Dec
31
A 20% More Ethanol Production Process
December 31, 2009 | 2 Comments
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign researcher Agricultural Engineer Esha Khullar has found with close study that alternative ethanol production processes can produce more accessible products with better quality, a 20% boost in ethanol production plus saving waste and better efficiency. The choices for ethanol producers for profiting and answering product demands can be broader and [...]
Dec
30
Oil Refining and Consumers Get a Little Help
December 30, 2009 | 1 Comment
The U.S. oil refinery business is up against the wall for profiting, coping with oil prices and the economic atmosphere. Regulatory issues raised by every government from local to federal have imposed requirements, compliance, and regulations across the full imaginable board – each with increased costs and inefficiencies. It’s a miracle there’s any gasoline or [...]
Dec
29
An Electric Hybrid Bulldozer Goes On Sale
December 29, 2009 | 3 Comments
With a little fanfare Caterpillar announced last week they’re shipping a diesel engine driven generation set to electric motor hybrid drive bulldozer. The D7E model is in the upper midsize range with the Cat C9.3 ACERT(TM) diesel engine rated at 235 net horsepower (175 kW) driving a powerful electrical generator that produces AC (alternating current). [...]
Dec
28
Thorium Fuel Gets a Break in The Press
December 28, 2009 | 2 Comments
While lots of folks don’t watch or read Wired Magazine, lots of young people do. Wired runs to the younger set, which is getting older, and more of a voice as the last election made clear. Once riled up, the count and solidity of the demographic is impressive.
Richard Martin of Wired wrote ‘Uranium Is So [...]
Dec
25
A Merry Christmas to You
December 25, 2009 | 2 Comments
A Merry Christmas to You
Let’s just kick political correctness into the weeds today. No energy no fuels. Rather a little energy for the soul. Let it be a Merry Christmas for you and your loved ones. No matter what subscription to religious belief you might have, Christmas is a holiday that can be shared by [...]
Dec
24
Understanding Digital Quantum Capacitors
December 24, 2009 | 3 Comments
To start, lets get the digital quantum battery misnomer out of the way. What’s being discussed here and other places isn’t about battery building; it’s about a theoretical construction of a nano-sized capacitor. It’s interesting as the storage medium isn’t like a conventional capacitor with the material between the anode and cathode holding the energy. [...]
Dec
23
Cold Fusion Is Getting Hot
December 23, 2009 | 1 Comment
With some minor trepidation cold fusion is in the headline. The words still evoke some pained feelings, but the objective minds haven’t waited, the research has plowed on. Brian Wang at his NextBigFuture site caught the release of the information made available from the 15th International Conferences on Cold Fusion (ICCF) held in Rome this [...]
Dec
22
Is It Time to Pop The Iranian Nuclear Pimple?
December 22, 2009 | 2 Comments
Oil is abundant again; some reports have it that OPEC alone has 6 million barrels a day of spare unused oil capacity. Iraq, which has some sort of exemption to sell all it can, and Venezuela, which is selling on the cheat are pushing the price lower along with the U.S. Federal Reserve expressing some [...]
Dec
21
Bussard Fusion (IEC) Progress Is Accelerating
December 21, 2009 | Leave a Comment
The University of Wisconsin hosted the 11th US-Japan Workshop on Inertial Electrostatic Confinement Fusion on October 12th and 13th in Madison Wisconsin. Over the two days some 28 presenters covered the activities, progress and plans spread over the eight U.S., Japanese and Australian leading Inertial Electrostatic Fusion (IEC) research universities. Plus Los Alamos National Lab [...]
Dec
18
A Hybrid Airship
December 18, 2009 | Leave a Comment
Is it a plane, a blimp or a dirigible from out of the past? No, it’s a hybrid airship, part dirigible, and part airplane. Built by co-founders Bob Rist and Brian Martin of Ohio Airship outside of Toledo, Ohio with the help of folks laid of at Cessna and Jeep the hybrid offers some truly [...]
