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• Can A One Billion Pound Oil Spill Disappear?
  Large oil patches vanished when tropical storm Bonnie crossed the Gulf. Flyovers observed seemingly clean surface waters. A different picture emerges after accounting for the disappearance of oil by evaporation and by oil plume formation. It seems that larger oil patches were ripped apart by the storm and were converted into "tarballs". One billion pounds of tarballs will become an endless nuisance for beach communities depending on tourists.
  Published 12Aug2010, viewed 296 times

• Skimming, Healing, and Protecting the Gulf
  After capping its well, BP must try to skim close to 200 million gallons of crude from Gulf waters before the first tropical storms and hurricanes can interrupt their work. BP desperately needs more effective skimming equipment for cleaning soiled Gulf waters. A new emergency preparedness agency is urgently needed that can deploy effective assets in form of trained emergency crews, high capacity oil skimmers, and well containment devices.
  Published 29Jul2010, viewed 305 times

• A Whale - A Missed Opportunity
  After mounting a second shut-off device on its dysfunctional blow out preventer, BP must now skim close to 200 million gallons of crude oil from the surface of the Gulf. The A-Whale, a Taiwanese supertanker converted for oil skimming duties, arrived in the Gulf, tried its luck at skimming, and discovered that the conversion does not work. The chance of cleaning the Gulf quickly was missed and American technology could not assist either.
  Published 04Aug2010, viewed 309 times

• Tiny Oil Skimmers Can't Handle BP Disaster
  BP's leaking oil well will spill more than five million barrels into the Gulf. US citizens must be protected from similar, recurring disasters. More and more oil is reaching surface waters. Fishing has been destroyed. Gulf Coast residents are facing bankruptcy and impoverished futures. Tourism industry will be devastated. No solutions are available for removing the spreading oily debris. Only technologists can help but are not called upon.
  Published 24Jul2010, viewed 324 times

• More Than One Oil Spill Villain
  BP's leaking oil well will spill more than five million barrels into the Gulf of Mexico. US citizens must be protected from similar, recurring disasters. A special emergency response agency is needed. Advanced containment domes and oil skimmers can save wetlands, estuaries and beaches when deployed immediately. Funding for a new emergency preparedness agency and for unlimited liability insurance coverage must come from new permitting fees.
  Published 13Jul2010, viewed 380 times

• How to Rescue the Gulf - the Next Time
  BP's leaking oil well will spill more than five million barrels into the Gulf of Mexico. A well designed collection dome could have stopped the leak within days. One week's spill could have been mopped up with two advanced oil skimmers, if each vessel had been capable of collecting more than five thousand barrels per day. Neither the oil industry nor the U.S. Coast Guard was prepared for dealing with a well failure in deep waters.
  Published 02Jul2010, viewed 327 times

• Incompetence at BP, the Media, and the Feds
  The BP oil spill disaster continues. BP and the Feds are jockeying for position. Citizens in adjacent Gulf States are loosing their livelihoods. The technical solution is simple. Close the damned leak, prevent the spill from making landfall, and manually clean already soiled shores. Protect citizens and damn the torpedoes from moneyed and political interests. The means for implementation are available. Who dares to make the decision?
  Published 20Jun2010, viewed 442 times

• We Can Put a Man on the Moon. Why Can't we Close the Leak?
  Preparations for a successful landing of two astronauts on the moon took eight years and cost $140 billion. Protecting US coastal waters from oil spills caused by damaged tankers or by ruptured oil wells would have cost pennies on the dollar if instituted in time and ahead of permitting any deepwater drilling. Greedy energy companies, corrupt regulators, and incompetent governmental disaster planners are responsible for huge economic damages.
  Published 17Jun2010, viewed 401 times

• BP's Fatal Design Errors
  The world's largest, manmade disaster is happening in the Gulf of Mexico. BP is drilling two relief wells and promises permanent closure for the midst of August. The leak is gushing oil at more than 20,000 barrels per day. A properly designed, sizable containment dome, placed over the leak, can collect the leaking oil, can bring it to the surface, and can deposit it in waiting tankers. Applicable design and process conditions are discussed.
  Published 02Jun2010, viewed 387 times

