[Arthur Wildfire! March]

Ping. Also adding other energy innovation links. FRegards ....

[Jeff Chandler]

Those are some mighty big numbers they’re throwing around.

[Arthur Wildfire! March]

New Energy: Helium-3, bloom box, and pebble bed reactors

Researchers and space enthusiasts see helium-3 as the perfect fuel source:
http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/helium3_000630.html
extremely potent, nonpolluting, with virtually no radioactive ...

Helium-3 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helium-3

Race to the Moon for Nuclear Fuel
http://www.wired.com/science/space/news/2006/12/72276
Helium-3 is considered a safe, environmentally friendly fuel candidate for these generators, and while it is scarce on Earth it is plentiful ...

Pebble Bed Reactor
http://pebblebedreactor.blogspot.com

Pebble bed reactor - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pebble_bed_reactor

The Bloom Box: An Energy Breakthrough? - 60 Minutes - CBS NewsFeb 18, 2010
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/02/18/60minutes/main6221135.shtml
First Customers Say Energy Machine Works And Saves Money.

Is K.R. Sridhar’s ‘magic box’ ready for prime time? - Fortune ...
http://brainstormtech.blogs.fortune.cnn.com/2010/02/19/is-k-r-sridhars-magic-box-ready-for-prime-time/

The Bloom Box: a power plant for the home (video) — EngadgetFeb 22, 2010
http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/22/the-bloom-box-a-power-plant-for-the-home-video/
Those two blocks can power the average high-consumption American home — one block can power the average European home.

[GraceG]

I thought the Enviro weenies said using methane hydrates would cause a chain reaction that would cause catastrophic global warming, I guess that was only if we and not China do it......

[DontTreadOnMe2009]

Stay away from our Alaskan Ice!!!

We bought it fair and square and we’re not giving it back!

[Husker24]

There is no way in hell Obama will let us get at this stuff.

[Scotsman will be Free]

“Unfortunately, China lacks the capability to excavate the mineral.”
Nothing unfortunate about it. The more they are technologically delayed the better for us.

[PIF]

I think there was a post on FR about this earlier wherein Salazar nixed any US development of methane as an energy source - wind and solar only in US future.

[aruanan]

The worldwide amounts of carbon bound in gas hydrates is conservatively estimated to total twice the amount of carbon to be found in all known fossil fuels on Earth.*

Recent mapping conducted by the USGS off North Carolina and South Carolina shows large accumulations of methane hydrates.

A pair of relatively small areas, each about the size of the State of Rhode Island, shows intense concentrations of gas hydrates. USGS scientists estimate that these areas contain more than 1,300 trillion cubic feet of methane gas, an amount representing more than 70 times the 1989 gas consumption of the United States.
--Gas (Methane) Hydrates -- A New Frontier, US Geological Survey, Marine and Coastal Geology Program, 1992.

*And remember that the known reserves as of 2010 dwarf those known in 1992. The same goes for methane hydrates.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks sonofstrangelove.

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