Unruh 10/12/2014 Scientists and others on a team assembled by the Chicago-based Heartland Institute, which focuses on free-market solutions to today’s problems, say the “scare” of global warming from the use of carbon fuels and other human activities “is over.” It’s “past time” for the world to realize that and “stop the madness … Read more

Disproof of AGW by Gerlich & Tscheuschner

Download the full paper Falsification Of The Atmospheric CO2 Greenhouse Effects Within The Frame Of Physics Version 3.0 (September 9, 2007) replaces Version 1.0 (July 7, 2007) and later By: Gerhard Gerlich Institut fur Mathematische Physik Technische Universitat Carolo-Wilhelmina Mendelssohnstrae 3 D-38106 Braunschweig Federal Republic of Germany g.gerlich@tu-bs.de Ralf D. Tscheuschner Postfach 60 27 62 … Read more

Wind Power (Technology and Economics)

By Barrie Lawson, UK Adapted with the permission of the author from Electropaedia.com The wind is a source of free energy which has been used since ancient times in windmills for pumping water or grinding flour. The technology of high power, geared transmissions was developed centuries ago by windmill designers and the fantail wheel for … Read more

Thermodynamics of the Corn-Ethanol Biofuel Cycle

Thermodynamics of the Corn-Ethanol Biofuel Cycle

Tad W. Patzek Department Chair & Professor Cockrell Family Chair in Engineering #11, The Lois K. and Richard D. Folger Leadership Chair in Petroleum and Geosystems Engineering Email: patzek@mail.utexas.edu Phone: (512) 232-8368 This Web Version is being periodically updated New: Appendix D on fuel cells, consistent use of fuel HHVs, corrected theoretical yield of ethanol … Read more

How will a fusion power plant work?

A school class in 2100: The futuristic lesson is backed up with documentary photos and animations and gives the viewer an entertaining survey of the principles, development and status of fusion research. Like the sun, a fusion power plant is to derive energy from fusion of atomic nuclei. To ignite the fusion fire one has … Read more

Fusion: Nature’s Energy

Fusion: Nature’s Energy

Complete index of Pat’s articles This article is the second of a series of eight articles on fusion power written by Tom Tamarkin and Pat Boone in their collaboration to speak to American citizens…in fact all citizens of the world…on the ill-fated history of fusion power development and the urgent need to resurrect and complete … Read more

A Comparison of Energy Densities of Prevalent Energy Sources in Units of Joules Per Cubic Meter

Bradley E. Layton, Ph.D Assistant Professor, Energy Technology Program Director, Drexel University Abstract Typically, the energy densities of solids or liquids such as coal and oil are measured in dimensions of energy per unit volume or energy per unit mass, whereas solar, wind, and hydroelectric sources are rated in dimensions of power per unit area. … Read more

Is Sustainable Energy Even Possible at the Global level?

David J. Pristash January 2012 Revised February 2013 Republished with permission ABSTRACT The purpose of this paper is to place into useful perspective the development of sustainable energy at the global scale. Global scale energy requires the ability to generate power of 3,500 Quads or 3.7 X 1021 Joules, economically; as this is the amount … Read more