• A Worldwide, Economic Stimulus Package
  World economies are threatened by ice melting, escalating greenhouse gas emissions, climate changes, coming petroleum shortages, and high energy prices. Stagnating growth of world economies is caused by weaknesses of financial institutions and by inability of world powers to agree on measures for combating climate changes. Strong leadership for developing and funding of critically needed energy conversion technologies is urgently needed.
  Published 27Feb2010, viewed 361 times

• In Search of an Alternate Energy Future
  The Copenhagen Climate Conference of 2009 failed to extend the Kyoto Treaty. Disagreements on restrictions on levels of energy consumption were the major reason. Industrialized nations have not fully recognized the fundamental problem of an energy supply system that is based on energy use limitations. An entirely new approach to the emission-free conversion of clean energies into electricity and liquid transportation fuels must be found.
  Published 08Feb2010, viewed 368 times

• Destructive Greenhouse Gases
  Emissions of destructive greenhouse gases must be stopped soon. Only a complete stop of fossil fuel burning can prevent the accumulation of excessive amounts of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. For preventing ice melting and rising sea levels carbon dioxide concentrations must be limited to well below 350 ppm. Fossil fuel burning must be stopped gradually and only after plentiful and affordable renewable energies have become available.
  Published 26Jan2010, viewed 414 times

• Replacing Kyoto with an Universally Acceptable Treaty
  Extending the Kyoto Treaty failed in Copenhagen. It is not salvageable. It must be replaced by an agreement acceptable to industrialized nations, quickly developing states, and all underdeveloped countries. An acceptable concept must be based on plentiful and affordable energy for all, on ending all emissions within 50 years, on using renewable and sustainable energies only, and on retrieving past emissions by their original emitters.
  Published 12Jan2010, viewed 374 times

• Limitless Affordable Energy without Climate Changes
  A long-term energy plan is proposed that will provide clean energy for centuries. It is based on inexhaustible energy sources, accessible energy technologies, limitless energy supplies, and a reversal of atmospheric carbon dioxide accumulation. A few novel energy technologies are identified that will assure sustained growth of world economies and can provide clean energies forever without ecological damages to our Earth.
  Published 05Dec2009, viewed 436 times

• Copenhagen at the Crossroads; Adaptation or Mitigation?
  In Copenhagen, world governments can choose adaptation or mitigation for dealing with global warming. Adaptation will result in a slow and protracted decay of world economies. Mitigation will eventually restore Earth to a condition without global warming and without climate changes. Negotiations to extend the Kyoto Treaty are failing. Mitigation must be adopted in its place. Development of new energy technologies is the key.
  Published 17Nov2009, viewed 409 times

• Kyoto Protocol in the Limelight
  The Kyoto Protocol of 1997 is still the concept for agreeing on a more effective worldwide agreement on dealing with greenhouse gas emissions. Reducing energy consumption is expensive and will strangle economic activities. A new concept must assure that world economies will continue to prosper. Only strong economies can provide opportunities for growing populations. This article introduces such a new approach to climate control.
  Published 06Nov2009, viewed 502 times

• Who Will Win in Copenhagen?
  U.S. Chamber of Commerce position is indefensible. Growing world economies are producing escalating greenhouse gas emissions. Severe global overheating will change climates dramatically. Rising sea levels, flooding, violent windstorms, and extensive droughts will destroy world economies and will cause economic collapse. World economies must agree on producing renewable energy supplies. Fossil fuel burning must and can be halted completely.
  Published 26Oct2009, viewed 397 times

• Copenhagen Can Open New Era of Clean and Economical Energies
  Growing world economies are producing escalating greenhouse gas emissions. The Kyoto Protocol is ineffective in halting or reducing atmospheric carbon dioxide accumulation. Severe global overheating will change climates dramatically. Rising sea levels, flooding, violent windstorms, and extensive droughts will destroy world economies and will cause economic collapse. World governments must develop supplies of clean and economical energies.
  Published 15Oct2009, viewed 404 times

• Copenhagen Strategies for Saving Earth from Overheating
  Escalating carbon dioxide emissions are fouling the Earth's atmosphere and are causing global overheating. A comprehensive plan and enlightened leaders are urgently needed to develop novel energy technologies. Only a mission oriented government agency can marshal the means for preparing engineering solutions and reducing investment risks. Changeover from fossil fuels to emission free, renewable energies will last decades and must begin soon.
  Published 21Sep2009, viewed 405 times

