Apr
20
Hydrogen Production From the Smallest Living Organisms
April 20, 2010 | 14 Comments
An MIT team has found a novel way using a modified virus as a kind of biological scaffold that can assemble the nanoscale components needed to split a water molecule into hydrogen and oxygen atoms. The virus constructions use the power of sunlight for splitting the water and make the chemical fuels to power their [...]
Apr
19
Ultracapacitors Ready for Power Storage
April 19, 2010 | 7 Comments
When you couple ultracapacitors with lithium batteries performance of an electric vehicle is dramatically boosted. Ultracapacitors give electric vehicles the instant response needed to get going, recover braking energy, work across a wide temperature range, and charge very quickly for thousands or millions of cycles. There is more out there than Eestor, and some are [...]
Apr
16
Can Poland Save Americans and Europeans From the Russians?
April 16, 2010 | 8 Comments
The leadership in Russia has been busily destroying the sensible business reputation they inherited from the old Soviet Union. Freedom also allows mistakes. The Putin trend has already proven itself willing to use its gas reserves as a weapon in diplomatic negotiations. Moscow cut gas supplies to Ukraine in January 2006 during a row over [...]
Apr
15
Getting Water to Grow Biofuels
April 15, 2010 | 7 Comments
Much of the best solar irradiated surface of the planet’s land area is very dry or desert. While much of the land has poor soil, adequate water can promote the growth of many food and fuel plants. Irrigation can work where water is flowing or deep ground is available. Dutch inventor Pieter Hoff believes using [...]
Apr
14
Carbon May Be In Your Solar Cell
April 14, 2010 | 5 Comments
Carbon is cheap, abundant, and in the form of the nanoparticles graphene, capable of absorbing a wide range of light frequencies. Graphene is essentially the same stuff as a pencil’s graphite, except graphene is formed to a single sheet of carbon, just one atom thick. Graphene shows promise as an effective, cheap-to-produce, and less toxic [...]
Apr
13
Better Than Expected Results From Focus Fusion
April 13, 2010 | 25 Comments
Eric Lerner’s Lawrenceville Plasma Physics (LLP) is developing a dense plasma focus fusion reactor, to use proton-boron (pB11) fuel. Lerner’s work was initially funded by NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory and is now investor-funded. The project is aiming to produce an extremely economical, compact, environmentally safe and essentially inexhaustible source of energy. The projections can get [...]
Apr
12
An Affordable Fuel Cell
April 12, 2010 | 5 Comments
Oorja means energy in the language Sanskrit. It’s also the name of a Fremont California company selling fuel cells running on methanol. Oorja has been using its prototype and very early production models in large material handling forklifts. The materials handling market vehicles typically run on giant lead acid batteries instead of gasoline. The batteries [...]
Apr
9
What’s Gone Wrong With Geothermal?
April 9, 2010 | 3 Comments
At a site like this what is missing can be very disconcerting. Missing in total positive content are big geothermal projects. It’s not all bad news. But for one post lets have a look at the problems. The current mainstream technology catch all term is Enhanced Geothermal Systems or EGS. Much of what geothermal is [...]
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