oil alternatives

ZDNet Resources

• sort by:
• Relevance
• Date
• Popularity

Can coal be clean?

At the AlwaysOn GoingGreen conference in Sausalito, Calif., Tim Vail of Synthesis Energy says a mix of solutions is needed to solve our energy problems. Erik Straser of Mohr Davidow Ventures adds that although we do have natural resources still available to us, new technologies are needed to extract them...

Tags: fossil fuel, coal, oil alternatives, green, Going Green, energy, technology, resources

Videos 2008-09-18

Additional Resources

East Anglia: Chapter 3

Of course we are"The global warming skeptics are perfectly happy to overlook the illegality of the hacking and theft of private emails, according to this blogger."Sure, how else would this information have been made public. Many of the emails highlight to obfuscation of information, others point to the planning to...

Tags: Litigation, fraud

Discussion threads 2009-11-22

Green building boom

Somebody please explain something here.How can these green building--and associated manufacturing--jobs not be the same old "not green" jobs just slid into a new spot? Are these in addition to the "not green" jobs. Are the old "not green" just canned and dropped from the rolls of humanity....

Tags: Recruitment & Selection, McGraw-Hill Construction, job

Discussion threads 2009-11-11

My Top Scary Technology Trends

The Most Terrifying:Google.Kills good companies by handing out "freebies". VERY scary.Machines replacing humansI thought they were tools to enhance our experience on earth.The worst is when customer is an AI telephone. "I'm sorry, could you repeat your last phrase. I did not understand". I thought the buttons were bad enough.RE:...

Tags: cloud computing, Storage management, Google Inc., hardware, virtualization

Discussion threads 2009-10-29

GeoEye spots Iranian nuclear site

Message has been deleted.Message has been deleted.RE: GeoEye spots Iranian nuclear siteI do not worry, Israel does not miss around and will take care of it if they feel it is a threat, they have done it before and i am sure they will do it again. With or...

Tags: Government, Vertical industries, Iranian nuclear site, GeoEye, nuclear site, Deleted

Discussion threads 2009-09-28

Big Oil greening up--is this a good thing?

"Newsweek" would like you to believe it's a happy sign of the times to see global oil companies putting serious money into alternative fuels. They site investments by major oil companies in ehtanol. The "Newsweek" piece refers to more nations putting taxes or caps on carbon emissions,...

Tags: Oil Company, Newsweek, Oil, Litigation, Personal Finance, Business Operations, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-09-20

Windmills stir up opposition

Let's do some mathHarry:How much energy is recoverable, year in, year out, for vertical turbine blades?What percentage of the US' domestic energy usage does that amount to?This is very basic arithmetic.Likewise, when you factor in the energy costs needed to make the lithium ion batteries of the Prius, and assume...

Tags: Telecom & Utilities, wind energy

Discussion threads 2009-09-13

Fossil fuel battle: who'll reign over America's energy future

Nothing but lies...When will this lie stop, no different than Lenin quoted, if you tell a lie enough it becomes the truth.There is NO evidence of this and it is ludicrous that everything will be electric. The power grid cannot even support what we have now, so now it is...

Tags: Obama, global warming, fossil fuel

Discussion threads 2009-09-08

Enterprise 2.0: what a crock

I've been following the so-called Enterprise 2.0 meme for some time and you know what? It's a crock. Forget Dion Hinchcliffe's pretty failure pictures or Mike Krigsman's guest post of failure. Examine the basics and look back at history. Some years back I was a hack attending...

Tags: Enterprise 2.0, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2009-08-26

FCC's more proactive stance: Should we cheer or worry?

FCC's more proactive stance: Should we cheer or worry?Regulation is not micromanagement"At some point, the FCC meddles in free markets. It will micromanage."Clearly you think more about business than you do about government. Or maybe you're just conservative, politically, and ideological to a fault.This is about the public's interest...