• Why Kyoto and Copenhagen are Duds
  In December of 2009, representatives of most countries will congregate in Copenhagen. The meeting is supposed to extend, redefine, and agree on more severe carbon emission limits. The Kyoto concept of reducing global warming is deeply flawed. It must be replaced by a new, more effective approach. Novel concepts are emerging but are not yet considered. The meeting will be a failure unless China or other Asian countries bring new ideas.
  Published 07Sep2009, viewed 402 times

• GM's MPG Wonder
  General Motors just announced that its new hybrid, the VOLT, can achieve a mileage of 230 MPG. It seems that the figure has been arrived at by selecting an unrealistic set of driving conditions that heavily favor city driving on electric power only. It is proposed that a different set of figures is given to prospective car buyers that are based on the costs of driving on electricity in the city and on gasoline on the highway.
  Published 29Sep2009, viewed 256 times

• 200 MPG Fish Tales
  Mileage announcements for hybrid automobiles are escalating and are becoming meaningless. Figures above 100 MPG are being bandied about. These figures are a ruse and intended to mislead the public. Consumers have to insist to receive correct and easily understandable information.
  Published 27Aug2009, viewed 292 times

• The Electric Car Crapshoot
  Electric cars are promoted as saviors of the energy crisis. Unfortunately, they are expensive, will not reduce foreign oil imports, and will contribute to continuing, global overheating. The US needs a new, science based energy policy. Taxpayers must demand development of thermally more efficient combustion engines. Production of renewable, affordable, and storable liquid fuels must be pursued by an independent government agency.
  Published 21Dec2008, viewed 259 times

• Obama, Energy Policy, and Dismal Energy Science
  President Elect Obama is trying to solve the financial crisis and issue a new energy policy. He will need much helpful advice from advisors in economics and energy. Previous correction measures to financial market crises and to energy consumption and supply have failed. After announcing his economic team, Mr. Obama must select the energy team. It is important that he seizes the moment and finds qualified energy practitioners.
  Published 17Dec2008, viewed 350 times

• Saving Jobs by Saving General Motors
  General Motors is facing bankruptcy and liquidation. Only a drastic, deeply cutting reorganization can save the company from certain death. Investors, board, management, and union are responsible for past decay and must be removed. Board and management must resign. Investors must sell their stock. Union members should receive a negotiated buyout. A new, reenergized, unshackled, and internationally competitive company must reemerge.
  Published 27Nov2008, viewed 223 times

• Free Advice to Congress on Rejuvenating the Big Three
  The automotive industry is facing financial meltdown. In return for a bailout the industry must rejuvenate itself. The US can ill afford to import automobiles and defense systems from foreign countries and pay with currency borrowed abroad. The industry must be re-energized with new organizational concepts and new products. Scientific energy efficiency goals must replace political mandates. Renewable fuels must keep the industry viable.
  Published 24Nov2008, viewed 236 times

• The Race to Government Handouts
  A new administration is declaring energy independence a high priority. Genuine US energy independence happens when all US consumption is supplied from US based resources and facilities. Electric energy and liquid fuels must become plentiful, affordable, and secure. Only conversion of sun energy into electricity and biomass can provide secure, emission free energy supplies for centuries and can stop global overheating
  Published 19Nov2008, viewed 368 times

• An Open Invitation to Mr. Gore
  Al Gore proposes a plan to solve the energy crisis. Four of the plan's five tasks are on the money. A fifth task misses the mark and makes his plan short lived and severely flawed. By adding the production of plentiful and affordable renewable fuels to his plan it can be converted into a blueprint for supplying renewable, emission free energy for centuries. The article ends by inviting Mr. Gore to promote this modified outline.
  Published 12Nov2008, viewed 307 times

• Why the Earth is Overheating
  Global temperatures are rising; global overheating is becoming a real danger. We must stop fossil fuel combustion and carbon dioxide emissions as quickly as possible. Only renewable energies can continue to provide power for world economies without causing serious economic problems. We must immediately start to produce plentiful electric power and motor fuels from renewable energies at affordable costs for the next few centuries.
  Published 27Oct2008, viewed 316 times

