May
19
Buried Rare Earth Element Treasure in Nebraska
May 19, 2010 | 10 Comments
Nebraska is one of those places the coastees like to dis as nowhere. Nebraska is a big mostly flat state that if driving across is best done at night. It’s as dull a drive as can be imagined on I-80. Not many folks there, for all the noise over the Cornhusker Kickback, it wouldn’t have [...]
May
18
Clean Green Chemistry
May 18, 2010 | 3 Comments
The press may howl the politicians take stands and the consumers wonder but the chemistry needed for life isn’t going away. The chemical market from the raw material producer to the end user all have a need for standards, the way things are described and disclosed so decisions can be made. Chemical companies and manufacturers [...]
May
17
A Self-Sustaining Fusion Reactor Plan
May 17, 2010 | 14 Comments
MIT physics professor Bruno Coppi will be the principal investigator for a new fusion reactor that could become the first such reactor to achieve ignition, the point where a fusion reaction becomes self-sustaining instead of requiring a constant input of energy. Coppi originated the design. Now it’s time for some “brain drain” from the U.S. [...]
May
14
Another Better Electrolysis Catalyst
May 14, 2010 | 13 Comments
Daniel Nocera and his associates at MIT have found yet another formulation, based on inexpensive and widely available materials that can efficiently catalyze the splitting of water molecules using electricity. Nocera is heading towards low volt electrolysis with research that could ultimately form the basis for new storage systems that would allow buildings to be [...]
May
13
A Fusion Power Breakthrough
May 13, 2010 | 8 Comments
Noted physicist Dr. Franklin Felber leading a research team at Sandia National Lab in Albuquerque has taken a big step towards meeting two of the greatest technological challenges of pulsed power for fusion – current amplification and pulse compression. Fusion, particularly inertial confinement fusion, requires that tremendous power be concentrated almost instantaneously into the fuel. [...]
May
12
A Big Oil Biomass to Fuel Effort
May 12, 2010 | 10 Comments
Shell, the Netherlands based international oil company has no less than three research teams collaborating and coordinating in an effort to get biomass made into transport fuels. From Shell Global Solutions International B.V. Shell Technology Centre in Amsterdam to the Shell Global Solutions (UK), Shell Technology Centre in Thornton UK and on to Shell Global [...]
May
11
Lithium Air Battery Update
May 11, 2010 | 2 Comments
The perfect car battery will have to balance many different factors, it’s powerful, has endurance, isn’t too expensive and never, ever explodes. For now the lithium air battery is just equations in the notebooks of researchers. Don Hillebrand, who directs the Center for Transportation Research at Argonne National Laboratory, was quoted at Climatewire saying, “Theoretically, [...]
May
10
Another Way to Harvest Sunlight Has Been Found
May 10, 2010 | 2 Comments
Dr. Jarone Pinhassi, a scientist in marine microbiology at Linnaeus University, Sweden said, “It was long thought that phytoplankton were the only organisms in the sea that could harvest the energy from sunlight for growth.” An exciting new finding by scientists in Sweden and Spain that teamed up has been published in the online, open [...]
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