Coal is extracted from the ground by coal mining, either underground by shaft mining, or at ground level by open pit mining, and its extraction and use are directly related to a number of adverse health and environmental consequences, including: • 2,800 deaths from lung cancer and black lung disease in … Continue reading
Category Archives: Energy
U.S. Dept. of Energy Hydrogen Program Plan
The Department of Energy’s Hydrogen Program Plan as of November 2020.
Climate Change and Nuclear War Revisited
April 29, 2021 Background On April 19, 2021, at a press conference about climate change, the Secretary-General of the United Nations, António Guterres said that “we are on the verge of the abyss.” The evidence supporting his conclusion is overwhelming. Increasingly severe storms, droughts, wild fires, rising seas, and mass … Continue reading
A Seminal Discovery
June 9, 2019 In 2018 a research group led by Professor Dr. Marc Koper at Leiden University in the Netherlands discovered a catalyst that minimizes the production of chlorine gas during salt water electrolysis. The catalyst consists of two metal oxides: iridium oxide with a layer of manganese oxide only a … Continue reading
Costa Rica’s Electricity 98.53% from Renewable Sources
July 12, 2018 Unofficial Translation 98.53% of electricity generated in Costa Rica since 2014 is renewable. During this period of time there were 1,197 days of clean production. Planning, diversity, and a complementary matrix … Continue reading
First Hydrogen Economy
In his inauguration speech, incoming President Carlos Alvarado of Costa Rica revealed plans to become the first country to commit to develop the production and exclusive use of hydrogen and other environmentally-healthy forms of energy for transportation and production of electricity. As there are no natural deposits of fossil fuels in Costa Rica, … Continue reading
Syria
April 22, 2018 The recent bombing of Syria by the U.S., Great Britain and France raised a veritable labyrinth of questions. The purported justification for it was the alleged use of chemical weapons by the Syrian armed forces against civilians in Douma, a rebel-held town on the verge of surrendering … Continue reading
Differential Pressure Water Electrolysis Apparatus
March 18, 2018 A United States Patent has been issued for a differential pressure water electrolysis that includes high-pressure water electrolysis cells and a pressing mechanism. The high-pressure water electrolysis cells are stacked in a stacking direction. Each of the high-pressure water electrolysis cells includes an electrolyte membrane, a member, an … Continue reading
Efficient Nickel-Iron-Copper Catalyst for Oxidation of Water
February 18, 2018 A collaborative study by scientists from the Swedish Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, Pulse Institute (Stanford University, Menlo Park, CA) Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (Menlo Park, CA) and Dalian University of Technology (Dalian, China) and first published in Nature Communications reports that … Continue reading