Aug

31

Use Sunlight to Smelt Iron Ore

August 31, 2010 | 28 Comments

George Washington University Professor Stuart Licht has developed a revolutionary carbon dioxide-free method of producing iron that could provide a breakthrough for an industry that has been using the same polluting process of iron smelting for more than three thousand years. Using renewable solar energy and a process of solar conversion the now patented process [...]

Aug

30

A Natural Gas Boom Sparks an Oil Boom

August 30, 2010 | 23 Comments

The horizontal drilling and fracturing techniques that press’s favorite devil Halliburton pioneered to trigger the natural gas boom are the same technologies spurring a Canadian and U.S. oil drilling boom. The impact of horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing are migrating around the world, stabilizing and lowering not only North American gas prices but also international [...]

Aug

27

Oxygen Splitting Breakthrough for Getting Free Hydrogen

August 27, 2010 | 10 Comments

That headline is accurate if a little bewildering.  Splitting water to get hydrogen isn’t hard to do, it can be quite simple, and a little lab experiment on the table will do.  But doing it the simple way gets you the combined hydrogen and oxygen gases in one mixture called Oxyhydrogen or Brown’s gas – [...]

Aug

26

The US Grid Will Get Fully Interconnected

August 26, 2010 | 1 Comment

Xtreme Power has announced last week the most significant transmission station in the U.S. electric grid to date will use its PowerCell energy storage and Dynamic Power Resources energy management system. The proposed transmission station called the Tres Amigas SuperStation would allow power to be transmitted as needed among the three independently operating U.S. electricity [...]

Aug

25

Modeling the Fuel Cell From the Lung

August 25, 2010 | 2 Comments

Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters scientists propose that inspiration using the layout of the lung improves the energy efficiency and saves the catalyst material of a polymer electrolyte membrane (PEM) fuel cell. The group calculated results for a single cell in a stack that shows the amount of catalyst could be reduced by a [...]

Aug

24

IEC Fusion Development May Apply to the Bussard Effort

August 24, 2010 | 11 Comments

It seems that Richard Nebel, leader of the Bussard Fusion effort at EMC2 in New Mexico while on leave from Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) isn’t so much left as still working a wide ranging in the effort to get Inertial Electrostatic (IEC) Fusion into a successful technology.  It’s a very good sign to see [...]

Aug

23

Knowledge Will Save Energy

August 23, 2010 | 8 Comments

The glitch in people saving energy and power is information put to use.  The problem is important as many people ascribe to saving energy – the effort of research, the costs and the work involved vs. the simple habits of turning out the lights or turning down the thermostat.  Some blame can be laid on [...]

Aug

20

Meet The Introns of Your DNA and How They Might Help Make Fuels

August 20, 2010 | 12 Comments

Alan Lambowitz a Professor of Molecular Biology and Director of the Institute of Molecular and Cellular Biology, University of Texas at Austin, explains: “Introns are mysterious elements in evolution. Until the 1970s it was believed that genes in all organisms would be continuous and that they would make a continuous RNA, which would then get [...]

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