Jul

20

Overunity Energy Poses Wonderful Problems

July 20, 2010 | 2 Comments

Sterling Allan runs the site PESN.com, a site replete with everything out on the edge and beyond where regular folks and conventional scientists get suspicious and aggravated.  This writer admires and frequents Mr. Allan’ site regularly looking for the gem – as this writer is suspicious of the law like conclusions of ‘accepted science’.  History [...]

Jul

19

A Local Biofuel Process Development

July 19, 2010 | 11 Comments

Purdue University chemical engineers are proposing the creation of mobile processing plants that would rove the Midwest to produce the fuel with a newly developed method to process agricultural waste and other biomass into biofuels. Rakesh Agrawal, the Winthrop E. Stone Distinguished Professor of Chemical Engineering said,  “What’s important is that you can process all [...]

Jul

16

Breakthrough Hydrogen Production Powered by Sunlight

July 16, 2010 | 6 Comments

MIT scientists led by the prolific Angela Belcher have developed a system that mimics the oxidation of oxygen of the photosynthetic process in plants by engineering M13, a simple and harmless virus, to help splitting water into its two atomic components freeing hydrogen and oxygen powered by sunlight. The MIT team hopes this is the [...]

Jul

15

Getting to All That Shale Oil

July 15, 2010 | 3 Comments

Chinese researchers have identified a catalyst called NiMoW, for the hydrotreating of the refined diesel distillate fraction from the Fushun shale oil deposit. Shale oil has high levels of nitrogen, sulfur, and unsaturated hydrocarbons, limiting its potential use to supplant or replace crude oil.  Coming up with economical cleaning systems would get shale oil more [...]

Jul

14

Get the Money For Yourself

July 14, 2010 | 2 Comments

Sarah Max writing for Money Magazine, picked up by USA Today and now yours truly has five items plus that you might want to keep mind for those summer projects.  Some edits are applied. First are those Federal rebates. In your local area the money might be gone but here is where to check.  The [...]

Jul

13

A Look At Sub Critical Reactors and the Potential

July 13, 2010 | 8 Comments

Virginia Tech is said to researching accelerator-driven reactor designs with its GEM*STAR collaboration project. The idea of a sub-critical reactor is to have a sub-critical reaction running that is kept going by supplementing it with an external source of neutrons.  A particle accelerator supplies the necessary neutrons. Thus what exists is a sub-critical atomic fission [...]

Jul

12

Culturing Cyanobacteria for Biofuel

July 12, 2010 | 6 Comments

Hyun Woo Kim and Raveender Vannela, researchers at the Biodesign Institute at Arizona State University are perfecting the means to culture cyanobacteria, a potentially rich source of biofuels and biomaterials in greater abundance.  Cyanobacteria are among the oldest organisms in nature, responsible for generating the atmospheric oxygen we breathe today. The pair’s work is meant [...]

Jul

9

A Cheaper Photovoltaic Solar Cell

July 9, 2010 | 8 Comments

If one lives where the wind blows, the hail falls and the home insurance underwriter is up to speed – the savings a residential photovoltaic solar cell system offers is consumed by the risk insurance premium.  Spending say $20K to save $2K annually with risk insurance at $6K per year is a nonstarter. Weather risk [...]

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