Creating Fuel Cells With Solar Power?
MIT chemists have developed a means to electrolyze water at room temperature with photovoltaic cells.A new catalyst makes it feasible to split water with solar power. MIT chemists say the catalyst, used in conjunction with cheap photovoltaic solar panels, could lead to inexpensive, simple systems that use water to store the energy from sunlight. In the process, the scientists may have cleared ...Posted in Outside The Beltway | OTB on August 1, 2008 02:04
OTB Radio - Tonight at 7 Eastern
The next episode of OTB Radio, our BlogTalkRadio program, will record and air live tonight from 7-8 Eastern. Dave Schuler will be joining me tonight to talk about recent events in the news. Possible topics include: The New Yorker cover flap McCain and Obama's evolving Iraq and Afghanistan plans Freddie and Fannie bailout Alternative energy solutions just around the corner? Please join us. We'll ...Posted in Outside The Beltway | OTB on July 16, 2008 16:30
More Good News For Solar
This morning, Glenn Reynolds linked to this bit of news from Popular Science regarding a discovery that could lead to greater efficiencies in solar cells: MIT engineers have recently helped up the feasibility of widespread solar power by developing a new “solar concentrator.” The concentrator, which is a flat glass panel spread across a large area, gathers light at the edges ...Posted in Outside The Beltway | OTB on July 16, 2008 09:59
Is it Worth Drilling For More Domestic Oil?
Newt Gingrich's American Solutions group has mounted an online petition designed to persuade Congress to open up domestic sites that are currently closed to oil and natural gas exploration. That's certainly an understandable sentiment, given the skyrocketing increases in the price of oil over the past couple of years. But opening up for exploration is not going to ...Posted in Outside The Beltway | OTB on June 11, 2008 10:39
New American Arsenal
I attended a briefing today at the National Press Club featuring some board members of the American Security Project promoting what they have dubbed "A New American Arsenal." The bipartisan group, headed by Gary Hart and featuring the likes of John Kerry, Ken Duberstein, Richard Armitage, and several retired flag officers urges a return of a bipartisan foreign ...Posted in Outside The Beltway | OTB on May 1, 2008 13:31
Huckabee’s Sunday School Foreign Policy
Mike Huckabee and Bill Richardson get their turn at having essays, ostensibly written by them, outlining their foreign policy vision in the pages of Foreign Affairs. I've addressed Bill Richardson's vision, which he's already outlined in similar essays elsewhere, extensively here and here. Huckabee's piece, entitled "America's Priorities in the War on Terror -- Islamists, Iraq, Iran, and Pakistan," ...Posted in Outside The Beltway | OTB on December 15, 2007 12:00
Caption Contest Winners
The Brakeman Edition OTB Caption ContestTM is now over. (AFP/Tengku Bahar) The Winners: First: yetanotherjohn - Your carbon offset dollars at work. Second: Paul Barnes - Chris "Mindfreak" Angel thought he could be run over by a train. He was. Third: Anderson - Finally, General Petraeus saw the light at the end of the tunnel. Honorable Mention: Hoosier Daddy - Raja ensured himself ...Posted in Outside The Beltway | OTB on September 13, 2007 20:54
Prof. William Gray: Global Warming Real, Not Caused by Man
For those of you who don't know Prof. William Gray is one of the top scientists when it comes to hurricanes and tropical weather. Now he has offered what will undoubtedly be a controversial view of global warming/climate change. Global warming is happening, but humans are not the cause, one of the nation’s top experts on hurricanes said Monday morning. Bill ...Posted in Outside The Beltway | OTB on September 20, 2006 14:05
Gasoline Could Drop to $1.15/Gallon
Probably not as that is the lower end of the estimate, but a well-respected oil industry analyst says expect gas prices to plunge. Oil prices are more than the basic supply and demand curves, including future expectations such as unrest in oil producing regions and hurricanes in the Gulf of Mexico. The recent sharp drop in the global price of ...Posted in Outside The Beltway | OTB on September 14, 2006 15:30
California and Global Warming
In an a new attempt to show that he really isn't a Republican, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger endorses a bill that will "combat global warming", Republican Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and Democratic leaders endorsed landmark legislation Wednesday that could serve as a national model for combating global warming and, according to Silicon Valley business leaders, spur a wave of cleaner-burning energy technologies. "This is ...Posted in Outside The Beltway | OTB on August 31, 2006 03:00
