Posts Tagged 'Abstract'

A wise man once said… “Anything is possible that is not forbidden by the Second Law of Thermodynamics.” Spoken by a true visionary and researcher. My personal interests are in discerning what is most economic to do TODAY.

Currently, the most nearly economic large scale source of renewable earth energy for the USA may be the use of geopressured hot waters to generate electricity from closed cycle turbines. No new technologies are necessary. What is required is a careful, detailed geologic ...

There are many, many interesting problems associated with understanding methane hydrates. From a world view, however, the most important problems are those that deal directly with extracting large quantities of methane safely and cheaply from the frozen hydrate. If this cannot be done, the promise of enormous energy from methane hydrate remains an elusive rainbow.

The scale of the problem, the magnitude of the difficulties, can best be understood by looking at the demands that commerciality places on technology. To truly ...