Oct
20
The Lerner Fusion Machine Is In Testing
October 20, 2009 | 11 Comments
Thursday October 15, 2008 saw the Lerner fusion device at Lawrenceville Plasma Physics, now named FoFu, startup and run at just under half input power. After seven years of theoretical work and raising money, five months of design, five months of construction and assembly, and a week of testing, Eric Lerner and his team now [...]
Oct
19
About the New Magnetic Electricity
October 19, 2009 | 4 Comments
Researchers in the U.K. have discovered a magnetic equivalent to electricity – single magnetic charges that can behave and interact like electrical ones. The implications are significant if not fully understood or thought out to the possibilities. The potential will change as more experimenters achieve seeing the phenomena, thus offering more ideas on where the [...]
Oct
16
Can You Make Money Charging Up Cars?
October 16, 2009 | 8 Comments
It seems every major automaker has an electric car coming soon armed with good power, no emissions and maybe almost silent. We’ll see, but for certain some folks will buy whatever is offered and will be joined by others as the quality and usefulness is proven. Most everyone will charge their car overnight at home. [...]
Oct
15
“Prize” Money For Fuel Cells
October 15, 2009 | Leave a Comment
Last Friday saw The Carbon Trust in the U.K. announce they are going to offer “prizes” or more appropriately investments into three novel ideas with up to up to £1 million per project to further develop and prove them. If any one of those demonstrates its potential for lower cost fuel cell systems, the Carbon [...]
Oct
14
The Lithium Air Battery Race
October 14, 2009 | 5 Comments
IBM has made a major splash in the battery industry with their announcement that the company is going to research lithium air battery technology. They are a little further along than the press and media are allowing. IBM plans to get a jump on the process by using its nano membrane technology developed for water-purification [...]
Oct
13
Get Your Algae Production Going for a $10 Million Prize
October 13, 2009 | 5 Comments
Del Mar-based Prize Capital announced at last week’s Algae Biomass Summit, a meeting in San Diego of experts in using algae for fuel, food, purifying water and other purposes a $10 Million algae fuel prize. They deserve a major publicity push – so here it goes. Lee Stein, Prize Capital’s founder said the goal is [...]
Oct
12
A Battery With a Million Times More Energy Than Chemical Batteries
October 12, 2009 | 1 Comment
University of Missouri researchers are developing a nuclear energy source that is smaller, lighter and more efficient. Before you freak out, Jae Kwon, assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering at MU says, “People hear the word ‘nuclear’ and think of something very dangerous. However, nuclear power sources have already been safely powering a variety [...]
Oct
9
On the Path to Free Hydrogen from Biology
October 9, 2009 | 2 Comments
In an effort that should help those working towards ‘solar H2-farms’ in which microorganisms produce bio hydrogen fuel from sunlight and water, scientists from Oxford University and universities in Germany have discovered how oxygen stops green algae from producing hydrogen. The international European team have reported the results two papers, one in the journal JACS [...]
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