Aug
19
On the Path To Renewable Hydrogen
August 19, 2009 | 8 Comments
Hydrogen is the key to cheap and abundant fuels. Carbon, plentiful and available in a wide array of forms is hardly in any short supply, but hydrogen seems to end up bound back with oxygen forming water. Breaking hydrogen back out, cheaply, is a goal of major importance. A researcher team at the Dalian Institute [...]
Aug
18
The “First” Winner is Coolerado
August 18, 2009 | 7 Comments
June 2008 saw the University of California Davis’ Western Cooling Challenge inauguration. The Cooling Challenge is a program of activities designed to help cooling-unit manufacturers deliver better products, and to help building owners install and use those products in their new and existing low-rise, nonresidential buildings such as suburban retail and office buildings. The first [...]
Aug
17
Blacklight Power Gets an Independent Verification
August 17, 2009 | 15 Comments
Rowan University researchers professors K.V. Ramanujachary, Amos Mugweru, and Peter Jansson have released their report outlining the results of an off-site replication and independent testing of the new Blacklight power system. The team independently formulated and tested fuels that on demand generated energy greater than that of combustion at power levels of kilowatts using BLP’s [...]
Aug
14
The Destruction Of CO2 as the Global Warming Culprit
August 14, 2009 | 7 Comments
It’s coming apart, CO2 as the culprit destroying the atmosphere’s insulating properties, so heating up the planet to a runaway greenhouse like Venus, has the accusations’ bits and parts getting ditched. A couple weeks ago there was a scandal about how an invited counter view was handled at the American Physical Society and just hours [...]
Aug
13
At ConocoPhillips’ Oil Sands Site
August 13, 2009 | 8 Comments
ConocoPhillips has big plans in the oil sands. They understand the length and breadth of the reserve and the attitude in Alberta is about as good, maybe the best of any province or state. While stringent regulations apply, they’re clearly set out, enforced with reason and the business ethic up there tends to support being [...]
Aug
12
Making Syncrude
August 12, 2009 | 12 Comments
Making “syncrude” which is not actually a synthetic manmade chemical compound, rather it’s a kind of pre cleaned and semi refined crude oil, is a multistep process as done by Syncrude Canada. Because the oil used in making syncrude is not deeply buried, surface mining is the most viable method of recovery. The oil is [...]
Aug
11
Solving the Energy Issue In a Nutshell
August 11, 2009 | 3 Comments
I was going through the Oil Sands Development Centre in Fort McMurray last Friday evening with Gail the Actuary from the OilDrum. We came upon a perma poster showing a part of the bitumen oil molecule, a very long carbon chain thing with a smattering of hydrogen atoms mounted here and there. In the course [...]
Aug
10
The Problem At The Athabasca Oil Mines
August 10, 2009 | 10 Comments
Last Wednesday’s readers know I went up last week to Fort McMurray Alberta (expenses covered by the API, now disclosed again) to tour Syncrude’s oil mining facility and ConocoPhillips Surmount oil extraction that’s done in place under the ground. So before we start here is a photo from along the Athabasca River where you can [...]
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