http://mooreslore.corante.com/ en-us dana@a-clue.com 2006-01-24T17:00:28-05:00 hourly 1 2000-01-01T12:00+00:00 http://mooreslore.corante.com/archives/2006/01/24/alternative_energy_no_longer_an_option.php John Robb of Global Guerillas has posted a blog entry that should curl your hair. (The picture is from Drexel University.) The control over the price of oil is in now in the hands of global guerrillas -- the open... 46996@http://mooreslore.corante.com/ energy 2006-01-24T17:00:28-05:00 http://mooreslore.corante.com/archives/2006/01/03/where_is_the_power.php I have something interesting in common with Sun COO Jonathan Schwartz. That is a fascination with a scene in history. The year is 1881, and in J.P. Morgan's mansion on Madison Avenue an experiment is taking place. It's overseen by... 45292@http://mooreslore.corante.com/ Economics 2006-01-03T09:49:24-05:00 http://mooreslore.corante.com/archives/2005/09/27/no_news_may_be_news.php One of the biggest mistakes you can make as a reporter is to become dependent on press releases. When you do that, you're telling the story the vendors want you to tell. And you're ignoring the story the vendors want... 36576@http://mooreslore.corante.com/ Consumer Electronics 2005-09-27T11:08:36-05:00 http://mooreslore.corante.com/archives/2005/09/18/rice_wins_again.php No, not on the football field, silly. (The original Rice seal, to the right, dates from 1911, and carries its own story, including Confederate gray "warmed into life by a tinge of lavender.") I'm talking about the laboratory, where... 8956@http://mooreslore.corante.com/ Semiconductors 2005-09-18T10:15:30-05:00 http://mooreslore.corante.com/archives/2005/08/25/hawaii_should_be_texas.php There's a news report out that Hawaii wants to cap the wholesale price of gasoline, because it has gotten too high. Of course we know that won't work. Refiners will simply ship their product elsewhere if it can get a... 8910@http://mooreslore.corante.com/ energy 2005-08-25T14:21:14-05:00 http://mooreslore.corante.com/archives/2005/08/22/the_best_way_to_save_gas.php The fastest way to save energy in this country is to build-out the Local Web. (The illustration is from the PRBlog, in a story about a local Web conflict.) Every day I find limits in the local Web. Right now,... 8901@http://mooreslore.corante.com/ e-commerce 2005-08-22T11:19:12-05:00 http://mooreslore.corante.com/archives/2005/08/12/why_is_oil_so_high.php Oil, like other commodities, is priced based on a contunuous auction, demand measured against supply. (The picture is from a primer on peak oil, courtesy Energybulletin.net.) Supply has become inelastic. Not just the oil, but its refining. No one is... 8886@http://mooreslore.corante.com/ Business Models 2005-08-12T10:36:34-05:00 http://mooreslore.corante.com/archives/2004/09/06/the_return_of_nuclear_energy.php A previously-discarded German technology called Pebble Bed Modular Reaction (PBMR) is being resurrected in South Africa as a potential answer to the world's energy problems. (The illustration is from a Science in Africa story on PBMR, published last year.) It's... 7927@http://mooreslore.corante.com/ energy 2004-09-06T09:19:16-05:00 http://mooreslore.corante.com/archives/2004/06/21/alwayson_saving_energy.php In my new column at Control Magazine (left) I'm privileged to learn about how basic industry works, and about the heroes who make it work. I've also been thrilled to learn that Zigbee, an Always-On technology I've mentioned here in... 7709@http://mooreslore.corante.com/ Always On 2004-06-21T10:39:42-05:00 http://mooreslore.corante.com/archives/2004/06/21/alwayson_divorced_from_the_grid.php I think everyone would agree that the best way out of our current political box is to become independent of petroleum. (Photo courtesy The New York Times. This story isn't about that. Instead I'm going to describe two stories that... 7708@http://mooreslore.corante.com/ energy 2004-06-21T10:32:12-05:00