Mar

22

Photosynthesis Without the Plant

March 22, 2010 | 10 Comments

University of Cincinnati Research Assistant Professor David Wendell, student Jacob Todd and College of Engineering and Applied Science Dean Carlo Montemagno have co-authored the paper, based on research in Montemagno’s lab in the Department of Biomedical Engineering. They have devised a foam that captures energy and removes excess carbon dioxide from the air. The results  [...]

Mar

20

Free Scientific Papers – Limited Time

March 20, 2010 | Leave a Comment

The American Chemical Society’s (ACS) has for the first time, drawn content from two ACS journals – JACS and Environmental Science & Technology – under the theme of “Harnessing Energy for a Sustainable World”. The ACS selected 11 papers concerning materials and methods for energy production and storage (e.g., fuel cells, batteries, bio-hydrocarbon fuels and [...]

Mar

19

The Bussard Fusion Story Update

March 19, 2010 | 6 Comments

For those watching fusion, particularly the fusion ideas that are based in human effort spent on getting fusion events over needing so much effort and money spent on the confinement matters, as seen in the tokamak designs, the EMC2 website update that M. Simon spotted and got circulating is fine news indeed. There are also [...]

Mar

18

Lithium Sulfur Battery Progress

March 18, 2010 | 20 Comments

Lithium based batteries are a hot research field with lithium air and lithium sulfur compounds at the top of research listings.  Stanford’s Yi Cui, builds the battery anode in the form of silicon nanowires, giving the silicon room to grow and shrink without damage.  That neatly solves silicon’s swelling when charged with positively charged lithium [...]

Mar

17

A Better Way to Store Hydrogen

March 17, 2010 | 4 Comments

Javad Rafiee, a doctoral student in the Department of Mechanical, Aerospace, and Nuclear Engineering at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, has developed a new method for storing hydrogen at room temperature. Rafiee seems determined to play a key role in solving global dependency on fossil fuels.  The young man is one winner of the 2010 $30,000 Lemelson-MIT [...]

Mar

16

The Algae That Makes Petroleum Story

March 16, 2010 | 16 Comments

Dr. Timothy Devarenne, AgriLife Research scientist with the Texas A&M University department of biochemistry and biophysics points out, “Oils from the green algae Botryococcus braunii can be readily detected in petroleum deposits and coal deposits suggesting that B. braunii has been a contributor to developing these deposits and may be the major contributor. This means [...]

Mar

15

Exciting Water to Hydrogen Results

March 15, 2010 | 4 Comments

Emory University inorganic chemist Craig Hill, who led the laboratory effort said, “(The result) has really upped the standard from the other known homogeneous water oxidation catalysts. It’s like a home run compared to a base hit.”  There’s some excitement here. The claim the Emory team with their collaborators at Paris Institute of Molecular Chemistry [...]

Mar

12

A New and Promising Battery Charging Idea

March 12, 2010 | 20 Comments

A group of Mississippi State University researchers in the school’s Center for Computational Sciences, the Department of Physics and Astronomy, the Department of Chemistry with collaborators at Florida State University’s Department of Physics and the Center for Materials Research and Technology has a new lithium ion battery charging technique in early research.  The results are [...]

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