Aug

31

EEStor Signs a Major New Contract

August 31, 2009 | 6 Comments

EEStor, the now famed ultracapacitor maker of the future is one step closer to having a product coming to market.  Last week saw information escape that EEStor has contracted with Polarity of Rancho Cordova, California to design and specify the construction details of the ultracapacitor’s power converter.  A power converter would ideally provide a combined [...]

Aug

28

Easier Breathing on Oil Supplies

August 28, 2009 | 6 Comments

The leftists must be furious; Hillary Clinton has issued the Presidential Permit on August 20, 2009 that Enbridge needs to ship Canadian oil sand’s upgraded crude into the U.S.  With a war under way over public perceptions packed with dis and misinformation swirling about, this news must stick in the shouting throats.  This writer is [...]

Aug

27

Small Nuclear Reactors Get a Boost

August 27, 2009 | 3 Comments

Western Troy Capital Resources Inc. (TSX VENTURE:WRY, “Western Troy”) announced August 17th 2009 that it plans to form a wholly owned private corporation to provide small nuclear reactor electric power generating stations for installation in remote locations in Canada and other markets. That likely excludes the U.S.  American’s are very unlikely to benefit from the [...]

Aug

26

A New 5 Stroke Internal Combustion Engine

August 26, 2009 | 37 Comments

Never count out the leaders in real world technology.  For readers familiar with auto racing the name Ilmor Engineering will sound a claxon. Ilmor is a creature of some sort of partnership with legend Roger Penske as a co-owner and surely a managing role of some kind. Honda, of motorcycle and auto fame is the [...]

Aug

25

Cutting Off The Head To Spite A Face

August 25, 2009 | 3 Comments

I usually pass on studies that are sourced specifically by an industry to make their point, seeking rather to use academic works.  Also on the miss list are those dumbfounding government projections.  But the American Petroleum Institute, granted the central megaphone for independent big oil, has a better than average record, particularly when the work [...]

Aug

24

A Butanol Breakthrough

August 24, 2009 | 3 Comments

Shang-Tian Yang, a professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering at Ohio State University announced last week at the American Chemical Society meeting that he has engineered a mutant bacterium that doubles his butanol process output. Readers will recall that butanol is a near direct replacement for gasoline with nearly the same energy density and burning [...]

Aug

21

Simulating Carbon Ultracapacitor Performance in Cars

August 21, 2009 | 9 Comments

With the bulk of the energy issues centered on transport fuels sourced from oil, excepting the pollution and CO2 matter that coal offers, the pressure has mounted on the major oil use – worldwide personal transport vehicles, the dream realized by many and desired by many many more. When someone critically views the impacts that [...]

Aug

20

The Giant International Pickpocket War

August 20, 2009 | 9 Comments

BusinessWire, a Berkshire Hathaway Company run by the famed Warren Buffet and Charles Munger has republished a press release from the Amazon Defense Coalition prepared and pushed out by Karen Hinton of Hinton Communications, a PR firm. The Hinton press release is a seriously skewed update on the Chevron side of the old Texaco pollution [...]

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