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The Hydrogen Debate
(June 23, 2008) The CBC Radio series, “The Hydrogen Solution,” features a debate between Energy Probe’s Norm Rubin and hydrogen expert David Sanborn Scott. This debate is now available for download online, via podcast. Continue reading
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Hydrogen: Running energy policy on hype
Californian Sam Leach knew that hydrogen was a winner. Near the time of the first Middle East Oil crisis in the early 1970s, Leach convinced gullible American investors to give him US$1-million on the strength of his claim that he had built a car that used ordinary water as a fuel. His "invention" used electrolysis assisted by his secret catalyst. He claimed to be able to decompose water into oxygen and hydrogen, and then use the hydrogen as a fuel to run the engine and generate more electricity than he started with. The claims turned out to be false, but by then Leach and the money had moved on. Continue reading
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Hydrogen: Running energy policy on hype
(Jun. 12, 2003) Californian Sam Leach knew that hydrogen was a winner. Near the time of the first Middle East Oil crisis in the early 1970s, Leach convinced gullible American investors to give him US$1-million on the strength of his claim that he had built a car that used ordinary water as a fuel. Continue reading
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Hydrogen: Running energy policy on hype
(June 12, 2003) Tom Adams looks at the “dream” of hydrogen technology. Continue reading
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Hydrogen: Running energy policy on hype
(June 12, 2003) Californian Sam Leach knew that hydrogen was a winner. Near the time of the first Middle East Oil crisis in the early 1970s, Leach convinced gullible American investors to give him US$1-million on the strength of his claim that he had built a car that used ordinary water as a fuel. His “invention” used electrolysis assisted by his secret catalyst. Continue reading
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Killing cap and trade is costly. But keeping it is worse
To pay for the 57 beneficiary programs, cap and trade was taking $2 billion a year out of the productive economy. Continue reading
Lawrence Solomon: How Tesla’s Elon Musk became the master of fake business
Musk’s genius is primarily in the subsidy-seeking realm. By 2015, U.S. governments alone had given his companies US$5 billion through direct grants, tax breaks, cut-rate loans, tax credits and rebates. Continue reading
Posted in Climate Change, Energy Probe News, Transportation
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Lawrence Solomon: Tinkering with climate
Global warming and global cooling arguments have this in common — the scientific quest to dominate nature. Continue reading
Posted in Climate Change, Costs, Benefits and Risks, Energy Probe News, The Deniers
Tagged Climate Change, climate change scandal, climate change sceptics, climate control, climate modification, geoengineering, Global Warming, global warming scandal, global warming sceptics, Lawrence Solomon, SPICE
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Lawrence Solomon: Liberate U.S. oil
(July 5, 2011) Richard Nixon was the first U.S. president to vow and fail to wean the United States off its dependency on Middle Eastern oil. Barack Obama will be the last. The United States today has the wherewithal to become independent in energy. Once Obama goes, it will also have the will. Continue reading
Workers pulled from nuclear plant as radiation spikes
(March 15, 2011) CTV News reports on the latest setback at the stricken Fukushima Dai-Ichi plant. Energy Probe’s director of nuclear research Norm Rubin says the 40-year-old plant was only designed to withstand a quake of 6.5 magnitude. Continue reading
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Tagged Chernobyl, Fukushima, Japan earthquake, meltdown, nuclear energy, Radiation, tsunami
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