- March 12, 2007
Coltan and Your Mobile: Disturbing effect of a key electronic material on the ongoing disaster in the Congo. "Columbite-tantalite (from here on referred to as Coltan). On its own it looks and feels like a very fertile soil, but when refined you get a highly heat-resistant metal powder called tantalum. Once refined, coltan has myriad uses, all of which pertain to its particular properties of being a dense mineral with the ability to withstand high temperatures and stress.To the...
http://www.novak.com/weblog/2007/03/12.html#a3447
- March 10, 2007
Altairnano power play: I wonder if this battery is for real. "Altairnano - a relatively small public company claims to produce a battery that could power an electric vehicle
hundreds of miles, charge in 10 minutes, and have a service life of 20
years or more.. The secret, according to Gotcher, is nanotechnology, and
Altairnano's selection of nano-structured lithium titanate as a
framework for its battery, branded NanoSafe&153;. Because the storage
compartments are so small, the...
http://www.novak.com/weblog/2007/03/10.html#a3446
- March 6, 2007
Adam Smith turns green: Nice short statement that many friends of mine could make. "We investors and entrepreneurs in the cleantech world have a guilty conscience. People often ask us, &147;Are you motivated by the money or by the mission&148; It&146;s become unfashionable and a little shameful to say you&146;re driven by anything but profit, but I&146;m not afraid to say I&146;m a clean energy investor because of my values. ..I looked at the energy marketplace and what was...
http://www.novak.com/weblog/2007/03/06.html#a3445
- March 5, 2007
Oil Innovations Pump New Life Into Old Wells: Update on technologies for recovering the 23 of oil that conventional drilling leaves in the ground. A theme covered in depth in the January 2001 Atlantic. Bottom lines for me is that I don't believe we're close to peak oil as long as oil prices rise to pay for technology; and that $50 per barrel can fund a lot of secondary recovery technology to keep oil flowing. Oil use should be cut for environmental and security...
http://www.novak.com/weblog/2007/03/05.html#a3444
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