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What's more efficient: Growing corn for energy or solar?

Thu, 23 Apr 2026 00:38:09 +0000

In fact, it would require about 31 hectares of corn ethanol to produce the same amount of energy generated by one hectare of land covered in solar panels.

Tags: #agriculture #corn #energy #farming #solar

Data centers turn to commercial aircraft jet engines bolted onto trailers as AI power crunch bites — cast-off turbines generate up to 48 MW of electricity apiece | Tom's Hardware

Thu, 23 Oct 2025 22:19:21 +0000

Faced with multi-year delays to secure grid power, US data center operators are deploying aeroderivative gas turbines — effectively retired commercial aircraft engines bolted into trailers — to keep AI infrastructure online.

Tags: #ai #energy #environment #power

In a first, Google has released data on how much energy an AI prompt uses | MIT Technology Review

Fri, 22 Aug 2025 22:47:02 +0000

Tags: #ai #energy #llms

Tracing Oil Reserves to Their Tiny Origins - NYTimes.com

Thu, 06 Sep 2012 21:29:11 +0000

Today, a principal tenet of geology is that a vast majority of the world’s oil arose not from lumbering beasts on land but tiny organisms at sea. It holds that blizzards of microscopic life fell into the sunless depths over the ages, producing thick sediments that the planet’s inner heat eventually cooked into oil. It is estimated that 95 percent or more of global oil traces its genesis to the sea.

Tags: #energy #imported:pinboard #oil #plankton

Tracing Oil Reserves to Their Tiny Origins - NYTimes.com

Thu, 06 Sep 2012 21:29:11 +0000

Tags: #energy #oil #plankton

The Leonard Lopate Show: Underreported: Thorium Reactors - WNYC

Mon, 27 Feb 2012 01:19:37 +0000

Journalist Richard Martin discusses thorium as a potential nuclear fuel and looks at the efforts to promote it as a new form of green energy.

Tags: #energy #imported:pinboard #nuclear #thorium

The Leonard Lopate Show: Underreported: Thorium Reactors - WNYC

Mon, 27 Feb 2012 01:19:37 +0000

Journalist Richard Martin discusses thorium as a potential nuclear fuel and looks at the efforts to promote it as a new form of green energy.

Tags: #energy #nuclear #thorium

Thorium reactors a silver bullet for our looming energy crisis? | Geek.com

Mon, 27 Feb 2012 01:17:57 +0000

Is thorium the silver-bullet that we have been looking for to solve the energy crisis? We don’t know yet, but the research has certainly been promising. Scientists have shown how a small amount of thorium could power an automobile for its entire lifespan, hopefully it can be scaled for the world’s power grids.

Tags: #energy #imported:pinboard #nuclear #thorium

Thorium reactors a silver bullet for our looming energy crisis? | Geek.com

Mon, 27 Feb 2012 01:17:57 +0000

Tags: #energy #nuclear #thorium

N.R.C. Clears Way for Nuclear Plant Construction - NYTimes.com

Fri, 23 Dec 2011 01:19:34 +0000

The decision, a milestone in the much-delayed revival of plant construction sought by the nuclear industry, involves the Westinghouse AP1000, a 1,154-megawatt reactor with a so-called advanced passive design. It relies more heavily on forces like gravity and natural heat convection and less on pumps, valves and operator actions than other models do, in theory diminishing the probability of an accident.

Tags: #energy #nuclear #power #reactors

The Ann Arbor Chronicle » Transitioning Ann Arbor to Self-Reliance

Fri, 24 Jul 2009 17:59:37 +0000

"The assumption behind Transition Towns is that we’re reaching a convergence of three crises: 1) a moment when oil production can’t meet demand, forcing us to confront a future of dramatically lower energy use; 2) climate change, which requires a drastic reduction in carbon emissions; and 3) worldwide economic instability. The Transition Towns movement is all about preparing communities to retool for this future, and the 12-step program is an outline of how to do that."

Tags: #annarbor #crafts #energy #makers #michigan #selfreliance

EcoDrain | high performance shower heat exchange

Tue, 24 Mar 2009 19:47:19 +0000

Tags: #appliances #energy #house #plumbing #showers #water

Nuclear power? Yes please! - Ars Technica

Mon, 23 Mar 2009 02:08:35 +0000

"Nuclear power will have to form part of a comprehensive post-carbon energy infrastructure, and its downsides are greatly overstated, according to a group of experts."

Tags: #economy #energy #nuclear #power

Op-Ed Columnist - Time to Reboot America - NYTimes.com

Thu, 25 Dec 2008 15:10:22 +0000

Tags: #america #economy #education #energy #future #obama #technology

FactCheck.org: Energetically Wrong

Sat, 13 Sep 2008 17:03:21 +0000

"Palin says Alaska supplies 20 percent of U.S. energy. Not true. Not even close."

Tags: #alaska #elections #energy #gas #mccain #oil #palin #politics