Feb

27

Algae Sizzle and Algae Steak

February 27, 2009 | 6 Comments

First up is the sizzling Bionavitas “Light Rod” idea called Light Immersion Technology that looks like a giant tapered optical fiber that places light at depth into algae cultures. Ingenious as ideas go, with a near stunning amount of coverage on Wednesday the idea might get some financial and research legs. What has been left [...]

Feb

26

Going Straight from Farm To Diesel Fuel Tank

February 26, 2009 | Leave a Comment

A UK team that started with the University of Newcastle added the Universities of Cambridge and Manchester to an effort to design and engineer an idea of making a single catalyst for processing raw vegetable oils into diesel fuel. News this week has it that BP Plc will add its support to the research. Plant [...]

Feb

25

An Investors Quick Check of Pyrolysis and Gasification For Fuel Production

February 25, 2009 | 3 Comments

First up is the most familiar name, Coskata. A couple months ago the company had expected to close on a deal to build a 100 million gallon annual plant using sugar cane bagasse. The deal is yet to finalize, which comes as no surprise today. The technology is gasification of the bagasse, or the cellulose [...]

Feb

24

Exhaling Hydrogen

February 24, 2009 | 4 Comments

Hydrogen is easily the most desired substance for chemistry and fuel making. Matched up with carbon from single carbon molecules up to sixteen or so plus hydrogen makes hydrogen carbon molecules the densest, richest, easiest to handle, lowest cost and familiar fuel products. The engines to use them are at hand and efficiency is the [...]

Feb

23

Big Oil Gets Ankle Deep In Biofuels

February 23, 2009 | 4 Comments

With small toe dips, some near foot submergence now comes a commitment of sorts from British oil major BP Plc who became the latest oil company getting into biofuels by taking major a stake in ethanol production when it extended an agreement with Verenium Corp. to build a cellulosic ethanol plant in Highlands County in [...]

Feb

20

Power and Momentum for Thorium Fueled Nuclear

February 20, 2009 | 3 Comments

Are you a thorium fan? Got some of the hard details settled in mind and realize the potential of thorium and even better, the Liquid Fluoride Thorium Reactor? With the basics already worked out for decades, a mass of people is getting on board from Senator Hatch to we bloggers and blog readers. That won’t [...]

Feb

19

Progress in the Solar Cell Two Step Method

February 19, 2009 | 10 Comments

Robert DiMatteo, the CEO of a startup based in Boston named MTPV has a new approach to converting heat into electricity using solar cells could make a technology called thermal photovoltaics more practical. Thermal photovoltaics are solar cells that convert the light that radiates from a hot surface into electricity. The first applications will be [...]

Feb

18

A New Solution for One of the Hydrogen Problems

February 18, 2009 | Leave a Comment

Northwestern University chemist Mercouri G. Kanatzidis and postdoctoral research associate Gerasimos S. Armatas, have developed a class of new porous materials, structured like honeycomb, that is very effective at separating hydrogen from complex gas mixtures. Called mesoporous materials, so far as the best of the researchers’ knowledge allows, the materials exhibit the best selectivity in [...]

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