• Can a Coming Energy Crisis Top the Wall Street Disaster?
  The recent Wall Street disaster reminds us that citizens cannot trust industry. Greed has invaded the most profitable companies to an unacceptable and destructive degree. US citizens must consider the banking crisis as a wake up call for preventing the oil and energy industries from creating an even more destructive energy catastrophe. We must outlaw fossil fuels and begin to produce renewable fuels for keeping the US secure.
  Published 11Oct2008, viewed 290 times

• Saving Our Beloved Cars and the Automotive Industry
  The US government is preparing to extend a loan of $25 billion to the Big Three. The money is going to be spent for providing cash for badly managed companies and to manufacture cars with higher mileage. Taxpayers must insist that their loan is secured and that they get more value and improved car performance for their money. Car companies must begin reducing fuel consumption by developing advanced, high efficiency engines.
  Published 20Sep2008, viewed 268 times

• Why Glaciers and Polar Ice are Melting Faster
  Melting of glaciers and ice sheets in Polar Regions is accelerating. This results in a faster rise of sea levels. Media and scientists express surprise that the polar ice around the North Pole is reacting this way. Ice melting can be understood when looking at the basic heat transfer processes that are at work in winter and in summer. Ice melting is the direct result of atmospheric carbon dioxide accumulation.
  Published 18Sep2008, viewed 460 times

• Is Driving a Natural Gas Powered Car a Good Deal?
  Compressed Natural Gas or CNG is being promoted as an alternate, less costly transportation fuel for cars, trucks, and trains. Widespread acceptance of CNG depends on investments by natural gas suppliers and users. Internal combustion engines readily burn CNG delivering identical performance. Bi-fuel cars are sold and driven in Europe. Uncertainty about future pricing will slow its widespread acceptance.
  Published 11Sep2008, viewed 816 times

• The High Costs of Solar Electric Power
  The USA must be the first to stop carbon dioxide emissions and must become independent of foreign oil imports. Converting solar energy into electric power is likely to become a mainstay technology. Costs of recently announced new installations and resulting costs of electricity generation are still very high. It would we wise to analyze and supervise present activities that are paid for by unsuspecting consumers.
  Published 31Aug2008, viewed 506 times

• A Comprehensive Plan for US Energy Independence
  The USA must become independent of foreign oil imports again, the world must halt global warming, and world economies must continue to grow. A comprehensive plan to achieve these objectives during the next decades is offered. The US has to stop burning of fossil fuels and must convert its electricity generation to renewable energies. Liquid transportation fuels must be produced from biologically recirculated carbon in biomass.
  Published 25Aug2008, viewed 465 times

• T. Boone Pickens, Visionary or Profiteer?
  Natural gas is the cleanest fossil fuel, produces the fewest emissions, and costs much less than petroleum fuels. T. Boone Pickens wants the US to use this fuel in cars, trucks, and buses. He also seeks to install more windmills across the US and begin the conversion of fossil fuel powered electricity generation to renewable fuels. Does T. Boone Pickens just want to make a buck or does he try to wake up this country?
  Published 09Aug2008, viewed 453 times

• Energy Costs of Driving Electric Cars
  Electric cars consume less expensive energy. Driving costs are lower. However, electric cars are responsible for emitting more carbon dioxide and more pollutants when electricity is generated from coal. They have shorter driving ranges and need long times for recharging. They are also more expensive. A car driving 25 miles on a gallon of gasoline must pay $16 at the pump versus an electric car, which pays only $5.28 to the utility.
  Published 05Aug2008, viewed 399 times

• Halt Global Warming by Stopping Fossil Fuel Combustion
  Global warming can be halted only by stopping all fossil fuel combustion. Electric power and liquid fuels must be produced by converting renewable energies. Technologies based on solar energy, wind power, marine power, and geothermal heat will eventually produce energy at affordable costs. Nuclear heat will become a major contributor. Processes for replacing petroleum with substitutes from biomass can be developed.
  Published 27Jul2008, viewed 462 times

