Learn about Cold Fusion, Energy & Nanotech

Jonathan Chan, editor of Atomic Engine, payed a little visit to Beck’s Cafe, lured by my article on oil investment (as seen here). I was quite honored by his visit. And then I decided to take a little read through The Atomic Engine site. All I can is, “Wow”. Here are two of his many articles I found most interesting:

• “Atomic Workbench: ‘Micro-Pump’ Breakthrough at Purdue” May 2nd 2006 - A fascinating article around one possible solution to powering & cooling high performance CPU’s. As many of you may know, in general, as CPU performance increases, they tend to draw more power and get hotter. That’s not true for all (witness Freescale’s 8641D for example at this link here or Rapport’s Kilocore technology here). The big bugaboo is, “how do you power and cool the chips?” This is a classic struggle in development organizations between the EE and Power designers and the ME and Thermal team.

• “The Dipstick: Driving Our Economy to Guzzle” April 20, 2006 - This was a terrific article exposing the downsides of using bio-fuel to become energy independent, or as part of the answer to that independence. Mr. Chan points out how Brazil’s success in becoming energy independent through biofuel has meant millions of acres of Brazilian old growth rainforest have been cut and burned. He also calls for a U.S. National Energy policy that relies more on renewable sources rather then non-renewable ones. It sounds like “old news” but it’s said in a fresh way and backed up with lots of good reading resources.

There’s alot more interesting reading there too. So grab your favorite java and have a look at Atomic Engine

4/5/2007 Update: The Atomic Engine Alternative Energy Website appears to have been permanently taken down. You can learn more about alternative energy at The Alternative Energy Blog by visiting them at this link here.