Jun
18
A New Super Yeast to Make Ethanol
June 18, 2010 | 18 Comments
Purdue University researchers have genetically engineered a super yeast using genes from a fungus to re-engineer a yeast’s genetic code. The improved a strain of yeast can produce more biofuel from cellulosic plant material by fermenting all five types of the plant’s sugars. Nancy Ho, a research professor of chemical engineering at Purdue explains, “Natural [...]
Jun
17
A Focus Fusion Update About the Lawrenceville Plasma Physics Fusion Effort
June 17, 2010 | 7 Comments
Eric Lerner’s Focus Fusion team let go a little information at Focusfusion.org on the progress. While not a milestone, for those watching with interest the posting is welcome news. The Lawrenceville plan for the current course is made of eight steps: Get the machine to pinch, i.e. achieve a focusing of the input energy – [...]
Jun
16
Getting Bio Diesel With Molds and Fungus
June 16, 2010 | 3 Comments
One way to increase world bio oil production that would cause a low ecosystem impact is to use lipids from single-cell oil microorganisms (also called oleaginous microorganisms), which present many significant advantages over plants. Oleaginous microorganisms, such as yeasts, fungi, bacteria, and microalgae, can accumulate high levels of lipids and do not require arable land, [...]
Jun
15
Wind to Fertilizer Construction Begins
June 15, 2010 | 8 Comments
The Associated Press must be the only press release recipient for some major news. The University of Minnesota Renewable Energy Center at Morris Minnesota has designed a $3.75 million carbon-free system that uses wind power from a towering turbine to produce anhydrous ammonia, NH3, a the most common and widely used nitrogen fertilizer and a [...]
Jun
14
A New Way to Make Carbon Fiber
June 14, 2010 | 9 Comments
Carbon fiber – it’s the current holy grail of structural material for transportation vehicles like airplanes, cars, trucks, busses and rail. Moving the person or the freight is one thing; the thing that moves them is the other. The less the moving thing weighs the more efficient and less energy required. But carbon fiber is [...]
Jun
11
Caught and Questioned
June 11, 2010 | 3 Comments
This writer seldom does any site type of communications in person. Very few people acquainted with the author realize the site even exists. Speaking engagements would never be entertained and consultations would be more of a set of lessons adjusted as learning about the client grows the relationship. Fast paced verbal communication isn’t in the [...]
Jun
10
Nuclear Dreams Do Come True
June 10, 2010 | 10 Comments
Rod Adams over at NuclearInsights discovered and now advises a new website that seems dedicated to getting some basic nuclear fission information into popular form. The new site is called PopAtomic.org with backing from some interested persons without it seems, any major backing from the industry. The caveat to that is one of the advisors [...]
Jun
9
A New Kind Of Photovoltaic Solar Cell
June 9, 2010 | 6 Comments
Scientists from the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) have developed a new solar cell that they hope will cost a tiny fraction of current production. The new cells consist of tiny silicon wires that measure a mere 1-micron in diameter. These wires are embedded lengthwise and perpendicular into plastic plates where they convert light into [...]
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