Tags: Federal government, FCC, proactive stance

Discussion threads 2009-08-03

How dead are American hydrogen cars?

How dead are American hydrogen cars?It is too early to say, there are a lot of issues to solveA hydrogen economy is still just a dream on a sheet of paper. Making this a reality is probably 10 to 20 years away, given that we don't find a better...

Tags: Hydrogen car, Obama, hydrogen economy, Hydrogen Production, Diesel Engine, hydrogen, hydrogen car, car

Discussion threads 2009-05-20

Do you spend money on expensive cables?

Do you spend money on expensive cables?In audio...thicker is better, on the whole. Professionally, I never use anything smaller than #12 AWG for speakers. Of course, some of my cable runs are 250'.The problem is that if you need something RIGHT NOWmost brick-and-mortar stores only carry the...

Tags: Network technology, cable, expensive cable

Discussion threads 2009-04-22

America's lag-time in alternative energy

I just blogged about San Francisco applying for a permit to build an offshore wave farm to generate electricity. That's but the second step after deciding to try this tech. It's many more steps before anything is actually placed in the Pacific. And this is San Francisco, positioned next...

Tags: Alternative Energy, Portugal, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-03-01

The coal war heats up

The coal war heats upA problemA problem with the green initiatives is that they do not account for the environmental damage companies outside the US do while producing their products. It's easy to pick on the local guys because their processes are visible. This in turn creates an unlevel playing...

Tags: coal, gasoline, USSR Russia

Discussion threads 2009-02-15

Green auto racing? Are they kidding?

Green auto racing? Are they kidding?shut down sports thenThose lights at outdoor arenas all over the world, there must be hundreds of thousands of them, and the miles driven to get there? - and what about TV sets we watch events on, or TVs in general? and PCs, what...

Tags: NASCAR, ALMS, car, transportation

Discussion threads 2009-02-05

Google

GoogleGoogle DependantGoogle is good, make no mistake, but when it gurgled, I just changed my search engine to Yahoo. Problem solved. Calling it a "monoculture" may be giving a bit much credit to our glorified Googlers.Jeff G.RE: GoogleHow ironic that Google et al are taking the ISP's to task for...

Tags: SEARCH, Microsoft Windows, Cyberthreats, SECURITY, Google Inc., monoculture

Discussion threads 2009-02-02

Next year: science and greentech in Washington D.C.

As always, money will dominate American poilitics next year. But it appears science may play a larger role that it has in recent years. The Obama Adnministration wants a scientist at the head of the Energy Department. It would be the first time a Nobel Prize winning scientist...

Tags: Scientist, Obama Adnministration, Transportation, Advertising & Promotion, Currency & Foreign Exchange, Federal Government, Marketing, Finance, Government, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2008-12-21

Green Tech Bubble Deflation--Matches General Economy?

Green Tech Bubble Deflation--Matches General Economy?Never terribly excited by it.As one of the many alternatives we could come up with, this one never really excited me. Sure it's cool to be able to create fuel in our own nation, but I think other alternatives hold more promise.That's the problem with...

Tags: Currency & Foreign exchange, deflation, green technology

Discussion threads 2008-12-10

Collision course for American-owned car makers

America's auto makers were very handy in protecting themselves against having tougher fuel efficiency standards. Just this past year as fuel prices spiralled ever upward the feds finally increased the fuel efficiency standards after thirty years of stasis. So now those auto makers in America and elsewhere are...

Tags: U.S., Car, Automobile Company, Detroit, U.S. Congress, General Motors Corp., Manufacturing, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2008-11-17

Chilling data from the Arctic

Chilling data from the ArcticSo much hyperbole, so little factPolar bear populations are on the rise. It's stupid to think that the polar bear is so unadaptable that it can't handle a decrease in ice floes. They'll just hunt from shore. Life adapts.BTW, the sea ice is the SECOND lowest...

Tags: Polar Bear population, Arctic, bear, lake, ice

Discussion threads 2008-09-23