• Biomass is Our Key to Plentiful and Affordable Liquid Fuels
  Ending global overheating can only be realized by stopping the burning of fossil fuels. Combustion of fossil fuels has provided the energy for driving the industrial revolution. We must now switch to renewable energies to save our Earth and to provide plentiful and affordable energy for the next several centuries. Without this changeover the world will self-destruct. We must replace fossil fuels with renewable energies.
  Published 21Jul2008, viewed 481 times

• We Can Break Oil Addiction Permanently
  Oil prices are skyrocketing, OPEC is taking control, and governments promote ineffective remedies. This article promotes three effective countermeasures; producing biomass without interfering with food production, converting biomass into a petroleum substitute, and powering electricity generation with renewable energies. Fossil fuels must be outlawed in a couple of decades or planet Earth will be damaged beyond repair.
  Published 06Jul2008, viewed 361 times

• Bad Energy Policies Will Harm World Economies
  Oil prices are skyrocketing and governments feel pressured to dispense placebos. This article dismisses the three most highly promoted solutions, which are energy conservation, Cap and Trade schemes, and increased oil drilling. All three are found ineffective in preventing the continuing overheating of our Earth. Instead, three other, highly effective countermeasures are proposed.
  Published 30Jun2008, viewed 501 times

• Securing Energy Independence for the USA
  Crude oil prices have topped $140. The US dollar is losing ground against the Euro. Increasing oil demand drives Wall Street speculation and puts OPEC in full control. A novel biomass concept can make the US energy self-sufficient. To develop the technology and use this concept, the US must establish an agency with the mission, program, and budget to make the US independent of foreign oil imports!
  Published 20Jun2008, viewed 498 times

• Breaking the OPEC Chains
  The world is entering the period when petroleum reserves are being depleted and transportation fuels are becoming scarce. Price gouging will result.Cars, trucks, trains, ships, and airplanes are wholly dependent on the supply of liquid fuels. When petroleum fuels become too costly, world economies will slow and fail.This article proposes a novel approach to produce liquid fuels from biomass forever and without endangering food production.
  Published 13Jun2008, viewed 351 times

• Excess Oil Profits or Healthy Economies?
  Oil prices are moving upwards. Economies across the world are slowing. We must stop the slowing of economies and find alternatives to halt price increases of engine fuels. Only one single solution promises success. We must begin to produce petroleum substitutes from biomass. There is one major constraint. We must never utilize arable lands for energy production. Therefore, we must learn to grow energy rich biomass on arid lands.
  Published 30May2008, viewed 470 times

• The Folly of Making Ethanol from Food Crops
  The article looks at the failure of corn ethanol to become a petroleum substitute. Low energy yields of corn ethanol have resulted in huge demands for grains. A combination of high world market prices for petroleum and US subsidies for ethanol has spawned a worldwide food crisis. Instead of ethanol and corn, we must find biomass with exceptionally high energy content and must develop new techniques to grow high energy biomass in arid areas.
  Published 01May2008, viewed 563 times

• Key Energy Technologies for Booming World Economies
  World economies will falter without the secure supply of plentiful and affordable energies. Fossil fuels are emitting harmful greenhouse gases. Three forms of energy can supply all energy needs and can be converted from inexhaustible energy sources: electricity, liquid fuels, and process gases. We must develop a few key technologies now to gain access to these virtually limitless energies. Otherwise, world economies will be harmed forever.
  Published 21Mar2008, viewed 333 times

• Petroleum, the Triple Threat to World Economies
  Global warming and climate change are caused by fossil fuel combustion. Accelerating energy consumption by China and India will increase average global temperatures 4 to 5 degrees Celsius in 2050 from those in 1900. Petroleum is the only transportation fuel. At an annual consumption of 50 billion barrels the reserves of 1 to 2.3 trillion barrels will run out in 20 to 50 years. Lack of transportation fuels will wreck economies.
  Published 18Mar2008, viewed 350 times

• The False Promise Of Ethanol
  The article deals with the efficiency of ethanol as motor fuel and with its ability to contribute to a reduction in global warming. Fossil fuels are the major contributors to global warming and resulting climate change. They must be replaced by carbon-neutral motor fuels very soon. Ethanol is being promoted in the USA as a major contributor to the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions and control of global warming. These claims are disputed.
  Published 01Mar2008, viewed 403 times

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