Yesterday’s interview with my friend Wally Rippel that I conducted for the book I’m preparing on renewable energy is a moment in time I’ll never forget. I know I’ve commented on Wally numerous times here, and so I’ll try not …
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In preparation for the book I’m writing on renewable energy, which I hope to publish sometime this winter, I’ll be interviewing my colleague and friend Wally Rippel. Readers of “The Three Brass Tacks” will remember Wally’s comments on cold fusion. …
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What Brian Greene says here is correct, but I wouldn’t hold my breath. As my colleague Wally Rippel points out, very few Americans, especially young ones, cannot even name (let alone admire) a single living scientist.
Senior engineer Wally Rippel (pictured), who contributed the chapter on cold fusion for my first book (Renewable Energy–Facts and Fantasies), likes to perform an exercise when he speaks in public:
It’s hard to identify the specific issue that took the United States down so hard, so fast. Sure, we can talk about the latent racism that slept just under the surface, waiting to be unleashed by a demagogue.
A colleague asks for my viewpoint on low-energy nuclear reactions (LENR, aka cold fusion). I wrote: It’s funny you ask, as my belief has changed over the last few years. If you will read the short chapter on the subject …
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A young reader asks me about building a car powered by nothing but sunlight. I happen to be very friendly with the first guy on the West Coast of the U.S. (Wally Rippel) to do exactly that, at least at …
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Matthew Simmons colaboró con el capítulo del libro de Peak Oil. Simmons fue consejero de energía del Presidente de Estados Unidos George W. Bush. Su atractivo libro Twilight in the Desert: The Coming Saudi Oil Shock and the World Economy …
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Best-seller #1 en categoría libros de “Energía” en Amazon.com ¿Qué tecnologías de energías limpias dominarán el futuro? ¿Cómo nos afectarán las finanzas y la política? Adquiera RENEWABLE ENERGY FACTS & FANTASIES Craig Shields: Autor de Renewable Energy, Facts & Fantasies …
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Here’s an article that I urge our readers to check out on the apparent slow-down of global warming, a phenomenon predicted by our current climate models but not perfectly understood at this time. Obviously, the climate change deniers are going …
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