Jan

29

How To Measure Some Energy Judgments

January 29, 2010 | 6 Comments

Robert Rapier, bless ‘em, attracted Frank Weigert a retired DuPont chemist to express his views on the pathway to renewable fuels. Odd, Mr. Rapier is quite the one to skewer the biofuel field generally, relying on his considerable practical knowledge without investigating the paths research can use in getting to new developments.  Mr. Weigert had [...]

Jan

28

An Ethanol Engine For Maximum Output

January 28, 2010 | 8 Comments

Not since the Ford Model T has a U.S. engine manufacturer produced a market oriented ethanol fuel engine.  Or more accurately, one optimized for ethanol.  The engineering firm Ricardo and supporter Growth Energy who promotes ethanol have built and lab tested an ethanol engine that uses ethanol for maximum output.  That means compression, lots of [...]

Jan

27

A Jet Turbine Engine for Your Hybrid Vehicle

January 27, 2010 | 10 Comments

A jet engine for a hybrid vehicle generator set seems at first a little extreme.  But is it?  The scale for jet turbines for outside observers is the huge engine hanging from the wings of airliners.  That’s a little deceptive, as those jet’s turbine engines are much smaller than what’s visible.  The power turbine inside [...]

Jan

26

MIT and Columbia May Have a New Fusion Path

January 26, 2010 | 7 Comments

An experimental fusion reactor at the Plasma Science and Fusion Center on the MIT campus called the Levitated Dipole Experiment, or LDX uses a half-ton donut-shaped magnet about the size and shape of a large truck tire, made of superconducting wire coiled inside a stainless steel vessel. Used in a new experiment that reproduces the [...]

Jan

25

What is Trezium and Why is it Important?

January 25, 2010 | 5 Comments

Trezium is not a new element; it’s a registered trademark for a system to drive higher efficiency electric motor energy output.  It could be an important motor market choice through the management, implementation and use of the electron flow.  The mover for the technology is Thor Power. The idea is to increase motor efficiency at [...]

Jan

22

The Missing Geothermal Technology

January 22, 2010 | 21 Comments

Regular readers might recall this writer isn’t wedded to only using fluids for circulating into geothermal reservoirs.  A link sent by a reader led to a fellow well on the way to having a ground source geothermal system that transfers energy with air instead of water, antifreeze or other fluids.  Its an air to air [...]

Jan

21

The Battery Hopes for Electric Vehicles Improve

January 21, 2010 | 3 Comments

Felix Kramer, the founder of the California Cars Initiative, a Palo Alto CA based nonprofit, has an opinion or overview or criticism on the widely held views on battery technology that’s being applied to electric vehicles.  It’s a long one available at GreenChipStocks.com. For you I’m going to review it, check some bits and opinionate [...]

Jan

20

Seawater Fed Bio Jet Fuel Research Underway

January 20, 2010 | 9 Comments

UOP LLC, a Honeywell owned company, the Masdar Institute of Science and Technology, Boeing and Etihad Airways announced Monday an agreement to establish a research institute in Abu Dhabi dedicated to pioneering sustainable energy solutions. The project is being called the Sustainable Bioenergy Research Project (SBRP).  SBRP will use integrated saltwater agricultural systems (ISAS) to [...]

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