Jan
19
A New Way to Make Methanol Fuel
January 19, 2010 | 5 Comments
University of Oxford researchers are developing a method for the homogeneous conversion of CO2 to methanol, with methanol as the only resulting C1 product. With momentum building in the methanol powered fuel cell market there is good reason to be on the lookout for the lowest cost and highest efficiency paths for producing methanol. Andrew [...]
Jan
18
A No Fear Oil and Gas Well Fracturing Method
January 18, 2010 | 4 Comments
Darrell Kosakewich was investigating new ways to settle the tailings ponds created by oilsands mining operations. As he was investigating it occurred to him that discharging an electrically charged emulsion would settle out and release the entrained water and oil. Then the first time he froze a coal sample and it shattered into a piece, [...]
Jan
15
Energy Efficient Homes Sell For Higher Prices
January 15, 2010 | 2 Comments
It will come as no surprise that when buyers look at the total cost of ownership for living in a particular home the utilities matter. In some places utilities are significant parts of the monthly expense. The mortgage principle, interest and property taxes are for many the main concern as the lenders should be watching [...]
Jan
14
A Stimulus Plan That Works
January 14, 2010 | 6 Comments
The best stimulus plans are from private investment. Two come to mind in the energy and fuel field that have serious positive and international benefits. They’re simply pipelines for crude oil. The significance is in the effects. Better than government stimulus -private stimulus also has a multiplier effect without the bleeding from taxpayers. In the [...]
Jan
13
A Major New Natural Gas Find
January 13, 2010 | 8 Comments
McMoRan, a mid sized independent oil company out of New Orleans led a partnership of investors to a significant quantities of natural gas in a 5-mile-deep well it drilled in about 20 feet of water at McMoRan’s Davy Jones prospect just 10 miles off the Louisiana coast. For those not watching the close up to [...]
Jan
12
Its Not the End of Oil Just Get What’s Already Found
January 12, 2010 | 10 Comments
The Doomer crowd has been talking up ‘peak oil’ for years and if one uses the price mechanism as only static, unmoving, never to go up, ‘peak oil’ could work. But prices are going to reflect demand vs. the supply. Each close call of demand closing on supply will get a price spike up followed [...]
Jan
11
A Look At The Only Fuel Cell On The Market
January 11, 2010 | 1 Comment
Toshiba of Japan has been a leader in fuel cells and last October quietly put a methanol fuel cell on the market. Japan is well known for introducing leading technologies into their home market, so this isn’t s shock. But it certainly is a shot across the bow of every other fuel cell market ‘want [...]
Jan
8
Printing Lithium Ion Batteries
January 8, 2010 | 2 Comments
The Advanced Materials Innovation Center (AMIC) of MIE Industry and Enterprise Support Center, a Japan-based foundation, has developed a lithium polymer battery that can be manufactured by printing technology. The research group used a normal sheet-shaped flexible substrate but employed a printing technology that can be applied to roll-to-roll production. When a roll-to-roll production method [...]
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