Nov
18
A New Electric Motor Design
November 18, 2010 | 14 Comments
Al Fin found a new motor design that was talked up at Greentechmedia. The excitement is due to the new design not needing rare earth magnets for high efficiency. NovaTorque released its first products; two and three horsepower 1800 RPM motors, at the end of October. The company, which has received funds from NEA, has [...]
Nov
17
Warning – Oil Will Run Out Before Replacements Are Ready
November 17, 2010 | 6 Comments
So says UC Davis Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering Debbie Niemeier in a forecast that published on Nov. 8 in the journal Environmental Science & Technology. Sound nuts? Wait a moment . . . Niemeier is working from the theory that long-term investors are good predictors of whether and when new energy technologies will [...]
Nov
16
A Baking Soda Solution for Algae Growth
November 16, 2010 | 3 Comments
A Montana State University team of interdisciplinary researchers has discovered that baking soda, the common name for sodium bicarbonate, can dramatically increase algae’s production of the key oil precursors for biodiesel and biojet fuels. That’s right, the household chemical that causes cookies to rise in the oven, calms upset stomachs and removes odors from refrigerators [...]
Nov
15
A Noteworthy Stride For Cold Fusion
November 15, 2010 | 6 Comments
A Cold Fusion explanation that seems workable and can be a base for theory that the layperson can grasp is making its way around the world. This writer is going to put it out here for your perusal. The idea is that cold fusion is an act of an artificial stimulation of atoms into a [...]
Nov
12
River Power Testing Starts Up
November 12, 2010 | Leave a Comment
MITs Technology Review has ran a piece on Free Flow Power of Gloucester Massachusetts. Free Flow’s idea is to set tens of thousands of water flow turbines anchored to the bottom of the Mississippi River that someday could provide more than a gigawatt of renewable energy, enough to power a quarter of a million homes [...]
Nov
11
A 7% Solution – Recycle Plastic Back to Oil
November 11, 2010 | 8 Comments
Blest, a Japanese company has invented a safe and user-friendly machine that can convert plastic back to oil. The machine is effective in recycling different kinds of plastic into oil. Plastic is one of the most versatile synthetically produced materials in the world and is also one of the environmentally unfriendly substances produced by man. [...]
Nov
10
Ethanol Production Nears A Million Barrels Per Day
November 10, 2010 | 6 Comments
The Energy Information Administration (EIA) reports for August that U.S. ethanol production rose in August to an all-time high, production averaged more than 869,000 barrels per day (b/d). The Renewable Fuels Association who also collects data calculated ethanol demand at all-time high as well at 911,000 b/d in August, up from 734,000 b/d a year [...]
Nov
9
A New Way To Find Oil And Gas Is Proposed
November 9, 2010 | 1 Comment
Scientists from Royal Holloway, University of London and the Institut de Ciencies del Mar, aka The Spanish Research Council have revealed a new model that explains what happens as the continents thin as well as helping to more accurately predict the location of hydrocarbons such as oil and gas. The scientists offer a new way [...]
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