Mar

31

Pyrolysis Goes Commercial Scale

March 31, 2009 | 3 Comments

Back in September of 2008 UOP, a Honeywell company, and Ensyn announced they would form a new joint venture company to use UOP’s Rapid Thermal Processing (RTP) technology expected to use municipal, farm and forestry wastes. This new company would also accelerate research and development efforts to commercialize UOP’s next-generation upgrading technology to refine the [...]

Mar

30

An Algae Production Cost Breakthrough

March 30, 2009 | 13 Comments

AlgaeVenture Systems of Marysville Ohio announced they have released patented information about their new method to harvest, dewater and dry mature algae production at a fraction of one percent of other processes in common use. Ross Youngs, CEO of Univenture, the parent corporation of AlgaeVenture Systems said, “For nearly 40 years, it has been widely [...]

Mar

27

A Biological Path to Hydrogen Production from Algae

March 27, 2009 | 3 Comments

Photosynthesis from a hydrogen-producing, single-celled green alga, Chlamydomonas reinhardtii, has unmasked a previously unknown fermentation pathway that may open up possibilities for increasing hydrogen production. Alexandra Dubini and Michael Seibert from the National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Florence Mus and Arthur Grossman of the Carnegie Institution’s Department of Plant Biology, and Matthew Posewitz from the Colorado [...]

Mar

26

More Natural Gas Than Ever Thought Possible

March 26, 2009 | 6 Comments

Monday March 23 saw 24 papers about natural gas hydrates, the frozen methane locked up in frozen deep cold water, at the American Chemical Society’s 237th National Meeting in Salt Lake City. Known as gas hydrate, it is a frozen form of natural gas that can burst into flame at the touch of a match [...]

Mar

25

More Power From Slower Wind

March 25, 2009 | 6 Comments

As Keith Johnson put it in the blog entry at the Wall Street Journal, “Plenty of clean tech’s advances are all about glitz. But sometimes the real advances come when companies start looking down market,” he meant that developing into the less than prime locations can pay off with better technology that works both in [...]

Mar

24

Low Energy Nuclear Reactions Come in From Cold Fusion

March 24, 2009 | 10 Comments

LENR, the acronym for Low Energy Nuclear Reactions is the label commonly used by serious science to describe the phenomena that experiments express for many researchers. LENR started life with the discovery that started in 1989 by Martin Fleishmann and Stanley Pons, becoming a global scientific sensation known as cold fusion, only to blow apart [...]

Mar

23

Wondering About Intellectual Property Rights

March 23, 2009 | Leave a Comment

Across the planet food production has seen a dramatic increase in production from hybrid plant development and genetic research on to seeds with improved yield and pest traits. The results have gone well past the starvation minimums of times past with the continued growth in human population the sole pressure for more food. What science [...]

Mar

20

The Ultracapacitor Competition Intensifies

March 20, 2009 | 7 Comments

An economic slowdown has a way of focusing attention. The ultracapacitor or supercapacitor field is a growing one for an important reason. The carbon tax, or “carbon cap and trade” to throw off the unthoughtful, is having an impact on long term planning. The Obama administration has floated income to the government of $600 billion [...]

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