Water Energy, is it the Future?

Columbia Power Technologies has come out with a prototype wave energy device. It is called the SeaRay and its design allows it to take up to twice as much energy then other developing wave technologies.  The company refers to it as a “heave and surge” energy design. The SeaRay is performing beyond our expectations and tracking well with modeling predictions. The CEO of...

Did a Spider-Man Comic Predict the 1977 Blackout?

Share What Happened in the Comic? Spider-Man and the Wasp were fighting against the villain Equinox who can shoot fire out of his arms.  A blast hit a building and the power transformer went down causing blackouts all over the city.  This issue came out in July, 1977. The same week as the real blackout. What Happened in Real Life? From July 13th, 1977 to July 14th, 1977 the only...

A Coming Bear Market for U.S. Electricity Sales?

Economic forecasters and business professionals alike are increasingly alarmed by the broad weakness of the U.S. economic recovery.  Forecasters in many sectors frequently highlight the “lost decade” of the Japanese economy following that nation’s stock market and real estate crash of the early 1990’s, and they openly wonder about parallel patterns in the U.S. and about the implications...